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choripan

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  1. Thanks, I'll be in contact with them.
  2. Let's fuckin'go! You talkin' these folks? https://charity.org/success-story/moas-mission-in-ukraine/ Thanks for the suggestion.
  3. This may not be the place for this, but I know that there are a bunch of people here with connections to Ukraine and activities over there. Any help or guidance from here would be appreciated since I think it'd just get washed on the "Can Uou Help Me with This?" board. For background, I've wanted to go volunteer over there for awhile. I had an opportunity to drive refugees when this started, but my (then) wife nixed it because we had a 2 year old and a 3 year old, and I accepted to keep the peace. Now, the kids are older and I'd have coverage to go for about a week and a half between arranging my work schedule, my non-custodial time with my kids, and extra coverage from Grandma (my mom) and my ex. For background, while I am a veteran (Army), I have committed not to do anything combat or combat-adjacent in return for getting the babysitting coverage. I'm thinking my best bet is helping rebuild and clear rubble, but am all ears. Plan would be to fly into Krakow Take the train that goes Krakow --> Przemysl (switch trains) --> Kyiv Volunteer while in and around Kyiv. Here are the best two options I've found so far: https://www.volunteeringukraine.com/en/volunteer-opportunities/dobrobat-rebuilding https://www.volunteeringukraine.com/en/volunteer-opportunities/brave-to-rebuild Reverse train ride, but stop for a day in Lviv because a Ukranian buddy says I *must* visit. I can afford my own transportation, lodging, food, etc. In any case, any guidance or tips anyone has here would be greatly appreciated. I've booked flights from April 29 - May 8 as placeholder dates, but can still change those pretty easliy.
  4. This is incorrect. Waymo operates on freeways in at least California and Arizona. Google it so I don't have to do it for you. Waymo has a far more comprehensive set of sensors and is WAY ahead of Tesla, which is not even #2 in the AV game. The difference is that Waymo generally works with regulators to establish agreed-to geofences and parameters that allow safe(r) deployment and development of the AV solution, rather than putting erratic "beta" machines on public roads and selling them as "full" self driving, with untrained drivers at the wheel. Source: Regulatory lawyer who has spent hundreds of hours on this very issue (not for Waymo, btw. No dog in the fight.).
  5. I absolutely feel this. I bought a Mustang Mach E GT (used) about a year ago because we had a PHEV for road trips, or when I had to work off-site away from my main office, etc. Well, my ex and I got divorced and I don't have that backup available. Now, I *love* the Mach E, but don't have time to do a stop-and-fill each way when I'm working off-site without waking up stupidly early or getting home stupidly late. It makes a long day longer, and it's a few times a month. PHEV solves that. Leader in the pack is the Grand Cherokee for me right now.
  6. Holy fuck. I hate that I'm cracking up.
  7. Umm hello, @Brisketexan are you working or something? You're supposed to make some variation on the same post every page in this thread, no? (Which I totally align with, so keep posting away!)
  8. I dunno, seems to me like a trade of one young guy for one particularly bad health company CEO is a pretty good one, and the youngster knows/knew it. Five to one, baby One in five No one here gets out alive... May take a week And it may take longer They got the guns But we got the numbers Gonna win, yeah, we're takin' over Come on!
  9. I'll say it if someone else won't. This is about how I feel.
  10. Michigan with an even average QB would have been something this year.
  11. And they just missed a delay by like 2-3 seconds on the Bears before the defensive hold. This is a masterpiece of reffing the score (except for the horse collar), but whatever if it keeps the game interesting.
  12. To be fair, the hold by the Chicago RT on their TD was comically obvious and bad.
  13. Well fuck, these projections are making it look like my prediction might be off.
  14. Harris 538 - Trump 0 Let's fucking go.
  15. Anyone got some of these we can borrow for that election day thread?
  16. Me telling myself "don't CR it up, don't CR it up, don't CR it up with the obvious comparison"
  17. Important to refute this. We have enough incompetent, entitled, ambitious children of wealth that at least one of them is going to roll double-sixes a few times in a row. Elon has. Good for him, until his wild heel turn over the last few years. But overall, we have far more evidence that he is an awful human being that happened to get lucky than we do evidence that he's a born leader or a genius or anything along those lines. He is like Eli Manning with two Super Bowls. Catch fire at the right time and place and voila(!).
  18. This is such a weird, esoteric question, but there's a lot of law talkers on here and this seemed like the best thread. Is there some sort of maritime / admiralty law still outstanding that contemplates letters of marque? That is, could some outcast country like Russia or Iran issue a letter of marque to a Houthi or Somali leader? Would it still technically (but not actually, ayatollah bro, c'mon) need to be be recognized in some quarters? Seems like the type of thing Russia would do, given their love of technically complying with the law while doing dastardly things.
  19. DoXxEd!! Got 'em! No more letter of marque for you, buddy! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Callis_(pirate)
  20. Follow up: Just got a call from the hiring manager at a good opportunity that I'm getting an offer and that HR is putting a package together! It can happen! I just interviewed with her boss at the HQ (Euro company) this morning our time, so they moved quickly. And when it rains, it pours. On Friday, I got a call from the hiring manager at another letting me know I'd hear within a couple days after today's holiday and to keep an eye on my phone. Not something you typically do, in the manner she said it, if they're going with the other finalist. The former was through networking. I finally swallowed my pride and reached out to key people to grab coffee/a beer and to say that I was actively looking. Universally, the response was, "Why didn't you say something sooner? Let me pass your info around and put you in touch with x, y, and z." The latter was through AI-assisted applying. It really is a gauntlet out there, and you either need help from a person or AI. It's nothing like applying to the help wanted ads back in the day, I tell you that.
  21. Oh, then that makes total sense. I'd rather have Parsons, too. And CeeDee. Though a lot of what St. Brown does doesn't show up in the stat book. He is a ferocious blocker.
  22. His pass rush win rate / pressure percentage numbers were always right up there with Watt / Garrett / Parsons types, since I believe the end of his rookie year. Sack numbers just started coming in this year. Sewell is probably the best T in the league not named Trent Williams, but you could make an argument. He's the only guy you could say is better than Hutch without really having to stretch the case. This is a huge loss for the Lions because Hutchinson was the only organic pass rush they had, except from sometimes McNeil from the DT position.
  23. There is a chance that when the teams come out after the half, Ben Johnson will be HC of the Cowboys.
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