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Natural gas is how the US makes "renewables" work. We don't have decent batteries yet. We should be working on mass produced reactors and reprocessing "spent" fuel. So should the EU, but only France is doing it. The French at La Hague make one fresh MOX fuel element out of four ...

Grandpa's Spells wrote: ↑Wed Oct 19, 2022 2:23 pm is…

What do you mean by that? Oops, I said “do”. Is that wrong? Dammit, said “is”. Shit.

We haven’t intervened there. No troops on the ground, no planes in Ukrainian airspace. Just helping out an emergent democracy struggling to survive in a cruel part of the globe. No war declared. We help them less than they would like to be helped, that’s for sure. We are getting dollars of foreign a...

Gene wrote: ↑Fri Oct 14, 2022 1:13 pm why did we start one in Ukraine

Russia invaded Ukraine. Ukraine didn’t invade Russia, and neither did we.

Gene, the contorting and cherry picking of facts that you go through to justify your positions…

Russia invaded Ukraine, full stop. Fuck those guys.

Gene wrote: ↑Wed Oct 12, 2022 3:22 pm war mongering elitists

We are out of Afghanistan. E are not in Ukraine.

Gene wrote: ↑Wed Oct 12, 2022 5:56 am It's not a hard sell.

Then why aren’t the Ukrainians buying?

The atrocities committed by the Russians aren’t helping with their marketing campaign either. Stupid.

The Ukrainian fighters refer to the Russians as orcs. Fitting.

Thanks for the pointer. After 6 months in Africa, the continent had a special place in my heart.

Ever read A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul?

motherjuggs&speed wrote: ↑Tue Oct 11, 2022 3:54 pm I have no sympathy for Russia but China is also a nogoodnik and gets almost no criticism, let alone sanctions like we see Russia getting.

No Russian goods in Walmart, but lots of Chinese.

Russia, and by Russia I mean Putin, invaded Ukraine with their special military operation thinking it be just like the good old days for the Soviet Union. They miscalculated. Fuck those guys. I am unwilling to look the other way while they steamroll a fellow democracy. I will gladly support Ukraine....

Oh wait, there's a teacher in Ireland who's behind bars right now for not saying they. https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-ireland-teacher/fact-check-irish-teacher-enoch-burke-was-jailed-for-contempt-of-court-idUSL1N30D1J7 The old “fuck around with the judge’s court order and find out” plan o...

*sigh* He went too early. And by that he missed the Trump years. It'd have been lit.

So.... who wants to trade New York for St. Petersburg? Not Russia, I bet. Ukraine is saving all of the Baltic nations from the Russia invasion that was to follow. They’re fighting for the values that we are supposed to hold dear. I am unwilling to sacrifice them to Russia in order to win your fight...

Some of see the battle of Russia against Ukraine as resistance to Western Corporate Interests who are trying to trash our lives, and to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids with experimental vaccines and unwanted additives to drinking water. Good old libertarian Russia, home of the gulag arc...

Shafpocalypse Now wrote: ↑Mon Sep 19, 2022 12:26 am You know China and India has a weird thing going on at their border, right?

It’s kind of weirdly awesome.

Gene wrote: ↑Sat Sep 17, 2022 7:25 pm pitiful amounts of weapons.

What we’ve given them that is most important, and that can’t be sold off to terrorists or used against us later if things go South, is intelligence.

I am loving what Ukraine is doing to Russia. What Russia has done to Ukraine is give it the origin story of a new, modern nation, a victory paid for in blood, never to be forgotten. I expect after the Russians finally get smart and shit-can Putin, then Ukraine and Russia can establish a mutually ben...

The common themes for both the French and Nazis were long lines of support and lack of proper gear. Not sure about the gear, but Russia's lines of support are vulnerable in Ukraine, and will be more so as the weather gets bad. Always easier and always more motivated to fight on your own turf, too. ...

That’s Alicent? Squeezing out the heirs?

Grandpa's Spells wrote: ↑Mon Sep 12, 2022 3:16 am Pretty amazing week for Ukrainians.

I’m sure the Russians will be able to sustain their invasion through the oncoming winter. Winter invasions in the steppes are easy, right Napoleon? Hitler?

I don’t know, but there’s a thing on the bucket list that will go unrealized. Had the hot tub ready too.

Hillary turned over the server when subpoenaed, unlike Trump who lied and hid the documents. Hillary had Original Classification Authority just as Trump did, but didn't try the bullshit argument that any email on the server was automatically declassified, unlike Trump. None of the emails were marke...

Hillary turned over the server when subpoenaed, unlike Trump who lied and hid the documents. Hillary had Original Classification Authority just as Trump did, but didn't try the bullshit argument that any email on the server was automatically declassified, unlike Trump. None of the emails were marked...

But... her... emails? transferring classified emails to an unclassified server is not a small thing. It would be an impossible thing, and in fact it didn’t happen. So classified information wasn’t systemically taken from a secret system and systemically transferred to a private one? Correct

Turdacious wrote: ↑Sat Sep 03, 2022 3:17 pm

Grandpa's Spells wrote: ↑Wed Aug 31, 2022 3:18 pm But... her... emails?

transferring classified emails to an unclassified server is not a small thing.

It would be an impossible thing, and in fact it didn’t happen.

Grandpa's Spells wrote: ↑Wed Aug 31, 2022 3:18 pm But... her... emails?

They’re on Hunter’s laptop