/O/'s guide for some budget friendly used cars. I assume it's for the American market. I'll use this guide when I get myself a car.

Smalls · 2024-04-30T11:19:39+00:00

The problem with the luxury cars is that wealthy people tend to sell them before the heavy maintenance/repairs start. When you buy a gently used luxury car, such as Mercedes and BMW, you are getting into the part of the lifecycle of throwing money at it to keep it on the road. Generally speaking, of course. Also, BMW has had the bad reputation for the timing chain problem the past 10 years or so.

Smalls · 2024-04-28T13:23:48+00:00

As stated in previous comments some time ago, I have an associate who has dual Russian/Armenian citizenship and is somewhat understanding of the reasoning behind the invasion, even if he doesn't fully agree with it. His parents still live in Moscow. I also am a news junkie, sometimes to the detriment of my natural mental optimism. I see many news sources including official, trusted agencies, along with individual assessments. What is your source?

Smalls · 2024-04-28T13:13:49+00:00

Like you said, the problem with the Abrams is that it needs massive logistical support. The Ukraine military is not set up for it. The U.S. has told Ukraine to keep the Abrams off the front lines, too. They didn't.

As far as adapting, there have been countermeasures, and then counter-counter-measures, and then counter-counter-countermeasures, and it will continue until wars end. We have recently seen both the Russian and Ukraine drone operators adapt to the ECM's designed to thwart them. The cages. wooden barriers, et al, are being surpassed with multiple drone strikes, with each drone having a specific purpose.

Smalls · 2024-04-28T13:04:55+00:00

Like your other comment, the Bradley is an infantry support vehicle (although it has been used in armored combat to some effectiveness). It is superior to anything else on the battlefield in Ukraine and with Ukraine having the shortfall of troops compared to Russia, they need all the help they can get. They not only outgun and outmaneuver, but also keep the guys inside alive more often to fight another day.

Smalls · 2024-04-27T12:03:20+00:00

When I stop seeing grown men walk out from a stall without washing their hands, then I may entertain the idea of keeping shoes clean. Maybe the door lock should be de-activated by 30 seconds of running water from the sink faucet.

Smalls · 2024-04-27T11:57:35+00:00

I thought Gizmo was solid black.

Smalls · 2024-04-27T11:54:34+00:00

You have given reasoning behind your opinions but I find your last one hard to take seriously.

Meanwhile in Russia the army has so many volunteers that they almost don't know what to do with them.

Then why are they increasing the sign-on bonuses and reaching far out into the Russian-controlled territories (and beyond) to find recruits? My sources say that even in Moscow, men do not want to go to Ukraine because they know they will be thrown into the front lines in the classic Russian meat-grinder scenario. Throw bodies at the enemy until they run out of ammo.

Smalls · 2024-04-27T11:40:19+00:00

Bradleys most certainly changed the course of the war. It's not always about firepower, either. This war is showing how all tanks are being defeated with drones. We're in a new era of warfare. Like u/Dune1032 stated, Ukraine is being used, in part, as a testing ground for old (and probably some new, un-reported) technologies for the U.S. with no official troop losses for the U.S.

Smalls · 2024-04-27T10:37:15+00:00

Yes! It is being told what to think about (of an external, non0important source) instead of allowing your mind deciding what to think about (of what really should affect you).

Smalls · 2024-04-26T19:39:09+00:00

https://saidit.net/user/Drewssam

A little more than that. BTW, I'm u/Zapped. I created this account to comment and post to keep separation between moderation and interaction.

Smalls · 2024-04-26T19:34:17+00:00

There were some pretty big events between those two moments in time, though.

Smalls · 2024-04-26T19:32:58+00:00

I did that for a week and it was beneficial. It took a few days for my brain to get used to normal stimuli.

Smalls · 2024-04-26T19:30:27+00:00

Sometimes you have to think of it as planting a seed. Somebody may find it useful but never respond, so you don't know how impactful you were.

Smalls · 2024-04-26T19:28:35+00:00

Core exercises. Everything starts from the core, unless you have some kind of degenerative disorder.

Smalls · 2024-04-26T19:23:57+00:00

It may be a spammer who also likes to troll around here, but Drewssam, for instance, is one of the biggest spammers here for weeks.

Smalls · 2024-04-26T17:04:50+00:00

Some of those have been spamming this place for weeks.

Smalls · 2024-04-26T11:02:48+00:00

Churchill knew better because Chamberlain had already tried that.

Smalls · 2024-04-25T22:43:01+00:00

Tell her that you think of her as a cat and it was her that you were saving. That will go well.

Smalls · 2024-04-25T11:45:34+00:00

Holograms don't have skins unless it's like a Fortnite skin.

Smalls · 2024-04-25T11:38:06+00:00

I'll try. You feel that you are not prepared for the unexpected emergency.

Smalls · 2024-04-24T20:50:16+00:00

Fair enough, but this is the part where we widely disagree on the facts supporting your claims.

Smalls · 2024-04-24T19:44:20+00:00

How does that make it ineffective?

Smalls · 2024-04-24T19:42:16+00:00

Why wouldn't they lay sanctions against China or whoever is using it for "spying". What are the odds on when Saidit is a danger to national security and needs to be banned?

Smalls · 2024-04-24T19:39:21+00:00

Noncompete contracts are not legal in most states anyway, unless it is about taking existing customers with you.

Smalls · 2024-04-24T19:36:48+00:00

Nope. He was in trouble for lying under oath, but the Democrats diverted the news to the affair in the Oral Orifice to make it seem that the Republicans were going after him for that (and the public ate it up because it was so much more interesting). Before you accuse me of defending the Republicans, I do think that the Republican impeachment of Clinton is what made the political prosecution of Trump easier.

Smalls · 2024-04-24T01:49:11+00:00

There is no way that is not AI generated.

Smalls · 2024-04-23T23:15:45+00:00

I am reading your comment about switching to metal mugs while in the background, a news report plays on my television about a middle-school student who used her Stanly mug to beat-down another student.

Smalls · 2024-04-23T11:55:29+00:00

It has been talked about and it appears to have served its purpose.

Smalls · 2024-04-23T11:54:26+00:00

The labeled the wrong link. It was this link listed later in the article.

https://toronto.citynews.ca/video/2024/02/27/safety-concerns-in-etobicoke-prompt-community-meeting/

Listen to what the officer says at the meeting.

Smalls · 2024-04-22T23:47:18+00:00

Another Florida Sheriff with great press conferences: Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5QDIbjo0GI

Smalls · 2024-04-22T23:38:47+00:00

Exactly. That would mean that she was into games and that he was not.

Smalls · 2024-04-22T17:43:54+00:00

Why do you think that is?

Smalls · 2024-04-22T17:36:57+00:00

It's not color, it's culture. It just so happens that people tend to make babies with partners who look like themselves, and teach their kids the same culture.

Smalls · 2024-04-22T12:53:15+00:00

We suffer and we enjoy. We fail and we achieve. Yin and Yang. Don't fall for the trap of negative bias.

Smalls · 2024-04-22T12:40:46+00:00

Yes. If she was disappointed that he stopped calling, then the dynamics and personalities of the relationship were wrong to begin with.

Smalls · 2024-04-22T03:16:21+00:00

Stay in character.

Smalls · 2024-04-22T03:14:48+00:00

My experience in NYC is that people are friendly when you interact with them, but otherwise keep to themselves and rarely make eye contact. Upstate New Yorkers were super friendly.

Smalls · 2024-04-21T17:49:08+00:00

I have seen the increase in "homeless" camps in my area for the past few years. Recently, the local municipalities have begun to shut them down and take back the public space. Along the same timeline as the public getting fed up with the bum culture takeover was an incident which I felt summed up the difference between compassion from the community and abuse by the bums. The manager of a local Harbor Freight store would give them damaged products (tarps, bungie cords, etc.) to use in their camp, which was within walking distance. One Sunday morning he arrived at the store and the big circus tent that they use for their parking lot "tent sale" was gone. He walked over the camp and found that the bums had stolen the tent and had used it to cover a large portion of their camp including their sleeping tents and fire pit. He called the police to get it back and quit trying to help them. The city has always been a source of help for the homeless to get them help and off the streets, so there is no need to live this way around here unless you choose to. I have heard that there is a sub-Reddit for this lifestyle and there has been chatter on there promoting my area because there are so many resources to keep up that lifestyle, including free services, non-hostile residents, and easy money from panhandling.

Smalls · 2024-04-21T17:21:58+00:00

This picture looks like he fell for the old "if you pretend you are shaking salt from a salt shaker into your mouth you can totally taste it" trick. You can now not un-see this. You're welcome.

Smalls · 2024-04-21T13:08:51+00:00

Even fat guys can get a woman. Some women are into big guys, whether they are overall big or just fat. Just like some guys are into fat women or very petite women.

Smalls · 2024-04-21T12:24:25+00:00

I wonder if Steve Earle will write a song about him.

Smalls · 2024-04-21T11:35:41+00:00

Is this how you are supposed to play with them?

Smalls · 2024-04-20T15:34:26+00:00

Eucalyptus trees.

https://www.kqed.org/news/11644927/eucalyptus-how-californias-most-hated-tree-took-root-2

Smalls · 2024-04-20T14:55:46+00:00

So, she admitted that some of her evidence was made up, but it was not her fault because someone else passed it on to her.

Smalls · 2024-04-17T21:16:18+00:00

He has libertarian friendly ideas on police and the national debt, but leans anti-libertarian on social programs and unions.

Smalls · 2024-04-17T21:07:23+00:00

That's tough to hear, even on here. Sometimes people say things because they are hurting and want you to experience their pain. It's what she knew.

Smalls · 2024-04-17T12:26:23+00:00

I think you hit on all of the reasons. I would like to expand on #6. This site gives people a place to be heard, or at least the opportunity to be heard. This can be validation for the views they hold or validation for being equal members of a group.

Smalls · 2024-04-16T11:39:59+00:00

Johnny Paycheque.

Smalls · 2024-04-16T11:21:56+00:00

Mercury Quickleen.

Smalls · 2024-04-15T20:03:55+00:00

Talk to Edward. He said he has programmed a captcha solving bot. He can be found down by the docks. Look for the blue bucket and he should be close by.

Smalls · 2024-04-15T19:58:00+00:00

It was a good break. It took about a day to get used to not having so much information being fed into my brain. I had to learn to let my own mind lead what I think about. I'll try to write up my experience. Bottom line is that I need to stop being lazy about how I get my information and more selective on how I get it and where I get it from. I was also using it as an excuse to avoid doing stuff at home. I was so much more productive this past week. Probably means I won't be on here as much during the day, but it should be more meaningful to me.

Smalls · 2024-04-15T13:10:28+00:00

You just see more here because other sites have kicked those views.

Smalls · 2024-04-15T13:02:26+00:00

The tightness of yourself against the steering wheel could have been you sleeping in an awkward position, or it could be that you feel that you are being "squeezed" into going a certain direction in life. The glitching cars represents life moving along around you that is always constant but that you are unable to predict 100% how it is specifically moving and being reactionary instead of proactive. The doctor's visit is you feeling like the doctors are not helping you and you might as well take care of it yourself since you know yourself better at this point than they do. The rest of the story is the stuff that makes you happy. You will only run into it by accident if you don't make it happen.

Smalls · 2024-04-07T00:25:41+00:00

You're paying an extra $497 to be protected by that eight-sided cage.

Smalls · 2024-04-06T21:48:37+00:00

I don't know whether to laugh or cry at the that multi-pointed joke.

Smalls · 2024-04-05T13:46:13+00:00

Something's going on with imgur. My other post is requires age verification to view, but not this one. I made them a few minutes apart the exact same way and I didn't mark it as "mature".

Smalls · 2024-04-05T13:37:53+00:00

Me, too, when I'm not logged in. I'll see what's up.

edit: I checked it and it is the same as the picture post I made a few minutes before. The other one doesn't ask for age verification and neither were checked as mature content by me. I wonder if someone complained that this is NSFW somehow.

Smalls · 2024-04-05T12:30:36+00:00

The deer on its hind legs is eating maple tree seeds.

Smalls · 2024-04-04T19:14:00+00:00

Yes. No winners here.

Smalls · 2024-04-04T19:12:31+00:00

I had to look it up, but yes. I think everyone was probably drunk. He was definitely attacked, but he had many, many opportunities to get out of harms way before he was attacked. Plus, being pushed down is not life-threatening, even in shallow water. I think the group who attacked him should be on trial along with him for murder.

Smalls · 2024-04-04T12:16:07+00:00

It's an odd story, for sure. He left the area after the stabbing (understandably) but didn't contact the police about the incident. That doesn't seem like the actions of an innocent person. Excessive force?

Smalls · 2024-04-04T00:15:50+00:00

The same could be said for activist prosecutors and judges ruling in those cases you mentioned above.

Smalls · 2024-04-03T21:13:22+00:00

Nice to know.

Smalls · 2024-04-03T15:08:52+00:00

Good idea.

Smalls · 2024-04-03T12:32:10+00:00

This user has to be from a 3rd world country. Plus, I'm not a worm expert, but that looks like an earthworm in the sink.

Smalls · 2024-04-03T12:21:55+00:00

Is this what we're talking about?

https://apnews.com/article/social-media-protected-speech-lawsuit-injunction-148c1cd43f88a0284d5a3c53fd333727

Smalls · 2024-04-03T12:05:58+00:00

You can use an egg crate to pour a mixture of melted wax and sawdust. Now you have a dozen mini fire-starters.

Smalls · 2024-04-02T23:43:06+00:00

There was a joke that he was part of one time when he was sick and Monkeypox first hit the news. It was good fun.

Smalls · 2024-04-02T16:44:59+00:00

Yep. On the frontier, people tended to marry within the community, not within the ethnicity, since there was a smaller pool to choose from. This was especially true in the poorer population.

Smalls · 2024-04-02T16:35:18+00:00

RIP u/weegs

Smalls · 2024-04-02T11:49:16+00:00

And the gift of abstract thinking.

Smalls · 2024-04-02T01:17:56+00:00

Can you give some examples of how this has worked for Russia in the past?

Smalls · 2024-03-28T19:39:01+00:00

I thought you were joking, but it's true.

Smalls · 2024-03-27T11:12:12+00:00

Looks good, although I thought you were avoiding plastics.

Smalls · 2024-03-27T01:48:41+00:00

Sneako? Is that you?

Smalls · 2024-03-27T01:46:29+00:00

We're all wondering, Diddy he do it?

Smalls · 2024-03-25T13:15:41+00:00

Ok, there's more now. Who's playing with it.

edit: It's back to normal now, but it was funny. I will not repeat what I saw.

Smalls · 2024-03-23T01:21:24+00:00

The weight of too much Darshan Hiranandani spam broke the bottom of the server rack.

Smalls · 2024-03-18T10:26:54+00:00

https://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/who-is-darshan-hiranandani-and-what-is-his-role-in-mahua-moitras-cash-for-query-case-623060.html

Smalls · 2024-03-18T10:23:41+00:00

https://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/who-is-darshan-hiranandani-and-what-is-his-role-in-mahua-moitras-cash-for-query-case-623060.html

Smalls · 2024-03-18T10:20:16+00:00

https://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/who-is-darshan-hiranandani-and-what-is-his-role-in-mahua-moitras-cash-for-query-case-623060.html

Smalls · 2024-03-17T23:29:51+00:00

I had forgotten about that. Thanks.

Smalls · 2024-03-16T10:29:20+00:00

As old as time, or at least the 1980's.

Smalls · 2024-03-16T10:24:03+00:00

Was the appliance somehow being used as part of a botnet?

Smalls · 2024-03-14T11:23:54+00:00

This is why he and his father, Niranjan Hiranandani, have had their names spammed on this site for months in connection with stories that don't mention the scandal. I would give credit to the user who, in comment on another post, brought up the possible reason for the massive spam campaign, but I can't remember who is was at the moment.

TLDR: Darshan Hiranandani has allegedly bribed a legislator in India to publicly and politically attack both a competitor and a politician. He paid for luxury gifts, travel, and a home-remodeling project. Moitra not only did his bidding during legislation sessions, but also gave Hiranandani her government login credentials so his team (like the one spamming Saidit) could attack his corporate and political enemies posing as her.

Smalls