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Spin Zone / Re: More Ukraine Clusterfuck
« on: Today at 05:23:31 AM »
Quote from: Lucifer on Today at 05:05:32 AM
  Russia has always used mercenaries, as do most militaries.  There's nothing new here.

  Ukraine is running low on troops.  This is why Dictator Zelenskyy wants to become (one of the reasons) a member of NATO so he can get a pipeline of troops to fight his war, as well as more money and equipment.

  No one sees just how ridiculous this clusterfuck has become.   We watch Israel get attacked and the FJB Regime keeps demanding Israel ceasefire and enter into peace talks (with a terrorist group no less) yet that same regime has impeded peace talks and negotiations on the Ukraine war.

  The FJB regime has held back munitions from Israel while demanding more money that has almost unaccountability for a country being run by a dictator.

  Anyone with just a few functioning brain cells can see what the Ukraine war is really about, and why the people behind it want it to continue indefinitely.

  The final irony in all of this:  Conservatives have always been painted as "war mongers" while the leftist have cried "If you elect that republican he'll get us into a war!", yet now look at where we are.    Unreal.

Same with the first amendment. It used to be the liberals that were for free speech, now they are the most pro-censorship bunch we’ve ever had. 

Bill Maher openly admits this now.  He’s a lifelong Democrat and has become sick of the far left takeover.  He was on the View recently speaking out against “woke”.  He regularly bemoans how the educational system has been taken over by Marxists, that the kids haven’t been taught history, that they don’t know we’ve tried communism and it hasn’t worked, ever, not even once.  Capitalism has its problems but there is no better system and it is why this country is so prosperous.

In fact, I agree with Maher on nearly everything with two exceptions:  He has bad TDS, so bad he will vote for Biden, in which case he is voting for all the bad policies he complains about, and he buys into the climate change hoax.

In the first case he seems to have drunk the Kool-Aid that Trump is a fascist dictator and in the second he simply hasn’t researched climate change beyond CNN.  These two things indicate he gets all his news from the leftist mainstream.  When he talked with Roseanne Barr it was revealed he had never even heard of the WEF or Klaus Schwab.  But for existing in this lefty bubble kudos to him for being as anti-woke as he is.

Excuse me for veering off the subject but free speech and all, on this forum.

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Spin Zone / Re: More Ukraine Clusterfuck
« on: Today at 04:49:05 AM »
Quote from: Jim Logajan on May 23, 2024, 08:12:21 PM
Mercenary fighting for the Russians has a different view:


Assuming we can believe what’s posted on Chinese social media; in this case I think we can.

Russia is running low on men, if hiring myriad of mercenaries is any indication. He paints a clear picture of the disadvantages (language barriers, no “brothers in arms” cohesion). 

But these are not necessarily indicative of Russia losing the war. China has millions it can send to help and Russia has closed the borders to stop its own young men from fleeing.

Someone not me who has been in actual combat tell me if this is true:  Drones are a game changer.  I’ve seen camera footage from drones as they detect men or tanks, target and kill.  Death from a soulless robot from above.   Small and agile, unlike manned aircraft, harder to target with anti-aircraft weapons before it drops its load or suicides into you?  And cheap as hell compared to other means of aerial attack.  The technology will probably rapidly get better to make them even more deadly.

Russia isn’t going to be defeated. Nor will she just stop. As long as the U.S. pumps resources into Ukraine this will go on indefinitely.  Yes Russia has a manpower problem but so does Ukraine. Both sides will send men to die until none are left, then they’ll keep paying ever more mercenaries or worse, get their allies directly involved: Russia-China vs Ukraine-USA/NATO. Great.

We need Trump in office to tell these two to knock it off.

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Spin Zone / Re: More Ukraine Clusterfuck
« on: May 23, 2024, 05:51:27 PM »
Quote from: Little Joe on May 23, 2024, 04:52:44 PM
But still, a complete Russian victory over there will be far worse than us supporting Ukraine.

Why?

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Spin Zone / Re: Microsoft crashes several search engines
« on: May 23, 2024, 10:43:22 AM »
Quote from: EppyGA - White Christian Domestic Terrorist on May 23, 2024, 09:13:33 AM
My freespoke still works

Never heard of that one.

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Spin Zone / Re: Mail?
« on: May 23, 2024, 05:24:52 AM »
Quote from: President-Elect Bob Noel on May 23, 2024, 05:07:13 AM
You mean like written words on paper in cursive?

Do they even know what to do with them?

😜

No, I typed them in large font in Word.  I know, pathetic.  Kids can’t read cursive anymore. 

Times change.  It’s hard enough for me to read the kind of cursive my grandfather wrote just 100 years ago.  And it’s not that different from what I was taught.  I imagine our descendants 100 years in the future will be completely unable to decipher an ordinary cursive letter we wrote.

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Spin Zone / Re: Mail?
« on: May 23, 2024, 04:48:02 AM »
Quote from: President-Elect Bob Noel on May 23, 2024, 04:37:53 AM
anyway, with some the scammers grabbing mail out of mailboxes (home and even the USPS boxes), it's probably better to not rely on the mailman to take the mail out of your mailbox.

I agree, we don’t put sensitive stuff in there anymore. We drive it to the post office.  These were just letters to the grandchildren. 

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Spin Zone / Microsoft crashes several search engines
« on: May 23, 2024, 04:32:33 AM »
Geez, I have to resort to Google.  I'm deeply disappointed that Duckduckgo is basically a skin of MS Bing.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-outage-affects-bing-copilot-duckduckgo-and-chatgpt-internet-search/

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Spin Zone / Re: Mail?
« on: May 22, 2024, 06:14:25 PM »
I shouldn’t start threads when I’m really hungry.

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Spin Zone / Mail?
« on: May 22, 2024, 03:04:20 PM »
I have outgoing mail.  I put the flag up.  The mail person comes and puts incoming mail in the box and drives off without taking the outgoing.

This NEVER used to happen.  What the fucking fuck is wrong with people anymore?

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Spin Zone / Re: A piece of advice
« on: May 22, 2024, 12:33:38 PM »
Quote from: EppyGA - White Christian Domestic Terrorist on May 22, 2024, 09:19:21 AM
My wife and I have two small plastic containers with the letters we wrote each other when she was back in Florida and I was in Illinois.  We sat down one night to read through some and didn't get far.

I have a plastic box containing all the letters my grandfather wrote to my grandmother from France during WWI.  This was the same set of grandparents that got married in 1916. 

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Spin Zone / Re: A piece of advice
« on: May 22, 2024, 09:47:18 AM »
Quote from: Little Joe on May 22, 2024, 09:14:06 AM
I agree with so much of what you said that I am about to embark on an old cable-ectomy of my office.
I have dozens of VGA cables, 30 pin apple cables, RCA and Composite cables, scores of USB and Micro USB cables, computer power cords, RS232 cables, parallel printer cables, tons of cat 5 jumper cables, stereo audio cables and cables I don't even recognize any more.  Even if I were to find a use for two or three of them, I don't need hundreds of them cluttering up my drawers and shelves and boxes.

But one thing I'm not allowed to throw away.  My wife has an odd attachment to her '50s era Encyclopedia Britannica.  I counted it up and we have moved them 11 times, unless I forgot a move.

Last week I went through my file cabinets and cleaned out enough old paid bills, credit card statements, bank statements and tons of old health insurance, car insurance, house insurance, flood insurance policies along with hundreds of old warranty cards and more.  I filled up 4 old copy paper boxes and took them to the business I sold where they have a commercial shredding contract.

Several times I went to the garage to thin it out, but I can't identify more than a few pounds of stuff.  It never fails that if I throw anything out, the next week I will need it, even if I hadn't needed it in the past 20 years.  But perhaps I'll give that another try too.

All that paper stuff you’re talking about, I went through mom’s and came up with about 60 pounds of paper to take to be shredded.  Came across some wild stuff there too.  She won a class action suit about 20 years ago that would have paid $900 to her estate if she died within 12 months of the date of the settlement. WTF?  She didn’t of course.  Useless.

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Spin Zone / Re: A piece of advice
« on: May 22, 2024, 08:12:09 AM »
Quote from: Username on May 22, 2024, 06:59:20 AM
When my mother passed away we cleaned out her house and it was amazing what she kept.  Old calendars from 20 years ago, phone books, teaching materials from when she was a special ed teacher many years ago, all kinds of other stuff.  Like an encyclopedia set from the 1970s.  Small jars of something that went solid.  Things full of memories, I'm sure.  Kind of sad.

That made me much more picky when we made our last move.  What to save, what to donate, what to trash.  We had our regular house, a vacation house (we got the vacation house fully furnished!), and a storage unit all to be compressed into one smaller house.  We set a limit of one moving truck for all our stuff including furniture.  Everything else OUT.  A couple of trucks of donations, a couple dumpsters of "who would want this?"  Actually felt pretty good to get rid of all that stuff.  Even after the move I'm ruthless in discarding old "treasures".  Like that chunk of wire that might be useful some day.  That hammer with a chipped handle.  A box of rocks that are kind of pretty.  Still slowly thinning the bins I couldn't decide on before the move.

“Chunk of wire”… I’ve got all types of wires and cables and computer components from back when I built my own computers that I will never use. It’s cheaper now to just buy a computer and they get outdated so fast anyway, it’s not worth the time and trouble to build your own.  Besides my current office is too tiny, nowhere to work anyway.  But I’m having a hard time tossing that big reel of cat 5, old monitors, cases, spare wifi, power cords, adapters, etc etc etc.  “Some day I might need this!”  Yeah right.

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Spin Zone / Re: Yep. Treason is the right word.
« on: May 22, 2024, 07:57:48 AM »
a shared desire for a change in government in Israel

EXCUSE ME??  The current administration and/or the entrenched deep state is plotting to overthrow Israel’s government?  Conspiring with our open enemy to do so?  That’s what that sounds like.

And your link is broken: 

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/secret-iran-us-talks-gaza-war-undermined-raisi-death

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Spin Zone / A piece of advice
« on: May 22, 2024, 06:19:21 AM »
Go through all your stuff.  With a fine tooth comb, every drawer, every last corner of your closets, pretending you are your own children and grandchildren and you are dead.

One thing we found: A letter written in 1916 to my grandmother shortly after she married my grandfather. It was from a guy she had apparently friend zoned. He opened by expressing shock to have been informed of her marriage, then wished her all the happiness in the world. Then, he went on for several sentences about how hurt he was that she didn’t choose him, that she didn’t care anything for him while he basically worshipped her.  But still, he is thrilled she found the man of her dreams (my grandfather) and hoped to become good friends with him!  Ended with repeated wishes for all the happiness she “so justly” deserves, even though “she and fate conspired” against them being together; nevertheless he will always love her.

Imagine shortly after your wedding getting a letter like that from a guy you thought was “just a friend”.  Creepy!  And then you keep the letter!  And your son finds it after you die and he keeps it!  And then a century later your grandchildren, whom you never met, end up with it.  (She died young.)

Or imagine you’re the guy and you write that highly personal letter in a frenzy of conflicting emotion, and a century later a bunch of strangers are reading it.  But there’s one thing I got from it: Young guys then were no different than young guys today; getting a crush on some female who thinks of him like a “brother” but being too shy to do anything about it, then getting their heart broken when she gets serious with somebody else.

That’s just one of many interesting things we found. And we barely scratched the surface of all the crap in mom’s house.

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Spin Zone / Re: Hell Gained A Deserving Resident This Weekend
« on: May 20, 2024, 04:03:00 PM »
Old helicopter.  Questionable maintenance.  Fog.  Does it have to be an assassination?

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