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    I’m in short sleeves, with the grill on, in February, in Washington DC. At least one cherry tree on my street is in bloom.
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    What what?
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    https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tankie Tankies are basically left wing people who will excuse anything former Soviet/current China does as it’s all for the cause (which is completely malleable depending on the issue) in this current setting: because Biden is ascendant and all of Europe(including the Greens) is unified, they are very quiet. Amnesty International is probably as close as you are going to get as their public face.
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    Not sure about ATACMS, but there is wisdom here about the politics. Tankies are a thing. They might be hiding, but the are waiting to come out the moment a pro-Ukrainian GOP leader shows up.
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    With China, you strangle them economically. Use sanctions and trade embargoes to force EU and US manufacturing to look elsewhere for low cost producers.
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    It’s been a good day.
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    I don’t want to downplay the Russia-Iran thing, but “sophisticated “ is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that statement.
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    Fair enough. I loved it, but it’s always tricky recommending foreign language movies
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    It’s just so damn hard to find anything good these days that goes bang and doesn’t take 2.5 hours and is a mediocre quality CGI fest. I felt like the movie wasn’t trying to explore a deeper meaning and instead just took the viewers for a ride, letting them find their own meaning.
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    I wasn’t aware there was a sliding scale for riot quality. You’ve obviously never tried to keep up with lightning fast German subtitles before. There were no good guys and lots of tactical wtf in Apocalypse Now, and yet it’s a classic. Literally nothing made sense in Maverick, which was basically a rewarming of the first movie, with the Star Wars trench scene tacked on and Miles Teller’s mustache. If you can find a quality sub 100 minute action movie with cool visuals and multiple long tracking shots, I’m all ears.
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    Athena. About a riot in a French housing project and a group of brothers living/fighting through it. It's pretty much straight action from the jump. 99 minutes. Cinematography is absolutely astounding and the action is breathtaking. Because it's French, the subtitles are easy. I don't know how this movie didn't end up on everyone's top ten lists. 5 out of 5 stars. Maybe the only movie this year that can hang with Maverick on the action/entertainment front.
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    One of the benefits of living in DC is I won’t have to try my hand at surviving in a post Apocalyptic world. I have an old coworker whose joke was “when the nuke sirens go off, Ima a grab a bottle of scotch from the liquor store down the street and just walk towards the White House. Won’t feel a thing.”
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    I had it in January. Basically a really intense 3 day flu, fever and hideous congestion, then on day 4 my fever broke and I was symptom free by day 6. Just like that. my wife had it too, it took 2 weeks to clear, and she still occasionally gets short of breath. We’ve both had the max shots and I mixed and matched Moderna and Pfizer.
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    Patrick Mahomes

    Bateshorn replied to ztejas's topic in Football

    KC will remain at the top of the game as long as Reid stays and Mahomes is willing to take a home town deal (via restructuring) to allow the team to bring in good talent at other positions.
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    The worst part will be tomorrow when everyone is bitching about the anti-climatic ending and wailing for rule changes. If you watch the NFL regularly, every week there is a game that ends like this with smart kneel downs, intelligent clock running and a boring ass short field goal.
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    It is a pity that the GOP is so clownish and stupid on entitlement reform. SS is not really that complex to bring into funding stability, but it will likely require raising/eliminating the tax cap, moving to chained CPI, and potentially monkeying around with the bend points to cut benefits to the wealthy. Since Rick Scott walked into the room and publicly blew his dick off, there’s very little chance of a viable bipartisan reform that could deflect voters anger.
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    It’s true. You could annilate the federal government beyond Medicare, Medicaid, SS, DOD, and Veterans care and we’d still run a deficit. it ain’t the department of wasteful bullshit that got us in the red. we are a senior support and healthcare company with a military and legacy war fighting costs. The rest is couch chamge.
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    This. The Russians blew up the existing operational pipeline, with the intent of freeze and squeeze Europe, then proffer the "There's this other pipeline that's available, turn it on and let's get you all warm and hooked on our sweet, cheap NG again" Sometimes this shit is not that hard.
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    As one does…
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    One of my perspectives about Biden is his administration in some areas is absolutely driven by his own personal views and passions. The Obama administration was a technocrat administration that also constantly tasted the wind of politics. Biden is much more likely to act in a way that is personal to the President. And this issue is a perfect example. I think Biden personally hates the idea of legalization. I wouldn’t be surprised if behind closed doors he calls it wacky weed, Mary Jane, and marijuana cigarettes unironically. And the best you’re going to get out of his presidency is quiet acceptance if Congress were to ever send him something with overwhelming majorities. OTOH, I’ll bet real money he commutes to life sentences everyone on federal death row before the end of his presidency.
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    Well now, hold on. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves here, maybe we are overthinking it.
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    I can’t remember where I saw it last night but the Pentagon actually talked the White House out of shooting it down. Basically they don’t see it as threat at all, and juice isn’t worth the squeeze cost wise or the rare chance the debris could cause ground damage. Edit: looking at that flight map, I’m sure it would also disrupt travel because they’d have to clear out a lot of commercial traffic, just to be safe.
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    All I know was in the 90s I flew home from Bates specifically for the Baylor game n Austin because the Baylor girls that came down were such sluts once they got out of Waco. True to form, I absolutely disrespected somebody’s daughter on Friday night. And Richard Walton came in and won the fucking game.
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    The Magicians did an episode called “A life in a day” where two characters are trapped in a pocket world and build an entire life and death together. It was also similarly very touching and well done.

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