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Gatorubet

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  1. There is exactly zero chance that the Russian black market isn’t selling the now precious fuel at inflated prices to people who have money to purchase far more than 8 gallons…. and the ability to stock up on as many gallons as possible before things get worse. Which will lead to further shortages. There is a Lada Facebook group that shares information, and it appears most get between 8 to 11 KM per liter. Basically call it 20 miles a gallon. So each driver will have 150 to 160 miles per 30 liter fill up. The problem, of course, is that there needs to be a gas station - with fuel available - when you start to run out, and you always have to save enough fuel before you wait in line to be able to eventually make it to the station. As always, people who live in large metropolitan areas can take the bus and subway/train. The rest of the people who live in vast rural Russia (and depend upon driving to get to work and the grocery store) are going to be suffering. Edit: i’m not sure which vehicles need the 95 versus the 92 to work properly. The one time my cheap kid borrowed my BMW and brought it back filled with cheap 87 octane gas, I knew it immediately. I have no idea which octane brand is still available and what impact that has on anything..
  2. VAPA:
  3. it kind of looks like he just finished the “welcome to the platoon” initiation.
  4. My oldest son just took me to dinner at Herbsaint. He is a manager at Peche. He recently moved from the Brennan organization to Donald Link’s restaurant Empire. The managers get a couple hundred dollars a month to go to other Link entities within the organization. They want managers to try the food and check out the other places. My son is determined that I need to be his dining companion every month when we do this.
  5. Know what else they abhor?
  6. That’s not his true fur color. He dyes it.
  7. ABC to the death!
  8. Dude. Don’t. I have no problem with you being LDS, as I come from LDS stock. My ancestors were there in Nauvoo when Brigham Young supposedly spoke in Joseph Smith’s voice - but a quick and simple comparison of LDS beliefs and what the dudes in the Council of Nicea decided were core Christian beliefs shows that you guys….aren’t. And really, people who believe in talking burning bushes and an actual ark and a 6000-year-old earth have no business taking a dump on LDS folks just because Joseph Smith looked in his hat at the magic stones and deciphered the text that turned into the book of Mormon. But what you call yourself is not relevant to the current situation. That doesn’t mean people get to shoot up your church no matter what your beliefs. And other than the quirk where you insist you are Christian when you are clearly not under any definition except the one used by the LDS church, almost every LDS neighbor and co-employee I have worked with are absolutely wonderful people. I would rather hang with them (and you) than the many horrible evangelicals and fundamentalist Christians who fit the Christian definition box better (despite not caring for the poor and strangers). I obviously ran into a ton of LDS people when I was a scout leader at various BSA summer camps, and we always had a great time together and respected each other‘s beliefs. We switched from our usual 5 gallon jugs of sweet ice tea to lemonade in case our LDS friends needed to hydrate.
  9. Not that I think it will matter, but Trump not being smart enough to stay within a lane that would make his unilateral usurping of Congressional tariff power more palatable to Roberts and company is at least some good news. He has no strategy and he has no nuance. He just has a variety of sledgehammers at his disposal that he picks up and uses with his mood changes. But the way he is using those sledgehammers actually supports the legal position that he doesn’t have the power to do everything that he’s doing. At some point the conservative Supremes might get a clue that he’s destroying the country more than they will allow for partisan dipshittery, which might mean a key vote or two in the future as things get worse prior to the Supreme Court’s consideration of the constitutionality of his tariff debacle. See again, not that it will probably matter, but I’m looking for any faint sign of hope. imagine if some smart Autocrat was in charge instead of that dip shit.
  10. Not gonna lie, the high of 87 today was just gloriously nice and lacking typical New Orleans humidity. Morning walks with the mutt in the low 70s is gloriouser-er. But I’ve had to water the lawn to keep it from dying too early, as we’ve had about a half inch of rain in almost a month. I’ll take it!
  11. For reasons unknown, images that show up above like in Brisket’s post appear to me as an orange blank field with a small blue square question mark box in the middle instead of an image. I assume that those are all mostly really choice nude shots that I can’t see while the Texans all laugh…
  12. I got the DPT in my left arm Friday because my tetanus vaccine was decades ago. I got the senior flu shot with the extra adjuvant and the Pfizer COVID-19 shot in my right arm the same day. As the nurse predicted, my tetanus shot arm remains a bit sore, but the flu and Covid injection site soreness is mostly gone two days later. I had absolutely zero side effects other than the small injection site pain. So I got that going for me, which is nice.
  13. That sounds all very reasonable and logical. If only Putin were reasonable and logical and not desperate to save his own life and power In a stupid short term crisis decision…but your typing fingers to God’s eyes.
  14. You don’t hear about their flamingo ICBM‘s being used that much. You never know, but they predicted seven a day could be built by now. No matter, at this point they should have enough to attack the four or five largest on-line oil and gas distribution and refining centers with drone swarms - - to be followed by 15 flamingos at each site. That would be a lovely “get ready for winter” event. I doubt they leave scarce air defense assets at the critical pumping stations once the refineries are no longer - ya know - pumping fuel. Maybe that’s when you leisurely destroy them over winter. The next 45 days seems to be critical in how well 2026 turns out.
  15. Just like Mullen refusing to get a decent defensive coordinator, resulted us losing the Alabama after scoring 40 points, and despite everyone saying, the defense has to get better or you will be gone, Mullins pride and hard headed in this got him fired. The entire fan base was calling for Billy to get an offensive coordinator because our offense and his play calling sucked and was extremely easy for defensive coordinators to prepare for what we were doing, Billy simply refused to give up his play calling. Our defense is good enough this year if you take away the numerous 3 and outs that always leaves them gassed at the end of the game. With all the money they can make, it always amazes me how a coaches ego can ruin a good thing.
  16. I enjoy watching military history documentaries, and I saw an interesting one comparing the Japanese zero and the Corsair. Once upon a time, Russia was the source of new technology on main battle tanks, just like Japan and it’s unprecedented zero conquered the skies for several years in the pacific. No one could match its speed and turning radius in dog fights, and the kill ratio versus existing American fighters was obscenely in favor of the Japanese. Consider the zero a microcosm of Russia’s military capabilities at the start of the war in 2022. Fast forward just two years and you have Hellcats and Corsairs in the Pacific theater destroying Japanese aviation with the same kill ratios that Japan once had: 10 to one type kill ratios in favor of American pilots. The new American fighters were 100 miles an hour faster than zeros even though they weighed twice as much, they had bulletproof canopies, heavy armor, much larger engines, and self sealing gas tanks if struck by Japanese machine gun fire. The American fighters could climb faster, dive faster, operate at a higher ceiling, absorb more punishment, and their greater armaments could destroy a zero with a single burst. The Americans could carry more ammunition, and with drop tanks could fly farther than their Japanese counterparts. American pilots destroyed so many zeros in such a surprising amount of time that the Japanese could not respond. Their rigid training and industrial manufacturing systems (requiring approval at many levels with a Navy and army that were constantly fighting politically) there was no way to produce better Japanese fighters in such a short period of time in enough numbers to compete with America. America was dumping out thousands of new pilots with 600 to 700 hours airtime using loads of ammunition to hone their skills, while Japanese pilots had barely 100 hours of training. They conserved scarce ammo to the extent that they totally lacked the skills of the prior elite pilots when they went up for the first time against experienced P-51, Corsair and Hellcat aces. And so, in just three years the fight with feared, elite, battle experienced Japanese pilots in their superior planes turned into a battle between experienced American pilots with vastly superior planes, to the point the uneven contest resulted in events like the great Marianas Turkey Shoot. Today, although Russia started out with vastly more and better equipment than Ukraine had, and a military that was universally recognized as being far better than Ukraine, in a little over three years Ukraine has mastered drone warfare and developed its own weapons like the flamingo and it’s long flight drones that are wrecking the Russian oil and gas economy. tl;dr Japan hit a tipping point when no matter their fanatical ideology and thirst for war, their inability to replace battle hardened troops and officers with leadership experience - when coupled with an inability to build significant numbers of modern weapons equal to their opponents - doomed Japan. The timeframe here seems to be playing out in the same way. Three years later, the Russian economy is incapable of sustaining this expensive large scale war. Russia is so desperate for meat for the front lines that they threw in naval and other personnel with no infantry training to be fodder for useless assaults. In that situation, Japan went to kamikaze attacks when traditional aerial combat was no longer feasible. I fear that tactical nuclear weapons might be the fallback for Russia. I think the most dangerous time is right before Russia falls and loses. like about right now. .
  17. I don’t know which is worse: supporting another country financially to the tune of 20 billion so that they can drop their tariffs and sell foreign soybeans to China while leaving American soy being farmers with no China buyer to starve is bad…but worst of all they canceled Biden infrastructure projects that would’ve supplied rural farms with robust Internet service so that their wives and daughters could set up only fans accounts… it’s like a double whammy!
  18. As does FSU.
  19. Being half right is better than not being right at all, Buddy. TOUCHDOWN!!
  20. Fuck Kirby. Fuck the leg humping, butt licking, mangy, flea infested mutts. Fuck their fans. Fuck Athens. Fuck the entire state of Georgia.
  21. and it will get uglier
  22. Supporters of Capital Punishment will learn nothing from this case.
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