There is no "real" war with Russia and NATO. The only threat Russia has to NATO are nukes. Russia's conventional military and technology have been demonstrated to be a joke. Russia is not a peer, and hasn't been in at least 40 years if it ever was, their advanced tech is vaporware. If Russia is fighting Ukraine with one arm held behind Russia's back NATO is holding them off with NATO's pinky.
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Putin hasn't even unleashed his full military might (no no airforce) agaisnt Ukraine.
Why is the assumption that Putin is holding back the air force instead that the VVS has little might?
The Gulf War, NATO would drive Russia out of Ukraine like Iraq out of Kuwait with highway of death 10x with most of Russia's surface fleet joining the Moskva as reef enhancement.
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It's been about 6 years for me but back then I believe Plenty of Fish was the biggest free dating sight. With the criteria of Weight: Fit, Skinny because I guess I wasn't looking for "average". And then all Protestant Denominations and Catholic. Women seeking men who had been active in the last week or less was around 25. Same criteria for men seeking women and you couldn't get to the end of "Active in the last 24 hours" which was at least 600 men before it wouldn't let you page farther.
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Definitely seems possible that it's a lie to troll or dodge hate crime charges.
When facing 5 premeditated murder charges how much worse does it get with a hate crime charge?
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I learned that brussel sprouts (!!) properly sauteed, are actually delicious
Brussel sprouts of the past are different than the Brussel sprouts we eat now:
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youtube is my bigger complaint. I want the rawest uncut version of events, and often I want the original uploader so they get the credit. If you're at the bleeding edge as they are being uploaded you can get them but after 24 hours you are wading through nothing but local news stations and response videos.
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This is the best article I've seen on the subject:
The conclusion:
So what’s the conclusion here? To me, this isn’t an argument for or against guns or for or against bear spray. It’s an argument that, despite the presence of deterrents, dealing with an aggressive bear encounter does not involve any sure outcomes. Rather than beginning and ending the conversation with a false statement about bear spray’s efficacy, we should instead acknowledge that recreating safely in bear country requires training and knowledge—not dogma.
Not Alaska Fish and Game but I used to work for a state Fish and Wildlife service in a state with Brown bears and worked with people who worked in Alaska. The article echo's this but for real deal likely bear encounters the best thing is to not go alone. When expecting bear encounters the Alaska F&G guys I knew of would carry 12 gauges with slugs. They would simulate an attack on the range for new guys, your back is turned and a target comes at you at 30 mph. Goal is to spin around and get a kill shot; pretty much everyone dies without a fair amount of practice.
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If you have consumed any of his content how legit is Paull Harrel?
Who are some of your favorite firearm youtubers?
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Is this what they are calling an audit? "Your form doesn't match what we have on file, send us the difference plus some interest." I mistyped my income and got one of those. Not exactly Will Ferrell coming to my bakery and giving me flours.
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I doubt the concept of the Tutsis, like the Igbo, being outliers is Sub - Saharian Africa is common knowledge much less commonly accepted.
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Watched it over the last two days because you said it was amazing. My wife loved it I really liked it. We didn't pick up on much of these culture war angles. She liked how diverse the cast was, and while that does bug me it didn't feel out of place here. I never got that they were going with toxic masculinity when it came to Carmen; Richie sure. In the meltdown scene one could critique that one should never scream at someone unless it's life or death and they might not hear you, but in the case of the scene Sydney and Marcus both ignored Carmen multiple times before he started screaming. Even warning one of them that he was going to "fuck up their day" if they didn't stop doing exactly what they kept doing. Sydnie was not functioning well, and while Richie is an ass he only had a (by his standards) very light "see, I told you so" before getting to work the best he could to get through the crisis while Sydnie kept spiraling.
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I used to work in a genetics lab that spent a good amount of time identifying sex markers in species and determineing if samples were male or female. The field in the database that got an M or an F was gender.
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Conservatives are not libertarians.
When I am weaker than you I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
-Frank Herbert
Except neither the left or the right are really the principled parties of individual freedom and when the other can gain the levers of power they're going to start pushing authoritarianism if not in general at least on their pet issues justified either with deontology or consequentialism.
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Regardless of whether or not this particular group or ad worked, there does appear to be a wide scale attempt to infiltrate and subvert Christianity.
The infiltration in my denomination happened at least 30 years ago, and now the long march is close to its end point. The theology professors have have been motte and bailing the administration and alumni while turning out progressives pastors for the last few decades and now they have a large enough base to go mask off and directly attack current doctrine.
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Yes, there are plenty of non-denoms that would be close enough. Part of me doesn't like how pastor centric those churches are, nor do they seem to establish long running institutions. They can have a very hard time surviving pastoral transitions, then again that has been becoming more and more true within denominations and my denominations long standing institutions were a source of the corruption. Most likely there would be a schism and my current congregation would split along with a good portion of the western congregations and practically all the non-western congregations.
Only the operation of vehicles on public property is regulated. A 12 year old can buy or build and then operate a funny car capable of going 300 mph on private property with no insurance, inspection, registration, background check, or license. Also that funny car can be transported between private properties without being insured, inspected, registered, or licensed.
Unfathomably based. Rex Engelbert, shotgun officer with Rex, and Michael Collazo fuck.
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how they were allegedly scared to go in because the shooter had an AR-15, making it too big a threat to them.
Too scared to do the right thing then too scared to do the right thing now.
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Screenshot I could find:
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Finally, concrete plan how to save the world from paperclipping dropped, presented by world (in)famous Basilisk Man himself.
He's definitely getting tortured for eternity now.
CNN: "Accused shooter in Kansas City shooting of Black teen who went to the wrong house is White man in his 80s" Archive: https://archive.is/NcFb5
Edit: Andrew Lester is the 84 year old white man and is facing charges of assault in the first degree and armed criminal action. Clay County attorney Zachary Thompson states there was a racial element but hate crimes is a lower charge so will not be brought. "There is no evidence that the teen entered the home and preliminary evidence shows Lester opened fire on the teen through a glass door with a .32 caliber revolver"
Ralph Yarl is the black teen that was shot outside of Kansas City, Missouri. Early it was reported that he was shot twice in the head but now his family's attorneys are saying that Yarl "shot twice and struck in the head and arm" and Yarl has now been released from the hospital and is recovering at home.
The white man in his 80's "was taken into custody on April 13 just before midnight and was released less than two hours later at 1:24 a.m. on April 14."
Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves said in a Sunday news conference a “homeowner” was placed on a 24-hour investigation hold following the shooting. After consulting with the Clay County prosecutor’s office, the homeowner was released pending further investigation.
By all accounts I am seeing Ralph Yarl is a band geek which places my heuristic chances of aggression on his part as low. If I found the correct streets the subdivision is one of the last developments before hitting mostly farms and the street names are really confusing with the developer using the same number twice and then alternating between "Street" and "Terrace."
Of course, still waiting on details but in my opinion this could likely be what some people consider to be the quintessential example of a "racist" shooting. If that's the case and the only quibble between Red Tribe and Blue Tribe is if it would have made a difference if the kid was white or black does this story gain a much traction with that little toxoplasma or does it more go the way of the Eric Garner and Philando Castile killings?
A black teenager enters your front door past 10PM, actively searching for something, and maybe announces he's looking for his brothers. You are physically defenseless as an octogenarian, watching society actively collapse around you, what exactly are you expected to do in that split second? Trust in society?
Is that pure speculations or are there allegations that Yarl entered the domicile?
What is with this thread?
I've been arguing philosophy around intellectual property for over a decade and this is pretty standard in a space with thinkers like The Motte. Some of the biggest fights I saw among AnCaps were around Intellectual Property. This look a little familiar?
It's an issue like abortion, it gets at the very foundation of philosophical concepts that the vast majority take for granted. Like most things people come up with post hoc justifications for what they want, the smarter the person the more clever the reasoning.
I hope republicans haven't squandered the moment, instead of passing laws that try to dictate curriculum that teaching will find ways to get around in about 5 seconds they should have used the momentum to pass universal vouchers in every strong red state. Even then, I doubt republicans will have the fortitude to crack the public school system. When schools want more money they'll just stop the busses.
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