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701  Economy / Lending / Re: New Member, Seeking Loan - $150, 15% Interest on: October 05, 2022, 01:39:40 PM
I'm literally just bad at saving money, if I were good at it then I wouldn't be asking for a small loan.

Even if any of your BS was true, this means you're not just "bad at saving money", you're a horrible credit risk. You're either unable to get a credit card or have all of them maxed out.

But most likely you're just full of shit to the brim. California, job, girlfriend, hotel, wine, begging. Sounds like someone's imaginary "life in USA".
702  Economy / Lending / Re: New Member, Seeking Loan - $150, 15% Interest on: October 05, 2022, 02:24:53 AM
I came across this forum yesterday

And your first though inexplicably is "they must be idiots and give out money to random strangers"  Roll Eyes

Get out of here.
703  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: October 04, 2022, 11:54:39 PM
I was hoping they would invent some new amusing ways to describe their newest failure but it's the old boring "regrouping".

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Or as our 15-ruble military experts put it:

I want to say that raising the flag over Vysokopolye and taking three more villages (by the way, which ones?) is too thin a result for a week of suicidal attacks on an open field as part of a counteroffensive that has been prepared since the beginning of summer.

The good news for Russians is that the "open field" makes it easy for them to run away.

704  Economy / Lending / Re: I require a loan on: October 04, 2022, 11:27:30 PM
This is a Bitcoin forum, not USDT forum.
What do you say about it?

I say read the rules. If you still have questions after that, ask in Meta.
705  Economy / Lending / Re: I require a loan on: October 04, 2022, 10:37:32 PM
Ask for a loan not in BTC, but in USDT! Will you show us bank statements or other documents?

This is a Bitcoin forum, not USDT forum.
706  Other / Meta / Re: Frequent 400 Bad Request errors on: October 04, 2022, 07:51:03 PM
I haven't had issues recently but used to run into problems with the forum and/or cloudflare creating too many cookies. I don't recall what the error code was, but it wasn't particularly descriptive, might have been the generic 400. Checking request headers via dev tools would reveal a huge amount of garbage. Clearing the cookies would take care of it.
707  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: October 04, 2022, 03:36:20 PM
Some more telegram entertainment.

New-ish Kremlin talking point is that Ukrainians have a massive advantage in the number of troops. It's being used to justify pretty much everything - giving up town after town, the need for mobilization, and of course the fantastic tales of 200-300 Ukrainians being killed every time Ivan fires a rifle.

[...]
As in other areas, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will try to realize their multiple advantage in the number of personnel

But there is a bit of a problem... you can't say that when you need to "motivate" the meat to go into the meat grinder. Literally the next post in the same channel:

[...]
I repeat once again, we have forces for defense. The [Ukrainian forces] did not create an overwhelming superiority in manpower, and even more so in technology.

A new excuse for losing, haven't seen this one before:

The guys from the field massively report that our tactical insignia were applied to [Ukrainian] equipment, i.e. "Z" and "V", which caused confusion in the first hours of the battle, when the front collapsed.

Brilliant.
708  Other / Politics & Society / Re: To Ukraine, especially Kiev on: October 04, 2022, 01:20:10 PM
I think it makes perfect sense that religious nutjobs and other mentally deficient individuals support Putin and his "special" operation.
709  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: October 04, 2022, 12:32:28 PM
Haha good angle, US couldn't possibly had anything to do with NordStream only Putin Orc propaganda trolls could possibly claim anything otherwise. What a member of EU parliament thanked US for blown NS?!? Well, he must be either joking, or just plain wrong, just pick yourself whichever you want to believe in more  Grin

I still don't think you have a good grasp on what "a member of EU parliament" is or does and how much insight into a presumably top-secret conspiracy they might have. Here is some more top secret leaked info from Sikorski:

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Still want to believe that his tweet is proof that the US blew up the pipeline?  Grin
710  Other / Meta / Re: DefaultTrust changes on: October 04, 2022, 11:42:37 AM
So you're saying theymos doesn't want me on DT1? But doesn't want people to know about it?

I don't know, maybe you don't want to be in it and you hacked the system instead of blacklisting like everyone else Grin

If my math is correct, your chance of hitting those three long streaks of absence was ~1.4%, probably a bit less because I used 40 months as the time period but in reality the first few months there was no lottery. TBH not as catastrophically low as I first thought it would be.
711  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 🏈🏈 The American Football Discussion Thread 🏈🏈 on: October 04, 2022, 02:47:23 AM
If Matt Gay can sink a 50-yard FG, that could sink nutildah.

Edit: damn, they went for it on 4th and 10.

Edit2: sack and fumble LOL but unfortunately for HHampuz that's not going to be enough. Still unexpectedly close match in the end. I mean FF. Not Rams. Not close for them. Abject failure.
712  Other / Meta / Re: DefaultTrust changes on: October 03, 2022, 09:37:44 PM
I've had long streaks of not being on DT1:

Isn't it a bit sketchy that it tends to happen in long streaks? I mean if it's completely random, shouldn't the missing weeks be more scattered, once every 3 or 4 weeks months on average. (edit: months obviously)
713  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: October 03, 2022, 09:02:17 PM
Rumor has it (via Girkin-Strelkov, the KGBist who incited the whole Donbas shitshow in 2014) that the first act of the "new" Russian Federation authorities in the town of Svatove was to order "self-evacuation". Apparently the town is next to fall in the Kharkov-Lugansk Ukrainian counteroffensive area. The fake RF is shrinking, perhaps due to cold weather.

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714  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: October 03, 2022, 01:00:58 PM
Don't believe i ever claimed that AfD still has it's original leadership or didn't become more radical/right since 2013. Great history, but how is that relevant to the current point or is it just a weak straw man attempt? Explain again how your (or mine or anyone for that matter) personal feeling are relevant here? Do you feel there are many sane people in Giorgia Meloni party? Does it somehow change the fact that she won and "current" AfD is getting more and more support currently sitting at 15%? Looks like they've been calling themselves Eurosceptic since 2013, and called for Dexit at least since 2019.

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super clear Cheesy only you do realize it's "possible" for them to do so right this second if they wanted to, and what Ukraine is asking for. But we both know that there's a cost to that (lost jobs, bankrupt industries, loss to competitive advantage, inflation, other financial repercussion, social and political unrest etc etc etc...), and clearly so far Germany has decided that the cost of that outweighs the current benefits. When will the balance tip to closure who knows, but the other huge unknown is the weather. How long do you keep you industries running before cutting them off in order to build some buffer for home usage? Do you plan for an average winter? 3yr coldest? 5yr coldest? 10yr? What do you do if winter is unusually cold, or at least colder than you prepared for? What happens if you shut off gas for industrial use too soon and winter turns out to be mild?

All well-rehearsed Kremlin bullet points, except most people in Germany don't fall for that BS and tend to think increasingly more like 1miau, who happens to be from Germany, I mean what a shocking turn of events this is not.

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(the poll question is "should we support Ukraine despite rising energy costs")

All of your points rely on NordStream just being a useless pipeline, can you then explain the tweet by former Polish Deputy Minister of National Defense/Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and current elected member of the European parliament Radoslaw Sikorski thanking USA, is Poland supporting Russia now?

Still not getting how the whole freedom of speech / democracy thing works, are you? Hint: in normal non-Putin countries people, even MEPs, often have differing opinions, make stupid jokes, or could simply be wrong.
715  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: October 03, 2022, 11:34:32 AM
I've been clearly spending too much time on the pro-Kremlin telegram channels, reading amazing stories from so-called voyenkors ("military reporters") and other putinists, and starting to notice a substantial shift recently in how they talk about the war. Early on obviously they were all optimistic and dismissive of Ukrainian resistance. Then came retreat from Kyiv and sinking of the flagship so there was some snarky grumbling but mostly it was still very positive. Now after the defeat near Kharkiv and mobilization failures there is something previously almost unheard of - direct criticism of military command (even Kadyrov joined in and called out some generals by name), admission of utter dysfunction and corruption in the armed forces and the need for (and improbability of) a comprehensive reform, and even discussions about the very slight possibility of defeat in the war (and yes, calling it a "war" and not "special operation" quite often too).

Obviously their conclusions - keep in mind that these are still diehard imperialists who don't think Ukraine has a right to exist - are still as irrational as ever, but the change in tone is quite remarkable. I think Putin has achieved the impossible and made even the most committed nutjobs doubt the whole shitshow.

Anyway, I won't bore you with the whole cringy "how could this possibly happen to the 2nd best army in the world" brawl. Just a few examples of ridiculous "solutions" they're coming up with. Textbook definition of insanity.

Gotta start everything over, this time it will be different:

Now we need to maintain the status quo. It is necessary to create a defense in depth in all the liberated territories. The task is to give three months for the preparation and education of the mobilized. In three months from defense it will be possible to go on the offensive for the utilization of Ukraine.

7 months into the war they're figuring out defense and motivation:

Better late than never, but we need to prepare front-line cities and towns for defense. Prepare for urban battles. Motivation is very important for urban battles. The commanders need to finally explain to their soldiers what the meaning of this war is. Explain that if you do not stop the enemy here and now, then he will have to be stopped on the threshold of their homes. And their cities can very quickly become front-line. And it's not about the Donbass or Ukraine. This war is more global and started many years ago by the West. Ukraine tricked but voluntarily agreed to become a battlefield between NATO and Russia. Either we will win on the territory of the former Ukraine, or we will have to win on the territory of Russia. Every fighter must understand this - he went to war so that the war itself would not come to his house.

Of course the naivete still exists, they still believe that Putin is not fighting with full force, so just needs to be asked nicely to step it up:

Hello.
Report to the top, if not difficult, about the targets for our strikes on Bandera:

1. District and regional departments of the SBU
2. District and regional military registration and enlistment offices.
3. District and regional departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
4. Bridges across the Dnieper and the railway tunnel in the Carpathians
5. CHP and substations (all regional and district centers)
6. All railway depots, diesel locomotives and electric locomotives. They need to be eliminated as a class.
7. Fuel trucks. Geranium [Iranian drones] should work on them on an ongoing basis.

There are 136 regional centers in Ukraine, multiply by 4 (these are points 1,2,3,5) and we get about 600 rockets and Geraniums (together with regional centers)
The strikes must be carried out during working hours in order to eliminate all the security forces.
Thanks

But let's give them a few more months and I think they'll be discussing the amount of reparations and how to negotiate a shorter prison sentence.
716  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 🏈🏈 The American Football Discussion Thread 🏈🏈 on: October 02, 2022, 11:54:23 PM
Holy shit been busy and not watching, FUCKING Raiders gonna sink me!

Fucking RAIDERS !!!!!!

LAST place Fucking Rushing Raiders !!!!!!!!!!!!

Karma...

And these are the guys I'm passing on this year.
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    Josh Jacobs
717  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: October 02, 2022, 10:57:18 PM
Do you think slaves fight well?

Surprisingly they don't ask "what happened to the supposedly professional contractor forces that were fighting before us" and just go to the meat grinder. Well, except those that bailed to Mongolia et al.

Maybe this can explain it:

In the Russian city of Bataysk, some couples rushed to tie the knot on the same day the men were leaving to fulfill the Kremlin's "partial mobilization" for the war in Ukraine, according to Reuters.

It's good business by Russian standards. 7 million rubles (~120k USD) to the widow if the newlywed gets killed in Ukraine.
718  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 🏈🏈 The American Football Discussion Thread 🏈🏈 on: October 02, 2022, 09:17:44 PM
Jags are beating up the Eagles pretty good, that is costing me.

Well, they got un-beaten really quickly and it's been quite exciting in a few other games as well. If Green Bay defense doesn't fuck it up I might still have a chance.
719  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: 🏈🏈 The American Football Discussion Thread 🏈🏈 on: October 02, 2022, 05:53:47 PM
Grabbed Hill and threw him in for Kittle just for the chuckles and regretting it a little. Cheesy

Well, there goes my hope for the weekend LOL

720  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] on: October 02, 2022, 02:46:30 PM
The capture of Lyman is a Pyrrhic victory for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Two weeks of unsuccessful attempts to close the boiler, huge losses of manpower and armored vehicles, the weakening of the Soledar direction due to the transfer of reserves and the general loss of pace of the Kharkov counteroffensive. And on the nose is winter, for which Ukraine is not at all ready, soon the leaves will fall from the trees, Russia will begin to receive fresh reserves from the mobilized. But for now, rejoice - Lyman is yours. Grin

From "May 9 parade in Kyiv" to "loss of pace of the Kharkov counteroffensive" is a bit of a downgrade, isn't it? What's next, "Donetsk is not a big deal, it's a shitty city with no water, we still have Belgorod", and "Ukrainians are really screwed once we retreat behind the Urals, they'll freeze in the mountains chasing us".

Might be a bit difficult for the glorious Drunken Partially Mobilized Forces of Russia to survive the winter naked.

Russia’s MP for Zabaykalsky region lieutenant general Andrey Gurulev has said that 1.5 million sets of military uniform had gone missing, reports local outlet Tayga.info.

Gotta love the eternal optimism even when reporting this kind of news... "gone missing" LOL as if they can be found.

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