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For the love of Christ woman,  stop posting the same fucking thing every 20 mins just to make your neurotic self feel better.     Bring something useful to the thread other than your inane babbli

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I volunteered today. Log/Admin role to replace people for 30-60 days. The operation is in the west, or should the Orcs win will be pulled back behind the NATO wall. Either way the humanitarian effort

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Good talk about drones and deterrents.  The Ukrainians put a whole buncha repurposed cel phones out on fence posts.  Networked together they can hear the drones and coordinate anti aircraft fire.  Very economical.

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2 hours ago, Parliament said:

Good talk about drones and deterrents.  The Ukrainians put a whole buncha repurposed cel phones out on fence posts.  Networked together they can hear the drones and coordinate anti aircraft fire.  Very economical.

The Ukrainian military is like MacGyver and the A-Team rolled into one.

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13 hours ago, Parliament said:

Congratulations on a hard won reelection.

 

 

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Here's a borderline propaganda piece from Reuters last week:

 

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-is-master-all-he-surveys-russians-head-polls-2024-03-15/

 

Putin casts the war as part of an existential battle with a declining and decadent West which he says humiliated Russia after the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 by encroaching on what Putin considers to be Moscow's sphere of influence, including Ukraine.
That appeals to many Russians who are suspicious about the West's politics and intentions, if not its consumer goods. Top Kremlin officials, some sporting sweatshirts bearing the words "Putin's Team", speak openly of war with NATO.
Putin's approval rating is currently 86%, up from 71% shortly before the invasion of Ukraine, according to Levada Centre, a respected Russian pollster. Putin's rating also jumped during the 2008 war with Georgia and the 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.
Russian television and a sophisticated social media operation project Putin as a robust patriot and deride Western leaders such as Biden as weak, foolish and deceitful.
"For many Russians, who are partly inspired by propaganda but most importantly by their own inner convictions, Russia is in an age-old struggle with the West - and what is currently happening is an episode in this struggle," Alexei Levinson, head of sociocultural research at Levada, told Reuters.
"Those who express such feelings in our surveys consider themselves to be participants in some way in this struggle with the West. They are like soccer fans who imagine they are participants in the soccer match."

 

 

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Putin’s 87 percent victory is the most clearly and ostentatiously falsified in Russian history.  In 2018 he was satisfied with “only” 77 percent and in 2012 he settled for a mere 64. The message being sent is clear, that wartime Russia is fully and completely behind him. 

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20 minutes ago, B00M said:

It will be interesting to see how Russians react to record oil exports to China while they face shortages and oil rationing at home. 

They’ll just…walk.  Russians are very tough.

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It would be a shame if something happened to the distribution hub.

Are there any in range?

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The Russians have upped their spying abilities in Europe after earlier failures.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/volkov-attack-russia-return-to-cold-war-era-spying

 

German standards of living dropped after the start of the Ukraine War. They're very likely headed into a recession.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/german-living-standards-plummeted-after-russia-invaded-ukraine-say-economists

 

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22 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

German standards of living dropped after the start of the Ukraine War. They're very likely headed into a recession.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/german-living-standards-plummeted-after-russia-invaded-ukraine-say-economists

 

And in response to the event of "Russian fuckery just fucked us," Germany's solution will be some version of "so.....seems like we need to suck Russia's dick even HARDER, and tie ourselves to Russia even MORE intensely."

Germany has made a shitload of poor choices, stacked one on top of the other, for decades.  "Being friendly with Russia" is #1 on that list.  The leopards always get around to eating your face.  Always.

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Germany has made a shitload of poor choices, stacked one on top of the other, for decades.  

Agree. High on the list is putting a bolted-on shroud on the underside of an Audi A6, requiring removal to access the oil drain plug. 
 
And now they’re making even worse ones!

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Agree. High on the list is putting a bolted-on shroud on the underside of an Audi A6, requiring removal to access the oil drain plug. 
 
And now they’re making even worse ones!

Obligatory: ask your husband to cut a hole through the shroud

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3 hours ago, B00M said:

It will be interesting to see how Russians react to record oil exports to China while they face shortages and oil rationing at home. 

Crude Oil =/= Refined Products

Sorry, should have posted this in the "I did not know that" thread.

1 hour ago, statsman said:

Agree. High on the list is putting a bolted-on shroud on the underside of an Audi A6, requiring removal to access the oil drain plug. 
 
And now they’re making even worse ones!

The shroud prevents leaking oil from accumulating on the garage floor, and improves aerodynamics.

The Porsche 944S required a lift to replace the oil filter; the wheels had to drop down all the away for proper access.  It also required a ~ 30" screwdriver to change the lower radiator hose; it could only be accessed from the top of the engine.  It was a marvel of engineering, but impossible to maintain without the special set of Porsche tools.

Not meant for weekend warrior maintenance. 

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29 minutes ago, PTINS said:

Crude Oil =/= Refined Products

Sorry, should have posted this in the "I did not know that" thread.

The shroud prevents leaking oil from accumulating on the garage floor, and improves aerodynamics.

The Porsche 944S required a lift to replace the oil filter; the wheels had to drop down all the away for proper access.  It also required a ~ 30" screwdriver to change the lower radiator hose; it could only be accessed from the top of the engine.  It was a marvel of engineering, but impossible to maintain without the special set of Porsche tools.

Not meant for weekend warrior maintenance. 

If you hold you tongue just right you can remove the shroud from my son's BMW 328 and pour the oil back into the engine. 

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33 minutes ago, Nivek said:


American manufacturers did the shroud thing in the 90’s and had enough sense to put in a flap to access the oil filter.

I mean, the fine folks who made union suits, a popular outfit in cartoons, knew that trick decades ago.

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The shroud prevents leaking oil from accumulating on the garage floor, and improves aerodynamics.
The Porsche 944S required a lift to replace the oil filter; the wheels had to drop down all the away for proper access.  It also required a ~ 30" screwdriver to change the lower radiator hose; it could only be accessed from the top of the engine.  It was a marvel of engineering, but impossible to maintain without the special set of Porsche tools.
Not meant for weekend warrior maintenance. 

The 944 is a POS.
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The 944 is a POS.

Was.   They haven't made them since 1991 and only made about 170,000 in total.   About half of those got imported to the U.S. and I don't recollect seeing one for quite some time.   

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Was.   They haven't made them since 1991 and only made about 170,000 in total.   About half of those got imported to the U.S. and I don't recollect seeing one for quite some time.   

One of my friends had one in high school. It was the 4 cylinder BFPS edition.

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2 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

So there is a thing called other threads. I am sure there is one for cars. Just maybe.

Meanwhile. Ukraine. A country that borders Russia is at war.

If you think the Ukrainians couldn't weaponize a 944 POS, you haven't been paying attention.

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