I was very distracted by the excitement of trying to follow that a little. (Was rooting for injuries.)
Doesn't really matter, we aren't going to be prepared to act on any Russian weaknesses until the Democrats are no longer in a position to backstab any sane American foreign policy.
Democrats are a greater potential danger to the American people than any foreign power could really manage. Even a hostile foreign disease warfare program would basically rely on Democrat collaborators for much of the real damage.
(I don't think the Russians or the PRC have much working nukes. They would need a good number of maintained warheads, maintained guidance systems, and maintained delivery systems to get past a working US defense system. The totalitarians are self sabotaging too hard to know which systems have what level of reliability given the actual maintenance. (I do find the totalitarianism in America concerning with regard to effects on missile and air defense.) If I thought the Democrat vote in the blue cities were not mostly fraud, I would be somewhat willing to write off a few cities as justice for the Democrat treason.)
If the Russians turn their backs on totalitarianism, they may be able to fix their maintenance and economic problems. Then we may really regret missing the opportunity to launch a counter force and counter Moscow first strike while those systems are this poorly maintained. Or Russia might get sane enough not to see us as their primary foe. So delaying action while we take the slow path on fixing the Democrats may or may not be the correct call.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Mon Jun 26 20:00:13 2023 (r9O5h)
KICK.COM is a new streaming network that seems to be much more friendly to individual streamers than Twitch...whose recent TOS fiasco has got a lot of streamers very nervous. Kick is currently in beta but it does have the capability to stream and seems to work fine with few bugs. These are mostly very minor streamer interface related things and not at all apparent to viewers
Well.....
My internet alter ego had a short test stream last night that worked OK. Reviewing the V.O.D. it still looked OK from the viewer end. So I'm going to do a SURPRISE full-on stream tonight at 9PM/21:00 EST /01:00 UTC over on https://kick.com/BRICKMUPPET We will be grinding in the item world of Disgaea: Hour of Darkness while chatting and spamming ALL 30 of my emotes. (Twitch currently lets me use 5)
Rudyard Lynch has a good overview of the history an RELIGIOSITY of communist thought (and far leftism in general). Unlike a lot on the right he looks closely and fairly at the genuine appeal this malign force has, why so many are persuaded by it's arguments and why it spread so fast. This is more honest and helpful than assuming they are all 2-dimensional pulp villains. (Which, to be fair is a rational, if misguided conclusion if one looks only at Communism's results). It's 50 minutes, but it is worth the time.
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I have some knee arthritis issues as well. Down to about half the cartilage I should have. I've been taking Glucosamine/Chondroitin, which has been helping, although I don't know if it will in your advanced state.
Posted by: Mauser at Wed Jun 7 22:54:00 2023 (BzEjn)
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I'm glad to see this news. I was a little afraid that I would hear of a sudden decline.
I'm very happy that you are seeing some improvements, and not just having to endure this stuff.
The reading especially sounds awful to me.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Thu Jun 8 07:59:25 2023 (r9O5h)
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You are right to postpone a replacement as much as possible, even at your age. Can't go back from those.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Sun Jun 11 00:10:43 2023 (LZ7Bg)
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Received a number of cortisone shots when I was younger. Found out later that one potential side effect is early onset of cataracts. Found a knee compound from Garden of Life (no, they aren't paying me) that has a lot of good stuff in it and helps me a lot. The wife recently started having knee problems so she tried taking it, and it is helping her as well.
Posted by: Frank at Thu Jun 15 02:39:31 2023 (rglbH)
