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Seamaster is about to get banned for posting this slander on TexAgs.

We’re going to have the deepest WR room in a very long time next year. We could run a legit 5 WR set with Worthy, Mitchell, Whittington, Neyor, and Cook. It’s unlikely that we will considering JT Sanders may be our second best receiver but regardless, it’s going to be nice having this amount of talent to work with.

I’d also take an unpaid factory job over an unpaid stay in the gulag.

Crazy video of a Russian soldier surrendering to a Ukrainian drone in Bakhmut. I’d recommend watching the whole thing.

It’s starting to feel like the Russian occupation could collapse much faster than I thought was possible.

I’m starting to think that the whole “resistance to providing XXXX weapon system” is part of a big act. The decision to provide the weapon system is decided ahead of time behind closed doors. Then someone (Ukraine usually, but maybe Poland or some other European nation) “proposes” that the weapons could be sent. Then another nation (France / US / Germany) plays the bad cop and “resists”. This buys time to work out the logistics and training while also gauging Putin’s reaction. As long as nothing crazy happens it’s all systems go. We’ve seen this with Javelins, MLRS, tanks, Patriots, and now jets.

We better win the Big 12 this year.

I continue to be amazed at the overwhelming destructive power of HIMARS.

Putin expected / hoped that China would pledge to support him militarily in addition to increasing economic and political support. What he fails - or refuses - to see is that it doesn’t really benefit China for Russia to “win”. It wouldn’t be a net negative for them, per se, but ultimately it doesn’t benefit Xi if Putin manages to capture <random Ukrainian city>. What DOES benefit him is for Putin to become more and more dependent on China as their only major trading partner and access to the outside world. The longer Russia is engaged in a fight in Ukraine, the more one-sided the power balance in the relationship becomes. Not to mention that it keeps NATO’s eyes on the west rather than the east. Xi certainly is not going to risk western sanctions and his own military readiness by depleting his stocks of munitions so that Putin can realize his fantasy of rebuilding the USSR. From a strategic perspective, the best thing russia could do for themselves is retreat from Ukraine NOW, turn over war criminals, and begin the (multi-decade) process of trying to repair ties with Europe. Because China is not going to treat them well.

Olympic sized swimming pool construction services.

My understanding is that he is still very popular in the nationalist and “milblogger” community due to his role in the initial formation of the L/DPR and Crimean annexation. Putin may worry that eliminating him may alienate his biggest source of domestic support. But I agree - I would have assumed that he would have jumped out of a window a long time ago.

I think we all know why nothing was done despite adequate warning signs. The executives and large account holders at SVB ran in the right social circles and possibly/probably donated to the right politicians. Regulators never fuck with “their people”. It’s pretty reliable that the only ones who are consistently under scrutiny are the poors.

I worked in a startup with a banker friend from college. One time I described to him how I (engineer) was taught that it’s extremely important to acknowledge when you don’t know something because there’s usually going to be someone in the room who knows the subject better than you do. He said that in the financial world that’s not allowed. You have to have “a view” on every subject, whether you actually know anything or not.

A sobering dose of reality on everyone’s favorite nightly TV show.

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that this news emerges as we’re in a diplomatic standoff over their desire to supply Russia with weapons.

Fuck China.

Typically it’s every 5th round. At least in small arms.

It turns out they should have given the “don’t bunch up in the open” speech so close to the front line.

This is 100% wrong. Fired from HIMARS. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_Launched_Small_Diameter_Bomb

Where did you see the denial? I believe you, just want more details.

https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-vladimir-putin-ukraine-territory-end-war-nzz-report-1778526?amp=1 Joe Biden Offered Vladimir Putin 20 Percent of Ukraine to End War: Report Total bullshit if this is true.

I’m struggling to understand why we haven’t already provided the ATACMS.

I have to imagine that the two fire department guys who showed up and didn’t administer care for a solid 15 minutes are going to be charged criminally. Not murder, but I could see manslaughter.