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  1. Sudan’s civil war is taking a jarring turn in Darfur, where an Arab-led militia is now using state-of-the-art drones and execution squads to dominate the region’s Black population. Humanitarian groups say the violence has been escalating since the militia seized control of El Fasher, the largest city in the region. Videos shared online by the Sudan Doctors Network and other local rights groups appear to show militia members shooting unarmed civilians at point-blank range in the city on the fringes of the Sahara. In the streets, dead bodies are scattered alongside burned-out vehicles. At the only functioning hospital, the World Health Organization reported that the rebels killed all 460 people inside the main ward, including patients, caregivers and health workers. Rights researchers already are warning that the killings have the potential to surpass the genocide that played out in Rwanda just over 30 years ago. The group behind the violence, the Rapid Support Forces, led by Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, has previously been accused by the U.S. of pursuing a genocide of Darfur’s Black population. Two decades ago, its predecessor was involved in the killing of more than 200,000 people in Darfur. This time, the killings are the work of a closely-drilled and well-armed rebel force that already has established a parallel government to run Darfur, an expanse of western Sudan roughly the the size of Spain. RSF fighters are armed with bomb-carrying Wing Loong II and FeiHong-95 drones, made in China, and supplied by the United Arab Emirates to help expand its own interests in the region. Diplomats and U.S. officials also say the wealthy Gulf state is also supplying howitzers, heavy machine guns, and mortars, with U.S. intelligence agencies adding that the U.A.E. has been accelerating the flow of materiel to the RSF in recent months and enabling it to launch fresh offensives.
  2. I'm guessing they are waiting to really blow things open with the Flamingos until more major AD systems are down (or at least the radars). Looks like they've produced 200+ since 2012, and if Ukraine has wrecked 100 or more since January, there's no way they can come close to replacing them at 15-20 a year (and I wonder about that given the lack of Western parts). The only dates I see coming up. Unity day would be hilarious. Unity Day – 4th of November Accord and Reconciliation Day – 7th of November Constitution Day – 12th of December
  3. Kate Hudson does something to me that Sydney doesn't (maybe it's channeling a younger Sharon Stone), and I have a thing for Nicole Scherzinger. Edit: Kate is 46 and Nicole is 47.
  4. Tonight's attacks on Russia. I saw an article on the discussion of the Flamingo missiles, and that they've actually not used a lot of them and appear to be stockpiling them. Would be interesting if they are using a lot of current/older stuff to hammer or deplete Russian air defenses and to pick off easy targets, and are saving the big ones for something major. If they've actually destroyed almost half of Pantsir systems since January, I bet the other half are around Moscow, St. Petersburg, and probably a few important air bases. The Pantsirs are only about 12 years old, so relatively modern, and are important to Russia (they can reach out to over 30km, but have close-in conventional guns as well). Zelenskyy publicly said the Pantsir are a priority.
  5. What's interesting is them releasing video that was easily geolocated, which means Russia knows where they are at, which means it's probably a trap to draw out Russian forces.
  6. Unfortunately it's a numbers game, and Russia is committing a massive amount of their forces to trying to get the city so Putin has a psychological win. It's bad for Ukraine in that they could lose it and they don't like to give up territory, but it's also good for Ukraine - it's tying up a lot of Russian troops using a relatively small number of Ukraine forces, and leaving Russia spread thin elsewhere. And it also creates a bulge for Russia which leaves them exposed.
  7. Sydney could actually do a Christy Canyon biopic.
  8. 1,4,3,2,5 Edit: I would consider Sweeney at #2, but not budging on the spawn of Goldie Hawn.
  9. I was not going to use AI to create an hour long episode about Troi and Dr Crusher exercising.
  10. Same ones who listen to Pink Floyd’s The Wall and think “wow, that Pink guy sounds just like me, he’s really got some interesting ideas!”
  11. 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
  12. Now we've moved on from setting ST in various eras to doing cross-overs.
  13. Those can usually be dealt with if you have an old deep water-filled coal pit on property you own.
  14. Meaningless unless the House acts - others mentioned the Supreme Court will probably strike them down as unconstitutional before the House moves.
  15. (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.
  16. 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."
  17. Russians shipping advisors and/or drones or some kind of lightweight systems (maybe MANPADs)
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
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