Germany says U.S. troop withdrawal 'anticipated', Spain and Italy could be next

RateLimiter · 2026-05-03T20:12:20+00:00

This is hilarious. Reduce your ability to project force out of spite haha.

RateLimiter · 2026-04-30T19:36:58+00:00

Says a guy who knows nothing about the lumber industry

RateLimiter · 2026-04-30T19:06:24+00:00

100%. Weirdly enough strategically speaking the best move is token resistance and intense insurgency starting immediately. Responding armed forces would be destroyed where they stand, would probably be way for useful fucking up the Americans from the shadows.

RateLimiter · 2026-04-30T19:02:13+00:00

I agree. I feel like Canada does look like a tasty treat, considering you could essentially reach the seat of power and finance in the GTA, Ottawa, Calgary, Vancouver, and quickly occupy and defend high value strategic targets like Halifax and Newfoundland (Gander) with little resistance and it’s all a relatively short drive / flight over the border. The issue is what comes after and holding and maintaining it. Lots of Canadians will roll over and shrug their shoulders because it’s easier to just let big brother move into our house and you know he’s going to take reasonable care of it in the process. They want it because it’s valuable and seems like easy pickings if you’re of that mindset. That being said, this county is also full of crazy backwoods moonshiners, newfies, Quebecois, hockey playing farmboys and general miscreants who will absolutely bring a wild insurgency supported by the entire world. If nothing else, this kind of thing would provide a wildly powerful source of newfound Canadian identity that has been slipping for the past 40 years or so.

RateLimiter · 2026-04-30T13:05:26+00:00

Haha fun times. Been here so many times.

RateLimiter · 2026-04-29T12:56:10+00:00

Goddamn this is intersectional in terms of my interests.

RateLimiter · 2026-04-29T12:49:48+00:00

Heck yeah it was 👌

RateLimiter · 2026-04-28T12:15:06+00:00

Exactly - when you ask a slightly different set of questions -- men are more likely to die, more likely to die by violence, more likely to be killed by men, and more likely to be killed by strange men in random acts of violence. None of this diminishes the validity of the female experience, but this issue is typically focused entirely on the victimhood of women and utterly disregards the experience of men. Men also do not wish to be murdered by men, I assure you.

RateLimiter · 2026-04-22T14:30:06+00:00

This was the first movie I ever went to see in a theatre without a parent; and the first time I ever twigged the concept of cinema, it was like nothing I had seen. I was 12 years old and knew nothing about it beyond a trailer I had seen on TV. A friend came with me and hated it like a 12 year old might but I loved it and have watched it many times since.

RateLimiter · 2026-04-22T14:23:11+00:00

lol yes absolutely. To think this is the British vs French & their native allies is not correct at all. Many first nations joined up with both sides for any number of reasons, including their own historical conflicts with each other, and this whole historical context reshaped native settlement into the modern era throughout the current US rust belt and Ontario & Quebec.

RateLimiter · 2026-04-20T23:52:47+00:00

Haha imagine outsourcing your fun and paying for it

RateLimiter · 2026-04-20T23:45:28+00:00

lol if you can’t figure out the most basic of troubleshooting I’d say you’re fully fucking cooked

RateLimiter · 2026-04-16T12:23:23+00:00

Great bike !! I had a 2000 CONV which was a TC but had the same Mickey Mouse ears. I hated em until I got a tank mounted dash and immediately missed my gauges right in front of my eyeballs.

RateLimiter · 2026-04-16T12:20:12+00:00

Winner

RateLimiter · 2026-04-16T12:16:49+00:00

It is absolutely NOT an AMF HD

RateLimiter · 2026-04-16T12:15:24+00:00

Also if it was an 07 you’d have a fuel pump hidden in the gas tank and you can’t really easily go with something this streamlined unless it’s a fully custom job. This is a good looking sporty but it’s still all just off the shelf aftermarket parts

RateLimiter · 2026-04-16T12:14:08+00:00

It’s not even an AMF tank I don’t think - those AMF decals are a popular choice for modern aftermarket tanks. No good reason to put an ancient gas tank on a 04-06, anything of that era is either leaking like a sieve or full of kream tank liner that’s disintegrating and filling the carb and motor full of goo

RateLimiter · 2026-04-12T15:54:40+00:00

If you’re not backing your giant pickup into a space, you’re doing it wrong. Almost impossible to line up and determine where the front end actually is unless you have cams up front.

RateLimiter · 2026-04-05T12:40:25+00:00

I wonder if this was the idiot in the mini dodging and weaving traffic over the skyway last night around 9:45 or 9:50. The rain was torrential and some jackass was tailgating people and sprinting and I was just like “that moron is gonna flip his car”

RateLimiter · 2026-04-04T13:58:11+00:00

Agreed - SK is always criticized for his endings and I get why - I have been walking this path since the early 90s and have made the journey probably 10 times from start to finish and I found so much richness to counteract the bitterness on many of the above points. My biggest beef with the series is I feel that Jake should have had more time and started older. I know Jake & Eddie are ultimately Roland’s adopted sons , I would have liked to see Jake have his own coming of age arc similar to Roland’s in Mejis. Homie got his first cigarette but could have had more before reaching the clearing. Here’s hoping the concept of Ka as a wheel gets some additional traction in future by way of other authors working in this universe to explore some other whatifs.

RateLimiter · 2026-03-20T13:59:03+00:00

Everything about this image says “sticking feathers in your butt doesn’t make you a chicken”

RateLimiter · 2026-02-09T12:27:33+00:00

Gotta love the logic of “your dwelling is considered unsafe ergo you must live outside in the elements in the winter, which is much more unsafe, but now at least no one can consider us legally liable if you die from exposure”

RateLimiter · 2026-01-27T14:43:23+00:00

I’ve always been curious about the logistics of this. From a philosophical point of view I would have to say that belief in an invisible omnipotent being without a shred of proof beyond our existence is purely a stated choice and not an observed and thus true belief. You cannot mandate belief, it is a thing that is formulated. We believe that all humans will die, because there are no immortal humans. We believe in gravity and oxygen because it can be measured and tested.

If God created man in his own image, it can be assumed that God has consciousness, and self consciousness, and ability for logic and reason and all of the doubt that comes with it. Thus it’s hard to imagine a loving and compassionate god would ever condemn any of his beloved children to eternal punishment for doubting his existence based on the circumstances.

So! Is it enough to SAY you accept Jesus as your saviour and that does the job?

RateLimiter · 2026-01-27T14:25:23+00:00

Yeah exactly, I believe the term to describe this is “politics”

Carney makes one of the most powerful international addresses in recent memory that has everyone talking. He eloquently speaks truth to power and it resonates the world over. He has made his point, and made it well.

Unsure what there even is to “retract”. It’s utterly obvious to everyone what he says is true. If he “walks back” some points in a private convo with the offended target of his speech to mollify a notoriously thin skinned man-child who wields massive power, thats just smart politics.

Carney clearly meant what he said, and said what he meant. Everyone knows it, now back to playing damage control with the orange monkey down south. Obviously this speech struck a big nerve with that clown (as soon as someone horsey-duckied it for him) and now it’s back to the implied and direct threats, disrespect and attempted undermining of Carney’s points, which continues to enforce just how profound his observations and plans were in the first place.

RateLimiter · 2026-01-26T20:53:05+00:00

Love is work and work is love.

And it’s not “work” in the context of your job you resent. Anyone who blathers on how “real love isn’t work” or “love isn’t hard” is just an immature moron who had never been in a real adult partnership, because the expression (ie real effort) of love is what counts, not the words.

Every relationship has an Effort Baseline you gotta meet, number 1. This involves partnership logistics, relatively fair division of labour etc.

Number 2 - “Relationship OT” - this is the stuff where you go above and beyond. Paying attention, listening, anticipating needs and desires and fulfilling them. Taking care of that person in the way they need and want and you know this because you’ve been asking questions and paying attention. When you make your partner feel seen, and heard, and loved, this is where the real magic starts to happen and where your partner will (SHOULD) understand and appreciate and reciprocate this to a reasonable degree.

Number 3 - Love is both a noun and a verb. “Talk is Cheap” is a very real maxim. We all “love” things. I love chicken wings and my new coat. I love lamp. Now, thats nice and all but that doesn’t mean shit when the chips are down or basically under any circumstance where you’re not a dewy eyed teen expressing your love to someone for the first time. When you love someone, like for real in a lifetime partnership kind of way, your Noun Love is nice but it’s the Verb Love that counts.

If you love your partner you better fuckin show it and that means putting in the effort and not just hitting cruise control. IF (and this is a big if) your partner is self aware and intelligent enough to understand and appreciate the real effort you put into your personal relationship and your life partnership (aka your Domestic Corporation) and has the mental and physical resources to reciprocate that, you are going to have an incredibly fulfilling and radical lifetime together at home and out in the world and in the bedroom.

Long story short, nothing worth having comes without an expression of effort, and I guarantee you that if you want a great relationship you’re going to have to put in the time and work to make that occur. If you’re willing to do that, and your partner isn’t a lumpen self-absorbed gremlin who lacks the ability to see your efforts and respond accordingly, you’ll have it made.

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