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Probably a naive but... - RobVG - 3/9/2022 9:40:03 PM
- It is inevitable innocents will die in war. - ER - 3/18/2022 2:43:37 AM

Good news or game playing ? - Pebble - 3/15/2022 6:25:31 PM
- it was good news - Pebble - 3/17/2022 6:44:53 PM
- Interesting timing. - podrock - 3/15/2022 7:27:06 PM
  - I thought that too but put it down to my general cynicism. - Pebble - 3/15/2022 7:28:34 PM

A century late, but still right on schedule. - ER - 3/16/2022 6:11:49 PM
- The Wave - ER - 3/16/2022 6:41:38 PM
  - Liked the movie, need to read the book. - RobVG - 3/16/2022 7:24:56 PM
    - Yes, read it. Much better than the movie - podrock - 3/16/2022 8:17:35 PM

God, I just want to leave this planet.... - RL - 3/14/2022 11:51:44 PM
- To be fair, I bet this is actually some 1st rate tongue-in-cheek satire. - ER - 3/15/2022 1:33:23 AM
  - No it will be real - Pebble - 3/15/2022 12:29:43 PM
    - C'mon Pebble. Lighten up. This is just too good to pass up. - ER - 3/16/2022 5:22:35 AM
- Eventually, - podrock - 3/14/2022 11:54:13 PM
  - Yo, Pod. - ER - 3/15/2022 1:29:01 AM
    - Sometime, maybe. - podrock - 3/15/2022 2:41:41 AM
      - Dr. Henrickson's memoirs would likely sell quite well... - RL - 3/15/2022 3:25:50 PM
        
        The guy walked away from three different helicopter crashes in Alaska! - podrock - 3/15/2022 4:34:41 PM
        
        Props to him for that - RL - 3/15/2022 5:07:14 PM
        
        LOL - podrock - 3/15/2022 5:31:31 PM
        
        You have no idea! - podrock - 3/15/2022 3:42:17 PM
        
        I remember he was dating one at the time... - RL - 3/15/2022 3:46:18 PM
        
        same one - podrock - 3/15/2022 3:53:49 PM
        
        I can't condone it, but I am impressed... - RL - 3/15/2022 4:02:23 PM
        
        Yes, he was. - podrock - 3/15/2022 4:26:06 PM
        
        With his money? - Pebble - 3/15/2022 3:58:38 PM
        
        Don't know about that - podrock - 3/15/2022 4:21:31 PM
      - I am imagining geology centered romances now... - RL - 3/15/2022 3:16:05 PM
        
        LOL - podrock - 3/15/2022 3:39:39 PM
        
        Excellent. - Pebble - 3/15/2022 3:24:28 PM
  - You know, I am not entirely sure what a bodice is- but I am certain I have never ripped one... - RL - 3/15/2022 12:28:31 AM
    - When you find out what one is spare me the description - Pebble - 3/15/2022 12:31:26 PM
      - I am tempted to write up the procedure in the same way I would write the procedure for one of the technical tasks at work... - RL - 3/15/2022 1:57:20 PM
        
        Dealing with cold callers - Pebble - 3/15/2022 3:23:27 PM
        
        :) - RL - 3/15/2022 3:44:43 PM
        
        Yep, you got it. - Pebble - 3/15/2022 3:59:15 PM
    - LOL - podrock - 3/15/2022 12:46:21 AM
      - Porn for girls. - ER - 3/15/2022 1:24:30 AM
        
        Sod that for a game of soldiers - Pebble - 3/15/2022 12:28:25 PM
        
        Another idiom I had to look up... - RL - 3/15/2022 5:13:15 PM
        
        I have no idea of the origin… - Pebble - 3/15/2022 5:16:58 PM

Column of tanks abandoned in mud - RL - 3/16/2022 2:23:04 AM
- "elite" - podrock - 3/16/2022 2:53:05 AM

Imperial Robbery - RobVG - 3/15/2022 8:11:24 PM
- No mention of who destroyed - podrock - 3/15/2022 8:33:52 PM

Russia ask China for support - Pebble - 3/13/2022 9:40:30 PM
- FT is on my list - podrock - 3/14/2022 2:27:14 AM
  - NYT also reports the same thing - RL - 3/14/2022 1:48:54 PM
  - That surprises me… - Pebble - 3/14/2022 2:55:30 AM
    - It's a big list. - podrock - 3/14/2022 4:12:50 AM
- If true... my god... - RL - 3/14/2022 2:00:28 AM
- Oh no they didn’t ? - Pebble - 3/14/2022 1:43:49 AM

I know I am not the first to suggest this... - RL - 3/9/2022 11:04:12 PM
- Supposed letters from inside the FSB - podrock - 3/10/2022 5:39:23 PM
  - No, the name isn’t familiar. - Pebble - 3/13/2022 9:43:26 PM
  - There is a new one there tonight... - RL - 3/11/2022 3:54:25 AM
    - Mazepin? - Pebble - 3/13/2022 9:42:59 PM
    - Rumor that the top two FSB agents arrested - podrock - 3/11/2022 4:00:39 PM
    - I am reading this site with a great amount of caution. - podrock - 3/11/2022 4:35:52 AM
    - No idea - podrock - 3/11/2022 4:17:10 AM
      - He doesn’t seem to be an elite racing driver… - Pebble - 3/13/2022 10:37:03 PM
- Is anyone else preparing for doomsday? - RL - 3/10/2022 4:23:29 PM
  - I've got - podrock - 3/10/2022 8:35:23 PM
    - I fully understand that in the event of a sizable nuclear exchange the wisest thing to do is get to ground zero before the detonation.... - RL - 3/10/2022 10:57:11 PM
  - I'm not - ER - 3/10/2022 5:14:35 PM
- If that’s the case then this is very unwise - Pebble - 3/10/2022 12:58:02 PM
  - Yes... It would be foolish to assume Putin is bluffing on nukes... - RL - 3/10/2022 4:20:35 PM
- "I spit my last breath at thee." - podrock - 3/9/2022 11:29:38 PM

The Kremlin orders state media to feature Tucker Carlson - RL - 3/13/2022 8:33:51 PM

I think its time. - ER - 3/13/2022 2:33:59 PM
- The USA should not do anything until the EU and other European countries ask them to. - Pebble - 3/13/2022 7:33:56 PM
- It is never time.... - RL - 3/13/2022 7:30:08 PM
  - The only way out of this... - RL - 3/13/2022 7:38:00 PM
- Wait for it. - podrock - 3/13/2022 4:35:06 PM

Want to text a random Russian? - RL - 3/12/2022 3:10:38 AM
- The images of dead Russian soldiers are horrific... - RL - 3/12/2022 3:14:53 AM
  - They really shouldn’t - Pebble - 3/12/2022 4:12:11 PM
    - They need a jolt of reality- THIS is what they are seeing on state TV - RL - 3/12/2022 6:37:37 PM
      - New Zealand are quite happy being nobody to them. - Pebble - 3/12/2022 8:57:43 PM
  - I worry about the implications for people found to have them on their phones - Pebble - 3/12/2022 3:22:47 PM

A discussion on how to view the Russian losses seen so far... - RL - 3/12/2022 1:29:44 AM
- Good thread, thanks - podrock - 3/12/2022 1:58:42 AM
- American GOP perpetually in Putin's pocket... - RL - 3/12/2022 1:33:34 AM

Pass the word - ER - 3/11/2022 1:16:12 PM
- Several of those are no surprise at all. - podrock - 3/11/2022 4:09:09 PM
  - And of course, Halliburton. Parent firm of Kellogg, Brown and Root. - ER - 3/11/2022 5:22:40 PM

Facebook changes policy to allow calls for violence against Russian soldiers and the death of Vladimir Putin. - RobVG - 3/11/2022 4:08:29 AM
- Hmm. - podrock - 3/11/2022 4:48:50 AM

History Rhyming? - podrock - 3/11/2022 4:12:49 AM

Russian propaganda by Americans for Americans here in DC - RL - 3/9/2022 2:20:07 AM
- Who advertises on those stations? - podrock - 3/9/2022 4:03:01 PM
  - I haven't noticed any advertisers... - RL - 3/10/2022 12:36:17 AM
    - Hmmm. Call letters? - podrock - 3/10/2022 1:09:25 AM
      - WZHF - RL - 3/10/2022 1:36:39 AM
        
        Owned by - podrock - 3/10/2022 3:27:54 AM
        
        Today they were making claims of a Ukrainian bioweapons lab working to make a worse COVID strain... - RL - 3/10/2022 11:00:55 PM
        
        RU also spinning "crisis actors" stories. - podrock - 3/11/2022 2:06:21 AM
        
        The Administration - podrock - 3/11/2022 1:22:25 AM
        
        Thanks. - podrock - 3/10/2022 1:51:59 AM
- Pretzel logic - ER - 3/9/2022 12:13:26 PM

Steven Colbert interviewed a former ambassador to Russia last night - ER - 3/10/2022 11:39:09 PM
- The same was said about Brexit supporters in the UK. - Pebble - 3/11/2022 12:46:01 AM

The GOP will never forgive Ukraine - ER - 3/10/2022 11:20:41 PM
- This tree puncher? - podrock - 3/10/2022 11:51:54 PM

Poland "donates" MIG's. - podrock - 3/8/2022 7:19:55 PM
- Maybe its just political. - ER - 3/9/2022 7:15:53 PM
  - "I'm not going to try it, you try it." - podrock - 3/9/2022 10:41:07 PM
- Ship them. - RobVG - 3/9/2022 3:53:16 AM
  - FedEx? - podrock - 3/9/2022 4:32:41 AM
    - Flatbed trailers then. - RobVG - 3/9/2022 6:04:08 AM
      - Yup - podrock - 3/9/2022 6:23:10 AM
        
        "profound societal shift" - RobVG - 3/9/2022 5:49:03 PM
        
        A lot of women in Ukraine are fighting. - RobVG - 3/9/2022 7:09:09 AM
        
        Yes, I have seen that. - podrock - 3/9/2022 2:55:40 PM
- Pentagon shoots down Polish MiG offer - RL - 3/8/2022 11:56:53 PM
  - Issuing a press release was not a good idea. - podrock - 3/9/2022 2:28:48 AM
- I really have a sinking feeling about where all this is headed... - RL - 3/8/2022 11:50:34 PM
  - I do as well.. - Pebble - 3/9/2022 4:32:48 PM

GOP candidate running for Michigan’s House of Representatives: “Having three daughters, I tell my daughters, ‘Well, if rape is inevitable, you should just lie back and enjoy it’” - RL - 3/8/2022 9:40:43 PM
- His daughter's opinion: - podrock - 3/9/2022 4:28:41 PM
- And on international women’s day too. - Pebble - 3/9/2022 3:08:38 PM
  - I am pretty sure he doesn't have international women's day marked on his calendar. - RL - 3/9/2022 3:42:03 PM
    - It’s not though is it - Pebble - 3/9/2022 4:31:45 PM
- I think he'd have a different opinion if he was the victim. - podrock - 3/9/2022 2:31:29 AM

Discord and Spotify sites are down. - podrock - 3/8/2022 7:05:17 PM
- Some discords are back - Pebble - 3/8/2022 8:52:45 PM

Another reason why there can't be a no-fly zone. - ER - 3/8/2022 3:52:52 AM
- Once again, excellent points. - podrock - 3/8/2022 5:29:47 AM
  - We are all fascinated by war. - ER - 3/8/2022 5:47:33 AM
    - And one more thing. - ER - 3/8/2022 6:53:51 AM
      - Thanks for sharing that story - podrock - 3/8/2022 5:21:42 PM
        
        Stereo plotter operator? - ER - 3/8/2022 6:27:12 PM
        
        You have mentioned that - podrock - 3/8/2022 6:56:21 PM
        
        You responded while I was adding to my post. - ER - 3/8/2022 7:05:39 PM
        
        Done - podrock - 3/8/2022 7:28:15 PM

Information outlet to not trust - podrock - 3/7/2022 6:00:51 PM
- Don’t read this without a stiff drink - Pebble - 3/8/2022 4:45:23 AM
  - Does the UK have a pro-Putin party? - RL - 3/8/2022 4:40:50 PM

Ruble just dropped another 33% - RL - 3/7/2022 4:56:13 PM
- Talking of investments… - Pebble - 3/8/2022 9:45:44 AM
  - It SHOULD be... - RL - 3/8/2022 12:09:01 PM
- Making the Iraqi Dinar seem like a good investment. - podrock - 3/7/2022 6:53:50 PM

Much better mapping of the situation in Ukraine - podrock - 3/5/2022 3:44:32 PM
- Fiona Hill interview - podrock - 3/6/2022 5:51:20 PM
  - Quote: - podrock - 3/6/2022 6:21:20 PM
- Another good source of maps and assessment: - podrock - 3/6/2022 4:24:57 PM
- Thread which is interesting if true - Pebble - 3/6/2022 11:14:34 AM
  - That's one hell of a read with the first cup of coffee. - podrock - 3/6/2022 4:43:31 PM
  - The world famine speculation worries me... - RL - 3/6/2022 1:05:57 PM
    - The poorest people already are. - Pebble - 3/6/2022 3:21:21 PM
  - The Russian mess - Pebble - 3/6/2022 12:58:36 PM
    - There might not be a world as we know it either... - RL - 3/6/2022 1:10:44 PM
      - I’m not stupid…I can see that. - Pebble - 3/6/2022 3:21:47 PM
        
        ?? - RL - 3/6/2022 7:08:53 PM
        
        Sorry - Pebble - 3/6/2022 7:43:12 PM
- Also good - Pebble - 3/6/2022 3:26:23 AM
  - Indeed. - podrock - 3/6/2022 3:40:16 AM
- It’s good thanks - Pebble - 3/5/2022 11:21:28 PM

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