Everything posted by Bateshorn
- Greenland
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Greenland
Oh, this is definitely a Mercator Projection issue.
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Greenland
What the fuck are you talking about? Greenland has close to 50,000 permanent residents. Nuuk has a population of 19K plus.
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Greenland
Not fantasy. I think the chances the Danes and locals put up some doomed effort to bloody our nose is serious. We of course would win, but this entire farce is predicated on the idea that in the end, the Europeans will back down and give/sell Greenland to Trump. If that was going to happen, the Europeans wouldn't have walked out of the meeting yesterday talking about fundamental differences. Everything about their demeanor suggests that yesterday's conversation was basically a non-starter. I think they offered to let the US build as many bases as they want and to give Greenland its full "independence" and let them choose future arrangements with the US. I think Vance said "You will give us Greenland. Full stop." And here we are.
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Greenland
Correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t think Trump has ever been the President when we’ve lost or been seriously bloodied in a fight. Or least when the American public was paying attention.
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Greenland
I read one of two outcomes to today’s talks and I would appreciate our euro aware surls weighing in: Nobody agrees, let’s have a high level taskforce, Trump backs down as media forgets. It’s war, more talking while the Danes reenforce the island enough so the invasion causes a helicopter crash and the unseemly sight of a SEAL team fighting in the streets with injuries. Candidly, I think the Danes are going to fight, even if it’s a doomed platoon. To them, this is just an intolerable insult after the dying they have done for us in n Afghanistan
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Greenland
HOW MANY TIMES AM I GOING TO HAVE TO SAY THIS: RARE EARTHS AREN'T RARE!!!!!!!!! Lanthanides are extremely common in the earth's crust. While the Chinese do have excellent deposits, particularily in the heavier lanthanides, but the US has no shortage of them. Mountain Pass is a very rich area, as is Bokan Mountain in Alaska. As an aside, you don't mine one lanthanide, you mine them all at the same time. Some of them are valuable, some of them are not, and some of them are toxic. The issue is doing the refining and separation chemistry at a cost that makes them market viable. Right Now, to use a petroleum metaphor, the Chinese are producing rare earths at $10 a barrel. It's just not commercially viable to drill domestically at that price. If the government were to subsidize their production, you can have as much as much you want. If anything, invading Greenland would destroy NATO, is a long term play, and once you decide to produce, you have the exact same problem on production cost in the marketplace that is bedeviling Mountain Pass.
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Markets still falling like whoa
Yup, but it functionally freezes the current Feds make up through the election.
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Markets still falling like whoa
Looks like Tillis is a hard no on any WH fed nom going forward until this is resolved, which means Trump's nominees can't clear committee rn. FWIW. As an aside, the Fed has an opporutunity to do the funniest thing ever and do an emergency 50bps rate increase.
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NFL Fans going goon not going away
Panthers fans fighting themselves is:
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2025-26 CFP General Discussion
It's so obvious that Moore needs another year of college before he will be NFL ready, but it's awfully hard to turn down the 10-12 million that potentially comes with a top 10 pick. OTOH, the Jets are thristy as fuck for a QB at #2.
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Packers vs Bears: 7pm, Amazon Prime
Coaches with solid leads not understanding that the clock is their biggest enemy in the second half continues to blow my mind. The packers had 3 sub 90 second game clock drives in the second half, including an 8 play drive on the missed field goal.
- 2026 Peach Bowl - Oregon vs. Indiana (CFP Semifinal #2)
- 2026 Peach Bowl - Oregon vs. Indiana (CFP Semifinal #2)
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2026 Peach Bowl - Oregon vs. Indiana (CFP Semifinal #2)
Everyone is clowning on Oregon rn, and they should. But that weird ass fumble on the 5 yard line was a byproduct of Oregon having to use their 5th string running back who was a freshman. Cignetti admitted that losing the defensive back on the opening kick fucked up his defenses spacing on Oregon’s second drive. Maybe this culture is sustainable, but I need to see it with 19 year olds to believe.
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2026 Peach Bowl - Oregon vs. Indiana (CFP Semifinal #2)
They are the best team in the country this year, with a core of veteran players who have bought in 100% to the Coach’s redass process, has the Heisman winner, AND has had incredible luck on the turnover front as well. That’s a great recipe for beating the shit out of everyone. I’m not sure this team is the 95 Huskers, 01 Hurricanes, or 05 Texas, but they are as strong a contender as we’ve seen since 2019 LSU.
- 2026 Peach Bowl - Oregon vs. Indiana (CFP Semifinal #2)
- 2026 Peach Bowl - Oregon vs. Indiana (CFP Semifinal #2)
- 2026 Peach Bowl - Oregon vs. Indiana (CFP Semifinal #2)
- 2026 Peach Bowl - Oregon vs. Indiana (CFP Semifinal #2)
- 2026 Peach Bowl - Oregon vs. Indiana (CFP Semifinal #2)
- 2026 Peach Bowl - Oregon vs. Indiana (CFP Semifinal #2)
- 2026 Peach Bowl - Oregon vs. Indiana (CFP Semifinal #2)
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2026 Peach Bowl - Oregon vs. Indiana (CFP Semifinal #2)
- Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
I'm going to say this very carefully for the hard of hearing in the room: If you believe the officer in Minnesota was within his rights to use deadly force against that woman in the car, then you also believe that the Capitol HIll police should have begun shooting into the crowd on January 6. They were physically attacking police officers in front of their colleagues with poles and clubs. I can not say it more simply or directly. - Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
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