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“We think the advanced teaching techniques allowed them all to be first rate basketball players doing three point shots and dunking and reverse dunking on the first try.”

(Nod to Airplane)
The Malombo Tribe learns from scratch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSQ_lWEtMb4

“Ukraine was always the ‘Rheinmetall’ of the Soviet Union”

Yes, it was the core of the Soviet Defense Industrial Base, in many critical aspects.

Oil markets react in the short term to strikes on Russian oil infrastructure, especially the four big Western export terminals for Urals grade crude (Novorossiysk, Tuapse, Ust Luga and Primorsk) - but fundamentally, enough replacement supply is available on the market. Prices will rise as Russia’s oil infrastructure get’s destroyed, but they won’t go crazy high - because President Trump has masterfully prepared the battlefield.

OilPrice.com (Nov 13, 2025):

Oil Prices Jump as Ukraine Hits One of Russia’s Biggest Export Hubs

“Oil prices climbed in early Asian trade on Friday as markets responded to renewed attacks by Ukraine against energy infrastructure in Russia. A Ukrainian drone attack on the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, one of the country’s most important oil export hubs, triggered renewed fears of supply disruptions in what has been a very bearish market of late.

At the time of writing, WTI had risen 1.52% to $59.58 while Brent was trading at $63.88.

The attacks damaged a ship, nearby apartment buildings, and an oil depot, injuring three crew members aboard the vessel, Russian regional authorities confirmed.

Ukrainian forces have increasingly targeted Russian oil-refining, storage, and export infrastructure using drones and missiles. The campaign has gained intensity in recent months, with the Center for European Policy Analysis noting a shift in strategy “from smaller-scale strikes on storage tanks to targeting hard-to-replace refinery equipment, like cracking units, much of it western-made and subject to sanctions.”

If Ukraine continues to press its deep-strike campaign and Russia faces rolling or compounding infrastructure losses, the supply risk to global oil markets could rise meaningfully.

Russian oil supply is being further suppressed by renewed U.S. sanctions, most notably new restrictions on Russian oil majors Rosneft and Lukoil, effective Nov. 21, prohibiting transactions with the companies as Washington increases pressure on Moscow.

The broader oil market outlook, however, remains bearish (headed toward lower prices) with U.S. crude inventories rising and multiple warnings of a severe glut in 2026

I’ve seen child pornography cases prosecuted. The psychiatrists who testified referred to “pedophiles” as being attracted to children in specific age ranges, including during and after puberty.
They never used any of these other labels.

Do you think the prosecution would pay for an expert witness who distinguished between pre and post pubescent minors? The expert witness any sides provides testifies how they want them to testify, otherwise, they wouldn't be called and paid. These are professional witnesses usually for one side of an argument. That doesn't mean what they opine is universally accepted.

LOL, write your book, expose all this historical fake data.

Again, the data isn't fake. People answered how they answered. The question is, how accurate is the data surveyed? There is enough genealogical research that the data can be sampled and checked and put in to three categories: confirmed accurate, confirmed inaccurate, and by how much, and impossible to verify. From that someone can calculate the bias of the official data you referenced, but it's not what I do. I am not a number crunching statistician.

not out of thin air. I chose that age because it has given a kid time to grow up and generally they are not socializing in the local high school anymore with someone 21 and have about three years of being thought of as an adult... when I hear someone talk about an older teenager as being more mature than someone who is 21 all I have to say is that life’s experience is a big deal and that 15- or 17-year-old does not have the experience and need some time to grow up. the 21-year-old in most cases is not learning about having a opposite sex relationship and the 15-17 year old is still learning the basics of how relationships work.

Hey Chainmail,

How old were you when you first had sex? How old was the girl?

crickets...

“Like so many words today...”

Just like using the term gender for sex, gay for homosexual, etc.

I wonder if grouping 16-year olds in the same group with little children is to get the door cracked open a bit for the real pedophiles? “So you are saying that an 18-year old should be in prison for 10 years for going to bed with his 15 year old girl friend?”

“Don’t normalize pedo please.”

“Go to bluesky if you want to do that. Not here.”

Nobody is normalizing anything. Definitions and use of words are important.

Misuse of words and false accusations are assault.

“I remember arguing with my psychology professor in college.”

Sounds like a logical argument by you. You were a pretty smart kid.

Wikipedia, on the oil terminal just struck in Novorossissyk:

“The united complex of Sheskharis and Grushevaya Balka oil terminals became the largest in Europe and the most efficient in USSR… In 2012 Sheckharis and Grushevaya merged into united enterprise ‘Sheskharis oil terminal’.

By 2012 Sheskharis oil terminal accounted for more than 30% of Russian oil export. The terminal has 3 docks of 200 meters total length.

Berth No.1 is the deepest, it can handle vessels with deadweight up to 250,000 tons and 19-meters draft, it transfers only oil cargo with 10,000 tons per hour capacity.

Berth No.2 is 14.5 meters deep, it can take vessels up to 90,000 deadweight and 13.9 m draft, its capacity range from 90 up to 6,000 tons per hour.

Berth No.3 accepts ships up to 33,000 DWT, draft alongside is 10.9 m, it processes mainly naphtha residue and diesel (800—900) tons per hour.

Berth No.4 serves bunkering vessels up to 3.6 DWT. Berths No.5 and No.8 transfer oil derivatives and accept tankers up to 12,000 tons DWT.

Berths No.6 and No.7 are able to take tankers up to 65,000 tons DWT, draft alongside is 13 m. Sheskharis oil terminal can simultaneously process 7 tankers.”

I saw a story on DU last night about how there was FINALLY someone looking into the 2024 election, as it was CERTAINLY stolen from Kamala.

Don’t normalize pedo please.

Go to bluesky if you want to do that. Not here.

I hope you’re having fun igniting the self righteous meat and taters bunch with your quest for reason and logic and classic definition

It never disappoints here

By the logic of some of these Einsteins most of their granddads were pedophiles

In a perfect world, he’d be in an insane asylum.

Exactly.

The fraud was on the ballot itself, in 2020 (as well as in 2024).

Kamala Harris was ineligible for the Vice Presidency (as well as for the Presidency), as she was not a natural-born citizen in violation of requirements stated by the Constitution.

Possibly the Supreme Court ruling on the 14th Amendment, invalidating "anchor baby"citizenship claims, will more clearly resolve this issue.

LOL, write your book, expose all this historical fake data.

Like I said, you are claiming the history of marriage age in America is fake, the history is false because lying about age was so rampant and all those Catholic records, church records, courthouse records, census records, small town people and rural people unknown to each other and records so useless that the historians and researchers are just making it up.

Historians didn't invent anything. Fact: Individuals under 21 who wanted to get married without parental consent would lie about their age. Immigrants who had no parent in this country to consent to a marriage had even more reason to do that. So if the compiled data shows the average age at first marriage was 21, that is to be expected, but the actual average age had to be lower. A woman who lied on her marriage license that she was two years older than she actually was didn't likely confess to the census enumerator that she wasn't 21 when she got married. That could cause problems, specially if she moved to a small community. The data isn't all fake, but is biased. As we have gotten more data that can now be cross referenced, AI might better determine what the age at first marriage actually was for a certain decade.

Stalin is grinning.