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"what?" .."what?" ....... "what?!" -- (link) - mud Feb 28, 06:49 5
- Who else is here for the shuffleboard tournament? -- nm - JaxSean Feb 28, 07:04
- "An increasingly isolated Putin..." -- nm - TWuG Feb 28, 06:52
- He is Covid-paranoid. (NM) - Marlowe Feb 28, 06:50 2
  - (maybe window-sensitive, too) -- nm - mud Feb 28, 06:51 1
    - (maybe assassin-sensitive, too) -- nm - Max Feb 28, 06:51
Putin thought the West was in disarray and couldn't or wouldn't form a consensus against him. It's gratifying to see how wrong he was. -- nm - TWuG Feb 28, 06:46 1
- He forgot that the easiest way of uniting people is to give them a common enemy. -- nm - znufrii Feb 28, 06:50
this seems dangerous, I hope the outcome positive -- (link) - mud Feb 28, 06:46 1
- "Let's broadcast where we'll all be." -- nm - JaxSean Feb 28, 07:05
good! -- (link) - mud Feb 28, 06:39 4
- I wonder how Brazil will position itself. Bozonaro really wants to say he is for Pootin, but has played the neutrality card because he is a coward - Marlowe Feb 28, 06:49
- “After seeing these battlefield routines, we’re not quite as nervous of them helping the Syrians.” -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 28, 06:40 2
  - Assad has gotta be sweating -- nm - TWuG Feb 28, 06:47
  - *ding* -- nm - mud Feb 28, 06:41
NotSoNeutral: Switzerland's president says country will join EU sanctions, including asset freezes, targeting Russia. -- nm - budice Feb 28, 06:34 1
- Damn, Daniel. -- nm - CinnaBaron Feb 28, 06:39
Canuckle in 1. It happened! It finally happened! - CinnaBaron Feb 28, 06:34 1
- Whooo!! - Shaun Feb 28, 06:39
I don't have a margin account, but man some money could have been made shorting the ruble. -- nm - Reagen Feb 28, 06:29 1
- Or Gazprom. -- nm - Reagen Feb 28, 06:30
Bell and Rogers removing Russian state media channels from Canadian TV -- nm - Reagen Feb 28, 06:26
Cards : Kyler Murray lookin to get paid -- (link) - budice Feb 28, 06:24
#Russia and #Belarus will be thrown out of the International Ice Hockey Federation #IIHF in a couple of hours. -- (link) - Beaker Feb 28, 06:02 5
- Full ban in the works from the IOC. -- (link) - Reagen Feb 28, 06:21 2
  - So massive doping, and 3 Olympic ceasefire breaches is where the line is. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 28, 06:26
  - Guess we finally found out what it took -- nm - spamlet Feb 28, 06:22
- Meanwhile, effing FIFA... I mean, even the F1 guys have thrown Russia away, and they love their autocrats.. (NM) - Marlowe Feb 28, 06:07 1
  - I don't see how they think this works. Two walkovers to qualify, then drawn into a group that won't play them? -- nm - Reagen Feb 28, 06:21
In non-Ukraine news, WA is a fascinating experiment right now. >95% vaxxed before covid got here. ~5,500 active cases, 11 in hospital, 7 unvaxxed. -- nm - mafic Feb 28, 06:01 1
- clarification: >95% of 16+ vaxxed. -- nm - mafic Feb 28, 06:03
NFL decides how the London and German games are going to rotate -- (pic) - Flavorize Feb 28, 05:47 [Attachment] 3
- *fondly recalls the WLAF* Go the Frankfurt Galaxy! -- nm - mafic Feb 28, 05:51 1
  - Forgot about that! Good stuff -- nm - Flavorize Feb 28, 06:48
- Here’s the sprawling Peter King article he quoted as the source -- (link) - Flavorize Feb 28, 05:48
One of the interesting things that gets a bit lost is that a lot of Ukrainians about my wife’s age and up consider Russia their country as well. - mafic Feb 28, 05:40 3
- I guess that makes sense once you think about it. A lot of Russians "moved" to the Ukraine post-famine, I think. -- nm - spamlet Feb 28, 06:32 1
  - Russians forced many ethnic groups out, Tatars in particular. -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 28, 11:24
- That breaks my heart. It is sad. -- nm - Pippy Feb 28, 06:24
Found out late last week that our parent company has operations in Russia....I wonder how that's going this morning :( -- nm - Walt_Disney Feb 28, 05:31 3
- The repercussions in the mining world are profound. Current client ships gold concentrate to Russia for sale, so we’re hedging against their potential - mafic Feb 28, 05:37 2
  - I am sure ours are small too...but it it does show how quickly wars can change business operations and jobs for people with no direct relation. -- nm - Walt_Disney Feb 28, 05:42
  - I’m sure my inbox is filled with apologies from the salespeople whose deals I killed in Russia for tax reasons. - spamlet Feb 28, 05:40
Wordle 254 2/6 - ty97 Feb 28, 05:14 5
- 4 - rollo Feb 28, 06:07
- 4/6 (spoilers) - Inigo Feb 28, 05:58
- That's quite a leap. I got it in 3. - CinnaBaron Feb 28, 05:55 1
  - I was not at all expecting it to be that word, I just needed to get an idea on letters that were in the answer. - ty97 Feb 28, 06:13
- 4 - kelly Feb 28, 05:27
US announces they're cutting off Russia's central bank, banning US citizens, companies from doing business w them, “effectively freezes any asset" -- (link) - budice Feb 28, 05:02 1
- Blocks access to USD transactions -- (link) - budice Feb 28, 05:04
Good morning. Spelling Bee. -- (pic) - prayformojo Feb 28, 04:54 [Attachment] 6
- DROID LABIA - are there any female Transformers? -- nm - Max Feb 28, 06:27
- LABRADOR BOIL -- nm - rollo Feb 28, 06:18 1
  - These artisanal hot dogs have gone too far! -- nm - CinnaBaron Feb 28, 06:28
- RABID DILDO -- nm - Reagen Feb 28, 05:22 1
  - ...The new film by Quentin Dupieux -- nm - Dano Feb 28, 05:28
- BOLO RAID - southwestern sorority's comeback to a panty raid -- nm - VMan Feb 28, 05:05
TV PSA: 911 Lone Star, Neighborhood, All American, Bachelor, Raw, Bob Hearts Abishola, All American Homecoming, Secrets of Playboy, Cleaning Lady, -- nm - Beaker Feb 28, 04:18 2
- NCIS, Snowpiercer, NCIS Hawaii, Endgame, Good Doctor, Better Things, Gilded Age, My Brilliant Friend, Robot Chicken, America's Got Talent, - Beaker Feb 28, 04:21 1
  - 1) Neighborhood -- nm - Krusty Feb 28, 04:40
What, and I'd like to get the emphasis right here, the fucking fuck? -- (link) - Reagen Feb 28, 03:17 8
- Lol at "the population there is indistinguishable from their own". For you, maybe. I'm pretty sure Ukranians and Russians know who is who. -- nm - Inigo Feb 28, 05:12 2
  - As Will has said, the corpse of Reagan is going to bitch slap them. -- nm - Reagen Feb 28, 05:33 1
    - On the plus side; we’ve gotten better at destroying their economy. Reagan and Bush took 10 years. We did it in 10 days this time. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 28, 05:40
- he seems nice -- nm - mud Feb 28, 04:55
- everyone knows when confronted with an aggressor you roll over and show them your belly -- nm - Beaker Feb 28, 04:16
- Sounds like someone wants a guest spot with Tucker Carlson, or from that last sentence maybe to invade Canada. -- nm - mafic Feb 28, 04:06
- So, how many 45 minions does Vlad have dirt on? -- nm - . Feb 28, 03:34 1
  - All of them? -- nm - znufrii Feb 28, 05:10
Moscow exchange opened 3 hours late, blocked foreign sell orders...near as I can tell closed in 5 minutes -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 28, 01:16
Ukraine defense claims 5500 Russian troops killed first 100 hours, more than US losses in entire Iraq occupation 18 years -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 28, 00:19 4
- I'm taking that with a grain of salt... -- nm - Ender Feb 28, 00:32 2
  - Very fair point. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 28, 00:34 1
    - Russia doesn't have the control over the internet that China does. -- nm - . Feb 28, 01:03
- Ukraine is meatgrinder. Yikes. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 28, 00:22
Russia jacks up interest rates from 9.5 to 20% to encourage people to keep their money in the bank. -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 27, 23:59 3
- Oh, how darling. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 28, 00:01 2
  - Msnbc: Russia had stockpiled billions in foreign cash to prop up the ruble if needed, putin didn't figure the west would freeze it -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 28, 00:07 1
    - Russian middle class may find their retirement wiped out with cash collapse, rampant inflation -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 28, 00:10
In Foreign Policy U-turn, Germany Ups Military Spending, Arms Ukraine - crash davis Feb 27, 23:14 6
- They thought that economic cooperation and mutual interest would best centuries of asshole leadership, then saw that get bombed to dust -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 27, 23:54
- So. Nord Stream 2 is totally dead? Or just mothballed until Putin is? - Beryllium Feb 27, 23:25 2
  - I assume once large sums of money get invested in alternative projects will be the moment it is totally dead -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 23:29 1
    - There are talks of a pipeline from the mideast. Also Germany still has nuke power plants they were decommissioning that could be restored -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 27, 23:56
- A hearty congrats to Mr. Putin who has achieved the Russian dream of German rearmament. -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 23:20 1
  - Suddenly, all the grown-ups are acting like grown-ups. I can't blame Putin for not expecting that. - David Feb 27, 23:33
Woo! The Liberty-Biberty guy is back! I don’t really get the campaign and the ads are awful. But this is the best of a bad lot. -- nm - Mop Feb 27, 23:11 3
- To pile drive the phrase only pay for what you need deep into brain.,the most effective part is when they dub, poorly, another voice -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 27, 23:48
- Not down with the Limu Emu? -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 23:32 1
  - I love the emu. -- nm - CinnaBaron Feb 28, 05:56
#Worldle #38 1/6 (100%) - crash davis Feb 27, 23:02 4
- Nathan got it in 1 second (as usual). -- nm - kelly Feb 28, 05:27 1
  - If he didn't, I'd say you need to put him back on the charger. -- nm - CinnaBaron Feb 28, 05:57
- 1/6 - prayformojo Feb 28, 05:05
- Same. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 28, 00:39
Putin Faces Sanctions, but His Assets Remain an Enigma. - crash davis Feb 27, 22:40 2
- thanks to Watergate: Follow the Money. -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 27, 22:50 1
  - Was going to say they could database the entire Russian economy (Dzillow, other bank records) and sus it out, but we haven't yet got 45s financials -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 28, 00:03
"No, Conan - we did that already!" "I'm doing it anyway!" -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 22:31 1
- I'm glad they got Elliott Gould. -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 27, 22:34
Bery, or other ST photography buffs, I'm beginning to get the urge to upgrade to a DSLR. Any thoughts on the Canon Rebel T7? - Meg Feb 27, 21:54 10
- A top of the line cellphone is a damn good camera. -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 27, 22:27 2
  - Sensor and algorithm wise, totally. Some of the glasswork ... not so much. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 22:29 1
    - And I have a bottom-of-the-line cell phone :) -- nm - Meg Feb 27, 22:31
- The industry is moving to mirrorless, which means good deals could be had on old DSLR gear. T7 sounds Ok, but T7i or T8i might be better. - Beryllium Feb 27, 22:08 6
  - I've had some good shots with my PowerShot but I have some great trips planned and would like something better. - Meg Feb 27, 22:34 5
    - Well, the trick with DSLRs (in my experience) is to decide ahead of time what kind of photos you want to get. - Beryllium Feb 27, 23:00 4
      - And by ahead of time, I mean for each outing, not for buying it -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 23:00 3
        
        This is one I was looking at. -- (link) - Meg Feb 27, 23:22 2
        
        I could be wrong but it doesn't look like the 75-300 lens has image stabilization. So getting good zoomed shots may be difficult without a tripod. - sycor Feb 28, 05:43
        
        Looks like a good kit. Might be nicer to have a flip-out display viewfinder, but not mandatory. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 23:26
Skip Tracer Randy is a definite misfire from The Rookie writers -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 21:47 1
- Yeah, I was not expecting *more* of him. -- nm - Spawn Feb 27, 21:55
nerdlegame 40 2/6 - crash davis Feb 27, 21:31
Not only did Finland snipe Russia to a standstill in the Winter War they brought along portable saunas as well. -- nm - . Feb 27, 21:15
Wordle 254 4/6 - zork Feb 27, 21:03 21
- 5/6 - Marlowe Feb 28, 05:31
- 5 - Shaun Feb 28, 05:21
- 4/6 - oblique Feb 28, 05:17
- 3/6 - prayformojo Feb 28, 04:24
- 4 - decline Feb 28, 04:18
- 5 - J Feb 28, 04:06
- 5 - Will Hunting Feb 28, 03:54
- 3/6 - Dark Callisto Feb 28, 03:38
- 3 after nearly hitting it blind on 2 - spamlet Feb 28, 03:14
- 3/6. - TWuG Feb 28, 02:10
- Wordle 254 4/6 - crash davis Feb 27, 23:05
- 4/6. I am switching to Amy's start word. - Spawn Feb 27, 21:54 6
  - I don't like to use the same word. It feels kind of cheat-y to me. I'm not judging anybody else. That's just how I played it. -- nm - David Feb 27, 22:12 5
    - I do the same, although I probably have 10 or so that I use regularly. -- nm - pmb Feb 28, 06:57
    - You're weird -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 22:53 2
      - Weird = black black blue green black -- nm - David Feb 28, 00:48 1
        
        Yes, that would be weird. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 28, 01:52
    - I like to pick a different word each time. Something silly, usually. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 22:15
- 3/6 - znufrii Feb 27, 21:28
- 3/6 - David Feb 27, 21:16
- 4/6 - loosilu Feb 27, 21:08
This is how Ukrainian TV started this morning -- (link) - Remlik Feb 27, 20:50 1
- OMG -- nm - Pippy Feb 27, 21:31
Bery, I knew he was Belarusian. - zork Feb 27, 20:50 1
- Oh. Drat. Sorry. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 21:12
Big boom about two hours north of here - they're saying it might be a natural gas explosion -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 27, 20:43 10
- The Russian invasion has begun... -- nm - Ender Feb 27, 22:27
- Before and after -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 27, 21:44 7
  - Damn!! :( Any idea of occupants? -- nm - Meg Feb 27, 21:47 6
    - Sounds like it was vacant. Six injured, but only two badly enough to need to go to the hospital - and even then they're still being called minor -- nm - Beryllium Feb 28, 00:21
    - Not yet -- nm - Beryllium Feb 27, 21:51 4
      - With that kind of destruction I'm wondering about a 'renovation' accident. I can't imagine anyone being inside with that amount of gas? -- nm - Meg Feb 27, 21:59 3
        
        Or someone being underwater on their mortgage :/ -- nm - Meg Feb 27, 22:00 2
        
        Have you seen house prices? Houses are being bid up by companies sight unseen. WA state is up 30% since the pandemic began -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 27, 22:32 1
        
        So it was a flipper renovating the place. -- nm - Meg Feb 27, 22:36
- Fucking Russians. -- nm - Mop Feb 27, 21:14
finally watching last night's SNL - the Blue River sketch slayed me, your mileage may vary -- nm - crash davis Feb 27, 20:26 1
- It had a couple of good ones. -- nm - Spawn Feb 27, 20:39

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