Quote from: Unbeliever on May 16, 2024, 11:06:34 PMI just watched a movie called Oblivion, with Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman! It was pretty damned good, kind of a cross between Top Gun and Star Wars.

Quote from: Cassia on May 14, 2024, 06:42:41 PMThe Enemy Below....free on YT

Thrilling sea chase. Curd Jürgens and Mitchum, both excellent. Always liked Red Oct. I can tell they looked to this classic for inspiration.

I found it on Utube and watched The Enemy Below last night. I vaguely remember seeing it back in the 50s at the theater. Hunt for Red October has got to be somewhere on my top 5 favorite films. I own it, and can't say how many times I've watched it. It is a well crafted story with an unparalleled cast.

Quote from: Hydra009 on Today at 12:35:57 PMThanks Obama: 17% of Americans mistakenly believe Biden ended Roe VS Wade abortion rights

Other than pay lip service to protecting women's rights, the Democrats have done little to protect a woman's right to choose. But given our polarized leadership, it's doubtful they could have. This is a the work of the Supreme Court, and I'm guessing Democrats are happy to have it out of their hands. Although, leaving it to the court system appears to be biting them in the ass. So it's back to dark alleys and coat hangers, probably for a long time.

Quote from: ferdmonger on May 11, 2024, 08:36:43 PMI'm having trouble wrapping my head around the fact that entire states are actually going to vote for Donald Trump for president.  What the actual fuck.   

Yes, from the New York Times, the information I'm getting looks like it's going to be Trump for another four years, and I'm curious what kinds of shenanigans he's got in mind to get another four after that. I don't believe a conviction for any crime is going to affect his chances.

Supreme Court Justice, Alito, is flying a flag upside down and has some kind of a "Stop the Steal" slogan on display at his house. So much for impartial justice in our legal system.

Is 17% thinking it is biden's fault is a messaging error?

The other dude brags about being the one who did it.

Those 17% are willfully ignorant.

Why are the Democrats so bad at messaging!?

Thanks Obama: 17% of Americans mistakenly believe Biden ended Roe VS Wade abortion rights

Trump appointed the Supreme Court justices who ultimately denied millions of Americans abortion access (while calling Roe VS Wade "settled law"), yet Biden gets the blame.

QuoteTrump supporters and voters with less education were most likely to attribute responsibility for abortion bans to Mr. Biden

*draws Venn Diagram consisting entirely of a single circle*

Quotebut the misperception existed across demographic groups. Twelve percent of Democrats hold Mr. Biden responsible

Yikes.  The Dems obviously need to improve their messaging before the election.  Large numbers of asleep-at-the-wheel voters may be fine for the Republicans - essential, even - but that's intolerable for the Dems.

Zelenskyy has said that Russian troops were able to advance as far as 10km in Kharkiv region, but the front in the region has been stabilized.

Dictator Putin has said that he has no plans to invade Kharkiv (he previously said he had no plans to invade Ukraine, so definitely take that with a truckload of salt)

Russia does not currently have enough troops to realistically have a chance of taking Kharkiv, but they have heavily bombarded it.  Instead, Putin has said that his goal is to create a "buffer zone" in the area, likely to reduce the risk of attack on Russian bases and troops in Russia and also to lengthen the frontline to force Ukraine to deploy more troops to the front, presumably to weaken some part of the frontline.

Months ago, Putin lackey  Medvedev came up with a map where essentially all of southern and eastern Ukraine was controlled by Russia (conveniently giving Russia fresh water ports, access to a lot of oil in the Black Sea, as well as forming a land bridge with Russian forces in Moldova)

I believe this to be Putin's current ultimate aim, a revision from his earlier plan to take all of Ukraine and install a puppet in Kyiv.  Putin's ongoing efforts to take Ukraine piece by piece at any cost appear consistent with the ultimate aim of turning it into a rump state and taking the majority of its resources and strategically important land.

Somewhere there's a picture of a titanoboa with a dinosaur in its mouth. /lazy

We really have to do something about the lead in our pipes...

The correct version is that this was the largest snake.  Of course, both dinosaurs and snakes are reptiles.

Ukraine no longer suffering from artillery shell shortages for first time in the war

That doesn't mean that Ukraine doesn't still need shells long-term, this only means that Ukrainian brigades no longer report a lack of shells at the moment.  It also means that Russian forces will no longer be able to advance without opposition purely due to shell shortages as they have in the past.