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He was making $230k, according to this site, highest paid position in the university https://openpayrolls.com/university-college/university-of-wisconsin-la-crosse Although that seems odd the President was not making more ... Yeah in general academia pays **** although there are some people that can make bank. And by bank I mean something like the minimum rookie salary for professional athlete in one of the "big four" north American sports leagues ...

I guess the cargo is more important than the ship itself. In WW2 they didn't seem to care about the cargo so much - they were fighting a tonnage war

500 tons doesn’t seem like a whole lot, but perhaps I’ve played to much Silent Hunter I see 2800 tons displacement (500 tons cargo). That is actually fairly large

I actually kinda see more as elminating one of his few potential rivals, and stregthening his power. For those who think of taking out Putin, they have to think if someone as powerful as Prigozhin failed, then surely they don't stand a chance Hitler only got more powerful, with respect to his grip on the German state, after the failure of Operation Valkyrie in July 1944 Also, even if Putin is taken out, his replacement surely will not withdraw the troops (but may start negotiations). Because they will be blamed for "losing the war". Similar to how the Karensky provincial government kept fighting after the Tsar was deposed.

Political collapse does not necessarily imply a broader social collapse. It just means the country's leadership changes significantly enough to not continue a certain policy, in this case a war. Democracies, functioning ones at least, have the rule of law and peaceful transfers of power so can have a political collapse without social ones. For instance, if Trump were to win in 2024 and radically change course on Ukraine as I would expect, that would count as a political collapse with respect to Ukraine policy, but it wouldn't necessarily mean a social collapse in the US. It is harder in authoritarian states to avoid a social collapse during a political collapse because often the pursuit of a policy is intertwined with the survival of the regime. Russia is a democracy, at least on the surface, but I can't imagine Putin would ever voluntarily give up power to a successor, so it would have to be a coup which is almost certain to trigger a broader social collapse. Since many of the policies were justified on the basis of "might makes right", when that might disappears you have a power vacuum and all the people with grievances start to assert themselves and you have an absence of the rule of law, i.e. a social collapse. As a historical example, the loss of South Vietnam was due to a political collapse in the US, who pulled the troops and funding, but it didn't trigger a social collapse. OTOH the loss of Afghanistan by the Soviets did in part lead to both a political and social collapse

Ukraine will never recognize Russian territorial gains, but even if you can get both parties to a ceasefire, there's the issue of Ukrainian "neutrality" which was one of the cited reasons for the invasion. Ukraine will not agree to this because they (quite reasonably) assume that Russia will not respect it anyway. There will continue to be insurgent attacks inside the occupied territories which Russia will use as a justification for launching new assaults I can only see this war ending with at least the political collapse of one side or the other. I guess the question is do we want to continue funding the UAF or do we want them right up against the Polish/Romanian/Hungarian Russia is not going to stop at the Dnipro. They are hoping that by somehow suggesting that Poland, Hungry and Romania get Ukrainian territory they can dismember Ukraine while undermining NATO and the West (this is straight out of Hitler's playbook) Personally I think we should at least threaten to completey shut down their Russians oil exports out of the Baltics and the Black Sea. They can't redirect because thats where the pipelines flow. These are all through NATO controlled territory but we would have to get them on board. If we can do this it would crater the Russian economy because its something like half of their income

The first country to ask for a ceasefire is admitting their army can't hold on for much longer. The opposing side should demand more than just a ceasefire on currently held territory

I've been clean all my life. Never really had the urge to try If I get a terminal diagnosis, all bets are off.

Two of his top D lineman were traded away halfway through the season Based on previous stints with Chicago and Carolina, its under the right conditions at least, someone will give him a chance at DC Washington is also viewed as somewhat of a dysfunctional franchise at least until Harris can build the proper organization. Look at what happened with McVay and Shanahan

Someone is going to want him as DC, not sure if he would accept that role

Yeah I’ve always wondered ..when they do perfect the sexbot, what effect that will have on relationships. I be eive there is a significant number of men who will basically be satisfied Imagine you could basically get a 10 to do whatever you like, whenever you like. Or more than one of you want. And they will never get old, or complain, or leave

I haven't actually heard anyone campus publicly advocating for genocide, unless you want to construe that "from the river to the sea" implies genocide This Stanford student did say, in print, that White people need to be "eradicated" and didn't face any sanction from the university https://www.thecollegefix.com/stanford-student-senator-says-white-people-need-to-be-eradicated/

Honestly I don't know whats wrong with the current arena Some people have commented on the neighborhood not being hip enough, but I don't really have time to do much besides go to the game This still will require a metro transfer for me from the Silver line so its a big meh for me

So someone is still buying porn ...

I mean, we did win a Cup, so there’s that. But given we were basically handed a top three goal scorer of all time (you can argue about if he’s 1,2 or 3) it’s hard to say we didn’t severely underperform compared to e.g., the Penguins. We only had a single trip even out of even the second round for his entire career (which technically isn’t done, but I’d be shocked if we have another run at this point)

I don't think its a matter of some Ukranian special forces unit departing from Kyiv a few days ago and they coming back. They've had people there for a while, probably since 2014. Also easier to recruit locally. There's a fair amount of sympathizers and just straight up mercenaries.

Depending on how well protected the guy is, I think it would be incredibly easy. Just have to find someone willing to pull the trigger (and risk getting caught). Observe the target for a while and pick an ideal time / place to carry it out. I don't think this guy had much protection

Nah he may still get it depending on how long he wants to play. Even at ~25 goal pace I think he only needs 2.5 seasons, which would make him 41. Wayne retired at 38 its true but other players like Jagr have lasted until their mid 40s

Unfortunately they won't go rebuild until Ovechkin retires. We do have some good youngsters that seem to be emerging, such as Strome If we had started the rebuild in 2019 its possible we could have gotten enough pieces to be contenders this year. Yes on Ovechkin it is quite sad. He did have a few down years of not breaking 40, not even counting the strike/COVID years. But I think at this point he probably doesn't break 30 goals again. Which is fine with me. Our PP is trash and that was always where Ovechkin shined. I think the decline and now retirement of Backstrom hurt him quite a bit. We need a better "QB" on the PP.

I was shocked at how much tuition has increased since. It was something like $10k / year back in the late 90s when I went, including (I think) room and board. Now its like 3x that. The problem is that salaries haven't increased by that much. I remember circa 2000 you could maybe expect $50k/year straight out of something like engineering (less so for other majors). But nowadays the starting engineers are barely breaking $100k unless they're super talented and get in one of the FAANG, which is pretty tough to do straight from undergrad

Only for a few teams. College football is effectively a development league for the NFL and a significant number are going to be doing that next year anyway.

Wow, totally missed that. Too bad they couldn't do it this year. I predict the new complaint is going to be that Notre Dame gets in every year over other deserving teams

I don't see them ever doing 12 team playoff. That would take 4 weeks to resolve, and would run into problems with the end and start of the semesters. You may laugh but at least some of these players are legit student athletes, and universities like to pretend they are in any case. I can see a 6 or even 8 team playoff. Top 8 or even 6 effectively ensures no undefeated P5 school would be left out.

Is Jokic married? Maybe he can start dating Brittany or something

The US got this exact criticism during the WoT (which I guess isn't technically over). Drone strikes / kidnappings / interrogations pretty much wherever. Bottom line, we will bomb anyone we want, wherever we want, if our security interests outweigh the blowback. Generally in this age where 90% of people carry portable video recorders with them wherever we go, we can't hide stuff like that nor have plausible deniability, so we don't even bother. I wouldn't be surprised if we had a hand in the Nordstream pipeline op.