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Gatorubet

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  1. I don’t know, man - I have this vision of an orgasmic future event where each factory and refinery will get multiple saved up flamingos. So many flamingos that the now-limited number of air defense missiles can’t stop them all. I want the destruction of those sites and loss of electrical power to happen on the same day - in an event so dark and catastrophic that Russia can’t recover from it and continue its war effort at the same time. Or at all. “Imagine there’s no Russia. It’s easy if you try. No Orcs in Donbas. Glide bombs descending from the sky…Imagine all the Vatniks, Telegram off-line for all time. Ooh hoo, hoooooo… You could say I’m a dreamer. But I’m not the only one. Someday you’ll join us…and the world will live as one…. Gigantic Russia Smashing Hammer ”
  2. Somebody just recommended the Boldin Retirement software to me again. Does anybody here use it/has used it/know of people who have used it - and can share their thoughts on whether they think it’s worth purchasing and using?
  3. Nice summary “Make sure that Moscow’s elites have gas and fuel. We don’t care about that preventative maintenance stuff right now. What could possibly go wrong?” i’ve been wondering why they didn’t use Flamingos on the refineries - and I guess the answer is as long as drones can do the job - there’s no reason to spend the money and the resource of an ICBM. On one glorious day in the future you send the new Tomahawks and glide bombs and hundreds of new Flamingos at the military industrial complex factories making whatever they still make, while taking out whatever power plants supply energy to the factories.
  4. Silly Ukraine. Drone strikes just increasing the cost of the reparations they will have to pay Russia.
  5. I know it’s easy to fall through a rabbit hole of ends versus means when trying to justify an economically damaged America, there is no way that the loss of our democracy and having Trump as dictator will not end up being far worse for America and its citizens than whatever long economic hellscape we must endure in order to prevent that happening. While it is sad that millions of Americans are forced to jump on the grenade, whether they voted for TFG or not, that is kind of where we are.
  6. These three posts show the methodical work that Ukraine is doing. They bomb the main pipeline and then follow up destroying pumping stations along the route. Like Hermann Goring having to explain why Berlin is being bombed, Putin should be answering questions why Russia cannot defend its integral gas and oil facilities from Ukrainian attacks. While the loss of oil and gas refining and exporting facilities is a problem for sure, the macro problem is that Russia has no air defense that can stop Ukraine from shutting down the gas station part of Russia being a gas station with nukes.
  7. Whoa there friend. One can be incompetent, but not doing it intentionally. Exhibit A: my entire working career. Exhibit B: a long line of Florida football head coaches.
  8. “ I have no earthly idea what they should be doing, but I’m here to tell you that they aren’t doing ANY of those good things whatever those are…” I’m not sure that is your very best take in a thread talking about political strategy. All I know is that I’m having problems with my work software, and NONE of those coders were doing ANYTHING to solve the problems!!! And no, I’m not telling you what the coders should have been doing. It’s not my fucking job to tell them what to do; I do law for a living.
  9. ????? Nothing about his post said, or even implied some kind of conspiracy.
  10. on one hand, you have the very livelihood of the constitutional republic called the United States of America, which is currently on a direct course to fail and repudiate everything we believed in during the history of our country. On the other hand, you have people who will get hurt if the GOP drives us into the ditch, but there’s a small chance we can save our country if the injuries from driving into the ditch or so serious and severe that everyone retaliates against the GOP. like I’ve said several times, I am hoping for a great depression. That is the only thing that will ultimately strip away this selfishness and stupidity to an extent that voters only look at their current situation. And if it’s bad enough with the GOP, then they’ll try something else. But it has to be really bad for many people to pull the switch for a Democrat. So I want it really bad.
  11. I guess you’re going to have to articulate what you think they should be doing so we can compare what they’re doing with what you want them to do.
  12. And speaking of glide bombs….
  13. One time I was visiting my 80 year-old mother when she casually mentioned that the bank had called her with a problem. When I asked what it was, she said, “ no biggie, they just wanted to confirm my Social Security number and date of birth…” Who was it mom…which bank? “I can’t remember, one of them” i’m forever getting texts for the toll tag/speeding ticket or for the FedEx package they are trying to deliver but can’t.
  14. username checks out
  15. Everyone keeps ducking my penguin meat question…
  16. While I never knew there were so many dip shits in this country, the numbers still show we are a 1-4 % difference between who gets in power. I count on Trump and Company being absolute liars. And so they will not issue numbers that are unfavorable. But the bright side is they are also incredibly stupid. Which means they will either just quit issuing reports, or say that we have 100% employment when two out of three of your neighbors were laid off. While maggots will have no problem with that, I would bet my life that unemployed people with no health insurance will not react kindly to this administration lying about those issues. I’m not saying this guarantees a blue wave, but I am saying that the GOP is going to have to put in a lot more work in their election chicanery efforts to pull this off.
  17. Any chatter about freezing or terminating existing plans? I assume it would have an extremely negative impact on employee morale. I have no idea what the overhead is to continue existing 401(k) plans.
  18. “Testing Methods: The rest of the world, including Russia, primarily uses the Research Octane Number (RON), which is a single measure of a fuel's anti-knock properties. US Method: The United States uses the Anti-Knock Index (AKI)(or (R+M)/2), which is the average of the RON and the Motor Octane Number (MON). Conversion: Since MON is always lower than RON, the AKI is typically 4-6 points lower than the RON for the same fuel. How A-76 compares The number 76 in A-76 refers to the MON. Since A-76 is defined by a single number (MON), this is the equivalent of the other number found on Russian fuel pumps. Given that a fuel with a 92 RON in Russia is about an 88.5 AKI in the US, a Russian A-76 fuel would be roughly equivalent to the 85 AKI (or lower) range, fitting into the lowest tier of US gasoline grades.” Comment: if a 92 Russian RON classification is closer to 88.5 US AKI octane rating, then a 72 Russian RON classification would be closer to a 64 US octane rating. Yikes! That also means the Russian 95 gas is closer to 90 octane US.
  19. That will buff right out.
  20. La Boulangerie is great. Here are the monthly dad-son dinner lineup possibilities:
  21. Odd. Like last Friday’s tetanus/Covid/flu triad of shots, my first shingles vaccine shot three weeks ago wound up being a nothing burger as well. It makes me wonder whether my immune system is reacting at all.
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