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  1. 40 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

    If you don't think there are NATO pilots in those birds...well get your head checked.

    Retired or otherwise. Those guys and girls live for this shit.

    So apparently the crew was killed, which indicates to me they had no idea they'd been painted.  Shot down 30 miles beyond the lines, so the kill could have come from 80 to 100 miles out, depending on the weapon.  Impressive stuff.  

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  2. 2 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

    I think that's a fumble. I don't think he really had any control of the ball when it was going forward. 

    They should have just sent both teams to their locker rooms, called it halftime, and lectured them to think about what they've done.  

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  3. 19 minutes ago, BurgleBro said:

    How much Vegas cock does Bama have to suck to always get these calls. 

     

    That was not roughing the kicker

    Pretty soft, to be honest.  They've changed the rule to where if a player makes contact with the plant foot of the punter it's automatic.  Don't like the rule, nor the call.  

  4. 22 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russia-chechnya-ramzan-kadyrov-blood-feud-assassination-lawmakers-rcna174820

    It could be trouble in River City with a capital “T”, that rhymes with “P”, and that stands for “Putin‘s fucked”…or just his toady cronies jockeying for power and money and settling political scores.

    I’d love to hear from our more knowledgeable Russian politics posters to sort it out. 

    I went back and reread some stuff on both Dagestan and Ingushetia and their involvement with Chechnya and yeah, there is an ugly history all the way around.  Without knowing further details, and right now this is woefully unreported, it's pretty tough to say.

    1.  Both regions have pretty large separatist movements.  My first inclination is to believe that this a move supported by the Kremlin for Kadryov to consolidate power in these regions and "get them in line".  The "assassination" attempt would be the flimsy excuse needed for this.  Both Dagestan and Ingushetia have suffered extreme loses in Ukraine, and there have been protests.  If the Chechens come in, problem solved for Russia as a whole.  If they get to purge a few politicians as an extra benefit, sauce for the goose.  This would be my bet.  

    2.  At the same time, there is history with both regions and Chechnya dating back from the Chechen War, and prior, (both fought against the Chechens) though both have large Chechen populations (pre and post refugees).  So is possible that this is old bad blood spilling out? I'd say yes.  

    3.  Are there Muscovite PMs that view Kadyrov and his regime negatively and want him gone?  Absolutely.  There is definitely a large segment of Russia that views Chechens as Islamic trash.  

    4.  Putin basically installed the Kadyrov family (Ramzan's father was assassinated) and has tolerated them for years, so it seems unlikely he would want rid of him; and if he did want rid of him, it'd be done publicly and obvious.   

    5.  Could it be a power-play entirely initiated Kadyrov who sees an opportunity expand his power?  Yes.  

    Without much in the way of detail, any of that is possible.  Also, the only sources we are getting right now are far from trustworthy.  Hopefully we get more attention  paid to the story by journalists and get actual analysis from real experts.  

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  5. 1 hour ago, yoladu said:

    How do these guys pay their lawyers for all these lawsuits? The amount of money just burned must be incredible.

     

    I some how managed to live 56 years on this earth without once giving a lawyer money.

    (no offense to the Shaggy elite on here)

    If you've ever bought a house or property, you've given a lawyer money.  

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  6. 21 minutes ago, heso said:

    My friend in Palmetto came out unscathed other than losing his fence. His wife’s business in Bradenton “bone dry”. Even a trailer he owns that he rents to his nanny was apparently one of the only ones in the area that survived. 

    Not too bad after it looked like a cat 5 was on a path to track right up his driveway on Tuesday  

    In his words “used up all 9 lives on this one”

    A bit of gallows humor here, but initially I read it as "he came out unscathed other than losing his fiance".  My initial reaction was, "maybe not a loss, depending?"

     

    Glad your friend and his family are ok.  

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  7. 2 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:


    This is unwelcome news. I wonder how many norks are with them?

    Yeah, not great, and this is from the Ukrainians.  Not sure the extent of the damage to their hold on the Kursk region, but bad enough for them to acknowledge what is going on.  As much as I like to see and post nothing but the good guys winning and all that, unfortunately, that's not always the case.  

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  8. 8 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

    Why didn't the last Carrington Event put us back in the stone age? Why will the next one?

    Also does that mean we'll have cars that we drive with our feet?

    It's actually really interesting stuff, I've read some on it, and while a good bit of it is over my head, basically we are fortunate.  Yes, we get major solar generated geo storms, and yes, they'd be a problem.  However, the particle/proton side of it isn't enough to cause any long-term significant damage.  Scientists have done work on understanding this by examining ice cores in Greenland and Antarctica. 

    In 80s there was a study done that initially indicated that particle energy and damage was detected, which has since been debunked.  Conspiracy theorists, as they do, latched on to the study that indicates a coming apocalypse, while ignoring the fact that it's been debunked.  The one in 1800s isn't the largest they've found and dated, the largest was about 8,000 years ago (from my memory, so maybe off a bit), and even that, while large, wouldn't have been big enough for long term damage. 

    However, we do know this does happen in other systems, and one of the major theories because of the nature of binary star systems and gravitational wobbles (this is where we seem to be fortunate).  Our system is just big enough to be as it is, and just small enough to avoid enough mass from collecting at Jupiter to form a secondary star.  All of that part is theoretical but very interesting.  

    That said, it's also not without precedent for technology to be lost to history after the destruction of a civilization, however the circumstances now make that seem unlikely.  There was a civilization in Africa (I believe Ethiopia, but again, from memory) that actually had the modern equivalent of sanitary sewers and pluming about 5 thousand years ago.  They used clay pipes, which we did as well prior to plastics.  Historians/Archealogists aren't clear on what happened to them, but that technology was lost for a long time.  So it can happen, but nowadays, it seems pretty unlikely given the amount of written information out there that something like this could happen.  

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