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https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1689388040307789824 Content: A long, translated post from a Russian officer about how most of Russian leadership is "hitting" their KPI's through deceit, stagecraft and outright lies(i.e. if they knock out one Ukrainian vehicle, they'll then record it being hit with new weapons day after day, so they can instead claim they knocked out multiple Ukrainian vehicles), rather than performing their duties. It'd be darkly amusing if it was true, and it pretty much feels like an updated for the 2020's chapter from Suvorov's "The Liberators." Snippet: quote:But we're not only hitting wooden models. Now I’ll say a vile and unpopular thing, but let at least one active officer point that out if I’m lying: before, and after the appearance of Western military equipment - in general, a very popular way to give a good result upwards is to beautifully fire at the enemy’s already destroyed equipment.
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there's been ongoing confusion at why they've been publicizing the same destroyed vehicles for as much as weeks at a time. the recent bradleys and leopards were the most obvious examples, but every time Russia has destroyed more than a couple of vehicles you can count on seeing them for the next week from a new angle every day. Like the why isn't especially hard to discern, but why they bother with putting so little effort into masking what they're doing is just bizarre. idk who the audience is, though I see very pro-z people repost them all like they're new so I guess someone thinks that they're worth putting out and maybe it is effective on low-info people or people who otherwise aren't looking for identifiable features in pictures. still, it's weird because it's often stuff that is exceedingly obvious
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Jimmy Smuts posted:My moneys on a HOA meeting Coming from someone who is reluctantly serving on a condo board that has about 1/1000th of the drama associated with HOAs, I would venerate the bomber as a modern day John Brown.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Coming from someone who is reluctantly serving on a condo board that has about 1/1000th of the drama associated with HOAs, I would venerate the bomber as a modern day John Brown. I was president of one for a year because no one else wanted to do it lmao
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That partially explains why Russia is declaring that they've destroyed way more HIMARS than we've even delivered to Ukraine, as the leadership believes those numbers due to a fundamentally hosed up reporting system. Interesting post!
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Armacham posted:I was president of one for a year because no one else wanted to do it lmao I think that’s the story of every HOA president. It’s a thankless and frustrating role.
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Armacham posted:I was president of one for a year because no one else wanted to do it lmao I'm closing on a condo in about a month. The guy I'm buying it from is the HOA president, and they've already asked if I wanted to take the position. Haha. Nope! Granted, it's only an 11 unit building and half of them are seasonal homes. But still. gently caress that noise.
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Kaal posted:I think that’s the story of every HOA president. It’s a thankless and frustrating role. I was one for seven years just so that nobody else in the neighborhood could complain about my house. I ended up having to engineer a coup against myself so that I could step down. It's a long story but it all worked out and they gave me a nice tie as a present
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Aug 10, 2023 02:53
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Gavel the meeting in, first order of business: abolishing the HoA.
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Common neighborhood issues should be resolved the way God intended: Passive-aggressive notes followed by screaming obscenities while everyone records each other on their cellphones and waits for police.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I was one for seven years just so that nobody else in the neighborhood could complain about my house. I just stopped showing up to meetings when I got tired of people thinking they could talk to me in person about their grievances lol
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Coming from someone who is reluctantly serving on a condo board that has about 1/1000th of the drama associated with HOAs, I would venerate the bomber as a modern day John Brown. My favourite condo board story is the one in Florida where they were told, over the course of years, that the concrete pillars needed fixing, and they kept voting not to fix them until the building collapsed and killed them all.
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AlternateNu posted:I'm closing on a condo in about a month. The guy I'm buying it from is the HOA president, and they've already asked if I wanted to take the position. If you don't take the job, the possibility is there that someone becomes president that WANTS to be president. Think about that for a minute.
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AlternateNu posted:I'm closing on a condo in about a month. The guy I'm buying it from is the HOA president, and they've already asked if I wanted to take the position. You do. It'll save you a lot of poo poo later down the line, speaking from experience.
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AlternateNu posted:I'm closing on a condo in about a month. The guy I'm buying it from is the HOA president, and they've already asked if I wanted to take the position. Take the position so some horrible power-hungry HOA karen can't.
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Veering wildly off-topic and I've certainly no practical experience working around an HOA, but surely it's better to be driving the HOA agenda instead of leaving it up to some rear end in a top hat who'll do who knows what?
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Do what Ron Swanson would do.
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Kazinsal posted:Take the position so some horrible power-hungry HOA karen can't. This is the only reason why I’m on my board. Previous president was moving out and nominated another person, I decided to step up because I didn’t trust either the previous president or anyone she might have picked, and now here I am. Her choice of nominee continues to cherry pick every expenditure made by the board, and considering how the previous president and her predecessors deferred some pretty significant maintenance costs for years to keep condo fees low, he’s going to be delighted to really figure out why our condo fees have gone up 20% over the past two years in addition to a five year special assessment. If you get the chance to take some measure of power from a boomer who is clearly only working on behalf of themselves, do it. And then never serve on a condo board or HOA again.
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Cugel the Clever posted:Veering wildly off-topic and I've certainly no practical experience working around an HOA, but surely it's better to be driving the HOA agenda instead of leaving it up to some rear end in a top hat who'll do who knows what? Yeah that's why I did it. The problem is that all the weird old people started thinking they could talk to me about their issues while I was walking my dog. Send an email to the manager, all i do is sign off on the minutes.
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TBH, being on the condo board would at least give you insight into the state of the finances. If the association goes bankrupt, then the entire building can be foreclosed.
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edit: JFC was I late to this discussion Sorry everyone, sorry
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New insurgent plumbing truck just dropped: https://twitter.com/jyarow/status/1689618932875816960?t=vx-1rtUV_oylinAfAYhNwA&s=19
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https://twitter.com/KyivPost/status/1689642121714946048quote:The German government intends to announce the delivery of #Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine in the near future, T-Online Deutschland reports. If I remember right they're Storm Shadow/SCALP missiles with nastier warheads.
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facialimpediment posted:New insurgent plumbing truck just dropped: Incendiary explosives are supposed to be a part of American aid packages, right?
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The Door Frame posted:Incendiary explosives are supposed to be a part of American aid packages, right? I thought old Elon was pro putin? 
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KEPD 350 are not SCALP, but they are very much equivalent. It has all the modern gizmos you expect from a subsonic cruise missile and a dual-stage warhead to penetrate bunkers. There aren't a lot of them around, though. No idea how replacements are supposed to work out.
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PurpleXVI posted:https://twitter.com/KyivPost/status/1689642121714946048 They blare Ramstein so video Editors don't have to?
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Arrath posted:Gavel the meeting in, first order of business: abolishing the HoA. I live in an unincorporated area. The HoA literally is the city gov, and provides all the city services like trash and water. Its hosed up E: holy gently caress I'm late. My bad
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Cugel the Clever posted:Veering wildly off-topic and I've certainly no practical experience working around an HOA, but surely it's better to be driving the HOA agenda instead of leaving it up to some rear end in a top hat who'll do who knows what? This is true until it isn't. What happened to me was, the entire rest of the board dissolved in infighting and couldn't agree on anything, not even basic landscaping, so I was having to do it all myself to avoid citations from the city that we'd have all had to pay. I cpuld resign either for fear of the hoa collapsing generally and creating liabilities . I ended up having to educate a bunch of people in my neighborhood on how proxy votes worked and they engineered a vote of no confidence and fired the whole board (including, conveniently, me) and appointed a new one.
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Arrath posted:Gavel the meeting in, first order of business: abolishing the HoA. To do this right typically requires amending all the deeds in the association which costs a lot of lawyer dollars
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Antigravitas posted:KEPD 350 are not SCALP, but they are very much equivalent. It has all the modern gizmos you expect from a subsonic cruise missile and a dual-stage warhead to penetrate bunkers.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:To do this right typically requires amending all the deeds in the association which costs a lot of lawyer dollars Well hopefully the parsimony of past administrations has left the hoa with a nest egg.
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DTurtle posted:I think roughly 600 total produced and roughly 150 immediately available. Ok so about two weeks' worth.
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Truck-launched Tomahawks when?
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Blistex posted:Truck-launched Tomahawks when? I mean.....they exist. But I'm more interested in giving them NMESIS system to gently caress off any naval asset protecting Crimea. 
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I ended up having to educate a bunch of people in my neighborhood on how proxy votes worked and they engineered a vote of no confidence and fired the whole board (including, conveniently, me) and appointed a new one. Nobody's yelled to stop the derail yet so I guess I'll ask all y'all HOA subjects out there, why not reform things to a more accountable and democratic model to facilitate community solidarity and advance the common good? Killing it entirely doesn't sound viable where members of the community are on the hook for common expenses regardless. Actually topical: lol, the ruble is about to breach 100:1 again despite monumental efforts to hold it down. Its steady decline in value may be a useful indicator of how long Russia can hold out, though who knows what the actual danger zone might be.
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Drones have proved effective.
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More clumsy smokers around Moscow https://twitter.com/IuliiaMendel/status/1689749549949104128?s=20 quote:
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