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Liked this take on another current event taking place in my general neighborhood right now: On trial, Trump is a shadow of the superhero his supporters crave Sidney Blumenthal He wants his devotees to see the court case as trial by combat, with him as warrior. But the truth is more pathetic https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/23/trump-trial-superhero-shadow

Meaning of course the opposite.

He's an embarrassment. On almost every level. Whether it's his shit tactics, constantly picking shit players, or his desire to have rapists and wife beaters in his team. Can't believe any United fans still want the guy.

I wonder how many Tommy Robinson types would try to fight you if you pointed out that this migrant and his horse would today be yeeted out to Rwanda the moment they dared step foot on proud England's soil.

They all have schools and property in Israel. Remember, these universities aren't about education but are real estate megacorporations. But not only Israel, but everywhere, including Dubai and Havana and Brasil. Overseas programs are some of their most lucrative boondoggles programs ever. One can participate in these programs organized by the NYU programs out of the main office of NYC without being enrolled in any program at NYC. Partner has taught quite a few of these in Havana.

No, it basically is. Israel is far more integrated into the global economy than South Africa was, and the global economy is far more inter-connected than it had been. Every major company either invests in Israel, sells products to them, accepts investments from Israel, and/or directly employs Israelis (The US chamber of commerce estimates that 2,500 US companies have Israeli employees). It'd be an enormous effort, potentially impossible, to create fund that definitely excluded all those companies. And, if the fund did exist, it'd certainly entirely be composed of small-cap companies. Small-cap index funds significantly underperform the broader market and this one would do even worse since it'd be leaving out the companies that have become successful enough to participate in multinational operations. And were the endowment to purposefully reduce its market returns to that extent, it'd violate the terms that most endowment gifts have; in other words, donors could break their endowment agreements and clawback their gifts if they wanted. So, no, this is not a step any university would ever take. Maybe they could be convinced to stop investment in weapons manufacturers (and maybe even in funds that include them), maybe. But that'd be a major scaleback from the student demands.

I don't think your assessment is entirely correct. It is partially though. One of the main reasons why tanks don't work as good is not only drones (both spotters and suicide drones) but also the amount of defensive structures that block maneuver warfare: Mines (various types, deployed by air or artillery or conventionally, stacked and layered) anti tank structures such as dragons teeth or trenches. Second your assessment that attack helicopters aren't used is wrong: Russia used(and still uses) them to great effect against Ukraine, exactly to stop tanks/armored vehicles, because they outrange infantry portable weapons such as man-pads or machine guns (thus operate with relative impunity) and are way faster and more mobile. Ukraine doesn't use them as much for mainly two reasons: they have no air cover whatsoever: if Ukrainian Mil Mi 24 goes close enough to kill a russian vehicle from outside of infantry/vehicle range they will be in range of long range Russian anti-air weaponry (mainly fighter jets with medium/long range air to air weapons, this is one of the reasons why ukraine desperately wants fighter jets with long range air to air capabilities) to a lesser degree long range SAM such as S-300 or S-400. Second the Ukrainian Mil Mi 24 are relatively old models that aren't even dedicated attack helicopters more attack/transport helicopter hybrids and they have neither many of them nor spare parts, so every loss is a definite one. The terrain plays also a certain role, helicopters are best used in terrain where other vehicles have a harder time to operate (Jungles, Mountains, Urban environments) none of which really apply to eastern/southern Ukraine... In Ukraine it's usually simpler to just drive around rather than go by helicopter (which in a jungle or mountainous environment would be much harder). The tanks/vehicles that are used in Ukraine were not designed against drone warfare neither against spotters nor suicide drones or loitering munitions etc. They are from 1945-2005. So obviously they suck against them. When Machine guns were invented people also didn't just say: oh yes infantry doesn't work anymore because now one guy with a maxim gun can kill 1000 guys without one. They changed infantry as well both in terms of tactics as well as equipment. An infantryman in the German army of 1918 fought very different and was equipped very differently from one in 1914. So why do you think tanks (I use this term in the broadest of senses meaning basically every self propelled ground vehicle) will not adapt? Let's say you have a fully/hybrid electric Tank/vehicle with only 0-2 crew members? It will be super silent, have no heat signature to speak of, making IR vision and homing largely useless (which most infantry manpads use). It will have no fuel that burns/explodes, its ammo will be safely stored away and it will fire very fast, it will be comparably small and lightweight, yet still have superior armor(especially on top!) and acceleration, endurance and velocity, its motor will not be located in one specific spot so you can't target it and immobilize it (unless you blow up the tracks/wheels), it will have a number of things in its arsenal to stop drones such as jammers, anti-air guns/cannons, smoke grenades, flares etc. and it will be escorted by other vehicles whose main purpose will be to stop drones. Those vehicles will probably be based on things like the Gepard tanks but be a completely new development desgined specifically against drones. It's also good to keep in mind that drones especially in the case of Ukraine were/are used to compensate a lack of equipment and ammo. It started mainly as a make shift way to compensate for lack of armored vehicles, Manpads, artillery, aircraft, helicopters, long range weaponry, manpower, money, industrial capacity, satellites, etc.

I tired this 20 years ago and now there's just a lousy, moldy, rat-bitten painting of me in the attic and I'm turning gray and wrinkly lol.

4 cup finals in 4 years is pretty good going though. Nobody has ever suggested that he's the "best manager in the world".

Ten Hag is the best football manager in the world. We are all morons for not recognising the man's achievements. Four cup finals in four years. Outstanding work, Baldy.

Also isnt frostbite like the worst engine to make a RPG in ?

I mean I'm pretty sure if a bunch of significant institutional investors wanted to invest in a fund that didn't include companies doing business with/in Israel there would be a lot of financial institutions offering one pretty quickly. It'd be pretty inconvenient but I very much doubt it's impossible.

Those are some funny choices. Marry: Roose Bolton (his wife seems happy enough...) Bang: Randyll Tarly Kill: Tywin Lannister Next choices: some bastards Gendry, Daemon Sand, Aurane Waters

Paul Joyce reporting that Arne Slot is Liverpool's top choice to replace Klopp.

Sure. Except that falls into the "impossible" category. The student demand goes beyond stopping direct investment in Israel/Israeli companies (which the University doesn't do anyway— except building a student center in Tel Aviv that the protesters also want cancelled) and is instead that Columbia University not invest in any company that does any business with Israel or even any index fund that includes those companies. Which means they don't want the endowment fund to be invested in the stock market at all; something the university will never do.

Don’t forget to pack your flannel.

I dunno. Partner's teaching this semester at NYU, and I'm doing research assistance duty, and I have not and am not seeing the Jewish or Israeli students behaving or talking as though they think they are unsafe. The ones who feel that way are not students, it seems, but the always omnipresent associates of these people -- https://www.torahtruck.com/about/ -- who are around the school, inquiring of one and all passing by if one is Jewish and getting them to donate, sign petitions, join Torah trips to Israel and so on. Mostly everyone ignores them, but they can get very annoying and in your face, even hostile and aggressive. So, at times the school has banned them from operating here -- and recall, the home 'campus' of NYU is not a campus at all. The closest to a campus is Washington Square Park, which is a public park, open to all. Even when NYU is holding graduation ceremonies in a big part of it.

Alright... Is it any kind of food or drink?

Nope, I don't really watch movies at all, so I have no idea about most of the people here. The few that I do know are probably in my memory from reading a bunch of ASoIaF fancasts.

Sky is blue, water is wet, Jota is injured....again .

Lol. There are plenty of non-Jewish toerags under the age of fifty gleefully cheering on the Israeli war criminals.

See dating thread, you'll understand my distraction.

In Ukraine, New American Technology Won the Day. Until It Was Overwhelmed. Project Maven was meant to revolutionize modern warfare. But the conflict in Ukraine has underscored how difficult it is to get 21st-century data into 19th-century trenches. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/us/politics/ukraine-new-american-technology.html

I feel like I would put money on the odds that at least one of the writers/creators/producers has played Titanfall.