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I’d highly recommend The Outlier: The Life and Presidency of Jimmy Carter by Kai Bird, I learned a ton. It’s a well researched account and doesn’t overlook his flaws and mistakes, like his terrible relationship with a democrat Congress preventing big stuff from getting done, but is also highlights his achievements like his ridiculously intensive effort to get the Camp David Accords done. Also lots of interesting tidbits like his grandfather being murdered by a business partner in a dispute over office furniture and when he left as governor he carefully make sure the mansion’s furnace was turned down.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:I’d highly recommend The Outlier: The Life and Presidency of Jimmy Carter by Kai Bird, I learned a ton. It’s a well researched account and doesn’t overlook his flaws and mistakes, like his terrible relationship with a democrat Congress preventing big stuff from getting done, but is also highlights his achievements like his ridiculously intensive effort to get the Camp David Accords done. I've had this on my "to-read" list for awhile now. Should probably get around to it sooner than later.
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CommieGIR posted:Another case of don't meet your heroes. Big time Garibaldi from Babylon 5 vibes
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Handsome Ralph posted:I've had this on my "to-read" list for awhile now. Should probably get around to it sooner than later. It’s a top tier audiobook.
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Handsome Ralph posted:Sucks but then found out this about him today, Oh godlovingdammit
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CommieGIR posted:Another case of don't meet your heroes. Less ironic and more "he wasn't actually playing a character from Homicide on."
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CainFortea posted:Big time Garibaldi from Babylon 5 vibes I almost made this exact post. 
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lmao the Belzer v. Bollea case back in the day, Belzer shouldn't have gotten a penny, man got put in a sleeper hold after begging Hogan to do it, and Hogan refused, only doing it after being heckled by the crowd, Belzer, and Mr. T. Hogan slipped while setting Belzer down and Belzer cracked his head on the concrete and he sued Hogan for 5 million dollars for injuries. Then again in the US you can sue a homeowner for injuring yourself while breaking and entering on their property lol. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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orange juche posted:lmao the Belzer v. Bollea case back in the day, Belzer shouldn't have gotten a penny, man got put in a sleeper hold after begging Hogan to do it, and Hogan refused, only doing it after being heckled by the crowd, Belzer, and Mr. T. Hogan slipped while setting Belzer down and Belzer cracked his head on the concrete and he sued Hogan for 5 million dollars for injuries. Hard disagree. A major part of professional wrestling is control and safety of your partner. Hogan was negligent because of his ego and the stigma that wrestling is fake.
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If Eagle Claw had gone insanely badly (all hostages and military personnel killed or captured and a declaration of war by Iran) would Carter have been able to ride a post-9/11 level popularity wave into the country not changing horses in midstream?
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orange juche posted:lmao the Belzer v. Bollea case back in the day, Belzer shouldn't have gotten a penny, man got put in a sleeper hold after begging Hogan to do it, and Hogan refused, only doing it after being heckled by the crowd, Belzer, and Mr. T. Hogan slipped while setting Belzer down and Belzer cracked his head on the concrete and he sued Hogan for 5 million dollars for injuries. Hogan was a poo poo wrestler and deserves absolutely no benefit of a doubt. His technical skills are negative.
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orange juche posted:Then again in the US you can sue a homeowner for injuring yourself while breaking and entering on their property lol. You can sue anyone for anything. Unless you're setting up mantraps or something it will go nowhere. The case that everyone cites wasn't a home, it was a school. They settled for a nuisance amount because it turned out painted over skylights had already been documented as a risk, but no one had fixed it yet. There was another incident where a student who was up there for legitimate reasons fell through not long after. And even then, if they took it to court they probably would have won anyway. And there have been a bunch of laws passed since that address this scenario specifically. It's not as egregious as the McDonalds hot coffee example, but "tort reform" (read: insulating companies from liability) advocates have amplified this case to shut down legitimate lawsuits, in a lot of states now it can be hard to recover anything even when there's negligence with no crimes involved. AreWeDrunkYet fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Feb 20, 2023 |
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Editor did their job publishing that story for sure
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/131278372/in-pictures-aerial-pictures-of-esk-valley-reveal-apocalyptic-scene Jeeeesus Christ, that doesn't even look like cyclone-caused flood damage, that looks like a loving landslide with the amount of silt deposited and whatnot 
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What do you even do about that? What can you do?
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Zamujasa posted:What do you even do about that? What can you do? Yeah, do you even try to dig those houses out? Or build over them? Or throw some disaster recovery money at the residents and let them work out what to do next? What an awful thing to come home to. A lifetime of memories literally buried.
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Looks like Montserrat.
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Zamujasa posted:What do you even do about that? What can you do? Build somewhere else. I don't know what else is left.
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That is some apocalyptic silt. I'm curious if the county will re-zone that area. Seems like unlike the US NZ might be smart enough to leave a risky area to nature instead of shoving 500 houses on it. I'm assuming here that there are counties and zoning laws in New Zealand though.
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M_Gargantua posted:That is some apocalyptic silt. I'm curious if the county will re-zone that area. Seems like unlike the US NZ might be smart enough to leave a risky area to nature instead of shoving 500 houses on it. I'm assuming here that there are counties and zoning laws in New Zealand though. It's more a function of our very low population than zoning tbh, and our very rugged terrain particularly in that region
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Also putting forestry blocks fuckin everywhere, although i dunno how much that effected Esk Valley specifically
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/131278372/in-pictures-aerial-pictures-of-esk-valley-reveal-apocalyptic-scene Fuuuuuuuuuuck. 
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Diamond Joe Arrives Unannounced at Friend's House Right Before Anniversary
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The USSS advance team and CAT must've been making GBS threads bricks
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Good thing the Russians brought their parade uniforms.
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FrozenVent posted:Good thing the Russians brought their parade uniforms. Just  that he thought he'd march into and take Kyiv in three days but, had he actually pulled it off, where would we be now with Vlad's aspirations to get the band back together?Would he have been emboldened to pick another ex-SovBloc state to Special Military Operation by this point?
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DeSantis gave an interview where he basically called Putin no threat at all, and MTG is currently calling for a nationwide divorce between red states and blue states. Biden basically needs the GOP to lose their minds while he just presidentials it up and uh https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1627611746591440899?t=YfRKUeVHx8HiYtFvbG4BMQ&s=19 And the air raid is due to: https://twitter.com/JesseRodriguez/status/1627690921864138753?t=SaNp26KoB_49IJR5L8eNFQ&s=19
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CBJSprague24 posted:Just they would have rolled through the baltics by now and be gearing up to invade poland
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facialimpediment posted:And the air raid is due to: I can understand knowing when a jet takes off from an airbase since they probably have AWACS airborne right next to the border 24/7, but can they reliably tell what it's armed with? Is that some kind of  poo poo, or is there some more mundane way to remotely tell?
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Spoggerific posted:I can understand knowing when a jet takes off from an airbase since they probably have AWACS airborne right next to the border 24/7, but can they reliably tell what it's armed with? Is that some kind of a dude in minsk with binoculars probably, the missile is pretty obvious 
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Spoggerific posted:I can understand knowing when a jet takes off from an airbase since they probably have AWACS airborne right next to the border 24/7, but can they reliably tell what it's armed with? Is that some kind of Being able to tell with a large degree of certainty is fully in territory, but on the other hand a lot of mundane poo poo is technically E. Like fex. acknowledging you have an actual guy with binoculars and a radio next to the runway ThisIsJohnWayne fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Feb 20, 2023 |
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facialimpediment posted:DeSantis gave an interview where he basically called Putin no threat at all, and MTG is currently calling for a nationwide divorce between red states and blue states. Biden basically needs the GOP to lose their minds while he just presidentials it up and uh MTG doing what I figure Donnie will do in '24 if he loses and offer to bankroll a breakaway state. You would think Madge would know how it went the last time Georgia was involved in a nationwide divorce, though "The South Is Gonna Rise Again" is a phrase she's probably scribbled at some point.
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Was NSA Wizard always referenced with a or was there some history there I missed along the way?
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Nystral posted:Was NSA Wizard always referenced with a https://slate.com/technology/2013/10/nsa-smiley-face-muscular-spying-on-google-yahoo-speaks-volumes-about-agency-s-attitude.html I barely remember anymore but this seems to have the details
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Spoggerific posted:I can understand knowing when a jet takes off from an airbase since they probably have AWACS airborne right next to the border 24/7, but can they reliably tell what it's armed with? Is that some kind of Yes.
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Opsec Wizard hasn’t posted in a while, last I heard he was playing War Thunder and… Oh.
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