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Trainee PornStar posted:Is that because you can extract potassium nitrate from it? or is there another fun thing you can do? I'll caveat by saying first that my education in this is purely functional, I never needed (and my bosses didn't want me to have) the theory behind it. Urea crystals, from boiled pee, can be combined with other compounds (similar to ANAL) to make a boom. It could definitely be potassium nitrate but I don't know. The explosives are actually pretty stable for HME. The issue is usually the detonation. Electrical det has a hard time detting it unless you push a wasteful amount of power. So an insurgent starts using unstable compounds derived from peroxide to make homemade detonators. This is definitely getting outside the bounds of the thread though. We can take it to PM if anyone had any additional questions on peepee poopoo bombs.
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Dec 26, 2023 21:04
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Haystack posted:I wonder if their electronics and mechanicals held up as well as their structure did. Oh you definitely wouldn't want to be the first ones to use them after this. With the pressure and the heat from the explosion I'm sure they could be plenty messed up in them so they look fine, but they very much not be.
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Dec 26, 2023 21:11
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Dirt5o8 posted:I'll caveat by saying first that my education in this is purely functional, I never needed (and my bosses didn't want me to have) the theory behind it. Codyslab on youtube did a whole series on making gunpowder from his own pee but it got deleted because youtube doesn't like bomb making manuals or something.
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Dec 26, 2023 21:31
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I would like to suggest not discussing insurgent bomb manufacturing practices, in the thread or in PMs.
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Dec 26, 2023 21:48
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spankmeister posted:Codyslab on youtube did a whole series on making gunpowder from his own pee but it got deleted because youtube doesn't like bomb making manuals or something. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/from-gunpowder-to-teeth-whitener-the-science-behind-historic-uses-of-urine-442390/ Quote: As detailed in the manual Instructions for the Manufacture of Saltpetre, written by physician and geologist Joseph LeConte in 1862, a person hoping to make gunpowder quickly would need “a good supply of thoroughly rotted manure of the richest kind” which is then mixed with ash, leaves and straw in a pit. “The heap is watered every week with the richest kinds of liquid manure, such as urine, dung-water, water of privies, cess-pools, drains, &c. The quantity of liquid should be such as to keep the heap always moist, but not wet,” he wrote. The mixture is stirred every week, and after a several months no more pee is added. Then “As the heap ripens, the nitre is brought to the surface by evaporation, and appears as a whitish efflorescence, detectible by the taste.” Imagine being the taste tester at the gunpowder factory lol
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Dec 26, 2023 21:58
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spankmeister posted:Codyslab on youtube did a whole series on making gunpowder from his own pee but it got deleted because youtube doesn't like bomb making manuals or something. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner
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Dec 26, 2023 22:04
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Dirt5o8 posted:boiled pee ... can be combined with ... ANAL insurgent bomb manufacturing practices sound pretty fun, ngl
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Dec 26, 2023 23:01
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Well, no one said they didn't have a good time. Tough program to get into though. You have to score well in the IED placement exams.
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Dec 26, 2023 23:10
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Has Ukraine said it used missiles for this attack? I was wondering if it used one of its new sea drones. Usually with Storm Shadow attacks we have video clips of air defence going off prior to the missiles hitting.
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Dec 27, 2023 03:07
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Dirt5o8 posted:
Beaten, but fuckin hell I'd back that as a thread title
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Dec 27, 2023 03:08
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Trainee PornStar posted:Imagine being the taste tester at the gunpowder factory lol fatherboxx posted:The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner Blyat Meridian
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Dec 27, 2023 04:20
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Given that Ukraine now has confirmed of F-16s eventually being delivered and pilots training on them, losing aircraft is less catastrophic than it once was - something you can replace can be used more freely than something you cannot. So even if Ukraine somehow lose planes on this strike, it says more about changing mindset of their airforce than about their air defense capabilities.
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Dec 27, 2023 05:01
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Nothingtoseehere posted:Given that Ukraine now has confirmed of F-16s eventually being delivered and pilots training on them, losing aircraft is less catastrophic than it once was - something you can replace can be used more freely than something you cannot. So even if Ukraine somehow lose planes on this strike, it says more about changing mindset of their airforce than about their air defense capabilities. I don’t think it’s so much the loss of planes as pilots. All the planes in the world don’t do poo poo for you without someone to fly them.
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Dec 27, 2023 05:20
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The only source claiming any Ukrainian planes were knocked out is the Russian MOD and there's no video or photographic evidence of any kind supporting the claim. If Russian claims were accurate Ukraine would have run out of planes five or ten times over by now.
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Dec 27, 2023 05:55
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:The only source claiming any Ukrainian planes were knocked out is the Russian MOD and there's no video or photographic evidence of any kind supporting the claim. Yeah, it's just such a shame that Ukraine lost a hundred (all, every) of their planes in this foolish suicide attack. The ship wasn't even blown up, that was just all the planes! The Ukranian planes. Hopefully this drives home the importance of Ukranian surrender, which should be fast or immediate (don't send them anything to prolong this misery). The actual ship was sent to a fjord up north where it can run and play all day and it has lots of friends
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Dec 27, 2023 06:19
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Mr. Apollo posted:Has Ukraine said it used missiles for this attack? I was wondering if it used one of its new sea drones. Usually with Storm Shadow attacks we have video clips of air defence going off prior to the missiles hitting. They did a presser thanking “the pilots” That could be drone pilots but sounds like planes to me
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Dec 27, 2023 13:32
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It could just as easily be Su-24 pilots with Storm Shadows. We're not going to know for certain, but it's unlikely to be sea-based unscrewed vehicles, and Ukraine doesn't have any land-based missiles with that type of range (that we know about).
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Dec 27, 2023 14:07
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Somewhat war-related. Last week, a popular Russian blogger/TV personality organised a risqué party for her celebrity friends. The dress code was 'almost naked' and the closest anyone got to it was one dude with his RHCP 'sock on cock' cosplay. Overall, a fairly unremarkable thing for Moscow. But not when crazy 'patriotic' telegram bloggers finally have some sway! Amidst the Nativity fast, while our brave lads are dying in the Ukraine? Let's see what the police have to say about it! At first, the organiser thought that it's going to be the usual affair of people calling her names and her replying in kind on her insta. However, this time, it was different. There was a class action lawsuit filed for 10 million bucks on the account of suffering a grave moral injury after seeing some skin in photos from the party. But more importantly, the sock-on-cock guy was arrested for petty hooliganism and LGBT propaganda. Right after that, other guests started to mysteriously disappear from TV shows, their own concerts being cancelled, etc., and quickly started issuing teary apologies about their awful and definitely once-in-a-lifetime moral missteps, including Putin's god-daughter Ksenia Sobchak.  for people in sexy lingeriehttps://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/12/26/russian-pop-stars-apologize-on-camera-after-naked-party-sparks-conservative-uproar-a83573 All this on the heels of police raids on gay nightclubs in Moscow. https://apnews.com/article/russia-lgbtq-nightclub-raids-crackdown-33e1b9a0110bf22dc2ebc7c42efe6335 It really looks like the ultraconservative minority in Russia are getting more and more powerful as the war goes on. If you remember my posts about the state of Russian TV, the shows focused on celebrity gossip never went away during the war and with minor nods to artists visiting the frontlines or loose acquaintances throwing some poo poo Zelenskyi's way, continued unimpeded to cover very similar parties and how sexy everyone who attended was. There were always grumblings on telegram about it, but if their target wasn't vocally anti-war, it basically never amounted to anything. In Ukraine, at the very beginning of the full-scale war, there were scandals surrounding MPs who partied during curfew or travelled to Qatar for their wartime holibobs, and some celebrities got in hot water with some people for continuing to sing songs in Russian or not donating enough for the war effort, but I don't think it ever resulted in any arrests. The whole thing was even very light on public apologies, from what I remember, even when it would be actually warranted. Paladinus fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Dec 27, 2023 |
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Dec 27, 2023 15:16
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Here's another angle to the 'damaged' ship in Feodosiya port. The first image is dated December 5th, the other 26th.
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Dec 27, 2023 19:21
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Paladinus posted:
You linked to a different story about Putin's astroturf pro-war soldier's wives groups: quote:The Kremlin is investing in movements of wives and mothers who support the war in Ukraine and promote traditional values to counter the growing influence of protesting relatives of soldiers, according to a report by the independent news outlet Holod published Tuesday.
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Dec 27, 2023 19:28
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Nenonen posted:Here's another angle to the 'damaged' ship in Feodosiya port. The first image is dated December 5th, the other 26th. Yeah, that ship is sunk. Must be some damage if your ship is now scraping the bottom of your port.
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Dec 27, 2023 19:28
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Nenonen posted:Here's another angle to the 'damaged' ship in Feodosiya port. The first image is dated December 5th, the other 26th. Also note the bonus ship #2 at very bottom middle of the picture, where the two parts of shore meet at an angle. (Spotted by other people)
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Dec 27, 2023 19:29
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OddObserver posted:Also note the bonus ship #2 at very bottom middle of the picture, where the two parts of shore meet at an angle. (Spotted by other people) Oh yeah, I thought that was just a smaller boat that had taken the bigger ship's place but it's the superstructure  e: if the secondary explosions and debris could sink a ship that wasn't even right next to the target, it would suggest that several of the ships in port took different degrees of damage from the attack and I don't mean just broken windows. With luck there's some very expensive repairs before they are all operational again. Nenonen fucked around with this message at 19:36 on Dec 27, 2023 |
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Dec 27, 2023 19:30
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Nenonen posted:You linked to a different story about Putin's astroturf pro-war soldier's wives groups: I hate it when news websites change the url if you scroll down far enough to the next story. The linked story is less entertaining but maybe more important. Here is the correct linkhttps://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/12/26/russian-pop-stars-apologize-on-camera-after-naked-party-sparks-conservative-uproar-a83573
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Dec 27, 2023 19:34
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Nenonen posted:You linked to a different story about Putin's astroturf pro-war soldier's wives groups: I came for the sexy party but all I got was AstroTurf babushkas
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Dec 27, 2023 21:26
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Nenonen posted:Here's another angle to the 'damaged' ship in Feodosiya port. The first image is dated December 5th, the other 26th. Sure looks like something happened to the vessel directly below the ship. Not clear what it is or what happened, but it doesn’t look the same in the after photo.
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Dec 27, 2023 23:17
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ought ten posted:Sure looks like something happened to the vessel directly below the ship. Not clear what it is or what happened, but it doesn’t look the same in the after photo. Also the building to the left of that, the roof seems to have collapsed.
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Dec 27, 2023 23:55
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Ynglaur posted:and Ukraine doesn't have any land-based missiles with that type of range (that we know about). I'm assuming this is way outside the range of an ATACMS?
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Dec 28, 2023 00:26
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I think it's well within the range of ATACMS. But if it's practical for ATACMS to hit, I don't know.
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Dec 28, 2023 00:47
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It's very possible that the only ATACMS Ukraine has received so far are the cluster munition type that they used on the Russian airbase a while back to blow up all those helicopters. It's good for that, but probably not what you'd want to use on a naval ship.
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Dec 28, 2023 05:01
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Sebastian Flyte posted:No, I believe the vessel followed standard operating procedure and quickly and effectively managed to contain and extinguish the fire by sinking to the bottom of the harbour. Good news: Fire is out.
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Dec 28, 2023 05:01
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ought ten posted:Sure looks like something happened to the vessel directly below the ship. Not clear what it is or what happened, but it doesn’t look the same in the after photo. It's hard to tell, but it looks to me like the front sank or at least took on a bunch of water. The shadows it cast were previously even with the pier, but now seem tilted.
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Dec 28, 2023 07:25
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ummel posted:I came for the sexy party but all I got was AstroTurf babushkas Possible thread title contender imo
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Dec 28, 2023 07:56
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ummel posted:AstroTurf babushkas My 80's industrial-techno band is also named AstroTurf Babushkas
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Dec 28, 2023 09:02
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KillHour posted:It's hard to tell, but it looks to me like the front sank or at least took on a bunch of water. The shadows it cast were previously even with the pier, but now seem tilted. I am not an intelligence imagery analyst, but shadows move with the sun. Remember to account for time of day, etc.
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Dec 28, 2023 13:12
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Washington puts forward G7 plan to confiscate $300bn in Russian assets ’The Financial Times’ posted:The US has proposed that working groups from the G7 explore ways to seize $300bn in frozen Russian assets, as the allies rush to agree a plan in time for the second anniversary of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. There’s more in the link. I’m not very familiar with the history of asset freezing & seizure but wouldn’t this be unprecedented in the modern era? Sure asset freezes happen all the time but I don’t know any other examples of outright confiscations, at least at this scale
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Dec 28, 2023 13:40
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Well, the strike on that ship seems to have really angered Putin. He's apparently sent goon squads to Crimea to look for partisans who gave its location away to the Ukrainians. Whether such people actually exist or were in any way responsible for the attack is another issue, but this event actually seems to have got under the spider in the Kremlin's carapace. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/12/28/ukraine-russia-war-live-kuleba-europe-not-know-fight-latest/
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Dec 28, 2023 15:08
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Wouldn't it be relatively easy to track movements of a big ship even without relying on boots on the ground partisans staking out a harbour? Dunno...
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Dec 28, 2023 15:14
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Sounds like what you might expect from the Telegraph. The source is a resistance group, how do they know what Putin's reaction was? How would they know that authorities are looking for who gave away the ship's location, instead of looking for people who gave away the ship's fate in social media? Because the authorities have already publicly condemned the latter behaviour as assisting enemy intelligence. But if you leave out all the speculation, you don't have much of a story to print.
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PIZZA.BAT posted:
I had thought that this sort of thing would've happened quite a while ago. Like what is Russia going to do, get more mad? Attack even more? There's no benefit to dealing with such a country as long as the government is the way it is.
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