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Lemniscate Blue posted:Didn't North and South Korea almost restart the war once because of something similar with trees? quote:A US infantry company in 20 utility helicopters and seven Cobra attack helicopters circled behind them. Behind these helicopters, B-52 Stratofortresses came from Guam escorted by US F-4 Phantom IIs from Kunsan Air Base and South Korean F-5 and F-86 fighters were visible flying across the sky at high altitude. F-4Es from Osan AB and Taegu Air Base, South Korea, F-111 bombers of the 366th Tactical Fighter Wing out of Mountain Home Air Force Base, were stationed, and F-4C and F-4D Phantoms from the 18th TFW Kadena Air Base and Clark Air Base were also deployed. The aircraft carrier USS Midway task force had also been moved to a station just offshore.  E- quote:Altogether, Task Force Vierra consisted of 813 men: almost all of the men of the United States Army Support Group of which the Joint Security Force was a part, a South Korean reconnaissance company, a South Korean Special Forces company that had infiltrated the river area by the bridge the night before, and members of a reinforced composite rifle company from the 9th Infantry Regiment. In addition to this force, every UNC force in the rest of South Korea was on battle alert "Hey, you're all on alert for Korean War II, Treegate Boogaloo." CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 19:29 on Sep 30, 2023 |
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The way things are going Abbott is going to station troops on the other side of the Rio Grande to provoke another Mexican-American war. The irony of course being that the US didn’t even want to occupy Mexico in 1848 and we’re out of logical areas to annex. Well, Baja maybe? It’s pretty.
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CBJSprague24 posted:
Operation Paul Bunyan owned but “Korean axe murder incident” just beats it out as the best name for the article.
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lol at this vote total https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1708191870793191883?t=MRkcbUO5Xkb0VF5ql4FY4w&s=19 Shutdown potential is basically over, McCarthy tossed the hyper-hardliners overboard and gave them a cookie in the form of pulled Ukraine funding. Probably clears the Senate in a few hours and that will be that.
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facialimpediment posted:lol at this vote total For like 45 days. The hostage crisis continues.
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CommieGIR posted:For like 45 days. The hostage crisis continues. Yeah but at least I should officially start as a Air Force GS type by then
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CommieGIR posted:For like 45 days. The hostage crisis continues. tbh this resolution felt like standard congressional nonsense versus outright hostage taking now the house absolutely did take a whole room full of hostages, but eventually McCarthy decided "lol sike" and let everything go besides the cookie https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1708190724481585193?t=sf9EA4OFP6UeDyw-nrH_nA&s=19 most reporters and tied-in people really did have the shutdown odds at near 100% but it appears that enough house republicans hate gaetz enough to let McCarthy cut him loose, but lol if McCarthy is still speaker in 45 days facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Sep 30, 2023 |
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facialimpediment posted:tbh this resolution felt like standard congressional nonsense versus outright hostage taking His career in congress is over after this, he's getting primaried like whoa next year.
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Wasabi the J posted:What's this mean for Ukraine Nobody really knows yet. Biden still needs to make a regular-order Ukraine supplemental request of about $20B in a month or so. Senate was only going to put in $6B for this CR but the hardliners in the GOP House said that would be a dealbreaker. The pro-Ukraine GOP Senators (most of them) think they'll get the funding in a big, dedicated fight for the regular appropriations bills. But absolutely possible that the House refuses to let anything else though, if the MTGs and such get in the way. There's still a majority of both houses willing to fund Ukraine for a whole lot. But the House GOP is now around 50-50 and may be primed to kick out McCarthy. But again, some of this poo poo is completely unpredictable because basically nobody had our current path actually happening.
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hobbesmaster posted:The irony of course being that the US didn’t even want to occupy Mexico in 1848 and we’re out of logical areas to annex. Well, Baja maybe? It’s pretty. Arizona absolutely covets sea access at the Gulf of California.
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facialimpediment posted:Nobody really knows yet. Ah so the most extreme Russian-funded conservatives actually fulfilled their purpose if my opinions count.
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If McCarthy does lose the Speakership, who's the favorite for replacing him? Considering what a shitshow the last time was I have to wonder if there's anybody willing to step into the viper pit who could actually get the votes for it.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:If McCarthy does lose the Speakership, who's the favorite for replacing him? Considering what a shitshow the last time was I have to wonder if there's anybody willing to step into the viper pit who could actually get the votes for it. Is speakership one of those majority things where we cant have the funniest timeline where the dems end up with a house speaker because the republicans each wanna knife each other for their preferred death cultist?
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Defenestrategy posted:Is speakership one of those majority things where we cant have the funniest timeline where the dems end up with a house speaker because the republicans each wanna knife each other for their preferred death cultist? I believe that’s not likely as they’d be instantly replaced as soon as the Republicans put up a candidate they could agree on. And if a small group of republicans kept voting to retain the Democrat speaker they’d almost certainly be primaried.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:I believe that’s not likely as they’d be instantly replaced as soon as the Republicans put up a candidate they could agree on. And if a small group of republicans kept voting to retain the Democrat speaker they’d almost certainly be primaried. So, technically possible under the rules of the house, however, it will not happen in anything approaching reality. That said, the Republican party can't get it's head out of its own rear end at all, so it would be pretty funny if they did do it, even if it wouldn't be effective.
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MA-Horus posted:He's attempting to post thru it You're not supposed to smoke weed and microdose ketamine or shrooms or w/e the gently caress he does and own guns, at all, fwiw. Dudebro here is photographing a felony like Trump did at PSA the other day.
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Kesper North posted:You're not supposed to smoke weed and microdose ketamine or shrooms or w/e the gently caress he does and own guns, at all, fwiw. Dudebro here is photographing a felony like Trump did at PSA the other day. I'd be surprised if muskman actually owns it, he was likely just renting for the photo op.
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Midjack posted:I'd be surprised if muskman actually owns it, he was likely just renting for the photo op. It’s still possession.
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I have been told in the Musk Thread which just got moved from GBS into C-Spam that Musk claiming to have participated in “no holds-barred street fighting”, and him claiming to own an “arsenal”, and him hip-firing a Barrett, makes him cool and good and like “The Punisher” and it rocks e: I am getting close to 55 years old, I have man-boobs, I am about 5’9” and 175 lbs and I am not intimidated by Musk in the slightest bit* *- disclaimer: if he brings his Barrett to the fight I am moderately intimidated MrMojok fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Oct 1, 2023 |
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MrMojok posted:I have been told in the Musk Thread which just got moved from GBS into C-Spam that Musk claiming to have participated in “no holds-barred street fighting”, and him claiming to own an “arsenal”, and him hip-firing a Barrett, makes him cool and good and like “The Punisher” and it rocks Safest place is probably directly in front of him. Two steps and you're inside the barrel length and you can just slap him in the face until he drops it.
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Hang out with Musk’s daughter. She seems cool, and Elon is deathly afraid of her.
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Platystemon posted:Hang out with Musk’s daughter. The older one anyway. The secret Grimes baby is still in diapers.
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Midjack posted:The older one anyway. The secret Grimes baby is still in diapers. Point of order: there are three Grimes babies of various secrecy, and two are daughters. Elon fears them all, naturally, but yeah.
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Update on Ukraine funding (not in the CR about to pass the Senate): https://twitter.com/mattgaetz/status/1708270763759825399?t=l5-ndk6SmBF8G1SEkdqJ1Q&s=19 https://twitter.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1708272854096028057?t=WQ1ZqIqbw2K8sw_Uj-nKGQ&s=19 Not holding my breath though. Might lead to some funny deal where Democrats protect McCarthy's speakership in exchange for Ukraine funding, which would be some comedy!
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This is all stuff that would be deeply amusing if it weren't our utterly dysfunctional government. At least there's no shutdown?
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In gently caress cancer news: The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has awarded $45 million to rapidly develop sense-and-respond implant technology that could slash U.S. cancer-related deaths by more than 50%. https://news.rice.edu/news/2023/feds-fund-45m-rice-led-research-could-slash-us-cancer-deaths-50 quote:The award to a Rice University-led team of researchers from seven states will fast-track development and testing of a new approach to cancer treatment that aims to dramatically improve immunotherapy outcomes for patients with ovarian, pancreatic and other difficult-to-treat cancers. The project team is named THOR (targeted hybrid oncotherapeutic regulation) and this new device is of course called HAMMR (hybrid advanced molecular manufacturing regulator)
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Wrong Theory posted:In gently caress cancer news: The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has awarded $45 million to rapidly develop sense-and-respond implant technology that could slash U.S. cancer-related deaths by more than 50%. They're already thinking about combining THOR with "drug factory" implants they designed last year which can be implanted next to a tumor and will produce a 30 day dose of Interleukin-2, which is a potent anti-cancer protein which activates your immune system to fight cancer. In mouse tests they were able to 100% cure advanced ovarian cancer and cured 87% of advanced colorectal cancer, within 7 days of implantation. Eradicating large tumors in 7 days is mind blowing. They also ran a mouse trial late last year for mesothelioma, and it eliminated 100% of tumors in the mice the "drug factories" were implanted in. The implants can produce far more Interleukin-2 than can be safely administered by IV during treatment, and it goes directly to the tumor, instead of circulating through the body and causing adverse effects. If you were to administer the drug amount from the implant conventionally, you'd kill the patient with the immune response through their entire body, but since it is trailed out over 30 days and localized to the tumor area, it causes no issues. (the immunotherapy drug factory can be tailored to the type of cancer as well, so if Interleukin-2 doesn't work, they can use a different protein that is effective in treating that particular cancer) If this stuff actually works in humans, then you could be looking at a no poo poo 100% cure for a broad swath of cancers, you go under the knife to get a few small, temporary medical implants that regulate your body's immune response to the cancer, and adapts the response to the tumor environment, and puts the "targeting proteins" your body looks for around the tumors, and then you're cured in a month. The human body is really amazing at fighting cancer, your body kills thousands and thousands of potential cancer cells every day, cancer only is successful in persisting when it can manage to fool the immune system. This kind of stuff is the stuff oncologists have been dreaming about for decades. orange juche fucked around with this message at 04:45 on Oct 1, 2023 |
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Platystemon posted:It’s still possession. Fun fact: Possession doesn't even require you to physically touch a firearm, merely having access to it as - say - the sole person in a room. Learned that when I woke up one morning in the living room of a friend's house where I crashed on the couch after a bender. My buddy and his friends continued drinking, smoking weed and playing FIFA until retiring to their individual bedrooms. Turns out they figured it was time for 2A show-and-tell at some point and they just left the gat chilling on the table next to various paraphernalia of varying legality (I think). I kindly reminded my buddy that I'm on an F-1 visa and his place had a history of being busted by campus PD and my legal resident status had mixed feelings about being caught in a room with guns and drugs on the table. He told me I was being "too dramatic" about it because the gun was legally his and he had a card so the weed was legal as well, which didn't check out in my book, so I did some research and followed up with some calls to the AZ ATF office in Phoenix for some "hypothetical scenarios". The agent I spoke with was actually super chill and happy to help out with my questions, pointing out if I'm the only one with direct access to an unsecured firearm, I'm legally in possession of it. Same with supervised access, he even talked about some precedents where international students lost their legal resident status on account of being at a completely legal firing range. Your American buddy wants to take you shooting, stops at the gas station, goes inside to pay, you're in the car alone with a firearm? Possession. You're at a firing range with your international student friends to shoot some guns, you filled out all the paperwork, paid your fee, you're aiming downrange at some paper targets with a range officer 9ft away? Possession. The dude was even enthusiastic enough to point out that I, as a non-citizen deutschbag, could join a hunting club at NAU and apply for a hunting license through the AZ board of game and fish or whatever the gently caress to find a legal way around all those shenanigans, which is how I learned that there's a completely legal way for international students to buy rifles at gun shows (but not pistols lol). I'd still lose my F-1 visa because no guns allowed on campus and without being enrolled, I lose my resident status, but I'd still legally own a gun until I leave the country 
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orange juche posted:In mouse tests they were able to 100% cure advanced ovarian cancer and cured 87% of advanced colorectal cancer, within 7 days of implantation. Eradicating large tumors in 7 days is mind blowing. holy poo poo
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Midjack posted:holy poo poo Ovarian cancer, colorectal cancer, mesothelioma, these are cancers that are famously aggressive, and very difficult to treat, usually requiring aggressive surgical intervention and even then, there's often bits left over because those cancers quickly metastatize. A 100% cure in those three cancers alone would reduce the death rate from cancer significantly. I'm curious how it does with the various types of kidney cancer, because my father had an aggressive case of kidney cancer where they had to take his kidney, spleen and 3 of his ribs, and it still metastatized to various parts of his body and they had to subject him to 2 years of aggressive immunotherapy under a clinical trial to put it into remission. He's still alive, but it absolutely turned a tall, strong guy into a shrivelled up husk. He said if it comes back he's just going to let it kill him, vs trying to fight it again. If this therapy actually works,and can be used for his cancer, then he may not have to deal with fighting it again.
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Fat Bear Week is saved. SEPTEMBER OVERFLOW
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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4043108 Fat bear week is saved, come get your votes in! New CE thread here!
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quote:In addition, a 64-man task force of the ROK Army 1st Special Forces Brigade accompanied them, armed with clubs and trained in taekwondo, supposedly without firearms. However, once they parked their trucks near the Bridge of No Return, they started throwing out the sandbags that lined the truck bottoms and handing out M16 rifles and M79 grenade launchers that had been concealed below them.[4] Several of the commandos also had M18 Claymore mines strapped to their chests with the firing mechanism in their hands, and were shouting at the North Koreans to cross the bridge.[13][14]
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