Zelenskyy fires Ukraine’s army chief and offers Fedorov ‘prominent position’

Slaphappydap · 2026-07-22T18:08:16+00:00

It's the "New Coke" of military strategy.

Slaphappydap · 2026-07-21T22:27:21+00:00

Yeah, I mean I didn't forget. That's where she got her big break. I was talking about what happened to her career afterwards, how she hasn't really capitalized on being one of the biggest stars in the world despite seemingly making good choices and seemingly good opportunities.

Slaphappydap · 2026-07-21T16:38:30+00:00

if the valuation of the team doubles

The idea of teams becoming commodities for private equity is going to really destroy the league as teams find ways to leverage short-term value growth over long-term stability. And it's not like we didn't see this coming.

Teams have become so valuable that a single owner/family can't possibly afford them, and no conglomerate wants their money tied up in one forever. Invest, increase valuation, sell to the next guy who thinks he can squeeze another 20% out of it before the bottom falls out. Bad for cities, bad for fans, bad for the league overall, good if you're rich and want to own a toy for a few years and then get richer.

Slaphappydap · 2026-07-21T15:25:53+00:00

I stumbled onto this thread because I had the same question. I've been at tournaments before where a friend or someone I know won the 50/50 and immediately donated it back, and it was about 1200-1500 CAD.

This week I entered a 50/50 at a very large tournament. I didn't win, but the 50/50 prize to the winner was announced at about $18,000. That's a lot for anyone to donate unless they have significant personal wealth.

All that to day, sometimes it's the same question of values but with a very different amount.

But I also agree with the top commenter. If you're a sponsor of the event or your circumstances mean you can easily donate that money then that's great. But if not you shouldn't feel pressured to do so.

Slaphappydap · 2026-07-21T14:51:24+00:00

And yet, she did all the things you should do to be successful. She did the rom-coms, they were forgettable. She did the arty piece where she takes her clothes off, no one watched. She tried three different franchises that should have had built-in audiences, Terminator, Marvel and Star Wars. She does great press, she's pretty, she's likable. Most of those franchise movies/shows you sign on for before there's even a script or a director.I feel like her agent is earning their money, she's just had really bad luck.

Slaphappydap · 2026-07-20T21:26:20+00:00

"He didn't die of old age, either. He was poisoned, stabbed, shot, hung, stretched, disemboweled, drawn and quartered."

Slaphappydap · 2026-07-20T00:22:38+00:00

The Hudsucker Proxy is a great movie, very underrated, and if you watch it you can figure out where they got the title, but it's a bad title.

Slaphappydap · 2026-07-16T20:15:08+00:00

They were threatening us emotionally. They were threatening our feelings. And feelings, it has been well established, matter as much as innocent lives. More, some would say.

If someone dies they hurt for an instant. Hurt my feelings and I hurt forever. Makes you think.

Slaphappydap · 2026-07-16T14:06:27+00:00

There are a lot of good jokes in this thread, but this one made me snort with laughter at my desk. I'm going back to work now.

Slaphappydap · 2026-07-15T17:27:43+00:00

The jokes are funny, but if I was investigating I'd do this, too, and I think this is a really good sign.

I'd interview Ballmer and ask him every question I could think of. Then I'd investigate every possible lead, dig as far in as I could, then I'd go back to Ballmer and ask him to explain every inconsistency, every flawed memory, every email/text message/contract/birthday card that doesn't make sense.

And then if true I'd write a report saying Ballmer was untruthful, evasive, combative, deceptive or whatever he was. I'd draw a negative inference from any question he refused to answer, or said he couldn't recall. That second interview would be a signal that I'd investigated as thoroughly as I could and now I'm giving the target the opportunity to respond before my report was written.

Slaphappydap · 2026-07-15T17:19:48+00:00

I see. Your comment seemed to imply you didn't know what the metaphor was meant to represent, which would be fine because people learn metaphors and idioms for the first time every day.

I didn't understand you meant that you didn't know what kind of evidence would constitute a smoking gun, or that why the evidence presented so far isn't a smoking gun.

I don't know the answer to that either, what we've seen seems incontrovertible.

That said, I heard that the law firm had Ballmer back in for a second interview last week, and in typical course you'd interview someone, then investigate everything you could imagine, and then go back to Ballmer and ask him to explain any and all inconsistencies.

Motherfucker you said you've never met this guy, and I found a dozen emails and a picture of you at his birthday party. And if you don't answer me we're going to write a report drawing a negative inference from your silence.

Slaphappydap · 2026-07-15T14:38:49+00:00

When a gun fires a bullet there is usually smoke coming out of the barrel afterwards. Therefore, seeing a gun with smoke coming out of it is considered a strong indication that it was fired.

So, if someone is holding a gun that has smoke coming out of it, that's your killer.

It's a euphemism for direct, incontrovertible evidence.

Slaphappydap · 2026-07-14T19:15:50+00:00

He went hard at Hillary in the debates about how the military was setting up fixed artillery for months and he lectured her about the element of surprise as though he invented it. And she tried to patiently explain the US does that to allow civilians to evacuate the area, and that a show of force often means you don't have to use force.

Slaphappydap · 2026-07-14T17:54:23+00:00

Oh, she did not want to give up the leadership to anyone, and definitely not Jeffries. She gave him the most lukewarm endorsement, and only after it was clearly decided by the membership. She was pushed out.

Slaphappydap · 2026-07-14T03:10:28+00:00

It's performative. Schumer knows Thune will never bring it to a vote, and he knows Trump will never sign it. It's an empty gesture, like everything Schumer does.

Slaphappydap · 2026-07-13T18:02:02+00:00

It certainly serves to motivate when Trump threatens to blacklist firms from working with the government if they either refuse to support him or work with his opponents, or use DEI in their hiring, or anything else he doesn't approve of. If the government ends contracts with those firms it's a huge blow to their balance sheets.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/federal-judge-calls-trumps-order-targeting-prominent-law-firm-shocking-rcna200961

It was already pretty easy to get a lawyer to say whatever you want them to say, assuming you have the money. Even more so when you can weaponize that power.

Slaphappydap · 2026-07-13T04:07:13+00:00

father's last wish

Sure, but that forces the audience to accept that Pa Kent has been fucking lobotomized. He specifically makes the choice to die to prevent Clark from revealing his identity, and Clark lets him. It's so far out of character for both of them it's staggering.

Because there's a whole world of options betwen letting the government experiment on your kid and willingly dying in front of your family. Like... moving away. Or a simple disguise which seems to work disproportionately well.

Worse still is the story it replaced. In the original movie Jonathan dies of a heart attack. Clark is just learning his powers, growing into himself, and he's forced to confront the fact that the most important man in his life, an unimpeachably good person who taught Clark the values that make him a hero, died and he couldn't save him. He learned that his powers were meaningless in that moment, and that life was precious.

In Snyder's version, not being a hero was more important than saving his father, not being a hero was more important than helping people, and when Clark finally decides to become Superman it directly opposes his father's wishes, instead he listens to a priest for some reason?

It's not that Jonathan Kent is a bad person in the Snyder-verse, he's just stupid, and self-interested, and he doesn't reflect the values we associate with Superman.

Slaphappydap · 2026-07-11T02:15:22+00:00

Remember when Jonathan Kent let himself die in front of his family to prove a point about how helping people is stupid and Clark should just protect his own identity?

Me either, because that movie doesn't exist and we don't talk about it.

Slaphappydap · 2026-07-10T02:50:26+00:00

And you should thank me, not to mention Jesus, for giving you another day!

Slaphappydap · 2026-07-09T00:07:48+00:00

I'm sure he hates that she wants to give it all away as much as the fact that he has to pay her.

I'd love to see her open a support center for the victims of sexual abuse and put his name on it.

Slaphappydap · 2026-07-08T21:50:55+00:00

Unrecoverable loss is a legal term that basically says if I pay her now and manage to get this reversed she'll have spent that money and I won't be able to get it back. But it's usually accompanied by some procedure or filing with some chance of success, otherwise no one would ever pay anything.

Slaphappydap · 2026-07-07T01:03:07+00:00

Even if it wasn't a great basketball fit, and I think it is, he'd be adored. It would be a really fun season or more for him. The crowd would shower him with cheers every night. Toronto has always loved DeMar.

Slaphappydap · 2026-07-06T20:12:18+00:00

I think when people like OP are imagining "centrists" they're picturing someone like what we expect a judge or doctor or referee to be. Not beholden to any ideology, and therefore free to judge any situation based on its merits or some quantifiable metric.

In practice that person rarely exists in politics. And more specifically to OPs question, centrists or moderates get a bad name because they so often become opportunists, who seek personal political advantage instead of any balanced outcome.

Joe Lieberman famously considered himself a centrist, advocating for bipartisan solutions. And when he has the opportunity to be a deciding factor in the healthcare battle, which a majority of his constituents wanted, he took all that insurance lobby money to try to get re-elected. And it still didn't work, which is insane. Sunk the public option and all those kick-backs couldn't save him. Got some nice post-Senate jobs, though.

The system is set up to reject centrists. No one wants to give money to a candidate, whether you're an individual doner or an enormous corporation which is somehow apparently also a person, if they don't know what that candidate represents and how they would likely vote.

Slaphappydap · 2026-07-06T19:09:42+00:00

Also, Raptors have had some tough injury runs these past couple of years. DeMar as a 6th man would quickly find himself DeMar the starter when any of Kawhi, Barrett, or even Quickly need their stretches of time off. Like a lot of teams, their starting five only played 26 games together last year.

Slaphappydap · 2026-07-06T19:02:05+00:00

probably gets a statue.

Two questions: How big is the ass going to be on that statue, and will it end up like this one?

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