Posts by SWTarget

Used to work for a third-party logistics company that took over a site from a company who in turn had taken it over from YRC. The story I was always told was YRC had very little clue what they were doing and never once met their budget obligations to the client. Disorganized mess. We benefited from the company in between having largely straightened out the operational aspects (but still having never turned a profit). We were having a decent run and looked like we knew what we were doing in comparison . . .

Will be interesting to see how badly this shocks the domestic carrier market. That could be quite a bit of capacity coming out.

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those are some crazy vocal manipulations too. Pretty incredible.

Might be my untrained ear, but it sounds like she's using some of the same techniques as the Mongolian throat singers, getting a whistle while there's a hum going on, though hard for me to tell if both tones are hers or two separate tones overlaid. Don't think the video itself is any help in that regard as surely she was lip syncing to something recorded.

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And suppressing religion? I don't know, but it doesn't even make sense. They were not arresting pro-Russian "church" leaders and shutting down those churches before the war. I'm guessing there's a good reason for it. Logic dictates that Ukraine didn't suddenly wake up and decide to take down some churches. And knowing how Russians lie about everything, I'm going to give Ukraine the benefit of a doubt on their reasons.

Not going to bother to watch the vid, but if you are saying he is accusing Ukraine of violating religious liberties while ignoring the fact Russia does the same against any non-Russian Orthodox religion, then he is either stupid or intentionally trying to mislead.

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The Douglas logo I think or the McDonald Douglas logo.

McDonnell

Not flying hamburgers.

Think you want the Lego Space logo.

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Humorless Bastards.

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RE: Pfizer stopped testing on animals because they kept dying?

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There's your problem.

Enjoy your little bubble. Notice how it only gets smaller and smaller.

GeeEss

Aug 6th 2022

He grew tired of excessive confirmation bias.

Got to MOBOT a couple weeks ago. About the only thing blooming then was the cherry trees and the tulips:

After having to skip a week to attend a funeral, and after some not so great weather, most of the tulips were already gone. Missed the Magnolias, too, it would seem. They were just opening when we last visited but think the weather got them all. Most of the Persian Buttercups were past their prime, too, but did get a couple pics (poor quality, no sun today, very overcast).

I liked the last one because it demonstrates how they can become almost spherical sometimes.

Finally, the some of the Irises were just starting to bloom, too:

". . . not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these." -- Luke 12:27

Or it could be exactly as it says, a rare genetic disorder.

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That only young man you know, who had this Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT), which is a super rare genetic disorder that affects his heart," Dr. Stacey Hall, Medical Director of the Pediatric Rehabilitation Program at TIRR Memorial Hermann told Fox 26.

This tragedy also shed some light on a past tragedy as, three years prior, the Berkos lost their son Frankie to what they now know is the same genetic mutation that almost killed Sammy. He and his mother underwent testing and are currently taking medication to help prevent any future issues.

Three years ago there was no vaccine for you guys to pin this on.

The confirmation bias among you people is astounding sometimes.

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Perhaps I'll do some more searching when not on my lunch hour and see if I can find it.

Finally found it:

Dmitriy Loza

"For a long time after the war I sought an answer to one question. If a T-34 started burning, we tried to get as far away from it as possible, even though this was forbidden. The on-board ammunition exploded. For a brief period of time, perhaps six weeks, I fought on a T-34 around Smolensk. The commander of one of our companies was hit in his tank. The crew jumped out of the tank but were unable to run away from it because the Germans were pinning them down with machine gun fire. They lay there in the wheat field as the tank burned and blew up. By evening, when the battle had waned, we went to them. I found the company commander lying on the ground with a large piece of armor sticking out of his head. When a Sherman burned, the main gun ammunition did not explode. Why was this?

Such a case occurred once in Ukraine. (SWtarget comment "Oh the Irony") Our tank was hit. We jumped out of it but the Germans were dropping mortar rounds around us. We lay under the tank as it burned. We laid there a long time with nowhere to go. The Germans were covering the empty field around the tank with machine gun and mortar fires. We lay there. The uniform on my back was beginning heating up from the burning tank. We thought we were finished! We would hear a big bang and it would all be over! A brother's grave! We heard many loud thumps coming from the turret. This was the armor-piercing rounds being blown out of their cases. Next the fire would reach the high explosive rounds and all hell would break loose! But nothing happened. Why not? Because our high explosive rounds detonated and the American rounds did not? In the end it was because the American ammunition had more refined explosives. Ours was some kind of component that increased the force of the explosion one and one-half times, at the same time increasing the risk of detonation of the ammunition. "

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This does not seem like a great idea

https://www.reddit.com/r/Russi…g_russian_bmp1_is_hiding/

I seem to have lost the link, but somewhere out there is an interview with a WWII Soviet tanker who had used Lend-Lease M4's. (He said something to the effect that he bristles every time he hears someone say the Sherman was a bad tank. "Bad compared to what?" But I digress.) In that interview he related an experience where his M4 was hit and caught fire, and they hid under the tank to keep from getting hit by shellfire. He expected at any moment the tank would explode and kill them, but it never did -- unlike T-34s that routinely exploded when they caught fire. Believe he said it was due to the difference in the ammunition in that US shells would burn rather than explode. Perhaps I'll do some more searching when not on my lunch hour and see if I can find it.

No, they haven't had the drawing yet, but I went ahead and purchased some tickets yesterday.

Met a friend of mine for dinner at this same House of Bourbon place not long ago. Seemed a bit overpriced, but between me not being a big drinker and recent inflation, who knows anymore what prices are supposed to be? Food was tasty and the drinks were pleasing to me. My friend wants to go back there soon, so guess he enjoyed it, too. Anyhoo, the Mrs saw the raffle and made a comment about it, and it just got me curious as to whether it's good stuff or the bourbon equivalent of Natural Light.

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. . .Can't really tell what's in that barrel . . .

This is a clip from the list on fb:

For any of your bourbon drinkers out there, any of this any good?

Link to their FB page where the girls soccer team is holding a raffle:

Log into Facebook

Edit: Better link I think:

https://ehs-girls-soccer.square.site/

I have no one involved. But if someone wanted to buy a ticket and actually won it, it would give me an excuse for a road trip somewhere outside of Illinois, and I am ALWAYS looking for a reason to get out of Illinois.

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Trying not to post Gowron memes...

Young Padawan:

(Yeah, wrong genre, so sue me.)

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U-Haul’s annual report for 2021 showed people are heading to Texas and Florida more than any other state while leaving California and Illinois.

I keep telling people to stay away from Illinois. For your own good.

Really.

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Why would people put millions of dollars into one bank? It's only insured to $250k. hug risk.

I guess there's really no easy way to manage and access large sums of cash. I'd always wondered how difficult it would be to have hundreds of millions of dollars - but I'll bet I could suffer through it.

For someone managing his or her personal wealth, perhaps you can afford to have dozens / however many accounts you need to keep all of your deposits insured.

Now imagine you are running a small business with a $12M annual payroll. You are NOT going to run your payroll out of dozens of accounts. You aren't going to risk that the checks you write to your vendors bounce because they drew on the wrong account. The very remote risk of your bank going under pales in comparison to the financial risk of a mistake let alone the huge administrative burden of keeping dozens of accounts to keep them FDIC insured.

Companies may choose to mitigate their risk of a banking booboo by keeping reserves in multiple, non-affiliated banks, but unless / until it happens to "the bank near you", the probability of this kind of thing happening just seems so incredibly remote that I would wager relatively few small business do that.

And I'm not in favor of sending anyone's son or daughter off to fight any wars at all. Doesn't change the inevitability of it.

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One question I have is where are the traffic control signs? Yield or stop signs. I see a couple poles, one the far left corner and another on the near right but neither one seems to have a sign on it.

At 0:30 the news lady said the police car raced through a stop sign. At 0:58 the stop sign on the far corner is seen above and slightly to the left of the silver car's back top corner. At 1:04 in the video you see the stop sign that is on the corner where the silver car came to rest.

This is Australia, the signs are on the corners opposite where you are looking.

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He switched his lights on after the accident.

I'm not sure he turned them on at all, rather, they come on automatically if the vehicle senses it has been in an accident.

Alternately, if he was fiddling with the switch at that exact moment, might be why he blew the stop sign.

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Don't you think that the more we get involved in Ukraine the more Xi sees a window of opportunity to do whatever he wants in the South China Sea and Taiwan? Do you think he'll pass on the opportunity?

If he has a brain, he'll let Russia exhaust our war material supplies and then act. We are at a HUGE disadvantage in the Pacific to begin with because of the long logistics trail. Exacerbate that with empty war material warehouses. Xi has to be smiling.

If Xi thinks this is giving him an opportunity, then he is a fool. Nothing the US is giving to Ukraine is in any way is depleting what would be brought to bear to defend Taiwan, or the Philippines, or Malaysia.