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I finished reading book 8 Season of Storms again. It was published 14 years (2013) after the end of the sage (1999) and before the development of the Witcher 3. Chronologically it is weird in that the events are considered to take place after book 2 and before book 3. The book was clearly heavily used as inspiration for W3, eg. Cat school Witcher, various side quests in W3, Yennefer's references to Coral, and stuff from the Hearts of Stone expansion. The Geralt in this book is more self-assured than the one in the 1990s era books, he seems a bit different. The overall feel of this book is different, it feels like the gameplay loop for the Witcher 3. Geralt goes on a journey and stumbles upon quest after quest.

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She has a beautiful face that is marred by those glasses. I suspect it could be intentional, as only 'paying' fans get to see her without them. There is another onlyfans model that is always wearing glasses too.

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In the US most of the antisemitism-jewish financial conspiracies (Eg. Soros) is in the right, including in libertarian circles. The Anti-Israel stance is more from the left and is more 'peacenik', based on disliking the criminal and incompetent US foreign policy plus recognition of Israeli crimes and the Jewish lobbying. There are many US political science academics that are Anti-Israel, that's partly why their students protested in campuses. Israeli war crimes - Wikipedia

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This semi-dubious site has been taken off of X last week. I don't know if Elon took it down or the handlers did it volunteerily. It claims to "objectively" count Russian and Ukrainian vehicle losses from the first day of the war but it's clearly highly connected to NATO/Ukrainian information warfare/propaganda organizations. They feed it a huge number of photos from day 1, initially many of which were from different wars or fakes. In the interview Elon says that he believes that Twitter was the accidental propaganda arm of the US government which is why he bought it and he thinks it's 'priceless'.

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Elon says that he bought twitter because he hates it

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@TheDude2k doesn't Jaime Duff remind you of more girly version of Jennifer Garner? She could be her daughter.

The Russian military claims that they recruited 382,000 new contract troops (from conscripts, reservists, convicts, Ukrainians, etc) in 2023 so far and everyday they have an inflow of 1,600 new personnel. This means that they will approach 500,000 new personnel by the end of the year. The contracts signed are multi-year. They also report 128 new training facilities opening in Russian college campuses.. I researched their order of battle and it's now a gigantic mass of developing infantry units- mostly regiment, battalion, and company in size. They also have two new combined arms armies and are making river-crossing divisions. The most common new unit is the motor-rifle regiment, a combined arms formation with 3 infantry battalions, 1 battalion of tanks, 1 battalion of self-propelled artillery and various supporting organizations. These are not as well equipped as motor-rifle brigades. and divisions but much larger and appropriate than the extremely infantry weak battalion tactical group they used in the initial invasion. These are also attached to enhance Russian divisions and brigades. Both Russian & Ukrainians sources agree that they maintain about 430,000 men in Ukraine. The Russian army now is dramatically different than the extremely heavy armed but undermanned army that invaded Ukraine in Feb 2022. Before it was an artillery & tank army. The ratio has shifted to an army with a lot of infantry. Ukrainian sources are now claiming that the Russians have 2,300 main battle tanks, 5600 APC/IFV and 4200 heavy artillery pieces in Ukraine. So the Russian army ground force is now approaching 1.2 million men. The Russian ground forces is now larger than the US ground forces. Russia's military budget is over 100 billion dollars in 2023, which is 40 billion more than 2022. Despite these huge infantry forces they have done very little attacking this year outside of contracting Wagner for Bakhmut. So the budget has been allocated more towards force development. It appears that they intend to fight the war for many years and follow the Svechin strategy. The war will be fought in a much more defensive manner than Ukrainian propaganda claims and eventually the West will get much more bored and forgetful of the war than it is right now.