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Duzzy Funlop
Jan 13, 2010

Hi there, would you like to try some spicy products?

The new safe confinement has been in place since late 2016, so I'm taking that entire post with a grain of salt with regard to its "meanwhile" character anyway.

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CainFortea
Oct 15, 2004


Trevor Hale posted:

If you have no followers, you’re not an influencer as you have nothing to influence. If you’re just saying that stupid people are going to Chernobyl to take photos, then that’s hardly a hot take and people have been doing that for years.

What is the movable bar for "lots" that you're going to use so we can start the game of "that's not a REAL influencer" early?

And I guess we can just skip the part where it was pointed out that the one who doesn't have a lot of followers is obviously trying to be an influencer.

Trevor Hale
Dec 8, 2008

What have I become, my Swedish friend?

“I demand shows about rigorous science!”

“That tweet is inaccurate”

“Who gives a poo poo?”

Xanderkish
Aug 10, 2011

Hello!
Let's not do this

SeXReX
Jan 9, 2009

I drink, mostly.
And get mad at people on the internet


:emptyquote:

Xanderkish posted:

Let's not do this

This thread is 60 pages of this why stop now?


Using a pre-2016 photo in their "I'm lad they're more popular than me" collage was pretty choice

CainFortea
Oct 15, 2004


Trevor Hale posted:

“I demand shows about rigorous science!”

That's not me. Good effort tho!

EL BROMANCE
Jun 10, 2006

COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬



Some nice side by side comparisons between the show and the video footage shot at the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9GQtvUKtHA

The Saddest Rhino
Apr 29, 2009

Put it all together.
Solve the world.
One conversation at a time.



SeXReX posted:

This thread is 60 pages of this why stop now?


Using a pre-2016 photo in their "I'm lad they're more popular than me" collage was pretty choice

The one featuring a butt is like the Emily Watson scientist in the show and a Mary Sue, my thesis on unrealistic chernobyl influencers is as follows

MrMojok
Jan 28, 2011

Grumpy old man here.

I'd never even heard the term "instagram influencers" until the last page of this thread. Now that I've googled it, I'm even more grumpy.

Queen Combat
Dec 29, 2017

Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/Fencing_Lesbian/status/1138713106975084546

Toxic Fart Syndrome
Jul 2, 2006

*hits A-THREAD-5*

Only 3.6 Roentgoons per hour ... not great, not terrible.




...the meter only goes to 3.6...

Pork Pro

That booty has become spicy. :psypop:


:hmmyes:

Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

https://twitter.com/jfcwzl/status/1138553470582235137?s=19

SocketWrench
Jul 8, 2012

by Fritz the Horse
These two are loving masterpieces that should hang in the Louvre

Vintersorg
Mar 3, 2004

President of
the Brendan Fraser
Fan Club



They suck actually.

Thom and the Heads
Oct 27, 2010

Farscape is actually pretty cool.
your leukaemia is caused by or lack of faith in socialism

CommanderApaul
Aug 30, 2003

It's amazing their hands can support such awesome.

johnsonrod
Oct 25, 2004


That was a really interesting read. They should've made this the second season of The Terror and cut all the supernatural poo poo.

TheShadowAvatar
Nov 25, 2004

Ain't Nothing But A Family Thing

Vintersorg posted:

They suck actually.

Much like your posting

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

lol

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/russian-communist-party-wants-chernobyl-series-banned-100647247.html

quote:

The Marxist-Leninist Party in Russia is calling for the HBO series Chernobyl to be banned.

In a statement, the communist party accused the series, which charts the horror of the meltdown at the nuclear power station in Soviet Ukraine, of 'demonising the image of the Soviet government and Soviet people'.

The party is also hoping to bring a libel case against the show's makers.

Read more: How accurate is Chernobyl?

“The real tragedy is the Chernobyl series is ideological manipulation by HBO,” read a statement, via The Hollywood Reporter.

“The television series about the dramatic events of April 1986 is an ideological tool designed to defame and demonize the image of the Soviet government and Soviet people.

“The motivation, the actions of the heroes, the order of relationships in institutions and collectives, the moral climate in Soviet society, are an absolute lie."

It is calling for Russian broadcaster Roskomnadzor to begin a libel case against HBO, under Article 129 of Russia's criminal code.

The news comes after reports that the Kremlin is mulling making its own version of the show, but one in which the CIA is blamed for the explosion at the power plant.

Starring Mad Men's Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgard and Emily Watson, the show has been a critical smash, voted the highest-rated series on IMDb.

As well as the devastating human cost of the accident, it also addresses the disiniformation spread by the Communist government at the time.

But not those in Russian government are displeased with it.

Conservative culture minister Vladimir Medinsky has even gone as far as praising it.

“The film was made masterfully… with the greatest of respect for ordinary people,” he reportedly said, adding that his father was among those who helped to fight the initial fires.

“My father, who was a liquidator practically from the first day, said that, yes, in general it was just like in the film.”

MoaM
Dec 1, 2009

Joyous.

etalian posted:


[...]

The news comes after reports that the Kremlin is mulling making its own version of the show, but one in which the CIA is blamed for the explosion at the power plant.

[...]

:psyduck:

TheShadowAvatar
Nov 25, 2004

Ain't Nothing But A Family Thing

Imagine if the CIA could blow up a Soviet nuclear reactor in the heart of the Ukraine but couldn't take out Castro in Cuba 90 miles away from Miami....

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

TheShadowAvatar posted:

Imagine if the CIA could blow up a Soviet nuclear reactor in the heart of the Ukraine but couldn't take out Castro in Cuba 90 miles away from Miami....

They did try everything including exploding cigars.

SimonChris
Apr 24, 2008

The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.
Grimey Drawer

https://inews.co.uk/opinion/chernobyl-instagram-pictures-influencers-news-sites-inappropriate-criticism/

A lot of these pictures aren't even from Chernobyl, and hardly any of the people could be considered "influencers".

The picture of the woman undressing, for instance, was taken near her home in Novosibirsk.

SimonChris fucked around with this message at 15:09 on Jun 14, 2019

The Saddest Rhino
Apr 29, 2009

Put it all together.
Solve the world.
One conversation at a time.



I'm in a group posting chernobyl memes and that influencer post has caused the "thot haters" to come out of the woodwork and the meme quality just dropped like someone hit the a Z 5 button

Dalael
Oct 14, 2014
Hello. Yep, I still think Atlantis is Bolivia, yep, I'm still a giant idiot, yep, I'm still a huge racist. Some things never change!
Considering you guys are still talking about it, I'm gonna say one way or another, they influenced you.

CornHolio
May 20, 2001

Toilet Rascal
I'm actually surprised that sabotage wasn't considered. I mean, given the evidence that an RBMK reactor exploded, you'd think that people's minds wouldn't go to "that's impossible, those can't explode!" but rather "CAPITALIST SABOTAGE!" given the past several decades of cold warring.

Dalael
Oct 14, 2014
Hello. Yep, I still think Atlantis is Bolivia, yep, I'm still a giant idiot, yep, I'm still a huge racist. Some things never change!

CornHolio posted:

I'm actually surprised that sabotage wasn't considered. I mean, given the evidence that an RBMK reactor exploded, you'd think that people's minds wouldn't go to "that's impossible, those can't explode!" but rather "CAPITALIST SABOTAGE!" given the past several decades of cold warring.

Are you suggesting that soviet technology is susceptible to sabotage, comrade?

Nail Rat
Dec 29, 2000

You maniacs! You blew it up! God damn you! God damn you all to hell!!

Dalael posted:

Considering you guys are still talking about it, I'm gonna say one way or another, they influenced you.

I think it's just an example of https://xkcd.com/386/

jisforjosh
Jun 6, 2006

"It's J is for...you know what? Fuck it, jizz it is"
https://streamable.com/abfvm

perfection

CharlestonJew
Jul 7, 2011

Illegal Hen
I really want to see this "CIA did Chernobyl" show now, especially with a Comrade Detective-esque english dub

SocketWrench
Jul 8, 2012

by Fritz the Horse

Didn't learn a damned thing, I guess

CainFortea
Oct 15, 2004


CornHolio posted:

I'm actually surprised that sabotage wasn't considered. I mean, given the evidence that an RBMK reactor exploded, you'd think that people's minds wouldn't go to "that's impossible, those can't explode!" but rather "CAPITALIST SABOTAGE!" given the past several decades of cold warring.

The thought of the RBMK's never being able to explode was so ingrained that they couldn't even think of a way sabotage would work. Fomil going all "Please explain it, because I don't know how. What are you stupid?"

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Make Instagram influences think it's a must have to visit the famous abandoned claw machine.

Dalael
Oct 14, 2014
Hello. Yep, I still think Atlantis is Bolivia, yep, I'm still a giant idiot, yep, I'm still a huge racist. Some things never change!

etalian posted:

Make Instagram influences think it's a must have to visit the famous abandoned claw machine.

Any instagram influencer who doesn't take a picture of themselves sitting on the Elephant's foot are just doing it as a hobby if you ask me.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPZOf8R-d4U

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

SocketWrench posted:

Didn't learn a damned thing, I guess

The most Tankie thing would be to say the US caused Chernobyl.

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

etalian posted:

The most Tankie thing would be to say the US caused Chernobyl.

If the US weren’t constantly embargoing and nuclear arms racing the USSR, they wouldn’t have used the RBMK design don’t @ me

SocketWrench
Jul 8, 2012

by Fritz the Horse

etalian posted:

The most Tankie thing would be to say the US caused Chernobyl.

I meant the lies. Chernobyl was caused by lies and cover up. Soviet denial
And now they want to cover up and lie about the whole thing.

Steve Yun
Aug 7, 2003
I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.
Soiled Meat
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SQCfOjhguO0

Fun thing that popped up while watching other YouTubes of Chernobyl. There was another horrible nuclear accident in Russia, this one maybe caused by incomplete understanding of nuclear science since their spies could only steal scraps of info from the US

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spankmeister
Jun 15, 2008






It might also explain why leadership initially thought they could keep a lid on Chernobyl since they successfully did so with Mayak.

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