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    Robert Rauschenberg Collection 1954-55   • The War in Ukraine Can Be Over If the US Wants It (Barkan) • Russia Will Strike West If US Rockets Hit
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle June 6 2022]

    #109144
    Armenio Pereira
    Participant

    (not our merit , nor our fault)

    Being born human, it’s not easy to relinquish one of the foremost – if not the foremost – human trait: to have prejudices.

    Everything humans do is transient – I don’t know why the things we do which are destructive leave a longer lasting impression than the constructive ones.

    (Or maybe I do know: in general, the human brain has a yin slant.)

    To spice things up, let me add that the human brain has been shifting: the masculine brain is turning increasingly yin, while the females’ brains are becoming increasingly yang (the I Ching rules!)

    (Please spare me: if you are a regular here then you do have a “negative” bias brain.)

    And then you might ask, “so what?” To which my reply would be: have you ever considered why the slant, why the drift?

    #109145
    Armenio Pereira
    Participant

    Fate? Who’s behind that?
    (The Everlasting Dissatisfaction)

    #109146
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    If you meet the Bhudda on the road, kill him…

    #109148
    boilingfrog
    Participant

    AP: ” (Please spare me: if you are a regular here then you do have a “negative” bias brain.)
    And then you might ask, “so what?” To which my reply would be: have you ever considered why the slant, why the drift?”

    Yes, I would fully acknowledge that ‘fact’ in myself, the more negative bias. And the reasons that I am aware of come from far afield. And immediately upon typing that I can sense the “Buts…” popping up, the rationalizations …

    I’ll hold that awareness and continue to read.

    #109149
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Because no one can tell the truth: “Europe’s Far-Flung Energy Woes — TAC” https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/europes-far-flung-energy-woes/

    Europe has no energy woes at all. None. All they need to do is pay, and they have all the energy they will ever need for generations. But Europe’s answer to Russia invading and killing people is to kill their own people. In protest. No kidding. I mean, you tell me otherwise.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_JOGmXpe5I (NSFW. Anymore. Since people are now vindictive racists with no sense of humor)

    Anyway, every time Russia kills a Ukrainian, Schultz clubs a (European) baby seal. That’ll larn ‘em! We’re Schmartz! We just had no choice!

    “New York Times Op-Ed Applauds Inflation as Means to Enforce Green Diet”

    Always happy to crush the poor. They should go to Center City and Elmira (Wiki say they are the poorest cities in NY) and tell them to their face. As they make $14k/yr. Taxes are $3,000. But if you don’t like it, Pete says, just buy a Tesla! Like the Irish Famine, they have cows, but you can’t have any! Eat the bugs, you, the steaks are shipped out under guard for the important people. Like NYT Op-Ed writers in Manhattan.

    Spanish Court Orders Mike Pompeo to Testify on CIA Plot to Kill or Kidnap Assange”

    Yay! Now how do you get him to tell you the truth? Why are Bush and Clinton still flying around? What they did was much worse.

    “Austrian Monetary Gold Transfer from London to Switzerland, Planned In 2015, Still Hasn’t Arrived”

    That’s cause London stole it and sold it. To rig prices. …Suckers.

    “Abbott Restarts Baby Formula Plant: Crisis-Inducing Shutdown Was Likely Needless”

    As we knew already: there was no contamination at the plant which was later proved. However, the FDA refused to restart it. Now as no one died, you could argue there are White Hats who just scared the pants off every parent without actually causing any deaths, but learned them as well as will ever be possible for next time. Which is imminent. We’re almost certainly going to have food shortages – or our version, too high prices – in 90 days. And/or we are going “nuclear” exchange, in the sense of financial nukes, cyber nukes. Already every food plant in America is mysteriously burning down. …Or not so mysteriously, as they were hit by planes and other not-plausible causes. We’re on #19. “They” need us to know, it’s a message. That the West is too suicidal and idiotic to hear.

    So anyway, IF you call this an op, it’s a pretty successful one, or as much as we’re ever going to get.

    That goes with Europe as well. Europe will A) stop unzipping being subservient to the American empire B) will join with Russia where the resources and energy are, OR, they will simply all die. End of Globalism. What did Cheeto say, “Globalism has no future in the world”? The American Empire, which is their retarded bully-monster, is not going to be available of use by these Globalists. Right now Europe is doing everything, Every. Thing. To remain subservient to the Empire, and killing everyone. But if they keep it up through winter, their citizens will burn Europe down and throw their ruling families into the North Sea in January, so I don’t think they can. In any case: no Empire, we win. “We” being America, the American people, the American principles, Nationalists, or as they call themselves, Patriots.

    So make nice-nice with Russia now as the terms are just going to get worse every minute until you eventually do anyway. Be real: there is no American LNG going to Germany ever. That was a scam for warmongers like Merkel and the few people dumber than AOC. You’re on your own.

    US to Allow Venezuelan Oil to Be Shipped to Europe (Hill)”

    We are “allowing” two other nations to commence trade? GTFO. That’s why we need to return to nationalism, not internationalism. Assange is not our citizen. We have no jurisdiction. Iran is not our ships. We are not allowed to steal them.

    “18 progressive House Democrats wrote to Biden asking that he lift all sanctions against Venezuela”

    But I thought the President just made up the law! Why’s this different? They should ask the Supreme Court. They make up and cancel laws all the time too.

    “Gas Prices won’t spike under Biden, silly!” – Facebook fact checkers, Bezos’ WaPo.

    This is what I’m talking about. He literally said he would shut down all pipelines, drilling, and carbon. That’s a campaign promise. All you have to do is read it and say “My candidate is not a liar.” It seems people no longer have the mental capacity. Then when it happens, like Idiocracy, they say, “No it isn’t you’re a stupid face. My foot and your -ss, huh.” Those are the smart, college-educated people. Of a nation that graduates people with zero competency.

    “The leadership at the FBI has played a prominent role in the American people losing faith in that organization…”

    Shooting MLK for uniting people and being antiwar wasn’t enough? Apparently not. It took a NASCAR pull rope to care.

    #109151
    Michael Reid
    Participant


    Francis Boyle discusses how the U.S. and China collaborated on the development of the COVID-19 gain-of-function bioweapon. The elites in both Beijing and Washington have more in common with each other than with their own people due to their totalitarian mentality. The mandates are a clear violation of the Nuremberg Code and constitute a crime against humanity (e.g. murder, extermination, inhumane acts committed against civilians). Governments are persecuting their own citizens just like the Nazi government persecuted German Jews. We are seeing a Nazi mentality at work by all governments enforcing these frankenshots, the Nazi philosophy of “useless eaters” and depopulation. It is impossible to create a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 if it is a bioweapon. The biowarfare simulations are war games that go live and monkeypox is another bioweapon released just as voting is underway to give WHO totalitarian powers and set up a global medical police state and tyranny. In his book he argues principles of international law that can be used internationally to try and stop this. We are seeing a war against humanity by the scientific elite, this is World War III.

    Francis Boyle: We Are in a War Against the Scientific Elite, This is WWIII

    #109152
    anticlimactic
    Participant

    VENEZUELAN CRUDE

    The US had to build special refineries to process Venezuelan crude. It is extremely non-standard.

    I am not even sure if any European refineries could be converted to process it, and it would take some time even if it was possible!

    #109153
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Insulin resistance and keto diet.

    #109154
    Oroboros
    Participant

    From Michael Hudson’s latest interview on the Saker:

    “…the world is being split into two parts.

    The conflict is not merely national by the West against the East,

    but is a conflict of economic systems: predatory finance capitalism against industrial socialism aiming at self-sufficiency for Eurasia and the SCO”

    Well, the Empire of Lies and Eurotardistan and especially the Ukronazis, are firmly in the grip of >>>>>

    kakistocracy
    kăk″ĭ-stŏk′rə-sē, kä″kĭ-
    noun

    • Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens.

    • Government by the worst men in the state: opposed to aristocracy, government by the best men.

    • Government by the worst men.

    The Biden-Zelensky Bromance

    Mattias Desmet speaks of the maddest of Vax to the Max.

    That’s a product of Kakistocracy as sure as it is of Mass Formation Psychosis.

    In fact predatory finance capitalism excretes Mass Formation Psychosis like an Amazonian poison toad oozes toxic slime.

    And now the collective West is murdering its own children on the Alter of the Vax.

    The cherry on top of the insanity chocolate sundae.

    Zelensky as the Ghost of Kiev

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    #109155
    John Day
    Participant

    Going 12 hours between last food in evening and first food in morning, with only plain water in between, can effectively reduce insulin resistance. “Time restricted eating”. Increasing the duration of overnight fasting increases the effec/benefit. Avoiding carbsatevening meal also helps it work.

    What are “Yin” and “Yang”? What are “positive” and “negative”? Are those “things” what we refer to with those words? Do they apply to analysis at TAE? How?

    TAE has been independently analytical, which is neither positive, nor negative, neither yin nor yang.
    Depending upon societal swings into yin or yang, conservatism or liberalism, TAE may appear to be whatever is counter-trend. It has been classified as “left, liberal”, but complaints lately are that it is “right , reactionary”.

    I think TAE is not to be graded on this slip-sliding-scale, “Seekers” visit here…

    #109156
    John Day
    Participant

    Venezuelan tarry crude (EROI 3:1) needs to go to the Texas gulf coast refineries. This is another feint/head-fake for somebody…

    V.Arnold quoting “If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him”, refers to not letting oneself hold idols without careful analysis. TAE readers don’t actually have to practice violence, as they are already taking down prejudices, presumptions and false premises.

    #109157
    John Day
    Participant

    Itwas hard for me to understand, but I think Austria got their “allocated” gold-holding that were held at BoE, but never got (shipped to Switzerland) “their” unallocated gold, which likely does not exist in the “real world”
    Austria should demand Rubles. Hell, what CAN Austria do? They have to pretend it still exists.

    #109158
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Fort Knox is EMPTY

    Hasn’t been ‘audited’ in decades.

    The predatory finance capitalism long since sold or hypothecated it and all the Empire of Lies has now is gold plated tungsten bars.

    Same weight as gold but only worth it’s value as a pile of three dollar bills.

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    #109159
    Oroboros
    Participant

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    #109160
    zerosum
    Participant

    @ Dr. D,
    A great, simple example #109147

    real-economic requirements for societal survival.

    In the long run, all of our elites and our enablers are not needed in the surviving social/economic system of no oil energy available .

    That’s why they stopped doing it by hand the first time ‘round.
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    Japan’s Perceptions of the Propaganda regarding the SMO
    15518 Views June 05, 2022
    by Patricia Ormsby for the Saker Blog

    Japan’s Perceptions of the Propaganda regarding the SMO

    I was happy to see a good turnout3 for a lecture by retired Ibaraki University professor Hideo Soga in Mito, Japan, on May 21 to promote understanding Russia’s point of view in the Ukrainian conflict.

    I note he did not bring up the biological research laboratories or Zelensky’s stated aim for Ukraine to acquire nuclear weapons.
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    pretender · deceiver · dissembler · impostor, hypocrite
    • US To Allow Venezuelan Oil To Be Shipped To Europe (Hill)
    • Biden Scrambles To Avoid Summit of the Americas Flop (AP)
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    the Nazi philosophy of “useless eaters” and depopulation.
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    A European solution or a scam?
    VENEZUELAN CRUDE
    ———–

    #109161
    John Day
    Participant

    Ukraine Foreign Minister Furious After Macron Says Russia Must Not Be Humiliated
    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/ukraine-foreign-minister-furious-after-macron-says-russia-must-not-be-humiliated

    “Humiliated” might be the wrong word, Napoleon Jr. , don’tcha think?
    Maybe “offended” would be closer, maybe even “gang-raped” would work.

    #109162
    John Day
    Participant

    @Zerosum: Patricia Ormsby responded kindly to my comment. I like her portrayal of Japanese people.

    #109163
    Rototillerman
    Participant

    I think that this is the study source that the INN article referenced in yesterday’s posting, regarding the increase in emergency cardiovascular events during the vaccination period:

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-10928-z

    For those, like myself, that like to be able to read and save the closest thing to actual data.

    #109164
    zerosum
    Participant

    @ John Day
    Right on.
    I read the comments.

    #109165
    Rototillerman
    Participant

    This substack from A Midwestern Doctor has a good summation of why the jabs were never likely to be effective. They also gather together in one place a concise listing of the problems in the Pfizer trials, with links to Peter Doshi articles in the BMJ pointing out the same during the early roll-out:

    https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/why-the-covid-vaccines-were-never?utm_source=email&s=r

    For those who might be interested, here is current state of “A Tale of Two Narratives,” downloadable from WeTransfer (link good for the next 7 days):

    https://we.tl/t-A5K8ScSHDB

    The date says Feb 13, meaning that is where I am as far as entering news links, though since Ukraine took off I have been entering important COVID links as they pop up (which is less frequently). I still chip away at the back catalog as I find time, which is pretty precious between job and farm and what-not. If anyone feels like connecting with me in the real world (I’m in Oregon, for now), here is an email address: [email protected] .

    #109166
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @ArmenioPereira

    Armenio wrote: ” (Please spare me: if you are a regular here then you do have a “negative” bias brain.)”

    Your are mistaken about that assertion in at least two significant ways. First off, there is no scientifically or clinically or academically described condition defined or labelled as a “Negative bias brain” . I’m pretty sure you just made up the term to strengthen the appearances of your camouflaged opinion. Possibly because of some personal bias.

    Secondly, being a regular on TAE does not in itself imply much of anything except good taste and high standards of intellectual integrity (for the most part. There are occasional exceptions.) I can think of numerous character traits that might cause such an affliction as being a “regular” here. Maybe I just have too much free time on my hands. Or perhaps I find the local fauna to be entertaining, or affirmative, or funny or alarming. Who knows? You certainly do not know, so please don’t pretend to know.

    And he also wrote: ” And then you might ask, “so what?” To which my reply would be: have you ever considered why the slant, why the drift?”

    Oh, I dunno. High levels of truthfulness, perhaps? But that wasn’t your real question now as it ? Getting back to your alleged question of “… why the slant, why the drift” , I’m sure you will understand if I decline to accept your offer to “beg the question” by inadvertently accepting your unsupported premise that there is any slant or any drift.

    Have you established that the alleged slant or drift exist? No, you have not. But you tried to slip them in under the radar in the guise of a question anyway. That’s not good logic. It’s also not good faith or good manners, so please knock it off. As in, stop being a dick and play fair.

    #109167

    Well there we have it then. 211 to 148! Conservatives have confidence in Boris Johnson!

    #109168
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Car/truck supply will deteriorate further: Kilmer’s harangue (… all, Putin’s fault!)

    Everything You’ve Heard About the Car Shortage is a Lie, Here’s the Truth

    F.S.

    #109169
    John Day
    Participant

    Vote of “Adequate Confidence”

    #109170
    John Day
    Participant

    Thanks Zerosum.
    Former foreigner in Japan.

    #109171
    John Day
    Participant

    For the record, I both despise the personalities and admire the capabilities of Texas Governor Greg Abbot and Texas Attoreny General Ken Paxton. They are shape-shifting nasty vampire battle bots.
    Elon Musk is Texas favorite Wunderkind this year, and Paxton is f**king with Twitter on Elon’s behalf now.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/twitter-tumbles-musk-threatens-breach-merger-deal-over-fake-account-disclosure

    #109172
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Well, … Alberta’s oil is more and more expensive! Gasoline prices going up – yet another “Putin’s Price Hike”. Another increase, … from C$1.799 per litre to C$1.919 per litre. Shell regular grade, … from refinery in Alberta:

    “The Shell Scotford Complex consists of a bitumen upgrader, oil refinery, chemicals plant and a carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility. It is one of North America’s most efficient, modern and integrated hydrocarbon processing sites, converting oil sands bitumen into finished, marketable products.

    https://www.shell.ca/en_ca/about-us/projects-and-sites/scotford.html

    … fwiw,

    F.S., … drives ‘10 Honda Fit Sport!

    #109173
    WES
    Participant

    Ten days ago we opened up the island cottage for the summer. So I have been slightly out of touch relying on my daughter’s cell phone hotspot to stay in touch with the world. I do have some catch up to do though. Sunday night we drove back to the big bad city. Sigh!

    We arrived on the Island to see the mess river ice can do to fixed and floating docks. The fixed docks were all turned over on their sides and moved a few feet out of position. One end of the floating docks were sloped downwards due to loss of many 55 gal barrels either shifted out of position or completely missing.

    With help from our neighbors we righted the fixed docks. The floating docks we will fix later when my son comes back home from working up north on Manitulian Island, mid June, and the water warms up so we can go into the water. The water is still bone chillingly cold. Your feet and legs do get accustomed to the cold waater by going numb, but that isn’t a very good sign!

    Unfortunately none of our outboard motors could be coached back into life. So we were left to row half an hour, back and forth between the island and the mainland. Like John riding his bike thing. Naturally we experienced water works start up problems. Everybody who owns a cottage is familiar with this annual challenge! Plumbing is one trade I have mastered over the years!

    My daughter was pleased to see that Percy, a local black squirrel with a white tail, white feet, and a white nose had successfully survived the winter O.K. One neighbor said they had seen what first looked like a hopping skunk. Only Hollywood has a hopping shunk!

    The lawn tractor had a flat tire and wouldn’t go from neutral into forward or reverse, so we ended up cutting some of the grass with our trusty electric lawn mower to help keep the tick population at bay. My daughter’s pet Dutch dwarf rabbit, Moki, still managed to collect 3 ticks, extracted by tweezers. The ticks seem to always migrate to around her eyes or nose.

    On Friday my 22 year old daughter successfully passed her final driving test in Brockville, after driving for 6 years. She pasted her first test at 17. I must admit we had been letting her practice driving around the cottage area back roads since she was 14 or so. You need to have a little practical driving experience to make the in classroom learning have any meaning.

    My daughter’s previous attempts to get tested were trawarted by the year plus pandemic shutdown of testing and resulting huge year plus backlog. She couldn’t get over how nice the driving tester and receptionist were compared to her past experiences in big bad Toronto. This was the main reason we were up at the cottage. So as older parents, we have successfully completed another milestone in raising our two children. My 26 year old son had an easier time of it not suffering the pandemic nonsense.

    Being up at the cottage sure puts one into a very different and more enjoyable world.

    #109174
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    I don’t normally respond to (or even read) the fomentation of EGO posturing newbies, especially those trolling with pseudo-spiritual claptrap, but alas I noticed the miasmic disturbance pointed towards our community

    Thus,

    Have you ever considered why the slant, why the drift?

    Ha! you project that slant is always a BAD thing. It is not 😉

    The Automatic Earth has a diverse, international community of generally educated, gifted participants, many of which (like myself) contribute FAR more to the well being of our local of real reality brothers & sisters than we receive.

    My brother Dr. John has done so for decades, as have many of us including our gracious host, Raúl.

    Being that our souls are primarily harmonized as givers, not overwhelmed by EGO as takers (the sad state of the majority of modern humanity), we have different conscientiousness that slants our worldview, leads us towards TRUTH, where our drift drives us toward using our free will for the betterment of humanity…

    Concerning TAE, the underlying interpretation re the biased fallacy of The Everlasting Dissatisfaction, is the communities unity in dissatisfaction concerning the fascist/totalitarian status quo ~ Where innocent, well-meaning humans have been categorically deprived of their Natural Right to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

    Moreover, the community @ TAE is unabashedly derived from a BROAD swath of previously indoctrinated political CULTure(s), though most of us are constantly evolving on an individual basis (I’ve was following TAE long before I joined, almost a decade now) ~ In fact, many of us were already unleashed from group-think long before joining…

    Right vs. Left is a finite construct fabricated over millenniums (the refuge of egocentric tyrants/sociopaths), with our spirits seeking transmogrify into freedom, constantly growing in the realization that partisanship/tribalism is the rational/justification & stronghold of takers, whereas the gifts of TAE have enlightened the community into a shared state of disavowment, a repulsion of petty differences, that the real reality for humanity is that it was designed, nay created, to inhabit the Earth as one family in a shared real reality.

    My opinion & experience on TAE is that we’re here (most of us) because our souls thirst to realize Truth, Justice & the Sanctity of ALL life on planet Earth.

    That is what I have observed regarding TAE’s slant/drift, that we which to read, participate, labor TO END the wholesale, blatant victimization of our innocent brethren, that we mourn & seek a BETTER way in remembrance of the souls trampled, tortured, maimed & murdered by malevolent, rapacious entities HELLBENT on rape, pillage & plunder.

    TAE is part of the emerging bellwether of God’s children that grok we’ve passed the event horizon of mass psychosis, that the admonition that All Things Be Done Decently and in Order is far, FAR from humanities past, present & future course…

    So, it appears that either you’ve stumbled into a community that you woefully lack the ability to fathom, or you jumped into the discussion with an agenda.

    BTW, it is not lost to me that a couple of weeks after the deflated one quit posting, TAE was suddenly “gifted” with this “new”, disruptive presence 💡

    #109175
    WES
    Participant

    A thought about the war in the Ukraine.

    So far most of the fighting has been along the Russian speaking eastern contact line located in the Lynoks (sp?) and Donbas republics. Here the Russian are greatly hampered by the Ukrainians defensive strategy of using local Russian speaking human shields. The Russians don’t want to destroy more than they have to because then they will have to rebuild it. The Russians also don’t want to kill more Russians speaking people than they are forced to.

    That is also why the US/NATO won’t let the Ukrainians retreat because it is forcing the Russians to go very slowly. The Ukrainians don’t care how much damage is done to the local area’s infrastructure or how many civilians are killed because it is Russian speaking areas they are fighting in. The more the better to bleed Russia dry. See Mariupol.

    O.K. so now what happens when the Russians finally push the Ukrainians out of the last areas of the 2 Russian speaking republics they plan to keep?

    Yeah, then things suddenly change don’t they! Then US/Nato’s human shield strategy suddenly disappears completely! Open land warfare now becomes possible! Who are by far the best at land warfare? Yes, the Russians!

    How willingly will Ukrainians fight when their human shields are now Ukrainians in Ukrainian towns and cities? Will they suddenly care about saving Ukrainian infrastructure? Will they suddenly start caring how many of their fellow Ukrainians get killed for nothing?

    Will the Rissians still care about not destroying infrastructure they don’t intend to keep? Same question goes for go for concern about killing Ukrainians too.

    What if Russia decides to create a 30 Kilometer buffer zone in the Ukraine all along their border with the Ukraine to prevent future artillery shelling? I sure would after what has happened regularly non-stop since 2014.

    So far the only cities and towns the Russians have been willing to enter and fight for are those located in the 2 Russian speaking Republics they plan to keep. The number of these places left in the 2 republics to conquere is rapidly dropping.

    Then there is the region of Odessa, Russia will need to deal with. There is an old burning issue there that needs addressing. The Russians haven’t forgotten.

    I think when the Ukrainians are pushed back into Ukrainian speaking Ukraine, the terms of the war will suddenly change very much for the worst for the Ukrainians. Without human shields, what else do they have left, which to resist with?

    #109176
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “the Nazi philosophy of “useless eaters” and depopulation.”

    This is just Eugenics. It’s not a New World Order, just the same old s—t. Recycling stupid. It’s the old religion, the one that fails every time like clockwerk.

    “another bioweapon … to give WHO totalitarian powers and set up a global medical police state” And will do it over and over forever if not stopped. So: stop them. They’re liars; ignore them. Do not consent. Laugh in their faces because they are stupid, useless, tiny, and wrong.

    #109177

    If destruction is your goal, there are many pathways- and nearly all of them lead to success.

    #109178
    John Day
    Participant

    @Figmund Sreud: “2010 Honda Fit Sport” Manual transmission? I’ll buy it!
    Just joking. I have inherited a high mileage 2007 Fit that runs nicely but is in check-engine-light purgatory despite engineer sons and my mechanic buddy working on it for almost 2 years.
    No inspection > No drive.


    @WES
    : Nice to see you back. I wondered… Glad it’s normal stuff.
    Also, the Ukrainian army has been digging in dep bunkers and fortifications for troops and artillery in Donetsk and Luhansk for 8 years. That can’t just be overrun. It is slow, like taking schools and hospitals and city blocks with sniper’s nests. It’s horrible for everybody.

    @”Deflationista”: Wherefore art Thou? Did Pfizer cut your troll job?

    @Armenio Pereira: It’s Ok. You just ruffled a few feathers. State your assertions and support your arguments clearly. Here’s a good song to put things in perspective:

    @VP Gary: I think he’s got promise and isn’t a troll.
    He don’ mean no harm… 🙂

    #109179
    John Day
    Participant

    @Chooch: Here’s the best Severodonetsk and Lysychansk update I have seen.

    Sitrep Operation Z: Back into The Grind while the penny drops in Europe

    #109180
    chooch
    Participant

    There definitely is a different vibe today/tonight. Seems a confirmation vacuum has formed in the open source space regarding the battle for Severodonetsk. Russia has been bringing down more battalion groups from the north this past week and some of those ancient tanks where fitted for battle around Kherson probably freeing up resources to send north. It was reported that 6 were destroyed.

    https://inf.news/en/military/2db245c44333c4e1fe8c2f107622831b.html

    #109181
    absolute galore
    Participant

    2008 Honda Fit here, manual transmission, 130k miles. Bought it a year and a half ago for $2,400. Only real issue is windows won’t go down. I hate electric windows. I bought a control switch panel, but it was aftermarket and did not work. Have to use the ac on days like today, which I dislike even more than electric windows….

    #109182
    John Day
    Participant

    @AbsoluteGalore: AC is good in Texas, but my 1997 Ford Ranger gets much hotter inside than outside since AC is kaput. It was in the upper 90s today. I drove 4 hours to Yoakum and back. I changed clothes twice. I drink water.
    I like the control of a manual transmission. I know what I want the vehicle and motor to do.
    I don’t look at a smartphone. I have 2 hands and 2 eyes.

    #109183
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    @ Dr. John Day – I actually have two cars. Beside Honda Fit, I own ’04 Mazda Miata, 6-speed manual,… but that’s my summer only car. Both are most likely my last cars. My next driving licence renewal will be a subject to a medical fitness test, … you know, ravages of living too long will become a factor.

    Best,
    F.S.

    #109184
    WES
    Participant

    Chooch:

    I think in regards to the battle of Severodonets, the real battle is for control of the only highway out.
    I see the neo-nazis blew up the highway’s main bridge into Severodonets.
    Just before they blew the bridge, the neo-nazis forced hundreds of retreating Ukrainians back into Severodonets!
    If you are an Ukrainian stuck in Severodonets, isn’t it great to have friends that want you to die to help keep the war going for a bit longer!

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