BruceVC

The US shared intelligence is generally accurate. What people always tend to do is bring up Iraq and 2003 as the current reality of accuracy I remember in 2016 the US warned SA about an imminent attack from ISIS. Our intelligence services are badly trained and resourced and have no real idea of global threats so immediately their was this denialism from our foreign affairs and the " its Islamophobia " card was played A month after the US alerting us 4 South Africans were arrested with links to ISIS and plans to attack Jewish and American targets in SA https://face2faceafrica.com/article/us-warns-south-africa-terror-attacks-ramadanhttps://face2faceafrica.com/article/us-warns-south-africa-terror-attacks-ramadan https://allafrica.com/stories/202202090193.html

I have never seen that before, I think thats for mods?

This has been raised on several news channels, I find it hard to believe that an autocrat and ex-KGB like Putin would be so out of touch with the war effort Its possible but I am not convinced ?

I made the mistake a few days ago of saying " Russia wants peace and will be reducing its military engagement " ...I actually did believe what Russia was saying @Chilloutman you were right, I was silly to believe that

I get it, its much easier to be condescending in these types of debates than to be constructive

Its working, I had to delete the Oblivion.ini in the Mygames folder Now I can reload my mods and embark on my adventure ...yaaaaaaaay

Just when I think the Russian military strategy and approach cant get any lower I read these types of links and I realize...." it can get worse than I thought "

So instead of making a dismissive post why dont you give me your opinion ....like people do in a debate ?

@melkathi and @Wormerine You guys have seriously jinxed my Oblivion gaming experience ...you wont believe what I have been going through After confirming all my mods are active I went to Steam and started Oblivion for the first time...and after the options screen when you click " play " the game screen goes black and shuts down immediately. No errors I wasn't worried initially because I am an accomplished gaming troubleshooter so after some high level troubleshooting I decided to play safe and just disable all the Mods but still it failed to load I then removed Oblivion and downloaded it again, twice and it still wont start So I now have a Steam version of Oblivion that wont load with NO mods and a clean install So please drop the voodoo, Jedi mind tricks and let the game work Today I am going to troubleshoot this egregious and frustrating problem extensively, I will keep you updated

Thats gaming heresy, no active and committed gamer can ever complain about a game " being too big " ....its just not scientifically possible

Well their is no honest debate about "if civilian structures have been targeted " they have, its irrefutable I can understand part of the point the article is making but its unlikely that hospitals and schools are being used in the Ukrainian defense Also this is exactly what Hamas does when they decide to launch futile rocket attacks on Israel, they use civilian buildings and then complain when the Israelis destroy the civilian buildings. But they do it exactly knowing their will be consequence because they can say " look, Israel is attacking civilian buildings " yet Israel wouldnt be targeting those buildings if rockets werent being launched from them But despite this the situations are different, Ukraine is a war and an unprovoked invasion. And the intentional or lack of concern with Russia's targets is both craven and contemptuous

Zora please dont develop that bad habit demonstrated by some of making a post and editing the post with " nah, not worth it ". If you taking the time to make a post have the conviction to finish it. I may not always agree with you but I respect your intelligence and belief in your opinions. We can disagree with each other, thats the nature of debate Nah, Democracy dies when Putin lies and invades a sovereign country

When an outsider from the GOP establishment, a political neophyte, is able to become the Republican presidential candidate and then defeat the Democrats the lesson is clear. The mainstream political parties in the US in 2016 were out of touch with American voters on real issues and what matters And those real issues will differ between the 2 parties and then Trump resonated with enough undecided voters who can carry an election So the point is around political parties not connecting with their voting base and an outsider is able to win

No we dont want that, 4 years of Trumpism was fine ....we dont want another 4 years. The point was made

That case is still ongoing as far as I know, I can find out if you interested? Normally people face 15 years for that type of white collar crime

Meh, I have lost almost all interest in Afghanistan since the Taliban took over and now have again started denying Afghan women the right to education https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/baffled-taliban-reneging-pledge-girls-education-83650457

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/breaking-news/3062044/nasfas-thief-sentenced-to-five-years-in-jail/ So in SA we have student university funding scheme called NASFAS (National Student Financial Aid Scheme) and students get about R1400\month In 2017 one student was accidently paid R14 million instead of R1400 she went on a greedy spending spree and spent R800K She was charged for theft and today jailed for 5 years. I wonder if anyone thinks that sentence is too harsh considering the money was accidently paid into her account. Of course she shouldnt have spent anything and immediately let NASFS know about the mistake but 5 years in jail....I would have thought a suspended sentence is more applicable?

As long as you making progress with that old house and addressing the problems as they appear I would say its worth it ?

No one likes a religious extremist Hurlshot ....think carefully about that decision

You have to factor in Romance outcomes in games like this so I get what you worried about with Nasty, I made the difficult decision to finally join the Berserkers in ELEX 1 I liked their magic and their view of the world but I thought they were a little naïve around their rejection of technology. But thats another reason why I love PB games, you really have to consider choices around factions

Sure, end of the day I would support buying gas in Rubles if the EU has no choice That should be obvious, in English we say " you dont want to cut off your nose to spite your face " But here is another concerning metric of the deeply damaged Russian economy, the Russian stock market has still not opened properly....over 1 month since the invasion https://finance.yahoo.com/news/russian-stocks-fall-again-moscow-094646223.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

Their arent many things more laborious and stressful than having to move...packing all your things up and then unpacking And its not like you can pay someone to do it for you so I can empathize with your pain

Gorthfuscious !! Thats a terrible thing to suggest, how do you sleep at night

As long as you doing the DIY yourself thats the most important thing ...you dont want to bring in some contractor to do the work !!!

Cynical but funny But on a serious note. I would argue since Trumps election their has been more accusations of political dichotomy and disfunction than ever before in the US I would regularly hear comments on the likes of CNN that " the US is a politically divided nation and we need to heal " But this Ukraine invasion has demonstrated that you can absolutely achieve bipartisan support in the US and it does matter if you think of the effectiveness and level of the US sanctions against Russia So for our all American members, things are really not that bad in the US and outside of the Trump theater they never have been You just need a real threat to the US, or its historical allies like the EU, to see unity and Congress working together So well done to the US Congress for working together and supporting Biden where necessary during these dark times of Putins War I have said this before and I will say this again. Putins War has had the unintentional outcome of uniting the EU and NATO. Im just sorry its been at the loss of Ukrainian lives But if Trump has been president I shudder to think what would have been the US response ?