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[mold]

Can't feed our own homeless

the homeless aren't hungry

the working poor, on the other hand....

 

[Absolutego]

Well then, this will *SURELY* motivate that precious young voting bloc to Pokémon Go to the polls in November, right?
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Don't count it out yet. This latest revision is just the administration trying to patch over the legal flaws in their plan that gave various activist firms like the Pacific Legal Foundation standing to sue. Biden's handlers are doing everything they can to re-use the tactic that allowed them to hold on to the Most Secure Election in History.

I doubt it'll work for this, though. The courts were probably willing to go along with electoral fraud in 2020 to not have mass domestic unrest. Not forgiving student loans doesn't have anywhere near the same civil impact, the debtors will just bitch about it on twitter and move on with their lives.

 

[Matt Damon]

https://thelawdogfiles.com/2022/09/nordstream.html

Very interesting read. It's always mind-blowing to get the perspective of people who actually have practical experience with these industrial processes and start to realize how hopelessly ignorant I am of nearly everything outside of my own profession.

 

[Capsaicin Addict]

Very interesting read. It's always mind-blowing to get the perspective of people who actually have practical experience with these industrial processes and start to realize how hopelessly ignorant I am of nearly everything outside of my own profession.

He may be wrong. It might've been enemy action. But it is very, very plausible that Vodka Drunkenski fucked up and blew up his own pipeline.

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

How rare are tank battles within less than 100 yards of each other?

Since WW2?

Very rare.

There were some like that during The Storm, but that was a deliberate rush, usually with only a few tanks.

This?

This is fucking embarrassing.

 

[Puff]

I was visiting family for a month then the farms got shut down. What did I miss?

 

[The Last Stand]

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Florida Men are simply of a different breed, a higher caliber.

Man hates another man so bad, you go out in a hurricane to express that. That's just too funny.

 

[More AWS-8Q Than You]

Very interesting read. It's always mind-blowing to get the perspective of people who actually have practical experience with these industrial processes and start to realize how hopelessly ignorant I am of nearly everything outside of my own profession.

As one of the comments pointed out though, it's a joint German and Russian project and the leaks are closer to Germany than Russia. You're telling me the Germans skipped on maintaining the line or reporting that the Russian's weren't keeping up their end? And that the leak just happened to happen at the best moment to shut down Germans protesting about dropping sanctions for rising energy costs? At the same time the Norway-Poland line opens?

Sure, could just be a coincidence. You should never trust those though.

 

[MrJokerRager]

People lie on Twitter, you know.

I mean, I'm not ruling out direct action. But I posted this link over in happenings: https://thelawdogfiles.com/2022/09/nordstream.html

Suffice to say, Russian maintenance probably isn't much better than Russian logistics. So it's possible nobody at all did it (at least, intentionally).

Well there is always the possibility of the boomer meme of the "Drunken Retarded Russian at the wheel" that the pipeline leaks could be an accident and everyone is taking advantage of it.

The only coincidence is that another pipeline that iirc connects Poland and Norway giving oil to Europe started operating the same day.

A perfect storm I guess if it was an accident due to Russian incompetence.

 

[tehpope]

I was visiting family for a month then the farms got shut down. What did I miss?

Not much. The market is taking heavy damage. Biden and Copmala still gaf. Troons still mad. Near still alive.

 

[pwnest injun]

People lie on Twitter, you know.

I mean, I'm not ruling out direct action. But I posted this link over in happenings: https://thelawdogfiles.com/2022/09/nordstream.html

Suffice to say, Russian maintenance probably isn't much better than Russian logistics. So it's possible nobody at all did it (at least, intentionally).

So it malfunctioned so hard that it exploded with the strength of 100 kilotons of TNT? Do go on.

 

[Capsaicin Addict]

So it malfunctioned so hard that it exploded with the strength of 100 kilotons of TNT? Do go on.

300 million cubic meters of natural gas, sitting in the pipeline.

Just add methane hydrate.

 

[Puff]

300 million cubic meters of natural gas, sitting in the pipeline.

Just add methane hydrate.

Timing is too good. You can't convince me it was an accident. You can argue as to who done it. That's a better question.

 

[pwnest injun]

300 million cubic meters of natural gas, sitting in the pipeline.

Just add methane hydrate.

There were 300,000,000 cubic meters of methane in that one 30 foot section of pipe?? Holy shit!! This pipe was a monster!!

BTW, I hear that Cortez's Spanish galleons were made of wood so it makes perfect sense that they would happen to catch fire right after he landed his armies in Mexico.

 

[Standardized Profile]

Second straight quarter of negative GDP? Isn't this the third or fourth? Or is this part of the whole "lets just keep redefining recession until it's not us" thing?

This is the second negative quarter. All of 2021 was positive, and both quarters in 2022 have been negative. Each quarter has three GDP estimates released at monthly intervals. The advance estimate comes 30 days after the quarter ends, then a month later the second estimate, then another month later the third. After that the cycle starts over. At the end of October, we'll have the advance estimate for the third quarter.

A couple pictures, interpret them how you will:





The stock market is reacting to this the way you'd expect. I'd love to buy the dip but I have a large planned expense coming up, and some idiotic HR lady just made it a lot more expensive for me. I know KF is not my blog but I've been malding about that all day,and seeing the aggregate effect of idiots on the country's economic health reminded me of how much damage has been done to my economic health by a single idiot.

 

[Matt Damon]

There were 300,000,000 cubic meters of methane in that one 30 foot section of pipe?? Holy shit!! This pipe was a monster!!

Dude, read the article. Maybe he's right, maybe he's wrong.

I don't know why you're being willfully ignorant of something that he explains in a lot of detail as being well within the realm of feasibility.

 

[Memento Malum]

To be honest, if the options are:
> unknown parties blew up the pipeline for unclear political objectives
vs
> Russians are bad at maintenance

I'm going with the latter. Not saying it isn't the former, but Hanlon's Razor seems reasonable here.

 

[pwnest injun]

Dude, read the article. Maybe he's right, maybe he's wrong.

I don't know why you're being willfully ignorant of something that he explains in a lot of detail as being well within the realm of feasibility.

Because the CIA approached the German government a week before it blew up to say "someone is going to sabotage the pipeline" and then NATO declared positively that it was sabotaged, and are trying to say Russia did it, are two examples of why I don't think it just happened on its own.

Literally lol.

 

[More AWS-8Q Than You]

To be honest, if the options are:
> unknown parties blew up the pipeline for unclear political objectives
vs
> Russians are bad at maintenance

I'm going with the latter. Not saying it isn't the former, but Hanlon's Razor seems reasonable here.

The political objectives would be keeping the Germans from cucking on sanctions for cheaper Russian gas. Nordstream also pisses the Poles and Ukrainians off, because they don't get transfer fees from it. There are geo-political reasons for it, but you'd have to be US State Department levels of retarded to think they're good.

That said, as much as I don't think it's an accident, I hope it actually is. Otherwise we've just opened a can of worms and officially made underwater infrastructure a legitimate target. Hope you like underwater communication lines getting cut.

 

[Puff]

The political objectives would be keeping the Germans from cucking on sanctions for cheaper Russian gas. Nordstream also pisses the Poles and Ukrainians off, because they don't get transfer fees from it. There are geo-political reasons for it, but you'd have to be US State Department levels of retarded to think they're good.

That said, as much as I don't think it's an accident, I hope it actually is. Otherwise we've just opened a can of worms and officially made underwater infrastructure a legitimate target. Hope you like underwater communication lines getting cut.

Oh, boy, I hope so. The internet needs to get less global.