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re: Zelensky ordered assassination of Russian Major General Yaroslava Moskalik
Posted by Buryl on 4/25/25 at 4:07 pm
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Also I thought we all generally agreed that self-defense was a fundamental right of individuals and nations?
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Yeah, and isn't crossing an international border without proper documentation illegal?
Are you referring to Russia violating Ukraine’s borders starting in 2014? If so, I definitely agree.
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re: Zelensky ordered assassination of Russian Major General Yaroslava Moskalik
Posted by Buryl on 4/25/25 at 12:21 pm
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Yes!! More war to come! That's what we want! Bloodshed!! Woohoo Sincerely, Anti-war Moderates and Progressives
Russia could stop the war today.
Also I thought we all generally agreed that self-defense was a fundamental right of individuals and nations?
re: Breaking via nypost: Ukraine tells WH it is 90% on board with peace deal
Posted by Buryl on 4/18/25 at 6:09 pm
And Russia is zero percent on board. Im curious to see when people here will have to finally admit that Russia always has been the aggressor in this conflict. Seems like a few are slowly coming around.
re: Zillow is now forecasting home values to drop in every large US metro over the next year
Posted by Buryl on 4/17/25 at 2:55 pm
I’ve noticed a lot of houses in Baton Rouge that have been sitting on the market for 10-12 months, especially in the over $350,000 range. And sellers seem to think that pulling their house for a few weeks and re-listing is going to magically make their house worth more money. Haven’t seen much drop in prices, but I suspect it’s coming.
re: Russia's sovereignty over the LPR, DPR, Zaporizhia and Kherson must be recognized
Posted by Buryl on 4/11/25 at 5:32 pm
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34 percent of the country speaks Russian the vast majority are in Crimea , the Donbas , and the other areas listed.
Speaking the language doesn’t give Russia the right to exercise control. Otherwise the USA would have to go back to being a British colony. And parts of the American southeast would belong to Mexico… or Spain, however you want to divide it.
re: Will Smith announces first album in 20 years, Based on a True Story
Posted by Buryl on 3/29/25 at 12:40 pm
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If I’m worth $300-400MM, I’m not all that worried about the way anyone remembers me.
Have you found a way to take wealth to the afterlife? Because if not, the only thing left of you when you leave is your legacy - aka how people remember you.
Also I don’t think you can comprehend the fragility of Will Smith’s ego.
re: Average Wall Street BONUS (not salary) surged to $245K
Posted by Buryl on 3/26/25 at 2:03 pm
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What’s there to be mad about? Smarter / driven people get paid more. The average baw couldn’t sniff these jobs.
I think these jobs are mostly about connections, not ability. Everyone I knew who went into finance was working for “a friend of their father.”
re: Zelensky (Ukraine) has struck the Sudzha Gas Pipeline that supplies Gas to Europe
Posted by Buryl on 3/20/25 at 9:10 pm
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Russia needs to send a missile to Z and put an end to this crap. That would have been a bad move early on, but today I wonder if anyone beside the UK and France would care.
Russia had plans in place to assassinate Zelensky at the outset. The plan failed. Also if Zelensky dies, there’s no logical reason to think that’s the end of it. Russia wants Ukraine. That’s the end.
re: Saudi Aramco and big oil is on ‘wrong side of history’, says John Kerry
Posted by Buryl on 3/20/25 at 4:49 pm
The same John Kerry who has 5 or 6 homes and flies everywhere on a private jet? This frickin’ guy???
re: Ukraine strike Russia energy sector after ceasefire announcement
Posted by Buryl on 3/19/25 at 10:36 am
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I saw something last night about an energy ceasefire. Sounded like Russia agreed to it but I didn’t look hard at details
Putin and Trump agreed that strikes on energy infrastructure should be limited. Ukraine wasn’t part of the talks and never agreed to anything. They likely didn’t even have the details.
Russia is in support because they are using oil exports to fund the “special operation” and it is one area where Ukraine has had moderate success.
re: Dealing w neighbors over tree overhanging?
Posted by Buryl on 3/17/25 at 4:19 pm
99% of the responses in this thread are from internet lawyers and not real lawyers. You don’t have the right to trim someone else’s tree in Louisiana.
That being said: After her husband died, my elderly neighbor refused to cut her trees or maintain her lawn. She had plenty of family who could have done it, or she could have hired a service, but just didn’t care. One of her branches was growing into my main door (20 feet from the tree). My landlord finally had a service trim it. Neighbor was pissed and found the energy to march to my front door to tell me off. I just apologized and that was the end of it.
Good luck.
That being said: After her husband died, my elderly neighbor refused to cut her trees or maintain her lawn. She had plenty of family who could have done it, or she could have hired a service, but just didn’t care. One of her branches was growing into my main door (20 feet from the tree). My landlord finally had a service trim it. Neighbor was pissed and found the energy to march to my front door to tell me off. I just apologized and that was the end of it.
Good luck.
re: So all I need to do to afford a $750,000 house
Posted by Buryl on 3/17/25 at 1:59 pm
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The median home in 2024 is 33.7% larger than the median home in 1979. So to compare apples to apples, we'd have to compare the same size houses. A 1645 sq ft home at 190.55 would be 313454.
This is where your analysis is faulty. Larger homes are a disadvantage to entry level buyers. It does no good to have larger homes when you can’t afford them.
Another thing rarely mentioned is that newer homes are being built further from city centers, which increases commute times and costs.
re: Troubles buying a home.
Posted by Buryl on 3/14/25 at 2:44 pm
Your analysis doesn’t account for the fact that on a dollar basis, homes were significantly cheaper. Meaning you could save a lesser amount and significantly reduce your monthly payment.
Also, boomers paid literal pocket change for college, while school today costs an absolute fortune. My dad’s first cousin paid for his senior year of LSU and first two years of med school from ONE SUMMER’S work.
And many fields had lower educational requirements than today. My uncle is a dentist and never got an undergrad degree. I know older dieticians with only B.S degrees, while a masters is required now.
And every affordable house I saw during Covid was bought immediately and put I the rental market by investors.
Why is it so hard to admit that it’s damn tough right now? Yall are a sensitive bunch.
Also, boomers paid literal pocket change for college, while school today costs an absolute fortune. My dad’s first cousin paid for his senior year of LSU and first two years of med school from ONE SUMMER’S work.
And many fields had lower educational requirements than today. My uncle is a dentist and never got an undergrad degree. I know older dieticians with only B.S degrees, while a masters is required now.
And every affordable house I saw during Covid was bought immediately and put I the rental market by investors.
Why is it so hard to admit that it’s damn tough right now? Yall are a sensitive bunch.
re: No taxes for those making under $150K is a stupid idea. Quit picking winners and losers
Posted by Buryl on 3/14/25 at 9:47 am
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How so? 50% of the population pay NO TAXES. "Taxing the rich" is straight out of the Democrat handbook. That's not hyperbole, you can google the phrase and find multiple Democrats stating as such.
I believe you meant 50% pays no federal income taxes. Which make up probably less than 1/4 of taxes (guessing). You still have Medicaid, Medicaid, social security, state taxes, property taxes, etc; all paid by the bottom 50%, directly or indirectly.
Also, the bottom 50% only own about 2.5% of the wealth in the country. They make about 12% of the total income Most of these people are struggling just to survive on a daily basis. How much tax do you think these people should be paying??
re: Russia has outlined what is needed for a ceasefire with Ukraine
Posted by Buryl on 3/13/25 at 9:27 pm
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I think 3 of the 4 asks are reasonable. Asking them to demilitarize with no security guarantees is not a serious offer of peace
That’s because Putin was never serious about peace. One would need to be in complete denial of reality to think that “peace” was ever Russia’s goal. Russia’s goal is conquest. Which is why Russia should have been met with strength, not concessions.
re: Experience with Labrum tear of the hip?
Posted by Buryl on 3/12/25 at 11:40 pm
Yes, starts as an ache and moves down my whole leg eventually.
re: The Medium income Amercan Family now earns 1/2 the income needed to buy the avg home.
Posted by Buryl on 3/12/25 at 11:38 pm
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This despite the fact that homes today are 50% larger and come with far more high-end amenities than anything between 1960 and 2000. So everybody wants me to believe that somehow it's so much harder now but actual real economic activity seems to completely debunk the idea
NEW homes are larger, not all homes. And that’s an huge problem for entry level buyers. There’s very few developers building neighborhoods with 1200 square foot homes. With limited land, the money is in larger, more expensive houses, so that’s what developers build. All the “entry level” money goes into multi family, which means you are a perpetual renter.
And what amenities do new homes have that homes in the 60s and on didn’t?
re: Confirmed - Cartels have missiles
Posted by Buryl on 3/12/25 at 2:40 pm
Isn’t McGregor the one who said Ukraine was on the “verge of collapse” every day for the past 3 years??? This guy has zero credibility.
re: Re-reading the Covid thread after 5 years
Posted by Buryl on 3/12/25 at 11:01 am
Most people here can’t understand that Covid was worse than the flu, but not as bad as something like Ebola.
3 people in my immediate family hospitalized (two had zero co-morbidities). Best friend and his mom were hospitalized. For comparison, I don’t know a single person who has ever been hospitalized from flu.
I was sick as hell when I got it in summer 2022. Started to recover within 24 hours with hydroxycloroquine.
Of course the government and health care system had wildly inconsistent and bizarre responses to the virus. For various reasons. The WHO didn’t admit it was airborne for over 2 years, after internal revolt from their own scientists.
Big 10 shutting down football was a perfect example. They said if it prevented ONE athlete death, football should be shutdown… ignoring that on average, 12-16 football players already die each year from playing football. By their logic, football should already be shutdown.
3 people in my immediate family hospitalized (two had zero co-morbidities). Best friend and his mom were hospitalized. For comparison, I don’t know a single person who has ever been hospitalized from flu.
I was sick as hell when I got it in summer 2022. Started to recover within 24 hours with hydroxycloroquine.
Of course the government and health care system had wildly inconsistent and bizarre responses to the virus. For various reasons. The WHO didn’t admit it was airborne for over 2 years, after internal revolt from their own scientists.
Big 10 shutting down football was a perfect example. They said if it prevented ONE athlete death, football should be shutdown… ignoring that on average, 12-16 football players already die each year from playing football. By their logic, football should already be shutdown.
re: Kyiv backs U.S. plan for 30-day ceasefire
Posted by Buryl on 3/11/25 at 4:26 pm
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Russia will turn that down. Why would they agree to a cease fire when they are winning?
Wait a second… Russia doesn’t want peace? I was assured that Ukraine is 100% at fault here for defending themselves.
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