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  1. Germany needs to step up but they are tied to Russia so they don't really want to. Poland and the Czech Republic and Hungary and Sweden and Finland and Estonia, and Latvia and Lithuania are next in needing to step up. Hungary won't because they are tied with Russia. Poland and the Czech Republic have financial constraints. This shouldn't be a majority US problem although it is obvious that the US needs to step up. The countries who are most fucked by Russian aggression, though, need to figure out a way to step up to the plate. It is a good time for NATO to really push Europe to contributing more towards the world's defense and if that doesn't happen then the ones directly impacted need to do something. And quite frankly, Ukraine has got to figure out a way to get more men on the battlefield. Right now besides the lack of weapons, Ukraine is suffering from a manpower issue.
  2. I agree with what you said. My question is still on the importance of development. From a thoughtful approach, it should be obvious that we recruit body types and athletes with the right attitude a lot more these days than 30 years ago - These players often come from the inner city and don't have the training that suburban players get. So, development should be more important these days. OTOH, from an observational point of view, teams have proven that if you recruit the best athletes, you are going to compete for championships. There are a few exceptions like A&M but mainly those exceptions were for obvious reasons, like recruiting shitheads and druggies and dumbasses (people with the wrong attitude) or being one hit wonders (recruiting top players for a year or two only) or recruiting heavy some positions while ignoring other positions. A&M did all of those things so it is no surprise that they failed. Plus, they are aggies so they were doomed to fail. Anyway, I think the problem with the thoughtful approach is that there are many decent coaches out there that can develop players to some extent. So, it is hard to differentiate schools that develop better than others. And a lot of the development that we observe is more emotional like keeping drugs and country club attitudes away from the program than the physical development of players, like learning the position and becoming better athletes.
  3. https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-90-hamas-gunmen-killed-160-suspects-nabbed-in-raid-at-gazas-shifa-hospital/ IDF: 90 Hamas gunmen killed, over 300 nabbed in raid at Gaza’s Shifa Hospital The Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday continued an operation against Hamas forces at Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital, with the military saying troops had killed more than 90 gunmen so far. The operation, which began early Monday morning, was being carried out by the Navy’s Shayetet 13 commando unit, the 401st Armored Brigade, and other forces. Troops raided the hospital, the largest medical center in the Gaza Strip, after Israeli intelligence indicated that Hamas operatives, including commanders, had returned to the complex to use it as a command center for planning attacks against Israel and troops in Gaza. It was previously raided by the military in November. “Over the past day, the troops have eliminated terrorists and located weapons in the hospital area, while preventing harm to civilians, patients, medical teams and medical equipment,” the IDF said in a statement Wednesday morning. The IDF said that hundreds of terror suspects had so far been questioned at the hospital complex by field interrogators of the Military Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504 and the Shin Bet security agency. In a video statement from the hospital on Wednesday, IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said troops had detained between 250 and 300 terror operatives at the medical center during the ongoing operation. He said another 300 suspects were also being questioned. “We are talking about many [Palestinian Islamic Jihad] operatives, including battalion commanders, Hamas operatives, including political officials,” Hagari said. “We will reach all the terrorists in this area. Our goal is to arrest the senior officials alive and bring them in for interrogation. Whoever fights against us will be killed,” he continued. Photos circulating on social media on Wednesday showed IDF troops detaining suspected Hamas operatives at the hospital overnight. Among those detained at Shifa and brought to Israel for further questioning was Mahmoud Qawasmeh, a senior Hamas operative involved in the planning of the 2014 kidnapping and murder of Eyal Yifrach, Gil-ad Shaer, and Naftali Fraenkel, the Shin Bet announced. In a statement, the security agency said Qawasmeh was “one of the planners and financiers of the infrastructure that carried out the kidnapping and murder attack” in 2014. From left to right: Eyal Yifrach, 19, Gil-ad Shaer, 16, and Naftali Fraenkel, 16, three Israeli teenagers who were seized and kiled by Palestinians on June 12, 2014 (photo credit: IDF/AP) The Shin Bet said he had been exiled to the Gaza Strip as part of the 2011 Shalit deal, where he continued to advance attacks in the West Bank, including shooting attacks in recent years carried out by Hamas cells. Hagari, in his statement, said the IDF was also providing food and water to the civilians sheltering at the hospital and brought in generators for Shifa’s ER. He said the operation at Shifa would likely last several more days. The IDF also released a video showing weapons recovered by troops at Shifa, and clips of the elite Duvdevan commando unit operating on the hospital’s premises. Two Israeli soldiers have been killed in the operation at Shifa, and a senior Hamas commander was slain in an exchange of fire with troops seeking to detain him. Israeli troops first entered the hospital early in the conflict, on November 5. The war was triggered on October 7 when some 3,000 terrorists stormed the border with Israel and unleashed an unprecedented attack on the country’s southern communities, killing some 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and taking 253 hostages to Gaza, where more than half remain. The IDF also said Wednesday it had struck a Hamas tunnel shaft in northern Gaza overnight. The site was identified after a rocket was fired toward the southern city of Sderot on Tuesday. It fell short and landed inside Gaza. Also in northern Gaza, the IDF said it struck a six-man Hamas cell in the Jabaliya area. In central Gaza, the Nahal Brigade continued to battle Hamas operatives over the past day, and in southern Gaza, the 98th Division was battling the terror group in the Khan Younis suburb of al-Qarara, the IDF said. Also Wednesday, the IDF and Shin Bet announced that an airstrike in southern Gaza’s Rafah earlier in the week had killed senior officers in Hamas’s so-called Emergency Committee. In the strike carried out by fighter jets on Monday, Sayyid Qutb Hashash, Osama Hamad Dhahir, and Hadi Abu al-Rous were killed, and Muhammad Awad al-Malalhi was apparently wounded, according to the IDF. Hashash, Dhahir, and al-Malalhi were the heads of Hamas’s Emergency Committee in the north and east Rafah areas, and al-Rous was the operations officer of the Emergency Committee, the IDF said. The committee is a Hamas body tasked with maintaining public order and civil control in the Strip’s municipalities. The IDF said the officials were “responsible for organizing terror activity and communication with Hamas operatives on the ground” as well as aiding “the military wing of the terror organization to establish continued control. “The senior officers were the emissaries of Hamas leadership in Rafah, concentrated Hamas’s activity in humanitarian zones and were responsible for coordination with Hamas operatives in the field,” it said. The strike came after the IDF targeted Nidal al-Eid, the head of the Emergency Committee in Rafah last week, the military added. An IDF handout from March 20, 2024, identifying senior Hamas operatives in in an airstrike in Rafah in the Gaza Strip (Israel Defense Forces) More than a million Palestinians displaced by the five-month-old war between Israel and Hamas have been sheltering in Rafah, which abuts Gaza’s border with Egypt. Israel says one-sixth of Hamas’s combat strength — four battalions of rifle- and rocket-wielding fighters — is in Rafah and must be crushed before the war can conclude. But the prospect of a spiraling civilian toll has raised alarm abroad. With a new round of mediated talks underway in Qatar on a possible release of hostages, the White House said it would confer with Jerusalem before any troops or tanks move into Rafah. The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry said on Wednesday 104 Palestinians had been killed in fighting in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, bringing its official death toll since October 7 to 31,923. These figures cannot be independently verified, and are believed to include both civilians and Hamas members killed in Gaza, including as a consequence of terror groups’ own rocket misfires. The IDF says it has killed over 13,000 operatives in Gaza, in addition to some 1,000 terrorists inside Israel on October 7. Agencies contributed to this report.
  4. It seems pretty ideal. That way our budget looks better and Ukraine gets what it needs.
  5. Is there some sort of sweetheart deal where we offer Poland great prices and they ship their surplus to Ukraine?
  6. Yeah, I can't make heads or tails of that thing.
  7. Blackshire looks like a DE in this pic.
  8. Gavin Holmes looks pretty big.
  9. Then what is the move where you leave your cell phone on the shuttle bus?
  10. I hope he stays. Also, looks like the cake is baked.
  11. Well, plus their girlfriends live in Austin.
  12. one in 250K bears could fatally attack someone, whereas one in 16K humans will commit murder
  13. It's possible when the majority of Hamas has been eliminated. However, those kind of operations are extremely dangerous - as in the enemy has many advantages so it is likely more of your forces are killed and injured than enemy forces. So expecting Israel to have operated in this manned from the beginning is asking more than what any other country would do. We generally would just leave those guys alone or target them later. Rarely and I can't think of an instance where we alone had to eliminate so many combatants in the middle of large groups of non-combatants. In Vietnam, we had issues with asymmetric warfare.
  14. I seriously doubt it. Going into a hospital and targeting individuals while ignoring non-combatants works well in video games, though.
  15. This is interesting since we don't want the IDF to target hospitals. That is quite a dilemma.
  16. So, here is an article on Alabama bust rates: https://www.rollbamaroll.com/2023/7/11/23789325/alabama-hasnt-won-a-national-championship-since-2020-are-recruiting-busts-to-blame : The article doesn't matter much but its point was that lower bust rates meant more championships. Well, Saban always recruited well but at times he took guys who were highly rated by the magazines but we as fans had questions about for one reason or another. I assume that the Bama staff had questions as well but they didn't get all the guys that they wanted. The point is that Alabama didn't develop players better some years than others. Instead, I would say that they recruited better players some years over other years.
  17. This is true in most political discussions. We have a system where the moderates are split between two parties and the extremes end up being the majority - So most elected officials are extreme. But in most cases you are political and have strong opinions. Why in this case do you say it is pointless? It seems to me that a solution is possible here because neither party has to worry about voting blocks.
  18. My only comments on the first paragraph are that I am well aware of the law but we are talking about Austin - so I have zero confidence that a trial will take place. And I have zero confidence that he would do much time behind bars if a trial were to take place. And if he were forced to take medications in prison then he would be fine in prison and wouldn't appear to be a danger to society. The second paragraph didn't answer my concerns. A person on medication isn't dangerously insane. And we as a society aren't willing to put people in mental facilities for life if they don't want to be in one. So if a person is on the street taking their medication, society isn't at risk. As soon as an insane person gets off his medication then he is at risk. Unfortunately, insane people don't generally stay on their medications when they are away from people making them take their medications. So basically they are always at risk to society. How as a society do we address this basic flaw, a two strike rule, a three strike rule...? Don't just say that the problem is due to how we deal with mental health? Come up with a way to deal with it. Just saying allow the insane free psychology sessions or putting them in institutions for life without fully thinking out how that would work doesn't do any good.
  19. The powder blue is the most important aspect, anyway. Just use powder blue with another color.
  20. I don't get this, but I'm not sure that I have the answer. Generally, mental health patients don't like taking their medications for life. So, they aren't a risk to society when they are on their medications but are a risk when they are off of them. They just stated that the guy who took a machete to a jogger here in Austin is incompetent to stand trial. Knowing Austin, he probably will never stand trial. That might be okay if he stays on medication but the likelihood of that happening is slim to none. A mental health facility would work but keeping someone in a mental health facility for life when he is "okay" on medication isn't appropriate in today's society.
  21. Those things are all over the place, Yosemite, Washington state, Telluride... New Mexico even has one and they don't even have water.
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