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Whoever that is is no Tom Petty.

There are many, depending on the clique. And the more Atlas-related servers you have on your sidebar, the cooler you are.

At this point, the US and Israeli military are intertwined in a massive intelligence gathering operation over about 4 to 5 countries.

The point is probably that the US has no soldiers on the ground at the moment in Israel or Ukraine. Hence, it's probably better to fund these other agents or proxies.

As long as the weapons get built in the US, it's a win-win for both parties.

For birds, it's not very clear what species survived, but the overwhelming majority was wiped out. It's suggested that about +-five-six species survived and are responsible for the diversity of today.

[Meanwhile, the losses Ukraine is suffering on the Kharkiv front are completely unsustainable, and they're defense.]

Washington Post: Russia has gained more land in one month (April to May 2024), than Ukraine ever did during it's counteroffensive (June to December 2023)

The amount of territory Russia has occupied over the last several weeks is about as large as the territory Ukraine retook during its lackluster spring counteroffensive in 2023.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/17/russia-ukraine-front-line-gains/

Even though Russian sources have said this week that their Troops may have been slowed down by UAF reinforcement, footage clearly indicates that Ukraine is unable to put together a competent defense along the Kharkiv directions, and they expect another spearhead into Sumy.  Faster Russian gains along the entire front is expected at this point, and mappers can't keep up with the changes that occurred in Luhansk, Donetsk, and Zaporizhzhia.  I haven't seen any consistent images or videos of Ukraine inflicting heavy losses on Russia.  None.  I don't even know if they can do it anymore. Meanwhile, the losses Ukraine is suffering on the Kharkiv front are completely unsustainable, and they're defense. They literally cannot move armored vehicles, tanks, or equipment into areas without it getting creamed by drones, planes, or missiles.  They can't even place artillery or anti-aircraft systems outside of Kharkiv City.

Russia has Ukraine on the Ropes.  It's not hyperbole.  It's reality.  They just need one more spearhead through/towards Chasiv Yar, Pokrovsk, Kurakhove, or Velyka to achieve victory in Donetsk, as well as a collapse of defensive lines protecting Luhansk from the South. 

One unusual thing about the C-Pg extinction is its fast recovery compared to other greatest mass extinction events.

I think that's one additional thing that speaks in favour of the asteroid impact, because well an asteroid impact is impactful, brief and sudden. But at the end also a temporary thing, its one asteroid, Earth isn't continuously getting bombared by asteroids (well except for the immediate aftermath of returning debris..)

The C-Pg one is a very brief but sudden extinction.

Most evidence suggest the majority of dinosaurs must've disappeared within a few years, most non-avian dinosaurs already being extinct in like a century following the events.

The birds are the continuation of dinosaurs and its legacy, some birds such as terror birds even briefly re-occupied the same niches the non-avian dinosaurs did after the extinction but not with the same dominance as dinosaurs did because of the new players in the game and the fractured nature of the game.

People sometimes forget most avian dinosaurs also did go extinct. It's just the very brief ones that made it are the ones that responsible for the biodiversity of birds today, and most of that is basically the "Neoaves" family, neo standing for new, aves for bird.

Birds rapidly exploded in diversity when conditions returned to normal after the extinction, almost doing it instantly and initially also quicker and more succesful than mammals.

For mammals, the dominance was more restricted to the northern hemisphere and they seemed to have adapted very well to the changes in the Cenozoic era (era from the extinction event till today), that being the rise of grasslands (grass did not exist yet in the era of dinosaurs) and the general cooling in the 2nd part of cenozoic, which saw Antarctica getting lost to the world of ice.

[Joe Biden (D, inc.)]

As of today, I would predict this NPV:

Joe Biden (D, inc.) ... 74.9 million votes | 48.6%
Donald Trump (R) ... 70.5 million votes | 45.8%
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (I) ... 3.2 million votes | 2.1%
Libertarian candidate ... 1.7 million votes | 1.1%
Cornel West (I) ... 1 millon votes | 0.7%
Jill Stein (G) ... 1 million votes | 0.7%
Other ... 1.5 million votes | 1.0%

Total votes cast: ~154 million votes


Subject the change over the next months. I hope Biden can reach 50%+ again.

from 81 million in 2020 to 74 million in 2024. would that be the most raw votes an incumbent lost on record?

Obama lost around 5 million votes in 2012. Yeah that sounds right

Craig Berube is headed to Toronto to be their head coach.

https://twitter.com/TSNHockey/status/1791575337718956045

Bleach blonde bad built butch body is a killer line

Sounds like the title of one of those bad movies on Netflix where I happen upon it, read the summary, then decide I'm not interested and wonder why Netflix thought it was a "96% match" for me. 

The punch line should have been "but I watched it anyway" and "really liked it".

Trump wins all the toss up states but Arizona is close since there will be democratic turnout against Keri lake