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Yeah Avdiivka, if Russia has enough meat to grind, will probably fall in week or two. Still Ukraine, with such terrible Russian losses during this offensive, has already achieved victory in this particular battle. And it will become even worse as they will have less "iron" to cover their troops. This is one more assessment from the front, from yesterday evening, before the situation has worsened according to Butusov.

if you are a solo practitioner, chances are you got a secretary/law clerk and maybe you could hire an investigator for special cases. if you are an ordinary middle-class or lower middle-class defendant/plaintiff, chances are you try and hire the best attorney you are able to afford, and is likely you get a solo practitioner. law is based on precedent and statute. research alone is a cumbersome task and your westlaw and lexus/nexus subscriptions means unlike decades past, you don't literal need go to the law library in 2023, but chances are you cannot delve too much into obscure details o' the case. is just too much ground to cover for even minor cases to go beyond broad strokes. time and money. research is just start as there is pretrial motions to compel and to dismiss and you gotta prepare for depositions, interrogatories and do discovery. gotta go through all evidence supplied by prosecutor or opposing party and then decide if is something missing. typical for complex civil cases such as at issue with trump's fraud situation, you got years o' business documents, emails, and phone records to contend with as well as dozens o' potential witnesses. time and money. as a solo practitioner you probable won't have an investigator for most cases, but for serious crime or complex civil it makes sense to spend the extra money. you and your investigator, who is also likely a solo entity needing do all their legwork by their lonesome, need decide quick how to best spend limited time and resources. often that means the only person you got a chance to genuine investigate is your own client, 'cause they is the one most likely to f' your case. time and... everything an attorney does on behalf o' their client takes time, time which could be spent on other clients and other cases. bill clients don't necessarily mean you get paid by clients. you got a duty to represent your client to the best o' your ability, but you are not gonna be in business for long as a solo practitioner if you fail to recognize who your client is and what they are able to actual afford, and regardless, chances are you ain't gonna be paid in full. etc. being a solo practitioner is a tough racket unless you stick to deeds, wills, estates and trusts... or you get into collections. btw, public defenders is so not as portrayed on tv. public defenders is different than court appointed attorneys who is likely solo practitioners. am not sure where the public defender myths got started, but those folks know what they are doing and they don't just hire any bum off the street who passed the bar exam to be a public defender. SCOTUS Justice Ketanji Brown were a public defender after she graduated both undergrad and law school from harvard. is rare that a public defender is anything other than an excellent attorney well versed in law and highly experienced. however, the one thing tv gets right is that public defenders is criminal overworked and they just don't have the resources available to them that the da or a high priced law firm has. time and money. HA! Good Fun!

keep in mind that in a typical civil case such as the carnival fodder geek show trump is current participating when it doesn't interfere with bedminster golf tournaments and his voluntary dj duties down in mar-a-lago, the point is to make the plaintiff whole. am knowing bartimaeus wants trump to get his comeuppance, but a civil trial such as e.j. carrol and trump's current ny fraud case is not designed to make that happen. however, in many jurisdictions you also got punitive damages. maybe persons think all civil cases should award punitive damages, 'course am suspecting barti is jaded enough to suspect that the way mcdonalds and other sooper rich defendants pay for punitive damages is to pass along the cost to customers or lower employee compensation, so... regardless, civil cases is by design meant to make plaintiffs whole and not to punish defendants. if you want a metaphorical pound o' flesh, then criminal is where such happens. the Constitution and the criminal codes o' fed and states takes serious the notion that it is better that ten guilty should go free rather than that one innocent man suffer. the state has to go through all kinda effort to successful prosecute a defendant and unlike most o' europe and the western world, we got curiosities such as the exclusionary rule which means even if a person is guilty they nevertheless might go free if a cop or prosecutor made a mistake. is all kinda arcane rules in the US justice system which benefit defendants... IF you are able to afford the best defense team possible. *shrug* HA! Good Fun!

am not sure if people are being purposeful disingenuous. yeah, am getting why israel is withholding water and power from civilian populations, but doing so is clear violating international laws. bad. however, comparing russia's invasion o' ukraine and their resulting and ongoing campaign o' murder, looting, raping and targeting the civilian population to israel's efforts in gaza is so not analogous. when hamas attacked civilian populations in israel on october 7, violating islamic law and premeditated engaging in acts so repugnant and vile that any decent person should be revolted, were they attempting to bring about regime change or capture territory? nope. hamas efforts were designed to instill fear in the israeli population, to capture hearts and minds in the arab world and to provoke a response from israel which would make the world pay attention to gaza. ask selves when was the last time there was an israel thread on this board? 2014? sure, there were plenty o' knee-jerk whatabotism posts in the ukraine thread regarding israel, but the last israel thread is forcing sherman and mr. peabody to set the wayback machine near on a decade. why so long ago? 'bout a decade is the last time israel invaded gaza. no coincidence. hamas has few allies among the national leaders o' the arab world and fewer across the rest o' the globe. hamas is an islamic, fundamentalist, terrorist organization dedicated to eradicating jews from the lands former identified as the british mandate. they are not a sympathetic organization. people do realize that one o' the principal goals o' hamas is to generate arab casualties, yes? in 2022 or 2023, hamas (and tehran?) no doubt recognized the increasing trend o' arab nations to seek normalization o' relations with israel, the most tech advanced and stable economy/trading partner in the region. *gasp* in the past, increased rocket and small scale tunnel incursions from hamas terrorists only resulted in mow-the-lawn responses from israel, which had the obsidian board and the world's arab sympathizers irate for about a month longer than the the last israeli tank were sighted in gaza. hamas, increasing isolated in the arab world, needed better than 2014 or 2008-2009. solution: hamas creates a situation where politically israel has no choice but to respond, which is a freaking understatement. need more video and eye-witness accounts o' october 7? am willing to post links if you folks have legit already forgotten. ... again, hamas is not trying to bring about regime change and they don't have any illusions about capturing and holding israeli territory. this is so not a conventional conflict and hamas knows they cannot win a conventional war. hamas generates terror and outrage and then purposeful fights not to maximize israeli casualties, but arab corpses. hamas puts their tunnel entrances, weapon manufacturing facilities and rocket launchers in schools, churches, mosques and residential buildings, daring israel to attack. hamas discourages civilians from leaving areas israel has warned will be subject to airstrikes. etc. serious, am hopeful there is some recognition from you whataboutist folks that you are trying to compare apples and xylophones. am not saying israel is misunderstood innocents who is trying their utmost to avoid civilian casualties-- poor israel is doing their best to uphold international and human rights laws, but hamas thwarts their best efforts. hogwash. following october 7, am suspecting those in charge o' the military response to october 7 is only concerned 'bout civilian casualties if such would result in the abandonment o' key western support. even so, to compare to russia's efforts in ukraine to israel in gaza is transparent flawed and utter ignores realities which should be obvious but constant go without mention. israel is not good guys. israel should not be getting a free pass just 'cause they is responding to the calculated monstrosity o' hamas. even so, compare russian civilian body counts in ukraine and other obvious stoopid metrics is only making poster biases clear. is so not the same, which again does not absolve israel o' responsibility for unnecessary civilian suffering and death. however, am betting Gromnir once again becomes exhausted before the whatabout people do. HA! Good Fun!

Well. I would agree about this assessment of yours, if Russia had unlimited personel. Which is not true. Currently Ukraine has more troops than Russia can possibly raise, as Putin is affraid to call for total mobilization, as it would made much bigger stain on his “election” as few hundred thousand corpses from Russian colonial provinces no one gives a crap about at home The other reason why I cannot fully agree with your assessment is that Russia helps tremendously to Ukrainians with their “brilliant” tactics, all we need to do is look at all the Russian “glorious offensives at Kyiv, Bilohorovka, Vuhledar and currently at Avdiyivka (etc.). All Ukraine needs to do, is to set their artillery at fixed points and load it as fast as possible as Russia is sending one meat battalion after another. And now Ukraine has cluster bombs which makes their job even easier. As Elerond said, Afghanistan won the war of attrition against Soviet Union, which ended up in collapse of Soviet Union, and Ukraine is playing out for them even worse in that regard. War of attrition is not won i. Two years though… So unfortunatelly for Ukraine, this will be very painful for them as well, but… I recommned you these videos as well for your research on the matter, which analyzes the attrtional warfare:

The game is at several orders of magnitude more stable now than it was at launch.

Grime It did not go well. The Owl looked somehow familiar, like an Easter Egg.

Recent Russian losses appear significant:

Gorthfucious !!! You Nordic folk dont get a pass, remember the Vikings and terrible war crimes inflicted on my English ancestors. It still creates subconscious trauma, remember trauma is generational so 1200 years feels like yesterday

The long running war between Canada and Denmark over Hans Island ended with a peace agreement recently. No war crimes have been brought forth to any international tribunals edit: as a result of the peace treaty Canada and Denmark now share a land border

My default character name just happens to be the name of one of the saints in Elder Scrolls lore which has caught me out more than once. And the corresponding last name caught me out in Fire Emblem leading to more confusion.

You're entering Joseph Heller territory here. Good!

this is maybe not the most illustrative situation for showing evidence o' a two-tiered justice system. defendants rare get gag orders and am not having a recollection o' a person violating such an order multiple times. is obvious that in a civil case normal person ain't gonna give the proverbial middle finger to the judge who is deciding whether to dissolve your business permanent as well as generating an appropriate fine for fraud already found particular when the da is asking for $250 million. but the thing is, the judge's options is limited. finding trump in contempt o' court is a reasonable next step... and then what? is not something people is taught in school, but contempt orders is not punitive. what that means is the judge is only s'posed to fine or jail in an effort to correct bad behaviour. am sure there is other examples, but the only long duration jail times am recalling related to contempt is in cases involving journalists. there is certain situations where a journalist may be compelled to give up their source, but what if the journalist refuses to do so. what if the journalist says they will never give up their source? how much time jail time does a judge get to play with if she wants to test the journalist's resolve? a day? a week? months? is not a fixed time, but journalists have beaten contempt orders by being stubborn. prove no amount o' jail time will compel compliance with the court order and the result is the journalist goes free. as we noted, am not able to recall multiple fails o' a gag order, but you think judge engoron checked? we would not be surprised if first time fails in judge engoron's jurisdiction has resulted in $5000 fines and improbable second fails saw a $10000 fine. am having no idea what were the previous judge responses to what we assume is a near mythic strike three on a gag order violation, but let's assume is jail time. is nevertheless gonna be uncharted territory, no? as a matter o' practicality, am not sure how jail would work for an ex-President and his security detail. even then, what length o' time do you give trump? a couple hours? a day? what length o' time results in trump not violating in the future? is there any time span which would make sense? is the trump gag order silliness evidence o' a two-tiered-justice system or is it an example o' how stoopid it were to make a narcissistic sociopath like trump President in the first place? HA! Good Fun!

Reminds me of But nah, just applies to uncool kids. The others enter a realm of greyness and nuance.

As the man himself said - absolutely rightly, though obviously for totally wrong reasons - it's a two-tiered justice system, so until I see the man in a cell or his head on a pike, my mental health will be better if I don't read any more idiot headlines about Trump and whatever latest terrible and/or stupid thing he's done. There have been approximately a bazillion "Trump will surely face consequences for what he's done this time" headlines written over the past 8+ years, written or said by what feels like literally thousands of different journalists, politicians, historians, authors, bloggers, talking heads et al., enough that practically everyone should be completely inured to them and their utter pointlessness no matter how serious they may seem. Justice will arrive when it finally does and not a moment sooner...or not: reading speculation, opinion pieces, or expert analysis about it won't get us there any faster, and it's just not very interesting or encouraging to re-hash it again and again and again at this point.

New archetypes in The Lord of Nothing DLC. Part 1 Imagine being a Pharasma Separatist Cleric with the Undead domain.

And it's silly easy to do. All you need to do is have the conversation grab a random character name from the party, similar to how NPCs use player names in other interactions. Mind, I'll be very disappointed if there is an NPC I forgot and they were referring to her.

I would like to have different options for behavior and the ability to choose my own path.

Yup. Now I'm going to up my pledge to help fund some of those stretch goals.

Afghanistan(Mujahideen) won against Soviet Union. After nine years of waring Soviet Union collapsed and war evolved as Afghan civil war, which lead to taliban taking over the country.

Yes, the Ukrainians should also do what Russia and throw thousands over thousands of soldiers, run them over with their own BMPs while dropping them of, and hope that at least one percent of the soldiers would not get cluster****ed so they could put thier flag in the middle of a destroyed wasteland. That’s how proper offensive looks like, right?

Sweetie (1989). If all I knew of Australia was this film, I would have to think that they're all deeply disturbed and neurotic. But the truth is that I know they're all deeply disturbed and neurotic independent of watching this film, so watching it was completely unnecessary, albeit very amusing.