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e: In California for Felony case you are required to be there. I think in NY too. State law. N.Y. Crim. Proc. Law § 340.50 Current through 2024 NY Law Chapters 1-49, 52, and 61-112 Section 340.50 - Defendant's presence at trial Except as provided in subdivision two or three, a defendant must be pers...

Who had Alan Dershowitz, lifelong major D supporter and voter, coming out to claim the charges against Trump (current trial...) are BS, he's constitutional allowed to not be there (Troy?), and the judge not letting him go to Baron's graduation is an asshole move? Oh you mean Jefferey Epstein's atto...

By all accounts the Ukrainians have no answer for the glider bombs being dropped by the Russian Air Force. Nearly ~500 of the 500lbs+ bombs fall on forward positions PER DAY. By far the most effective tactic that Russia has employed in the war. If NATO doesn't send something to counteract this, Ukra...

You sort of have to be there everyday at a criminal trial with charges against you, in person. That's... just how it works.

I think political discourse would improve greatly if Trump and Biden would just embrace napping in the public eye. Softens both of their images.

(4 hours of sleep the last few nights, I'm so jealous)

GORDON wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 3:20 pm That's episode 1.

hehe yeah, you don't have to wait long

Not to spoil anything, but the vaults themselves, if they follow the lore, are going to be their own interesting stories., The female lead protagonist comes from a vault that is known for "being good people and doing the right things, a meritocracy" At some point a surface dweller points ...

I think suicides and overdoses are both up, which may explain why some people feel that way. As far as I know, violent murder rates are down.

I really need to learn the hot key that keeps units in formation. Keep the fast units with the slow units. Also, how to insert units in the factory queue instead of clearing it and building the one unit I need right now. There is a way to do that. I DID learn that selecting a building, then holding...

Rumor has it we had peeps over there to help.... but also assess how effective our missile was in a real-world situation. Imagine the data they get watching these Cold War machines fighting where and who they were designed for. Wild stuff. Our poor F-22, she gets to watch Bradley, Abrahams, Javelin...

I cant help but think the US forces are watching the Drone Wars.... Ukraine, Huthis, this, and taking a lot of notes. I wouldn't be entirely surprised if we cancelled the next-next aircraft carrier, for a drone robot ship. Drone swarm is a shitload cheaper than a single $10M missile. The Marine's h...

I think Iran just re-established deterrence. Had not had any directly w/r/t Israel in a while, and didn't respond to a number of attacks in Syria on Iranian troops. We can laugh off the 99% interception rate, but it required what - 6 countries worth of Air Forces to do that? A billion dollars in fue...

Was reading an interesting conversation about how all the major players in the ME have played their role "correctly", except Hamas. Generally in the ME, you threaten all kinds of death and destruction, and then do a moderate action. Israel struck Iran, but they did it off Iranian soil, to ...

GORDON wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 10:26 am why did Israel hit the Syrian embassy?

Israel believed those officers were responsible for helping organize 10-7.

GORDON wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 9:19 am Take what? I missed the instigator.

The analogy I saw is that Iran “moneyballed” a new Sulemani out of like 5 new military officers. They were all at a Syrian embassy when Israel smoked the lot of them.

It was pretty dang close until Yanko got nuked. The guy who was backlining him, that was responsible for making anti-nuke under his umbrella of frontline protection - like the two guys behind us did (pretty well, actually) - was Psycho, in light purple. The same idiot who drew all over the map. It w...

Watched the replay. some thoughts: I didn't get the factory, but the other team was literally gging after that raid. And Yanko our highest ranked player was involved as much as me with an Arma vehicle rush. https://i.imgur.com/aYZIa1j.png Biggest thing I noticed is the other team spread out way fast...

Pretty cool, never seen an above the atmosphere interception before.

Had deleted a post about ballistic missiles being fired because I wasn't sure about the source.

Well, shit: