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Excellent post. I grew up during some of the coldest years of the cold war. Great care was taken in signaling intent of moves that would in any way impact the Soviets so that nothing would be misconstrued and caused escalation of tensions. As cold as all those years were, I don't remember any time as dangerous as this particular time and situation.

First, let me apologize by "shitpost". I thought you were fucking with the OP. Second, I am normally aligned with your way of thinking, but this is a very unique situation, and I think it requires much more nuanced responses than we've been doing. At any rate, the world has come together to condemn Putin and Russia here in impactful ways (even if they haven't impacted quite yet). In fact, I might argue the opposite position here. I'm wondering if this global unified response to Putin has made Xi rethink his Taiwan ambitions.

This situation is not akin to Chamberlain appeasing the dictator of a rising world power with global ambitions. Russia is a decaying country with an economy that can't compete in this century. It's conventional military is being used up in this endeavor. Those who prognasticate that this is just the start of his military endeavors have no clue. He has nothing to extend beyond this. What he does have are nukes. What he also has is an attitude of, "if I'm going down I'm taking the West with me" (his foreign minister threatens nuclear war multiple times a day). When you have a madman like that in a situation like this, you appease him his victory in Ukraine. Then you work quietly to get him out of power without implicating yourself.

Understood, but we seem to be egging them on to continue a hopeless fight that can get infinitely worse, when we have no intentions of actually intervening.

No, we are not talking about everyone. We are talking about Ukraine. That's a surprisingly shit post from you.

Buzzrock has been spot on this whole time. No matter how long they hold out and how bloody it gets, it's going to end the same way. Take the long view, live to fight another day. Keep fucking around and this shit will get out of control. It will get out of control and we will all die.

Same

I'd counter it's the media. If this isn't given wall to wall coverage, no one gives a shit, just like the rest of those wars the OP pointed out that went unnoticed

Whenever I see an Englishman abroad I ask if he's from Australia. Never fails to piss them off.

Good post. Regards to supply chains, Covid was a huge wakeup call on the current vulnerabilities, so we've been thinking about this for two years already. It will be a slow process, but a lot of that key stuff (chips, pharmaceuticals, etc.) will be coming home. Some of it has begun already

Caught Scarecrow on TCM the other night. Hackman has called this perhaps his favorite performance. He plays a drunk scene as well as I've ever seen it done here.

Four teams remaining, wiki says there are three legs remaining. So, unless the show has changed the final episode to be final 2 vs. final 3, tonight will be a non-elimination leg. Is it possible dad and daughter could come in last four times and still make the final???

https://www.theringer.com/tv/2022/2/20/22940914/righteous-gemstones-baby-billy-harmon-reunion-macaulay-culkin

Family got caught up on the episodes and I watched with them for the second time. I didn't realize how awful the father-daughter team is the first go-around. It's going to be a travesty if they somehow pull out a win. Also, Sherry and Akbar were comedy gold. I hope they get invited back. S: "Hey, I climbed that mountain" A: "Congratulations"

Nice find. What makes that extra painful for Bengals fans is Burrow didn't even need to fire an accurate pass. There is no one within twenty yards of this dude. A duck would have done the trick.

Not sure if you've seen it but there is a pic out there of Ramsey on the ground again, and the WR free as a bird, just as Barrow was desperately dumping the ball.

Wonder if there's a correlation between legacy owners and lack of success. Know the McCaskeys have been a pox on the city of Chicago for decades. That '85 team partially covered up their five decade long ineptitude. Now, there threatening to move to suburbs.

The Rams were popular in LA in the 60s-70s. By the 80s, the Lakers dominated the LA sports scene, with the Dodgers always firmly entrenched in LA, and the Rams were relegated to Anaheim, where they played to empty stadium game after game. It perplexed the hell out of the NFL that they could not get LA to clamor and pay up to get a NFL franchise over those 20 years that they had none. Worst kept secret, the fans could not give a fuck about a NFL home team. Enter the traitor Kroenke. Current owner of Jaguars, a U of I alum wanted to buy the Rams and keep in StL. Traitor Kroenke, whose fortune came from marrying into Walmart royalty, had ROFR and exercised it, also promising to keep the team in the town of his birth. Of course, it was all bullshit and a carefully laid out plan with Jerry Johnson and the NFL screwed the City of StL and got the Rams back to LA. For his trouble, Kroenke got to lay out $5.5B for the new stadium as well as some substantial portion of the $780M settlement the team did with StL, so as not to expose the deceit and duplicity in which they made the move. At any rate, given all that occurred and what Kroenke put on the line to get a team back in LA, you are naive if you think that Super Bowl wasn't nudged to his team the last couple minutes. It's all a desperate attempt to get the LA fans to give a fuck about the Rams. Hell, they were out-attended by SF in the last game of the season. Like someone else pointed out, the future doesn't look bright for the franchise. They mortgaged the future for this title and still needed the officials' help to seal the deal.

Read my original post.

So, she just asks this dude to pick up and pay for the laundry of ten of his company mates, believing they're all fine? Keep in mind she's experienced the war for over four years at that point. She knows what it means when men don't come back for their things.

Our master shower is lit by a CFL bulb, in a recessed ceiling light fixture with a glass cover. Wife is convinced that the heat emitted by leaving the light on 24/7 helps dry the shower and avoid mold growth. I've tried to explain to her a thousand times how stupid that is, but she won't buy it. I've given up

That's always been a powerful scene to me, as she knows what she's doing, and he knows what she's doing. But you can't really come down too hard on her as she's trying to earn a living in wartime. But damn, man, knowing or at least suspecting all those men were now dead, and off-loading their laundry on their comrade...