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It's a great question, and it interested me, so I did a bit of googling and math. If all that is accurate, approximately 26% of the country lives in rural areas (not necessarily ethic, but you get the point). Strictly on that math alone, approximately 38 million people are rural. If the numbers more or less hold (referencing my aforementioned demographic number of 30%) it would translate to a rough total of 5.5 million. If you take half for critical sectors it would leave a pre-invasion population for this sort of usage at about 2.25 million. If you assume that every casualty is directly rural/ethnic they would have approximately 1.5 million left prior to this pool of labor being exhausted. Unfortunately, that would also mean that the same level of troop casualties it would take approximately 4 more years before this human resource is completely exhausted. So the solution is clear, give the Ukrainians more lethal aid so that they can exhaust this resource more quickly, because only then will Putin really start getting heat in Moscow, where it really matters. If, for example, the Ukrainians had the ability to kill/seriously wound 100k per month, versus the 30k or so a month they are, things would move along. I say all that while still having some level of empathy for at least some of these idiots, but if they are all to die, might as well make it quick rather than prolonged. Additionally, it will undoubtedly save Ukrainian lives, both military and civilian. I know a few ways we could up the ante in terms of lethal weapon support, and, in my opinion it's beyond time to give it.

Well you can crazy glue any asshole to a motorcycle and turn it on.

It's worse than that, we hired a DeVry guy in the name of Clarence Thomas to work on bugs in the code.

Got me curious, using some rounding and statistics from statista.com, I came to roughly 30% of the male population of Russia falls between the ages of 20 to 50. Unfortunately, the math comes to roughly 21.6 million men of those ages that could possibly be mobilized. So while it would be nice if 1 in 5 was either eliminated or unable to continue, the reality is its more like 1 in 20. That doesn't take into account the fact that most of these men are needed in other critical sectors that can't be mobilized, even if we halved that number to account from critical jobs and what not, the number is likely closer to 1 in 10. That's certainly a lot, but likely not enough. Unfortunately, the Ukrainians will need to kill or maim about 3 million more, in just a complete guesstimate by me, before the Russians are pretty much just completely out of manpower.

I'm not really all that interested mountain climbing at all, but I watched this a few years ago and it was cool. That dude's amazing.

We hide in plain sight, where they won't expect us the liberal elite to ever go, and I'm mean ever to go. Applebee's.

That's fair, to be honest I doubt any part of that is safe for really anyone to be on, let alone heavy equipment. That having been said, if your whole town is about to be washed away, I'm guessing you take your chances.

In all honesty, they are probably fucked either way, so I get the desperation. The only quick band aid I can think of is a shit load of boulders, followed by a metric shit ton of hydraulic cement, along with draining the reservoir/lake to levels where you can get a caisson to start a real repair. That brings us to other sunny part of this, once an earthen damn fails, I'm not aware of anyone really fixing it, it may well be more cost effective to just start over; assuming you are hell bent on having it. It's a shit deal for everyone, and we have a lot of earthen dams here that are going to be problematic for us as well.

I must have had only one bloodshot eye open in hydrology class when they covered dumping the physical truck into a void.

Khryee Jackson, Minnesota DB, in an auto accident at 24. Played in college for Alabama and Oregon.

I would also relate the downfall of television news media to the rise of right wing radio media. In essence, Fox News was more of a copycat of the Rush Limbaugh format on a different medium. Facts be damned, just have some opinionated asshole spewing their bullshit with an authoritarian tone, bing o presto you got a show with followers. It's cheap as shit to make and highly profitable. The real world is full of complicated and multi-faceted problems, but unfortunately most people have little to no concept of this. It's a hell of a lot easier and successful to find a person or group that is the cause of all their problems, point the finger, and yell about it. Their programs are so inane I think it's difficult for intelligent people to counter it. Trying to explain a complicated problem like say, homelessness to right wing radio listeners is akin to attempting teaching astrophysics to a hamster. Ultimately, Republican hucksters have been and are good at targeting a group of people that are stupid. There's a reason you hear about stupid things like the 3%ers or whatever, these people believe they are in some sort of high level group and "in the club". But the truth is, they are part of the dredges of society. The actual elites would never have anything to do with these folks, save profit off their stupidity. All of this is a very effective strategy, because unfortunately, the masses are stupid. To be frank, it has me down on democracy in general, because I don't know how you overcome it. I'm beginning to believe that I would prefer a meritocracy.

Conservatives did almost as bad as the Spanish Armada and this is the headline. Apollo 11 lands on the moon, and it's bad news for Kennedy's legacy.

It sure looks like MS13 took his job away, damn near starvation.

At this point I'm just hoping Lord Buckethead gets that seat in Maidenhead.

Conservatives have lost 131 seats with approximately half of the results yet to be determined. Yikes, man it would be nice to see a repeat in a few months here in the states.

That sounds familiar. Polls are suspect?

Depends, it that on following Moesha?

It's amazing to see how many companies willfully ignore OSHA as it is. At least prior to last week, OSHA had significant enforcement and penalties it could use, pretty much entirely after the fact of a major injury/incident.

The problem is, at least some of these people genuinely believe in this shit and may well have a chance to push for it if given any sort of power. It would be humorous idiocy for us to laugh at it, were it not for the fact that there is a very real possibility they might succeed. If we dismiss this as a grift, we do so at our own peril. While the initial point might be money, the people giving it and the supporters of it are very serious. Their desire for societal regression is disgusting, but its real.

Correct me if I am wrong, but didn't at least part of the crimes take place after he was President. At least some of the actual payoffs and ledger entries occurred post election and post inauguration. Mind you, I don't agree with any of it being tossed out, but if you boil it down to the simplicity of was he President vs was he not President at the time of the actual crimes, at least some of it occurred while he was in office. My understanding of yesterdays ruling should mean all of these were non official acts, so in theory it shouldn't matter.

I'm not thinking it's realistic to get the needed few hundred members of the House or the twenty or so Senators to publicly do so. Hell, they got 8 to renounce Jan 6th and all are now unemployed and pretty much personas non grata in their own political realm. So if you'd like to hold your breath while you wait for the 28th amendment be my guest. You have a better chance of walking on Mars, but to each their own.

This my opinion, and only that. Homelessness has as much to due with mental illness and substance abuse than anything. While we have housing assistance programs in place to help people, A) they have to pursue it, B) most of it requires sobriety. One of the problems with this is when the government stopped having state run mental health facilities (admittedly conditions where horrible) these folks had no where to go, and still don't, save jail. Additionally, we've never managed substance abuse really at all for indigent folks. If we are serious about helping these people, we need to invest in the resources necessary for it to actually happen. Part of this has to include tax increases for the ultra wealthy. I get that most people don't want to have a homeless encampment near them, but to me it should serve as a reminder that we choose not to give a shit about this problem and truly address it. It's a societal problem, and a choice.

This court wants to more or less curtail the Federal government and in particular knee cap enforcement without judicial review. In essence they want to deregulate everything, which benefits the wealthy and wealthy corporations (I.e. their people). In the meantime, ordinary folks are going to take it in the shorts. They met that goal this past week. On the civil liberty side, they want to do disingenuous things like claim that precedent from things like the Salem Witch Trials have bearing on today's society when it comes to individual liberty and choice, and bad news there, they've done that as well. All this to satisfy both their own religious fanaticism as well as their party's religious fanatic base. They will site originalism as it suits them and ignore it when it doesn't (see abortion vs 2nd Amendment issues).

If they rule that President's have complete immunity on Monday, you may well be correct. If that's the case, what's to stop Biden from unilaterally dismissing the court and start just making his own rulings? Why stop there, dismiss Congress and write your own legislation. I was talking to my wife the other day and we came to the conclusion that if we are in fact to live in a dictatorship, I'd rather it be Biden's than Trump.