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Torn Mind

Lifer
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Coke has 239 grams of sugar in a 2-liter bottle. 20 years ago, I worked with someone in their mid 20s that drank one of those each day. I figured he'd have health problems eventually. Turns out I was right. Now overweight with many health problems.

I stay away from sugar sodas. The zero sugar ones I'll have a few times a month.
You got me searching on youtubez. Came across this.

Yep, poverty these days involves being poor and fat/diabetic. Caloric excess. So Coke actually just wants to continue terrorizing the Russians with sweets.
 

Torn Mind

Lifer
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Pepsi is my weakness. I can go a whole week without it, but then I get that craving once and I'm back on it for a while. I do limit to 1 can per day, sometimes a small bottle if I order food but still not great.

At one point I was pounding down like 5+ per day though.
Make your own.

You'll need to an avant garde store: you're local hardware store.

Buy a water carbonated, loads of sugar.
Here's where the hardware store comes in: Phosphoric acid.


Cheers. /sarcasm

You should just try to do a substitute sugar+ caffeine bomb like sweetened green tea(using a tea bag) or sweetened coffee as a compromise. Procure some xylitol in the future and make your own "birch beer".

Also, try substituting one normal grain meal for something like a sweet potato.
 

manly

Lifer
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https://about.americanexpress.com/a...Operations-in-Russia-and-Belarus/default.aspx

American Express (finally) joins Mastercard and Visa in suspending operations.

Still waiting on other major companies like Pepsi, Coca Cola, and McDonalds to do the right thing as well.

https://www.reuters.com/business/re...russia-operations-ny-pension-fund-2022-03-04/
I disagree, these companies should be able to poison Russian consumers just the same as 'Murican consumers.
 
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Captante

Lifer
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What a moronic comment. Lets hear your joke about
Captante's post-.


Time for you to get off the grid like you've been promising us for years..


The joke may have been in poor taste/badly timed HOWEVER I don't believe Red would make light of kids being killed by Russian artillery intentionally despite my not agreeing with some of what he posts.

It's better to laugh then cry.... the last thing anyone needs here or anywhere else is more anger. (thanks for sticking up for my post though!)

 
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Zeze

Lifer
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https://about.americanexpress.com/a...Operations-in-Russia-and-Belarus/default.aspx

American Express (finally) joins Mastercard and Visa in suspending operations.

Still waiting on other major companies like Pepsi, Coca Cola, and McDonalds to do the right thing as well.

https://www.reuters.com/business/re...russia-operations-ny-pension-fund-2022-03-04/
Always read the actual article... it doesn't seem to impact domestic everyday use of Amex.

As a result, globally issued American Express cards will no longer work at merchants or ATMs in Russia. Additionally, cards issued locally in Russia by Russian banks will no longer work outside of the country on the American Express global network.
 

nakedfrog

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You should just try to do a substitute sugar+ caffeine bomb like sweetened green tea(using a tea bag) or sweetened coffee as a compromise. Procure some xylitol in the future and make your own "birch beer".

Also, try substituting one normal grain meal for something like a sweet potato.
Or just drink some damn water instead
 
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Captante

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What the actual fvck............

We may end up getting more directly "involved" in Ukraine yet .... I don't see how that can possibly end well.





EDIT: Even so..... what kind of people are we if we know about this crap AND LET IT KEEP HAPPENING !?!?!
 
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UsandThem

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Always read the actual article... it doesn't seem to impact domestic everyday use of Amex.

I did.

That's why I linked to American Express' statement on their actions concerning Russia.

It's the same thing that Mastercard and Visa are doing (which I linked to in another post).

https://www.reuters.com/business/fi...ions-russia-over-ukraine-invasion-2022-03-05/

Within days, all transactions initiated with Visa cards issued in Russia will no longer work outside of the country and any Visa cards issued outside of Russia will no longer work within the country, the company said.
 
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HomerJS

Lifer
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With all the businesses jumping ship from Russia it's going to make the Chinese think twice.
 

deustroop

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My strategy--time to play offence.

Be "all in" , the US to counter attack in Ukraine.
Relying on a "Pukin is bluffing" analysis, the US ( not NATO) should put up the No Fly Zone and warn Russia that the US will destroy all airfields launching strikes at American planes.

Pukin has said that he considers sanctions to be an act of war and by imposing them, Allies are at war . Thus implementing a no fly zone should not increase threats of war which already exist.

In response to Pukin's waving his Nukes around, Allies can point out that they have more of those than Russia and that a nuclear attack, even a tiny tactical one, will produce a similar strike from America.
 

dullard

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should put up the No Fly Zone and warn Russia that the US will destroy all airfields launching strikes at American planes.
You don't declare no fly zones, you create them. You create no fly zones by destroying anything that could harm our planes. There is no "warn Russia that the US will destroy". If you create a no fly zone then you DO destroy.
Thus implementing a no fly zone should not increase threats of war which already exist.
There is a huge difference between being mad at a sanction and being attacked by a no fly zone. The difference in the Russian's mind would be immeasurably huge. Thus, I think you need to provide some proof to back up your statement that setting up a no fly zone by attacking Russia will not increase the threat of war.
Allies can point out that they have more of those than Russia and that a nuclear attack, even a tiny tactical one, will produce a similar strike from America.
Why would Putin care if we destroy Russia? He is already towards the end of his life. He has no heirs that he admits to having. All he cares about is a legacy that he fought to bring the USSR back. You should not want to be in a battle to the death with someone who doesn't care about death.
 
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UsandThem

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You don't declare no fly zones, you create them. You create no fly zones by destroying anything that could harm our planes. There is no "warn Russia that the US will destroy". If you create a no fly zone then you DO destroy.

There is a huge difference between being mad at a sanction and being attacked by a no fly zone. The difference in the Russian's mind would be immeasurably huge. Thus, I think you need to provide some proof to back up your statement that setting up a no fly zone by attacking Russia will not increase the threat of war.

Why would Putin care if we destroy Russia? He is already towards the end of his life. He has no heirs that he admits to having. All he cares about is a legacy that he fought to bring the USSR back. You should not want to be in a battle to the death with someone who doesn't care about death.
Exactly.

According to the media coverage I've seen, they are saying "75% of people in America support enforcing a no-fly zone".

What exactly happens when Russian planes (or anti-aircraft defenses) shoot down the planes that are there to enforce this?

What they should ask these people in these polls, is "Should the U.S. / NATO enforce a no-fly zone, when it could lead to WWIII or possible nuclear attacks?".

Putin is either bluffing big time, or is a complete psychopath. And nobody has any way of knowing which one it is. Like Stalin, he has killed all rivals, silenced his citizens, and has absolute power in Russia at this point. He is a defacto despot at this time.

Of course I want the war in Ukraine to end, but I'm not sitting on the sidelines and cheering for the possibility of the war spreading across Europe and causing tens of millions of deaths, or the annihilation of the human species. Of course if Russia didn't have nuclear missiles, with a despot apparently ready to use them at any moment (depending on what crazy is going on his head at the time), I'd be 100% behind NATO intervening and driving Russia out of the Ukraine.


“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.” - George Orwell
 

ultimatebob

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It would be hilarious if Microsoft does do that. But, I'm pretty sure I've heard that Russia has been trying to move away from Microsoft. Here is a homebrew operating system their army supposedly uses:
.

Looks like Russia is going to "OK, piracy is legal now!" route:

 

UsandThem

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It appears that a second Russian general has been killed in Ukraine: https://www.newsweek.com/sr-russian...ed-capture-crimea-killed-near-kharkiv-1685767

Ukraine's Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Defense Ministry said in social mediaon Monday that military forces killed Gerasimov while defending Kharkiv, a city in the northeastern part of the country.

According to Ukraine's military intelligence agency, Gerasimov was a Russian military commander, chief of staff and first deputy commander of the 41st Army of the Central Military District of Russia. He was also a veteran of the Second Chechen War, where Russian military forces subdued separatists in the north Caucasus in the first decade of the 2000s.
 
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