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[Dard Ball Get]

Yes.

This war drags in part because money, Russia took Crimea because oil, Russia maintained a pipeline through Ukraine to supply to the rest of Europe, Belarus is essentially a Russian proxy state where the current pres is realistically facing potential overthrow if Russia didn't exist as it does to support it as the "big bro". The baltic areas are all PTSD from USSR days, so as soon as NATO comes knocking, much like the Swedes, jump and how high is the response as they can't join quickly enough as you just don't trust Russia.

Then Russia actually entered Ukraine proper by "not warring, spec military instancing" about 80% of their entire missile stockpile on the country and it became a legitimate concern of "I liked the USSR days, gimmie" for those states. So any help we could give, we give in my mind.

Granted, working for a multinational, my new boss is a scott that lives in NZ replacing the old boss who lived in Poland, gravitated all the way west to England with stops along the way to then come to Aus, so it is and was a realistic sort of PTSD and people literally not feeling safe in entire nations just because Russia got big eyes and wanted to maybe slap some schlong around.



States have to come more to the party for most of this, I'm viewing us with Ukraine much like a "if in future China..." situation. We are also miniscule in what we are giving comparatively, so these were also realistically going to be maybe decommissioned, so it's not like we mass produced them and straight off the line are just giving them new toys to play with situation.

Granted, it’s been a long day, but I couldn’t make it past the first sentence of that Fly
Complete word salad.

Cue Gringo piping up with “beat poet”

 

[StFly]

Granted, it’s been a long day, but I couldn’t make it past the first sentence of that Fly
Complete word salad.

Cue Gringo piping up with “beat poet”

Or remarking about how I remind him of a renaissance bloke that didn't live past 40 cause reasons to do with "the time".

 

[Brains Trust66]

Won 3 out of the last 4 test
He’s doing ok

didnt like the short bowling in this test . It was ok in the previous test as the wicket was crap and England did the same . But we got on top by bowling for wickets and we looked good only to suddenly start this short stuff when the lesser batsmen came in . Made no sense to me when we have Cummins and Starc , two great bowlers , running in and bowling bouncers to guys like Woakes and Wood . Plus putting a deep point out at the start of the innings meant that the batsmen could take an easy single to get off strike plus keep the scoreboard ticking over . I know Cummins has a good record since he took over as captain but wonder how much of that was Smith telling him what to do . I cant imagine Smith being ok with that short pitch bowling especially on a small ground with a fast outfield .

 

[George]

Granted, it’s been a long day, but I couldn’t make it past the first sentence of that Fly
Complete word salad.

Cue Gringo piping up with “beat poet”

Take 4th dimension to understand him because "hey tbf he makes good points" and "yeh can learn" or not dependent upon sitch but then if not then admit defeat for reasons of cbf to fmd and go to dream on better things of horsies and more barbie themed wildlife because easy to forgot real problems.

 

[gringo2011]

Does anyone think this is actually a good idea?

Aussie as ****. Take a few mobility scooters off fats campaigners who only use them to run between the Centrelink and the smokes shop, chuck some checker-plate panels on the outside and send them off to Ukraine.

 

[Dard Ball Get]

Aussie as *. Take a few mobility scooters off fats campaigners who only use them to run between the Centrelink and the smokes shop, chuck some checker-plate panels on the outside and send them off to Ukraine.

Might as well burn the cash. Ukraine being destroyed.
Some harrowing vision on twitter. Just boys.

 

[gringo2011]

Might as well burn the cash. Ukraine being destroyed.
Some harrowing vision on twitter. Just boys.

Tricky situation. One of my son's mates dad is Ukrainian, if you let them get invaded and do nothing it's not much better. What you do know is that the politicians playing war aren't sending their kids to the front.

We get told what to do by the US as a tradeoff for protection. Same as the mafia. We send our shit to the Ukrainians because the boss tells us to.

 

[Dard Ball Get]

Tricky situation. One of my son's mates dad is Ukrainian, if you let them get invaded and do nothing it's not much better. What you do know is that the politicians playing war aren't sending their kids to the front.

We get told what to do by the US as a tradeoff for protection. Same as the mafia. We send our s**t to the Ukrainians because the boss tells us to.

Yep, Ukrainians not to blame, with the exception of their midget actor “leader” and his cronies.

 

[StFly]

Take 4th dimension to understand him because "hey tbf he makes good points" and "yeh can learn" or not dependent upon sitch but then if not then admit defeat for reasons of cbf to fmd and go to dream on better things of horsies and more barbie themed wildlife because easy to forgot real problems.

Called my little ponies that barbie wildlife stuff, and you just insulted a large group of bronies, hope you have prepared sufficiently with spinal flexing.

 

[gringo2011]

Yep, Ukrainians not to blame, with the exception of their midget actor “leader” and his cronies.

They shouldn't have had so many things that others wanted I guess. Even if he's a puppet leader, at least they have some kind of autonomy. Probably as much as most countries. We all get the shit they want us to have more than what we want.

 

[BigPowerForward]

Q. What do they do with bad rainbows
A. They put them in prism. It's a light sentence but it gives them time to reflect

 

[StFly]

Lunch time update!
Woke up, on time, everything was broken work wise.
IT says "we decommissioned some things, oops" as the fault.
Goddamnit Asia, this is why people look at you funny, stop breaking shit.
The fact that I still have phones was fine, then a magical thing happened...
I got a pop up image of a heartbeat and it used a traffic light system to determine if my network was good, bad or indifferent.
I am the only one with this and I have NFI how that popped up, neither did IT, neither did anyone else in my team.
I be special.
We are still dead in the water as of writing this and I have food cooking, here's to the next 4 hours of doing SFA and watching TV I suppose.

 

[StFly]

And Freedom.
Also, daytime TV blows, I mean, what the actual F, no wonder they fight so hard for sports to remain relevant.

 

[gringo2011]

And Freedom.
Also, daytime TV blows, I mean, what the actual F, no wonder they fight so hard for sports to remain relevant.

Get yourself some steaming services.

 

[StFly]

Get yourself some steaming services.

I would have and do have them, however with the work thing there was something funky going on where it seemingly screwing with my wifi, so I wanted to try and isolate it. Ended up being in our IT trying to fix the "you shall not pass" into accessing literally anything work related today, they decided in their infinite wisdom to update the software which triggered the firewall that throttled things.

So in essence I struggled through daytime TV because our IT are idiots.

 

[George]

 

[jwikked]

And Freedom.
Also, daytime TV blows, I mean, what the actual F, no wonder they fight so hard for sports to remain relevant.

I kinda like it. There's a show on 7 mate (I think) where wonky looking Brits get to go on 3 dates and the 3 dates make them dinner. Then they get to choose which one they go on a second date with
The dates are often bad, the meals are usually wildly bad.

Better than Ricky Lake

 

[Dard Ball Get]

“The Offer” miniseries on the making of The Godfather is interesting and watchable if any of you old heads need something to do in your arvos after bingo

 

[StFly]

Indian Chandrayaan3 launch just happened, on ze way to the moon, first separation cleared, +780 seconds at present.

For the space peeps like myself, the Indians were the ones that found water on the moon, and this time they're going to the polar zone on it, at +960ish they're jettisoning the booster.

 

[Sun Ra]

Indian Chandrayaan3 launch just happened, on ze way to the moon, first separation cleared, +780 seconds at present.

For the space peeps like myself, the Indians were the ones that found water on the moon, and this time they're going to the polar zone on it, at +960ish they're jettisoning the booster.

Looks like LEGO.

 

[Mowman]

“The Offer” miniseries on the making of The Godfather is interesting and watchable if any of you old heads need something to do in your arvos after bingo

 

[StFly]

Looks like LEGO.

Their video of the event was seemingly made in windows media player '95, so it very well might have been Lego wrapped in alu with some fuel inside.

 

[gringo2011]

Their video of the event was seemingly made in windows media player '95, so it very well might have been Lego wrapped in alu with some fuel inside.

The US went to the moon in something that looked like a shopping trolley wrapped in aluminium foil so it might be an upgrade.

 

[Dard Ball Get]

The US went to the moon in something that looked like a shopping trolley wrapped in aluminium foil so it might be an upgrade.

Went to the moon he reckons George

 

[jwikked]

Speaking of space, here is my chance to update you all on the latest on UFO news.
Chuck Schumer is a w***er, but on the other side of the aisle, Marco Rubio is saying similar stuff.

Here is a New York Times article from today about it: Bipartisan Measure Aims to Force Release of U.F.O. Records

Bipartisan Measure Aims to Force Release of U.F.O. Records
Legislation backed by Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader, would create a review board to declassify documents related to unidentified aerial phenomena across the government.


Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the majority leader, is pushing legislation to create a commission with broad authority to declassify government documents about U.F.O.s and extraterrestrial matters, in an attempt to force the government to share all that it knows about unidentified phenomena.


The measure offers the possibility of pushing back against the conspiracy theories that surround discussions of U.F.O.s and fears that the government is hiding critical information from the public.


The legislation, which Mr. Schumer will introduce as an amendment to the annual defense policy bill, has bipartisan support, including that of Senator Marco Rubio, the Florida Republican, who has championed legislation that has forced the government to release a series of reports on unidentified phenomena. Support in the House is also likely. On Wednesday, the chamber included a narrower measure in its version of the annual defense bill that would push the Pentagon to release documents about unidentified aerial phenomena.


(While the government has agreed not to call mysterious sightings U.F.O.s, various branches and agencies disagree on whether to refer to aerial phenomena or anomalous phenomena.)


The Senate measure sets a 300-day deadline for government agencies to organize their records on unidentified phenomena and provide it to the review board.


President Biden would appoint the nine-person review board, subject to Senate approval. Senate staff members say the intent is to select a group of people who would push for disclosure while protecting sensitive intelligence collection methods.


Interest in U.F.O.s has always been high, but it has grown even more since a collection of videos showing unidentified phenomena recorded by military sensors was made public and naval aviators described hard-to-explain events while on training missions.


Some of the videos released by the Pentagon have been explained as optical illusions or drones, but others remain unexplained and the object of much speculation. Under pressure from Congress, the Pentagon and intelligence agencies have gathered hundreds of reports of unexplained phenomena. Officials have said most of the unexplained incidents are airborne trash, Chinese spying efforts or errant weather balloons. American officials have repeatedly said they have none of the videos or other material they have collected appears to be evidence of alien visitation.


It is hard to know how many unreleased documents exist in government archives. Intelligence agencies have said repeatedly that they have released the material they have. Their freedom of information offices are constantly deluged with requests for material on U.F.Os., only to be met with responses that the archives have been released.


Still, more recent work, particularly by the Pentagon, has not been made public, and the reticence of some government agencies to produce records has frustrated both Democratic and Republican lawmakers, Mr. Schumer’s staff members said.


For example, various Pentagon task forces have conducted extensive studies on videos taken by naval aviators and other military personnel that have remained secret. Some work on the videos has been released, including at a recent NASA meeting. In some cases, officials believe disclosures could reveal the capability of classified optics and sensors. But in cases in which no formal conclusion has been reached, officials have been reluctant to share information on their deliberations or theories.


It is the reluctance to share all that is known about the incidents that are not completely understood that has fueled endless speculation on social media, in television specials and public debates.


The new legislation is modeled on the commission that oversaw the release of information about John F. Kennedy’s assassination. That legislation, passed in 1992, has been imperfect, and both the release and withholding of documents have continued through the Biden administration.


Still, the Kennedy assassination review board has forced the release of thousands of pages of documents, and lawmakers believe the approach could work here.


Under Mr. Schumer’s legislation, the president could decide to delay material the commission has chosen to release based on national security concerns. But the measure would establish a timetable to release documents and codify the presumption that the material should be public.


“You now will have a process through which we will declassify this material,” said Allison Biasotti, a spokeswoman for Mr. Schumer.


Government officials have repeatedly said they do not have the remains of a crashed alien spacecraft or any manufactured material of extraterrestrial origins.


Those assertions have been challenged by some former officials who believe the government is not divulging all that it knows. The legislation would likely force more details of the government’s study of unknown materials to be released, but it also gives the federal government the power to claim any crashed spaceships in private or corporate hands, however unlikely that such things exist.


Mr. Biden, unlike former President Barack Obama, has not directly addressed the issue of unidentified phenomena. But Mr. Biden did order two unknown objects and a Chinese spy balloon to be shot from the sky. Afterward, the president said that he would not apologize for shooting down the spy balloon and that the United States would continue to adapt its approach to dealing with unknown objects.