OT: Hurricanes Lounge XL. 99 Luftballons

[Boom Boom Apathy]

I think maybe it just does it to me. It's happened a bunch of times. I guess I've been flagged in the system as a violator.

it happened to me before on a couple occasions a year+ ago. . nothing political, just a normal hockey post. hasn't happened in years though.

 

[Lempo]

I went and liked it just to find out if what you said was true. And it wasn't. I clicked like and it liked it without the site asking me anything. Just gave a like. So may be it's just certain people? or how you did it? Was just normal for me.

EDIT: I do remember in the past when I went to like something it asked me if I really wanted to do it, but that was infrequent. I assume maybe I did something differently. anyhow, in this case, it didn't ask anything so I don't think it's this site.

Ditto. That seemed to happen a lot during a specific time period for me too. The posts in question were normal regular posts, and it wasn't in any way content related. Some kind of forum soft hiccup I guess.

Obviously took an offence as a F26 poster. Yes, I do mean to like that post, like I do the 56 following ones.

 

[hockeynjune]

it happened to me before on a couple occasions a year+ ago. . nothing political, just a normal hockey post. hasn't happened in years though.

It has happened to me a few times on various posts. None the least bit controversial . Happened in one of the GDT threads last week.

 

[tarheelhockey]

I think maybe it just does it to me. It's happened a bunch of times. I guess I've been flagged in the system as a violator.

I could be way off, but I have found that it seems to happen when the site is running a little slow. Almost like a throttle on interacting with the site at rapid pace. Could be just a coincidence, though. In any case it does seem to come and go without explanation from time to time.

 

[Frank Drebin]

I feel I had to share this with someone. Have a great day Canes fans

 

[SniperHF]

XF 2.1 - Confirm like

Under what circumstances would it ask you to confirm your like reaction? A user seen this for the first time and was asking why it happened.

xenforo.com

 

[The Stranger]

The "hobbyist balloon" is the weakest cover story in government history. What were the other two? Why did they make it very clear that these were "objects" and NOT balloons when they shot them down. All they had to do was say "yeah we thought there were more Chinese balloons up there, turns out they were commercial" on day 1. And the idea that a tiny balloon could be locked onto by a heatseeking missile, much less cause the warhead to detonate is ridiculous.

I don't think its a coincidence these incidents occurred (or were staged) the fiscal year when an act of congress compelled DoD to set up an agency specifically to study the UAP phenomena, and has a requirement to revisit every single report on it since 1945.

My understanding is that the gov't said just that. John Kirby called them "balloons tied to some commercial or benign purpose".

In a world where the US Gov't is funding studies like whether Thanos actually could've snapped his fingers whilst wearing the infinity gauntlet, I doubt shooting down balloons with missiles was required to justify their UAP boondoggle funding. It was most likely either a) a panic reaction after bad press over the China balloon or b) a distraction to a different story (which, yes, is a conspiracy theory).

On the topic of conspiracy theories, the past few years have been quite eventful. We've seen a few get proven to be true and one get proven to be false...now they are no longer theories...they are just a matter of public record.

 

[Negan4Coach]

My understanding is that the gov't said just that. John Kirby called them "balloons tied to some commercial or benign purpose".

In a world where the US Gov't is funding studies like whether Thanos actually could've snapped his fingers whilst wearing the infinity gauntlet, I doubt shooting down balloons with missiles was required to justify their UAP boondoggle funding. It was most likely either a) a panic reaction after bad press over the China balloon or b) a distraction to a different story (which, yes, is a conspiracy theory).

On the topic of conspiracy theories, the past few years have been quite eventful. We've seen a few get proven to be true and one get proven to be false...now they are no longer theories...they are just a matter of public record.

Oh does it only take 2 weeks to memory hole stuff now, eh?

I'm not impressed with Kirby's weekly Potomac Two-Step. I watched all their briefings very intently that weekend and this is what they said:

: "I'm not going to categorize them as balloons. We're calling them objects for a reason. [...] These are objects. I am not able to categorize how they stay aloft."

Plus there were the pilots contacting the news and telling them they weren't balloons, plus the air traffic controller tape on CBS news Sunday morning saying there was a metal cylinder that shot overhead like a "cruise missile", etc.

Looked like they were all geared up to disclose something..then suddenly clammed up and just talked about the actual balloon they shot down.

 

[tarheelhockey]

In a world where the US Gov't is funding studies like whether Thanos actually could've snapped his fingers whilst wearing the infinity gauntlet,

I, too, hate when scientists try to creatively make otherwise dull basic research fun and accessible to the public.

 

[The Stranger]

I, too, hate when scientists try to creatively make otherwise dull basic research fun and accessible to the public.

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

Just leaving this out here.

 

[MinJaBen]

Just leaving this out here.

It's not just Ukrainian ethnic cleansing going on in Ukraine.

 

[Negan4Coach]

Just leaving this out here.

Hey those 15 time zones of Tartars and Uzbeks aren't going to feed themselves into the meatgrinder...I suspect you'd find similar casualty data for WWII tbh

 

[The Stranger]

I've seen some wildly different estimates on casualties. The footnotes on that graph say they are harvesting data from local news and obits...I wonder if they have people collecting and aggregating this manually or if it's some sort of AI doing the work.

What is the move if UKR runs out of warm bodies first?

 

[Sens1Canes2]

I've seen some wildly different estimates on casualties. The footnotes on that graph say they are harvesting data from local news and obits...I wonder if they have people collecting and aggregating this manually or if it's some sort of AI doing the work.

What is the move if UKR runs out of warm bodies first?

Well, Zelensky says that the US will have to send their sons and daughters. So now the spigot contains money AND people.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

I've seen some wildly different estimates on casualties. The footnotes on that graph say they are harvesting data from local news and obits...I wonder if they have people collecting and aggregating this manually or if it's some sort of AI doing the work.

What is the move if UKR runs out of warm bodies first?

Seems unlikely. Entrenched defense always has the advantage, and the Russians are throwing massive amounts of troops forward without the benefit of superior artillery they enjoyed earlier in the war. Even if you leave aside issues of morale and motivation, the position favors the defenders. It's clear that the Ukrainian strategy is to absorb everything that Russia can throw at Bakhmut, inflict as many casualties as they can, fall back if they must, and then counter later in the spring when Russia's attack is exhausted and they've got a huge front to defend with worn out troops. In the same way they traded Sieverodonetsk for Kherson and Izium, Ukraine will trade Bakhmut for Melitopol if they must.

Numbers I've been seeing indicate 2:1 casualty ratio and 7:1 death ratio. Fog of war and all that, but the glum faces on Russian media certainly don't portend any great successes for Russian forces. If there were recent videos of massive slaughters of Ukrainian troops like the ones that happened earlier this month to Russian troops in Vuhledar, you can be sure that Margarita Simonyan would be showing those videos non stop, instead of complaining about NATO forces and threatening nukes for the 700th time.

 

[hblueridgegal]

Monday night around 7 pm, my Dad called to tell me that brother had fallen ill and that he'd called the EMS for care and was in the ICU. He'd been battling what we thought was a bad stomach virus or colitis for a bit. He died at Noon yesterday from hemorrhagic pancreatitis and cardiac arrest. I tried to make it back by catching the first flight home that I could get but I landed to the news. He was only 55. We are all so stunned. And his last moments were very traumatic and awful.

Please listen to your body and see a Dr. And, keep a close eye on those you love.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Monday night around 7 pm, my Dad called to tell me that brother had fallen ill and that he'd called the EMS for care and was in the ICU. He'd been battling what we thought was a bad stomach virus or colitis for a bit. He died at Noon yesterday from hemorrhagic pancreatitis and cardiac arrest. I tried to make it back by catching the first flight home that I could get but I landed to the news. He was only 55. We are all so stunned. And his last moments were very traumatic and awful.

Please listen to your body and see a Dr. And, keep a close eye on those you love.

This must be devastating for your family. I’m so sorry.

 

[Borsig]

Seems unlikely. Entrenched defense always has the advantage, and the Russians are throwing massive amounts of troops forward without the benefit of superior artillery they enjoyed earlier in the war. Even if you leave aside issues of morale and motivation, the position favors the defenders. It's clear that the Ukrainian strategy is to absorb everything that Russia can throw at Bakhmut, inflict as many casualties as they can, fall back if they must, and then counter later in the spring when Russia's attack is exhausted and they've got a huge front to defend with worn out troops. In the same way they traded Sieverodonetsk for Kherson and Izium, Ukraine will trade Bakhmut for Melitopol if they must.

Numbers I've been seeing indicate 2:1 casualty ratio and 7:1 death ratio. Fog of war and all that, but the glum faces on Russian media certainly don't portend any great successes for Russian forces. If there were recent videos of massive slaughters of Ukrainian troops like the ones that happened earlier this month to Russian troops in Vuhledar, you can be sure that Margarita Simonyan would be showing those videos non stop, instead of complaining about NATO forces and threatening nukes for the 700th time.

WW2 Germany has entered the chat. The Kill ratio for WH forces vs Red army was something on the order of 10:1 until around Dec 1943. Post 43, the ratio evened up a bit. In the end, it was around 4M to around 10M losses. The point was, the red army was being wholesale slaughtered by the WH, until 1943 and it did nothing to stop the flood of bodies coming out of the soviet union.

Remember - the Russians aren't sending Slavs from Sta petersburg or Muscovites here. They are sending Tartars and Buryats.

Monday night around 7 pm, my Dad called to tell me that brother had fallen ill and that he'd called the EMS for care and was in the ICU. He'd been battling what we thought was a bad stomach virus or colitis for a bit. He died at Noon yesterday from hemorrhagic pancreatitis and cardiac arrest. I tried to make it back by catching the first flight home that I could get but I landed to the news. He was only 55. We are all so stunned. And his last moments were very traumatic and awful.

Please listen to your body and see a Dr. And, keep a close eye on those you love.

My wife has chronic pancratits and this is always a risk

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Monday night around 7 pm, my Dad called to tell me that brother had fallen ill and that he'd called the EMS for care and was in the ICU. He'd been battling what we thought was a bad stomach virus or colitis for a bit. He died at Noon yesterday from hemorrhagic pancreatitis and cardiac arrest. I tried to make it back by catching the first flight home that I could get but I landed to the news. He was only 55. We are all so stunned. And his last moments were very traumatic and awful.

Please listen to your body and see a Dr. And, keep a close eye on those you love.

So very sorry for your loss. I know how difficult the loss of a sibling can be. My condolences.

 

[raynman]

Monday night around 7 pm, my Dad called to tell me that brother had fallen ill and that he'd called the EMS for care and was in the ICU. He'd been battling what we thought was a bad stomach virus or colitis for a bit. He died at Noon yesterday from hemorrhagic pancreatitis and cardiac arrest. I tried to make it back by catching the first flight home that I could get but I landed to the news. He was only 55. We are all so stunned. And his last moments were very traumatic and awful.

Please listen to your body and see a Dr. And, keep a close eye on those you love.

Very sorry for your loss

 

[SlavinAway]

Monday night around 7 pm, my Dad called to tell me that brother had fallen ill and that he'd called the EMS for care and was in the ICU. He'd been battling what we thought was a bad stomach virus or colitis for a bit. He died at Noon yesterday from hemorrhagic pancreatitis and cardiac arrest. I tried to make it back by catching the first flight home that I could get but I landed to the news. He was only 55. We are all so stunned. And his last moments were very traumatic and awful.

Please listen to your body and see a Dr. And, keep a close eye on those you love.

Sorry for your loss.

 

[NotOpie]

Monday night around 7 pm, my Dad called to tell me that brother had fallen ill and that he'd called the EMS for care and was in the ICU. He'd been battling what we thought was a bad stomach virus or colitis for a bit. He died at Noon yesterday from hemorrhagic pancreatitis and cardiac arrest. I tried to make it back by catching the first flight home that I could get but I landed to the news. He was only 55. We are all so stunned. And his last moments were very traumatic and awful.

Please listen to your body and see a Dr. And, keep a close eye on those you love.

I'm so sorry to hear of your loss. Will keep a good thought for you and your family.

 

[LostInaLostWorld]

Sad to hear. Keep good thoughts of him close to your heart.

 

[MinJaBen]

Monday night around 7 pm, my Dad called to tell me that brother had fallen ill and that he'd called the EMS for care and was in the ICU. He'd been battling what we thought was a bad stomach virus or colitis for a bit. He died at Noon yesterday from hemorrhagic pancreatitis and cardiac arrest. I tried to make it back by catching the first flight home that I could get but I landed to the news. He was only 55. We are all so stunned. And his last moments were very traumatic and awful.

Please listen to your body and see a Dr. And, keep a close eye on those you love.

I am very sorry to hear of your brother's death. I can't even imagine what you must be going through with the sudden news. Please reach out if you want to talk.