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Herschel Walker could pay Dr. Oz to abort endangered baby Bald Eagles on the steps of the United States Capitol on the Fourth of July and Republicans wouldn’t give a shit.
— Jo 🌻 (@JoJoFromJerz) October 7, 2022
nothing im fine its fine pic.twitter.com/Lr0rxzafmJ
— ɹ uɐp 🧀💉🇺🇦🍥 (@dannotdaniel) October 7, 2022
when i first saw this i thought it said a 75-foot alligator and i was totally unsurprised pic.twitter.com/rsLTTK9lvG
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 7, 2022
While looking at the story about the associate of Anna de (fake) Rothschild, I spied an article about credit cards in Canada.
Basically, the interchange providers (MasterCard and Visa, mostly) are paying $188 million CAD to settle a long running lawsuit regarding interchange processing (“swipe”) fees. The *other* thing that is coming out of this is that merchants in Canada can now tack on the cost of the swipe fees to consumers. Those can range up to 2.4 percent of the purchase. I’d note that for the average credit card reward program, the amount of the reward maxes out at 1 percent. Thus, it’s entirely likely that some people may switch to using their debit cards, which do not have swipe fees.
I know, from my employer, that swipe fees are one way we make money. (Also interest, fees on various transactions such as wires, stock purchases, etc., etc.) I do not believe that merchants here in the USA can officially tack on the swipe fees as the cost of doing business, but instead finesse it (e.g., the different prices for gas, cash or credit). I do remember back in 2009 (*why yes just after the meltdown*) my employer talked about tacking on a fee for people who got cash back from using a debit card when making a purchase, which was something I did. At that point, I tucked my debit card into the zippered portion of my wallet so I would not be tempted to use it if they were going to do something as stupid as all that. It never happened but yeah, there was a LOT of resentment.
As to whether we’d see something like this in the USA…doubtful. Banks have a lot of power.
Like all those millions of people who died from Covid just so you could make a buck… You’re truly a gross human Kelley Paul. https://t.co/qrUaM1nptu
— Amy Jean (@AmyJeanTyler) October 7, 2022
You want us to feel bad for you while we watched our family members die because they listened to your BS about natural immunity, ivermectin, and anti-masks.. I swear, I could flip a table like Teresa Guidice on RHONY.🤣🤣They have no compassion for anyone but themselves. Zero!
— Amy Jean (@AmyJeanTyler) October 8, 2022
Ron Johnson working hard on the campaign trail today. pic.twitter.com/atNklhrrlE
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) October 8, 2022
“I don’t understand why it takes two months to get checks from Citibank. I can get my bank records by entering a passcode on the computer. I don’t understand why there is such a delay.” ~ NY Judge to Rudy Giuliani, who he did not throw in jail, yet.
— Don Lewis (@DonLew87) October 7, 2022
re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth
The judge lifted Rudy’s contempt of court today after he missed an earlier date saying he wrote it down wrong. Leaving court today, he alleges he has previously paid his ex-wife in full and will prove it at the next hearing. pic.twitter.com/G8w4Cfcdg1
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) October 7, 2022
hey now https://t.co/WiEPQ6jvvH
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 8, 2022
re: #15 Belafon
I have to laugh because it is how a lot of them feel.
re: #16 PhillyPretzel
I have to laugh because it is how a lot of them feel.
Truer than it should be: and not really funny.
re: #17 Jay C
Yes. I have a co-committee (for the first time in 20 years) and that is exactly how he puts it. I just keep quiet and and make non-committal sounds like hmm.
Republicans are doing their absolute best to do the things C S Lewis warned about in Mere Christianity: growing excited the possibility of worse acts, crueler deeds revealed, because it makes their own faults and vices seem normal by comparison.
They’re accusing everyone else of total depravity because it makes their workaday depravity small and pedestrian by contrast.
There have to be ultraperverts out there because powerful men making their horniness everyone else’s business is just normal. There have to be secret super genocide plans because the existing plans to imprison people, make them labor, and let them die (with the occasional drone striked school bus) is just normal self-defense.
On and on.
Well, it’s ACL Fest down the street and The (ex-Dixie) Chicks are up on the Honda Stage at 8:00 local, so 15 minutes.
Since the Honda Stages faces east, they should come in loud and clear. We’ll just open the back door.
Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges!
Ahhh, life in the ‘04.
i just kinda expect the 75-foot alligators to show up any day now
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 8, 2022
Pretty sure this was the tweet that got me suspended. 🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/TapH1kG5db
I’m a really big fan of the Bee Gees and I also like cooking Chinese food.
You can tell by the way I use my wok.— mariana Z🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 (@mariana057) October 7, 2022
Abortion legal in Ohio again, for now.
BREAKING: Ohio’s six-week abortion ban on hold indefinitely. State expected to appeal. https://t.co/38WyzMIcCP via @enquirer
— Jessie Balmert (@jbalmert) October 7, 2022
Nope, no questions, I’ll simply take this opportunity to block your sad, pathetic ass. pic.twitter.com/C8qUjy4wr8
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 8, 2022
— jim rose circus (@jimrosecircus1) October 7, 2022
re: #25 Charles Johnson
I like the bit in the middle where he just kind of slips in that his boner is an axiom.
The woman asked Walker’s wife directly if she had known about the abortion, or that Walker had urged her to not give birth to their second child. Walker’s wife did not answer the question.
— Roger Sollenberger (@SollenbergerRC) October 8, 2022
I’ve got no words for this pic.twitter.com/ejV5bjTUPU
— Roger Sollenberger (@SollenbergerRC) October 8, 2022
Stop doubting this woman. More on her from @mayaaking at the New York Times, who confirmed the abortion payment and furthered the story today. https://t.co/oeL2xqxSgL
— Roger Sollenberger (@SollenbergerRC) October 8, 2022
Walker is the GOP’s pro-abortion candidate.
Herschel Walker Urged Woman to Have a 2nd Abortion, She Says - The New York Timeshttps://t.co/lnxB7T9Oc5 pic.twitter.com/gnOc4SeUTt— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 8, 2022
Like we can’t look backwards at five centuries of erotic art and several thousands years of written porn and establish that, hey, what counts as attractive changes a whole fucking bunch.
I think the reason they’re so intent on insisting there’s a natural, normative “attractiveness” is not just that they view their preferences as immutable laws, but because if the thing is natural it cannot be inappropriate.
It’s another layer of the nonce/reactionary overlap. The bodies of others—particularly young people—should not belong to them, and desire as a person with power to consume such a body is a “normal” adult behavior. Mostly this is heteronormative—it’s okay to creep on girls because sexiness is Why Girls Are—but it’s not entirely…modern machismo can just never quite wash out the pederasty stains, whether from the Spartans or the Boy Scout founders.
Authoritarians inevitably (1) get really upset about unauthorized fucking, (2) do not constrain their own preferred form of fucking.
it’s almost as if he’s utterly unfit for office https://t.co/JNJ5HPYoaE
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 8, 2022
some cats just want to watch the world burn pic.twitter.com/D7wf3laQ0E
— cats being weird little guys (@weirdlilguys) October 8, 2022
Uvalde school district suspends its entire police department, and superintendent announces retirement plans
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The district said decisions regarding the future of the department had been pending the results of two investigations, but it suspended the department’s activities Friday, citing “recent developments that have uncovered additional concerns with department operations.”
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re: #34 ipsos
School districts should not have “entire police departments.”
Change my mind.
One of the individuals running for our school board this year said, “I think we need to have an armed guard patrolling the hallways. I strongly feel our kids will be safer if there is an armed presence in our school.” Needless to say, he did not get either of our votes.
I don’t know who did this but, “hahahahahahahahahahahaha”, out effing loud! pic.twitter.com/frfVfgrQY7
— Vote Kristi Noem Out (@Stinkshovel) October 7, 2022
Best spotter ever pic.twitter.com/JCyTsprd7r
— Heckin Good Dogs (@HeckinGoodDogs) October 7, 2022
I can’t believe that none of this abortion stuff came up in the background check when Herschel started working as an FBI agent.
— Daily Trix (@DailyTrix) October 8, 2022
re: #7 mmmirele
cbc.ca
I do not believe that merchants here in the USA can officially tack on the swipe fees as the cost of doing business, but instead finesse it (e.g., the different prices for gas, cash or credit). I do remember back in 2009 (*why yes just after the meltdown*) my employer talked about tacking on a fee for people who got cash back from using a debit card when making a purchase, which was something I did. .
Our local Fred Meyers (Kroeger) charges a fee when you ask for cash back from a debit card purchase. IIRC it’s 2-3%.
Here the customer is doing the merchant a favor by converting cash in the till (which now doesn’t have to be counted or hauled to the bank) to an electric format. Good thing the credit union has a branch in the store.
Daily Trix
@DailyTrix
I can’t believe that none of this abortion stuff came up in the background check when Herschel started working as an FBI agent.
8:11 PM • Oct 7, 2022
Umm, well here’s the thing…
Folks it’s time to acknowledge that “evangelical” is no longer a Christian religous label but a political one focused on political power more than faith. Walker’s opponent is an ordained minister whose life has been a demonstration of faith and service. https://t.co/vUB1SQNXV3
— Doug Jones (@DougJones) October 6, 2022
Went outside to smoke my favorite named strain “Where’s My Bike?”, looked up and saw the space station very bright across the sky. I’ve seen it dozens of times, so imagine my surprise when I looked it up on heavens-above.com, and it was Tiangong, the Chinese space station. Its had a lot of pieces added to it in the last year, yet I was surprised at how bright. (the ISS passed by about 30 minutes later, but clouds in that part of the sky)
Beto putting in the legwork, first in Houston this morning:
Sam Houston State University! https://t.co/DnVqsZ64tM
— Beto O’Rourke (@BetoORourke) October 7, 2022
Then in Richardson (Dallas suburb) later:
UT Dallas turned out! https://t.co/Q1eSoly97D
— Beto O’Rourke (@BetoORourke) October 7, 2022
And wouldn’t you know it, the wind switched around to the southeast and most of the volume is going into Rollingwood, a community of of 1 to 5 million dollar houses on the southwest side of the Colorado as it runs through west Austin.
They’ll complain about the noise and then feature it as a bonus when they sell. You can be part of the Live Music Capital of the World!
Fuckwits.
Man with fragile ego and a gun:
A man lost a pickup basketball game to a 21-year-old Dallas woman. After he lost, he returned to the park and shot her 5 times, killing her.
“You become embarrassed basically because a female beat you in basketball.” pic.twitter.com/bUF4XPkrbZ— SAY CHEESE! 👄🧀 (@SaycheeseDGTL) October 8, 2022
The Republican candidate for Minnesota secretary of state now says she will accept the results of the 2022 election, assuming it doesn’t end up so close to require a recount. https://t.co/htsxCRaU1L
— MPR News (@MPRnews) October 7, 2022
So generous.
“I DON’T KNOW WHERE THEY KEEP THE TREATS, PLEASE, I HAVE A FAMILY” pic.twitter.com/kULYZfhh5K
— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) October 6, 2022
So, She Who Must be Obeyed is playing this gig on Sunday at 310 Second Street, immediately adjacent to the ACL studio (it’s basically the black box next door to the big audit).
This is just a great show.
re: #47 Belafon
“Hypocrisy” vastly understates the gravity of MAGA deceit. Those who fund & encourage abortions while claiming opposition to abortion is a core value for them are fundamentally dishonest. If they lie about their core values, what else will they lie about? Anything and everything
— Elizabeth de la Vega (@Delavegalaw) October 7, 2022
We put a GroPro on our chaos golden.
May we all live life with the joy of a dog.
❤️ pic.twitter.com/onvSt98gUx— Bunsen and BEAKER (@bunsenbernerbmd) October 8, 2022
Guy just walking down the street minding his own business when bodega gato runs out and jumps up on his walker. They just standing / sitting at this impasse for like five full min now… pic.twitter.com/JSTHhIBV2o
— Jeneen Interlandi (@JInterlandi) October 6, 2022
I’m somewhat enjoying Chris Christi on Overtime tonight.
re: #31 Charles Johnson
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I am so loving the gop and their evangelical wing twist into knots justifying this
re: #23 Dave In Austin
She’s the queen of dad jokes
Hot air balloons turn into cold water balloons.
Wow! This was that rogue storm over @balloonfiesta park this evening 😮 Hoping everyone made it out safely! #nmwx @KOB4 https://t.co/vSvTBCG2uM
— Eddie Garcia (@EddieGarciaKOB) October 8, 2022
re: #63 darthstar
I hope she loses by .1% over the threshold for a recount.
She’ll demand a precount.
Friday night football in America: Gunfire erupts during high school football game in Toledo, Ohio. There are at least three victims.
Permitless carry went into effect in Ohio in June thanks to @GovMikeDeWine, despite law enforcement’s opposition. #ohleg pic.twitter.com/1EtGVQcnJm— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) October 8, 2022
Abortion is at least temporarily legal again in Arizona, as the Draconian *territorial era* (as in prior to 1912, dates to the 1860s)law has been stayed. The Arizona state court of appeals has said that Planned Parenthood has a likelihood of prevailing on the merits of taking ALL the laws re abortion into consideration, not just the one that was written 50 years before women got the right to vote.
BREAKING Arizona Court of Appeals blocks enforcement of state’s Civil War-era abortion ban pending resolution of appeal by Planned Parenthood of Arizona. https://t.co/vZxZxDw2S6 pic.twitter.com/6XdKY7HiUt
— Brahm Resnik (@brahmresnik) October 7, 2022
re: #2 Captain Ron
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Funny, that’s pretty much what NRA Barbie said aloud, so long as Repubs win the Senate:
In a clip flagged by @PatriotTakes, Loesch told her followers that winning back control of the Senate is the only thing that matters and that other moral considerations can be cast aside.
“I don’t care if Herschel Walker paid to abort endangered baby eagles,” she said. “I want control of the Senate!”
Loesch went on to dismiss the significance of the Walker abortion claims in even starker terms.
“If the Daily Beast story is true, you’re telling me Walker used his money to reportedly pay some skank for an abortion, and [Sen. Raphael Warnock] wants to use all of our moneys to pay a whole bunch of skanks for abortions,” she said. “So, it doesn’t change anything for me!”
People who say Republicans would be happy to bring back slavery aren’t exaggerating.
Whoa. Ron Johnson just said he wants to ELIMINATE the minimum wage. https://t.co/hY3phajcH1
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) October 8, 2022
re: #68 jaunte
People who say Republicans would be happy to bring back slavery aren’t exaggerating.
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We’ve had Repubs argue aloud that child labor should be legal because it “teaches” kids.
re: #69 Targetpractice
Toddlers can get down into those narrow coal seams.
re: #13 wrenchwench
Have you heard of Kuto? Could they become a serious competitor?
I haven’t. It looks like it’s a payment processor that uses Plaid and Stripe, but still works through the banking system. If enough merchants adopted it, yeah, it could be a real challenge.
That said, there are limitations here in the USA on moving money around, even to pay for goods and services. We have a shitton of banking laws that are designed to keep money from being transferred through and out to Bad People (e.g., terrorist groups, drug cartels and you know, Vlad Putin and his cronies). I imagine that Kuto is required to work with those same laws, maybe not directly with the government but through the requirements of their payment processors Stripe and Plaid.
However, I’m reminded that there are millions, perhaps billions of people in the world moving money around by smartphone daily. I honestly don’t know how that works, or what acts as “bank”, say, in those transactions. It’s not something I’ve looked into.
re: #69 Targetpractice
We’ve had Repubs argue aloud that child labor should be legal because it “teaches” kids.
As soon as a child takes a job, they get the vote. And keep it, so long as there’s no insurrection on their record.
Hmmmm.
Images are emerging of a large fire on the Crimean bridge pic.twitter.com/SyBENtMJ6r
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) October 8, 2022
Location 45.311763, 36.503714 pic.twitter.com/0ZQVDPYJyb
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) October 8, 2022
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) October 8, 2022
re: #71 mmmirele
I haven’t used it because I don’t have the phone for it, but it caught my interest because it’s local, and because I hate credit cards the way I hate electric bicycles: with a basis in reason, but to excess beyond rationality.
I’ve been waiting for images like this for weeks. the bridge from Russia to Crimea finally got hit.
15 min ago.
Blast and fire on Crimean Bridge. pic.twitter.com/NFoGu7vrQL— Fuat (@lilygrutcher) October 8, 2022
The rail span appears to be completely engulfed.
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) October 8, 2022
re: #73 Dave In Austin
Hmmmm.
Glory be…may they take the rail line down completely. I’ve been waiting for this day to come. Fuck Russia. Fuck Putin. Slava Ukraini.
Someone might take a second to point out to Ron that the federal government hasn’t passed a minimum wage increase in over a decade, that any increase is always spread out over years so that the market can “adjust” (i.e. inflation can wipe out any gains), and that numerous states have already passed minimum wage increases up to twice what the federal minimum wage is without their local economies cratering.
In a sane society, we wouldn’t need laws to ban child labor, limit the work week to 40 hours, set a minimum wage, or criminalize forcing employees to work without pay. We passed laws to cover all those and more at the federal level because the “market” proved that when push came to shove, it was totally cool with imposing slavery upon the working class at the end of a gun.
This doesn’t even look humanly possible! pic.twitter.com/6JeznPP7Mm
— 🥀_Imposter_🕸️ (@Imposter_Edits) October 7, 2022
re: #73 Dave In Austin
Hmmmm.
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There seems to have been a “smoking accident” on the bridge to Crimea…
— Darth Putin (@DarthPutinKGB) October 8, 2022
re: #79 Dave In Austin
I could do that…wouldn’t look the same probably.
More images from Kerch bridge. Various conflicting reports at this stage. Some say the bridge was hit with a missile. Others say it was an attack by SF groups. Russian media reporting that a railway cistern carriage exploded. This could be an interesting day ahead… pic.twitter.com/zsLJ3ufOrN
— Oliver Carroll (@olliecarroll) October 8, 2022
The photo shared on a Russian Telegram channel shows what appears to be a train sitting on the Kerch bridge with at least one of its cars engulfed in fire.
📷https://t.co/Py0jjiu8vw pic.twitter.com/MjBo1EAtim— Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) October 8, 2022
Yes, a woman and her doctor.
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) October 8, 2022
looks like portions of the road #Kerch bridge in #Crimea have also “fallen” into the water#Ukraine #russia #FUCKputin https://t.co/zXc0fsRwaV
— Kevin (@veknam62) October 8, 2022
#BREAKING NEWS | #RUSSIA #UKRAINE WAR
An #explosion has been reported at the#Kerchbridge. It appears that parts of the bridge have collapsed. The cause of the incident is not known as of now. https://t.co/yDW2ZUEit7— Nelson Quiñones (@nelsonqatlanta) October 8, 2022
That’s definitely not helpful to Russia, however it happened.
So a cistern carriage exploded on the bridge?
Guess the shit hit the span.
re: #88 A Cranky One
So a cistern carriage exploded on the bridge?
Guess the shit hit the span.
The Russians trapped in Crimea now are definitely up shit creek.
re: #85 Captain Ron
Those Russians really really don’t want to go back home.
re: #68 jaunte
People who say Republicans would be happy to bring back slavery aren’t exaggerating.
They just want to bring the violence and coercion previously applied to the imperial periphery back to the imperial core.
If your base assumption is that most Americans aren’t real Americans, then it follows that the Not Real Americans should be treated as subjects without franchise. This is what the Tories did when they lost their empire: contract the zone of Britishness, strip away the benefits, while blaming the people they were disenfranchising for their lack of character.
re: #85 Captain Ron
Yeah, this looks like part of the road span has suffered some catastrophic damage, to the point that’s almost certainly unusable (BTW, I’m no engineer, but this looks bad to my layman’s eyes):
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) October 8, 2022
A little belated birthday gift for Putin 😄
re: #89 Targetpractice
The Russians trapped in Crimea now are definitely up shit creek.
still direct road access to Russia, just has to drive through area within Ukrainian artillery range
So that is really quite serious damage to the Kerch Bridge, which connects occupied #Crimea and mainland #Russia. pic.twitter.com/9Wc2Rrg8v5
— Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) October 8, 2022
Given the reports that there were rail cars on the line when the attack happened, even if the rail portion doesn’t collapse and the rails aren’t significantly damaged, it’s still going to take time to clear the wreckage. So I guess we won’t be seeing any new “Russia bringing in reinforcements” propaganda videos for a few days.
re: #94 jaunte
Holy shit, a segment of the road span collapsed. Bet the Russians cheaped out on construction materials in order to get the bridge built quick, or possibly they didn’t engineer it to withstand a serious accident.
re: #97 jaunte
Ukraine does have Navy divers.
Yeah, could well be a Ukrainian Special Forces operation. In any event, Putin’s gonna be apoplectic.
His failure is now almost complete.
Biden’s Marijuana Pardons Don’t Apply to Service Members https://t.co/BOab6Vb3RO
High soldier bad soldier…it’s in our contract not to touch the stuff while the contract is active for 4-10 years.
— M🌎NDO (@MrMondoMann) October 8, 2022
Here’s the science numbers:
FWIW: Concrete has a melting point of ~1112 degrees F. Gasoline burns at 1500 degrees F. Kerosene closer to 1800. There’s significant likelihood of structural damage to the burning part as well here.
— Brynn Tannehill (@BrynnTannehill) October 8, 2022
re: #100 Belafon
It looks like the other roadway is sagging at the far end of the gap in the left side.
Basically this bridge is unusable to road traffic and the rail portion may very well be gone as well. Which leaves the only routes into Crimea either through Ukrainian territory or subject to possible attack by the AFU.
re: #100 Belafon
Here’s the science numbers:
Except the portion of the bridge on fire (rail bridge) has not fallen. The vehicle bridge suffered the section collapses, and it is in no way connected to the rail bridge
The Democrats really need to play up the GOP proposals to undermine Social Security and Medicare — they need a full on ad assault, death panels x 10, just as the GOP does against against any proposals promoted by Democrats. They need to make clear that the GOP is taking away choice, is taking away health care and income from the elderly, and a double bonus for devising commercials that tie gun violence to GOP irresponsibility in promoting weaponry for everyone.
Bill Maher still seems to believe that our problems are due to our citizens living in silos and not communicating with each other — that somehow we must all learn to listen to the other side and talk our way through this. Too many Americans somehow believe that we are either headed to civil war or that we can split our country in two. Maher showed a clip from Gandhi, on the one time in history where that did happen — where there was mass relocation of the Hindus and Muslims to separate states. This seems like neither a realistic nor desirable solution. At least panelist Katty Kay was vehement that neither fascism nor socialism was in our future. Let’s hope that we can muddle our way through this.
re: #107 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Whatever caused this extent of damage would have to be significant:
Road portion of the Crimean bridge under water after unknown explosions target the infrastructure.
Via our telegram https://t.co/zIJDhiKyY4 pic.twitter.com/2rC0aXyZJ3— CaucasusWarReport (@Caucasuswar) October 8, 2022
I don’t think they’re gonna be able to just patch that up with a little rebar and concrete.
How Fighter Jet Pilots Could Stop Worrying And Learn To Love The Drone https://t.co/M7KwdSD3XW
— The War Zone (@thewarzonewire) October 7, 2022
re: #108 Dr Lizardo
Whatever caused this extent of damage would have to be significant:
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I don’t think they’re gonna be able to just patch that up with a little rebar and concrete.
Wonder Nyet’s take on this. Are RT and the Russian networks discussing this “attack” and its impact?
re: #106 Hecuba’s daughter
The Democrats really need to play up the GOP proposals to undermine Social Security and Medicare — they need a full on ad assault, death panels x 10, just as the GOP does against against any proposals promoted by Democrats. They need to make clear that the GOP is taking away choice, is taking away health care and income from the elderly, and a double bonus for devising commercials that tie gun violence to GOP irresponsibility in promoting weaponry for everyone.
Bill Maher still seems to believe that our problems are due to our citizens living in silos and not communicating with each other — that somehow we must all learn to listen to the other side and talk our way through this. Too many Americans somehow believe that we are either headed to civil war or that we can split our country in two. Maher showed a clip from Gandhi, on the one time in history where that did happen — where there was mass relocation of the Hindus and Muslims to separate states. This seems like neither a realistic nor desirable solution. At least panelist Katty Kay was vehement that neither fascism nor socialism was in our future. Let’s hope that we can muddle our way through this.
Peckerheads like Maher are why Dems sounding the alarm have no effect. When they make a lot of noise about how Repubs are screwing this nation over without lube, he gets up on his soapbox and declares that they’re being “partisan” and that they’re the cause for national disunity. And when Dems scale back and talk words like “bipartisan,” he snarks that their “weakness” is why guys like Trump get elected.
Because your feces matter, DW did a documentary:
It’s one of their better documentaries of late.
But because one of the topics is Bill Gates, the loons are out in the comments ranting conspiracies.
re: #110 Captain Ron
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re: #108 Dr Lizardo
Whatever caused this extent of damage would have to be significant:
I don’t think they’re gonna be able to just patch that up with a little rebar and concrete.
Carlo Graziani, (subbing for Adam Silverman) posted on this very subject at Balloon Juice two days ago. He pointed out that Russian forces in theater are heavily dependent on rail transport: and that interdiction of same is a main objective for the UA. But also, that road/rail bridges (usually a weak point) are not all that easy to put out if action. And that the Ukrainians had not, to date, had a lot of success (even with their best artillery/missiles) destroying them to the point of unusability. Looks like they’ve stepped up their game, though….
ETA: of course (because Russian), this could be an accident of some sort. Either way, choosing that strait without a boat is going to be a big problem for a while.
Looks like the Russians will have to evacuate their civilians the old-fashioned way.
Representative of occupation authorities of Crimea says ferry crossing is ready to be relaunched https://t.co/RjEYYI6Vep #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/EN428OvnyJ
— Liveuamap (@Liveuamap) October 8, 2022
Panicked this evening at dinner when people were discussing bills and real estate. I suddenly realized that I had no recollection of paying property taxes this summer and was too embarrassed to mention it. When I finally returned home, I logged on to the payment system — and saw an announcement that they hadn’t sent the bill yet and didn’t know when it would be issued. That was certainly a shock!
……..
Wording — Haven’t had a 3 for awhile.
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So, what flows between the two parts of the bridge now should be called … Crimea river.
re: #119 Nyet
So, what flows between the two parts of the bridge now should be called … Crimea river.
Looks like a segment of the Kerch Bridge has been promoted to Kerch boat ramp.
re: #120 Dr Lizardo
Looks like a segment of the Kerch Bridge has been promoted to Kerch boat ramp.
It retired as a submarine.
One of the frustrating aspects of my job is
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re: #115 Jay C
Carlo Graziani, (subbing for Adam Silverman) posted on this very subject at Balloon Juice two days ago. He pointed out that Russian forces in theater are heavily dependent on rail transport: and that interdiction of same is a main objective for the UA. But also, that road/rail bridges (usually a weak point) are not all that easy to put out if action. And that the Ukrainians had not, to date, had a lot of success (even with their best artillery/missiles) destroying them to the point of unusability. Looks like they’ve stepped up their game, though….
Not really surprising, as we’ve seen numerous pictures of Russian transport trucks either buried in the mud or handicapped by cheap Chinese tires, while the failure of the Russian Air Force to establish air supremacy means any attempt to bring in troops and equipment by transport plane runs a better than even risk of ending in a big fireball.
re: #44 jaunte
I can’t believe that none of this abortion stuff came up in the background check when Herschel started working as an FBI agent.
All part of a Deep State plot to make the GOP look hypocritical and irresponsible.
re: #88 A Cranky One
So a cistern carriage exploded on the bridge?
Guess the shit hit the span.
Brethren and cistern!!!
re: #68 jaunte
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) compares the federal minimum wage to price fixing:
“I really don’t like the federal government getting involved in doing price fixing… that includes wages… Have the marketplace take care of it rather than government set a minimum wage.”
It is the fetishization of the ideology of the Free Market as some Divine State that we should aspire to by cleansing ourselves of all traces of Government regulation of trade and commerce.
The market is a great way to balance supply and demand or to direct flows of capital to where they can do the most benefit.
But basic human needs should have precedent over the market, and humans need a certain minimum income to survive. the Free Market does not care about human health, safety or basic human requirements.
Even Adam Smith reminds us that Markets are a human institution, one that should benefit all participants: employers and employees, producers and consumers, lenders and borrowers.
Charles,
Very odd — when I click to see my most recent comments, the list excludes those from the current thread. This also happened to me a couple days. A bug?
re: #119 Nyet
So, what flows between the two parts of the bridge now should be called … Crimea river.
Crimean Punishment
re: #128 Hecuba’s daughter
Charles,
Very odd — when I click to see my most recent comments, the list excludes those from the current thread. This also happened to me a couple days. A bug?
Deep State plot.
Large lines are reportedly forming at gas stations in Crimea because people are preparing to flee.
How will the Kremlin even begin to explain this away? pic.twitter.com/aHrj9Q5ooN— Christian Borys (@ItsBorys) October 8, 2022
Deep State plot
Section of Crimea Bridge was promoted to tunnel.
— Darth Putin (@DarthPutinKGB) October 8, 2022
re: #132 Targetpractice
re: #133 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If indeed the Ukrainians succeeded in making the Kerch Bridge unusable, then I can well imagine the average Russian living in Crimea has got to be shitting themselves right now and most likely packing up and getting the hell out of there. Only problem they’ll have is that to evacuate back to Russia proper, I’m pretty sure they’re going to have to drive through a war zone.
Yeesh.
re: #135 Dr Lizardo
If indeed the Ukrainians succeeded in making the Kerch Bridge unusable, then I can well imagine the average Russian living in Crimea has got to be shitting themselves right now and most likely packing up and getting the hell out of there. Only problem they’ll have is that to evacuate back to Russia proper, I’m pretty sure they’re going to have to drive through a war zone.
Yeesh.
The occupational authorities claim that a ferry service is being revived, so there (supposedly) will be an alternative to overland travel out of Crimea, but the bottlenecks will still mean getting out will be an absolute clusterfark that will only further hamper efforts to hold onto Southern Ukraine.
Now this is some god-tier trolling:
A senior Ukrainian military official did not deny that Ukrainian forces were behind the attack but would not confirm it.
“All I can say is that an echelon with fuel intended to supply occupation forces in the south of Ukraine was passing over the bridge from Krasnodar Krai,” the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he did not have permission to speak to the news media.
The official added: “Putin should be happy. Not everyone gets such an expensive present on their birthday.”
Enjoy… pic.twitter.com/7Kry8M8nd4
— Аle (@IglesiasVilches) October 8, 2022
re: #119 Nyet
So, what flows between the two parts of the bridge now should be called … Crimea river.
What’s the Russian for THWACK?
re: #138 Captain Ron
That looks like a missile strike. But what the hell kind of missiles do the Ukrainians have that could do that kind of damage?
“Crimea, the bridge, the beginning. Everything illegal must be destroyed, everything stolen must be returned to Ukraine, everything occupied by Russia must be expelled”, said Mikhail Podolyak, advisor to the office of the President of Ukraine, on the Crimean Bridge explosion. pic.twitter.com/d3pHfevWU8
— The Insider (@InsiderEng) October 8, 2022
re: #139 Grunthos the Flatulent
What’s the Russian for THWACK?
For example, *БАМ*. Then again, it also fits what happened to the Crimean tunnel.
re: #138 Captain Ron
Hmm. The video bears the “watermark” of Pozdnyakov, apparently that terrorist from the “Male State”.
— International Observers Ukraine (@INTobservers) October 8, 2022
Good thread on the immediate effects on the war situation:
It is too early to ascertain the method of attack and the range of implications of this attack on the Kerch Bridge. It is certainly a punch in the face for Putin on his birthday. A couple of thoughts however in this short (for me) thread. 1/9 🧵 https://t.co/h8C45CWI2K
— Mick Ryan, AM (@WarintheFuture) October 8, 2022
tl;dr: Resupply to Crimea isn’t stopped, but it makes overland routes more important to hold, which probably means further Russian “redeployments.”
re: #147 Nyet
Looks like it might have been that truck that exploded?
Kerch-22?
re: #148 Nyet
Looks like it might have been that truck that exploded?
That truck would’ve had to be carrying something highly destructive. It sure as hell wasn’t carrying margarine and yogurt.
re: #148 Nyet
Looks like it might have been that truck that exploded?
That’s what I’m thinking, and it looks like the truck went boom just as fuel tankers were passing on the rail line.
Russian channels: “We don’t have complete land-corridor to Crimea, as we do not control Donetsk railway junction (Avdiivka)”
Meaning, there are no railroads from Russia to Southern Ukraine under control of AFRF
Crimean bridge railroad has not yet fallen, but it is badly damaged pic.twitter.com/xPoITiljEa— TS (@couch_comissar) October 8, 2022
re: #152 ericblair
That’s what I’m thinking, and it looks like the truck went boom just as fuel tankers were passing on the rail line.
If so, an excellent operation.
A former British army explosives expert says “this is a masterpiece of clandestine sabotage.” Importance of this is hard to exaggerate. #KerchBridge pic.twitter.com/QbNu9GMT71
— Paul Adams (@BBCPaulAdams) October 8, 2022
Russian state media- there is no timeline for reopening the Crimean Bridge at the moment https://t.co/HHmlStGPN2
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) October 8, 2022
Re: yesterday’s topic.
“Roman Sinicyn, a co-ordinator at the Serhiy Prytula Charity, a foundation that donates Starlink systems to the Ukrainian armed forces, said the problem may be occurring because SpaceX was trying to prevent its misuse by Russian forces.”
— George (@MSTRMN_) October 7, 2022
— ma.ui (@ma6ui) October 7, 2022
— Gönndalf 🇺🇦 (@drallcome) October 8, 2022
Occupation authorities impose rationing on grocery sales in Crimea
HOLY SHIT I take my doubts back!https://t.co/2Lqwwr1qcD
— Taras Chuprynka (@TarasChuprynk) October 8, 2022
Some possibility it may have been a drone boat. I don’t vouch for any of this stuff, though.
re: #161 Dr Lizardo
Things should get truly interesting once food supplies for the local occupying forces run low…
re: #162 ericblair
Official version is a truck explosion now.
re: #163 Targetpractice
Things should get truly interesting once food supplies for the local occupying forces run low…
“When the food runs out, at least we’ll have each other.”
- Hannibal Lecter
re: #161 Dr Lizardo
Occupation authorities impose rationing on grocery sales in Crimea
Crimeat rationing
re: #165 Dr Lizardo
“When the food runs out, at least we’ll have each other.”
- Hannibal Lecter
I mean, that guy from a few days ago, with the nickname Cannibal, only lost 16 soldiers out of 23. Must have been tasty ones.
re: #165 Dr Lizardo
“When the food runs out, at least we’ll have each other.”
- Hannibal Lecter
“The baby didn’t die until we’d burned up all our wood. Considering we ate her raw, she tasted pretty good…”
re: #153 Dr Lizardo
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Yeah, that’s the big reality of the current situation, that it doesn’t matter what took out the bridge, what matters is that the Russians in Crimea are now reliant upon unreliable lines of transport that could be cut off if the AFU decide to make a serious push into the south. Before now, they could be reassured that even if such lines were cut off, they could still be resupplied via the Kerch railway. But with that cut off, it’s not going to take much for Ukraine to isolate Crimea.
Kremlin tells Crimea residents to not panic about petrol supplies, as “there are reserves for at least two weeks”
Crimea residents: pic.twitter.com/lPdO7lAL35— Christo Grozev (@christogrozev) October 8, 2022
re: #169 Targetpractice
Yeah, that’s the big reality of the current situation, that it doesn’t matter what took out the bridge, what matters is that the Russians in Crimea are now reliant upon unreliable lines of transport that could be cut off if the AFU decide to make a serious push into the south. Before now, they could be reassured that even if such lines were cut off, they could still be resupplied via the Kerch railway. But with that cut off, it’s not going to take much for Ukraine to isolate Crimea.
Yeah, this threw a major monkeywrench into Russia’s logistics.
Most optimistic version of what happened on #Crimea bridge….#Ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar #UkraineWar #ruSSia #Himars #Putin pic.twitter.com/semuNdEyjY
— Kiborgz (@Kiborgzzz) October 8, 2022
re: #170 Nyet
Reserves for two weeks? At the rate they’re lining up to tank up, they’ll be lucky to make it until next Wednesday.
Crimea bridge explosion is a special operation carried out by the SBU, Ukraine’s top media outlet says, quoting law-enforcement sources. https://t.co/bq01nBcIQV
— Leonid ХВ Ragozin (@leonidragozin) October 8, 2022
NO PANIC!!
⚡️ Gasoline will not be sold into the canisters in order not to provoke artificial agiotage, says the so-called governor of temporarily occupied Sevastopol.
👉 Follow @Flash_news_ua https://t.co/KpwdHEhK6Z— FLASH (@Flash_news_ua) October 8, 2022
re: #175 Dr Lizardo
NO PANIC!!
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Does anybody really believe that the people sitting in those gas lines don’t have their trunks/truck beds/back seats/etc filled with fuel cans in anticipation that the limited supplies are gonna go quick? I pity the poor bastards that have to go out to the first people in line and tell them that they can only fuel their car, they can’t fill any containers because the authorities fear that fuel will end up on the black market.
re: #173 Dr Lizardo
Reserves for two weeks? At the rate they’re lining up to tank up, they’ll be lucky to make it until next Wednesday.
When the Kremlin tells you not to panic, that’s an excellent time to start panicking.
These two recently released an album:
Ukrainian Pravda source says it’s an SBU op.
re: #175 Dr Lizardo
NO PANIC!!
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So apparently “agiotage” was a bit of fat-fingering and was meant to be “shortage,” but the overall message is still pretty much the same: There’s 15 days of gas and diesel at “normal” usage rates, but if people start hoarding then it will lead to an “artificial” shortage. Which means that things in Crimea are about to come to a halt as people who don’t immediately bug out sit on what fuel they have in anticipation of doing so.
re: #181 Targetpractice
So apparently “agiotage” was a bit of fat-fingering and was meant to be “shortage,” but the overall message is still pretty much the same: There’s 15 days of gas and diesel at “normal” usage rates, but if people start hoarding then it will lead to an “artificial” shortage. Which means that things in Crimea are about to come to a halt as people who don’t immediately bug out sit on what fuel they have in anticipation of doing so.
Which, fair enough, is entirely true. We’ve all seen this sort of thing before, from pretty much all corners of the globe. On one hand, given the circumstances, fuel rationing makes sense because as you said, things will come to a halt pretty quick if everyone starts hoarding gasoline and diesel.
Basically, they need to get out while they still can. And that’s now considerably more difficult. Who knows how long it’ll be until, at minimum, train service is restored across the Kerch Bridge? And as far as that goes, I sure as hell wouldn’t be looking forward to traveling across that damaged section of the rail bridge - there could be considerable hidden damage there.
re: #182 Dr Lizardo
Which, fair enough, is entirely true. We’ve all seen this sort of thing before, from pretty much all corners of the globe. On one hand, given the circumstances, fuel rationing makes sense because as you said, things will come to a halt pretty quick if everyone starts hoarding gasoline and diesel.
Basically, they need to get out while they still can. And that’s now considerably more difficult. Who knows how long it’ll be until, at minimum, train service is restored across the Kerch Bridge? And as far as that goes, I sure as hell wouldn’t looking forward to traveling across that damaged section of the rail bridge - there could be considerable hidden damage there.
It’s the sort of assurances you’d expect in the aftermath of a major disaster, the government trying to prevent panic and manage public morale by offering assurances that any shortages will be temporary and “normal” service restored before long. But if you’re living in Sevastopol, the question on your mind when told that there’s enough fuel for 15 days is “What happens in 16 days?”
It’s an empty promise from the Kremlin that they can get regular deliveries going again in 2 weeks or less, something that is not going to do much to reassure people who were being told as recently as yesterday that the war would never threaten them personally and that Moscow was doing everything possible to ensure their safety.
re: #181 Targetpractice
I just assumed that “agiotage” was correct and that the residents in that area were trading gasoline on a makeshift trading market.
Every household a company, every product a can of gasoline.
Overnight music:
Sevastopol governor lifts the buying restrictions he himself introduced an hour ago.
The bridge is no more. It’s an ex-bridge.
— Alex Pryrodny 🇺🇦 (@rurikbird) October 8, 2022
re: #181 Targetpractice
So apparently “agiotage” was a bit of fat-fingering and was meant to be “shortage,” […]
Maybe not. merriam-webster.com
Definition of agiotage
1 : speculative buying or selling of stocks :
Could be referring to scalping.
Edit: and Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus handily beat me to it.
re: #186 Nyet
Sevastopol governor lifts the buying restrictions he himself introduced an hour ago.
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Probably got a very unkind call from the Kremlin. This whole situation has the feel of the latter stages of WWII, when the realities of the war began to come to roost in a Germany that had been assured every day for years that the war was being won and there was no need for rationing because the nation’s bounty was plentiful enough to support the war without asking the average German citizen to suffer. Even as the war effort began to sputter and the manufacturers began to cry from dwindling supplies, Hitler insisted upon avoiding rationing to prevent public sentiment from turning against the war and against him.
re: #191 Grunthos the Flatulent
Maybe not. merriam-webster.com
Could be referring to scalping.
Ажиотаж means increased demand due to the situation (or rumors etc.) in this case.
Allegedly 1,3 km of the railroad have been damaged.
re: #194 Nyet
Though not sure about the mechanics of the alleged damage here.
re: #72 wrenchwench
As soon as a child takes a job, they get the vote. And keep it, so long as there’s no insurrection on their record.
If the “unborn” have rights, why don’t the children who work the fields to put food on your table?
re: #84 Belafon
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This is not only a stunningly ignorant thing to say, it doesn’t even make any sense.
Abortion is a profoundly moral issue that should be decided by the people – not 9 Supreme Court justices or 535 members of Congress.
— Ron Johnson (@RonJohnsonWI) October 8, 2022
When does Putin get desperate enough to use a nuke?
re: #198 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
When does Putin get desperate enough to use a nuke?
Who cares, won’t help him.
re: #100 Belafon
Here’s the science numbers:
So the wtc did collapse, didn’t collapse?
It was an inside job, no it was a hoax?
Oh sorry. Wrong thread //
re: #107 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Divers could not deliver enough explosive to drop the vehicle road surface sections
What is the water speed of a laden diver?
Wrong thread again?
re: #108 Dr Lizardo
Whatever caused this extent of damage would have to be significant:
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I don’t think they’re gonna be able to just patch that up with a little rebar and concrete.
Bondo
re: #125 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I can’t believe that none of this abortion stuff came up in the background check when Herschel started working as an FBI agent.
All part of a Deep State plot to make the GOP look hypocritical and irresponsible.
Forget the fbi joke part, apparently his staff did know
📉Global economic growth is expected to slow down to 2.5% this year, and 2.3% by 2023. That means a global recession is almost a fact, as 2.5% is the threshold for that.
Many, including the UN, blame the U.S. Fed. Here’s what they say. 🧵 https://t.co/IsApy2XxJ6— FORTUNE (@FortuneMagazine) October 7, 2022
Sure, why not blame the Federal Reserve, they are after all the most important player when it comes to monetary policy.
But playing the blame game is a fool’s game.
The reality with which we all must accomodate (sooner or later) is that we’re moving into intense global competition for resources, which drives inflation, and that in turn triggers entities like the Fed who are programmed to fight inflation (to protect money.)
Now, I object to calling 2.3% growth by the term “recession”. It’s all part of a word game being played on the big stage.
Thought for sure the birbie was going in - only to have too much pace and forcing the need to make a tester for the par. Got the all clear from the physical therapist to resume hitting golf balls. With temps in upper 60s today, will head to the range and take some easy swings. A fantabulous weekend to all the folks who make this such a wonderful community!
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There’s a propaganda war going on, for the minds of Americans and those in the rest of the developed world.
And it’s not about Ukraine (though it is also sort of about Ukraine.)
The unwillingness of people, individually and corporately (i.e., nations), to accept that growth can not go on forever is profoundly stubborn.
Just look at the commonly stated idea that anything less than 2.5% growth is a recession.
Now “growth” itself is just a word game, a battle to use a word that people think has to be a positive, a benefit, a good thing.
But any numerate individual will recognize, if they allow themselves, that exponential growth (which is what a the annual positive percent number represents) soon gets to where the absolute value of the quantity in question becomes astronomical.
Call me a doomer, but decline, decrease, and finally decease, is the way of life on this planet just as much as “growth”.
But no politician, and no economist who wants a paycheck from an institution, dare declare that decline ought to be seen as an essential part of the economy.
re: #190 Teukka
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Bad luck for the Russians that this bridge to Crimea blew up today pic.twitter.com/cjaRoKZqFl
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) October 8, 2022
The previous rumor about the mass evacuation of children from Kherson was not “the real deal”, but this one, about the evacuation of children with their parents from the whole region, is.
Alla Pugachyova, the queen of the Russian pop, who has recently moved to Israel with her husband and has expressed veiled but transparent criticism of the war, here back in 1986, in Chernobyl, singing for the “liquidators” (many of them dead men walking).
(Dancing on the stage with her is Boris Moiseev, who died last week, probably the first Russian artist to come out later.)
re: #66 mmmirele
Abortion is at least temporarily legal again in Arizona, as the Draconian *territorial era* (as in prior to 1912, dates to the 1860s)law has been stayed. The Arizona state court of appeals has said that Planned Parenthood has a likelihood of prevailing on the merits of taking ALL the laws re abortion into consideration, not just the one that was written 50 years before women got the right to vote.
A court in Ohio also enjoined Ohio’s six week abortion ban.
Holy hell, just checked annuity rates on the MUSL… and it jumped by more than I’ve seen it jump before.
Up a half a point in a single bounce.
Usually it goes up by hundredths or a tenth of a point.
Annuity underwriters must think that interest rates are going to stay high for a while.
The Fed rates do drive this. But so do the returns on commercial paper and Treasuries.
That Melitopol line is very close to Ukrainian lines. Here is an adapted @War_Mapper map with the rail line highlighted with a dark line. The Ukrainians cut that line at any one point, and its game over for the Russian army in the south (if the Kerch bridge is out) pic.twitter.com/hWlV3eMB45
— Phillips P. OBrien (@PhillipsPOBrien) October 8, 2022
re: #214 No Malarkey!
As usual, the RMoD claims everything is just dandy.
“Обеспечение российской группировки войск, задействованной в специальной военной операции на Николаево-Криворожском и Запорожском операционных направлениях, осуществляется непрерывно в полном объеме по сухопутному коридору и частично — морским транспортом”
It would make sense that Ukraine tries to hit the Russians hard now. The Russian army has been weakened by a summer of battering its head against a wall, and whatever strength Russian conscription will generate is months away. Ukrainian army has spent a summer getting trained…
— Phillips P. OBrien (@PhillipsPOBrien) October 8, 2022
Shutting Kerch bridge mignt be it for Russian forces in Kherson. Railway traffic any other way ‘limited’ https://t.co/4lfydbeNXU
— Phillips P. OBrien (@PhillipsPOBrien) October 8, 2022
Allegedly a previous owner of the truck (not necessarily having to do with the event).
“I’ll take ‘Shockingly Bad Ideas’ for $1,000, Alex”….
Russia says train traffic over the Crimean bridge will resume this evening. That would indicate Russia will still be able to supply the front line in Ukraine via that route – or wants everyone to think it will https://t.co/2bUppda3UT
— max seddon (@maxseddon) October 8, 2022
I really don’t think the Russians have carried out a proper inspection to determine if there’s been hidden structural damage to the rail bridge.
lol
Now seriously. FSB/PMC try to eliminate leadership of Defense Ministry/GHQ. Before personnel change, FSB is in knockdown — missed Putin’s bridge explosion. Defense Ministry can now blame FSB for the future South loss. Isn’t it obvious who made an explosion? Truck arrived from RF.
— Михайло Подоляк (@Podolyak_M) October 8, 2022
re: #67 Targetpractice
Funny, that’s pretty much what NRA Barbie said aloud, so long as Repubs win the Senate:
“I don’t care if Herschel Walker paid to abort endangered baby eagles,” she said. “I want control of the Senate!”
But of course he didn’t, honey. He paid to murder his precious, precious unborn child. Isn’t that how it goes?
On Captain Kangaroo:
I do remember watching the show when I was young, but also that I didn’t watch it much. Maybe for a year or two, but after that I don’t remember it being that interesting to me.
Still, children’s TV had its day and the Captain was certainly important. Our expectations of TV have changed and I don’t know what 3-7 year olds watch today, perhaps the Disney channel?
https://t.co/3EEjMYmdeO
Good joke. Copium anybody?— Mario Mateljić (@MarioMateljic) October 8, 2022
re: #223 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
On Captain Kangaroo:
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I do remember watching the show when I was young, but also that I didn’t watch it much. Maybe for a year or two, but after that I don’t remember it being that interesting to me.
Still, children’s TV had its day and the Captain was certainly important. Our expectations of TV have changed and I don’t know what 3-7 year olds watch today, perhaps the Disney channel?
There are several Disney and Nickelodeon channels, and the cartoon network
re: #224 Dr Lizardo
Hope Ukraine targets it again.
Putin shouldn’t have waited until the only card he has left to play is threatening nuclear war.
Kalin noted that the agreement will allegedly have a global character and will be aimed at settling issues between Russia and the West. According to him, the agreement should replace the agreements made at the end of the Cold War, as they no longer correspond to reality.
— FLASH (@Flash_news_ua) October 8, 2022
Who cares what they say or think? But it does matter. Inaction seems to be the worst strategy for Putin - he needs to either stop the war and seek peace and try to appeal to those Russians who “just want this to stop” or escalation further, seek support of hawkish minority
2/7— Anton Barbashin (@ABarbashin) October 8, 2022
re: #226 No Malarkey!
There are several Disney and Nickelodeon channels, and the cartoon network
Yes, but what kind of shows do the young children watch? Has modern TV production methods fundamentally changed the content?
41/ but of course..
we are happy to learn now that Ru had planned - back in the day- an entire system of systems, for the protection of the bridge!!
Awarded best protection in the world (by russian themselves) for an actual infrastructure !
IMPENETRABLE ! pic.twitter.com/hn7XyeyUAr— J. comme JéJé 🇫🇷 🇺🇦 #UkraineMap (@HeliosRunner) October 8, 2022
Only 3 months ago, Russian propaganda was claiming that the Crimea bridge was impossible to attack because of 20 different modes of protection covering it, including military dolphins (#17) https://t.co/gJdON9o4Vl What a colossal failure pic.twitter.com/70ZrQoKXYb
— Elizabeth Tsurkov🌻 (@Elizrael) October 8, 2022
Is this Russia’s Navarro?
Economist Alexander Losev has a message for Russians leaving the country, whom he accuses of defeatism
“We haven’t even started yet. We could defeat Ukraine in a single day”
Hmm, so what’s the chaotic “partial” mobilisation campaign all about then? pic.twitter.com/3GSfwTokFw— Francis Scarr (@francis_scarr) October 8, 2022
re: #222 steve_davis
“I don’t care if Herschel Walker paid to abort endangered baby eagles,” she said. “I want control of the Senate!”
But of course he didn’t, honey. He paid to murder his precious, precious unborn child. Isn’t that how it goes?
Because it was an inconvenient time for him.
And it was not a one and done.
He tried to get her to do it again when she got pregnant again
re: #224 Dr Lizardo
Militaries are very good at repairing railways damaged in war, precisely because they play an important part in logistics. The Second Treasonous Slaveholder’s Rebellion in the 1860s proved that many times.
I’d not be surprised to see at least some rail traffic re-established across the Crimean bridge quite quickly, if not full-load trains and perhaps with traffic limitations. The roadway damage, although spectacular is, paradoxically, less of an issue. The other roadway span doesn’t seem to be damaged and some kind of two-way traffic flow on that span can probably be established while bridging equipment is brought in to provide a temporary fix for the downed section. It’s still going to hurt.
re: #234 Barefoot Grin
Is this Russia’s Navarro?
More than seven months into the “special military operation”, with their key route into Crimea now destroyed, maybe it’s about time for them to start, maybe?
re: #231 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Yes, but what kind of shows do the young children watch? Has modern TV production methods fundamentally changed the content?
Kids are on their ipads shorting stocks
And in the important news of the day, it is confirmed
Lizzo lives in the pond behind some rocks
re: #241 Dangerman
And in the important news of the day, it is confirmed
Lizzo lives in the pond behind some rocks
re: #237 Nojay UK
Militaries are very good at repairing railways damaged in war, precisely because they play an important part in logistics. The Second Treasonous Slaveholder’s Rebellion in the 1860s proved that many times.
I’d not be surprised to see at least some rail traffic re-established across the Crimean bridge quite quickly, if not full-load trains and perhaps with traffic limitations. The roadway damage, although spectacular is, paradoxically, less of an issue. The other roadway span doesn’t seem to be damaged and some kind of two-way traffic flow on that span can probably be established while bridging equipment is brought in to provide a temporary fix for the downed section. It’s still going to hurt.
Until the next attack on the bridge.
This is the best video so far.
The bridge won’t collapse…(4 seconds later)…fucking mother of god stop right here.
Witnesses close up to the point of the Crimean bridge collapse. pic.twitter.com/1NhoVrhmdT
— Dmitri (@wartranslated) October 8, 2022
Доброго ранку, Україно! 🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/UQMI6LheSR
— Oleksiy Danilov (@OleksiyDanilov) October 8, 2022
Ukraine is already issuing a stamp to mark the occasion. They’ve been preparing for this moment a long time. pic.twitter.com/L7ykUgBJ9n
— Oliver Carroll (@olliecarroll) October 8, 2022
re: #240 Dangerman
One minute!
Though you did it in the original latin
So it was impossible to attack…that can only mean sabotage.
“The good news, Mr President, is we can repair the Crimea Bridge.”
“And the bad news?”
“We’ll need your table.” pic.twitter.com/XTEVrrJgjd— Tripe Marketing Board (@TripeUK) October 8, 2022
How you feeling @elonmusk?#Kerch pic.twitter.com/kfSQ6iHw9h
— KT “Special NAFO Operation” (@KremlinTrolls) October 8, 2022
*tehee*
⚡️BREAKING: Exclusive footage showing what caused an explosion at the Crimean Bridge pic.twitter.com/sDZBR4Db19
— Saint Javelin (@saintjavelin) October 8, 2022
There are conflicting reports about what happened at the Crimean bridge
Some say it is hilarious, and others are saying it’s fucking hilarious— Saint Javelin (@saintjavelin) October 8, 2022
re: #247 darthstar
So it was impossible to attack…that can only mean sabotage.
Truck bomb/inside info coordinating with train schedule is getting a lot of play
Then there’s this
One of the versions of what happened pic.twitter.com/gLCteB28qD
— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) October 8, 2022
re: #241 Dangerman
And in the important news of the day, it is confirmed
Lizzo lives in the pond behind some rocks
marlon grabbed a good sized comet goldfish this morning
i was sad
mrsdm asked ‘did he eat it’
i said so we condemn senseless murder but we’re cool with ‘cannibalism’?
COVID truthers in the UK, led by hardline “sovereign citizens,” are trying to set up separatist rural collectives to break away from what they see as the corrupting influence of mainstream society and the government.The initiatives have emerged from the UK’s volatile COVID conspiracist scene, which mobilised during the pandemic to oppose lockdowns and coronavirus vaccinations, and has become increasingly radicalised.
Experts say the separatist projects are a concerning but predictable evolution of a movement whose paranoid, conspiracist ideology makes it deeply suspicious of the government and other institutions, and has driven a wedge between many COVID truthers and their families and friends.
‘Recipe for Disaster’: COVID Truthers Want To Set Up Separatist Collectives (Vice)
Herschel Walker Foxsplained @DesiLydic pic.twitter.com/85eiCyK4nN
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) October 6, 2022
re: #231 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Yes, but what kind of shows do the young children watch? Has modern TV production methods fundamentally changed the content?
It depends on exactly what you’re asking. A number of shows are life-lesson type shows: here’s a situation, here’s a way to feel with it (bullies, sadness, other kinds of problems). Others, like Blue’s Clues and Dora, are solving problems that require you to figure out how hints work together. Others teach vocabulary and math.
re: #254 Dangerman
marlon grabbed a good sized comet goldfish this morning
i was sad
mrsdm asked ‘did he eat it’
i said so we condemn senseless murder but we’re cool with ‘cannibalism’?
We had a small goldfish pond in a garden near the patio a while back. One day Mrs J rushed in crying “There’s a snake with a fish in his mouth and it’s freaking out!”
I said, “I bet it is!”
re: #95 Targetpractice
Given the reports that there were rail cars on the line when the attack happened, even if the rail portion doesn’t collapse and the rails aren’t significantly damaged, it’s still going to take time to clear the wreckage. So I guess we won’t be seeing any new “Russia bringing in reinforcements” propaganda videos for a few days.
High temp fires + Reinforced concrete = Bad times.
That section is ruined.
Also, holy shit that explosion.
Good morning.
In other words, they really really don’t want to escalate to tactical nukes: despite all the Putin apologists claiming he’s all ready to so that so Russia must be given major concessions.
— Phillips P. OBrien (@PhillipsPOBrien) October 8, 2022
re: #261 No Malarkey!
You know….I can’t help but wonder if Putin is quietly asking himself some questions about the reliability of his nuclear arsenal. I mean, if I was in his shoes, and looking at the clown show that’s been going on, I’d be muttering, “Fuck” under my breath to myself.
re: #262 Dr Lizardo
You know….I can’t help but wonder if Putin is quietly asking himself some questions about the reliability of his nuclear arsenal. I mean, if I was in his shoes, and looking at the clown show that’s been going on, I’d be muttering, “Fuck” under my breath to myself.
Last I checked the US spends ~50ish+ billion a year on nuclear weapons maintenance. Can’t imagine what Russia’s is and what’s been siphoned off.
re: #263 Varek Raith
Last I checked the US spends ~50ish+ billion a year on nuclear weapons maintenance. Can’t imagine what Russia’s is and what’s been siphoned off.
Russia’s military budget is ~$66 billion USD, or it was for 2021. How much of that is outright lost to corruption is anyone’s guess.
re: #265 Dr Lizardo
Lost to corruption $67 billion.
The best thing about this is most didn’t expect the Ukrainian special services, as good as they are, could conduct such precision ops deep in the occupied territories. I wonder what’s next.
re: #267 Nyet
The best thing about this is most didn’t expect the Ukrainian special services, as good as they are, could conduct such precision ops deep in the occupied territories. I wonder what’s next.
Maybe they flipped a dolphin.
We have a new martyr of Crimea candidate here pic.twitter.com/QBjMF2FiRa
— Dmitri (@wartranslated) October 8, 2022
No panic in Kerch pic.twitter.com/Uq3wmw8lvI
— Dmitri (@wartranslated) October 8, 2022
re: #267 Nyet
The best thing about this is most didn’t expect the Ukrainian special services, as good as they are, could conduct such precision ops deep in the occupied territories. I wonder what’s next.
Its remarkable how important fighting for a cause people believe in is. In seven months, with Western aid, Ukraine has built one of the most formidable armies in the world. In contrast, despite having 20 years and near limitless resources from the US, the Afghan army collapsed overnight. There is a lesson there.
Taiwan could probably get guarantees of local autonomy, which worked out so well for Hong Kong./
(Reuters) - Billionaire Elon Musk, days after floating a possible deal to end the war between Russia and Ukraine that drew condemnation in Ukraine, suggested that tensions between China and Taiwan could be resolved by handing over some control of Taiwan to Beijing.
— Phil Stewart (@phildstewart) October 8, 2022
re: #262 Dr Lizardo
You know….I can’t help but wonder if Putin is quietly asking himself some questions about the reliability of his nuclear arsenal. I mean, if I was in his shoes, and looking at the clown show that’s been going on, I’d be muttering, “Fuck” under my breath to myself.
imo and based on nothing
putin can order a nuclear strike of any kind, big, small, tactical.
but he can’t do it alone
there’s enough other people in the chain that it would not be carried out.
the one rule about nukes, and everybody knows it, is that established nations never use them.
re: #273 No Malarkey!
Taiwan could probably get guarantees of local autonomy, which worked out so well for Hong Kong./
Infinite facepalm.
re: #265 Dr Lizardo
Russia’s military budget is ~$66 billion USD, or it was for 2021. How much of that is outright lost to corruption is anyone’s guess.
Slepakov described the process many years ago (turn on the auto-translate of the Russian subs - not of the autogenerated ones though, but of the embedded ones).
.@iaeaorg: Zaporizhiya nuclear plant “has lost its last remaining external power source due to renewed shelling and is now relying on emergency diesel generators for the electricity it needs for reactor cooling”/”essential nuclear safety … functions” https://t.co/2AipyzRJoz
— Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) October 8, 2022
Anyone gone to right-whinger twit to view how the republitankies are taking the news of the bridge explosion?
BTW, I think this also settles whether the Ukrainians had the means/know-how in order to explode NS.
re: #279 Barefoot Grin
Yeah well, in the videos of the explosion that have appeared, it can be seen how some kind of ship or submarine appears under the bridge just a couple of seconds before the explosion. pic.twitter.com/2GNSXyQuRB
— ТРУХА⚡️English (@TpyxaNews) October 8, 2022
Looks like it was a ship underneath.
re: #188 Nyet
Sergey, do you see some kind of boat or something passing under the bridge just before/as the truck blows up? Right where the truck is.
re: #285 Backwoods_Sleuth
Not sure, could be a wave. But if there is something there, we will soon know.
According to 20 Minutes, Traffic is resuming on the undamaged lane in alternate flow. Autos and buses only; trucks are being diverted to the ferry terminal.
On the military role of the bridge (a more sober assessment than some others).
re: #291 Nyet
BTW, you can now manually expand the Telegram posts.
re: #264 Dr Lizardo
Good wide-angle photo of the damage to the Kerch Bridge taken earlier today:
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Well timed detonation; it took out six tank cars in the middle of the line of them. From the plumes emanating from several of them it seems shrapnel punctures did the deed. I wonder if the charge (which in many of the videos appears to happen on top of the roadway span) was a shaped one.
This is unconfirmed, but certainly, a most interesting rumor. Grist for the mill, as it were:
⚡️ Arrests of the military began in Moscow.
Traffic in the city center was stopped.
Units of Russian Guards Elite, Dzerzhynskyi division, entered the city, - Chief Intelligence Service of Ukraine.
Multiple arrests, detainments and blockings of military are reported.— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) October 8, 2022
I cropped and zoomed in. Definitely see the front of a ship.
Boom. pic.twitter.com/XNAN3FsxLW
— Oh. My. Glob. (@efuseakay) October 8, 2022
re: #294 Dr Lizardo
AG, so a grain of salt, but we will soon know, if true.
Allegedly the 51 yo Makhir Yusubov was driving the truck.
re: #298 Nyet
LOL I wouldn’t take that train for all the single-malt in Islay.
re: #218 Nyet
Allegedly a previous owner of the truck (not necessarily having to do with the event).
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re: #302 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
Does anything appear in the bottom right corner? In the desktop version you can drag on it to resize the frame.
Something is happening in Moscow.
Elite National Guard troops are being deployed to the city.— Fuat (@lilygrutcher) October 8, 2022
Reports of multiple arrests among Russian Army officers in Moscow.
— Fuat (@lilygrutcher) October 8, 2022
re: #304 darthstar
Someone whose name doesn’t rhyme with Butin must be assigned blame.
re: #295 GlutenFreeJesus
I cropped and zoomed in. Definitely see the front of a ship.
It was a truck, it was a missile, it was a boat, it was SOF planting charges…I’m starting to think it was all just CGI and the bridge isn’t damaged at all. //
Seriously, though…this would have been even more epic if that train had been ammo and cooked off. It could have cut the last main logistics line to the south. Ferries can’t substitute for rail, and storm season is approaching which means fewer ferries.
re: #307 No Malarkey!
Someone whose name doesn’t rhyme with Butin must be assigned blame.
Maybe they’re just giving him an extra day of celebration with a parade.
Sean Hannity, the Republican kingmaker, Trump confidante, and Fox News host, is the one who put Herschel Walker on the political map and set the stage for his nomination — and the GOP’s current political dilemma.https://t.co/XcM8Cf5TMs
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) October 7, 2022
No one did more to promote Herschel Walker’s Senate run than Hannity. Walker owes his position to the patronage of a Fox prime-time host, just like the Republican Senate nominees in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Arizona. pic.twitter.com/AyV6jbXaJh
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) October 7, 2022
re: #310 William Lewis
Beautiful. And a little bit of fall color. :)
re: #122 mmmirele
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re: #306 Nyet
Based on the UA military intelligence.
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Not seeing a confirmation on RuTwitter so far.
Godzilla attacks bridge connecting Russia to Crimea.
It’s a beautiful thing. pic.twitter.com/s4uFAVincq— 🌺 Chereese 🏝👩🏼🦽 (@ChereeseFerrei1) October 8, 2022
I’m noticing some odd behavior in the Youtube at #225 in Firefox. The video never opens, there is just the spinning circle. I can open the comment in Chrome and the video will play. I have no idea if there is a setting in Firefox I can change to get it to work. Any ideas?
re: #318 Nyet
Not seeing a confirmation on RuTwitter so far.
Yeah, not seeing any independent confirmation on other channels either. Like you said, the Tweet started off from Ukrainian intelligence, so it could just well be them fucking with the Russians (well, even more so in light of today’s earlier events).
re: #322 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, not seeing any independent confirmation on other channels either. Like you said, the Tweet started off from Ukrainian intelligence, so it could just well be them fucking with the Russians (well, even more so in light of today’s earlier events).
Trolling or trying to provoke the military…
re: #323 Nyet
An actual blockade of the center of Moscow would have been apparent immediately.
Political cartoonists are already providing commentary on the bridge:
— PLANTU Officiel (@plantu) October 8, 2022
re: #324 Nyet
An actual blockade of the center of Moscow would have been apparent immediately.
Yeah, I’m a bit sceptical too. Especially when I saw this response on Twitter.
That picture is nearly two years old.https://t.co/NzBS4wubpk
— Fredrik Naumann (@felixfeatures) October 8, 2022
The link on that tweet goes to a story from Jan 2021, and the lead picture is the same one used in the Telegram message above. It’s really obvious when you load the full tweet.
Remember a few weeks ago. The UKR boat drone that washed ashore in Crimea.
That’s the exact same type of boat used. I guarantee it.
re: #312 Backwoods_Sleuth
Well, if Walker loses I’ll have to send Hannity a thank you post card - to the Fox News studio so everyone can see it.
Referendum was held at Kerch bridge.
99,7% of the bridge voted to join the sea.
📷- Hoaxy a podvody - Polícia SR / Facebook pic.twitter.com/P8LhUc50Ka— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) October 8, 2022
WaPo article (I had to sign in for this one):
washingtonpost.com
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re: #208 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
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The unwillingness of people, individually and corporately (i.e., nations), to accept that growth can not go on forever is profoundly stubborn.…..
But any numerate individual will recognize, if they allow themselves, that exponential growth (which is what a the annual positive percent number represents) soon gets to where the absolute value of the quantity in question becomes astronomical.
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That’s what especially infuriates me about those who think there is some catastrophic problem if population growth is not a positive number, that people need to be encouraged to have larger families, that a stable population must be the sign of a society in decline.
Some believe we already exceed the carrying capacity of the planet, especially for a first world standard of living; others think it could handle twice the current population, not at this standard. A mere .5% annual growth would lead to a US population of 1 billion in just over 200 years — do we really think that is a desirable outcome, if you don’t want to live at the standard of an Indian peasant, with widespread environmental destruction.
Livecam of Moscow:
If there were indeed a putsch underway, there wouldn’t be any cars driving around on what I’d imagine is a fairly typical Saturday evening.
re: #336 Dr Lizardo
Putin might be paranoid. That might be a possibility.
re: #337 PhillyPretzel
Putin might be paranoid. That might be a possibility.
I’m about 99% sure that Putin is highly paranoid, and at this point, not without reason. His would-be imperial adventurism in Ukraine has turned into a fiasco and I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he’s worried that everyone around him is gonna go all knives out in the not-too-distant-future.
re: #303 Nyet
Does anything appear in the bottom right corner? In the desktop version you can drag on it to resize the frame.
Nothing.
When the weather is perfect in October what you get here is traffic jams of leaf peepers. Jeebus. I-93 is backed up for miles and now so are secondary roads.
re: #222 steve_davis
“I don’t care if Herschel Walker paid to abort endangered baby eagles,” she said. “I want control of the Senate!”
But of course he didn’t, honey. He paid to murder his precious, precious unborn child. Isn’t that how it goes?
NRA Barbie does not now nor has she ever cared about the well-being of children whether they are “unborn” or born. She wants a white supremacist fascist regime with guns for all white people.
re: #326 Alephnaught
Yeah, I’m a bit sceptical too. Especially when I saw this response on Twitter.
The link on that tweet goes to a story from Jan 2021, and the lead picture is the same one used in the Telegram message above. It’s really obvious when you load the full tweet.
The picture doesn’t play a role since it’s just a generic illustration. Any such events in Moscow would have made an immediate splash on Twitter though, that’s how we know the UA intelligence message is untrue in one of its key parts, which throws doubt on the rest.
re: #340 Barefoot Grin
When the weather is perfect in October what you get here is traffic jams of leaf peepers. Jeebus. I-93 is backed up for miles and now so are secondary roads.
re: #345 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
Doesn’t work on my Android phone either. (I’ll “recommend” this comment to Charles so he can take a look at the issue).
re: #343 Nyet
I see the problem when using an Android.
re: #271 No Malarkey!
Its remarkable how important fighting for a cause people believe in is. In seven months, with Western aid, Ukraine has built one of the most formidable armies in the world. In contrast, despite having 20 years and near limitless resources from the US, the Afghan army collapsed overnight. There is a lesson there.
We’ve also had forces there training the Ukraine military for years. They learned well and are very adaptable.
re: #304 darthstar
Am skeptical. There have been similar reports previously and they never turned out to be accurate.
Pity that the UA military intelligence has harmed their credibility this way, and that lots of Ukrainian websites have distributed this uncritically.
Allegedly the driver did not know about the explosives.
If true, this creates all sorts of moral issues.
re: #355 Nyet
Operational security to the extreme?
New trailer for the 13th Doctor’s last outing on Doctor Who unveiled. It’ll broadcast on October 23rd. (The show was first broadcast on November 23rd 1963.)
Her final battle. Her deadliest enemies 🔥The Power of the Doctor, coming 23rd October 2022. #DoctorWho pic.twitter.com/6wG0gQKVXQ
— Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor 🔥 (@bbcdoctorwho) October 8, 2022
Looks pretty spectacular visually. Mind you, so was the last episode, but the story was a bit iffy.
I’m still a bit worried they’re in danger of trying to pack too much into the episode: there’s going to be: [Deep breath] Daleks, Cybermen, The Master, Kate Stewart, current companions, companions from the previous season, 2 companions from the 1980s (!), there’s even rumours of cameos from companions throughout the show’s 60 year history, and it’s a regeneration episode!
That’s a lot to juggle, even if they do have 90 minutes to play with this time. I’m reminded of The Time of The Doctor, which was a good send-off for the 11th Doctor, but packed so much plot into 60 minutes you really had to watch it a few times for parts of it to fully make sense. I still enjoyed it though. Hopefully I can say the same for the forthcoming special.
re: #358 wrenchwench
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Ooh, no greens ‘til the last line. I can try to do that on purpose in the future! Not.
re: #325 Sherlock Hound
RTT is “reduction de temps de travail” — days off to keep your average work week at 35 hours.
“Faire le pont” (lit: make/do the bridge) is take a vacation day between a public holiday and a weekend.
Edit: Plantu is the signature cartoonist of Le Monde.
re: #328 darthstar
Sur le pont de Kerch
L’on y danse, l’on y danse
Sur le Pont de Kerch
L’on y danse tous en rond.
Edit: fix my crappy memory of the lyrics.
The Kyiv Independent is echoing the “Russians arresting military in Moscow” story.
So far, I’ve only been seeing this story from Ukraine-based sources. This looks increasingly like a psyop, or an epic troll.
⚡️Intelligence: Russia starts arresting the military in Moscow.
According to Ukraine’s Defense Ministry’s Intelligence Directorate, Russia’s National Guard and police have started arresting military personnel in Moscow.— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) October 8, 2022
re: #363 John Hughes
RTT is “reduction de temps de travail” — days off to keep your average work week at 35 hours.
“Faire le pont” (lit: make/do the bridge) is take a vacation day between a public holiday and a weekend.
Edit: Plantu is the signature cartoonist of Le Monde.
Oui. I’ve long followed the cartoonist. I understood everything but “RTT”.
re: #365 Alephnaught
The Kyiv Independent is echoing the “Russians arresting military in Moscow” story.
So far, I’ve only been seeing this story from Ukraine-based sources. This looks increasingly like a psyop, or an epic troll.
That’s not journalism…
re: #303 Nyet
Does anything appear in the bottom right corner? In the desktop version you can drag on it to
resize the frame[ introduce interesting artifacts ].
Enhance! Enhance!
re: #327 GlutenFreeJesus
Remember a few weeks ago. The UKR boat drone what washed ashore in Crimea.
That’s the exact same type of boat used. I guarantee it.
Small boat. Small bang.
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