I've spent months of my life reloadin Windows because my Registry Hack didn't work and I was too stoned to make a backup.  $$$$

Australia is pretty strict on who they allow to immigrate to their country...

Maybe Egypt is fed up with Hamas and instead of a ceasefire they want Hamas eradicated.

It is my opinion that that is the truth.

Putin’s poorly prepared assault on Kharkiv has achieved nothing but record Russian casualties

Today is not that day

DAVID AXE  •  21 May 2024  •  12:39pm

Everyone expected Russia to launch a new offensive in Ukraine on May 9. That’s because May 9 is Victory Day in Russia – the day the country celebrates the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

It’s a symbolic day for a war of choice that’s less about territory or resources than it is about Russian strongman Vladimir Putin’s conception of himself as a new Russian emperor lording over a thriving Russian empire.

But Putin’s new Russian empire is a farce, albeit a nightmarishly bloody one. And his Victory Day offensive is a farce, too. Less than two weeks after the first Russian platoons marched across Ukraine’s northern border with Russia, just north of Kharkiv, the Russian operation has ground to a halt after just a few miles.

Even worse for the nearly 500,000-person Russian army of occupation in Russia, the northern offensive has overextended Russian logistics and armor support and forced unprotected infantry to attack on foot. The Russian casualty rate was high before Victory Day. Now it’s catastrophically high as Ukrainian mechanized brigades reinforce the northern front.

It’s even possible the Russians suffered their bloodiest day of the 27-month wider war as the northern offensive culminated. There were a record 1,740 Russian casualties on May 12, according to the Ukrainian defence ministry. That’s hundreds more daily casualties than the Russians suffered in previous weeks.

No one outside of the Kremlin knows what the offensive’s actual military objectives were supposed to be. But in strictly military terms, the offensive almost certainly wasn’t worth it. Not only did the Russians fail to gain control of any important terrain, they also squandered offensive firepower that might have made more of a difference elsewhere along the 700-mile front line.  .  .

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/21/ukraine-war-russia-putin-kharkiv-attack-failure-brigades/

I don't drink tap water either, but with a looming water crisis, how long is it going to be before spring water sources and well sources dry up???? Perhaps you won't be able to get bottled water. I finally bit the bullet and had several 5 gallon and 3 gallon jugs of spring water delivered.  I have some stored on water racks, but I've noticed that the taste is different than what I've been purchasing in the stores in smaller jugs.  Same brand and supposedly from the same spring water source.

The reverse osmosis plants can be hijacked as well.

Filtering capability is probably more useful than stored water. for long term purposes. I can throw together a water still here at home. Also decent rain catchment - 35 or 50 gallon food grade barrels can catch a whole lotta rain.