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Last week I referred to the featured image as a part of one of the clues, I think I’ll make that a thing. So from now on the featured image will either be integral to a clue or like todays more of a hint. I hope I didn’t give to much away. As always Entertainment only yadda yadda no gambling etc etc….
As I mentioned last week the program that I use to make these doesn’t have a good way to solve them online, and I couldn’t find any good alternatives, so I got some HTML, C++, and Javascript for maroons books and I’m going to try and build my own. That’s right, I’m going to learn to code.
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Holy shit!
You guys actually completed a sentence! Well done.
I’m so proud. *Wipes away single tear*
Mixing numbers and letters is confusing. Why I failed geometry.
Also, I think I know Biden’s next move . Genius!
Napping?
I think Hillary still has that button in a closet next to her server.
Gets a bonus pudding cup. It’s a slot machine with one button, every hand’s a winner!
I heard that’s on loan from Klaus Schwab.
Mixing numbers and letters is confusing.
Do I need to post another Countdown link?
O – SugarFree doesn’t fit.
Well, J is certainly newt.
There were only two musical numbers in the Blues Brothers:
‘Stand By Your Man’ and ‘Rawhide’.
I don’t “Think” your comment is correct!
Curse you!
Muhuuwaha!
Holy cow, that comment was tight!
Ray Charles might want to see him about that claim
Are you sure? You better think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrjiJp8zr5Y
I just wanted to link my favorite Blues Brothers song
Holy crap, how did I know a rubber biscuit was behind that link?
Because one is country and one is western right? I got you.
Thank you!
Another day busy with work, so I won’t work on this. Like last time, I skipped to the solution. I won’t spoil it but you again got some chuckles from me.
You’re not the boss of me!
WTF WP? Don’t want Hype to have a C++ barf bag? Fine.
Assembly or GTFO
Butterflies
As seen on Chanel 7 ft Lauderdale News story filed by Kevin Fox:
Local convenience store clerk, 40 year old father, is ambushed behind the counter, punched, thrown to the ground and kicked by a would be robber.
He fights to his feet, a bit of wrestling ensues.
And then our reporter tells us “but he fought back. And how did he fight off his attacker? ”
The video shows him reach behind his back and draw his handgun.
“He pulled his gun and fired at his attacker, striking him once. The attacker fled…”
Has something changed? I have not seen this story told this way in a long time.
Story finished with police catching the wounded suspect in a nearby neighborhood where residents called police. Reporter interviews the clerk in the store and asks if he considered quitting. “I am a man. I am going to fight back,” he says, holding a short barrel shotgun.
a short barrel shotgun
Oof. I hope not too short, or the ATF will come a-calling.
https://wsvn.com/news/local/broward/miramar-gas-station-clerk-caught-on-video-shooting-attempted-robbery-suspect-shares-ordeal/
Found the story.
I was in the waiting room of the local auto body. Hit and run DUI. Some baked doofus jacked up my car while I was pumping gas.
There went a thousand bucks.
My angle wasn’t the best on the TV, but it sure didn’t look like a barrel I would have used for sporting clays.
Looked like a Mossberg/Maverick with 18″ barrel. Not too short for legal issues.
Scrolled through the video. He should be fine.
Trudeau says Canada will stand against authoritarianism.
By promoting it at home!
So much this.
That was the most ludicrous quote ever.
Seeing as government is essentially one never ending gaslight, it just seems par for the course to me. Falls neatly in with their usual “war is peace, freedom is slavery” talk.
+1941 FDR non-gold backed tokens to use on the skee ball machine.
There are peace protests in Moscow. I’m sure he’ll say something about how important that is.
The Russians are peacefully protesting in Ukraine as well. Black Sea Lives Matter.
alol
“Black Sea Lives Matter”
*snortlaugh*
BLACK SEA SMITH MATTER!!! AND BY “MATTER” MEAN….
Here’s hoping the opposition (the real one, not the one in Parliament) is regrouping. My suggestion:
Announce a boycott on deliveries to Ottawa until:
(1) Trudeau is out as PM
(2) All property seized by the government is returned and the owners made whole (if the government trashed a truck, the government pays to fix it)
(3) All COVID mandates are lifted
You could do more, demanding reform of the Emergency Powers Act, an investigation of police abuses, etc., but I think a short, simple list to lift the boycott would be the way to go. Once that’s done, you can move on to the other changes that need to be made.
A week’s boycott, coupled with high gas prices, would change opinions of the anti horn honkers
The restriction supports work from home, they don’t need much gas. Once the Kale and Avocado aisles dry up, the truckers will really have the laptop legion by the balls!
No it won’t. They’d just further blame the truckers.
Surprising that no one takes the US or NATO seriously.
Lol
That was layers of funny.
“Diversity”… Shows mostly middle aged women and seemingly gay men.
“We come from all over the world”… Uh, no you don’t. North Atlantic is right there in the name.
Pedant alert:
Uh, no you don’t. North Atlantic is right there in the name.
France and the UK have inhabited territories outside of the North Atlantic. The Netherlands has islands in the Caribbean. Spain has some territories in Africa, I think they’re on the Mediterranean.
Makes me want to give them a wedgie.
It’s not so much the woke stuff that’s a problem. When you can make a 90 second ad that doesn’t actually say anything about your core mission, that’s a pretty good sign that most of it is a make-work program for bureaucrats, ex-politicians, and apparatchiks. NATO should have been dissolved around December, 1992. Countries could have signed bilateral agreements if the wanted. By then, of course, far too many beaks were getting wet.
“NATO was designed to to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.” Well, one out of three isn’t too bad.
Did I just see rainbow dog tags on a military uniform?
Everyone hated our shoulder patch when I was in the National Guard.
Gay.
Yet, fashionable and elegant!
Maybe so. But a lot of history behind it at least. The armory I drilled at was named after a dead 42ID soldier circa WWII. And that was on the other side of the country.
I tried to watch the ad and tapped out pretty quickly.
After playing it for a little while every day, I think I’ve figured out what’s behind Wordle’s success (besides the much discussed social media aspect, though that ties in closely). It *seems* like it’s smart and kind of difficult, but it’s actually very easy. It’s basically the Big Bang Theory of puzzle games.
Blackface for word nerds?
ZING!
Nailed it!
Also, master mind combined with word puzzle. Pretty smart. And no, he did not invent that combo. There definitely was a physical version of that some 20+ years ago.
Lingo was a game show in the 1980s, before the Chuck Woolery version.
Linguo is dead
Hey!
Joking. I really hate TBBT.
You mean Friends with science jokes?
“science” “jokes”
Young Sheldon has grown on me, but that’s because Annie Potts is awesome.
Quordle is a little more challenging.
Thanks, I’ll give it a try.
Got it in:
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Definitely seems harder even with the extra guesses.
A version many here will enjoy:
https://www.lewdlegame.com
That’s awesome.
There’s a social media aspect?
I’ve played a few times. It’s a fun diversion for a few minutes. And yeah, it’s pretty easy when there’s no time limit.
Hypothetical…if you were going to take a job overseas in a decent country – but had to leave your firearms behind – how would you store them if you were uncertain about ease/access/reliability of friends/family (depending on location, etc). Locked container in a locked storage unit (breaking the rules man…) – or something else?
I have extra space here.
MikeS starts hammering on a new project
I’m aiming to expand my collection.
Storage units do not allow firearms?
Did not know that.
Thought two… Sentimental value, grandfathered, or just regular guns? Because they hold value pretty well and you could probably sell and repurchase without much if any loss. (Barring a big move by team D to ban everything)
Just leave them anyway. They’re not gonna check.
Keep your rent paid, hate to see nice guns on Storage Wars
In a Christmas stocking, anti-gun people see Christmas fare as garlic to Pie.
Personally I’d try to leave the ones I couldn’t replace with my kids and sell the rest, although while we were in the process of moving we stored guns brought up in checked baggage in a climate-controlled secure storage in Wasilla with no problem. There was no rule against it here.
Yeah…it might depend on the chain – I don’t think Uhaul likes it (but maybe that was just ammo – it’s been a while since I last looked).
I would find a local gun store and see if they’d be willing to rent some space in their vault. Get a rental contract in writing.
Fact check: TRUE!
Well, isn’t the Taliban now armed by the other two?
Tweet was funny. Your take is funny.
Not funny? The billions in arms and equipment we left then. Oh, and the subjugation of Ukraine.
Maybe Ukraine shoulda sent their 10% to The Big Guy.
I thought they did.
I guess not this year.
Or, the thing that nobody is saying, barista is in the Russian leaning camp.
Orange Man withheld the pile they were going to take Putin’s tribute from because he’s a big doody head.
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Give him a week and he will be able to code that.
No doubt
I thought the best sammich was peanut butter and jelly.
Yes, I do have elementary school kids.. why do you ask?
But do you eat it peanut butter or jelly down?
You put peanut butter on both bread slices and let the jelly just slosh around the middle.
I didn’t like that category on Pr0nhub
Let me guess, you got tired of it after a little while?
Gross.
I guess I could have phrased it a little better:
Bread
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PB
Bread
This is correct. Every other way is wrong.
No, I got it. It’s just wrong.
I think you need to leave.
Follow up question. Slice: vertical or diagonal?
No slicing at all.
In half and better have a large glass of milk.
Both are incorrect, diagonal slice is more important than the order of the ingredients and milk, while strongly preferred is still technically optional. May you both live out the rest of your days in shame.
You put peanut butter on both bread slices and let the
jellyhoney just slosh around the middle.Now that is a good sandwich.
Butter first, then peanut butter…I believe that was grandma’s way of getting us fat during the depression…
Fuck, I hated that when I was a kid.
Grandma would sneak butter into everything.
Got to have calories out on the farm.
For instance — A little snack between Breakfast, Dinner, and Supper? Roast beef and mashed potatoes (with lots of butter).
And a 5 gallon tub (metal can) of Schwan’s ice cream for dessert.
Peanut butter
Bread
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Keto friendly?
If you get the right bread, the right pb, and skip the jelly, then sure?
Putting the PB and the J on the outside of the bread is an interesting approach.
Your hands must be a mess!
Eat with my hands? Are you a savage?
Yeah, you eat it head first out of a trough like a civilized glib.
I think we all know the real problem with war.
He also stated that there would be “massive emissions consequences to the war,” and “equally importantly, you’re going to lose people’s focus, you’re going to lose, certainly, big country attention. Because they will be diverted, and I think it could have a damaging impact. So, I think, hopefully, President Putin would realize that, in the northern part of his country, they used to live on 66% of a nation that was over frozen land. Now, it’s thawing and his infrastructure is at risk, and the people of Russia are at risk. And so, I hope President Putin will help us to stay on track with respect to what we need to do for the climate.”
Curse you!
I respected Hype and waited nearly an hour to make my comment, only to be be beaten to the punch by seconds. Sad!
What an embarrassing fuckstick.
Well, he’s certainly got his priorities fucked up, as usual.
But just imagine how much better things would be if he had won the presidency.
Duck you for even making me think about it.
Pooty is laughing at the entire Biden admin
What ‘infrastructure’ depends on frozen tundra? Wouldn’t it actually be a net positive to have more accessible resources and more farmland? I get Kerry’s whole grift is to make everything sound catastrophic, but I can’t even figure out what risk he’s talking about.
A thawing permafrost would probably cause problems for any roads or buildings they have there, but the share of population in those places is pretty small.
Ice road truckers/Panama canal hardest hit?
I just had two hot dogs for lunch. I got his massive emissions right here!
If this wasn’t about something so serious, the reactions from politicians in the US, NATO, and EU would be absurdly funny. I’d say the odds have just jumped quite a bit that China makes a move on Taiwan.
Someone posted this earlier. I looked at my own kids and felt a bit chilled.
https://twitter.com/GirkinGirkin/status/1496854488933715972
We just stuck our dicks in a nuclear armed hornet’s nest. Does he feel that nuclear holocaust will help or hurt the environment? I think the WEF sorts might be happy that their plan to blot out the sun just got expedited.
All you cretins are worried about people dying, Ukraine’s sovereignty, escalation to a larger war, hurting the US and world economies, etc. What we really need to be focusing on is climate change:
John Kerry fears Russia-Ukraine war will distract from climate change
“Now that our latest failure is on full swing, we’d like to return to our regularly scheduled programming.”
Seems all the hot takes are: Inflation is caused by Ukraine, Trump facilitated this, people are gathering indoors without mask and climate change. The absolute gaslighting of people and their apparent appetite for it is mindboggling.
It’s demoralization all the way down…
The Russians might welcome a warmer climate.
Kerry’s response is similar to some spokeshole who said something like “Putin should be focused on Building Back Better instead of Ukraine”. I can’t remember if it was Psaki, Victoria Nuland or some other dim bulb who came up with that one.
That sounds like Psaki. Nuland is an arrogant twat, but she’s not quite that stupid.
Nyet! Climate is fine.
Thanks for the article yesterday TOK. the vaccine part may be relevant to me, if I ever get life settled here to take some time off.
You’re welcome!
Amazing troll.
I’ve seen some contortions along the lines of “Putin didn’t invade Ukraine during Trumps tenure because he didn’t want his puppet to look bad.”
The road to Kyiv is open.
Moscow on Thursday captured the Gosmotel military airport, near capital Kyiv, and the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine after Russian troops crossed into northern Ukraine from Belarus, entering through the Chernobyl nuclear disaster zone, Ukraine’s prime minister said.
Jesus.
At this point I’m not even mad, I’m impressed at the Russians.
You’d think the guys at the airport would be sitting ducks and be wiped out by the Ukrainians.
Twitter updates make it sound like the airborne guys might be a little too far ahead of their backup, guess we’ll see how many stingers the ukrainians have.
One military theorist/historian, can’t remember who, posited that the main value of airborne landings behind enemy lines was to motivate the follow-on infantry to get there before the airborne force was wiped out.
“We’re supposed to be surrounded”
“We’re supposed to be surrounded”
Yes!
According to Stephen Ambrose, an accurate quote.
guess we’ll see how many stingers the ukrainians have.
Prediction: not enough.
At this point I’m not even mad, I’m impressed at the Russians.
Same here. And I say that as someone with Ukrainian ancestry (great grandfather immigrated to the US).
I guess that is what you get with military ads like these.
SMDH
The comments are pretty good:
USA: “I’m Emma and i have two moms”
Russian: “I’m Dimitri and i have two grenades”
This was the Antonov 225’s (world’s largest aircraft) last location according to flight radar
Antonov just reported that the plane is indeed at Gosmotel but is undamaged as of now.
Also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjuVVlSgYLc
When was this sudden change in how to pronounce Kyiv?
I’ve been wondering the same.
It’s been the official USG spelling for years now
There’s an awful lot of recipe cards and menus that need updating.
Idk but I’m trying to stay current.
Supposedly the russians captured the airport, ukrainians took it back. As russians were expected to recapture the airport, ukrainians blew up the runways making russian landings more difficult in the short term.
That was from Ukrainian former deputy prime minister.
Russian murder of innocent Ukrainians day 2.
Clue A is clearly “Hot Brown”, but that is 8 letters, not 6.
L’Royal.
Schadenfreude update update: Updating from this morning, it is down another 25% today.
I guess bad, bad news being expected with tomorrow’s Q4 announcement.
Idk how accurate this website is but it is going to be popular for the foreseeable future.
I think I posted in some long forgotten thread on finding a place to live — “Don’t live near a target”.
Contrarian view: if we get into a real war, I’d prefer vaporization.
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Hmm according to that site 0 deaths and 0 injuries. My town has a pop of 2,318 per square mile. Can’t imagine we have that much lead paint on our homes.
Seems their ‘causality’ calculator doesn’t work for certain areas.
Same here. My neighborhood has a population of around 69,000.
The website defaults to Ground-burst for all bombs, but that ain’t how they work.
Air-burst should be the default.
Im good as long as something like the size of a TSAR bomb goes off. I live far enough away from city center and Nellis.
I’m not. Outside of DC, I live near probably the highest priority military targets in the country.
I meant to say as long was it isn’t the size of Tsar….other yields I am good.
Same here. But I doubt the closest city to me would even be a target.
Nellis and the Range are probably top priority for any nation to take out. Nellis is where our Drone Jockeys are at and of course our black book projects out of the range.
If I was going to launch a nuclear attack on the US, I would make sure DC and the Pentagon were untouched. I would focus on targets that would have value, instead.
As weird as it sounds, OKC would be top on my priority.
Its not weird at all.
And I am not going to say why, as i am on enough lists as it is.
At least i wont have to worry about AFFF cleanup though.
So you understand why
I used to get to visit the C5s at Tinker when I was a wee lad.
Timothy McVeigh, is that you? Did they fake the execution?
Well then, make us number one.
Norfolk NOB, Langley, Ft Eustis, Little Creek – Ft Story, Naval Weapons Station, Cheatham Annex, Oceana Dam Neck, Newport News Shipyard, NW Annex, Camp Peary
*jots notes*
Of course, sir. Would you prefer multiple smaller warheads, or a single large warhead?
I’d like a side order of hypersonic cruise missiles to go please.
Probably an airburst, followed by a groundburst if you please.
Hole the cobalt.
Yeah, Edmonton’s got high value, as there’s an oil refinery less than 18km northeast of me that processes half-a-million barrels of crude/day. No way any other nuclear power’s gonna leave us alone if we could possibly assist the U.S.
That, and you need to leave the leadership intact so they can surrender.
Don’t think it’s likely to happen, but the possibility is certainly a bit less remote today.
Luckily they have studied the intersection of trayvon Martin and nuclear war.
Yeah, with the airbase we have in Tucson, I expect to have an excellent view of the nuclear detonation shortly before “But its a dry heat” takes on a whole new meaning.
Never during the cold war did I believe that nuclear war might actually happen.
Now, I am terrified.
I’m moving to Ottawa, I’ll be safe there
Just got an announcement that we had twins born in Room 2 at 2:00 on 2/22/22.
Lame. She should have held off for 22 more minutes.
He said while out of arm’s reach.
Haha. Exactly!
My sister in law, at the behest of the nurses, literally held her kid in so the doctor could arrive to ‘deliver’. *Smdh*
The mother was 22, if that helps.
For real? This all seems a little to convenient. I mean, for one thing, twins aren’t born at the exact same time. I suppose the 2nd one was born right at 2:00?
Hey, I’m just reading it off the teleprompter.
I’m starting to think that maybe, just maybe, you are pulling our legs. I need to continue not doing any work so I can consider this possibility for a while.
I’m just telling you what my company is telling me. They wouldn’t lie, right?
We do deliver around 16 babies a day, so its not that implausible.
Plausible. I’ll grant you that.
“If there is the slightest possibility”
/Vaxxer X4
Good, makes up for this piece of shit.
Last name of “Twain”?
SMITH, I believe.
Yes, we’ll have a lovely murder-poo!
Pudding Pop is speaking and once again, reading from a crib sheet for what reporters to call on.
And his questions are canned and they definitely prepped that old fool to answer them.
My confidence in the institutions has never been higher.
Reporters are moving beyond the prepared answers and he is getting angry lol
Look, fat. If Putin doesn’t stop, we’re gonna sanction more threats, and he’s not gonna like that.
It’s times like these that I am glad we have a leader that can project – uh – you know the thing.
Q: Are you speaking with China to join in the sanctions?
A: Im not prepared to answer that.
That is fucking fantastic.
Russia is still a second tier hockey power. Ukraine gains them nothjnf
Dammit
Know the signs.
He’s fine. He just got boosted yesterday.
As part of my fat finger I also posted to a random thread.
Random thought:
What if, earlier this week, Biden had flown into Kiev. Do you think the Russians would invade a country while the US President was there? What about having a big international summit in Kiev, with a couple dozen “world leader” types?
I mean, maybe they’re not completely useless. Maybe they have some value as human shields.
No I don’t. I think i’m he’s too smart to engage the west in direct war but smart enough to know the west won’t engage him. So, moving first was the shrewd decision here.
Correct. This is a leverage move. The west will do nothing militarily to stop his incursion into the Ukraine. Being the Ukraine is a sovereign state, he’ll come to the table in the coming weeks or months and demand some consolations from the west before he removes himself (my theory). If there are no consolations… Ukraine is Russia, and the West is caught with their thumbs up their asses because they aren’t going to war with Russia…. Period.
Russia is not going to withdraw from Ukraine. Ukraine is gone.
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Possibly, to me the likelihood of indefinite civil war (I.e. Afghanistan) is very high. What value does the Ukraine have (as a whole) to Russia if you assume half the populace will take up arms for eternity?
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I was a biz trip to Moscow. I was chatting with the Russian engineer we had just hired to be our local representative.
He was talking about vacationing in Ukraine. He was opining about the break up of the USSR. The comment that sticks in my mind was “How can you say Ukraine is not Russia?”.
“Maybe you should ask the Ukrainians.”
So Absence makes the heart grow fonder? I don’t buy it.
Russia of today wants to be more relevant from an international trade perspective. There is no communist element of needing workers and farms and fields or black sea vacation homes. Putin doesn’t care about that. He wants power. And power is currently completely sequestered in the use of the US dollar as the de-facto trade currency. That’s what he’s after; weakening US influence to bring Russia back into the fold. The only way the Ukraine can achieve those goals is as a bargaining chip.
My guess is that Ukraine breaks up. Russia keeps the parts that are essential to its economic interests (pipelines and access to the Black Sea). The rest goes to something Russia doesn’t care about.
Ukraine itself is gone.
There is no communist element of needing workers and farms and fields or black sea vacation homes.
Communism is fucking gone from Russia. It has no relevance to this invasion.
This is about Russian nationalism, Russian paranoia, and Russian economics.
Poland can get Lvov back?
Uh, I know… “There is NO communist element..”
Maybe. I suspect installing a puppet government and leaving would be the smart move. Russia doesn’t have the greatest record when it comes to being on the receiving end of a guerrilla war.
See. They’re just like us!
Maybe he could have killed putin while there and ended things
Death by pushup contest?
His Ninja-like pudding-cup skills.
+ 1 rusty pool chain
Corn Pootin was a bad dude.
He’s going to challenge Putin to a pushup contest and the winner gets Ukraine.
Or maybe the loser should get Ukraine.
Anyone else thinking about buying more 7.62×39 today?
no
Nope.
I thought about buying another case of match 5.56mm. But I think about that almost every day…
I’ve been wanting an SKS. So yes.
The Ukrainians I would guess.
https://trendingpolitics.com/russian-troops-trying-to-meet-ukrainian-women-on-tinder-during-invasion-wiley/
I guess that’s an improvement from when they were marching through Germany.
Swallowswell is a serious person.
Kyiv and Kharkiv are being bombed. The largest invasion on our planet since WW2. Republicans are rooting for the Russians. God be with Ukraine and democracy.
I guess we know where you stand when China attacks Taiwan.
I am pretty sure our invasion of Iraq was larger. For a European country sure. What a dick.
Largest invasion since WW2? Bigger than Desert Storm or the Iraq War?
I’m not rooting for Russia. I just don’t want us sending troops. And I don’t think Ukraine is really much of a democracy, especially when we helped overthrow an elected president about 10 years ago.
Come on, you know how this works. If you disagree with a Democrat in any way, you’re rooting for the Russians. Don’t blame Swalwell too much, his programming can only handle one subroutine at a time.
It’s still pretty disgusting that he’s already making this shit partisan. Predicable, but disgusting. Politicians really are everything wrong with the world.
Bigger than Desert Storm or the Iraq War?
How about the Korean War? Either the first invasion of the south, or the Chinese invasion?
How about the Viet Nam War? I would expect the final invasion of the south was pretty sizable.
Hell, Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait wasn’t a couple of Iraqis in a jeep, either.
Oh my God, the fucking replies. Mental illness on full display.
You want mental illness? Here you go.
https://democraticunderground.com/100216391489
I worry that stupidity spreads through memetic contact – you hang out with wetbrains long enough, you eventually become one yourself…
Biden is “taking steps to rally international condemnation.”
Kaylieburrough could have come up with a better tweet than that.
Do we even know what the sanctions are he is proposing or doing? Cause all I heard was they will be terrible….and either didn’t go into detail or ignored reporters. What a god damn joke he is. I am glad they are sanctions and not troops but this closed off transparency they give the press is insane.
On a certain level, you can’t blame him. Pretty much any sanction we can level is pretty much a joke. Really, our only option in this was only ever going to be military conflict. Which would be really, really stupid. That’s part of why this nonsense was idiotic from the outset. What we should have been doing is trying to find a diplomatic solution (I keep hearing them from various non-Cathedral sources and they don’t seem to vary too much). Instead our foreign policy players just couldn’t get past the fact that Putin made them look like asses when they tried to color revolution the Ukraine out of Russian orbit and into Western orbit. So they could only accept an outcome as if they’d actually pulled their little stunt off. And they’ve blown a lot of smoke up the Ukrainians’ rear ends about what exactly they can expect from the West in terms of support. And now the Ukrainians are screwed for their troubles.
Part of diplomacy is knowing and understanding the acceptable outcomes of your competitors.
That’s very difficult to do when you’re convinced of your own superiority and infallibility.
Our only real economic weapon is energy production… And we threw that out the window about a year ago.
As if the Republicans weren’t warmongers either.
We know where traitor Swallowswell stands on China.
The important thing to remember is that they’re all blood soaked monsters who are willing to frivolously lie to get millions of people killed if it means the get a prestigious job and a lot of attention. Don’t let this distract you from who the real enemy is. It’s Russia’s leaders, our leaders, the EU leaders…….it’s the state. It’s always the state.
No disagreement
I guess we know where you stand when China attacks Taiwan.
In line for another five minutes with Feng-Feng.
OK, I give up. WTF is “definte”?
It’s an antonym to “covfefe.” A perfectly cromulent word.
Fuck me, okay ‘patzer you just volunteered to proof read all future glibcrostics,
Bread
PB
Jelly
PB
Bread
Sounds like a good way to get jelly on your shoes, says the guy who mostly eats standing up.
https://www.smuckersuncrustables.com/frozen-sandwiches/peanut-butter-and-jelly
Smucker’s knows the only way to sell uncrustables is to double up on the peanut butter.
Yes, if you’re storing your sandwich for a long time, jelly directly into the bread becomes a mess. If you plan to eat your sandwich fresh it poses no issue.
What kind of monster produces their PBJ more than a day in advance? Between the PBJ butchery in this forum and the Ukraine news I think I’ve lost what faith I have left in humanity.
That’s exactly my point, peanut butter on both sides is an abomination, only used by heretics.
Keeps the sandwich from getting soggy whilst traveling .
That recruiting ad link above- I laughed long and hard at the American one.
Corporal Crusher Has two Mommies!
Also-
The phrase, “Self-fulfilling prophecy” keeps running though my head like an earworm.
Oh, come on…
Oh Jesus…..funny
I’m curious what he thought was going to happen.
Lots of pageviews.
Now that is some energy!
Malarkey. Everyone knows rock & roll was invented by Albert Einstein.
I’ll have to put that on my watch list. I love a good documentary.
It’s worth the watch. The Einsteins really put Tasmania on the map.
I see today is full of shocking news.
Its just alternating current events and DC is mad it let slip the narrative.
Yeah, but now they’re galvanized into action. I hope we can stay insulated from the effects.
Thanks for posting that and sparking the conversation.
We should keep it short, before Swiss gets here.
Swiss is currently occupied elsewhere,
Did he piss off his wife so she blew a fuse and now he’s grounded?
Some Glib-worthy cover illustrations for today’s Glibcrostic subject. Pretty racy for 1949 I suppose.
Pulp fiction, literally.
Love those!
My favorite genre, too.
Loud Cheering Heard From Lockheed Martin Board Room
America’s Armed Forces Ramp Up Diversity And Inclusion Training In Face Of Looming War In Ukraine
Finally, the right kind of war. Where it’s only white people (and the blackfaces of white supremacy on our side) the will be killed. Some real righteous mass murder.
Classics…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Kiev_speech
Good on you, Hyperbole.
If you are a true novice programmer, I’d suggest the Python language (free!), or one of the many variants of BASIC (which was designed as an entry-level programming language).
Nah his dive into C++ should keep him calm for a bit.
I actually picked up a C++ book when I decided to start out, because everyone knew it was the hot language that everyone was using for everything. This was some time in the late nineties.
It didn’t take long to realize I could have chosen better.
At least the hot language that everyone is using for everything now (Python) is actually pretty easy to get started with.
The first computer I had used BASIC, and we had the option to stick a cartridge in which allowed it to be programmed in LOGO (completely useless in the modern day). The first DOS machine I had, we had QBASIC, and Pascal for it. I didn’t do much with either. Dabbled a bit in C, C++, and VB later. Now I mainly deal with proprietary scripts, SQL queries, and the like.
I don’t know how LOGO even got counted as a language. I’ve never seen it outside 80’s elementary schools…
You mean Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code?
10 LET HELL = 10
20 GOTO HELL
I’d go with the JS first, as the object-oriented structure can be a jumping-off for things like C++
I taught myself Java after having learned C++, so it can work both ways?
Unless you want him banging his head against the wall in frustration, I would stay far away from JavaScript.
That may be exactly the goal…
Very much this – oh so many quirks with JS (== vs. ===, for instance).
Another vote for Python.
Who would have thought the lessons we learned from 80s movies would be applicable today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4c5q8UjUz4&t=15s
I am seeing a replay of Biden’s speech and comments. It honestly looks like he’s reading his answers off a teleprompter. Clearly, he’s calling on the reporters in order so the answers seem responsive. Am I off base?
Wow, he can’t take a challenging question without getting confrontational
That happens when you’ve got dementia and are pumped up on Adderall.
Nah his first few answers were all scripted (or appeared) and one of the chosen he called on almost got in a follow-up before he moved on. The others that were supposedly called out randomly started to get him agitated cause he had to answer outside of what he prepped for, even if they were all sorta soft balls. Except the question about China..that one he didn’t like at all.
Yeah that’s my impression too–it started to go downhill once it went off script.
The answers seem so bad that they could have only come from him.
Favorite conspiracy theory. Putin and Biden arranged this so it would happen one week before the State of the Union address (which was moved back a month) so that Biden could look like a strong war leader and have something to talk about other than all of the other Biden failures.
When does the “Biden as strong war leader” part start?
His funeral?
That’s why it’s my favorite theory. I find it to be stupid for that reason.
The real Putin Puppet? Xi is going to be pissed……he’s never been cheated on by someone who lived to tell the tale.
I just remembered the whole Biden is Walter the dummy and I don’t like where my brain just went with this. ?
Hahaha. Since Ukraine was offered terms if surrender today, I somehow doubt Joe will be looking good.
I can see him pounding his bony fist on his desk.
“Sanctions! Sanctions I say!”