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    03-28-2023, 03:52 PM
    Tom Hunter replied to a thread Nuke the Tumors in The Bilge
    Stay alive Fitz, beat it back and stay with us.
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    03-28-2023, 03:49 PM
    Tom Hunter replied to a thread Ukraine in The Bilge
    @Sandtown Poland borders Ukraine, if Putin takes Ukraine he arrives on Poland's border. That is an undeniable fact. The same is true for Slovakia....
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    03-28-2023, 03:39 PM
    Tom Hunter replied to a thread A 4-day Workweek? in The Bilge
    All the reasons to oppose a 4 day work week are the same reasons that opposed a five day work week. If it is the law management will figure it out. ...
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    03-25-2023, 08:33 PM
    Tom Hunter replied to a thread Favorite boaty songs. in The Bilge
    This won't get me banned: but if you go to youtube and search: - loudon wainwright good ship venus - you'll find a song that will.
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    03-25-2023, 08:27 PM
    Tom Hunter replied to a thread Favorite boaty songs. in The Bilge
    and another
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    03-25-2023, 08:21 PM
    Tom Hunter replied to a thread Favorite boaty songs. in The Bilge
    Hopefully you'll all enjoy this one:
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    03-25-2023, 08:19 PM
    Tom Hunter replied to a thread Ukraine in The Bilge
    Though the picture of the Challenger and T54 is very cool it would be better to show a Challenger and T62. T62s are showing up more and more often...
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    03-22-2023, 04:37 PM
    Tom Hunter replied to a thread Ukraine in The Bilge
    @ERGR I am still amazed and upset that it is necessary for anyone in Sweden to be thinking about re-inforcements to the Baltics if Russia invades...
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    03-22-2023, 04:15 PM
    Tom Hunter replied to a thread Ukraine in The Bilge
    Depleted uranium can be cleaned up. When Putin steals your child that can never be cleaned up. Especially if he has killed you first. Spring,...
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    03-22-2023, 07:54 AM
    Tom Hunter replied to a thread Ukraine in The Bilge
    I agree with this and have posted about it before. When the US sends an M113 (which was new in the 1960s like me) we account for it at full value. ...
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    03-21-2023, 01:18 PM
    @Nicholas The Yahoo article did not address what I think is the heart of this, is the dog toy making money due to it's own merits or because of the...
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    03-20-2023, 05:34 PM
    I'll argue for the distiller. The dog toy is playing on their brand and very arguably reducing it's value by associating it with a dog taking a dump...
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    03-18-2023, 05:01 PM
    Tom Hunter replied to a thread Korean flight 007 in The Bilge
    I'm pretty sure Putin was a KGB operative in Europe at the time, and would not have been in the chain of command that ordered the shoot down. I...
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    03-17-2023, 04:03 PM
    @Keith We compensated Japanese Americans who were unjustly interned during the second world war. There were families in camps who's sons were...
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    03-17-2023, 07:20 AM
    We do this in Massachusetts too, for the same reason it's happening in Houston.
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    03-17-2023, 07:05 AM
    There are people who are alive who were ripped off by racist federal policy. For example redlining so that black people could not get a low rate...
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    03-15-2023, 07:22 PM
    It's possible that Xi will start a war for domestic political reasons. It's much less likely that the USA or Oz will do that. Art's point about...
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    03-15-2023, 06:10 PM
    @woodpile Boards don't manage businesses. SVB failed for reasons that are obvious, but the NY Post would like you to focus on something else.
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    03-15-2023, 05:37 PM
    I think the question underestimates people's ability to project their dreams onto a leader. Once someone decides that a particular leader is going...
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    03-15-2023, 05:28 PM
    Tom Hunter replied to a thread Ukraine in The Bilge
    I don't think the cost of the drone is relevant. Most likely the appropriate US response is to send manned aircraft to perform the same mission...
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    03-14-2023, 06:02 PM
    It's very easy for this to happen, which is why this job should never be given to a teen who is acting alone. I have a lot of teen party stories...
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    03-14-2023, 03:03 PM
    Tom Hunter replied to a thread Ukraine in The Bilge
    However it is possible that Ukraine will build a brigade of Challengers and Bradleys and hit a Russian brigade of T62s and BTRs. A T62 has a 115mm...
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    03-14-2023, 02:54 PM
    Tom Hunter replied to a thread Ukraine in The Bilge
    Now for the tanks and Bradleys A thing is happening in this war that has not ever happened before at scale (a bit of it happened here and there...
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    03-14-2023, 02:29 PM
    Tom Hunter replied to a thread Ukraine in The Bilge
    The Timothy Snyder interview made a lot of good points about the Putin regime and it’s objectives and how it maintains internal stability inside the...
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    03-12-2023, 01:53 PM
    @Dan Sorry, I was not specific enough. $250k a month. I am directly affected by the bank closure, we have 3 employees and some contractors, and...
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    03-12-2023, 09:47 AM
    @Too Little Time Of course you are correct about asset values. Having looked into this in some detail the market price does seem to be greater than...
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    03-12-2023, 09:31 AM
    It's likely that the larger deposits will be made whole. SVB has assets greater than it's deposits the problem was they are long assets and this was...
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    03-08-2023, 04:40 PM
    Anyone want to beat the record by spending 90 days in a front loading washing machine hitting the start button every hour or so?
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    03-08-2023, 04:38 PM
    Tom Hunter replied to a thread Paladin in The Bilge
    He is one of the reasons I am glad to have been on the forum for so long. We could use a few more like him.
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    03-08-2023, 04:20 PM
    Tom Hunter replied to a thread weaponized Covid in The Bilge
    A conclusive answer to the origin question is not likely. I would like more focus on lab leaks because they happen too often and there are vested...
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