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One thing that is always lost in your posts is the truth.

Exactly. Nobody here needed to know about Oblong's legs.

Don’t take the bait.

He and the kid who caught Gonzales' fighting it out to win the 4th bermfielder spot.

Maybe Putin was hoping China would take that Russia role to his Syria role. My thinking is evolving on all this. Max Boot had said on Maher last Friday that Putin didn't have to invade under Trump because he had that fifth column in the White House doing his bidding to undermine the West, after which Putin could just roll in firing nary a shot (in his estimation, anyway). Sounds like a reasonable assumption. Now I'm hypothesizing that the specific reason Putin didn't invade with Trump in office is that he was waiting for Trump to pull US out of NATO first. If Putin had gone in while we were still technically in NATO, and European countries started getting involved, we would have been obligated under treaty to work with them on it. With US out, Europe would have been on their own, US would have sat on the sidelines with our President lipping off about the genius of Putin and the stupidity of Europe, and Putin could have used a Trump-divided West to do what he wanted in and with Ukraine. Additionally, that could have opened the door to China to aid Russia on an overt basis, again with US sitting on the sidelines, and would have created this bi-polar world of Russia/China/the autocrat world versus Europe/the democratic world, with US technically being isolationist (which would have had the practical effect of supporting Russia's move). That's a scary world because Russia and China, together with other despotic dictatorship satellites in support (Turkey, Philippines, Nicaragua, nuclear North Korea, maybe even nuclear India?), might well be at least as strong as the non-US West. All this might be the #1 reason Russia worked so hard to get Trump elected, and then to get him re-elected: Putin needed US out of NATO so we would stand down while he went into his neighbor states unmolested by US. As it turns out, though, Biden is president instead. So why did Putin send Russia into Ukraine anyway, even with US still in NATO? This, I think, is Putin's big miscalculation: he believed the MAGA line he himself propagated, that Biden is feeble, even mentally incapacitated, and weak, and that the West is in disarray. Putin thought he could still waltz into Ukraine and do what he wanted, and that Biden and the West would be too weak and chaotic and powerless to stop him. Putin was wrong. Biden has proved himself the strong and capable leader of the allied coalition to support Ukraine in the fight against Russian invasion. As a result of Putin's fuckup, Russia is getting their clocked cleaned militarily in Ukraine, and the West acted in united fashion to crater Putin's economy out from under him and turn Russia into a legitimate pariah state. Not that he cares about that yet, since he is insulated from a lot of that pain still. But the legs are weakening out from under him, and it can't sustain like this indefinitely. It's gonna break, and then we'll have to be there to help contain the mess.

Mommy must be ignoring him again today. But, honestly, we’re evidently giving him what he wants. Each time… He gets a page of responses to (imo) very obvious trolling statements. So, the question that begs to be answered is , simply, … why?

it will make as much sense as this....

It's early and I thought you guys were arguing about a pro-Wrestler......

great bit by Ben Sasse today:

Not to be the spelling police, but it's funny that the people who misspell ridiculous are usually doing so while criticizing someone else's intelligence.

We think Mike Florio should take him.

Too good for him. He should be forced to resign immediately.

Same should have been true around health care where she was also an active lobbyist. Buddha's views not withstanding, Thomas is a legal bad joke.

Anything that even remotely related to the 2020 election should disqualify Judge Thomas from even reading a brief....

Doesn't this mean she will get discovery?

Probably feels good for Jeimer to get off the schneid

Remember when a certain someone told us we were too obsessed with the former president? Try being obsessed with someone that never was president this much.

I don't know how I missed that you had posted this. It sounds super rad dude! I love how you meld from one thing to the next.

Trump woulda kept trying to dismantle those international organizations.

I had the same thoughts. Are they wearing special pins?

Help them understand? They understand that better than any of us ever will.

Maybe the insurrectionist senator should take look at his own house...

thibs is almost becoming underrated now. he's the "bendiest" of all the de's and the one that most profiles as a top top pass rusher. he's got some flaws and because he's been the presumed #1 for so long people have had time to pick him over, but he's a better "pass rushing" prospect than hutchinson. hutch had a great year, but he's not "bendy", he's got great hands, is strong, and has a non stop motor, but he's not going to be able to go through nfl tackles the way he went through ohio state tackles. hutch seems like a high floor high-ish ceiling guy, while thibs - with his injury history and perceived "character" issues - seems more of a lower floor but highest ceiling player. and i'm always wary of "character" and "motivation" concerns with prospects. i'd be fine if they took thibs.

No, they're not. Mine are.

It is spring here in the city and cold weather does hang on past Memorial Day, so ... yeah, a nice jacket would be a good choice. 😁

Yet another "Biden is a disaster because I think Biden is a disaster" post from ol' Archie. Shocking. I would ask Archie what he would do differently from how the United States has responded to date, but I'm sure we'll get crickets as per usual.

There is a lot false and wrong info posted here. Not to mention the people who ignore the truth or are afraid to admit it. My posts are truthful, even the ones full of sarcasm.

My choice for an ending to this is that Ukraine captures a Russian city and the negotiation occurs on a table made of Putin's corpse.

I think i'm with you. In the innate feeling that I must disagree with you, I'd only say Dylan over the Beatles, and then the Stones and Zep. In this case i'd be wrong though.

New toy. Being a cheap bastard, I do a fair amount of software synth. When I got my first Raspberry Pi, I tried my usual setup on it, just to see if it would work, and it kind of did. Tried it again more recently and found it was terrible, huge lag between hitting a key on the keyboard and getting sound. Plus the on-board audio isn't great in general, just 11-bit, and I wanted some improvement. So I got this HiFiBerry DAC/sound card with XLR outputs and a case to fit it all in, and it's pretty sweet. Went with the XLR outputs so that I could hook it to my multitrack recorder without having to screw with random cables and adapters and crap. And now I can do soft-synth stuff without needing my music station to be near my computer desk. Very important now that I've upgraded to a 24-track recorder.

It was a pretty dumb rule to begin with. He was able to sit front row and watch the game, but not play. Picture of him sitting front row at a game he could not play in.

Pistons beat the Hawks 122-101. Didn't get a chance to watch this one but judging by the box score it looks like Cade made a helluva impact. His 17(7-12FG) 8 and 6 line looks modest enough but the Pistons outscored the Hawks by a whopping 43 points in the 35 minutes he was on the court. In the 13 minutes he was on the bench the Hawks outscored them by 22 points. Just an unbelievable difference.

the reality (problem?) now is that whatever cultural affinity there was between Ukraine and Russia, this war has utterly destroyed it. In fact you now not only have 40 million Ukrainians who will never acquiesce to Russian demands again. but for whom the war has created a new confidence that they are a force to be reckoned with in their own right.

Baddoo actually is in the best shape of his life. He's built like a safety in the NFL.

…. When you’re on a “get healthy” journey, and you have one of those days 😂

contrary to this. I think the series Chernobyl indicates that the troops the Soviets used to first work the reactor problem were their specially trained chemical warfare troops. It was an area that the Soviets invested some resources into.

Where was this Cory Booker in the primaries?

Confirmed by the senate by a vote of 99-0. Hard to believe that was once possible.

You misspelled "Please".

I wear my helmet whenever I go out on my bike. I don't know if I'll encounter a deer that I spook and it knocks me off my bike, or who knows what else. But, I guess, since you clearly have nothing to protect between your ears, you do you. I'll keep wearing my helmet. OK, champ? Additionally, bike helmets and baskets don't look anywhere as ridiculous as most of the drivel that you post here.

one of the things I'm not proud of as a kid was we'd have fun with another kid who wasn't all there in the head, so to speak. He'd do anything we asked him to. Stand up on his bike while riding.... drink anything we mixed together.... we asked him to climb into the basket on his bike and he did that and crashed.... he had a head injury from falling on his bike. Didn't have a helmet. We were 13-14 years old. How many thousands of other kids had the same thing happen to them because wearing a helmet wasn't normal at the time? Now we have adults making fun of other adults for wearing a helmet. I can't think of anything more childish and immature and it really speaks to someone's character. Here's a guy in his 70's getting some exercise and able to ride a bike and some fat ass clown like Eric Trump mocks him for a helmet and a poster here agrees? Fuck that. You people suck.

Next time I decide to wear a bike helmet, I’m going to think twice as it’s things like that bring us to WW3.

I would not like that at all Chet has one elite skill and that is shot blocking. Moving him to the perimeter would negate that skill. Plus I'm not quite sure his three-point shooting will hold up enough to be a perimeter player. Also not sure he can guard guys in the perimeter like Mobley can.

nobody does strawmen quite like mcs.

How great would it be to get anything at all out of this guy?

I don't mess with knobs too much when I play guitar, but I looooove it with synths. not necessarily while I'm playing on a keyboard, but if I'm messing with a longer sequenced part, then yeah, totally. it depends on the synth. this Subharmonicon I'm messing with can quantize frequencies, and, well, I don't have a ton of hardware experience, but I think most polyphonic synths and stuff with keyboards and/or digital readouts can. the Mother-32 I had last month doesn't, so unless you have perfect pitch, you're breaking out your tuner. as for tone parameters, that depends even more on the synth. something relatively simple like the Moogs I've borrowed doesn't have much, just a simple envelope or two and the standard cutoff and resonance knobs for the filter. can't even select low-pass/high-pass/band-pass/24dB/12dB on those (except HP/LP on the Mother-32). but a complex modular system... you better document your patches or you might not get them back. at least if you're a sub-amateur like me. here's me twisting knobs while the Subharmonicon's sequencers do their things: