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Nenonen posted:It can also stand for Mikhail if speaking of a male. That and as I understand it’s considered extremely rude to call a Russian person by their nickname if they don’t introduce themselves as it and/or say it’s fine? My friend Dasha introduces herself as Daria but signs postcards as Dasha.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Why does Russia like trains so much? Big territory. And communism.
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PerilPastry posted:Could shifting the discussion to Donbas be construed as a slight walk back of their war aims? https://twitter.com/CGTNOfficial/status/1500158945641570304?s=20&t=LhK6yqV4jtitEO8SbfKw6Q Why the heck would you rely on Chinese news for anything here (outside of trying to gauge Chinese party line messaging).
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Why does Russia like trains so much? Trains are cool Use them for good, not for war
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Why does Russia like trains so much? Trains are how you move military hardware. The alternative is moving tanks by truck. And that doesn't scale at all.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Why does Russia like trains so much? It’s a really big country that has built up an unfathomable amount of infrastructure in the last century.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Why does Russia like trains so much? Trains rule
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Just the tip of the iceberg of how many night vision devices and thermal sights Ukraine has been getting. Especially when it's believed that elite Russian units don't even have NVDs. https://twitter.com/AbraxasSpa/status/1500149958024077320?s=20&t=SIMXCbr6EZT9rCSS9V6q6Q Edit: there's a rumor going around that Vladimir "Voha" Zhoga, leader of the Donetsk Sparta Battalion, has been killed. Young Freud fucked around with this message at 18:48 on Mar 5, 2022 |
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OddObserver posted:That's Misha. 
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Trains are a great way to move heavy things long distances at minimal cost. Before there were trains, the only way to move huge amounts of goods was water transport.
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cant cook creole bream posted:I want to read a depressing short story of the life and death of one of these Russian soldiers as he is lead over the border and promised a liberator's glory, only to end up in that traffic jam from hell. As he slowly runs out of gas, electricity, heat and food, some comrades try and fail to escape by braving the mud, while occasionally the higher ups are shot down out of nowhere. The Book Barn Book of the Month this month is going to be Depeche Mode by Serhiy Zhadan quote:In 1993, tragic turbulence takes over Ukraine in the post-communist spin-off. As if in somnambulism, Soviet war veterans and upstart businessmen listen to an American preacher of whose type there were plenty at the time in the post-Soviet territory. In Kharkiv, the young communist headquarters is now an advertising agency, and a youth radio station brings Western music, with Depeche Mode in the lead, into homes of ordinary people. In the middle of this craze three friends, an anti-Semitic Jew Dogg Pavlov, an unfortunate entrepreneur Vasia the Communist and the narrator Zhadan, nineteen years of age and unemployed, seek to find their old pal Sasha Carburetor to tell him that his step-father shot himself dead. Characters confront elements of their reality, and, tainted with traumatic survival fever, embark on a sad, dramatic and a bit grotesque adventure. i haven't gotten the new thread up yet though
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Why does Russia like trains so much? Back when physical game distribution was thing, I was told that distributing games in the US took longer than in Russia, because the US had a dumb infrastructure for such a big country and it took forever to have teamsters and planes move everything. I don't know if that is still valid for physical distribution of stuff. Trains are awesome.
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There was another benefit, apparently: small arms fire hitting sandbags is a lot less nervous breakdown inducing for the crew than it was to have it plinking loudly right off your shell
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Young Freud posted:Just the tip of the iceberg of how many night vision devices Ukraine has been getting. Especially when it's believed that elite Russian units don't even have NVDs. No wonder why generals keep getting dirt napped. It's great that racism once again defeated the nazis. They assume the Ukrainian subhuman would just lay down and die.
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Grape posted:Why the heck would you rely on Chinese news for anything here (outside of trying to gauge Chinese party line messaging).
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Boris Galerkin posted:That and as I understand it’s considered extremely rude to call a Russian person by their nickname if they don’t introduce themselves as it and/or say it’s fine? My friend Dasha introduces herself as Daria but signs postcards as Dasha. It’s considered overly casual/familiar. To better understand that, you also need to be aware of existence of formal and informal pronouns in Russian language. When you first meet someone, you’re supposed to use formal pronouns, and their full name and patronymic - and to wait for them to offer you to refer to each other in more casual terms.
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How does the US move poo poo around the country now that I think about it? Unlike I’m assuming Russia aren’t rail lines in the US privately owned?
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Russia just wanted to restore peace in the Donbass by killing everyone in a children's cancer ward in Kyiv.
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Boris Galerkin posted:How does the US move poo poo around the country now that I think about it? Unlike I’m assuming Russia aren’t rail lines in the US privately owned? Truck and flight. Mostly truck.
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madeintaipei posted:Those trucks are carrying bridge segments. I guess the pine or birch logs might be there to form a short section of corduroy road. Makes some sense if they are engineers. in retrospect, it does make more sense that the logs are to be used for road repair or something
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Truck and flight. Mostly truck. Also rail The government doesn’t need to use only publicly-owned infrastructure. That’s a weird idea.
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PederP posted:Back when physical game distribution was thing, I was told that distributing games in the US took longer than in Russia, because the US had a dumb infrastructure for such a big country and it took forever to have teamsters and planes move everything. I don't know if that is still valid for physical distribution of stuff. US still has a huge amount of rail cargo transport, for stuff that's not very delay sensitive and big and heavy (games are light and most people want them quickly!). In fact one of the reasons that passenger rail sucks here is that it's often cargo rail companies that own the tracks and have priority.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Truck and flight. Mostly truck. Coal and oil move by barge usually.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Truck and flight. Mostly truck. Rail also is a thing.
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Tiny Timbs posted:Also rail Also in time of an actual major war, the government would have no problem co-opting all private means of transportation. National security and all that.
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Young Freud posted:Just the tip of the iceberg of how many night vision devices and thermal sights Ukraine has been getting. Especially when it's believed that elite Russian units don't even have NVDs. It almost mind boggling that any of us, as random civilians, can go online and order sophisticated night vision equipment and digital radios that support AES encryption, yet one of the largest armies in the world from a country once considered a superpower are communicating with old radios only slightly more sophisticated than the ones we played with as children, and seemingly lack NVDs.
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Tiny Timbs posted:Also rail Of course they don’t but if it’s privately owned then they gotta purchase passage or something and the companies owning the lines most likely won’t prioritize the military?
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The_Franz posted:It almost mind boggling that any of us, as random civilians, can go online and order sophisticated night vision equipment and digital radios that support AES encryption, yet one of the largest armies in the world from a country once considered a superpower are communicating with old radios only slightly more sophisticated than the ones we played with as children, and seemingly lack NVDs. Those thermal sights are just retail thermal sights too as this quote tweet brings up... https://twitter.com/Schizguns/status/1500160482128416771?s=20&t=L0TsrKlHp6vbD3FskE0SBg
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Boris Galerkin posted:How does the US move poo poo around the country now that I think about it? Unlike I’m assuming Russia aren’t rail lines in the US privately owned? https://www.bts.gov/content/freight-flows-highway-railroad-and-waterway-2012 more detailed and current info https://www.bts.gov/faf
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Covering the radiators with wood should also make the trucks slightly harder to see on IR I guess? Cardboard would be better, but they're in a forest on the front lines and bridge units are engineers, they should also have chainsaws to hand.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:[.url]https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1500099189061173249?s=20&t=CnKfVNdiL7Xm9GegnTi4Rg[/.url] What's extra loving crazy about this video is that it is from an off the shelf commercial drone. The Ukrainian Army is using drones as spotters and probably used the drone feed to have the missile aimed in the right direction and ready to get a lock as quickly as possible when the helicopter came into view of the operator. We already knew that they were using them, just crazy to see how effective it is.
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PederP posted:Back when physical game distribution was thing, I was told that distributing games in the US took longer than in Russia, because the US had a dumb infrastructure for such a big country and it took forever to have teamsters and planes move everything. I don't know if that is still valid for physical distribution of stuff. Obviously poo poo like the EU being largely more compact, and probably also moving less heavy stuff, makes it look particularly bad in this comparison, but it does indicate that the US doesn't really have dumb infrastructure at that level. Based on the infrastructure thread, I think the issue is more that the US has increasingly outdated port/terminal infrastructure, resulting in poo poo getting stuck in bottlenecks rather than getting moved onto trains quickly and efficiently.
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Someone upstream had it right that the wood on these trucks is to assist in mud, especially since they’re on a pontoon bridge transporter that needs to be able to get really close to water. Now, why the gently caress they didn’t think about this earlier is another topic all together.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Coal and oil move by barge usually. I'm puzzled by this statement. Do you get delivered oil directly from a barge to your gas station?
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