For anyone not watching the live presidential address here is the summary:
There are terrorists in other countries too, therefore I did everything right and planned on this! Also its all Trump's fault.
So I guess Biden is going to ride the Trump train his whole time in office by the looks of it... Man takes no accountability. I might respect him if he did.
If anyone wants to watch Biden make excuses as to how he could so poorly botch the situation in Afghanistan he will be going live here shortly:
@freemo @swiley Well it was his peace talks that set up the problem, right?
> Washington under then-president Donald Trump signed a deal with the Taliban in February 2020 that limited direct military action against the insurgents. That allowed the fighters to gather strength and move quickly to seize key areas when President Joe Biden announced his plans to withdraw all American forces by the end of this month.[[1]](https://cbc.ca/1.6141568)
> If the Taliban meet their commitments, all U.S. troops would leave in 14 months [from February 2020]. U.S. troops are to be withdrawn to 8,600 from about 13,000 in the weeks following Saturday's signing.[[2]](https://cbc.ca/1.5481070)
If the government agrees not to engage in direct action against you and to withdraw its military, you no longer need to take it on at all, with or without F-15s or nukes.
The Democrats criticised Trump for reneging on the nuclear deal with Iran that Obama entered into, so now that Biden was faced with a deal with the Taliban that Trump entered into, they had backed themselves into a corner politically. Had they not made such a big deal that Trump was setting a *bad* precedent, Biden could have followed the precedent without coming off as overtly hypocritical.
I think the broader point, that a force comprising solely small arms is almost certainly incapable of defeating the US military, still stands. If the Taliban had retaken the country while the US forces were still actively trying to hold it, you'd have a much better counterexample.
So today I started taking liquid vitamins I make myself. The main reason is there doesnt seem to be a truly complete multivitamin and I just wont stick to it if i I have to take 5 different horse pills every day. The added bioavailibility and the fact I can customize it are nice bonuses.
The liquid vitamin i came up with has all the bells and whistles in one, calcium, magnesium, zinc, all your common vitamins like your B's and your A's and your K's, then I threw in some fluoride.
The end result is a 30 ml shot of not too horrible tasting liquid with every vitamin I could possibly want.
Biden really goes all in at proving himself wrong, almost like it is intentional.
My mom: "I love you with all my heart and soul"
Me: No you dont.
Mom: What?
Me: No you dont. I saw you loving my cousin just a few days ago. You only have one heart and one soul mom. So clearly you are dividing it between more than just me.
Mom: ...
Me: in fact you love so many people that soul of yours is spread out pretty thin.
Mom: I hate you
Me: See! I knew it!
ended up reworking a lot of the ui code... all the Xes and Ys and half-assed SDL wrappers were getting on my nerves, so partially replaced them with my own half-assed SDL wrappers and vector library...
https://notabug.org/fuglycodelord420/openbw/commits/1aa93b122d1da807267d78d52e600f1dee390777
what's new objectively? well you can make an SCV now by pressing S...
So, and what you get done at this wonderful Sunday?
Answer: After an attack to one of my minor IMAP and POP3 server (which not worked for them, since they even used the wrong username) I wrote a script which gives me more detail informations about the systems... Next step is giving the network owners a nice mail.
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Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.
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My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
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