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atomheartbevo

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  1. You had to put that song in my head, and now I’m thinking about Shrek.
  2. The country western singer in Tom Segura’s Bad Thoughts was also driving one, and perfectly on-brand.
  3. If you like stories about medieval history, particularly the Black Plague in Italy, The Decameron is pretty damned good. Didn’t even recognize Tony Hale. Tom Segura’s Bad Thoughts is pretty good as well.
  4. For a long time I was a fan of them hammering Moscow in some spectacular attack aimed at the Kremlin. I recognize now that it would play into Putin’s hands of Ukraine being this scary threat to their existence and would get many Muscovites behind him. Instead, a steady strangulation of the oil and gas infrastructure builds the pressure up on the large cities and all citizens, and when it happens over weeks and months it makes Putin look incompetent, impotent, and over his head.
  5. We are talking about a boomer who parrots Fox News talking points and who followed Tucker Carlson for a long time. There’s not much reasoning with a lot of those types. edit: He was…not on the side of Ukraine for a long time. I would love to know what got through to him, but my gut says Trump trash-talking Russia did it.
  6. AISD going down the shitter further. UT aligning itself with Trump. UT football falling apart.
  7. President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić: Everyone is preparing for conflicts. To be completely honest, everyone is getting ready for war. The only question is which side someone belongs to. And we would like to avoid wars. We would like to avoid conflicts. B ut I’m afraid no one wants to listen to anyone anymore. Everyone is really and seriously preparing for wars.
  8. Hero of Ukraine Vladyslav Stotskyi - Senior Lieutenant of the National Guard, platoon commander of the “Svoboda” battalion of the 4th “Rubizh” brigade - speaks about life on the frontline today: “You sit in a burrow underground, camouflaged, you can’t go out into the fresh air. Natural needs - in plastic bottles or bags, no hygiene. You sleep in blankets or sleeping bags next to your brothers-in-arms to keep warm. During the day it’s hot, at night it’s cold. Nearby there may be dead occupiers lying around - the smell is constant.” “When we were encircled for almost 70 days, we did everything we could: set up communications, ran wires, put up antennas, searched for food. We picked up things from Russian backpacks when they came close - took canned food, water, cigarettes. We didn’t throw away our weapons, we didn’t surrender.” “Right now, about 90% of enemy manpower losses are caused by drones, the rest - artillery, tanks, infantry. That’s why drones are needed more than anything else. And we don’t have enough UAVs.”
  9. The Ukrainian Special Operations Forces struck the missile ship Grad of Project 21631 Buyan-M on Lake Onega (Republic of Karelia, Russia). The missile carrier was en route from the Baltic Sea to the Caspian Sea. The strike hit the starboard side of the ship’s engine compartment. Additional details are being clarified. The damaged Grad is one of Russia’s newest and most modern ships, commissioned into the Baltic Fleet on December 29, 2022. Its main armament is the Kalibr-NK missile system. How the war has changed. The Ukrainian Special Operations Forces strike a missile carrier in Karelia! And no one is really surprised anymore. Because over these years, there have been so many remarkable events, so many feats achieved by Ukrainians, that for many, such news now seems almost ordinary. We ourselves have stopped fully realizing just how incredible Ukraine’s achievements are. And there will be even more to come. Source: Command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Special Operations Forces/Facebook
  10. I have probably seen him and moved quickly past at some point in the past year. I’m glad he’s solid and that my relative has been following him.
  11. What the hell, why would you tell people your spouse and step-granddaughter are in Alcoholics Anonymous? Edit: and her girlfriend is in public relations? Why would you tell people that?
  12. I have a feeling their NCOs are soldiers who have survived more than 6 months.
  13. This is what impunity looks like: war criminal Putin openly mocks drones in Europe, calls Europeans' concerns "panic," and compares UAVs to UFOs, reports Bild. What's more, when asked during a speech in Sochi whether he had launched drones into Denmark, he laughed, waved his hand dismissively and replied: "Okay, okay, I won't do it again. Not to France, not to Denmark. Where else do they fly? To Lisbon." To which the host advised him not to joke like that, saying that Europe has a poor sense of humor.
  14. Russia remains open to dialogue. Russia remains open to resolving all problems peacefully, through political and diplomatic means. Russia does not pose a threat to Europe, to European countries, or to NATO. To claim otherwise is absurd, and it is nothing other than a deliberate escalation of the situation, including as a way to cover up a large number of domestic problems at home.
  15. They've lost 11 generals - we lost 18 to enemy fire in WW2, which was a little bigger than this.
  16. They hit it last month as well.
  17. Last year I posted this. Back then I already knew that Russia's achilles heel is its size and energy sector. Fast forward to today and you see in Russia long lines in front of gas stations or even no gas at all. The production capacities of Russia's oil sector has decreased between 20% and 50%, depending on the analysis. The worst part for Russia that this is not even the maximum in damage the Ukrainian army can inflict. The commander of the Ukrainian drone forces, Robert Brovdi, announced today that the amount of deep strike operations will be doubled. Together with the announcement that US intelligence will be shared to conduct this kind of operations in a more efficient way, it appears that a harsh winter is coming for Russia.
  18. Seems like they already did it...
  19. Venezuela is just a little too far out of the reach of Israeli aircraft.
  20. You'll get no argument from me there, and it's not helped that we send $750 million fucking dollars to other school districts. We could do amazing shit with that much money. But AISD administration at times has seemed like past UT football coaching staffs. Regardless, the current administration will get to basically oversee the end of the district as we know it. And other area districts are suffering - Eanes has been having to deal with their own recapture bullshit fucking them over - https://www.eanesisd.net/dept/bs/budget#recap But damn, it's going to hurt AISD next year.
  21. The state will just change the formula. We help keep way too many smaller districts afloat, and none of those fuckers ever stand up for us.
  22. It's probably too late at this point. When the state takes over, everything changes for the worse, and a shitload of teachers and parents are going to bail (which will mean more school closings). Some will be going to private schools (but not the kinds of schools that could be covered by a $7,500 voucher) but many will head to the numerous districts around us. That's what really concerns me. It's going to be a fucking shitshow. It's absolutely fitting that UT is about to destroy its reputation as well.
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