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Current Events / Re: Russia's War Against Ukrai...
Last post by ArizonaTank - Today at 12:43:49 AM
Four Mig29s were donated by Slovakia, and Ukrainian pilots flew them to Ukraine.

So much for all the hand wringing from last year when there was great concern about having Ukrainian pilots fly donated aircraft directly from the country donating to Ukraine.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/four-slovakian-mig-29s-flown-directly-to-ukraine-to-join-its-air-force/ar-AA190iVH?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=ca8c25a4f55b44f59243c1d4eb6b4fd3&ei=23

#12
Current Events / Re: Russia's War Against Ukrai...
Last post by JasonPratt - Yesterday at 10:06:54 PM
Prigozhin prepares people to understand why Wagner is going to fail at Bahkmut...

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/11znd8w/ukrainian_troops_prepared_about_200000_reserve/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Note, will require some "Downfall" subtitling. Just without the histronics.
#13
Computer Gaming / Re: 2023 Games....
Last post by Sir Slash - Yesterday at 10:06:09 PM
How about Chewy with a Wax Job, does that get you excited?
#14
Computer Gaming / Re: The Troop - WWII Turn base...
Last post by Sir Slash - Yesterday at 10:03:09 PM
Could be you're not, 'perv' enough W8. You still have time though.
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Current Events / Re: Russia's War Against Ukrai...
Last post by JasonPratt - Yesterday at 09:52:39 PM
Well, I hope those Ts still have good motors from their rust-yards near Japan, because Russian armor will have to go short on motors for a while...

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/11zj9k5/in_russia_yaroslavl_motor_plant_is_on_fire_it/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
#16
Current Events / Re: Russia's War Against Ukrai...
Last post by GDS_Starfury - Yesterday at 09:52:22 PM
 :ROFL:
#17
Current Events / Re: Russia's War Against Ukrai...
Last post by JasonPratt - Yesterday at 09:46:05 PM
When whatsisface was talking about Russian T-72s taking out modern Western tanks in the Gulf Wars... here's a reminder what T54s would be up against:

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/11zjtii/a_comparison_between_challenger_2_vs_t54/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

...."LOOK AT ALL THAT TARGET COMRADE, WE CANNOT MISS, THEY WILL NEVER EVEN BE ABLE TO SEE US!"  :evil:
#18
Current Events / Re: Russia's War Against Ukrai...
Last post by JasonPratt - Yesterday at 09:43:52 PM
So where are those T54s/55s coming from?

Allllll the way over across the coast from northern Japan!

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/11zdw5z/satellite_images_show_that_soviet_tanks_t5455_are/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3


Edited to add: to be fair, those T54/55 platforms were probably intended for North Korea a long time ago: the factory is right on a tip of Nork territory.
#19
Enigmas of the Mystical / Re: Psst...Hey, Martok!
Last post by JasonPratt - Yesterday at 09:24:05 PM
I believe a lot of things, but I fail to believe humans are invulnerable to those fangs.
#20
Current Events / Re: So... Arnold
Last post by FarAway Sooner - Yesterday at 08:21:39 PM
To be clear, all moral belief systems rest in certain, faith-based assumptions.  I might even go so far to suggest that atheism largely amounts to putting one's Faith first and foremost in empiricism.  I used to consider myself an atheist, until a friend asked me what I thought of Faith.  In the process of explaining to her that I didn't have Faith, I realized I did have, but that my deity was of a different flavor.  20 years after that, I finally was comfortable to put a name to that Faith, although I still have trouble living up to the lofty standards of that Faith.

But I digress.  It's fair to argue that ideologies tend to be one- or (at best) two-dimensional, whereas less ideological belief systems can live across all sorts of different dimensions, with different weightings and different intersections.

I'm hardly original in claiming that our values are much less our sense of taste--developed differently in each person, but with some common ground for most of us, and largely applied by instinct rather than by rational, empirical thinking.  There's a whole school of modern psychologists who have largely confirmed that in the last 20 years or so.