02-24-2022 01:16 PM
#30151
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02-25-2022 03:25 PM
#30152
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02-26-2022 11:14 AM
#30153
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Can't wait for Audit the Audit to start doing confrontations between Ukrainian citizens and Russian soldiers. | |
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02-27-2022 03:25 AM
#30154
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"The man gets an A for kindly offering the tankers a tow. The tankers also get an A for not blowing his head off." | |
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03-01-2022 01:06 PM
#30155
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At this point I really question what Putin's end game is. Even if he takes Kiev, kills Zelenskyy, installs a puppet government and so on, he'll be batting insurgents for decades and nobody will accept the new leadership. | |
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03-01-2022 01:24 PM
#30156
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If the numbers are to be believed, Russia suffered more fatalities in the first few days of this than the US did in the entire Afghanistan deployment. | |
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03-01-2022 03:17 PM
#30157
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As much as I'd like to believe Ukraine is beating Russia's ass, I find it really hard to. Russia has a big advantage in everything military. | |
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03-01-2022 04:39 PM
#30158
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The thing about a war in times of social media is that there's an abundance of information but you can't trust any of it. It's safe to assume the real number of russian casualties is much lower than Ukraine is reporting, but I can believe that it is very high. | |
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03-01-2022 05:08 PM
#30159
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I agree there's different definitions of "winning." If you mean kill more Ukrainians than Russians, I think Russia will win that war. If you mean control and pacify the country, I don't like their chances. | |
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03-01-2022 05:17 PM
#30160
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I can't help but think the long-term consequences of the isolation of Russia's economy is going to cause more suffering than a short-term war. | |
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03-01-2022 05:21 PM
#30161
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I think the most "win" Russia can get out of this is no NATO in Ukraine (possible), recognition of Russian sovereignty of Crimea (unlikely), and autonomy for the breakaway states (unlikely). If that's the end result, Russia has had a fantastic result. | |
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03-02-2022 06:07 AM
#30162
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I'm guessing Putin didn't wargame this scenario. | |
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03-02-2022 09:14 AM
#30163
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03-02-2022 09:58 AM
#30164
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Either A or B is my guess. | |
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03-02-2022 11:55 AM
#30165
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Meanwhile Finland is right at this moment discussing joining NATO, and Sweden has indicated they'll be doing the same after the dust settles. With the way this has unified EU and brought most of the planet against them, there's 0 chance this will be a win for Russia by any metric. | |
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03-02-2022 12:03 PM
#30166
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03-02-2022 12:40 PM
#30167
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Finland are discussing it because a petition of 50,000 forced the politicians to talk about it. I'd be very surprised if they actually did it. | |
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03-02-2022 01:07 PM
#30168
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03-02-2022 02:45 PM
#30169
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03-02-2022 03:15 PM
#30170
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Well, Finland used to do quite a bit of trade with Russia, less so after the 2014 sanctions though. Quite a bit of electricity/oil/natural gas imports still, some of which would be tricky to replace quickly. All of that is pretty much out of the window anyway now, so not surprised if we're joining relatively quickly. | |
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03-02-2022 03:31 PM
#30171
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Because doing so would destroy Russian relations. | |
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03-02-2022 04:11 PM
#30172
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They don't need friends like Putin. | |
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03-02-2022 04:51 PM
#30173
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03-03-2022 02:20 AM
#30174
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They are anything but, at the moment there are no relations. Finland has joined the sanctions with full effect, sending military aid to a warzone in the first time in its history. | |
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03-03-2022 03:12 AM
#30175
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03-03-2022 03:28 AM
#30176
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Yeah that did happen, not our proudest moment. That was in a different war though, the Continuation War of '41-'44. I was talking about the Winter War of '39, where they fired artillery against their own targets (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelling_of_Mainila) as an excuse to invade. The Continuation War was initially launched to get back those areas we lost in the Winter War, but I guess we got greedy. | |
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03-03-2022 03:43 AM
#30177
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I think NATO has to do its bit by simply giving Finland guarantees that it will be protected, but without committing missile systems to the territory. | |
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03-03-2022 04:55 AM
#30178
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Finland wasn't exactly keen to join the Nazis, it had been a democracy since getting its independence in 1917. It was just that Russia had attacked it in '39 and taken some border territories so in '41 Finland saw a chance to get them back. It refused to send its armies beyond its 1939 borders iirc, which pissed Hitler off because he wanted their armies to join up. | |
Last edited by Poopadoop; 03-03-2022 at 04:57 AM.
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03-03-2022 07:52 AM
#30179
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No surprise, it's Craig Murray who is the voice of reason. Here's an opinion that is critical of both Russia and NATO. | |
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03-03-2022 09:40 AM
#30180
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03-03-2022 01:08 PM
#30181
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This is the weirdest war ever. "Hey look, we got a tank!" | |
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03-03-2022 01:11 PM
#30182
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Titkok might not be dead after all. | |
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03-04-2022 01:28 PM
#30183
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My youtube algorithm thing for rec'ing videos keeps bringing up female track and field athletes. Maybe I should stop watching them so it won't do that. | |
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03-04-2022 02:22 PM
#30184
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Judge is all like wtf just happened here? | |
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03-04-2022 02:32 PM
#30185
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03-04-2022 02:57 PM
#30186
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If you watch it looks like he's too stunned to stop the stopwatch | |
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03-05-2022 11:15 AM
#30187
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Meanwhile, Russian bears are hooked on huffing gas fumes. | |
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03-09-2022 02:39 PM
#30188
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Apparently, Australian cricket legend Shane Warne died of "natural causes". | |
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03-13-2022 03:01 PM
#30189
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The NHS | |
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03-13-2022 04:14 PM
#30190
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Yeah I heard I can't get an appointment not because there's not enough doctors, but because the ones we have are only working 48 hour weeks. Lazy. | |
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03-13-2022 06:25 PM
#30191
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It's a joke, mocking the vast amount of middle management the NHS has. Images of Karen barging to the front of petrol queues screaming "I'm a key worker" because she's a diversity awareness officer for the NHS spring to mind. | |
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03-13-2022 08:04 PM
#30192
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We had a couple of admin guys in our dept. whose jobs became obsolete. One was obsolete when he started I think, I don't remember him ever doing much of anything for about 10 years. Every once in a while you'd see him doing something and it always came as a surprise lol. | |
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03-13-2022 08:38 PM
#30193
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When I was around 18 I worked at a printing factory through an agency, 12 hours shifts on a printing production line. Fucking tedious it was. Every now and then, the machines would break, requiring engineers to fix. We were supposed to go and help out in other areas of the factory when this happened, but my favourite trick was to pick up a clipboard and walk round the factory in circles pretending to be busy. Nobody ever asked what I was doing. I'd usually get an hour out of it. | |
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03-13-2022 10:51 PM
#30194
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03-14-2022 05:53 AM
#30195
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60 hours minus 1 hour still equals 59 hours. | |
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03-14-2022 07:14 AM
#30196
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Heh. | |
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03-14-2022 09:59 AM
#30197
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I managed one day of hard graft at the Safari Park where I was a seasonal ride operator. I applied for early off-season work the one year, preparing the park for opening. I had to help build one of the rides, which meant laying the concrete foundations. After just one day, every part of my body hurt. I took the next day off, turned up on day three full of apologies, and asked to paint fences instead. I discovered right there that I'm not a grafter. It did give me a lot more respect for the maintenance staff though. | |
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03-14-2022 10:09 AM
#30198
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Still, worst job I've had wasn't either of those. It was a job in a butchers, chopping up meat and serving customers. I really hated this. The place stunk, the staff I worked with were arseholes, and they had absolutely no respect for food safety. Drop some meat on the floor? Throw it in the grinder. It's a bit grey? Throw it in the grinder. | |
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03-14-2022 06:39 PM
#30199
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My best job, on the other hand, was working for an irrigation company. We'd drive out for half an hour or hour to a farm, fix a couple of pipes with holes in them, drive somewhere else, rinse and repeat. Ezy money. | |
Last edited by Poopadoop; 03-14-2022 at 06:42 PM.
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03-14-2022 08:51 PM
#30200
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That sounds too ridiculous to be true. In fact the only reason I believe it is because I don't think you've give him such an unacceptable name by 2022 standards if you made that up on the fly. It has to be real. | |
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03-14-2022 08:58 PM
#30201
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btw no kids were harmed in the derailment of the train. Shocked parents though. | |
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03-16-2022 08:17 PM
#30202
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Sahara sand making the skies orange in Western Europe today. | |
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03-30-2022 03:07 AM
#30203
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Ah Twitter, you never disappoint. | |
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03-30-2022 09:54 AM
#30204
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03-30-2022 02:33 PM
#30205
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Best job ever. | |
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03-30-2022 04:08 PM
#30206
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03-30-2022 04:26 PM
#30207
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03-31-2022 07:14 PM
#30208
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Ugh. | |
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04-01-2022 05:57 AM
#30209
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All she had to say was "violence is not an appropriate response to an insult," and left it there. But instead she tried to be clever and achieved the opposite. | |
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04-01-2022 09:26 AM
#30210
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04-01-2022 04:06 PM
#30211
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Guy took a dive. This game is mobbed up. | |
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04-01-2022 04:41 PM
#30212
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idk, the sound of that slap burst my eardrum, I dread to think what it did to his. | |
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04-01-2022 07:21 PM
#30213
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04-05-2022 11:43 AM
#30214
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bold edited in. I need a proof reader. | |
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04-05-2022 12:36 PM
#30215
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I thought both handled it fairly well. Smith was angry yet chose an open hand slap. That shows restraint. We can argue he shouldn't have resorted to any kind of violence, and that would be fair, but if you do use violence, minimal violence is obviously a lot better. btw I do not think Smith was "within his rights". He should have shown more restraint. But at least he showed some. | |
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04-05-2022 01:02 PM
#30216
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agreed, it is very unlikely, but the point is that once the line is crossed into violence, you open the door to the possibility. It is the weaker leg of the argument, and so it's no wonder you didn't address the fact that any form of violence opens the door to escalation, which is much more likely to lead to serious injury or worse. Essentially, given that the smack happened, it went as well as it possibly could have. This shouldn't be overlooked. | |
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04-05-2022 01:27 PM
#30217
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Let's say that Rock absolutely knew that Smith's wife had no hair because of a medical condition. If we have this information, it's something of a game changer. If someone mocked my wife's medical condition (assuming I'm married of course), I'd want to slap them too. In fact an open hand slap is somewhat letting them off the hook. | |
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04-05-2022 03:07 PM
#30218
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This is a good point. You don't know if and how things are going to escalate. | |
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04-05-2022 03:31 PM
#30219
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04-05-2022 03:36 PM
#30220
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I'm assuming that it was during this walk that he decided to slap him rather than punch him, but who knows what was going on in his head? | |
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04-05-2022 03:39 PM
#30221
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Yeah, it's a shitty thing to do. It wasn't a hard kick, but that's not the point. The funny thing is, it's not like he had anger issues or anything, he seemed pretty chilled, but he really let himself down there. He's lucky that I showed restraint, and that he didn't give me any backchat, because I was raging and ready to give him everything I had. I think he had instant regret, he seemed ashamed of himself. Rightfully so. | |
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04-05-2022 03:59 PM
#30222
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Yeah I was wondering along those lines too. Like did he jump up thinking he's going to give Rock some ground and pound then cool off to the point of a slap? It was a weird slap, the way he threw it kinda from the hip. It was about as tame an assault as you can give while still being serious enough to make a point. | |
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04-06-2022 07:24 AM
#30223
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The future is now. Or something. | |
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04-06-2022 09:36 AM
#30224
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Anyone want a surprise? I'm on a week long online course, work-from-home customer service. I'll have a guaranteed job interview at the end of it. Might get a job being one of those guys who does the online chat help for some random company, or something like that. | |
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04-06-2022 10:01 AM
#30225
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*tear* | |
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