dylan winter
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Revolution in Iran?
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Germany is on-board! So now Canada and Germany. No idea when USA is going to grow a pair though.
My Senator (Hickenlooper) responded to my many letters that he is pushing a joint resolution to condemn Iran. I guess that is a start. My other Senator had zero response, not even a boilerplate letter.
My Senator (Hickenlooper) responded to my many letters that he is pushing a joint resolution to condemn Iran. I guess that is a start. My other Senator had zero response, not even a boilerplate letter.
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Getting close, it would be something if they can pull this off by the sheer resolute will of the people. I would love to travel and spend money in a free Iran. Of course there would be a extremely violent clash at some point, their government brothers would have to abandon their posts.
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Mostly Kurdish protesters apparently have liberated Mahabad, a smallish-sized city. They have broken Into and apparently taken over the city government center ...
Tehran is about 70x bigger than Mahabad, it is possible that the IRG has been deployed to Tehran and left these smaller cities from lack of manpower.
Moral of this Revolution from the first blow to this moment seems to be "The Kurds will kick yer ass if you fuck with them."
Tehran is about 70x bigger than Mahabad, it is possible that the IRG has been deployed to Tehran and left these smaller cities from lack of manpower.
Moral of this Revolution from the first blow to this moment seems to be "The Kurds will kick yer ass if you fuck with them."
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The takeover of Mahabad is apparently happening right now, some more footage of the Kurds battling the remaining Guards ...
Damn, they already blocked it. But it is on my channel ... the footage is intense, the Kurds just pummeled the guards with rocks and Molotov cocktails. The guards can be seen on a bridge cowering behind a couple plexiglass shields.
It is a straight up guerilla war, the guards are totally outnumbered.
Damn, they already blocked it. But it is on my channel ... the footage is intense, the Kurds just pummeled the guards with rocks and Molotov cocktails. The guards can be seen on a bridge cowering behind a couple plexiglass shields.
It is a straight up guerilla war, the guards are totally outnumbered.
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spankoka
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Apparently, a Spanish soccer fan walking to the World Cup has been detained in Iran for visiting the grave of Mahsa Amini.
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This is how it starts
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Monkey
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How’s the plastic box business going?
Just curious. I’d think there’s a huge demand for a plastic box to paddle around. I bet shipping can’t keep up!
Keith
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Lot of demand but I couldn't make a profit on them at the price I had them, and I don't see the point of raising the price. So I am moving to an open source model with them (similar to the Optis) for youth rowing the Unsanctioned 250. We are currently calibrating to U-250 times on the Concept II ergometers.
There is definitely a need ... current youth rowing programs either are erg only, or they have to get serious coin to buy a small fleet of single rowers, and those are rarely one-design fleets, the kid in the carbon Montreal can't even race the kid in the glass 3 meter without some really unfun rating system.
Our current goal with the U-250 open source program is a $100 club-build kit and a $380 one-per-club ready build for the version 3 build. And since we do compliant U-250 rating from the in-water shells to the Concept II, the club would only need to buy one erg, and then the other U-250 circuit training stuff, which is pretty cheap.
Thanks for asking. U-250 makes some very strong rowers. At one point last year I was 0.7 seconds away from the men's senior heavyweight record of 45.0 seconds for the full circuit, but it seems that some maniac rower in Italy shattered the old record at less than 43 seconds. C'est la vie.
Why do you ask, do you row?
