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Putin has access to the best health care money can buy, and he had a relatively healthy lifestyle (sports, outdoors, limited alcohol intake, nonsmoker, has a reputation as a "health nut"), so comparing him to an average Russian male (or his hard-drinking, chain-smoking predecessors) is pointless.

This is the part the worries me. If Biden has a surprise win after Trump's lead in the polls, there is a high risk of post-election trouble.

What specific years are you considering? My last car was a 2021 Accord, and I was happy with it. CVT transmission makes it a bit boring to drive compared to VW that I'm driving now, but it had some features that I really loved for the long drives, such as adaptive cruise control.

I also got the itch to return to the Fallout world, but I decided to play Old World Blues, Fallout mod for Hearts of Iron 4. It is simply amazing, one of the best mods out there, with more content in it than the actual Hearts of Iron 4. All the units, technologies, doctrines, and even the user interface have been completely changed to make them fit with the Fallout universe, the new countries invented by the mod developers are well-written and balanced, and every update keeps adding more stuff and making it better.

And it's normal human behavior for family members to support other family members who are accused (or even convicted) of a crime.

Isn't that pretty much the same thing as what Hillary Clinton did for Bill? In situations like these, wives tend to publicly side with their husbands (see also Melania Trump), sometimes out of calculation, sometimes out of genuine emotion.

"Intifada" has a very clear and specific meaning when used in an English-speaking society in the context of Israel and Palestine.

I mean, they're calling for "intifada" (meaning, a terrorist suicide bombing campaign against Israeli civilians) and for Palestine "from the river to the sea" (meaning, destruction of Israel). Maybe some protestors don't understand what those terms actually mean, but the most charitable interpretation is that they are idiots and not actively malicious. You might call that a minority of radicals, but I didn't see anyone from the protest movement calling them out or distancing themselves from such stances. In fact, doing that will get you shouted down as a "zionist". Which somehow became a dirty term despite actually meaning "someone who thinks Israel should continue to exist".

Wow, Starmer is lucky. Both of his major rivals imploded at the same time, without him having to actually do anything.

That's like discussing a bathroom renovation while the kitchen is actively on fire. Ukraine's priority right now is stopping Russians in the East, where they are barely holding on (a line breakthrough at Ocheretyne was barely contained this weekend). Ukraine will be very lucky if it gets into a position where they can put Crimea under siege, but they are very, very far from that point right now.

There's also a question whether they want to focus their limited resources on a mostly symbolic target like the Crimean Bridge, rather than targets of far greater short-term importance, such as airports, major ammo warehouses, equipment storage depos, radars, etc.

Rockstar didn't make LA Noire, they just published it. I would think a major part of their resources over the last decade has been tied into ongoing maintenance and adding content for GTA Online, which is their primary moneymaker product. Also, a lot of super-long game development times are caused by failures of developer management to properly, well, manage and plan their projects, and also to properly coordinate huge resources and multi-continent development teams. Say what you want about Ubisoft, but they still manage to put out new Assassin's Creed games every 2-3 years, while simultaneously juggling multiple other AAA projects and series.

People tend to forget that the main tanks of this war are T-64s (Ukraine) and T-72s (Russia) that were manufactured 40-60 years ago and which may or may not have received minor upgrades since then. Of course they are obsolete on today's battlefield.

I agree that being sceptical is a healthy attitude on today's internet, but I consider AP to be a reputable source: https://apnews.com/article/iran-israel-s300-radar-hit-isfahan-attack-ce6719d3df8ebf5af08b035427ee215c Plus, if you want to verify for yourself, you can always purchase a Planet Labs subscription and go right to the source.

What the NY Times article fails to mention is that literally everything else on the battlefield is more vulnerable to drones than a tank, including cars, APCs, IFVs, and unprotected infantry. I would rather have 800mm of armor between me and the drone than not have it. Tanks will evolve into a different form and everything older than 2020s will become obsolete, but they will continue to have a place in warfare.