finaljedi

Papa Johns is there to provide that contrast so they appreciate the good pizza. It would be more depressing that Papa Johns was the only chain place still standing.

Oddly enough, the President who described himself as very tough on Russia didn't make the list.

Yeah I went to NYC a few months back, had to show the COVID card everywhere. Flying out of Cincinnati? The gate agent told everyone he wasn't enforcing the mask rules in the waiting area around the gate but that they would be enforced on the plane.

So Putin took Trump's plan from last week and adapted it?

It’s about as close as anything gets. Facebook’s first foray that’s around now is Horizons and it’s just the same sort of VR chat type thing as this.

No matter how he dies, there will be the cultists who think he's simply gone underground to start the real work of rooting out pedophiles or something.

Listen, you just kind of leave the MiG on the sidewalk and take a walk around the block, if a Ukrainian happens to walk by and pick it up then that's not your fault.

The only Joe Rogan I've sat down and watched for any length of time longer than like 10 minutes since he was on News Radio was like an hour where he was interviewing Andrew Yang, because she sat me down and made me watch it.

Living in a dark red part of a red state can be funky. I was late for a date a couple years back because of the traffic around some Trump pick up truck convoy staging area was between me and the park where I was meeting her. Of course she was firmly in the Yang gang then and dumped me a few months later, those two were unrelated.

It probably helps when you have infantry moving with your armor and aren't just sending a column of vehicles up the road unsupported.

They couldn't have gotten a computer made in the last decade? That looks like a Thinkpad I handed off to a recycler like 5 years ago that was from 2007.

Picking the moment where a father is talking about his dead son as the moment to heckle is certainly a choice.

It's the Eastern European version of a hick tossing an old mattress in someone's yard in the middle of the night to dispose of it. Only it's a country parking all their junk military hardware in another country and then skipping out.

I feel like they'd be a bit raw about the de-Nazifying thing Putin gave as justification

Maybe this is small minded... But I haven't had a face to face work meeting in over 2 years... With one side listing the other side's leaders as a high priority target and this being 2022, do they really need to meet in person?

With sanctions and I assume an active, equipped insurgency could Russia afford an occupation for long?

Yeah. As far as stuff that shows up publicly we have 2 refueling planes, a Global Hawk drone, that RC-135V, and occasionally some Blackhawks moving about. There's also an RAF refueling plane that just seemed to start a shift.

A new Air Force plane I hadn't seen showed up on Flight Radar. So far it's mostly been two tankers holding over Poland and Romania along with the drone patrolling the Black Sea. Now we have an RC-135V messing about over Romania Live Flight Tracker - Real-Time Flight Tracker Map | Flightradar24 WWW.FLIGHTRADAR24.COM View flight on Flightradar24

I know about WW1 and the Barbary Wars, not the Tanker War though, that one slipped by me. I was thinking a little more with how things are with this current conflict. The Russians don't seem to care about attacking merchant ships no matter what country they belong to.

Does that ever turn into something other nations find unacceptable?

I would imagine they're smart enough to not stick around there when they posted that.

That Global Hawk messing about over the Black Sea isn't exactly being secretive.

I know that, but it was still pretty quick. Even if he decided to get this going when they started moving hardware into the region, did he just get lucky with the timing to be able to head that way on the same day the shit hit the fan?

This shit started fucking yesterday. Was he sitting at home last night reading the news, just hired a crew and a plane and left?

Is there something worse than widespread human rights abuses? I feel like that's broad enough to encompass the worst.