“In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.” - C.S. Lewis

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Russia is already diminished on the world stage for decades. Moving tactical nukes to Belarus accomplishes absolutely nothing.

I’ve worked remotely off and on for 40 years and I don’t have any of th….. Never mind.

Seen on Twitter: "Pretty impressive that Owen—who raped and murder multiple women, including a 14-year-old babysitter—managed to survive 30 plus years without “medically necessary gender-affirming care.”" He has a point, you know.

Bet it was a blast when you turned your head and that sucker went to rolling or fuzzed out...

For many of them, you'd have to find the fathers.

@Mik said in Solar. Sink, sank, sunk?: Well, you know what they say about assumptions. I assume it's not an assumption but a contract term. The contract is, you give us the tax credit, or your monthly payment goes from A to B. The monthly payment they quote you verbally, is A. The contractual terms contain both A and B.

The Rotting Oatmeal God.

@LuFins-Dad said in About ESG: By the way, which stock do you think is performing better? Also, why does Twitter even have an ESG score? It’s privately held… Because somebody, somewhere, is trying to leverage ESG scores into money.

And the gal-boys.

@taiwan_girl said in Kewl military pic of the day: @Jolly I dont know. Just counted from this article https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/aircraft-carriers-by-country There are lies, damn lies and then there are statistics. The Russians couldn't get their carrier to work, if they towed it out of the dockyards with a tugboat. The two Chinese carriers are propaganda pieces, with their pilots routinely having to land and take-off from land-based fields. Plus, the Chinese have no carrier based plane analogous to the Hawkeye, leaving their carrier deaf, dumb and blind. Consensus is that the Chinese won't have a fully operational carrier for 5-10 years. The Italian carriers only operate S/TVOL aircraft, formerly Harriers, now F-35B on the newest and still only Harriers on the Garibaldi. Interestingly enough, the older Italian carrier was built as a fly-through carrier and could operate non-S/TVOL aircraft, but that's a different skill set. Your list leaves out the two Queen Elizabeth type carriers fielded by the UK. Those carriers were built as fly-through designs, but the initial projected aircraft (F-35C) need a catapult system and that was deemed too expensive. Therefore, the UK carriers field only F-35B variants. France operates the only nuclear-powered, Catabar system carrier outside of the U.S. As such, the Charles de Gaulle is the only foreign carrier to ever have F-18 Super Hornets operate off of her deck. The U.S, operates 11 fly-though carriers, which can handle the full complement of U.S. Navy aircraft. In fact, the Navy even experimented at one time, launching C-130's off of a carrier deck (successfully). The U.S. Navy also is building the new Lightning class of carriers, amphibious assault ships designed for the Marine Corps. They will operate all elements of Marine aviation. The U.S.S. Tripoli: [image: 7134390.jpg] So in essence, two countries have fully operational catapult or rocket assisted (Russian system) carriers - the Americans (11) and the French (1). While the S/TVOL carriers ain't chicken feed, they cannot sustain the operational capability the fly-though carriers can. The Gerald R. Ford can surge 270 sorties/day with 90 aircraft and sustain 160 sorties/day for 30+ days.

Capone 2024

Ya gotta do something when not letting your children watch porn. Oops, that's not true. you never answered George's question, did you?

@Copper What are the requirements on glass for airplane windows?