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Amsterdam_Neil_D

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  1. Do not watch the final season. Utter garbage. 2/10.
  2. Agreed, I finished it. Nice balance and use of various characters with various plot lines. Much better than expected.
  3. I thought it got better as it went along, I really enjoyed the last few episodes.
  4. Not seeing many Russian tanks at the moment, almost none. They are either holding some back or are running out. I think running out now, they need maintenance, fuel, crew and ammo to be supplied all the time at the right place. Russia can hardly do any of this currently, I think their logistics and ammo is short at the moment.
  5. Did you see the tank drive off the road and into a sign, even the tank knew it was going to go wrong.
  6. US Dollar / Russian Ruble Something is going on this week for sure. 26/06/2022 - 50 Ruble for 1 Dollar 07/07/2023 - 92 Ruble for 1 Dollar Went from 80 to 92 in last 30 days and has lost already today a tiny bit. - This is bad for Russia as it shows their economy is slowly losing grip. - They were propping it up a bit last year and earlier this year but I genuinely think they are running out of money now. - They have got loads of India Rupees in their bank from selling stuff to India, but nowhere to spend it as its not really traded. - Most of their trades are no is Chinees or Indian currency. It slowly eats the Ruble strength as its used less and less. - Price for Oil / gas they are getting is not far above cost now. - Russia is only down 150-250 M a day overall on the Oil / gas stuff BUT the volume sold to achieve almost the same revenue is vastly increased and some of it is now sea travel as oppose to a pipe.
  7. Apparently Ukraine have found a secret tunnel under the Dnipro river. It was exposed becasue Russia blew up the dam. Nobody knew it existed. Will find out more, funny if true and I suppose there must be 1 tunnel somewhere.
  8. It's all about redundancies. Planes are a good example, like that but better. In a plane, at least you can glide for a bit. That deep, any mistake and its all over.
  9. I didn't make the main video, I just upgraded it a bit. I admit to adding the masks and backgrounds to this, oh and Rab.
  10. That is 100% true. There are 17 bolts on the outside that need to be unscrewed before you can exit the vehicle. This seems an odd choice as this is was the problem with Apollo 1 (Oxygen rich with no immediate escape route and they were bolted in for a test only so all you need is a spark) The Wireless controller is also a worry, why have wireless and what are all the backups to control ? (Extra controllers / batteries) 96 hours, how do they know how it performs with 5 people in it. (Never tested) It is only tested to 3,000 meters, not 4,000. Apart from that, looks great
  11. They are just going to keep going until they find the sweet spot between 32 and 37 races a year.
  12. The books are really good, I only saw the trailer so far for the tv series but they have nailed the look, its exactly how I imagined it.
  13. I wonder how many people watch races these days, I am sure the BBC used to get millions of viewers, it can't be the same now ?
  14. It's awful and not a solution to anything. It just devalues an overtake, I mean anyone can press a button. Without overtakes of value and all the other problems you mentioned I just don't see an entertainment or sporting value to the circus. Without them, what is it ?
  15. I have hardly watched it at all this season. They are technically races I suppose but when people can start well down the grid and go past everyone to the front. In your mind for the next race, change Verstappen's Red Bull to a white Beatle and we are in Herbie goes Bananas territory. Forget about commentary, add film chase music. It's bolox and they must know it. Almost every single race..."We are starting so far back we can never win from here" "We'll see about that, right Herbie?"
  16. Put my house up for sale on Monday, sold it on Tuesday, 55k above above what the agent thought we could get. (+11%) - I was lucky, it went up 80% in 6.5 years. No chain, and she pays cash so too speak, no mortgage. Just waiting for contract and stuff today. I am moving to Haarlem to a brand new apartment, there was 1 Apartment out of 39 possible that my Mrs really liked, so we went into a lottery with that 1 as or 1st choice. It's all done by software here so it super fair. I actually got the one we wanted(I think its the 1st time I won something like this) . It's 200 M from my Granddaughter as oppose to 10 miles, 100 M to the hospital and 300 M from a new shopping centre on the way. I have not had much luck lately with jobs and things so pretty pleased.
  17. An imbalance in the Demographics will eventually kill any economy no matter how well its run. As you said there is a time bomb but I think this is true for most of the developed word. The UK seems to be about average compared to other similar countries, Russia on the other hand. They have approx 50M under the age of 35 from a population of 143 M so very top heavy. (This is not counting the war). They will have massive problems that can't be fixed.
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