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atomheartbevo

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  1. And you know, given that we have the world's most powerful navy and intelligence monitoring services, it seems like a better use of our assets would be...oh I don't know, see where these dudes stop, who they meet up with, where the final stop is (if it's even in the US), try to trace things back to the source nation(s) and basically using that to build up a holistic picture of drug smuggling. Something that we've done many times in the past, and in the Middle East/North Africa with terrorists. Because this did nothing to actually address drug smuggling - this *maybe* took a tiny amount of drugs off the streets, but it didn't, oh I don't know, deal with the originating organizations that grew it and shipped it, and it didn't deal with the network of distribution within the US mainland and/or the points between the Caribbean and the US or the Pacific and the US. And it didn't deal with the end users who are funding this. But it made somebody feel powerful, so I guess that's what matters.
  2. Epstein files ain't going to keep on knocking themselves out of the news cycle, are they?
  3. Exactly. If Ukraine can make enough of a dent on their oil/gas/electricity infrastructure, to where Ukraine is always ahead of Russia's repair capabilities, they can put the squeeze on the Russian civilian population, but also arguably the military side. It's an oligarchy, not Ye Olde Soviet Russia so they will fuck up allocating resources. I would imagine that with the lack of Western companies and parts, there will be, to use a military term, a culminating point where Russia's inability to repair their oil & gas infrastructure will cripple the nation as a whole. And the beauty of it is that because Russia ain't cranking out new air defense systems at a rapid pace, they will have to decide where they want to skimp on air defenses - keep oil and gas going and risk reducing air defenses around military infrastructure? Or leave oil and gas wide open?
  4. I'm guessing they don't have anywhere else to send it so it's just billions of dollars of gas sitting there, waiting to be blown up.
  5. So Tiktok is owned by a staunch Trump ally.
  6. We should setup a Surly Discord voice chat for when GTA6 launches. Bunch of middle-aged people reminiscing about the earlier GTAs.
  7. Musk going to have Grok and his incels pumping out all kinds of ant-Catholic stuff now.
  8. See @Gatorubet you need to pump up those numbers.
  9. Better than Reddit.
  10. That refinery, even if it wasn’t too heavily damaged, has to scare the shit out of Russia.
  11. If the Russian people are forced to seriously ration gas, and get rolling blackouts, and crops are difficult to harvest, and unemployment shoots up (fuel or electricity restrictions would cripple a lot of businesses), things could/would start to get spicy. Putin has done a pretty good job of trying to isolate a lot of Russians from being affected by the war. Impact their food supply, employment, heating and electricity, etc. and the war comes home, and they ask why Putin invaded Ukraine and why they have to pay for it. Ukraine is going down that road of hitting the national fuel infrastructure which can make all of those other things happen. There are no western companies rushing in to replace that infrastructure. And Russian air defenses are extremely strained as it is.
  12. He wouldn’t use nukes. He’s afraid of dying. Nukes also end China, Iran, and India’s support and financial dealings. BRICs would fall apart.
  13. The people pushing that stuff, it's fun to ask them why the Epstein files aren't being released.
  14. Are we and/or the Middle East/Africa/North Sea able to meet their demand?
  15. The problem is he still doesn’t understand what tariffs are, or he put that requirement in there to sabotage this and keep it from ever happening.
  16. But the boomers will believe it if it’s on Facebook.
  17. I’ve thought about this over the summer. I somewhat doubt it because I think too many people have been exposed to too many awesome games to want to go back to the shitty games many of us grew up with. However, I think we will see a reduction in new offerings going forward, because there’s just so many options available now. There is a bit of a feeling like when the video game market crashed in the 80s where there were too many games produced, and while there were plenty of amazing games, there was also a lot of shit plus people had their limits, financial or otherwise. Compound that by the fact that many of these board games being made now are high-priced and people are reluctant to spend money on something they may not play that often. I can walk into Tanuki Games or Dragon’s Lair here in Austin and I will immediately recognize games I have seen you or others mention or that I’ve read about on BoardGameGeek or Reddit and I’m zeroed in on a few games that I’m considering/wanting and I can be in and out fairly quickly. My middle-schooler will spend a couple of hours looking at every game if given the chance. A casual board game player like my wife would be absolutely overwhelmed unless I point her to one or two sections that I know she would like (Tanuki has a decent setup that doesn’t seem to be too overwhelming for casual players). it’s not in our budget for too many of these games per year, and I have a backlog, so it could be a few years before I catch up. I would bet many others are in the same boat.
  18. I wonder if you asked grok to define what “Western Civilization” is in context to Leon’s rants about it being destroyed, and if the answer would be “the ability to generate shitty AI anime porn for incels to jerk off to in their mom’s basement.”
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