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PITT posted:Is 5 bags a little or a lot? I don't buy 5 bags of anything at the grocery store and I am also a person. 5 of those buckwheat bags is like 90 servings for me. I’m 115 kg (250 lbs) and exercise 6-10 hours per week. In ex-USSR, buckwheat is the first panic buy foodstuff people go for, since it goes a long way, is simple to cook, and can be stored dry for a really long time. KitConstantine posted:So how are things going in Russia? Rationing for essential goods was introduced on the first day following the big sanctions.
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sniper4625 posted:https://twitter.com/marcowenjones/status/1502033627483414536
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Nenonen posted:I was joking, to be clear, but the talk of Ukraine possibly having more gas than even Russia would be a potential curse. Russia too has huge agriculture, mineral, heavy industry, tourism etc. sectors, but the energy export sector is simply overwhelming. But for Ukraine that's just speculation. It's also potentially meaningless because the prospective gas is off the coast of Crimea, which I doubt Putin would give up without an even bigger tantrum.
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Reuters posted:Emails also showed that Meta would allow praise of the right-wing Azov battalion, which is normally prohibited, in a change first reported by The Intercept.
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FizFashizzle posted:WNC has a sizable Ukrainian population.
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BoldFace posted:Here's the full Reuters story. This doesn't pass the smell test. Cannot find _any_ reference to this in our internal communications, just our newsbot aggregating the story you linked above. Curious enough where I'm forwarding this to our PR team, this is bizarre. Edit: We have an internal megathread going with daily policy updates, it's not on there. The Meta comms director referenced there also hasn''t posted anything since 2020 internally. awesome-express fucked around with this message at 23:12 on Mar 10, 2022 |
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Sir John Falstaff posted:I'm not defending the argument myself, but I suspect it would be less about capturing the resources for themselves (they have plenty of gas for themselves) and more about eliminating a potential competitor. I don’t think they’re even remotely threatened by someone with 2% of their reserves, and a questionable capacity to commercialise them.
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KitConstantine posted:https://twitter.com/niktwick/status/1501990063940452353?t=xWVhyut-U35_FbvhfsfyDQ&s=19 It's a proclick. Tl;dr - much of food manufacturing is owned and ran by multinationals, using imported management systems, production lines, packaging and raw materials and the implications of that.
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Buckwheat always disappears first in times of crisis for some reason, even though I don't know a single person who eats buckwheat regularly. I've got half a bag left in my pantry from several months, and barely touch it. The majority of staple Soviet foods that included buckwheat fell out of favour, as the more versatile sides, like different kinds of rice, pasta, and frozen vegetables, became more available. I guess there is some generational memory that makes people associate buckwheat with hardships and economical uncertainty.
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Speaking of food stuff: https://twitter.com/NeilPHauer/status/1501975230226604035?cxt=HHwWhoC9sfOgi9gpAAAA (the original Russian tweet mentions it's "till August 31st")
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Nieuw Amsterdam posted:The United States currently has a flying helicopter on Mars. Yeah but it doesn't even have a gun.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:I don’t think they’re even remotely threatened by someone with 2% of their reserves, and a questionable capacity to commercialise them. Yeah, I think the point is just to gently caress Ukraine and keep them poor and dependent.
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awesome-express posted:This doesn't pass the smell test. Cannot find _any_ reference to this in our internal communications, just our newsbot aggregating the story you linked above. Curious enough where I'm forwarding this to our PR team, this is bizarre. Reuters are in a partnership with Tass...
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FizFashizzle posted:WNC has a sizable Ukrainian population. Mad at Zelenskyy being so good at Ukrainian dancing with the stars (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Paladinus posted:Buckwheat always disappears first in times of crisis for some reason, even though I don't know a single person who eats buckwheat regularly. I've got half a bag left in my pantry from several months, and barely touch it. The majority of staple Soviet foods that included buckwheat fell out of favour, as the more versatile sides, like different kinds of rice, pasta, and frozen vegetables, became more available. I guess there is some generational memory that makes people associate buckwheat with hardships and economical uncertainty. Here buckwheat goes the first. When ‘rona struck, I couldn’t buy it for like two weeks (I live right next to a giant supermarket of the largest national chain). This time around it’s salt (should be back in stock soon), and hydrogen peroxide.
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Shiiiit I've got to stockpile on buckwheat, it's been good for my gainz
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Youth Decay posted:It's also potentially meaningless because the prospective gas is off the coast of Crimea, which I doubt Putin would give up without an even bigger tantrum. Most of the oil and gas deposits are in the far west around Lviv or a NE band that runs from Chernihiv to Luhansk
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MSB3000 posted:Yeah but it doesn't even have a gun. I believe it does have a shotgun in case of bear encounters, if I remember correctly. Come on, you're not going to spend millions on sending a helicopter to mars only for it to be eaten by a bear. Don't be absurd.
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Tom Clancy is Dead posted:Most of the oil and gas deposits are in the far west around Lviv or a NE band that runs from Chernihiv to Luhansk The western basin isn’t even fully in Ukrainian territory. Opening that one up would have to be a joint venture between 2-5 countries.
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BoldFace posted:Here's the full Reuters story. Just pinged our comms director, he confirmed this story is false. We're working on removing it.
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dr_rat posted:I believe it does have a shotgun in case of bear encounters, if I remember correctly. ...wait what? We have a shotgunned armed helicopter on Mars? Please tell this is a joke? 
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awesome-express posted:Just pinged our comms director, he confirmed this story is false. We're working on removing it. Interesting. I wonder how Reuters got to it.
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TulliusCicero posted:...wait what? It is a joke. A quite obvious one at that, I’d normally say.
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dr_rat posted:I believe it does have a shotgun in case of bear encounters, if I remember correctly. Third season of For All Mankind got weird.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:It is a joke. A quite obvious one at that, I’d normally say. Hey friend the world is loving wierd right now I could see Elon Musk doing that
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^^^^ USSR did have a few space stations with cannons on them. And they tried to send up a space death last that failed in a hilarious way. TulliusCicero posted:...wait what? It's a joke. Little Ginny is clearly a pacificist. 
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Interesting. I wonder how Reuters got to it. Yeah same. It seems pretty bizarre that Reuters would carry a story like that without really, really confirming it. Another victim of the race to the presses.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Interesting. I wonder how Reuters got to it. https://twitter.com/DarthPutinKGB/status/1500837526529060867 Kidding. Kinda. Maybe. Sir John Falstaff fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Mar 10, 2022 |
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a podcast for cats posted:It's a proclick. Tl;dr - much of food manufacturing is owned and ran by multinationals, using imported management systems, production lines, packaging and raw materials and the implications of that. Speaking of pro-clicks, I just discovered Russian the Onion for millennials https://twitter.com/realpezduza https://twitter.com/realpezduza/status/1501881267637391362 https://twitter.com/realpezduza/status/1501819012069662721 https://twitter.com/realpezduza/status/1501536102280499203
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Kaal posted:Yeah same. It seems pretty bizarre that Reuters would carry a story like that without really, really confirming it. Another victim of the race to the presses. It could be someone trying to meet the responsibility of advancing Thomson Reuters’ ability to meet the disparate needs of the U.S. Government 
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Kaal posted:Yeah same. It seems pretty bizarre that Reuters would carry a story like that without really, really confirming it. Another victim of the race to the presses. Yeah, wouldn't the standard procedure be to call Facebook press office for verification?
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Speaking of pro-clicks, I just discovered Russian the Onion for millennials  Btw, do you hang out or just lurk on any Russian forums? I used to nnm.ru I think but gave up at least a decade ago when it seemed to be full of broke brained truthers and other nutjobs. I wonder sometimes if they're all like this.
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Buckwheat chat should really be going in the other EE thread, imo. Mostly because I want to share a simple af buckwheat plov recipe that's on my rotation, but can't bring myself to do it here. Also, looks like a few people got new avatars out of the sudden.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Interesting. I wonder how Reuters got to it. They got it from their partner, Tass.
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a podcast for cats posted:Buckwheat chat should really be going in the other EE thread, imo. Mostly because I want to share a simple af buckwheat plov recipe that's on my rotation, but can't bring myself to do it here. A lot of people did last night. More than you’re seeing as a few of us changed them back right away. It was roughly half the regular posters in this thread.
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I really want some member of Congress to call out Cawthorn on the loving floor for having a Russian FSB agent for a wife. gently caress that traitor. The BBC piece of Kharkiv was excellent reporting. The commentary on tactics is interesting. "They fight like it's 1941", and basically said the Chechyan infantry just uses front assaults. "No maneuver." I'm still in disbelief, and recognize the inherent and strong bias we're getting in terms of OSINT, but the picture is surprisingly consistent: Russian forces seem to have just forgotten the operational art of war. They know how to siege, but not how to fight. If that's accurate, then as Ukraine gets reserve formations stood up, they might be able to relieve cities with counter attacks.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Interesting. I wonder how Reuters got to it. Russia is good at misinformation. After working at FB for 3.5 years I no longer believe any news articles I read. Everybody puts their own spin on everything it's really hard to find a good source of truth unless it's a reliable source. But as we see above, Reuters got swindled by some Russian misinfo. It's really difficult to weigh the news. awesome-express fucked around with this message at 23:31 on Mar 10, 2022 |
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That BBC piece on Kharkiv is the single best bit of professional reporting I've seen out of the war yet.
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Ynglaur posted:I really want some member of Congress to call out Cawthorn on the loving floor for having a Russian FSB agent for a wife. gently caress that traitor. Yeah, I'm figuring a fair amount of rope-a-dope is going on. Ukraine is using just enough force to use up the Russian forces, and keeping as much back as possible. Once the Russians are spent, the reserves go into action.
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