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atomheartbevo

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  1. 1,4,3,2,5 Edit: I would consider Sweeney at #2, but not budging on the spawn of Goldie Hawn.
  2. I was not going to use AI to create an hour long episode about Troi and Dr Crusher exercising.
  3. Same ones who listen to Pink Floyd’s The Wall and think β€œwow, that Pink guy sounds just like me, he’s really got some interesting ideas!”
  4. Recalling over 6,000 "trucks" because they used the wrong fucking glue. Tesla Recalls 6,200 Cybertrucks Because the Light Bar May Fly Off - Business Insider
  5. Now we've moved on from setting ST in various eras to doing cross-overs.
  6. Those can usually be dealt with if you have an old deep water-filled coal pit on property you own.
  7. Meaningless unless the House acts - others mentioned the Supreme Court will probably strike them down as unconstitutional before the House moves.
  8. (2) Anton Gerashchenko on X: "An approximate estimate of the financial losses of the Russian aviation sector in 2025 due to the regular implementation of the "Kover" (closure of airspace) plan during Ukrainian drone attacks, based solely on open Russian sources, could amount to about $1.6-$2.4 billion. Over https://t.co/k09cUNvIa2" / X An approximate estimate of the financial losses of the Russian aviation sector in 2025 due to the regular implementation of the "Kover" (closure of airspace) plan during Ukrainian drone attacks, based solely on open Russian sources, could amount to about $1.6-$2.4 billion. Over the first eight months of 2025, restrictions due to Ukrainian drone attacks were introduced nearly 500 times at Russian airports, according to a summary based on RBC data as of early October. Indicative daily losses for airlines during a collapse similar to the one on July 5-6 (mass closures at several key airports) "could cost airlines up to about 20 billion rubles (approximately $247 million) per day." This estimate was published by Kommersant and later echoed by Forbes and Mail.ru Finance. For example, at St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo Airport, during the first wave of closures on July 4-7 (172 flights canceled), direct losses for Pulkovo amounted to about 50-55 million rubles (approximately $617,600-$679,400). Total losses over the summer are estimated at about 100-150 million rubles ($1.24-$1.85 million), while airlines faced higher costs due to hotels, transfers, and passenger rebooking. In October, a series of simultaneous shutdowns occurred at 7-11 airports (Volgograd, Kazan, Samara, Krasnodar, Sochi, Kaluga, Yaroslavl, Nizhny Novgorod, Ulyanovsk, Izhevsk, Ufa), as confirmed by Rosaviatsiya and Russian media. An average day with multiple closures (five to ten airports) is proportionally less costly - roughly about 12 billion rubles ($74.1-$148.2 million) per day for airlines (an extrapolation from a "major day," adjusted for the number of affected hubs and flights). Local or short-term closures (one to three airports for two to four hours) are estimated to cost airlines 1-3 billion rubles per day ($12.35-$37.05 million), and airports 5-30 million rubles ($61,800-$370,600), depending on traffic (extrapolated based on the Pulkovo calibration). Out of the roughly 500 incidents over ten months, only part were "major days." The estimated total losses for Russian airlines from January to October 2025 (direct and quasi-direct costs, including rebooking, meals/hotels, compensations, fuel/crew, and downtime) amounted to approximately 120–180 billion rubles ($1.48-$2.23 billion). For airports, approximate losses (non-aero + aero revenues, ground handling, parking, retail/food & beverage, and other services) amounted to about 8-15 billion rubles ($100-$186 million). In total, for the entire sector (airlines + airports), the estimated losses are around 130-195 billion rubles ($1.6-$2.4 billion) for 2025 (as of early October). These figures reflect an approximate order of magnitude derived from Russian publications and scaling.
  9. Somebody about to take a short trip out of a high window. Russian priest-monk on the realities among Russian soldiers: "There are all kinds of people [in the army]. Not everyone can be trusted. Not everyone is ready to die. Many want to survive. And those who want to survive can be very dangerous - because they can betray everyone. A person who goes to war must be humble. He must be ready to die himself, but save his comrade. That’s the only way."
  10. Russians shipping advisors and/or drones or some kind of lightweight systems (maybe MANPADs)
  11. Putin out there telling his people that things are developing favorable for the special military operation. Meanwhile, Russian governors having to explain to Russians that shits getting blown up inside of Russia.
  12. Nobody will care in the future after the age-of-consent laws are changed next year and any and all official records of Epstein are deleted because they never existed and are just a hoax created by the fake new.
  13. and these two chaps
  14. Just be careful, use latex gloves to keep your DNA away from the paper and glue, and you're good to go.
  15. It's extremely interesting to see the patterns when they launch mass attacks - clearly going around Moscow which is where much of Russia's best AD is located. To me that speaks volumes about Russia's issues with manufacturing and existing supplies and Putin's paranoia - they should have been able to park a lot more AD in those corridors, but they aren't, and they clearly aren't able to replace a lot of AD with existing stocks. And the fact that Ukraine appears to be steadily wrecking high-end air defenses in Crimea at some of the airfields and bases will probably see those aircraft moved back into Russia proper. I'm actually surprised they haven't moved all of their aircraft (minus the rotary wing) back into Russia proper, into condensed areas to save on air defense. It's going to be interesting to see where and when the breaking points are - economic (both the micro and macro level), Crimea, Moscow, Russian civilians (electricity, fuel), military resupply/transit systems, etc. We are seeing economic strain at the local level with some of the oblasts already (probably related to reduced oil & gas revenue). We've seen oil & gas strain at the local level with long lines or empty pumps.
  16. I don't know that Russia can go much farther (further!) at the current rate of attrition on their infrastructure. If more oblasts are having to cut spending, and if they can't put everything that gets wrecked in terms of oil & gas back online, it's just a matter of time. The tempo on sabotage of rail and electrical systems is also picking up.
  17. Queen Elizabeth was born in β€˜26 so she couldn’t have been there.
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