Phil1111

I thought the war was all about Russian language and Nazis? I'm not a subscriber to the US-right-Putin fantasy news feed. Why doesn't Putin target the bio-labs instead of elementary schools. Instead of nurseries and hospitals? He has lots of drones, artillery and missiles. I know you don't subscriber either but I can't read Slim's posts because my PC has a fantasy idea blocker on it. Putin said that Russians and Ukrainians are brothers. Thats the whole reason why he personally approved the kidnapping of Ukrainian children. He wants to use those children to improve the Russian genetic pool. Kill off Russians with prison records and replace them with the children from Ukraine. I think Hitler wanted to do something similar.

You don't think Putter will assign Tucker to the Ukrainian front for getting fired? Slim is bent outta shape because his forces couldn't gain any territory all winter long. Because airline connections are a real bitch to get home. All his friends are constantly sending e-mails for western goods that have been embargoed. Because he dreads getting the call-up e-mail from the mighty Russian army.

A English pro-Putin version of Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf aka Baghdad Bob. Would also work. RTV and Slim are both ready for that.

He really needs to consider being a Televangelist. A couple weeks for the mail order course. He already knows how to spread fear to White folks.He is massively popular with the White MAGA audience. I can see his TV promo now. A free Glock with every $10k donation MGGA , Make God Great Again. He could spin hell and other fears, into non stop cash.Imagine the funds he would suck away from the GOP and the Christian right.

Well in Canada Canadians don't use guns. I used a sledgehammer to capture an asshole in my domicile. About 20 years ago a neighbor phones me and says there is a suspicious guy prowling by my garage. I go out to the garage door and its closed but the inside light is on. So i open the door and enter and the said asshole is holding a couple powertools and trying to force his way out the car garage door. I grab him by the neck and arm and drag him outside. As I exit the door I take from him a 18lb sledgehammer that he had a hold of. I use it to hold the mandoor open when its windy. I threw him to the ground and put the sledgehammer on the back of his neck. It had rained the day before so the ground was slightly muddy. So his face ended up half buried in the mud. By the time the cops arrived I was starting to feel a bit sorry for him. The cops were quite happy when they found out I had removed the sledgehammer from him. Because that was another charge on him. "Assault with a weapon".

It seems to me that you're connected to the drug industry...mmmmm Then "For the past decade, the White House and Congress have relied on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, a renowned advisory group, to help shape the federal response to the opioid crisis, whether by convening expert panels or delivering policy recommendations and reports. Yet officials with the National Academies have kept quiet about one thing: their decision to accept roughly $19 million in donations from members of the Sackler family, the owners of Purdue Pharma, the maker of the drug OxyContin that is notorious for fueling the opioid epidemic." So the most conservative drug peddling conservative individuals were buying state policy. Brent, I thought you were a good guy, with integrity Shame.. In other Russian news A Russian solider(33) so distraught over the assignment to the Ukrainian front. Decided to indulge in some vodka. A short drive later the S-400 missile system he was driving ended up overturned in a ditch. The $160 million dollar system will not be deployed anytime soon.

Rupert MurDoch has a worldwide cash generating machine that is more than FOX. His team identifies right wing agendas and politicizes the narratives to generate cash. They have employees and puppets. The puppets seize these narratives and regurgitate them as fact They amplify the messaging. Enter Slim. He is trying to save kidnapped Ukrainian children. By placating Putin with just 25% of Ukraine.Hence the peace pleas. Until Putin can fully digest Belarus.Other accommodations will have to be made. Puppets will always be ready to accept new narratives. Because they have flexible minds that know Washington and the US state is evil. So they await further directions from FOX. Eagerly buying whatever FOX sells.

Something with the latching mechanism makes sense. Because Starship yaw was well developed before the termination of flight decision was made. This was tweeted "The damage in Boca Chica at the Starbase launch site looks pretty serious, but a former senior SpaceXer from there says he believes the pad can be repaired; and a (water-cooled?) flame diverter installed in 4 to 6 months. Just passing on what I was told." To which Elon respoinded: "3 months ago, we started building a massive water-cooled, steel plate to go under the launch mount. Wasn’t ready in time & we wrongly thought, based on static fire data, that Fondag would make it through 1 launch. Looks like we can be ready to launch again in 1 to 2 months... Aware that this schedule is hyper ambitious, Musk then explained, on Apr. 22, that the engines may have caused unexpected damage. "Still early in analysis, but the force of the engines when they throttled up may have shattered the concrete, rather than simply eroding it," he argued. "The engines were only at half thrust for the static fire test." Flying another in two months seems overly ambitious. IMO Elon has a history of using the whip on employees and exaggerating. So maybe? A video has emerged of pad damage actual damage starts at 1:22.

The Ukrainians are hiding them. Until they are not. Then the only escape for Putin's forces will be the Kerch bridge. Because Ukrainian troops will be washing their tired feet in the Sea of Azov Then there will be no Kerch bridge and Putin's apologists will have some new distracting narrative.

A commentator for the launch stated that the rocket is supposed to conduct a planned yawing maneuver(flip) prior to second stage separation. Which makes no sense whatsoever: CNN video at 4:53 he states that the Starship is "beginning the flip for stage separation." Does the first and second stage not separate. The first stage then make its 180 for a back burn to the landing? With the second continuing a new burn to orbit along a straight line of flight to orbit?

I have friends in high places. I was talking to a long time friend last night and the subject went around to aid to Ukraine. He went on to state that President Zelenskyy was lining his pockets with cash from foreign aid. bla, bla bla.i.e. tune it out and change subject. He is a pretty smart guy but his sole source of news is FOX. It sounded like a line of pure b.s. from Tucker or Sean. If you're not more careful you'll be the next Slim here. With everything else it entails.

The pull of disinformation seems to grow year by year. I'm worried that ChatGPT and other such information summation and modification tools will drive people susceptible to b.s. even deeper than what FOX does. Imagine tens of Brents, dozens of Slims! All operating to overpower common sense.

Yes

Agree. Single action cocking, trigger mechanisms are simple and safe. Beyond that if the gun was capable of firing live rounds. pointing it a a person is wildly dangerous in itself. Having said that if two prosecutors in the end gave up on prosecution. I'd call it a day on the issue.

Yes.. But pandering to the MAGA base is different than pandering to trump. DeSantis is normally fairly smart except when he goes into full MAGA electioneering. Would he not be better served to wait until trump is gone.Either with a face to face with Lucifer or a prison warden? Then launch a run in a subsequent election.

MAGA is far from dead. DeSantis is gone all in for the MAGA base. Guns, abortion, immigration, Ukraine, etc. Whatever trump's position is Desantis is further right. At least because he never announced a candidacy. trump can't label him a loser. If trump gets convicted next week. Will he tell his cell mate that he's a little AC DC?

For me it was stealing crab apples when they were ripe. and another :"A six-year-old girl and her parents were allegedly shot by a neighbor after a basketball that the child was playing with rolled into the attacker’s yard, according to authorities and local media reporting. The shooting occurred on Wednesday in North Carolina when several young children were playing with a basketball which rolled into the yard of Robert Singletary, who neighbors say was new to the area and often mad at the local children," New gun sales in the US have averaged 1.25 million per month for four years straight. Thankfully republicans have made it a priority to protect children.

How about this description?

Ok I have to break up the hate-fest here. i challenge anyone to call Alexei Navalny a coward. He is probably the bravest man alive today. What about the female Russian RTV presenter that showed the cardboard sign on live news. That the war was all a lie. A million Russians have left everything they know and have to escape Putin. Weekly someone is sentenced to long prison terms for challenging Putin's laws. Look at the couple posters here that have their heads so far up Putin's ass. That they can see Putin's tonsils vibrate. Yet they are supposed to be Americans. Like how the CCP controls the Chinese population. Russians have been controlled by FSB messaging. Hell FOX viewers at least have an open choice. Then consider what FOX has achieved.

So fewer and fewer people watch the US major evening news. Pretty much only old people get their news from CBS,ABC, NBC. Naturally I have to check them all out. For the last two weeks they are looking more and more like CNN. Shootings, shooting trials, injury and death reports from shootings. Good thing that foreign countries can't get such news coverage. How long till a US cable network starts a US gun violence channel. With victim coverage, funerals, hospital visits, trial coverage, etc?

Sometimes the most complex pieces of engineering. Have a couple screws loose.

Well I was hoping for more success. The length of time it stood on the pad post ignition must have done some pad damage. The six engines that didn't ignite made the t/o look a little less sporty than the Falcon. and OK I can now overlook Elon's twit/F**k up. He is back in my good books.

I used to have a motorized hang glider. With winds about 15 kn on flat level ground. I could take off without stepping and land without taking a step. But gusting winds above that would become dangerous because it had such a low wing loading. Same sort of idea as this one, but not identical.

After watching about 100 of his videos I had to stop. I feel so inferior needing seven hours of sleep a night. Wasting time on SC. All of his other engineering accomplishments. Although his pool addition on his home made me feel as if he has cognitive disabilities of a sort. I just love his machined double slotted flap/slat ribs on his latest full build. I think of those flaps/slats on a Carbon Cub.

There have been several stories published by Kremlin insiders that know Putin well. He has ideas of a return to Russian grandeur, a hegemony over other post Soviet vassal states. Like Belarus is today. They have all stated that he thinks he is the leader to do that. As such, the use of nuclear weapons would end all that. He obviously miscalculated about Ukraine.But he now has compete control of Belarus including the deployment of nukes there. So that is a victory of sorts. Your confusing Ken with Dekker. I disagree with Ken here. IMO Russians have a love for the strongman leader. Many older Russians still dream of the days of Stalin. RTV and the Putin propaganda machine, has conditioned them to completely distrust democracy. Although the complete disaster of perestroika certainly reinforced those ideas.Putin is 70. AFAIK the succession of someone who will protect Putin in the days of his retirement. Is unknown. The costs and consequences of Putin's Ukrainian misadventure will slowly leak out. IMO those consequences are unknown.