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15 minutes ago, 52-80 said:
Yes. Lets be honest, the only overlap major college sports have with the university and university body is in the name.
Many of the scholarship athletes major in throwaday degrees which they dont complete anyway. Like the great scholar Cardale Jones once said, they aint come here to play school.I can only speak from own experience, but during my time at Alabama (again 97-01) the academic portion for football and other revenue sports was not at all a focus for them. I can only recall a couple of classes I ever had with any players, and they were all electives, no major course work. There was one guy I had class with that I really am not sure could functionally read (he did play a while in the NFL, so hopefully he made good financial decisions, though I doubt it). Since Saban has been there, I am aware that academics has been an important part of what they are doing. Perhaps not always in anything earth shattering, but still a drastic improvement. When I was enrolled, I know there were many players in their 4th year that were "undecided". I don't see that anymore.
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Legacy myself, although I'm sure it played no factor in my being admitted. At least at the time while I was at Alabama this was fairly common (this was 97-01). I would say something on the order of 50% of students had legacy ties to the University prior to attending. Just like any other group, some probably shouldn't have been there but managed to get in via connections, but the vast majority were on their own merits. Additionally, those that really shouldn't have been there typically didn't last long. However, at the time I was enrolled, general admission was down (I think the undergrad population was something like 14k, whereas now it's somewhere around 30k), so I'd have to at least imagine that competition is currently much greater.
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4 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:
A Russian MP is claiming that Russia actually forcibly deported 700,000 children into Russia from Ukraine. The previous estimates were 260,000.
I saw that but I took it to mean that he was referring to the territory seized ("liberated") to include those numbers. Perhaps it was that?
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1 hour ago, SL Xpress said:
Ukrainians making notable progress on three fronts. By notable, I don't necessarily mean a breakthrough is imminent. Just that it's enough to cause concern for the Russians.
Around Bakhmut Ukrainian forces are close to taking control of "The Ledge" an area just north of Bakhmut. Forces there keep making incremental gains along both the north and south of Bakhmut, as well as some advances farther north of the area in what appears to be an effort to encircle the entire area.
Along the axis to Tokmak battles are raging in Robotyne (also called the Orekhov axis because that's the main town along the original front line the recent Ukrainian counteroffensive originated from). This is a very defined part of the first line of defense for Russia along the southern front. Break through here and it puts severe pressure on Russia along their entire first line of defense, since it opens up the lines of defense to flanking and attacks from the rear to both the east and west. Currently Ukrainians are fighting for control of the village itself.
Meanwhile, the Tokmak fortress is one of the most heavily defended locations in all of the southern area of occupation, as well as one of the most critical to hold for Russian forces.
The third area that's notable - not necessarily for long term success, but for opening up another critical axis of attack - is on the left bank of the Dnipro river across from Kherson. Ukraine managed to get a force across using barges and boats. I had read they had 3 tanks in the area, but I don't know if they're still operational or not. Lots of Russian artillery and even an Iskander missile launched on Ukrainian positions.
I don't understand completely what the long term goal here is. It's going to be extremely difficult for Ukraine to supply positions on the left bank even now. But if the Russians are completely unable to dislodge Ukrainian forces there - and so far that appears to be the case after almost a week - it makes them vulnerable in the entire area all the way down to the Black Sea. The Russians simply don't have the defenses in terms of men, material, or the kind of hard fortifications that exist further east. Hence the desperation to push the Ukrainians back across the river, to no avail so far.
My apologies for not citing sources, and for insulting the intelligence of people who are following all of this as closely or closer than I am, but I figured this might be helpful for folks who find it confusing to follow what's going on exactly.
There's another Ukrainian line of attack from the Velyka Novosiika area aiming to eventually make it down to Mariupol. That one is wider than deep. I don't know of any significant gains in the area lately, which doesn't mean there aren't any.
Also, Russian troops are trying to assault Ukrainian positions in the north east of the front by Kreminna. From what I've gathered they've had extremely limited success. Mostly it's considered an attempt to relieve pressure on Bakhmut by forcing Ukraine to send more support for defenses in the region.
Again, apologies for a lack of citations. Mostly I just wanted to give a bit of an overview for people who are clicking the thread for updates.
As to the left bank of the Dnipro is one of two.
1. Its a feint of sorts to get Russian reserves stuck in limbo from the main attack in the south.
2. If they can gain a foothold and get heavy armor in there, it's more lightly defended and could allow them to punch thru in behind the lines in the south. (this would be an enormously difficult task in my opinion).
I think it's one, but the Ukrainians have continually surprised.
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9 minutes ago, Rimbo said:
let's make Moscow glow in the dark
If it makes you feel any better (and I'm sure it doesn't), my first instinct was to say think we should sink the Black Sea fleet.
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On 6/30/2023 at 5:41 PM, South Austin said:
Single-spaced.
So the Warren Commission Report, you know a Presidential Assassination finding, was 888 pages. 80,000 pages sure seems like a shit load of evidence.
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1 minute ago, Chad Fuck said:
And so too, apparently, Russian wounded.
It's like it never stopped being 1915 for them.
Twitter is a fucking mess, but I just read that the Ukrainians are moving forward across the south and at the bridgehead in Kherson (according to EuroMaidan Press). However, the Russians are moving forward in the East according to their reporting as well. Hopefully the offensive losses for the Ukrainians are light while the Russian advances are causing catastrophic loses for them.
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Just one last thing on the initial production run of the Bradley to consider. It cost us $25 billion for the Apollo moon program. The GAO reports that the initial design and production cost $5.7 billion, which is misleading because the pentagon has a general development slush fund that was also tapped into for it. So even if you took it at face value, the initial cost for 6k of these was one fifth the entire moon program (it was considerably more than that).
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1 hour ago, bolverk said:
???
Dude's full of shit, right?
I hope Ramzon eplodes like Henry VIII.
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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:
Nahh. Gimme more.This, if you get to feeling badly, just remember:
1. The amount of children the Russians have killed - at least 400 (at thats probably sandbagging it a bit)
2. The number of civilians targeted and killed by the Russians
3. The amount of rapes and sexual assaults committed by Russians
4. The deliberately placed murderers and all sorts of mentally unstable in combat
5. The ecologic terrorism committed such as blowing up the dam
6. They've attempted to freeze and starve the elderly via attacks on infrastructure
7. They've destroyed over 3,000 school, hundreds of medical facilities, looted museums, stolen from farmers, mined fields
And the list goes on. All the while, remember the vast majority of the Russian population is cheering all this on and even happy they are doing it.
Did that one guy do it, maybe not? But did his death prevent anymore of this from happening, probably even if in some small regard (and potentially a large one).
If you bear all that in mind, you may find your sympathy eroding, and that's ok.
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4 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:
i was told when the shooting starts, the looting starts.
I could be wrong, but didn't a couple of people get shot during that? At the very minimum I know they used tear gas, but I thought a couple of people were wounded as well.
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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:
I was driving back from New Mexico, just entering into W. Texas, when the radio reported they had breached the capitol. I hollered out loud in the goddamn car "THEY HAVE TO SHOOT THEM, SHOOT THEM NOW!" I damn near swerved off the road.
Name me another country that would just allow rebellious traitors to overrun their capitol WITHOUT shooting the fuckers. I'll wait.
Best I could come up with, the Principality of Sealand, which did in fact have an armed coup incident, however, despite there being a hostage situation, no one was reportedly shot. The German ambassador negotiated the end of the hostage situation.
Best I've got, and yes, this did all happen. And no Sealand isn't a real country to speak of, but it is a strange story if you are interested.
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Ron DeSantis strikes me as the kind of guy who shows up to funerals in an attempt to drum up burial insurance sales. It's a different kind of sleaze altogether.
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1 hour ago, SL Xpress said:
As an aside, I see people getting excited about the use of ATACMS to take out the Kerch bridge, and rightfully so, but that's target B for me. I want to see them used to take out the airfields in Berdyansk and Crimea.
If Russia can be pushed back to operate their air power deep inside their own country, it changes the dynamics of the battlefield for this counter offensive dramatically. Russia has terrible air refueling capability.
And on that note, a fuel depot was apparently hit in Berdyansk this morning:
Kerch would kind of be a cherry on top, the damage they could do to command centers and bases the Russians consider to be sanctuary areas would be pretty valuable. The fear of having no place to run or hide would good.
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27 minutes ago, dimyh said:
It might be worse than that, I read speculation that Putin was involved in the decision making if for no other reason to see how the Wagner guys would actually do against U.S. units. Considering that many of them were melted alive, it didn't go well.
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46 minutes ago, Rimbo said:
Yeah, when everyone was talking about how excited they were about sending AFU Bradleys and how great they'd be, all I could think of was... those things? Was unaware that this disastrous program had somehow ended up producing a legitimate piece of hardware in the end.
It's... kinda the anti-Duke-Nukem-Forever story.
It's an interesting story to be sure. It's sort of wild that a vehicle whose conception first began in the late 60s is seeing action 50 plus years later (against the enemy it was always intended for) and doing well. Of course the initial failure is pretty well documented, but what isn't as well documented is the process of continual improvement after the fact. Essentially, it went from being a Ford Pinto into more or less a Ford Taurus. A shit mobile that would blow up on contact to a fairly reliable car. I realize the salacious nature of it's initial production run will always grab more interest, but it would be neat to at least me if someone could put together the rest of the picture in a documentary.
Another crazy aspect of the Bradley being involved against the Russians are some of the design parallels in how the Soviet Union did things. The Soviets always did things on more or less a shoe string budget out of necessity, and as a result you sort of get swiss army products; jack of all trades, master of none sort of thing. I'm doing this from memory, so I may have some of the sequencing wrong, but more or less the Bradley was conceived as a combination vehicle, with the thought in mind that you would save costs in doing so. Initially, it was conceived as a troop carrier, but the army also wanted it to be able to be an effective scout vehicle as well; in addition to that there were to be several specialty variants like a medic version, mine clearer, etc. One of the big problems was that in order to be a scout vehicle it had to be light, but in order to be a troop carrier it had to have extremely heavy armor. They didn't want a tank, so it couldn't be that. Essentially you had a lot of wants, but it was all in conflict, and that's how you arrive at the initial shit mobile. If anything out the entire program should have been learned, it's that the idea of have swiss army style products a neat idea, but the reality is design specific equipment is simply that, and should be designed to meet those requirements first. If it can do more, great, but first and foremost is mission specific tasks. The general hope is that we've learned this lesson, but it would seem only to a degree. The F-35 may well be the latest albeit it still pretty great shit mobile because they once again attempted to make it a jack of all trades.
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5 minutes ago, Parliament said:
I presume we poured a buncha more of my tax dollars into that shitbox to make it good? (NTTAWWT. I'm rich.)
Again, without looking it up, from what I recall, the price tag was $15 billion in the mid 80s with just the first production run. I have no idea what the combined cost of latter production runs combined with the price for actually fixing the initial production run was. So just doing a bit of inflation math work, somewhere in the vicinity of $50 billion dollars in today's money.
Mind you, this is all now entirely sunk cost. What's done is done, and giving them to the Ukrainians likely save money, so load up more of em, I say.
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2 minutes ago, Parliament said:
To be fair, I think the original iterations were deathtraps? Or am I a victim of propaganda?
Crap, absolute crap. The Israeli's refused them and then made their own modifications (if I remember correctly, it initially had unarmored fuel tanks on the outside of the vehicle). It's a model story of how not to do something, and somehow, it turned ok, and as it turns out, just saved the lives of lots of Ukrainians. A truly remarkable story, some really good reasons, lots of bad, and how that can collide.
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6 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:
Pentagon Wars. It's on HBO Max.
Favorite line:
"We should put portholes in it so the guys can shoot out of the vehicle"
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15 hours ago, FartingMonk said:
You Sir, and in big danger of being kidnapped and taken to Russia in order to teach the emerging technology of plumbing. You need to go into hiding immediately. What's wrong with you showing off skills like that.
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4 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:
I think I'd be surprised if there were additional document-related charges this soon after the initial indictment, or really ever. Smith obviously has a very solid case and a superseding indictment would seem to indicate that he stumbled on something, like communication to a foreign subject or entity that really ups the ante. Anything is possible, I suppose, but that seems to go against what we've seen of Smith's diligence and preparation. More of the same ol shit doesn't seem to serve any purpose.
That they seem to be "branching out" from the core 1/6 case: conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, or possibly even seditious conspiracy, into related crimes does seem to indicate that maybe 1/6 charges are coming soon.
Note that I draw a distinction here between the false electors as its own crime and as an element of the conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding.
And, just my opinion, but you are going to be wrong. Not all the dots connected on the original indictment, like the fact that Meadows wasn't even mentioned in it. He was there and either objected or supervised the original theft, and he knew they were doing it. If you think only two people are going down for this, Trump and Notgonnabefreenaymore, I think you are mistaken. Habba is as well as Meadows (unless his cooperating deal gives him a pass). The original indictment really only covered crimes after the original crime. Additionally, there will be more people indicted over this. So yes, I do believe their will be a superseding indictment for more document crimes, and it will tried in Washington (maybe New Jersey as well).
Everything I've ever read about Smith indicates that he is tough and thorough, but fair and professional. Now you have a man making thinly veiled threats at his family. You think he's not going for the jugular? He's bring a thermonuclear weapon to a knife fight. Essentially, he's going to go for every single crime he can convict him on, and not one stone will be left unturned if feels he can get a conviction.
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26 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
What a horrible quote from Thomas:
The non-legal document, Declaration of Independence" says that we're all equal, so let's not worry about protections.
Also, it was written by white guys, who ultimately wanted the only people allowed to vote to be white and property owners.
So according to Thomas, if you aren't white, you are out. If you have a mortgage or don't own your property, you are out. If you are a woman, forget about it. If you are a minority, why are you even asking?
So yeah, let's go back to originalism ideas because that is just the guiding light of the fucking earth. The mere notion that we should somehow consider Thomas Jefferson or any other founder's intentions on something done 250 years ago is absurd I don't know where to even begin.
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Русский корабль - иди нахуй
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The other issue is that a lot of the Ukrainian war bloggers (and for that matter Russian) use Telegram as an alternative to both twitter and youtube. My general instinct is to stay away from Telegram given everything I've read about it, and some of the groups it seems to cater to. Something new is bound to emerge is the super genius keeps it up with twitter.