Russia's invasion of Ukraine

[whole summit]

class Thread:

[simple berry]

[quick crescent]

4th!

[shy whale]

I don't expect this to survive long, but it's probably for the better to have it in a thread at least 🙂

[whole summit]

Yep

People will talk about it regardless. Might as well make a thread

[quick crescent]

they are likely to talk about it in #the-water-cooler non the less probably

also, it seems like tomorrow will be a very god absent day for the poor ukrain people

https://vid.pr0gramm.com/2022/02/27/ae6e023b839fc8b6.mp4

[sharp gate]

https://tenor.com/view/at-least-you-tried-trash-bart-simpson-the-simpsons-gif-16327721

[sharp gate]

That's a reboot we don't need

[simple berry]

We need to go back

Bring Reagan out from cryogenic

[shy whale]

https://i.imgur.com/VJFdzd7.png

[quick crescent]

xD

i mean, less people is a nice thing, as there are too many on the world, but hell no not like this

[twin mantle]

On the comment earlier, Russians are already hitting the streets. They’re just being arrested instead

[quick crescent]

https://vid.pr0gramm.com/2022/02/27/14afeadf75e5332d.mp4

[fervent cobalt]

theres lots of telegram groups where you can see life being at stake captured in video, imo this should stay where people can look it up if they want but not here...

[quick crescent]

alright mister

[fervent cobalt]

@yediotnews if anyone is interested, maybe you have others

[twin mantle]

I’m good to keep my brain from it

[fervent cobalt]

i would like to but its just a 10h drive for me and the place i work for has lots of clients in eastern europe

major banks to be exact

[mossy sky]

are we allowed to voice pro russian sentiment here, or will it result in a ban?

[mossy sky]

intelslavaz but its very pro russian

Is it true they destroyed the AN-225? 😭

[sharp gate]

https://twitter.com/themattmcd/status/1497987474710138881?s=21

Matt McDaniel (@themattmcd)

Unfortunately they will come shipped in a bunch of pieces that you have to assemble with an Allen wrench.

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Twitter · Feb 27, 2022, 5:30 PM

Good on Sweden, but lol

[fervent cobalt]

#the-water-cooler message
that did not age well

[sharp gate]

Flat pack rocket launchers

[mossy sky]

probably strip the head of the screws too no doubt

[mossy sky]

https://www.airlineratings.com/news/225-destroyed-russian-forces-gostomel/

[fervent cobalt]

yep, seems gone

[mossy sky]

life is not worth living now

[fervent cobalt]

it just landed here in linz 2 months ago

[mossy sky]

https://t.me/intelslava

Be warned - it’s Russian propaganda obviously and there’s a bit of gore

Trying to see if there’s a way to get some family out of western Ukraine but seems like they’d have to smuggle half the family out if they were to do it properly

[fervent cobalt]

getting women and children out of there is possible, friends of mine managed to get them here. men between 18-60 is a challenge

[mossy sky]

yeah, the 15 yo son won't leave by himself and the mother won't leave the older son, 19, by himself...

i think the father only just returned from Germany too from where he had been working there, now stuck in Ukraine

[quick crescent]

yes, ukrains president even said that

[twin mantle]

They’ve blocked anyone of that age leaving haven’t they?

[quick crescent]

Ukrain has blocked any man 18-60 to leave the country
Russia is blocking anyone to leave

[mossy sky]

yep

[fervent cobalt]

https://twitter.com/vxunderground/status/1498060366445613056

vx-underground (@vxunderground)

Conti ransomware group previously put out a message siding with the Russian government.

Today a Conti member has begun leaking data with the message "Fuck the Russian government, Glory to Ukraine!"

You can download the leaked Conti data here: https://t.co/BDzHQU5mgw https://t.co/AL7BXnihza

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Twitter · Feb 27, 2022, 10:19 PM

totally safe, downloading a tar from a ransomware gang and unzip it in terminal

[quick crescent]

yes

no need to isolate it inside a vm

https://img.pr0gramm.com/2022/02/28/23e1d28a179dc41d.jpg

[twin mantle]

But but it says it’s not malware!

[cold yoke]

War is going to be visible from Poland

And if someone wants to auto translate, this is my friends attempt to help the refugees https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3312959572274435&id=100006812733901

[mossy sky]

Is your friend able to smuggle people? 😄

[simple berry]

https://tenor.com/view/zelenskii-зеленский-zelensky-выпьем-gif-20557451

[limpid lynx]

https://vid.pr0gramm.com/2022/02/27/54d45520edcc9b36.mp4

[mossy sky]

family in the west of Ukraine said that load from Kyiv have fled to their area, in their fancy SUV's, and have just been buying up all the beer and liquor and partying on. they've been telling the men to go back

[mossy sky]

its almost as if hes acting

[flint palm]

Well, that's part of living in a free society as well. Not everyone is going to be first up volunteering for the front lines.

[mossy sky]

Also true

[limpid lynx]

https://vid.pr0gramm.com/2022/02/28/921301aa98cb60f5.mp4

[shy whale]

Google Lens is a savior with this kind of stuff. From Köln it seems

[simple berry]

Pretty sure the only option for de-escalation right now is either assassination or coup

[simple berry]

https://www.reddit.com/r/tech/comments/t3ibu1/ukraine_creates_it_army_of_volunteer_hackers_and/

Time to use some of those raspberry pis

[sharp gate]

I love that they created a wishlist of targets

Putin's bidet would be great

[mossy sky]

@simple berry you'd have a few tanks around your area surely?

[simple berry]

Lol 740, at least it isn't the 340

[twin mantle]

My partner wants a Volvo 740 lol

[quick crescent]

both sides put up ultimatums
russia demands the whole ukrain
ukrain wants to be left alone by russia as it was a month ago

[sharp gate]

#947617658784870430 message

But I'm glad someone took the time to flesh it out 🙂

[whole summit]

dammit lol

[cold yoke]

Drone

[cold yoke]

Maybe US train Ukrainians ?

[fervent cobalt]

jeeez 65 Kilometer convoi on the way to kiyv

[simple berry]

Thought it was 70km. Now

https://open.spotify.com/track/6V68yq9sUWEpQ7HFFWhghp?si=gY2mtIgCQ5GFWG9UTlmCpQ&utm_source=copy-link

[limpid lynx]

shieet

[flint palm]

So, some of you folk seem wise to the various Telegrams, any of them about coordinating refugee transport?
I'm essentially not busy and feel like I should be doing something.

[simple berry]

I'm just following the cyber attacks one

[shy whale]

Sounds like you should probably be in contact with the Polish (or Hungarian etc) officials to learn if there's something you can do to help them with

[simple berry]

Or Slovakian

I think

[flint palm]

Indeed, found some Norwegian Facebook groups with some ad hoc info.
Essentially all I am offering is myself and a Mini, so I won't be solving the crisis single handedly

[quick crescent]

every helping hand counts

[simple berry]

https://tenor.com/view/mr-bean-gif-20457597

[fervent cobalt]

zelenskyy talks the talk it seems, pretty useless eu parliament today again

[hazy hull]

ive got a co-workers thats russian, and he recently said this in response to some things:

clever -- the point about Zelensky not being a Nazi (actually Stepan Bandera) sympathiser is missing the actual point.
It's the people who surround him, and also the mobilisation of Nazi sentiments.
You might want to watch this one: https://vimeo.com/252426896

[simple berry]

https://github.com/erkexzcx/stoppropaganda

[sharp gate]

that's one buff penguin

[simple berry]

https://tenor.com/view/viralhog-big-muscles-muscles-strong-thumbs-up-gif-18517912

Wonder how many of those i can spin up on my server farm

Don't think work would approve of me spinning them up on the 35000 labs servers though

[quick crescent]

tell them you wanted to update the machines and copy pasted the wrong command

[simple berry]

https://tenor.com/view/oh-no-oh-no-anyway-gif-18887547

[simple berry]

https://youtu.be/7SEAtkgliKY

[limpid lynx]

Annelise braun!

[shy whale]

man, I was about to post a masters of war cover but thought it was too cheesy. Good for you though 😉

okay I have no shame https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwa2jK0xglk

[simple berry]

Vedder is great

I thought of that one

But the rpwl version is amazing

[simple berry]

https://i.redd.it/mf9yar56wqk81.jpg

[fervent cobalt]

our techs having a hard time to block several DDOS happening in general eastern europe today

[quick crescent]

iptables -P INPUT DROP
iptables -P FORWARD DROP
iptables -P OUTPUT DROP

and you're not very ddosable anymore

[sharp gate]

Cuts down on the S to an unacceptable level, though

[quick crescent]

https://banglanews24.com/english/national/news/bd/93765.details
Apparantly Russia shot a Indian Ship on an Ukranian port, which is stuck there since the war. Putin really loves to make himself more and more enemies
They also likely shot down 2 Romanian (NATO member) air crafts

[simple berry]

Oh no

[mossy sky]

links plz

[simple berry]

IT ARMY of Ukraine
[e-mail]
https://t.me/itarmyofukraine2022

[twin mantle]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-03/inside-the-separatist-republic-that-triggered-the-war-in-ukraine/100871262

[flint palm]

Won't go down the rabbit hole again, after having watched that "Ukraine on Fire" film.
Designed to muddy the waters so people will go: "eh, maybe everyone sucks".

[simple berry]

https://tenor.com/bBcjB.gif

[mossy sky]

i will have to pass to my wife to read that

[mossy sky]

got to laugh how they claim Ukrainian Nationalists are the problem, but seems they are just Russian Nationalists judging from the parading of Russian flags IN the DPR which has its own flag...

[flint palm]

I mean I don't discount that there might be some reactionary sentiments within the various nationalist movements in Ukraine that you wouldn't necessarily have over for dinner, but I put it forward that having a brooding neighbor with nostalgia for "the good old days" isn't conducive to reducing their clout in society.

Then there's the invasion :/

[mossy sky]

There is no denying there is some nazi style elements in Ukraine, but I think that goes for just about every country

[simple berry]

so by that logic it is fair to invade any country you say

[flint palm]

The Art of the Pretext

[quick crescent]

yes, any murder and destruction of property of innocent people is justified and fair

[mossy sky]

or, look in your own backyard first...

not what i was hinting at at all

[twin mantle]

Time to waltz into norway

steal your fibre

God knows we need it

[mossy sky]

my wife is ukranian, certainly not condoning russias actions or attempts of justification

[simple berry]

damn australians coming here to take our optics

[mossy sky]

sometimes you need the eye of the bogan cast over world events

oh wait, fibre optics

[twin mantle]

No one needs an eye of a bogan

Except maybe a witch

[mossy sky]

you'd be surprised how many times a bogan has saved my skin

[flint palm]

Us Norwegians are just hoping someone doesn't get the idea that accidents of geography don't confer ownership of oil reserves and the resulting moneyz

We have atxbyea, so there's an invasion pretext right there

[simple berry]

[simple berry]

Apparently they are now trying to get rid of the 70km convoy, and are having great success

[limpid lynx]

Link or didnt happen

[simple berry]

https://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/angriper-kolonnen-med-jagerfly/75514650

Since you can actually read Norwegian

[limpid lynx]

Thanks

[shy whale]

Spoken norwegian on the other hand....

[sharp gate]

well, the problem with a giant convoy on a single, narrow road is that they're basically all sitting ducks

and there's nowhere to go

All together now, REVERSE!

[shy whale]

There was an interesting twitter thread about tires. Not something I thought I would be saying

But it claimed that the russian wheeled vehicles had been standing still for so long and exposed to sun, that the tires can't handle being deflated for muddy conditions. So they have to stick to roads

[sharp gate]

I guess it'll take a while for the tires to rot

[simple berry]

Doesn't help when the Russian army appears to be mostly forced children and teachers who have no military training and run out of fuel

[sharp gate]

but yeah, lol

[shy whale]

Another commenter, claiming to be a tire nerd, said that the tires are cheap chinese copies of Michelin tires and not at all suited for extreme conditions lmao

[simple berry]

Will be -10c next week in Ukraine, it will be hard for the people

[sharp gate]

the amusing part is that Russians are supposed to be kings of cold weather and adverse conditions

[simple berry]

For some reason my dialect is very easy to understand how foreigners

[sharp gate]

part of how Russia beat back Germany

[simple berry]

Yes, but again

They have sent a lot of non military it seems

Just picked up random people

[sharp gate]

I thought this bus was going to Disneyland

[simple berry]

Basically

[limpid lynx]

Cannot confirm, but you only spoke a few sentences 😅

Only norwegian i can understand atm is norsklærer karense 🥲

[simple berry]

Curious if the rumour about martial law will be true tomorrow in Russia

[flint palm]

I was wondering about this and whether there was some ingenious trap to it somehow; something like attracting a majority of Ukrainian forces only to have it be a magic weapon that sends everyone to the phantom zone

guess not

[simple berry]

And what they intend to use it for

[flint palm]

Will come as a shock to them, a refugee on the news said her uncle in Russia didn't even believe there was a war

A special operation sounds more limited

Then suddenly, Martial Law, k spaciba, das vidanya

[sharp gate]

first, control the media

then the opposition's media

then the truth is whatever you want it to be

[simple berry]

Nice of India to correct Russian news about Ukrainians using Indian exchange students as human shields

Not that that will be broadcast in Russia anyway

[flint palm]

"Nothing is true. Everything is permitted." - KGB proverb ca 1200 AD.

[limpid lynx]

We are now at the point in germany, that we try to deliver our trash to ukraine

[flint palm]

For building barricades?

[limpid lynx]

Old weapons which probably arent working anymore, so yes maybe there are suitable for building barricades

Maybe we find some old plane bombs, we could deliver them to ukraine instead of defusing them

[shy whale]

Strelas are familiar to the Ukraine troops

[limpid lynx]

Yes but it looks like they are probably defective

[shy whale]

That I don't know about, but generally sending these types of weapons makes sense

[limpid lynx]

Only have a german source

[shy whale]

Well good thing that Ich spreche Deutsch and google translate also works

[limpid lynx]

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/strela-raketen-der-bundeswehr-weisen-erhebliche-maengel-auf-a-5260e48f-5977-4f0d-8f79-dac5f24ced94-amp

[shy whale]

thank you, but paywall unfortunately

[simple berry]

Zahlenwand

[limpid lynx]

Shh mods are around the corner

[shy whale]

don't worry they wouldn't look inside threads

[simple berry]

[sharp gate]

https://tenor.com/view/lor-lord-of-the-rings-sauron-lord-sauron-the-great-eye-gif-17124185

[simple berry]

But we aren't worried about you, you are team good guy

[whole summit]

|| for now ||

[simple berry]

https://tenor.com/view/im-watching-watch-you-eyes-on-you-kid-cute-gif-16282723

[flint palm]

Looord, guess that pilot wasn't following the news back during not Crimea, but the breakaway states in 2014 or when it was

[fervent cobalt]

there have been a lot of these 😄

[simple berry]

"We are not targeting civilians". This is the extermination of Ukrainians. - https://v.redd.it/5jlpp30tl8l81

Wonder if Russia will close down internet tomorrow with the state of emergency

[quick crescent]

its a fake

https://vid.pr0gramm.com/2022/03/03/ca8f2186ee2b136f.mp4

Video title and the tiny bit of russian i understand match each other
russians in ukrain, who have run out of food since 3 to 4 days and no one is there to help them and they are still waiting on someone to pick them up
sleeping on the ground, feet wet, dont know what they shall do, thats how the russian army works

[mossy sky]

they are going to have to bulldoze entire blocks

[flint palm]

I guess we should be glad they haven't taken those circumstances as a prompt to go loot and pillage

[mossy sky]

they are hardy creatures, just have to look at what they managed in WW2. Maybe the Russian millennial\ is a bit different tho

[flint palm]

Hastening the development of callous killbots 😦

[quick crescent]

some do, some do have manners gladly
if i were them, i'd probably try to craft a white flag, walk into a village / city and try to talk with the locals if they might have an idea what to do

its sad to see, that so many young people are thrown into ukrain to fight, without even knowing why and if they refuse, they'll likely end up in a gulag

[flint palm]

Well, I suppose we'll get to see if the Kremlin can get away with it, in this day and age.

[quick crescent]

they wont, but with putin on the trigger of nuclear weapons, its gonna be hard

[flint palm]

I'm thinking more internally;

Whether regular people will stand for this

Soldiers are going to go home and tell of their experiences, even if the media tows the Government narrative

[quick crescent]

well, protestors are put into jail and i've heard, not confirmed tho, that they are singing a law, that any russian protesters are send as meat shields into the front of the war in ukrain

[flint palm]

Ah, but you forget

There is no war

It's a special operation

[quick crescent]

Yeah yeah, they are removing nazis

[flint palm]

They can't have it both ways

human shields wouldn't be necessary in a limited special operation

Now, in a war mind you

[quick crescent]

i feel really sorry for all the innocent people in that war, but what can ya do

[flint palm]

Even if protesters get a raw deal, there will be no luck forcing all these soldiers into secrecy once they come home

[quick crescent]

i really hope, that the russians will take out the ones in command themselves soon

[flint palm]

Well hopefully it ends with a realization that wars aren't good. But it's probably going to get worse before that.

[simple berry]

Interesting, apparently 200 Croatian mercenaries have arrived in Ukraine

Croatia denies it, they seem to be after Russians

Slava Ukraini!

Also I do enjoy that it seems like FSB is leaking information to the Ukrainian forces

[fervent cobalt]

https://youtu.be/fzLtF_PxbYw

[flint palm]

Yeah this showed up in my feed too 🤣

[mossy sky]

Fuuuuuuuuuuk

[simple berry]

is that the huge plane they destroyed ?

[mossy sky]

Yeah

Cunts!

[fervent cobalt]

looks like some engines may be reusable, they started building a second one but never finished it (also promised to finish it now that the original is destroyed)

[limpid lynx]

Antonov 225

Not too mix up with bagger 288

https://youtu.be/azEvfD4C6ow

Maybe its time to use it against the kremlin

[shy whale]

Antonov was the only one too, rip

[quick crescent]

i saw it once and i really loved it as a kid

[flint palm]

Scary rough quote from Putin: "If there is a nuclear war, we will go to heaven and you will just rot"

Haven't found a source cause I just heard it on a zoom session with the Economist; but god damn

Ah; roughly this: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/putin-lied-about-his-nuclear-doctrine-and-promised-russians-that-they-would-go-to-heaven

[whole summit]

Jeebus

[simple berry]

[flint palm]

https://tenor.com/view/sos-save-me-help-me-save-our-ship-save-our-souls-gif-4700560

[fervent cobalt]

After Russia blocked access to the Facebook network in her country - Twitter blocked access to surfers from Russia.

troll much

there goes youtube also

[cold yoke]

Our company gives about 10 cars, and few of us voulontee to drive it to transport refugees , not from the border, but from refugee office in our city, to different destination places

[hazy hull]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbrh7KOyuRY

[cold yoke]

I wonder if our economics will handle it. Yesterday fuel was 6.50 PLN, and the tax for the fuel is already suspended due to pandemic and inflation

Funny thing: we have whole empty estate in Warsaw , where Russian diplomacy lived during communism era in Poland. Now is plan to confiscate it, and place Ukrainian refugees there.

People call this estate Spy city
https://metrowarszawa.gazeta.pl/metrowarszawa/7,141637,28172921,szpiegowo-zostanie-przejete-przez-miasto-wobec-rosyjskiej.html

[simple berry]

We have had roughly the same fuel prices now for 3-4 months

Not very affected by the conflict currently

[cold yoke]

We had it lower , because the government suspended the VAT for fuel and food, but now it returned to a level from 3 months ago

I believe when the VAT will be back, it'll hit about 9 PLN

€ and $ also reached record price,

[quick crescent]

its 2€ here in germany, thats 9.70 PLN

[simple berry]

Currently €2.30 per liter here

[quick crescent]

yeah, my brother and i felt it in our bank accounts

[flint palm]

A gentleman never tells

[sharp gate]

This is about that farmer dragging the piece of heavy machinery with his tractor? The news called it a "tank", but a) that seems ridiculous and b) the news does often think that everything is a tank

[mossy sky]

Looks American to me

[mossy sky]

I did post a translator earlier in the week for everyone to use

[quick crescent]

if its armored and has a turret, its a tank
it can also be a tank, if its a machine thats still running since 40 years, just like sovjet tech

[mossy sky]

An armoured fighting vehicle in the form of an APC or LAV isn’t a tank, regardless of turret or not

[simple berry]

There has been a lot of it happening where the farmers steal the Russian vehicles

Ukrainian government even told citizens they don't have to declare the value on their taxes next year

[quick crescent]

dis a tänk

has tracks, as armor, has turret = tank

[mossy sky]

One fires bullets, the other a HE shell

[quick crescent]

yeah see, both fire shells

[mossy sky]

That one’s not a tank.

[quick crescent]

so its a tonk

a crippled tänk

[mossy sky]

Ask anyone that’s done time in the military. Not a tank.

[quick crescent]

ask any civilian

its a tank

[mossy sky]

It would be like saying any pump action centre fire weapon is a shot gun. Just because it has a pump action and everyone knows that noise from movies where the actor is using a shot gun

[quick crescent]

yes

[mossy sky]

A pump action rifle is not a shot gun just because it has a stock and a pump

Likewise, an IFV isn’t a tank just because it has armour and tracks

And a turret

[quick crescent]

yes it is

well, its not, but its seen as one because it shares more similarities with tank, then with a car

[mossy sky]

Ok. Not going to change your mind, just hope you never try to convince someone who was tank crew and has had a few drinks that their vehicle is the same as an IFV.

😂

[simple berry]

Of that rolled into my town

I'd yell "a tank!"

[quick crescent]

:D

[mossy sky]

Tank Vs Tank - they can destroy each other. That thing above would be turned inside out instantly, it wouldn’t put a hole through a tanks armour

The armour is very light on those

Enough to deflect small arms fire and probably 1 RPG

[cold yoke]

Semantics

No matter how it's called, when it blows down your house

[simple berry]

Anti-war rally in Moscow - https://v.redd.it/ylutaeqd4kl81

[fervent cobalt]

404

[mossy sky]

must be some jannies in the fsb or svr

[simple berry]

https://tenor.com/view/stocks-crypto-diary-lose-stonks-gif-21619051

[simple berry]

This invasion, I don't even

These Russian soldiers wanted to get to the top of a building to recon the area. They used the elevator instead of the stairs, so the building manager turned off the power to the elevator between floors... Slava Ukraini! - https://i.redd.it/88bsoj0r8ml81.jpg

[limpid lynx]

Dont use the elevator in case of war

This sign wasnt attached to the elevator is my guess

[flint palm]

It's heartening that the blooper reel keeps extending it's playtime. Sort of

[simple berry]

Dog bless Poland

[mossy sky]

I’d be surprised that a Ukranian elevator even has a button to open it. The ones I had been in there had been pilfered for parts, burnt by locals, pissed in.

[simple berry]

Interesting, visa and MasterCard is now suspending Russian users

That's got to hurt

[sharp gate]

Not in-country though. At least visa

It was a weird statement

[simple berry]

Yes, vague

Hopefully sanctions will make the Russian people wake up soon

When all foreign news studios are now leaving because of the new law, they don't have a lot of in country reporting to rely on though

[mossy sky]

What’s wrong with Russia-24? 😂

[twin mantle]

Doesn’t really matter though. They have their own internal card system

[mossy sky]

Russia is hosting an international counter terrorism convention this year along with Myanmar - that should be interesting. Friend of mine was meant to attend in Moscow, that won't be happening now.

[cold yoke]

https://youtu.be/7dEzPoQdnNw

[shy whale]

literal banger

[simple berry]

so just like the north korean internet then

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_North_Korea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangmyong_(network)

[mossy sky]

Apparently they tested it out a couple years ago

Gonna miss the qt Russians on onlyfans

[limpid lynx]

well good that he isn't president anymore

[simple berry]

https://tenor.com/bpOUK.gif

[limpid lynx]

Russia threatends with gas supply stop through nord stream 1, nice

[fervent cobalt]

district heating with waste incinerator combined 👍

[shy whale]

maybe this will be the push that Germany needs to reach the 20th century 😉

[fervent cobalt]

it's not a solution for small villages and we still have lots of homes heating with gas but we slowly get there..
https://www.ressourcenmanagement.tirol/fileadmin/_processed_/6/c/csm_Bestandskarte_4b7c536d31.jpg

[simple berry]

Natural gas 🤢

[limpid lynx]

Says the one from the country which got rich with oil and gas, before that, norway was poor

[shy whale]

Norway was never poor

[fervent cobalt]

i think they still have the same amount of it, they dont touch it

[flint palm]

A third of the population emigrated to the US before the gravy train came in

At least that's a notion I have kept since childhood

[limpid lynx]

They export a lot of it

[fervent cobalt]

yeah could be a myth, I'm a notorious LIAR

[limpid lynx]

Its great challenge for Norway to keep its wealth through Energiewende, cause then they are no longer able to live from their natural ressources. And they do not have a lot of industry cause their natural ressources have killed it, as it mostly happens

Okay i see not that poor, as i thought. Listened too much to norwegians 😬

[mossy sky]

It’s not that bad - it’s like planet earth ripped a big fart and we can use it. Braaaaap

Are we gonna have to ban the letter Z in the alphabet?

[twin mantle]

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/t91o5h/ukrainian_ambassador_displays_a_tweet_from/

[simple berry]

Curious if the stock market will open tomorrow announced

Guessing not

And if the internet will be shut down on Friday as rumoured

[simple berry]

https://mobile.twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1500978613113524229?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1500984893563670528|twgr^|twcon^s2_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.digi.no%2Fartikler%2Fangrep-mot-mobilmaster-i-ukraina-gjor-russlands-sikre-samband-ubrukelig%2F517901

Christo Grozev (@christogrozev)

The idiots tried to use the Era cryptophones in Kharkiv, after destroying many 3g cell towers and also replacing others with stingrays. Era needs 3g/4g to communicate.
The Russian army is equipped with secure phones that can't work in areas where the Russian army operates.

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Twitter · Mar 7, 2022, 11:36 PM

[flint palm]

Well, if they are going to keep going, a steady stream of own goals is much appreciated

[shy whale]

Someone needs to explain monke Putin to me

[simple berry]

Interesting, the US might stop buying russian oil today

And shell has closed all gas stations in Russia

And stopped trading russian oil

[shy whale]

Russian oil exports

Let's not kid ourselves, it's Europe that'll pay the price for the sanctions

[simple berry]

Damn Europe

_looking for Norway _

https://tenor.com/view/lmao-gif-20519320

[shy whale]

Even Norway imports 30% of what the US does 😛

Or to put it in other words, Norway will take 20x the price hit per capita compared to the US

[cold yoke]

And now whole world said that is our decision , if we will give Mig's for Ukrainians

Nice. Push out smallest mate against bad guys

[limpid lynx]

What does it show?

[shy whale]

destination countries for "exports of mineral fuels, mineral oils and their distillation" (source: https://oec.world/en/profile/country/rus?depthSelector1=HS2Depth)

So what Biden is doing is stopping imports for something they aren't importing anyway

[limpid lynx]

Okay but maybe only distillation products, norway has enough oil for itself

[shy whale]

A lot of those imports are to distill them in Europe (afaik)

[cold yoke]

I wonder why still goes there trucks with goods to Belarus from Germany . Via Poland. Different stuff, spare parts, other, whatever. Are there sanctions or not?

One trustworthy guy showed it on his Instagram

[limpid lynx]

I only meant Norway

[shy whale]

What I mean is that Norway probably has high quality distillation that they can offer. Same for Finland and I very much assume that's what Netherlands is also doing

So they import russian oil and distill it and sell on

[cold yoke]

https://instagram.com/stories/filip_chajzer/2789339321643020656?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&utm_medium=share_sheet

[limpid lynx]

But that means that it should not have a great impact in norway to stop it

[limpid lynx]

No instagram here

[flint palm]

Things always even out for Norway Inc.

[shy whale]

Not for the economy as a whole, but for those specific companies it could cause issues or at least lower their margins

It's the gas imports that Europe will struggle with as that can't be replaced in short notice without Germans freezing

[simple berry]

Just log down swartzwald

[limpid lynx]

Freezing is the one thing no electric power a whole different

[flint palm]

de-mothball Nuclear plants

[limpid lynx]

One Black Out and then there will be civil war here in germany

[limpid lynx]

Repower brown coal power plants before that 😅

[cold yoke]

Not my fault that it is on the Instagram actually , and you don't like it

[limpid lynx]

No one said i do not like it(yet)

[shy whale]

They could just turn the nuclear plants that they still have running back on, but nah 🙂

[flint palm]

https://www.sanctionsmap.eu/#/main?search={"value":"Belarus","searchType":{"id":1,"title":"regimes, persons, entities"}}
Current sanctions on Belarus

[simple berry]

Maybe we should turn on the only nuclear plant we ever had

[limpid lynx]

Difficult without fuel

And a lot of know how drained out of germany

[cold yoke]

That's not important anyway, truth is there is big queue of trucks on Polish border to Belarus. With Belarus and Russian license plates, full of food, medical supply, spare parts and so. From the west. And our governments doing nothing about it

I dunno why even the borders aren't closed

[limpid lynx]

We were the experts in nuclear power plant technology, now we‘re left behind.

[flint palm]

Someone needs to put on a Montage soundtrack on the cassette player and knock out practical Fusion Power technology, post haste

Which would pretty much negate the use of war for resources, in my utopian opinion.

[simple berry]

https://tenor.com/view/the-simspons-homer-nuclear-correction-nucular-gif-17370221

[limpid lynx]

Yeah then its water or space

[flint palm]

Space plox

[cold yoke]

Our only nuclear power plant looks like this

[flint palm]

I'm a weeb, so I want Gundams

[cold yoke]

It's under construction last 45 years

[flint palm]

Is the plan to just dump the core in a lake, if anything goes wrong?

[limpid lynx]

The next to me, and it was shut down last year

[cold yoke]

Not so clever move?

[flint palm]

In my opinion, Nuclear is perfectly fine; considering other options

[limpid lynx]

It would have been the better decision to first shut down other conventional power plants before the nuclear ones here in germany

[limpid lynx]

Well its important not to have such construction errors like the one in fukushima and the long time disposal is a big problem

[flint palm]

Fukushima's main issue, afaik was that they put the backup generators for the cooling rig was flooded

Other than that, the reactors weren't damaged during the earthquakes

[cold yoke]

Nah, it's safe, you can hit with tank ammo and nothing happens

[flint palm]

Also the spent fuel rods were left over in the reactors

so that amplified the cockup when things went wrong

[limpid lynx]

Maybe one time we have technologies to after use the old fuel from the conventional nuclear power plants, that would be nice. But conventional nuclear power plants do not have a long time future

[flint palm]

They could have taken the spent fuel out and moved it somewhere else, but everyone is a NIMBY when it comes to hosting Nuclear waste storage sites

[limpid lynx]

But to bridge technology to renewable etc its an option

[flint palm]

1. But yeah, Fusion

2. then give it to everyone, so we can have world peace

[limpid lynx]

Fusion is very difficult to achieve so maybe no ‚give it to everyone‘. And just to give people technology hasnt worked so far

[flint palm]

3. Profit!

[cold yoke]

Looks like wind turbine isn't an option too, problem with recycling old propellers, and since we (and You too) have it everywhere, there started floods and hurricanes

[flint palm]

Is that the Butterfly Effect, for the Green Age?

[cold yoke]

Dunno

[limpid lynx]

These Problems are not solveable in one day, makes one sceptical if everything works out at the pace with that EU want to move know

[simple berry]

If we could just get some rain

We would be fine

92% is normally hydro electric

[limpid lynx]

And atm?

[shy whale]

Cyber attacks 😱

[cold yoke]

Wow

[shy whale]

An hour without Discord. I know how the Ukrainians must feel now

[limpid lynx]

Wasnt sure if discord is down or local internet problem

[flint palm]

Downtime on Discord could inconvenience some volunteer groups, but it probably wasn't that targeted

[simple berry]

Most of Ukraine is operating off telegram these days it seems

[flint palm]

Spotify was down too?

[quick crescent]

didnt hear any of it

[limpid lynx]

Had short skips in the tracks

[simple berry]

Finally coca cola leaves russia

[twin mantle]

We’ve got plenty to give

[simple berry]

Do you come from a land of plenty?

_I'm only gonna bless the rains down in Africa _

[twin mantle]

This looks like a land of plenty plenty of water

[simple berry]

https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-documenting-equipment.html?m=1

Pepsi is out too now

Gogo

Oh Starbucks too

[limpid lynx]

Mc donalds also

[mossy sky]

So things that do not really have an effect on anyone outside of Moscow or St Petersburg

[limpid lynx]

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/04/ukrainians-are-built-different-the-coders-still-working-under-russian-bombing.html

they're crazy

[flint palm]

Our state broadcaster's correspondent down in Rostov, close to the Russia-Ukraine border did his live updates overlooking a riverside MC Donald's, before everyone left for legal reasons.

[flint palm]

They're what the rest of us would hope to be in the same situation.
I'm pretty sure I would fall short...

[simple berry]

https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matter-areas/cybersecurity/anonymous-ops-inject-information-into-russia-with-media-hacks-millions-of-text-messages/

[simple berry]

Sony is out, amazon prime is out

Soon there will be nothing left

It will be north Korea

[quick crescent]

yes

[sharp gate]

They were already building their own Intranet of sorts

Putin is at a disadvantage when it comes to the bad haircut, tho

[quick crescent]

it will be funny tho, when they run out of chips for their computers or electrical devices in general

[shy whale]

If pornhub banning Russia didn't break them, nothing will

They are tough

[quick crescent]

adidas banning russia will ruin them slowly

[flint palm]

Bild has the scoop, though.
Zelensky's putting neutrality on the table
https://m.bild.de/politik/ausland/politik-ausland/ukraine-praesident-selenskyj-im-bild-interview-wir-sterben-auch-fuer-euch-79402450.bildMobile.html###wt_ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bild.de%2Fpolitik%2Fausland%2Fpolitik-ausland%2Fukraine-praesident-selenskyj-im-bild-interview-wir-sterben-auch-fuer-euch-79402450.bild.html&wt_t=1646866028647

[quick crescent]

Bild in Sicht, downvote Pflicht

[twin mantle]

They’re prepared for a western cut off, internal banking/ payment/ card transaction scheme (though tbh most countries have one of these), intranet, supplies through China, etc

[mossy sky]

can u read that?

[mossy sky]

and they do not rely on the west. the average Russian does not have Netflix and Youtube Premium, nor do they order from Amazon and eat out at Maccas

[simple berry]

They probably rely more than we know

not that it matters since their income and monetary values are close to zero now, so they can't buy much from the west

[flint palm]

Had to rejigger my Nick so I don't come off as Putin-jugend

[limpid lynx]

Wat

For all Madao?

[flint palm]

Went from MadaoZ, a general reference to almost every long running anime to ∀madao, Turn-A madao which is a Gundam reference

Well, madao itself is Gintama reference

[simple berry]

https://tenor.com/bB8O0.gif

SHINPACHIIIIIII

👓

Reminds me, I need to convert all my Goblin Slayer books to kindle format

[limpid lynx]

https://tenor.com/view/screaming-terror-evangelion-shinji-scared-gif-12279545

[flint palm]

I'm pretty sure his name is メガネ

[simple berry]

Negafu

excuse my bad reading skillz

Ah

I see it now

Me - Ga - Ne

[limpid lynx]

https://tenor.com/view/evangelion-shinji-ikari-hand-gif-19963156

[simple berry]

I know that

[limpid lynx]

Shinji approves

[simple berry]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/taxj4s/rats_leaving_the_sinking_ship_fsb_selling/

[shy whale]

BBC report from Kharkiv. Pretty horrific images so keep in mind ||https://fxtwitter.com/sommervilletv/status/1502000265490227206||

[flint palm]

Drove a 22 year old Kharkivian student home from volunteering yesterday; he's looking for transport back to Ukraine to join the war effort...

[simple berry]

You drove him from where to where?

[flint palm]

Nothing special, Langhus to Oslo

[simple berry]

Oh

My neck of the woods

[flint palm]

While I was looking to go off questing in Europe I got roped into local efforts in stead

[simple berry]

I have 20+ access points laying in boxes if that can help in any way

[flint palm]

Wahh, well I will spread that up the flag pole, thanks :D

[simple berry]

And a few network switches too

_a few _

[crisp lily]

Interesting read on the complex cause of this conflict https://jacobinmag.com/2022/02/maidan-protests-neo-nazis-russia-nato-crimea Russell Brand has an interesting take on it: The IMF is basically doing in public what the CIA used to do privately. Destabilising governments with "strings attached" loans. https://youtu.be/CxMVcrvtqqs

[twin mantle]

Time to come visit

[flint palm]

I'm firmly in the blue pill camp on all of these interesting takes, also I tried to watch one of Russel's vidoes and it's all too high octane mad dash words per minute for me.

At the end of the day, one party decided to take the conflict into the exchange of bullets and ammo, and threats of nuclear war

[quick crescent]

https://img.pr0gramm.com/2022/03/12/3014f95a46dc8b92.jpg

Ukrainian farmers now even take ships back home

[crisp lily]

Yeah Russell's delivery method isn't for everyone, which was why I lead with the article link. It is logically written and well referenced.

[flint palm]

My main problem with getting bogged down in whether Euro-Maidan was a neo-nazi CIA in IMF's clothing coup is that I wonder what good it is to people fleeing invasion and having their country bombed for an ever evolving gaggle of ostensibly altruistic reasons, according to the Kremlin.
I can't shake the feeling that the result is to make us go: Oh, well Happy Hunting, Mr Putin.
I'm not saying this is you, Russell and the Jacobin's motivation; but I still think it's a possible end result to consider.
For me, I am in rally around the flag mode. Russia is on our northern border and the conflict is happening next to two NATO allies. The scope for miscalculations and just something going terribly wrong under the cover of the fog of war has us at the brink. A clear posture is necessary. Discussion of bygones are for later, imho

[simple berry]

Hopefully Russia is bankrupt soon

That will be interesting

[flint palm]

Did they turn off the internet yesterday?

[simple berry]

I didn't see any mention of it

But they blocked Instagram

[crisp lily]

🤯 Crikey! No. That is not the intention of either source. It is about education and enlightenment to prevent this sort of atrocity happening again.

[limpid lynx]

Obligatory Oberfail Comment

[flint palm]

To be fair it's the proximity this time around that has me on edge.
I will have to remember this sensation for when things happen outside my field of vision.
Also for this topic, please refrain from tags. I'll read up on this thread any time I feel morose 😅

[simple berry]

https://tenor.com/view/starwars-han-solo-tag-youre-it-stormtrooper-gif-20240479

[simple berry]

https://v.redd.it/8079psu0w3n81

[quick crescent]

good one :D

[limpid lynx]

Good evil?

[mossy sky]

IMF pretty much is the CIA. USAID (not an aid organisation at all, US Agency for International Development) was also heavily involved in kicking off these ‘revolutions’ in Ukraine, along with some Soros funding as well naturally. US foreign policy, which influences many of its allies, is rotten to the core.

[dry carbon]

USA at fault go figure

[flint palm]

Given that: I'd hate to see how Russia approaches a situation that is it's fault.

[limpid lynx]

https://vid.pr0gramm.com/2022/03/13/e504649511fe1ed9.mp4

[crisp lily]

Jesaus. It's like something from First Dog On The Moon.

[cold yoke]

I was helping with whole refugee situation as voulonteer driver. Our company gave us cars and the fuel.

It's difficult. They've told me their stories, it's more than few pictures in a TV. And don't believe the news, here in Poland whole humanitarian support is made by people , government don't coordinate it. No one does. It's total mess, but somehow it works

[cold yoke]

All big cities are full, we have no place for refugees. We ar relocating them to smaller ones

But they are arriving to the big ones

[flint palm]

The Polish people are stepping up in a big way 🤎

[cold yoke]

but we are exhausted a bit, time for governments move

[flint palm]

Grassroots campaigns are trying to get a good stream of refugees to Norway as well, but some missteps in early efforts has caused a bad rep, so there is a lot of apprehension about getting into cars and buses to random countries

The organisation gets better gradually but the news of good things doesn't spread nearly as far and wide as the bad

[cold yoke]

They really has no idea where they want to go.

Most of them won't go so far, they hope that the war will be over soon

[flint palm]

That makes sense. Especially with the men having to stay. Going further away is probably not an easy decision to make.

[simple berry]

Curious is polish and Ukrainian close enough to understand each other @cold yoke ?

[cold yoke]

Barely. But i somehow reminded my Russian lessons from school, it was obligatory long time ago. And every Ukrainians know russian

[simple berry]

Ah, I've not studied a lot of eastern european languages

I only know the swear words and the greetings

Gin Dobre, Gin Dobrevich, Kurwa

etc

[cold yoke]

Problem is that younger poles, who actually helps as voulonteers , didn't learn Russian, so there's a problem

English doesn't help, younger Ukrainian knows the basis, but most of refugees are mid aged women and little kids

And also old people

There is a woman, who helps with translations, she speaks fluent Russian, i think she is professional translator. She's there from the beginning of refugee Crysis, every single day , and no one pays her

[simple berry]

If I had any usable skills I would too, unfortunatly the best I can do is currently nothing since private households aren't allowed to accept refugees here yet

mentioned it to the wife the other day we have a spare room, but

they are working on it now though

[cold yoke]

Our government promised 40pln per day per person for everyone who accept refugees ar private hosehold

[simple berry]

oh, that isn't much

[cold yoke]

It isnt. Two 0.5l bottles of poor vodka .However, it's impossible to get that money yet, since there's no regulation

[twin mantle]

That because of the Soviet Union making it compulsory?

Like being close to it

[twin mantle]

Also lmao at measuring it in vodka

[limpid lynx]

Yeah 2 bottles of poor vodka in norway is worth a fortune

[mossy sky]

Don’t know about Poland as it wasn’t in the USSR, but in Ukraine it was all that was spoken in school up until about the late 80’s maybe 1990. My wife said she remembers they stopped teaching in Russian there around the time she started school which was around then.

[twin mantle]

Yeah I meant being close to poland whether that influenced it being compulsory. Makes sense inside the USSR itself

[mossy sky]

They were a satellite state, as East Germany, Czechoslovakia etc were

[flint palm]

Do we need a thread specifically for equivocating about how the war is somehow just comeuppance for the US, cause hurting Ukrainians is the best way to go about this somehow?

[flint palm]

Guess l am the only one that sees that possible niche

[cold yoke]

Its like Poland wasn't formally part of USSR but in the fact we were .

[simple berry]

https://tenor.com/view/kristenbell-girl-veronicmars-veronica-mars-gif-15581740

[shy whale]

This one I'm too boomer to get?

[mossy sky]

The Ukranian foreign reddit legion thinking they’re just heading there to be super soldiers of call of duty. Soldiering comes with a lot of shitty jobs like digging holes for days on end.

[shy whale]

I'm sure you can express your point of view better than that

[crisp lily]

"The Ukranian foreign reddit legion" the what now?

[dry carbon]

No doubt thought the same

[simple berry]

Putin's really started to weaken during this time.. - https://i.redd.it/53z6y2l5vdn81.png

[sharp gate]

Anyone can look like anything in a picture

[twin mantle]

Yeah I can look attractive in one for example 😆

[mossy sky]

It’s a meme

[mossy sky]

A few rumours going around that he has cancer or something else debilitating - probably just rumours tho

You’d think Russia would just buy their drones off AliExpress like they did their radios.

[cold yoke]

They did (or still do?) use Chinese cheap radios, there was a major corruption scandal in Russian army. Someone took a bunch of money for next gen encrypted communication system called R-187-P1 Azart and imported some cheapo crap , the "factory" in Russia just replaced stickers on them. I think some military was arrested, including colonel Arslanov and gen. Ogloblin

[flint palm]

The trials of ruling a cleptocracy.
When the people at the top get their beaks wet, the inclination to defraud trickles down the ranks.

While I mostly want the war to be over, a decisive blow to the autocratic patronage state model would be a silver lining to this grim cloud

[simple berry]

Considering the Russians are using regular Ukraninan SIM cards to relay information to troops, and a lot of it is going unecrypted

nothing suprises me at this point

[cold yoke]

All post-soviet countries are more or less cleptocracy, corruption and defrauding. I think we still were there about 15-10 years ago. Ukraine is still there. I heard that refugees on the border could pay to not wait in queue.

[cold yoke]

I can tell you unbelievable stories about corruption during communism era, but this is not the proper channel

[sharp gate]

John Deere tanks

[quick crescent]

you are a really dirty Nabelfussel

[limpid lynx]

Sorry i'm just as nabelfussel born, i am the living evidence, god has humor

[simple berry]

I love that the Ukrainian government has officially said that any Russian property that Ukrainian farmer sieze doesn't have to be declared on taxes this year

[mossy sky]

I had some ticket inspectors pocket my ‘fine’ for not validating my ticket on a bus in Krakow about 12 years ago. I think at a low level it’s still quite common. My family paid off the doctors for extra care when I wound up in a hospital in Ukraine around that same time.

[simple berry]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/tf0flr/russia_faces_it_crisis_with_just_two_months_of/

[quick crescent]

rm -rf /
problem solved, now they have free storage again

[whole summit]

You forgot --no-preserve-root

[dry carbon]

We need to remember the tragedy of war and I can speak as I have been thru three. It is hell. This is a soldier saving circ

A puppy sorry

[cold yoke]

Police was corrupted too, you could drive drunk as hell, and since you didn't kill anyone, you could pay to leave you free. But now there are cameras everywhere, and journalists just love corruption cases, so everyone scares to take money

[shy whale]

I'm astonished how this managed to unify Europe as well. We can't agree on most things either, but yet Putin managed to push everyone else on one side. You gotta applaud that

[simple berry]

At the same time it is scary how much are helping and assisting a European country, yet Syria remains a wasteland

[shy whale]

Our values aren't exactly consistent

[flint palm]

This feels closer to home, but everyone would do well to remember these feelings and support efforts to make humanitarian aid be a priority, at least on par with defense spending.
Consistently, even when Crisis X has slipped off the front pages.

[simple berry]

https://www.ibtimes.com/anonymous-teases-huge-data-dump-will-blow-russia-away-hacktivist-collective-drops-3439136

[mossy sky]

You spent much time in the Middle East?

[simple berry]

None

[mossy sky]

It’s all a wasteland my friend

Even if they throw a facade of fancy skyscrapers over it

[simple berry]

So just like Australia then

[crisp lily]

Hey now! It's not all western suburbs wasteland. We have some interesting fauna too. Like snakes, and spiders, and crocodiles, and sharks, and dropbears.

[sharp gate]

Deadly, all

[twin mantle]

Don’t forget the politicians

[simple berry]

Corrupted to shreds you say

https://mobile.twitter.com/roxkstar74/status/1504595554298331139

Rox (@roxkstar74)

An insane story of code being used as a weapon

A huge project just pushed out a new version that wipes your hard drive if your IP is from Belarus/Russia

This project is downloaded 1 Million+ times a week

It's now a NATIONAL security issue ranked 9.8/10 in severity

The story:

Twitter · Mar 17, 2022, 11:08 PM

[flint palm]

That's some scorched earth shit.
I feel like the collateral damage might not serve the cause of the betterment of humanity

[simple berry]

Lavrov commending fox news, what a shock

[shy whale]

Is he blaming the Biden administration for stopping the peace negotiations which require "minimal demands" from Ukraine? Just half of their country and demilitarization, no biggie.

[simple berry]

All your base are belong to us

[flint palm]

This article is in no way ominous for the future at all:
https://www-aftenposten-no.translate.goog/verden/i/6602QQ/her-paagaar-operasjon-hjernevask-av-millioner-av-russiske-barn?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp

"Brainwashing operation is in progress"

[quick crescent]

https://tenor.com/view/pikachu-shocked-face-stunned-pokemon-shocked-not-shocked-omg-gif-24112152

[cold yoke]

The truth died first, as on every war.

[flint palm]

Also true

There is also that line that's roughly: "Russia might be accused of using a dirty bomb in the future."

Not liking this at all

Makes my movie-plot brain think they took Chernobyl early in the campaign for specific purposes

[hazy hull]

i forget the source, but i saw claims by russia that urkraine had plans for biological warfare
and that russia usually makes up such false evidence, to justify them doing the same thing in retaliation

[simple berry]

Typical false flag operations

Just like the Iraq war tbh

[mossy sky]

4D Chess

[flint palm]

The bio-weapons thing I honestly thought was more to make sure the rhetoric matches up with things the West has used during the build-up to various wars in the past.

Like Iraq, which I guess is what atxbyea is alluding to as well

[simple berry]

bUt thErE waS WeaPonS oF aSS deStruCtiOn

[flint palm]

There is of course that one theory about the Russian Convoy that was attacked in Iraq just before the fall of Baghdad, that they made off with the weapons; for sneaky cover-up reasons

[quick crescent]

https://img.pr0gramm.com/2022/03/20/436adb7a31a42304.jpg

[simple berry]

Interesting, Moscow exchange has said they will open

That's gonna be

[mossy sky]

Pink fields of Moscow

https://youtu.be/BkX2NAKFM5Q

[crisp lily]

Is that inappropriate? I can't tell.

[simple berry]

I'm not 14, so not sure

[mossy sky]

Pink wojak is the meme of a dude losing money on crypto / stocks. The pink field refers to the business board of 4chan being all threads of pink wojaks because of a market crash. Hence my prediction of the reaction investors will have when the market opens.

[simple berry]

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/tjtv0n/reports_that_russia_is_arming_new_conscripts_with/

[flint palm]

In happier times the Mosin-Nagant calls forth memories of that old fogey sniper character in Metal Gear Solid 3

[hazy hull]

https://imgur.com/gallery/iB8JJnL

source: https://imgur.com/gallery/iB8JJnL

Russian “tactical” helmet is actually a WWII “tin can”... already punctured

a helmet with a bullet hole in it, doesnt inspire a lot of confidence....

[flint palm]

If you had trouble beating him you could save the game, wait a couple of days and he'd die of old age

[flint palm]

Grim reminder that the helmet is a hand-me-down

[hazy hull]

yeah

[flint palm]

Reuse, Reduce, as is the motto of our era

[quick crescent]

at least falling rocks and wooden chips wont hurt a lot

[mossy sky]

to be fair, a bullet will likely go through a Kevlar helmet as well, does provide a better chance of survival of course but I have seen them go straight through.

[shy whale]

These seem a bit too memey to be real. But meet the 100 year old Maxim gun! https://i.imgur.com/wa3VqbT.jpeg

[simple berry]

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/44879/ukraine-just-captured-part-of-one-of-russias-most-capable-electronic-warfare-systems

[mossy sky]

“would be a prize for foreign intelligence agencies” - as if the CIA hasn’t already taken first place on that one

That country would be crawling with FIS

[cold yoke]

https://twitter.com/nolanwpeterson/status/1506702942056828928?t=BEdm7kV0lpXD29zNNNJA_g&s=19

Nolan Peterson (@nolanwpeterson)

Uber is now offering free rides between Lviv and the Polish border.

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Twitter · Mar 23, 2022, 6:42 PM

https://twitter.com/HannaLiubakova/status/1506595257525444622?t=6Se8i6jgaEVOy_vucMHMdQ&s=09

Hanna Liubakova (@HannaLiubakova)

#Russia In the center of Moscow, somebody threw a Molotov cocktail into the Kremlin wall.

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Twitter · Mar 23, 2022, 11:34 AM

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1505850401765179394?t=jDTRJnAPuy2ABkel_spmxA&s=09

The Associated Press (@AP)

"We were the last journalists in Mariupol. Now there are none." The remarkable story of how an @AP team hid from Russian troops in a hospital, wearing surgical scrubs, to continue telling the world of the city's destruction. https://t.co/nAlsyl6rpN

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Twitter · Mar 21, 2022, 10:14 AM

[simple berry]

https://tenor.com/view/loyd-move-mad-angry-gif-15156427

No wonder the Russian generals are easy to spot and snipe

This is all I imagine in my head

[shy whale]

Good movie (Death of Stalin)

Funnily enough banned in Russia which made it even more popular there

[limpid lynx]

Yea the scarcity principle at its best

[sharp gate]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

[limpid lynx]

Now i have an earwig

[quick crescent]

poor cat