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busalover posted:I ignored all Ukraine news for the last month, the only thing I checked was if a nuke got dropped. Are there still significant advances? Apparently some US General said it'll be a long war, so whatever I'm not sure if I even wanna know. Very roughly? Ukraine has taken back a lot of land up in the north east, and some smaller but important chunks on the way to Kherson (which is one of the entry points to Crimea, but the city is on a very defensible river). Russia has tried hard to do something roughly in the middle of the Eastern frontline (by Bakhmut), but nothing has really come of it. It's been a bit more quiet recently, probably for mud and weather reasons. Over in Russia, they did a very messy mobilisation, and sent whoever was unfortunate enough to get picked up to the front with very little training or gear; the mood among the people in power (and/or on TV) over there seems to have turned to blaming each other for things going badly, more than pretending that everyting is going great.
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Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:I'm gonna end this war by killing jets in videogame using a bi-plane that shoots rockets. It's about as directly useful as anything else most of us can do, so whatever makes him happy, I guess - it's not like I'll solve this by reading the updates and maps even more intensely, yet here we are.
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aphid_licker posted:The tank one is just a bog standard tank blow up video of which we've seen thousands already It remains shocking how often Russia seems to just drive lone tanks into dangerous situations, but I guess we have seen enough examples by now that seeing them use them competently would be more newsworthy? I do also like seeing Russian stocks of semi-modern equipment steadily deplete, but the dry counts of estimated losses are fine for that.
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Lammasu posted:The hell? At a guess, they draw portraits of the deceased - for the gravestone or invitations or something. Much like with street caricature artists, it's useful if your example drawings are of people the viewers recognize, so they can evaluate how good your drawing is. (No idea why Steve Jobs specifically, but he is recognizable.)
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Dapper_Swindler posted:havent the russians almost abandoned kherson by now? i assume they keep a couple hundred mobnicks and conscripts to die there. Maybe? There's a lot of evidence of them leaving, but also some real remaining resistance, and a backdrop of Russia announcing unusually clearly that they're Very Definitely Leaving Kherson Now. The Ukrainian army seems to be approaching it with some caution, at least.
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Nessus posted:This is actually the thing that's made me feel the most clancy since like, March I know - it's probably just normal Russian chaos, but 
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Sashimi posted:ngl, playing with the bear looks hella fun right up until the point it decides its done with your poo poo and murders you. I read a (Swedish) collection of interviews with old Sami people a while back - apparently, some areas had come to a kind of understanding with their bears, to the point where they felt safe letting their kids play with the bear cubs. After all, having a bear protect her cubs (and your children as a bonus) arguably made it the safest place around. IIRC he was sad that the bears had become much more distrustful after outsiders with rifles had come in and started hunting them. This was probably from the 70s, so the oldest people he talked to must have been talking about being children in the late 1800s. Fascinating book, overall - some of them remembered hearing stories about how you could capture and raise wolf cubs to help you hunt wild reindeer. It looks like the shift form majority hunting to majority herding was done by the 1600s, so it's either very old stories or he was from one of the outliers that took up herding late. Interesting either way. Computer viking fucked around with this message at 12:01 on Nov 6, 2022 |
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Snowy posted:Do you remember the title of the book? Looking around, I think it's Yngve Ryd's two last books - which were published much more recently than I thought: 2005 – Eld: flammor och glöd – samisk eldkonst 2007 – Ren och varg – samer berättar
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Also, I think it was on Kit's list of examples of the kinds of videos we shouldn't be posting, ref the recent rule tightening vs bloodlust and death. I'd suggest editing it out quickly and hoping for forgiveness.
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It looks like Ukraine has finally received some more AA systems: https://mobile.twitter.com/oleksiireznikov/status/1589571269363904512
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Vampire Panties posted:Its your lucky day! The best argument for it may resemble the NASAMS one - being able to use the same missile on aircraft and on the ground gives you some extra flexibility.
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Nov 8, 2022 15:38
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Or the other way, for that matter - are there Russian accounts out there impersonating US/NATO/Ukrainian leadership to sow chaos? I haven't noticed any, but I haven't exactly been looking either.
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frumpykvetchbot posted:[ Nazi Atlantic Wall bunkers ] This is one of those things that you just get used to - but yeah, the entire coastline here is littered with old Nazi bunkers and foundations for assorted heavy weapons. They appear to have been solidly built, too; many of them should be just as protective as in 1945. We should probably be glad the Russians aren't using the conquered population as disposable slave labor to build fortifications and infrastructure, though.
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Budzilla posted:He made claims in a recent video that the haul of Russian equipment from Kherson will be larger than the previous UA offensives, then he downgrades to substantial in this one. Has there been any release of how much equipment the UA has captured in Kherson? All I have read about is a S-300 battery (wtf it was doing in Kherson?) and a T-90 and not much else. I guess it makes sense to keep the AA gear as far forward as safely possible, so it can cover a larger area of Ukrainian airspace?
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Flyinglemur posted:I have a stupid question but is there anything stopping Poland from giving Ukraine those German Patriots? Or is this a wink-wink deal? I don't know the subtelties and nuances around this kind of thing and am just an American that isn't really in touch with the relationship between Poland and Germany outside of things I learned from 90's action movies. I'm no more informed than you, but I assume that would break some sort of deal. It may, however, end up being placed so close to the border that it incidentally also defends a chunk of western Ukraine. What is the effective range of a Patriot system when defending against cruise missiles, anyway?
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Cthulu Carl posted:Improved Next-Generation Light Anti-tank Weapon. I'd be honoured if my son in law named a hundred million dollar weapons projects after me, tbh.
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poverty goat posted:This is world war 3 and it's just another dumb conventional war. Anyone who thought ww3 would definitely automatically be mass human suicide was a loving idiot clown Any definition of "World war" that makes this the third one since 1914 is deeply flawed.
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Jarf posted:https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1596389927733927937?t=uESyW4o700M9Ot3QLS-F9w&s=19 Oh huh, pulling the nukes out of your nuke-only cruise missiles and firing them in anger sounds like a good idea that could never be misinterpreted.
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Only tangentially related, but: There's a Russian guy in the lab across the building from us, and he's been looking a bit worried - I talked to him a few months ago, and found out his boyfriend was still in Moscow, and he was debating Norwegian immigration to get him a visa. He's been looking positively cheerful recently, and I got around to talking to him last week: Since we last talked, the boyfriend is now safely in Oslo, they've gotten married, and he can stay indefinitely on that basis. 
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Probably better than my experimental noise group, Drones at the Fire Factory.
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Mokotow posted:I used to frequent a forum where the owner/admin opted to become a porn star one day cuz he had a big wang and loved to post pictures I've heard worse motivations. How did that work out for him?
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I think theres an element of "Now that we have officially annexed these regions, they are Russian land and we can't give it up to those horrible Ukrainian invaders" in the messaging these days?
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Lol, descendants of German nobility? He's from the house of Reuss, who have distanced themselves from him quite quickly and definitely. My German is mediocre at best, but this is the pull quote from the head of the family: quote:Ich fürchte, dass [Prinz Heinrich XIII. Reuss] nunmehr verschwörungstheoretischen Irrmeinungen aufsitzt, ein verwirrter alter Mann. Something like "I fear that he [ Heinrich ] these days believes in conspiracy theories and misconceptions, and is a confused old man". So basically the German upper class variant of an uncle that rants about Alex Jones at family dinners? Computer viking fucked around with this message at 11:23 on Dec 7, 2022 |
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Power Khan posted:German Qanon is a level of insanity that I cannot comprehend On the other hand, their history gives SovCits and similar legal system mysticists a lot to work with.
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As for the Ukrainian drone strikes, I wouldn't really bet on them having enough of them to send waves of them; there can't be that many leftover Soviet recon drones in their storehouses? To be much more speculative, I wonder if it's symbolically important when talking to NATO about weapons? There's a difference between "could we have some weapons with enough range to hit Russian airbases" and "we've been hitting Russian airbases, but we're running out of cruise missiles. Could you replenish our stores with something more modern"?
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Maybe not tomahawks, but I'm sure those long-range HIMARS pods keep coming up in talks.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:This war brought back dog fighting lmao there was dog fights over Kyiv. It was a wild wild time. It brought back war of mobility and things we havent seen in years. Tank in tank battles, trench lines, front lines, creeping barrage and counter battery work. This loving think is as war as it gets. Both symmetric and asymmetric warfare occuring at once in what will be considered one of the craziest wars of the 21st century. Especially after more information is revealed on how things thing was won and lost. Fictional works have to construct elaborate excuses or just boldly rely on suspension of disbelief to get away with writing "WW2 style battles with modern gear, but somehow the nukes and complete air domination is not in play". I don't think anyone expected to see something like it actually happen.
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Lammasu posted:I don't get why petrostates are doing things like invading countries and bribing FIFA instead of preparing for a future that's less reliant on fossil fuels. The FIFA bribing is absolutely part of preparing for a future of reduced oil and gas income, though. Qatar is spending stupid amounts of money on trying to build itself up as a tourism and event hosting destination, and hosting a world cup is a way to get a lot of visibility and prove they can handle it.
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My Spirit Otter posted:The guy didnt accomplish anything notable other than killing a lot of russians. The killing of russians is the only way its even tangentially relevant to todays events. He did not pioneer any special techniques, he was just incredibly good at killing people.... 80 years ago. Enabled by the Russians being badly prepared invaders in a country they really should have stayed out of, but they wanted part of their empire back and to secure their borders against the perfidious westerners. Yeah, entirely irrelevant. And I don't really get the "sulky teen dismissing everything their dad finds interesting" vibe here - was your grandfather the second best sniper of WW2 and you're angry at him being comparatively forgotten?
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The_Franz posted:Still gotta lol that Russia was incredibly pissed about that song, because they thought the nonsense lyrics sounded like "Russia goodbye"… Not entirely without reason, mind - it really does sound like that when you've heard it mentioned. (See also the wikipedia article) Here's the 2007 Eurovision version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfjHJneVonE And here's a September 2022 version where the lyrics are just outright "Russia Goodbye" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDYv0rQzCd4 Oh, and honorable mention to the Go_A cover. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKDXxNKfu9M (They were the 2021 Ukraine Eurovision entry - Ukraine have proven rather good at Eurovision over the years)
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Cugel the Clever posted:Someone explain the bogeyman image of NATO for me like I'm 5. NATO is what the US calls their version of the Russian interest sphere/empire, and it mostly exists to bully Russia and keep them from taking what's rightfully theirs. Britain is somehow both in NATO and fully enslaved by the US, and an independent actor with ongoing designs to infiltrate and destroy Russia. Also, NATO/the US (same thing; see above) is both an unfairly good fighting force that's the reason for everything bad that happens to Russia, corrupting good Christian Family Values to destroy Russia, and hopelessly corrupted by those same degenerate values.
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Sashimi posted:As far as we can tell at this point, this is exactly what's being accomplished. There is a huge cost to Ukraine holding the line at Bakhmut, but everything points to Russian losses being many times worse, to the point they're losing the battle of attrition. IIRC one of the complaints from a translated Russian war blogger (Ghirkin?) a few pages back was that the Russian forces had the ability to turn every farm they ran across into their own Verdun, on the losing side.
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Does anyone have that tumblr post warning witches against attacking Russia with dark magick because they have such dangerous spiritual defenses?
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Nessus posted:Is that like the one of witches trying to destroy Allah on the astral plane and getting their asses kicked? Very much so, yes.
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Sir John Falstaff posted:No, but I do have this: Excellent, thanks.
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TasogareNoKagi posted:Double posting to ask how the Russian government can be short of cash when the Ruble basically doesn't exist outside of the country right now. Even if the money supply is technically controlled by an independent entity like the Federal Reserve in the US, I would expect that to be full of Putin cronies. Or just start throwing people out of windows until he finds someone willing to turn the (metaphorical, I seriously doubt this is a lack of actual banknotes) printing press on. On one hand, that would be admitting that they have cash problems and send bad signals to the population and market. On the other hand, lol and indeed lmao. (But it's a good question and I guess it really is about keeping up appearances?)
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Could be 94% of the number of tanks that were operative before the war - they have pulled a lot out of storage since then.
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Arc Hammer posted:We just announced a 400 billion dollar air defense system purchase for Ukraine and the opposition parties have been screaming bloody murder all week over the 19bn F35 purchase on Monday. I don't think we'll be shipping off any of our tanks to Ukraine very soon when there's a bunch of people yelling about how we're stripping our armed forces down to the bare minimum. Uh how much air defence do you get for 400 billion canadian zloty? Because that sounds a bit expensive even by military standards.
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