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AndroidAggie

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  1. my bad on the play in i stand by my "UNM deserves better than an 11 seed as the MWCT winner beating 3 other tournament teams including SDSU". NC State was 6-5 in Quad 2 and had a NET of 63 while UNM was NET 22 and had 3 losses in Q2, Q3, and Q4. idk, man. i think y'all got hosed.
  2. if the top teams from a conference are seeded at 5 and 8, and you win the conference tournament beating the better of those two top teams, and your seed is an 11 play-in... i think you got hosed.
  3. i feel like UNM got the most screwed.
  4. Whew My behind was making diamonds there for a minute
  5. It's star trek with Seth MacFarlane telling the story If his humor don't do it for you then i don't think you'll enjoy it
  6. convert you are an odd fellow but i must say: you steam a good ham.
  7. @retrofade also, i'm in a react shop so that might have something to do with it
  8. i couldn't find my older post(s) re: the convoy and whether or not it truly was failing to maneuver or if it was russian military doctrine going according to plan. i posted that youtube from task and purpose and felt the view was well founded. i'm, obviously, less convinced as time has gone on and the russians have done very little in and around kyiv. not much more to add than that.
  9. Oh I'd be much more of a chicken if i wasn't just a keyboard warrior...
  10. yeah, it sure seems to jive with the history (that i know) of the way things went down during operation barbarossa. it took the reds awhile to get going but once they got going, they got going. altho, this is an invasion and not a defense of the homeland. so maybe that's enough to be different. my main takeaway is that people saying "oh the convoy stalled" "not going as well as hoped" "lol russians logistical failures" are optimistic. putin's got time, his back is not against the wall. the convoy stalled, sure, but it's still on track to set up the forward operating base about 20km north of kyiv, in the range of their mobile artillery. the ISW still assesses russia is trying to create the landbridge along the south to crimea and potentially even all the way to moldova, and are still trying to encircle kyiv. it looks like it's going according to plan for putin. he's got enough time, money, and bodies to throw at this until he gets what he wants: a capitulated ukraine and a pro-kremlin government installed. then he lays down his guns and says "now putin want peace" and we're all so relieved no nukes flew and that "it's over" that we all sign a peace deal and after a year or two the oil and natural gas starts to flow again and putin begins rebuilding the shattered buildings in kherson, kharkiv, mariupol, and kyiv, and we all go "ahh, see? nothing to worry about!" and when we're all pacified, he makes his next move. the guy's been running the show in russia for 20 years and has been probably planning this for most of that time. the long game suits him. sanctions are a worthwhile effort, but frankly, we just need to say "fck it. we're calling your bluff. launch your goddamn nukes if you dare, you son of a bitch. we got 'em too, so you're fcked as bad as we are. but we're gonna be there, on the ground, and we're gonna fight." we ignored as he invaded chechnya and set up kadyrov there we ignored as he invaded georgia we ignored as he invaded crimea and we're ignoring this one. all the sanctions and strong words aren't doing a load of shit. he's shown us who he is. i think it's time we show him who we are.
  11. I think success for Putin is an on paper pro Kremlin government in Kyive, Zelenskyy dead or in exile, and occupation I don't think Putin cares about occupational cost, both human and rubles You raise good questions
  12. i think the war's going well for russia. :( i think they've been sending in their grunts and conscripts and setting up a forward base of operations outside of kyiv w/in range of their shelling capabilities and all this talk about a stalled convoy is just hopeful "duh duh duh russkies are stupid". it plays into the trope so it's easily believable. i think they'll try to encircle kyiv and will probably start heavy shelling to break the resistance maybe i just ate a doom and gloom turd sandwich and can't see this getting better, but i'm interested in hearing y'all's thoughts. well, some of y'all, at least... this is where i got my opinion from: Edit For some stupid reason I typed a smiley instead of a frown I categorically detest Putin and this war. Fck Putin and Slava Ukraini
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