Looking for a few good men...

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Defense is physically easier than offense on the battlefield, especially in an urban environment where gains are measured in city blocks, not klicks.

The APC numbers seem very high.

@George-K

Without a doubt he’ll try.

Regardless, even under Geneva Convention rules a foreign legion fighting in this conflict would be regarded as a mercenary force and its members not afforded POW status if captured. Given the Russians track record of treatment of mercenaries they would want to make sure they die with their boots on and avoid capture.

Who votes for these people?

Honestly, would anybody here actually vote for this woman?

Too little, too late. Better than nothing.

@Axtremus said in Off to FLA:

Have fun!

Let me know if the airport or the airline still insist on people wearing masks. The CDC has relaxed its guidance on masking, but not sure if that filters down to the TSA or the airlines yet.

It hasn’t.

He always looks so serene . . . so imperturbable.

@Jolly said in If wars were ran like U.S. elections...:

Zelenskyy could "find" a half-dozen misplaced nukes tomorrow at 3AM...

And Trump would state that he'd won, by "a lot", right as they started going off.

@George-K said in The Hiding Place:

@jon-nyc said in The Hiding Place:

For a long time I kept a stack of 20s in foil in my freezer.

Really? How thick of a stack?

Not that thick. Maybe 2k or 2500 worth.

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English meet physics.

This is why I say we should stop pretending we have objectivity and in instead acknowledge our biases so that we can report against them.

Physician, heal thyself.

@George-K

No she was born right after the war. Her mother though served from 1939 through 1945 as a Red Army field nurse. She was first in the Winter War with Finland, the at siege of Leningrad and ended the war posted on the southern front. She mustered out with the rank of Senior Lieutenant. My wife always says her grandmother saw too much and rarely spoke about that period of her life other vague passing references.

Not likely there will be any untoward consequences, hell even in Soviet times the authorities knew better than tangle with a pissed off over 70 year old babushka.

@Rich said in "Papers, please?":

Many states have laws that say a store is required to ID for alcohol and tobacco anyone who “appears” to be 25, 30, 40 years old and younger…Failure to do so, can result in significant fines or loss of license to sell those products.

I have zero problem with that. I am more than obviously older than 25, 55.... Go ahead and card me - no problem.

Most of the people ringing you up for this stuff are teens/early 20 somethings earning around minimum wage—they are mostly annoyed at having to card people that are clearly 10/15 years older than them…and clearly of age to purchase the product.

Cynthia (yeah that was really her name) told me that she's 61. She looked older than that, LOL. I should have asked her for ID.

So whenever possible, they skip the bullshit, and just punch in a birthdate that the computer on their register asks for when age restricted purchases are made. (and ever so occasionally if a friend goes through the line.. 🙂 )

To combat that, and ensure they don’t get a big ass fine, the checkout system at many stores now require scanning the ID to make the transaction go through. This is a lot harder (I assume) for cashiers to bypass, and allows the workers to not have to use any judgement other than “Sorry, it’s what the system requires.”

That, pretty much is what Cynthia said. "I just work here, and them's the rules."

Does anyone know what information is bar-coded on the back of a driver's license?

@Jolly said "Database..."

Yeah, which one, and managed by whom.

The excerpt is heartbreaking.