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Clergy looks like he is upset Durmstrang did not win the Tri-Wizard tournament.

It would be something if an accidental fire, poor maintenance, and poor damage control training brought down Putin. 😁

I’ll only believe it when Oryx puts it on the board.

I think the Ukrainians just did.

The US Navy likely still uses Morse code in flashing light communications. At least we did in the 90’s. Not often, but signalmen trained on it. But yes the Morse code thing makes no sense. For radio or other comms they would have used.

I would say he played a great 1/3 of the match. Once he invaded Ukraine proper with a full on assault he misplayed by not continuing his slow game. I think him being 70, having possible health issues, and getting older played into him over reaching as he may have been wanting to get his great Russia/USSR reclamation done prior to aging out and not getting credit and to revel in his success. If he had kept at his prior game of incremental growth and in his latest step had just declared the contested Donbas/Luhansk areas as being independent (and later annexed them), but not invaded for the entire region, then likely he would have had success and the world would have reacted similarly to when they took Crimea. That was my concern when this started is that if he did the small step like in the past that the world would do more limited sanctions and then ignore it as a local issue. He overplayed his hand with a full on country invasion of conquest and then had the unfortunate need for a real army with real leadership instead of a an army trained to be overpowering thugs and bullies.

Your trash is only picked up once a week?

One common theme I see in all the Chechen videos is that there is never an enemy soliders firing back. It all looks like them making a video of themselves shooting guns, rockets and grenades and pretending to be in combat...but really just near some abandoned building.

Fixed it.

You’re doing Gods work…keep it up!

So your Grandmother helps you waffle on being 100% German.

I understand why in the older populations there would be more women than men. But why in the younger population are there more boys/men than girls/women? I would expect that to be 50/50 for younger (under 30ish) ages.

Fixed it.

Orban and his party have control over most of the media....so it really shouldn't be a surprise. Free press and free speech supports free and contested elections and ideas. Hungary has been moving away from that for a decade.

Responded above.

Acceptance rates is as important to many of these schools to show exclusiveness as other metrics, so convincing them you want to go there, and not just that you are qualified, is part of the process.

More of a Paralympic meets St. Patty’s day. With lots of unanswered RSVP’s

The Ukrainians did not attack Russia. They merely conducted a Special Military Operation.

These guys are such posers. They film themselves firing rockets at nothing and with no real enemy or combat near them. Then their leader takes selfies from “Ukraine” at a gas station that doesn’t exist in Ukraine and in front of a captured Ukrainian truck with palace in the background. I imagine the Belarus troops think they suck.

Hackers are reported to have said "This thing is so fucked up we couldn't do anything to make it worse!"

Likely related to this. LONDON, March 28 (Reuters) - Russian soldiers who seized the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster drove their armoured vehicles without radiation protection through a highly toxic zone called the "Red Forest", kicking up clouds of radioactive dust, workers at the site said. The two sources said soldiers in the convoy did not use any anti-radiation gear. The second Chernobyl employee said that was "suicidal" for the soldiers because the radioactive dust they inhaled was likely to cause internal radiation in their bodies.

I have found that the key to a successful marriage is not caring about shit. Seriously. If she talks to me as she is walking away, in another room, or does something so she or I can't hear each other during a conversation I just stop talking and assume it doesn't matter. Unless the house is on fire and we need to flee, or something like that, then if it doesn't matter to her then it doesn't matter to me. I walk away and enjoy the next moment of my life. My normal setting is to care, but if I did then I would have multiple rage/anger moments directed at her per day...and if it is not important to her, then I am not going to make it important to me.

The longer the war goes on, the larger the Ukraine military gets.

How come the black ones jump higher than the white (tan) ones?

And to be clear, the “Blitzkrieg” involved Russia invading Poland from the East in conjunction with Germany in September 1939. Russia also invaded Finland in November of 1939. Effectively Russia was part of the Axis until Germany attacked them.