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[Armybrat 40,987]

4 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Clergy looks like he could fuck shit up

If that clergyman had any true faith and balls, he’d tell Putin to go fuck himself for getting all those sailors killed.

[Brisketexan 105,569]

We can lend a generous hand, but the EU should carry the heaviest contribution.
We should be doing something — FUCKING ANYTHING — to elevate Central America’s economies.

FIF for fuck’s sake accuracy. But it won’t matter.
When it comes to our own hemisphere, we’re so short sighted as to be blind, but I won’t tear off on that tangent here.
We should cooperate with the EU and NATO both in Ukrainian rebuilding and in helping EU countries extricate themselves from trade with Russia. Eg, subsidize/guarantee cheap LNG for a period of years (decades) to help get EU countries off the Russian tit. It is a long-term strategic investment, as wise an expenditure as military spending, if not more so.

[956 Worldwide 34,908]

8 minutes ago, ShaggyBevo RIP said:

It was a twitter thread.

https://twitter.com/LIM49Spartan/status/1514716760771026945

After scanning the article in Russian the one thing I can say for almost sure is that the captain was the fall guy and not the prime military-side beneficiary of whatever scheme really happened. 

[elfenix 34,385]

2 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

 

you can have one too for only $199 at the lego store. 

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3 minutes ago, elfenix said:

you can have one too for only $199 at the lego store. 

[MillerEP 30,567]

Russian citizens went from generations of serfdom, straight into Communism, then onto an Oligarchic Authoritarianism. With a couple of exceptions around Perestroika and reforms before the Bolshevik revolution, the average citizen has never really had a free press to express their individual ideas. They've practically always been told what to think and have had State-run media. That's going to be a really huge hurdle for the average Russian to overcome. The only hope is with the internet being available to show alternate viewpoints for the younger generation.

[MillerEP 30,567]

^Can we make it into the double digits?

 

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51 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Clergy looks like he could fuck shit up

Clergy looks like he is upset Durmstrang did not win the Tri-Wizard tournament.

[Homercles 10,206]

2 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

You have two things that have to happen.  First, the rocket has to get the payload/warhead on target. We’ve already heard about the failure rate of some of their cruise type missiles. 
second, the warhead has to work. It’s a bit more complicated than an explosive or incendiary warhead- it has something like an altitude trigger that activates the warhead to throw some material into the uranium/plutonium to create the fission chain reaction. 
 

I don’t know what era of tech those are functioning on, but if all that doesn’t happen before the thing hits the ground then it just makes a mess and requires a hazmat cleanup. 

I’d be very curious what kind of safety and maintenance devices the RU warheads have.  
 

For US nukes they have a PAL controller that is required to arm it…it’s a sophisticated electro-mechanical system that sends coded signals to the device to do things like: move switches deep inside that close electrical pathways so the batteries can charge capacitors, set the desired yield, and allow release of the fission boosting gas.  If you try to circumvent the process via opening it, shocking it, etc it’ll disable itself in an irreparable manner via means called strong/weak links.  They use very unusual voltages/currents/signals so good luck guessing it (also so random signals from the environment don’t trigger it).  
 

In addition most modern weapons, as you noted, don’t fully arm until they’ve received specific inputs from environmental sensing systems…the acceleration profile appropriate for an ICBM, free fall of a bomb, traveling a certain distance through the air, etc.  If you don’t know the specific profile and/or can’t imitate it, then it won’t arm.  
 

Finally they also require regular maintenance to replace that tritium/etc boosting gas (it decays), check the thermal batteries, verify the neutron generators work, and even the special material used to channel radiation to the secondary can break down (read the fascinating history of ‘FOGBANK’).  Any of those elements fail = dud or fizzle.  
 

Every single thing from arming to initiation to maintenance has to go exactly right for a weapon to work properly.  After seeing rotted tires on trucks and the state of their equipment in general, I’d be amazed if their nuclear stock works 100% of the time…however that’s still a dangerous game to even consider.  

[MillerEP 30,567]

 

[MillerEP 30,567]

824 new graves appeared from February 28 to April 15 in the Kherson city cemetery - the London human rights organization CIR with reference to the satellite images of the Planet Lab.

 Since March 3, Kherson is under occupation by Russian troops.

Another destroyed equipment against the backdrop of picturesque Ukrainian nature and forests.

This stamp is affixed to all Russian soldiers who refused to go to Ukraine for liquidation.

 Stamp, that is, this phenomenon is already widespread.

Translation: "He evaded the performance of military service duties by refusing to perform service and combat missions as part of the main forces of a reinforced tactical group during a special military operation"

[MillerEP 30,567]

The Kadyrovites were filming TikTok when something flew at them. The bloggers panicked, they clearly did not expect this.

Assault troops continue to successfully fire on Russian equipment.

Destroyed Typhoon-K

[Slacks 6,916]

If Russia were to claim Manifest Destiny, would that make this thing more acceptable?

 

[Macanudo 13,081]

27 minutes ago, Homercles said:

I’d be very curious what kind of safety and maintenance devices the RU warheads have.  
 

For US nukes they have a PAL controller that is required to arm it…it’s a sophisticated electro-mechanical system that sends coded signals to the device to do things like: move switches deep inside that close electrical pathways so the batteries can charge capacitors, set the desired yield, and allow release of the fission boosting gas.  If you try to circumvent the process via opening it, shocking it, etc it’ll disable itself in an irreparable manner via means called strong/weak links.  They use very unusual voltages/currents/signals so good luck guessing it (also so random signals from the environment don’t trigger it).  
 

In addition most modern weapons, as you noted, don’t fully arm until they’ve received specific inputs from environmental sensing systems…the acceleration profile appropriate for an ICBM, free fall of a bomb, traveling a certain distance through the air, etc.  If you don’t know the specific profile and/or can’t imitate it, then it won’t arm.  
 

Finally they also require regular maintenance to replace that tritium/etc boosting gas (it decays), check the thermal batteries, verify the neutron generators work, and even the special material used to channel radiation to the secondary can break down (read the fascinating history of ‘FOGBANK’).  Any of those elements fail = dud or fizzle.  
 

Every single thing from arming to initiation to maintenance has to go exactly right for a weapon to work properly.  After seeing rotted tires on trucks and the state of their equipment in general, I’d be amazed if their nuclear stock works 100% of the time…however that’s still a dangerous game to even consider.  

At this point there is a better than even chance that a Russian nuke cooks off in the silo/launcher before getting airborne.    

And then Putin will use it as a false flag excuse and blame Ukraine/the West/NATO/The U.S. for it.

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[cactusflinthead 27,615]

1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

After scanning the article in Russian the one thing I can say for almost sure is that the captain was the fall guy and not the prime military-side beneficiary of whatever scheme really happened. 

It looks like the preferred vendor was only that on paper. The other bidders might not have been much better though. He got 5%. The regular guys offered him the same. Didn't help though. Got arrested anyway.

This time, for the same 5%, according to the investigation, they asked him to assist in the conclusion of state contracts for 2014 by the Ministry of Defense with three factories - Soyuz-M CJSC (general director Zamir Akhmedov is under house arrest), Saratov Radio Instrument Plant OJSC "(The investigation asked his former general director, 75-year-old Evgeny Murashev, to be arrested, but the court limited himself to a ban on certain actions) and all the same" Elektropribor ".

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2 hours ago, Armybrat said:

We can lend a generous hand, but the EU should carry the heaviest contribution.
We should be doing more to elevate Central America’s economies.

We can't even get avocados across the Texas border, there's no chance Mexico and Central American economies are going to receive the necessary investment in their infrastructures to make a dent in Chinese imports.

[MillerEP 30,567]

Kharkiv, the consequences of the shelling by racists.

 

[InkaUtexas 26,345]

Just want to say great thread and thank you everyone for your efforts. @MillerEP  Damn good watch on the open sources. Appreciate it. @956 Worldwide appreciate your insight and knowledge of Orcish. 

 

[Parliament 14,368]

42 minutes ago, MillerEP said:

 

 

Not often a satire Twitter account says something so poignant.  But here we are.

[MissingInAction 25,299]

13 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

2nd Tee arrived. Old School

Link to order please.

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2 hours ago, Homercles said:

After seeing rotted tires on trucks and the state of their equipment in general, I’d be amazed if their nuclear stock works 100% of the time…

[atomheartbevo 90,041]

Scared. 

 

[956 Worldwide 34,908]

3 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Apparently the Russians sent a diplomatic note to the Czechs and other NATO owners of Soviet-made tech that they are not allowed to re-export any of it to Ukraine. Czechs and Poles have sent armor and Slovakia sent an S-300. This is an…attempt, I guess.  Not translating the whole article, just the Czech foreign minister response.

 

https://denikn.cz/minuta/861326/?ref=mwat

The Czech foreign minister is out here in the twitters.

Twitter Rando: Can we respond to the note by saying something like “go fuck yourself?”

Czech Foreign Minister: “We could but we’re saving paper.”

 

 

 

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[JesusSweatDuck 17,814]

 

[MillerEP 30,567]

Destroyed BAT-2 racists.

 

[MillerEP 30,567]

Cossacks 💪🇺🇦

^Thread on the Crimean War and it's interesting how similar some of the stuff is still today

[DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt 12,301]

2 hours ago, Homercles said:

I’d be very curious what kind of safety and maintenance devices the RU warheads have.  
 

For US nukes they have a PAL controller that is required to arm it…it’s a sophisticated electro-mechanical system that sends coded signals to the device to do things like: move switches deep inside that close electrical pathways so the batteries can charge capacitors, set the desired yield, and allow release of the fission boosting gas.  If you try to circumvent the process via opening it, shocking it, etc it’ll disable itself in an irreparable manner via means called strong/weak links.  They use very unusual voltages/currents/signals so good luck guessing it (also so random signals from the environment don’t trigger it).  
 

In addition most modern weapons, as you noted, don’t fully arm until they’ve received specific inputs from environmental sensing systems…the acceleration profile appropriate for an ICBM, free fall of a bomb, traveling a certain distance through the air, etc.  If you don’t know the specific profile and/or can’t imitate it, then it won’t arm.  
 

Finally they also require regular maintenance to replace that tritium/etc boosting gas (it decays), check the thermal batteries, verify the neutron generators work, and even the special material used to channel radiation to the secondary can break down (read the fascinating history of ‘FOGBANK’).  Any of those elements fail = dud or fizzle.  
 

Every single thing from arming to initiation to maintenance has to go exactly right for a weapon to work properly.  After seeing rotted tires on trucks and the state of their equipment in general, I’d be amazed if their nuclear stock works 100% of the time…however that’s still a dangerous game to even consider.  

Are you a wizard?

[RDCanecutter 26,550]

6 minutes ago, JesusSweatDuck said:

 

Spanish cops might have fun with those three.

[Lurch 5,940]

How many generals might they have started with?

[Gatorubet 30,391]

1 hour ago, MissingInAction said:

Link to order please.

https://poshmark.com/listing/Wolverines-Support-Ukraine-Ukraine-Wolverines-Love-Support-Black-TShirt-623aefca108a2475aa21c69f

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5 hours ago, immamac said:

Imagine if this was the straw that broke the camel's back in Russia. I hope for the best that it is and people revolt against Putin. 

I think you (everyone) grossly underestimate how much Russians support this war. Propaganda or not.

This is not Putin’s war. This is Russia’s war. 

[Gatorubet 30,391]

7 minutes ago, Planet Houston said:

I think you (everyone) grossly underestimate how much Russians support this war. Propaganda or not.

This is not Putin’s war. This is Russia’s war. 

As sanctions makes their lives more miserable, it will get worse.   That is not a country of educated critical thinkers.   Think giant Mississippi. 

[Pato del Muerto 52,853]

They don’t, or won’t, see “we are doing this to you because you fight.”  They will see/hear “we are fighting because they are doing this to us.”

[Gatorubet 30,391]

Denisovians aren’t that evolved, so….

[CooterBrown 18,089]

The Czech foreign minister is out here in the twitters.
Twitter Rando: Can we respond to the note by saying something like “go fuck yourself?”
Czech Foreign Minister: “We could but we’re saving paper.”
 
 
 

One lesson of this war is that foreign government Twitter game is quite strong.

It’s like Wendy’s held a Twitter class all over Europe.

[MillerEP 30,567]

28 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

They don’t, or won’t, see “we are doing this to you because you fight.”  They will see/hear “we are fighting because they are doing this to us.”

Yeah read a thread today where a reporter went around to common places like nail salons and tried talking to ordinary Russians without recording them, etc. to see if they'll speak more freely, and the reporter mentioned that they're not linking the Sanctions with their invasion of Ukraine. There is a disconnect there. They still think Ukraine is rife with "nazis" and that they're on a humanitarian mission there. The Sanctions are an economic war by the west in their minds, they two are separate instances in their mind, so they're not putting 2 + 2 together. 

[Macanudo 13,081]

1 hour ago, MillerEP said:

Cossacks 💪🇺🇦

^Thread on the Crimean War and it's interesting how similar some of the stuff is still today

It's almost like those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.

[Brisketexan 105,569]

I think you (everyone) grossly underestimate how much Russians support this war. Propaganda or not.
This is not Putin’s war. This is Russia’s war. 

This.
Russia, and the Russian people, are largely beyond saving. There may be some individuals who get it, but as a collective society….this is Russia being Russia, the same Russia that it has been for centuries, and will continue to be. The only sane solution for the rest of the world is to isolate the cancer that is Russia the best that we can. Let them rape and murder each other. Let them live their lives in a drunken stupor until they choke on an chunk of moldy potato.
But do NOT let them be part of the greater global community. Every connection they build, every ruble that yields, will eventually be turned against us.
It’s horrific, sickening, and also an undeniable reality.
The only insane thing to do would be thinking, ever, “this time, Russia has changed and will be different.” Nope. Has never happened, will never happen.

[Anastasis 23,498]

That is a really fun and awesome madlibs.  

[DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt 12,301]

19 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

This.
Russia, and the Russian people, are largely beyond saving. There may be some individuals who get it, but as a collective society….this is Russia being Russia, the same Russia that it has been for centuries, and will continue to be. The only sane solution for the rest of the world is to isolate the cancer that is Russia the best that we can. Let them rape and murder each other. Let them live their lives in a drunken stupor until they choke on an chunk of moldy potato.
But do NOT let them be part of the greater global community. Every connection they build, every ruble that yields, will eventually be turned against us.
It’s horrific, sickening, and also an undeniable reality.
The only insane thing to do would be thinking, ever, “this time, Russia has changed and will be different.” Nope. Has never happened, will never happen.

Nor will the rest of the world change.

What will actually happen: Putin is removed from power, elections are held, the next autocrat takes the reins. The rest of the world wants cheap Russian natural resources and we go right back to where we were before this all happened...convinced we've put the past behind us.

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9 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

That is a really fun and awesome madlibs.  

Tell them to stop doing the “us vs them”.  Until you accomplish that they are always the “them”. Not us.  

[InkaUtexas 26,345]

33 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

This.
Russia, and the Russian people, are largely beyond saving. There may be some individuals who get it, but as a collective society….this is Russia being Russia, the same Russia that it has been for centuries, and will continue to be. The only sane solution for the rest of the world is to isolate the cancer that is Russia the best that we can. Let them rape and murder each other. Let them live their lives in a drunken stupor until they choke on an chunk of moldy potato.
But do NOT let them be part of the greater global community. Every connection they build, every ruble that yields, will eventually be turned against us.
It’s horrific, sickening, and also an undeniable reality.
The only insane thing to do would be thinking, ever, “this time, Russia has changed and will be different.” Nope. Has never happened, will never happen.

[InkaUtexas 26,345]

13 minutes ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

Nor will the rest of the world change.

What will actually happen: Putin is removed from power, elections are held, the next autocrat takes the reins. The rest of the world wants cheap Russian natural resources and we go right back to where we were before this all happened...convinced we've put the past behind us.

Yes, sadly you are correct. No matter what the west does to educate and integrate Russians, the rural society will still prevail. 

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19 hours ago, JesusSweatDuck said:

We were in the Dallas version last weekend. Didn't see those, now I feel like I missed out

One more tournament left in Houston, they could possibly be there. 

[Pods 7,594]

Keep laughing at Vlad and making jokes at his expense.

Zelenskyy says Putin is afraid of humor, calling comedy a 'powerful weapon' for spreading truth

https://www.businessinsider.com/zelenskyy-says-putin-is-afraid-of-humor-calls-comedy-a-powerful-weapon-2022-4

Spoiler

Zelenskyy says Putin is afraid of humor, calling comedy a 'powerful weapon' for spreading truth

John Haltiwanger

Apr 15, 2022, 2:00 PM

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in his office in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 9, 2022.

Evgeniy Maloletka/Associated Press

Zelenskyy in a new interview with the Atlantic said Putin is "very much" afraid of humor.

He said humor is a "powerful weapon" for telling the truth, which Putin fears.

Ukrainians have used humor to combat Russian disinformation. 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a new interview with the Atlantic said that Russian President Vladimir Putin fears humor "very much" because it's an effective, accessible tool for spreading truth.

"Jesters were allowed to tell the truth in ancient kingdoms," but Putin "fears the truth," he said. 

"Complex mechanisms and political formulations are difficult for humans to grasp. But through humor, it's easy; it's a shortcut," Zelenskyy added, describing comedy as a "powerful weapon." 

Zelenskyy, a former TV star and comedian, said he doesn't think "normal people" can "survive" without humor.

"Without a sense of humor, as surgeons say, they would not be able to perform surgeries—to save lives and to lose people as well," he said. "They would simply lose their minds without humor."

Ukraine has often turned to comedy as a means of fighting Russian propaganda,sharing memes that discredit or ridicule false information or narratives spread by the Kremlin. Ukrainians have also turned to humor as a means of coping with the hardships that come with fighting and living through a war.

Humor is an "outlet for releasing excessive aggression so that we are not engulfed in fear," Kyiv resident Olexander Lisenko told Al Jazeera last month.

Zelenskyy in his interview with the Atlantic said that for Ukraine to have a secure future then Russians need to be confronted with the facts about their own history and what they've done to Ukraine. Russia has been widely accused of committing war crimes in Ukraine. President Joe Biden earlier this week described Russia's brutal actions and tactics in Ukraine as "genocide," employing politically charged term that's rarely used by US presidents in making allegations against other countries. 

Russia has vehemently denied involvement in atrocities in Ukraine, pushing conspiracy theories in the process. The Russian government, for example, claimed that images of dead civilians in Bucha, Ukraine, were staged or fabricated after its troops withdrew from the town. But satellite imagery showed the bodies of dead civilians scattered in the streets weeks before Russian soldiers pulled out. 

Zelenskyy said Russians "are afraid to admit guilt," describing them as "alcoholics [who] don't admit that they are alcoholic."

Russia has gone to extraordinary lengths to censor information on the war, and those that protest or speak out risk prison time or worse. Putin's opponents have a history of winding up dying in violent ways, or landing behind bars. Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Putin's most prominent critic, in late March tweeted, "Words have power, Putin is afraid of the truth, I have always said that." 

 

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The U.S. and Russia remain far apart in talks on Ukraine, but Russians say they have no plans to invade.

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Russia Downplays Ukraine Invasion Threat After U.S. Talks

Russian officials said they told American diplomats that Russia had no plans to invade Ukraine during a series of talks that lasted nearly eight hours.CreditCredit...Denis Balibouse/Reuters

GENEVA — With Russian troops massing along Ukraine’s borders, American and Russian diplomats made clear after an intense round of negotiations on Monday that while the two sides would keep talking, they remain far from agreement on meeting each other’s security concerns.

Russian officials said they told their American counterparts they had no plans to invade Ukraine, in a series of talks that lasted nearly eight hours. “There is no reason to fear some kind of escalatory scenario,” Sergei A. Ryabkov, a Russian deputy foreign minister, told reporters after the meeting.

“The talks were difficult, long, very professional, deep, concrete, without attempts to gloss over some sharp edges,” Mr. Ryabkov said. “We had the feeling that the American side took the Russian proposals very seriously and studied them deeply.”

Wendy Sherman, the lead American diplomat, said the United States was “pushing back on security proposals that are simply non-starters for the United States,” including Russia’s demands that Ukraine not be admitted into NATO, and that the alliance end its security cooperation with Ukraine.

“We will not allow anyone to slam closed NATO’s open door policy, which has always been central to the NATO alliance,” Ms. Sherman said on a conference call with reporters. “We will not forgo bilateral cooperation with sovereign states that wish to work with the United States. And we will not make decisions about Ukraine without Ukraine, about Europe without Europe, or about NATO without NATO.”

Both sides tamped down any expectations for a diplomatic breakthrough.

“Today was a discussion, a better understanding of each other and each other’s priorities,” Ms. Sherman said. “It was not what we would call a negotiation.”

The tone of the talks “makes one more optimistic,” Mr. Ryabkov said, “but the main questions are still up in the air, and we don’t see an understanding from the American side of the necessity of a decision in a way that satisfies us.”

Ms. Sherman said the two sides discussed the possibility of reviving the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which the United States abandoned in 2019, after years of accusing Russia of violating its terms.

The American side raised ideas about where U.S. and Russian intermediate-range missiles are located, she said, and the United States made clear that it is open to discussing “ways we can set reciprocal limits on the size and scope of military exercises and to improve transparency about those exercises.”

The talks — the first in a series of discussions that will take place across Europe this week — revolved around the demands for “security guarantees” from Western powers that the Kremlin made in a remarkable diplomatic offensive late last year.

In December, Russia published a proposal for two agreements with the United States and NATO that would roll back Western military activity in Ukraine and elsewhere in Eastern Europe, in essence re-establishing a sphere of Russian influence in what used to be parts of the Soviet Union.

Many of the proposals, as Ms. Sherman noted, are nonstarters for Western officials, who insist that Cold War-style regions of influence are a relic of the past and that countries should be able to choose their own alliances.

“We did not go there and go through the treaty they put on the table,” Ms. Sherman said.

Russia insists that its demands go well beyond arms control, and involve a wholesale redrawing of the security map in Europe, which the Kremlin claims the West forced upon a weak Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

If Russia does not get what it wants, President Vladimir V. Putin said last month, the Kremlin is prepared to resort to military means to achieve its aims.

— Anton Troianovski, David E. Sangerand Michael Crowley

 

Edited April 16, 2022 by Gatorubet