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This is getting all the media play because the media and some posters here learned nothing from 2016. THIS is what matters and what should be plastered all over peoples feeds. Trump Threatens 100% Tariffs on Chinese Cars Made in Mexico WWW.BLOOMBERG.COM Donald Trump said he would hit cars made in Mexico by Chinese companies with a 100% tariff, double the levy he has previously said he would put on automobiles made south of the US border.

In some cases, it just confirms peoples' prior beliefs. Boeing will do anything to stop this whistleblower -> Whistleblower dies -> Therefore Boeing killed him Because it "sounds right" Sometimes people just don't dig any further than that to determine what's true, what's likely, and what's possible.

This is journalistic malpractice. This person the news talked to is drawing conclusions that may not be true and the news is just running with it. People who commit suicide have plans and love their families. And they still do it because of whatever reason despite this. This isn't proof that he was murdered and if I were Boeing I'd sue the piss out of this news station and that lady.

See my post from 3 hours ago.

My work would just change how overtime would be paid out for exempt employees. We'd work our 32 and would only get our overtime after working the 40th hour. The workload wouldn't be decreased and we as an industry can't hire ourselves out of that hole. So we'd just still be doing 40+ work weeks and getting paid for 40 before OT kicked in, if it did at all. This is great and I want it to happen. But there are sectors of the economy that will sidestep this with very little effort.

What a great show. Would not want this either, but it might just be that this is how it happens.

People need to get this out of their heads. Crimea was linguistically Russian, yes, but the cultural reality there was because life revolved around the Russian military bases on the peninsula. This would be like thinking Okinawa is culturally American. And it was a cakewalk in 2014 because of two things: 1. The Russians had absolute and complete surprise, and 2. Ukraine didn't want to resist with force because they wanted to prevent casualties, had hope for a diplomatic resolution, and frankly were caught off guard by the complete and utter betrayal. I remember a Ukrainian air base unit marched out to an attacking Russian unit who demanded they surrender the base. The Ukrainians carried the national flag and the unit flag which was the Soviet era flag as a show of the shared history. The Russian soldiers fired live rounds over the marching Ukrainians heads.

Yes

Boeing didn't pull the trigger, but they certainly created the conditions that cost this man his life. Along with the lives of hundreds of others lost due to corporate ineptitude.

Yes, he did rebuild the economy--under a militarized industrial plan, which was explicitly against the terms of Versailles. Like, that was the express purpose of it! "Beclowned" is a great word though.

I fucking hate John Mulaney. I don't find him funny. That bit was even worse than the Melissa McCarthy bit.

Godzilla won an Oscar and that's perfect.

That is the most Alabama-looking-ass family I have ever seen.

Where have I seen this shape before.... Oh right! The Lada Niva!

I punched one in for UNCOMMITTED today here in Tennessee. That'll show ol' Genocide Joe what's what.

I'm going to be picking a Dem ballot (open primaries, yay!) and voting Uncommitted to express my displeasure at Biden's policy towards Israel. Then I'll pull the lever for him in November.

That makes sense too.

I think what you're missing here is that they ARE replacing them. 2023 saw three "batches" of Su-34s delivered to the Air Force. That's roughly 12, and those are from contracts signed back before the war started. They've signed contracts with the factory to produce more in 2024. So there doesn't appear to be a net loss of Fullbacks in the Russian Air Force. In the last three years there's been roughly 24-26 delivered.

Russia's air force has really always sucked at SEAD. So I'm not surprised here.

I really wonder how accurate these numbers are. But I imagine taking down two AWACS removed a huge amount of early warning coverage from the battlefield and this is the consequence.

Masterful gambit, President Putin. All you had to do was literally nothing and this could have been prevented.

He was, in fact, very checked IN. He had a history of being incredibly giving to people in need in his service work and he made statements before his protest that clearly articulated why he was doing this, knowing it was the most extreme form of protest against something he fundamentally and vehemently opposed. His statement prior to immolating himself was:

An active duty US soldier set himself on fire yesterday in front of the Israeli embassy as a protest against the genocide. He died of his injuries. While he was burning he yelled "Free Palestine." Police response involved one guy trying to put him out with a fire extinguisher and another guy pointing a gun at him yelling "get on the ground."

I hesitate to put it on the level of Andor, but it is compelling storytelling with good characters. It's still got dramatic moments but they play differently than dramatic moments in Andor. I highly recommend Bad Batch anyway. The comprehensiveness and interweaving of the Star Wars canon does make "catching up" more of a chore than it needs to be. But it's something that I do recommend people who are interested in the overall story to do eventually.

On my list too, but I got booted off the Disney+ that I was mooching, so I gotta find another plug.