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It died. It means no birth.

End of the day SF is a reflection of those that live there and vote. If they want a certain environment they will get it and they got it. Salute to them on making it happen.

I worked in an office and from home. The best results in my industry were from home. Offices are for people that need to be monitored. Weed those people out and smooth sailing. Most people can't handle the personal responsibility of working from home. They screw off. Once we got rid of them it worked out well.

The military has a recruiting problem. They also offer free college tuition. That's how I earned my degree. Both parties should be advocating for able bodies to sign up instead of tossing out money. It's not just war either. I responded to many natural disasters when I served. They could join the Guard, Coast Guard and learn some real skills along with helping their community in a crisis but no. Can't do that.

I served 20 years in the military defending your personal way of life. I damn near died. This Memorial Day I will be thinking of my good friends I lost in combat. I don't know what you will be thinking about but from your comment, it doesn't look like any of us.

I want the same freedom for you as the Kamalas, Bill Gates and Bezos's. That's all I ever wanted in my military career. Instead I get bashed and ridiculed while these people stand up a facade and create a cult of climate tyranny for everyone else.

Haha! I consume negative tags on this topic. Very tasty. You are owning the apex of hypocrisy by not defending your leaders...meh. The people preaching climate change crisis from up high are in fact the biggest culprits. Worst of the worst. Par for the course though. As long as they say what you want to hear and ignore everything they themselves scoff at it's fine. I do not think this will work out at all but knock yourselves out. I'm not giving up my stuff so they can keep all their stuff and more. Not happening.

She owns three residences. Bill Gates, one home is almost the size of a Walmart. It's time to confront the "leaders" of climate crisis on this as being also a crisi. Leaders don't live a lifestyle that is counter to their advocacy.

Mike Lindell got duped by whoever gave him the data but in reality he duped himself by not hiring this guy to QA it. On the other hand, he did end up hiring him by default by placing the bet so...meh.

If it were me I would have pursued the proprietary software for the machines which should not be proprietary. It's counting votes. Nothing special about that software. It should be available for anyone to look at. It's impossible to claim there was no voter fraud without seeing that software. I believed Bill Clinton as a kid right up until the point the blue dress was made public. After that nobody believed Bill.

Found it.

   https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37243190

BBC did a report on global voter fraud a while ago. #1 culprit; mail in ballots. Good luck finding that article today. It also talked about international inspectors but not in the US. Only in the "meager" countries...meh.

Learn how to Amish

It's just my theory as a retired combat officer. I could be 100% wrong but this is 100% what I would do in Putin's situation. I watched the videos of the outbursts and it's on the outrageous side. It seemed silly to me to be honest.

One thing is for sure; we will find out the truth together.

As a recently retired military officer I'm very suspicious of his recent outbursts. To the general global public it's absolutely believable because many want to believe it, especially in the media.

I want to believe it as well but my military instincts kick in because this is exactly what I would do if I was Putin. Create a "woe as me" narrative. Look everyone at all the disfunction in my operations. It's horrible I tell ya, horrible! Putin will never win in the media but he can sabotage it with stories of weakness like this.

Why hasn't Putin Reprimanded him yet or had him eliminated? He could easily have done it already. I don't know if this is the case but in a war where you can't win in the media it would be a smart move. One of the smartest.

“Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish”

― Julius Caesar

"Conversely, I have also worked for organisations and clients that did have consequential news that should have made headlines but never did."

Consequential things more often than not have serious consequences. It's always been that way but it is nice knowing more people are becoming fully aware the media is not so much about the altruism for us folks out here.

I really miss my Mazda RX-8. I thought Mazda was going to give the rotary engine one more go but it looks like the end of an era...meh.

I took an elective by a well known historian on the subject. He never brought up this slant. I do however believe the truth will come out but not for another 50 years if the US makes it that long.

If anyone gets the chance to visit the school book depository I highly recommend it. Very well put together. As an old Marine myself though looking out that window, from that distance, with trees, that piece of junk rifle on a moving target I'm going with no way. Not impossible but close enough to impossible and I'm a better shot than Oswald.

Prosecutors have said that they have until late June to send the case to trial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Tate

Most here are too young to remember the Duke Lacrosse Team case. The woman ended up admitted she lied. Many involved were convicted of evidence tampering and lying.

I'm not saying they are innocent but it's obvious many have not learned the danger of convicting people before they get a fair trial. They will however realize it when they are the ones needing one...meh.

The MIG question is a curious one. Likely due to a very last line of defense battle plan but who knows?

I would also ask what avionics are being used in these F-16's? From what I know being in an F/A-18 unit many moons ago not all avionics are equal. Nobody with Hornets are getting the state of the art avionics but the US. I know the Hornet, even decades ago could be remotely controlled from what a pilot told me but I've said too much and will stop there.

And all on the cheap. At least much cheaper than NATO. The era of having a lot of high dollar fancy toys as a show of brute force has sunsetted. But what can be done? I spent a couple decades in combat arms knowing US tactics needed a lot of changes but the changes never manifested because contractors can't make money with cheap shells and flimsy drones.

"The lack of money is the root of all evil." - Mark Twain.

Nothing good can truly develop consolidating a large community of poor in specific areas. The poor can't lift up the poor. The only ones who benefit are those exploiting them which are mainly politicians. Start requiring politicians, company executives and anyone else advocating for massive immigration to house immigrants in their own homes and communities. No more dumping them in specific zones anymore. Make them own managing lifting up the poor.

It makes sense. I know when I live on the outskirts of Salt Lake I did not feel safe at all jogging in the evening around the drugged out homeless. One time they came after me. I was done running outside after that episode until I finally moved to a very safe city.

Amish are doing fine. Learn Amish.

Dr. Henderson of smallpox fame would have never implemented any of the questionable Fauci protocols to include masks. There is a video of Dr Henderson explaining why extreme measures should never be forced on a population. It destroys trust in the government which is exactly what happened.

* The Henderson video I believe is from 2006 but even Fauci stated mistakes were made with force by the government on masks and vaccines. Henderson was saying from his own experience forcing people to do something creates distrust. People are still very upset about it. None of that happens if it was voluntary.

I no longer watch TV but at one point I had 7.1 surround sound. I could hear everything to include cursing and other conversations at sports games in the background which could not be heard through a standard TV. I do however think sound will improve with ATSC 3.0 from what I'm reading but that could be years before it becomes mainstream.

A billion heaters would counter it. Even Stevens.

High taxes are a good thing. Keeps riffraff out of areas with strict law enforcement and HOA rules. If you don't think so then live in your own personal hell. Politicians and CEO's do not live in low tax areas. Not any harder than that. If you want the stuff you have to pay for the stuff.

We have more philanthropy than anytime in history yet the income gap has gotten worse, homeless worse, drug addiction worse. Money can't solve these problems. Only a robust rule of law and a robust middle class can.

Yes. Same here with the Commodore 64 and PS3. After Skyrim that was a wrap. I tried Diablo III but it was never the same. I lost interest in gaming entirely. I'm not sure exactly why but I think it's wanting to use my time doing things that are productive. Working out, gardening, home improvements, investments. I just closed on an additional property for example. About to buy a zero turn mower...way more exciting than video games. I got big ideas for this property. I would rather be cutting grass, gardening than gaming basically. Also jumping in the pool after working out there all day.