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That hypothesis is what a lot of experts are saying. The vax was designed to stop 'original' Covid, and was VERY effective at that. It's not as effective against the later variants, especially in preventing any sickness. Still quite effective against severe illness & death. I know quite a few vaxxed people who got sick later in the winter (likely Omicron). A few were put down pretty hard for a few days, but none had to go to the hospital. None died either. I'm also not aware of any vaxxed folks suffering 'long Covid'. I know a few that caught it before the vax was out that are still dealing with stuff. Not fun. Of course, our resident troll will be along to warn us that 'all the people who got the vax are going to DIE from it.' In six months... No, a year... No, five years. THAT'S IT - In five years everyone who got the vax will be DEAD!!!!. Funny how this will be the first vaccine ever to have side effects appear that late.

Bolding mine. There have been a few stories about this. Many of them point out (correctly) that losing a bunch of APCs isn't a big deal for the Russians. They've got a zillion of them (or they used to anyway). But engineers are specialists. Their equipment is specialized too. Losing the people trained to put in bridges and the equipment, both the install stuff and the bridges themselves, is a bigger deal than most realize. That stuff and that knowledge isn't going to be replaced easily, quickly or cheaply. I especially love the Twitter thread posted before that told how the Ukrainian engineers scouted out the river, picked out the most likely spot to put a bridge, and were ready & waiting for the Russians to show up.

No, silly. You're supposed to drink your own urine. I have no clue why there are idiots promoting this, or what they think they are accomplishing, but that's what they are doing. And I'm kinda surprised our new troll friend didn't suggest that Covid was really Cobra venom, being put in our drinking water. Really. https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2022/radio-host-stew-peters-watch-the-water-film-ridiculously-claims-covid-19-is-snake-venom/ I never cease to be amazed at the gullibility of these fools. Barnum was right.

Finding one that's already setup for that might be difficult (or impossible). Finding on that will work well shouldn't be. I would think a 'bound' book would be best. One where the pages are permanently installed, as opposed to easily removable or easily replaceable (spiral notebook or three ring binder respectively). Put the personal info (and pic) inside the front cover. Maybe put tabs in various places for 'sections', such as ongoing training, competitions of various sorts, that sort of thing. The rest of it could just be written out as described above. A quick search found there are lots of choices for blank books: https://www.google.com/search?q=blank+bound+book&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS910US910&oq=blank+bound+book&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i22i30l2j0i15i22i30j0i22i30l4j0i15i22i30j0i390.13521j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 Edit to add: A custom printed bound book, having the pages printed with forms that would be filled in with all of the above info, wouldn't be terribly expensive. Maybe more than the OP is willing to spend, and maybe creating the forms is more work than the OP is willing to go to. But it's another thought.

Did you look at any of the articles? Or did you just believe what you want to believe? A few quotes from a couple of the articles: "Right-leaning news outlets ... see greater algorithmic amplification on Twitter compared to left-leaning news outlets," they wrote." "And they did find that far more of the Republican accounts were banned than the Democratic ones. About 35 percent of the conservative accounts were banned in those six months, while only about 8 percent of the left-leaning accounts were banned. It would be easy to simply interpret these results as genuine political bias on Twitter’s part, but the researchers took the time to dig deeper and found the problem wasn’t just being conservative — it was that conservatives were sharing much more misinformation than their more liberal counterparts."

Why would China buy it when they can just take it? Putin set the precedent by invading Ukraine. Putin showed quite clearly the impotence of the Russian army. I have a funny feeling the rest of the world would wag their fingers, make some useless 'declarations' about how naughty China was, and then privately laugh their asses off.

I think you see what you want to see. https://www.google.com/search?q=Twitter+conservative+bias&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS910US910&oq=Twitter+conservative+bias&aqs=chrome..69i57.7468j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

You actually believe that bullshit, don't you? Not going to parse it completely, but to pretend that the Democrats are 'dirty, despicable and criminal' while the Republicans are the 'best political course' is just plain silly. And, of course, you believe that "SHTF" is just around the corner... Again.

And after the Ukrainian debacle, China will be free to invade Siberia if and when they want to. Zillions of acres of undeveloped land (kinda nice for those billions of people). Natural resources that are virtually untapped. All ripe for the picking and the Russian army won't be able to do diddly about it.

I actually like Poutine. Not terribly fond of pudding. Especially old, vanilla puddin'.

Are the residents who had it before also vaxxed? I've heard & read that vax plus 'virus developed' immunity is the best.

Well, we had RoyReader a while back. He was actually pretty good. Then, before that, we had a couple Russians who spewed the party line bullshit on things, like Ukraine being run by neo-Nazis. I don't know if they were actual skydivers who believed (or at least supported) Putin and his lies, if they were 'factory trolls' who were also skydivers, or just factory trolls who studied skydiving enough to pretend well. "Big Bug" and "Nebelyin" (or something like that) are the two I can think of off the top of my head.

Have you noticed that most people who make claims have some sort of verification? I have yet to see you do anything but make claims. Every one of them false. Back your claims up or shut the fuck up. Have a nice day

Although it lists a start date back in February, I had not seen or heard of this before. It popped up as an ad on FB. Apparently Musk is going to finance his takeover of Twitter with his own crypto currency. On the plus side, purchase 1000 'space ex coins' (right now, about $1400) and you get a flamethrower. Really. https://spacextoken-project.web.app/

NPR had a story today. How many people died because they neglected to get vaccinated? 319000. Half of the people who have died since the vaccines became widely available (641000) didn't have to die. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/05/13/1098071284/this-is-how-many-lives-could-have-been-saved-with-covid-vaccinations-in-each-sta On a positive note, many (most?) were Trump supporters. People living in counties that voted for Trump are THREE TIMES more likely to die from Covid than people in counties that voted for Biden. The vax rate is also much higher for counties that voted for Biden compared to Trump. (story is from December) https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/05/1059828993/data-vaccine-misinformation-trump-counties-covid-death-rate

I can see merit for Andy to sue Luke for damages. If Luke lied to Andy and said they were 'good to go' with the FAA, then that would be a big problem. Of course, Andy should have asked to see the letter to be sure. That is, of course, assuming that Luke is being truthful. And I don't see this as a 'joke'. Jokes are funny. This is simply selfishness manifesting itself in a big mess. I do love the fact that the media doesn't understand the difference between 'suspension' and 'revocation.' Glad to hear the FAA went full bore and revoked the licenses. Not for the stunt. I don't think it was all that dangerous. But for the blatant disregard for the rules.

Yup. Your statement about 'bullying' is pretty accurate. Nobody with any real power has stood up to him. Ever. Until now. The stories that he had gotten completely out of touch with reality seem to be at least somewhat accurate. He's consolidated power so completely (I was way, way, waaaaaay off about the oligarchs having any real power) that he can ignore the 'truth' in favor of what he wants to hear. His toadies and sycophants just play along. So he thought that the military was 'all powerful'. That Ukrainians wanted to be back in the 'Soviet Union' again. That they'd welcome the Russian 'liberators' with open arms and be happy (sound familiar?). I have no clue how this will end, or how it can end. Putin won't quit. He can't. He's losing, and will keep 'doubling down' until he gets cornered. Which will be very dangerous. I can only hope that the military, the rest of the government or maybe the oligarchs either get together or independently depose him. And I don't have a whole lot of hope about that. Putin's spent the last 20 years consolidating power and 'removing' anyone who poses a real threat. Or even just says mean things. I should have written 'bestest that's deployed in Ukraine'. None of the T-14s are there. And I somewhat doubt that the outcome would be a whole lot different if they were. They are still full of fuel and ammunition. They still burn. And explode. Sure Trump would care. He'd deny aid (even humanitarian) to Ukraine. He'd try to pull the US out of NATO. He'd parrot his boss about how the Ukrainians want to be part of Russia again. He'd subsidize US companies that wanted to import Russian oil.

Well, new cases bottomed out a bit above 29k back on March 22. Up over 88k yesterday (7 day averages). Triple in less than 2 months. Deaths have stayed pretty low. Probably because many (most?) people have some level of immunity. Either vaxxed or because they had it & recovered. We aren't done with this yet. Or, more accurately, it's not done with us. Not unlike the old joke about in-flight emergencies. It's like wrestling with a gorilla. You don't get to decide when you are 'done' with it. (recently heard this with 'wrestling' replaced by 'sex')

Or maybe as the sailors on the Moskva. It's been a very interesting dynamic as the war has progressed. First off, US intel was spot on. They knew Putin was going to invade. They knew when. They knew Putin planned on a false flag attack so he could claim Ukraine started it. It's pretty clear that Russian comms have been compromised. And the US told him. As the war kicked off, Putin threatened anyone who 'interfered'. So actual aid publicly given to Ukraine was somewhat limited. As the war ground on, and it became clear how inept the Russian army is, the aid increased. Both in volume and in 'usefulness'. And in how open the West was in providing it. Biden gave a speech last week at the Lockheed Martin factory that makes the Javelin anti-tank missile. He said the US had given Ukraine 5500 of them, and plans on giving them more. As a side note, the newest, most expensive, 'bestest' Russian tank, the T-90 fell victim to a Javelin. https://www.businessinsider.com/russias-most-advanced-tank-in-service-destroyed-after-days-reports-2022-5 So much for 'not interfering'. A more interesting aspect is the intelligence that the US is apparently providing the Ukrainians. The Russians weren't able to achieve air superiority. That may have been due to US AWACS flying in the area. They were said to be 'monitoring' the skies, which is true, but it now appears they were potentially directing the Ukrainian planes as well. The Ukrainians seem to have shot down 2 Il-76s. Both full of paratroopers. We all know the chances of getting out of a plane falling out of the sky, even with a rig on. Those 2 planes may well represent over 200 dead Russians. Again, reports are that US intel helped. There are also reports that US intel helped Ukraine locate the Moskva. That is, the US located it, told the Ukrainians where it was, and they sank it. There have also been reports that some of the dead Russian generals were pinpointed by the US before they were killed by Ukrainian snipers. There have been strong denials about this, but they have been hedged by comments like 'we told the Ukrainians lots of stuff, what they do with that info is on them', and that the Ukrainians have their own intel sources locally. Since the 'dead general' story broke, there's been a fair amount of backpedaling, with even Biden saying that these leaks need to stop. I'd love to know how much the US is actually giving Ukraine. It's pretty obvious that they are getting very valuable info. I saw a story that they are being given basically 'real time' intel when the Russians target them. As in, they are told where the Russians are going to target, the Ukrainians move whatever/whoever is there and the missiles & shells fall shortly after they bug out. That sort of info is what wins or loses wars. It's a big game of 'turn up the heat' on Putin, yet nothing has been done that merits retaliation. And the idea that Russia could actually do much of anything, short of nuclear annihilation, has become patently ludicrous. Not that Putin wouldn't do that if pressed hard enough, but it's nowhere near that. Concrete Rebound Hammer can return anytime anyone wishes to bump the thread. It never really left us (thank god).

Meh. The formula for synthetics has been around for a long time. The Nazis used it in WW2 because once they lost access to crude oil, 'really expensive fuel' was better than 'no fuel at all'. Most types use natural gas as a base stock, instead of crude. Synthetic oils have been around for a long time. Currently, they run 3x to 4x of crude based oils (commonly referred to as 'dino oil' for 'dinosaur based'). 17 mpg at $12-$16/gal doesn't sound very appealing, but I could afford to drive some. Just not a lot or regularly.

What sort of 'traps' are you talking about? The one where he pretended he won the election, had all the fools attempt an insurrection and then get arrested? Or the one where he's a 'super rich man' who needs them to donate large amounts of money to him? Kinda like the "LOCK HER UP!!!!" thing with Hilary, what specific charges should Fauci face? Billions of vaxes administered. A handful of people with serious side effects. Clotting is a big issue with COVID. Lots and lots of people have had digits or limbs amputated because of it. So is myocarditis. While both have been reported as side effects from the vax, the rates are a TINY fraction of those occurring due to Covid itself.

One of the biggest problems with replacing a dictator is that a successful dictator has removed (usually permanently) anyone else capable of leading the country. That was a problem in Iraq in 03.

Don't ignore the millions that have had their lives destroyed. Spending significant time in the ICU or on a ventilator is NOT something you just walk away from. The number of people who will need long term care is huge. The costs are too. Long Covid is also a problem. I've seen articles that claim the death rate for people who've had severe Covid in the past year is well over twice that of 'normal' people. And don't forget the survivors. Something like 1 in 200 kids in New York City have lost at least one caregiver to Covid. The number of 'Covid Orphans' is also pretty serious. On the plus side, one fact being tracked is that the lowest vax rates correlate with the highest 'voted for Trump' rates, when the data is taken down to the county level. That goes nicely with the fact that the anti-vaxxers have died in fairly large numbers. I've seen it where a good estimate is that something like 225k people that died wouldn't have had they been vaxed. Much of this can be blamed on the misinformation that is out there. Some of it came from the Russian troll farms, but not all of it. Candace Owens, Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson (and the rest of the Fox idiots - who are fully vaxed), so many others who seem to glory in spreading lies about Covid and the vax. On the plus side, it's their own side who are dying off. I still love the fact that Trump finally realized the lies and falsehoods about the vax were killing off his own base. So when he told his supporters to get vaxed and they booed him... He never brought it up again. And last, the 'million dead' number is probably an undercount. The fools and idiots like to pretend that the death count is lower, claiming that lots of people died 'with' Covid, not from it (we covered this a while ago). The Economist has done a VERY impressive job creating an algorithm that tracks deaths. It then compares them to the averages for the past few years and comes up with 'excess mortality'. That is, how many extra deaths have there been. Since the only real cause for excessive deaths is Covid and the fallout from it (shortages of hospital space among others), those extra deaths are considered 'Covid related'. Currently, the official world wide death toll is 6.3 million. The Economist estimates that the real death toll is over 21 million. Without a subscription, I can't get the US estimates. But they are a lot higher than the official 1 million. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-estimates So much for "It will just go away... Like a miracle".

Hi Jerry, There will almost always be some oil available for extraction at reasonably cheap prices. These days, it's not a whole lot. If, as suggested above, the demand for oil drops significantly, that limited amount of oil will be enough to meet demand. So prices shouldn't be terribly high. Considering I have a classic car that I hope to keep for the foreseeable future, I hope this comes to pass. While I have no doubt that some investors/owners made a fair amount out of the shale oil fields, many (most?) didn't make back their start up cost investment. The guys I mentioned were working the oil fields. They were making pretty impressive salaries out in the 'oil patch'. The living costs in the boom towns were insanely high (typical), but they did a pretty good job containing costs. They both walked away with a decent pile of cash when the jobs disappeared. Not 'investor class' money, but enough for what they did. I remember Connally. He was a lot of things, including president of Continental Airlines. I don't remember the whole 'yard sale' thing. I know he lost just about everything. Of course, the idea of the yard sale was to pay back investors who got screwed. But, as usual, he was still fairly wealthy and nobody who invested saw a dime of their money.

One problem would be the statute of limitations. If it was long enough ago, it's not prosecutable. Doesn't make it less of a crime. Doesn't make him any less appropriate to hold public office (not that that concept is really possible at this point). Doesn't make him less of a shitbag. But likely not prosecutable.