New around here? Register your SA Forums Account here!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
 
  • Post
  • Reply
Nuclear Tourist
Apr 7, 2005

Not to brag or anything but I'm having a delicious protein bar at work.

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016
I am currently slipping in and out of a food coma. Monty ate turkey and potatoes of different varieties and had some pie crust and then passed out for an hour and is now waiting for more food

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB
Me and the wife just took a dip in ocean and now we chilling out until it’s time to drag the uninterested kids into a lua for dinner.

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


Crab Dad posted:

Me and the wife just took a dip in ocean and now we chilling out until it’s time to drag the uninterested kids into a lua for dinner.

Youth is wasted on the young

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 27, 2008

boop the snoot posted:

I am currently slipping in and out of a food coma. Monty ate turkey and potatoes of different varieties and had some pie crust and then passed out for an hour and is now waiting for more food



https://youtu.be/NItKsTJiJ1Y?feature=shared

Monty’s internal soundtrack right now

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



boop the snoot posted:

I am currently slipping in and out of a food coma. Monty ate turkey and potatoes of different varieties and had some pie crust and then passed out for an hour and is now waiting for more food



He's such a good boy give him some pets

stackofflapjacks
Apr 7, 2009

Mmmmm

Turkey is almost finished, friend made pumpkin cheese cake. Life is good

Pine Cone Jones
Dec 6, 2009

You throw me the acorn, I throw you the whip!
https://apnews.com/article/syria-attack-clashes-aleppo-9c07da6f83036f34d4b18a479de9d085

"Insurgents breach Syria’s second-largest city Aleppo in shock offensive"

SerthVarnee
Mar 13, 2011

It has been two zero days since last incident.
Big Super Slapstick Hunk
God loving damnit.

I'm pretty sure my friends still have family living there.

Can't that loving city ever catch a break?

gently caress.

SquirrelyPSU
May 27, 2003


In case you ever needed a reminder to not live downwind of Lakes Erie or Ontario, I just read the forecast discussion from NWS Cleveland and its looking like storm totals for the weekend are going to be in the 3-5' range.

e: lol Watertown 66.2

SquirrelyPSU fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Nov 30, 2024

Woodchip
Mar 28, 2010
Corn syrup and pecans is as American as corn syrup and pecans, dammit.

Stravag
Jun 7, 2009

SquirrelyPSU posted:

In case you ever needed a reminder to not live downwind of Lakes Erie or Ontario, I just read the forecast discussion from NWS Cleveland and its looking like storm totals for the weekend are going to be in the 3-5' range.

e: lol Watertown 66.2

Oh so they may get a snowday? The only time we consistently got snowdays was when a Noreaster would drop 18 inches of snow sunday night

SquirrelyPSU
May 27, 2003


Stravag posted:

Oh so they may get a snowday? The only time we consistently got snowdays was when a Noreaster would drop 18 inches of snow sunday night

Generally we didn't unless there was ice involved, wind chills were lower than -30 or it was so bad they shut down 79.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

DEER CRACKERS

Pine Cone Jones posted:

https://apnews.com/article/syria-attack-clashes-aleppo-9c07da6f83036f34d4b18a479de9d085

"Insurgents breach Syria’s second-largest city Aleppo in shock offensive"

Quackles
Aug 11, 2018

Pixels of Light.




not much, what's a leppo with you

Quackles fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Nov 30, 2024

Loden Taylor
Aug 11, 2003

SquirrelyPSU posted:

In case you ever needed a reminder to not live downwind of Lakes Erie or Ontario, I just read the forecast discussion from NWS Cleveland and its looking like storm totals for the weekend are going to be in the 3-5' range.

e: lol Watertown 66.2

I still get do not report alerts from Fort Drum in my gmail since I can't be bothered to email the alert help desk and tell them to take me off their list. It always brings back memories of going out to the barracks parking lot at midnight to dig my car out so that when I came back out at like 0900 I only had to deal with 1-2 feet of snow instead of 3-4.

Bored As Fuck
Jan 1, 2006

I HAVE A MICROPENIS AND I WON'T REST UNTIL YOUR CHILDREN DIE FOR IT
Fun Shoe
https://x.com/AVindman/status/1861912067508257069?t=iIYbRJsxTPfLeF-jWCZReQ&s=19

Musk is defaming more people. And implying they get the death penalty.

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB

Bored As gently caress posted:

https://x.com/AVindman/status/1861912067508257069?t=iIYbRJsxTPfLeF-jWCZReQ&s=19

Musk is defaming more people. And implying they get the death penalty.

And always with the projection.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Crab Dad posted:

And always with the projection.

It is telling on himself with blithering bullshit but if I were Vindman I'd be investigating a four year vacation out of country. Law enforcement is about to get incredibly selective at picking and choosing targets in a little over a month, then relying on the good graces of the courts to be fair in their application is a really thin limb to be climbing out on.

Cugel the Clever
Apr 5, 2009
I LOVE AMERICA AND CAPITALISM DESPITE BEING POOR AS FUCK. I WILL NEVER RETIRE BUT HERE'S ANOTHER 200$ FOR UKRAINE, SLAVA

Pine Cone Jones posted:

https://apnews.com/article/syria-attack-clashes-aleppo-9c07da6f83036f34d4b18a479de9d085

"Insurgents breach Syria’s second-largest city Aleppo in shock offensive"
They've apparently liberated Aleppo and are advancing on Hama. Interesting and unexpected twist for the long stagnant conflict, though the celebration of the downfall of the Assad regime I'm seeing on social media seems premature.

Big lol if it does happen though. The butcher of Damascus and his cadres getting the Gaddafi treatment would be a nice win for an otherwise awful year for the world.

Pine Cone Jones
Dec 6, 2009

You throw me the acorn, I throw you the whip!

Cugel the Clever posted:

They've apparently liberated Aleppo and are advancing on Hama. Interesting and unexpected twist for the long stagnant conflict, though the celebration of the downfall of the Assad regime I'm seeing on social media seems premature.

Big lol if it does happen though. The butcher of Damascus and his cadres getting the Gaddafi treatment would be a nice win for an otherwise awful year for the world.

I am curious to see what will happen since russia started their 3 day SMO

Cugel the Clever
Apr 5, 2009
I LOVE AMERICA AND CAPITALISM DESPITE BEING POOR AS FUCK. I WILL NEVER RETIRE BUT HERE'S ANOTHER 200$ FOR UKRAINE, SLAVA

Pine Cone Jones posted:

I am curious to see what will happen since russia started their 3 day SMO
Yeah, between Russia being preoccupied with Ukraine and Hezbollah with Israel (regardless of ceasefire), hard to say how much slack they have to shore up against a collapse of Assad's forces. Might be an opportunity for the Russian air force to operate in a low-risk environment, I guess?

Pine Cone Jones
Dec 6, 2009

You throw me the acorn, I throw you the whip!

Cugel the Clever posted:

Yeah, between Russia being preoccupied with Ukraine and Hezbollah with Israel (regardless of ceasefire), hard to say how much slack they have to shore up against a collapse of Assad's forces. Might be an opportunity for the Russian air force to operate in a low-risk environment, I guess?

There was talk of a shoot down earlier today.

https://bsky.app/profile/noelreports.com/post/3lc6jmh2wc22q

Not sure how reliable it is.

https://bsky.app/profile/noelreports.com/post/3lc6ngdyuv22b

"Rebel forces inside Hama city center. Safe to say the city has been left by the SAA."

Pine Cone Jones fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Nov 30, 2024

Nystral
Feb 6, 2002

Every man likes a pretty girl with him at a skeleton dance.
Do we know who these rebels are? IIRC the term had been equally applied to ISIS and Kurds.

Hopefully it’s the Kurds but I’m not holding my breath because Trump hung them out to dry in the past and I don’t know if Biden ever did anything different during his term.

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Woodchip posted:

Corn syrup and pecans is as American as corn syrup and pecans, dammit.

Never really got why people who aren’t lobbyists get so wrapped around the axle of Stalk Syrup A vs. Stalk Syrup B. Corn doesn’t have evil AIDS chemicals and sugar still isn’t good for you.

Cugel the Clever
Apr 5, 2009
I LOVE AMERICA AND CAPITALISM DESPITE BEING POOR AS FUCK. I WILL NEVER RETIRE BUT HERE'S ANOTHER 200$ FOR UKRAINE, SLAVA

Nystral posted:

Do we know who these rebels are?
Been a while since I followed things at all closely, but it sounds like it's the broad coalition of Sunni Arab groups who've been bottled up for years. Parts of that coalition aren't great! But it's important to remember that the regime has deliberately narrowed and radicalized the opposition with its war crimes in hopes of decreasing Western support for the rebels.

Kurds have been kind of just holding their own territory after Turkey's intervention against them, so not sure they're a part of this.

If the rebels win, it's probably not going to result in the kind of state I want it could support, but the regime deserves to fall.

Madurai
Jun 26, 2012

Tiny Timbs posted:

Never really got why people who aren’t lobbyists get so wrapped around the axle of Stalk Syrup A vs. Stalk Syrup B. Corn doesn’t have evil AIDS chemicals and sugar still isn’t good for you.

HFCS makes sugar cheap enough that it can be put in more things.

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

God bless it

Syncopated
Oct 21, 2010
The rumors posted in the cspam asia thread say that Assad is in Moscow and that the military leadership is in on bringing the regime down. Guess we’ll find out in time what’s true.

Hannibal Rex
Feb 13, 2010

Nystral posted:

Do we know who these rebels are?

We do know, and no, it's not the Kurds.

https://bsky.app/profile/aphclarkson.bsky.social/post/3lbzv7lpets2f

I didn't know poo poo about these guys either, but Clarkson is a good follow.

These are people he recommends if you want more background:

quote:

Aaron Zelin and Dareen Khalifa. And Liz Tsurkov a few years ago, but she is infuriatingly currently held hostage by an Iran-aligned militia in Iraq.

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Now that’s a heck of a social media status

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

DEER CRACKERS

Tiny Timbs posted:

Never really got why people who aren’t lobbyists get so wrapped around the axle of Stalk Syrup A vs. Stalk Syrup B. Corn doesn’t have evil AIDS chemicals and sugar still isn’t good for you.

Sorghum is the third-party candidate.

Ronwayne
Nov 20, 2007

That warm and fuzzy feeling.

Cugel the Clever posted:



If the rebels win, it's probably not going to result in the kind of state I want it could support, but the regime deserves to fall.

The Rhodesia clause. Nightmare regime needs to go, even at risk its successor will do awful poo poo in a different manner.

Pine Cone Jones
Dec 6, 2009

You throw me the acorn, I throw you the whip!
https://bsky.app/profile/noelreports.com/post/3lc6ynonqys2b

Purported video of the Syrian Army in Hama? Stating they've retaken most of the city, but I'll be skeptical until there's further evidence.

Hannibal Rex
Feb 13, 2010
https://x.com/Partisangirl/status/1862909238437372174

President Trump, please stop the War on Christmas!

Cugel the Clever
Apr 5, 2009
I LOVE AMERICA AND CAPITALISM DESPITE BEING POOR AS FUCK. I WILL NEVER RETIRE BUT HERE'S ANOTHER 200$ FOR UKRAINE, SLAVA

Hannibal Rex posted:

Partisangirl
lol, haven't seen that particular war-crime defender and regime apologist in ages

Quackles
Aug 11, 2018

Pixels of Light.



Can someone explain what the practical geopolitical impact of the fighting in Syria is? I'm still trying to understand it in broader context.

nullandvoid
Mar 7, 2006

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Wrong drat thread, ignore me

nullandvoid fucked around with this message at 22:04 on Nov 30, 2024

Cugel the Clever
Apr 5, 2009
I LOVE AMERICA AND CAPITALISM DESPITE BEING POOR AS FUCK. I WILL NEVER RETIRE BUT HERE'S ANOTHER 200$ FOR UKRAINE, SLAVA

Quackles posted:

Can someone explain what the practical geopolitical impact of the fighting in Syria is? I'm still trying to understand it in broader context.
Not much at this point. Russia and Iran want to retain the regime as it's a viewed as a key element for their influence in the region and thus prestige, but at this point the country is a basket case and the ROI isn't great. Otherwise, there's broad interest in preventing regionally-destabilizing transnational Jihadist groups, but that's seemed to be well-contained for years.

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

Hannibal Rex
Feb 13, 2010

Cugel the Clever posted:

lol, haven't seen that particular war-crime defender and regime apologist in ages

Yeah. I did a double-take when I realized she pinned this post because it's the best the pro-Assad crowd has to offer right now.

Quackles posted:

Can someone explain what the practical geopolitical impact of the fighting in Syria is? I'm still trying to understand it in broader context.

Maybe it's still too early to tell, but basically, Assad was Putin's showpiece to every wannabe strongman for the protection allying with Russia can get you. If it turns out Russia's too tied up in Ukraine to do anything meaningful to help its patsies, a whole bunch of people might decide it's time to look elsewhere for patrons and cut a deal with Trump or Xi instead. Putin's aspirations of being a pole in a multi-polar world will take another hit. Maybe the blowback could even reach him.

For Syria itself, the thing to watch will be greater Turkish engagement.

Hannibal Rex fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Nov 30, 2024

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • Post
  • Reply