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  • Stuck in an elevator

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  • Voter Fraud or Honest Mistake?

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    JollyJ

    The question is how many chances do you give the voter and at what stages?

  • But...No mean tweets...

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    George KG

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    https://twitter.com/KremlinRussia_E

  • Time's "Man of the Year" responds to Fauxahontas

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    CopperC

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  • The LSAT

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    HoraceH

    All perfect scores for me. Sometimes the official answer key was wrong, but I forgive them.

  • The Social Media War

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    George KG

    @bachophile

    https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/mar/04/facebook-posts/no-woman-driving-armored-vehicle-isnt-ukrainian-sh/

    A popular TikTok video claims to show a Ukrainian woman teaching people how to drive an abandoned Russian armored personnel carrier amid the war.

    "Ukrainian Tik Toker nastyatyman posted a video on how to drive an abandoned Russian APC," a Feb. 28 Facebook post that features the video says in its caption.

    This isn’t what the clip shows. The TikTok is over a year old, from February 2021, and was posted by a Russian woman named Anastasia Tuman.

    The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed.

  • Good line

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  • Meanwhile, in Sandy Eggo...

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  • West Side Story

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    CopperC

    Better technology, too much really, it was distracting

    I remember the 50s, it didn't really feel like that, the photography was modern Hollywood. I guess it is fair for a modern Hollywood picture to look like modern Hollywood, but it isn't what I wanted.

    I liked the fact that it didn't hit me over the head with woke, that is hard to find on Disney these days

    The music was terrific, the vocals ok, just ok

    Rita Moreno vs Doc? Doc wins, but Ms. Moreno did nice work

    Krupke? The original wins

    The tomboy becomes trans? OK, that does it, that is a mistake, that is just plain stupid. Idiots

    Fortunately I didn't have any expectation, so I'm not really disappointed.

  • Play stupid games...

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    jon-nycJ

    It’s funny I went to Russia briefly in 2019.

    I remember thinking when I was contemplating the trip that there’s a small chance Russia would do something in the Baltic states (I thought) and we as Americans could get caught up in it somehow.

    It wasn’t a serious enough thought for me to really contemplate not going, but I did think about it.

    I definitely would have given that hard hard thought in Feb 2022. I’m pretty confident I wouldn’t have planned such a trip in 2022.

    (For the record, when I went to Ukraine in 2004, I had no such concerns)

  • Poland increases defense budget

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    taiwan_girlT

    @Klaus said in Poland increases defense budget:

    @Larry said in Poland increases defense budget:

    @jon-nyc said in Poland increases defense budget:

    Every modern president has tried to encourage Europe hitting defense targets, what was different about Trump is he publicly threatened them over it.

    No, what was different was that Trump got them to do it. "Trying to encourage" is a he'll of a lot different from actually getting something done.

    But he didn't get anything done in that regard. Nobody raised defense budgets due to his threats.

    Actually, I think he was right in increasing the pressure. However, due to his general demeanour, the threats had the opposite effect, namely a strong pressure on our politicians not to give in to any of his demands - to basically raise a symbolic middle finger.

    I agree with this. I think that foreign relations was a definite short coming of PResdient Trump

  • European Gas

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    George KG

  • A better “invasion” map

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    Aqua LetiferA

    @Klaus said in A better “invasion” map:

    @Aqua-Letifer said in A better “invasion” map:

    @Klaus said in A better “invasion” map:

    His map lies just as much as the one he hates.

    If you control the right 1% of a country, you control the country.

    How is that map "lying" then? It's not a map of effective control, it's a map of geographic control only.

    Well, what would a fair map look like?

    Obviously the space that is literally occupied by Russian soldiers and vehicles is minimal and wouldn't even be visible on a map.

    That's precisely what makes a map like that interesting.

    You need a definition of what "control" means before you can talk about the accuracy of a map.

    My first attempt would be something like "Area where Russian soldiers can walk around unarmed, without fear of being shot".

    Go ahead and try that out then, see how accurate you can be. Bet you $10 it'll be worse than the above.

  • The Javelin

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    George KG

    Moved from the "Funny pictures" thread:

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  • Back to the UK

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  • The Equipment Losses Scorecard in Ukraine

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  • Who is Tammy Jasmine?

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    MikM

    Her maiden name is Penny.

  • Mask Mandates d/c'ed in Illinois

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    CopperC

    Mission Accomplished

  • Hey LD

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    George KG

    @jon-nyc said in Hey LD:

    I guess that makes it clear which one I should use.

    So my assessment was about correct, right?

  • Saints? Steelers?

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    Catseye3C

    What I saw might've been the fans talking.