Russia is now trying to blow up strategic assets inside NATO countries.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/estonia-detains-10-suspects-allegedly-committed-sabotage-orders-russia.amp

The reality is the current U.S. missile defense tech is obsolete and the tech to defeat it has been around at least since the 1970s.  Now, it is still good for convention ballistic missiles but in the 1970s the USSR operationalized and deployed hypersonic glide vehicles and "factional orbital bombardment" (the U.S. has this as well) but in the last 10 years the Chinese Communist Party has gotten big into this.  The problem?

It makes it extremely difficult for traditional missile defense systems to successfully intercept and destroy incoming missiles.  Check out this video at about 39 minutes.

https://youtu.be/-ZKWBJGUu7g?si=fA-VoM8pKcWBaxIn

The insanity and sheer stupidity of this black female pig creature.  People are just getting on a airplane, no meaningful contact, but toxic entitled black woman goes ape shit because she sees a black man with an Asian girlfriend.  Just total chimp out on every way, fighting on the plane, even when deplaned she attacks police, has to be cuffed and carried off by four officers because of her random chimp out.

https://youtu.be/asWtM3igIeg?si=yRlV-p9YDxi4iB4P

Seriously, put this lunatic down

I find stuff like this fascinating.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67940671.amp

Personally, I wouldn't call them cities in any classic sense as they are really just sprawling low density collections of villages but they were relatively close together and did cooperate of communal architecture.  Even if it was just in the most basic form of water diversion projects/flood control, the creation of earth mounds for religious purposes or for people to retreat to/live on during floods or even basic canals so villagers could trade and communicate with each other.

The low density nature of these sprawling "cities" is probably due to the limitations of available agriculture.  The moscovoy duck was domesticated in the Amazon but nothing else, there is evidence of fish farming, manioc(casava) was grown and probably domesticated there, plus there is extensive evidence that sweet potatoes arrived from the Andes region, but other than that it was mostly fruit orchards.  People would clear forrests then plant various fruit and other useful trees as a kind of orchard permaculture. 

They never got out of the stone age and because of the severe shortage of stone it was mostly a bone, wood, and clay age leaving very little physical surviving into the modern age.  Very early explorers did describe large numbers of people living in the region as farmers and hunter gatherers but when the next group arrived 100 years later virtually no people were there. 

Pretty obviously diseases from the old world wiped them out and the remain groups are just the descendents of the few survivors.

Ok, so near my house there is an old best buy location which shut down a little less than two years ago.  The news reports say the space is 36,000 spuare feet and that it is being subdivided so that a new Trader Joe's location can take half of it.  I am wondering what sort of retailer might be interested in the other half?  Which would be about 18,000 sq ft.

The best buy closed because there is another one four miles away in a bigger and busier mall.  Around this location there is already a mall with a ton of stores and restaurants (they had a small format Macy's open just in September) including all the big box stores you can think of.  Obviously, Trader Joe's will put it in their lease that the owners can't put in another grocery store next to them so that only leaves non-food retail as it isn't set up for a restaurant. 

My first thought was maybe Harbor freight might be interest though they do have a location about 5-6 miles away.  It is to small for a Kohl's or a Dillard's and we already have all the bother big box stores so...  What can they possibly put in a 18,000 ft2 store front?

We've been twice this year so I am kind of Vegas's out but my wife wants to go again and The Palms just sent us a comp for two free nights in November (weekday only).  I may have to dust off my Hopper app and see if I can't find some cheap flights.

For those of you who don't know The Palms (now owned by the San Manual Indians) is an off strip casino resort but it is pretty close to the Vegas strip (maybe 10 minutes away).  It is close to Chinatown which is where you find the best Asian food in Vegas along with the most affordable buffets which still offers all you can eat lobster and crab.  The casinos next to The Palms are the RIO (a dump filled with hookers looking for johns) and The Gold Coast (a locals casino with low table limits, cheap drinks, and decent food specials).  Speaking of food The A.Y.C.E. Buffet at The Palms is legitimately a top 3 buffet in Vegas and the injuns are very generous with giving away free buffets to player's club members.

Next, The Palms has the largest standard room sizes of any hotel in Vegas.  Even the standard room has a full kitchen with stove, microwave, full-sized fridge, a large counter bar with bar stools, two large flat screens, a balcony, and a giant bathroom with both a walk in shower as well as a 2 person Jacuzzi tub. 

A good video showing the rooms.

https://youtu.be/fKZJTRkYjN0?si=jWGvaj-3cJYp8jIs

Another better review

https://youtu.be/wWjLjB_pWIs?si=LEMvCfKF7rFzKUaH

https://youtu.be/ml8168o6ZW4?si=Mri6Qn8qMcvtYWeu

Basically, the CCP has said in their official propaganda said they want to trap the US in 3 wars at the same time via proxies.  One in Ukraine, one between Israel and the Muslims, and a third in Korea.  Then after the US 2aetes it's resources and gets worn down the CCP can successfully attack and conquer Taiwan. 

I grew up with Best Foods and while it is very consistent it just lacks flavor in my mind plus the ingredients include a lot of questionable processed stuff.  Now days my go to is McCormick's from their plant in Mexico with added lime juice.  It is sold at a good price, I like the extra spices they use (I usually add more) plus it doesn't include all the artificial junk that Best Foods does.  I do wish they didn't use soy bean oil but for the price it is pretty good.  My runner up is Sir Kensington's organic mayonnaise made with avocado oil and this would be my top pick but I don't want to pay $10 for a small jar of mayo.

Which brand of mayo do you prefer and why?

This is a channel run by a Mexican journalist and he is brutally honest honest about the incompetence of the Biden administration.  Just honest truth.

This thread is for news and videos about stupid criminals being stupid.  I will start it out with these car thieves in San Francisco.

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1683323805111029760