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woodenchicken posted:Reminds me of that old tweet by Babchenko: Countless Jets, Satellites, Submarines, Buses, a Dry Dock and even a Choir: Is Russia Secretly Building an Underwater Empire?
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# ? Aug 16, 2019 13:33 |
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The only remaining reasonable explanation that matches with all the known facts: the Russians discovered the lost city of Atlantis in the Arctic Circle, and encountered difficulties while attempting to restart the harmonic power generatrix.
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# ? Aug 16, 2019 14:14 |
https://twitter.com/ArmsControlWonk/status/1162004761719107584 https://twitter.com/ckoettl/status/1162056543732469760 Im guessing that the whole thing will be forgotten quite soon, which is a shame because who knows what kinds of long term effects will pop up. https://twitter.com/ctbto_alerts/status/1160130156922642433 its bit unclear to me why it was picked up by seismic/infra sound sensors? i assumed that the explosion wasnt big enough to do that + it happened at sea so most of the power should have been absorbed by water . Dark Off fucked around with this message at 15:56 on Aug 16, 2019 |
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# ? Aug 16, 2019 15:43 |
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Water doesn't absorb the energy much, it's a very efficient conductor relatively for sound and shock waves.
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# ? Aug 16, 2019 16:50 |
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/08/16/exclusive-russian-doctors-say-they-werent-warned-patients-were-nuclear-accident-victims-a66896quote:According to three of the doctors, including both senior sources, one of the doctors flown to Moscow was found to have Caesium-137 — a radioactive isotope that is a byproduct of the nuclear fission of uranium-235 — in their muscle tissue. One of the sources said the affected doctor had told him so directly, though he was not informed about the amount or concentration of the isotope found. quote:The doctors said that after two groups flew to Moscow the rest of the flights were cancelled. They also said after the results had come back radiation experts were flown to Arkhangelsk to carry out the tests there instead. quote:According to the doctors, the operating theater, located on a third-floor wing of the hospital, was sealed off until Aug. 13. They said that Russia’s consumer safety watchdog Rospotrebnadzor and the Emergency Situations Ministry inspected the hospital over the following days. quote:They said that security services officers who visited the hospital on Aug. 9 recovered and deleted all of the information about the incident that was in the hospital’s records.
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# ? Aug 16, 2019 20:46 |
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Lou Takki posted:Water doesn't absorb the energy much, it's a very efficient conductor relatively for sound and shock waves. On top of that, the sensors are extremely, well, sensitive.
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# ? Aug 17, 2019 08:00 |
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Forensic Architecture has just published a fantastic new platform that maps multiple incidents of Russians forces in Ukraine, and it's like an open source investigation wet dream. Bit of background here:quote:New evidence emerges of Russian role in Ukraine conflict You can find the platform here, and if you have even the slightest interest in open source investigation or how technology can be used to understand conflict then watch the 8 minute video: https://ilovaisk.forensic-architecture.org/
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# ? Aug 18, 2019 18:41 |
Thanks BM! You're a service to the forums!
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# ? Aug 18, 2019 21:02 |
https://twitter.com/SinaZerbo/status/1163179404136210433
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# ? Aug 18, 2019 21:13 |
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Russia apparently shot down the radiation measuring sites, because of course https://www.newsweek.com/skyfall-burevestnik-nuclear-missile-russia-zerbo-1454954
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 12:55 |
Nitrox posted:Russia apparently shot down the radiation measuring sites, because of course I'd believe your typo version too.
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# ? Aug 20, 2019 15:00 |
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Elukka posted:The US didn't suddenly grow sense, they just figured out ICBMs and found they were a much better way to nuke people. Russia's thing is about diversifying (or pretending to, who knows how real this is) their arsenal because they're concerned about the US development of ICBM defenses. Currently US defenses are small scale, but there's no treaty limiting them anymore so they could choose to scale it up. That's not really accurate. The US and USSR both put a lot of work into developing and successfully deploying long range, nuclear armed cruise missiles both before and after Project Pluto. The AGM-28 and Kh-20 went into service a few years before Project Pluto, for example, and remained in service long afterwards until replacement by a host of newer and increasingly long range models. Project Pluto was just unnecessarily dangerous and potentially unreliable/expensive compared to conventionally powered air and ship/sub launched nuclear armed cruise missiles.
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# ? Aug 21, 2019 14:28 |
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/08/22/there-s-no-danger-get-to-work more details of that nuclear incident its pretty much
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# ? Aug 22, 2019 20:39 |
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I learned that the company involved with the explosion in Russia is the same company building the nuclear power plant in Belarus.
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# ? Aug 22, 2019 23:00 |
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Navalny is alive and well apparently. There is a translate button on Instagram page, fyi https://www.instagram.com/p/B1gCUpClOqB/?igshid=12qpk2x7pdmuc
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# ? Aug 23, 2019 14:21 |
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Thanks for the timely notification to the rest of planet, Russia. https://twitter.com/guardiannews/status/1165971463892951040
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Thanks for the timely notification to the rest of planet, Russia.
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# ? Aug 26, 2019 17:09 |
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https://twitter.com/politico/status/1166896511927685120?s=19
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# ? Aug 29, 2019 17:37 |
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So is bellingcat going to figure out who "Vadim S." is? Allegedly did a bicycle drive by shooting on a Georgian dissident in Germany while there on "vacation".
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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/29/intel-says-russian-explosion-was-not-from-nuclear-powered-missile-test.htmlquote:A U.S. intelligence report says the mysterious explosion off Russia’s northern coast occurred during a recovery mission to salvage the Kremlin’s nuclear-powered missile from the ocean floor. Would make sense that recovery of something that had impacted the water would involve more risk. Previously I was thinking they had an accident with some sort of preparation on the reactor that was new or something else to require the scientific staff. But I guess they would want to be around after recovery to maybe safe it or figure out what went wrong. quote:The tests apparently showed that the nuclear-powered heart of the cruise missile failed to initiate and, therefore, the weapon was unable to achieve the indefinite flight Putin had boasted about. Launches from platform on the starter and failed to light the main. Fell right into the water near coast. Rough picture of one possibly for this event but with the amount of misinformation Russia has to be putting out I don't expect any agreement on the story.
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# ? Aug 29, 2019 19:20 |
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"We didn't get poo poo done." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9wet1-TF4U
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Scaramouche posted:So is bellingcat going to figure out who "Vadim S." is? Allegedly did a bicycle drive by shooting on a Georgian dissident in Germany while there on "vacation". We've just published a piece we've been working on in collaboration with Spiegel and The Insider, Suspected Assassin in The Berlin Killing Used Fake Identity Documents . While we've not got his real ID, yet, we have managed to find a lot of information that shows his passport and ID is totally fake. It raises some questions about exactly how he was issued a visa to travel to Europe in the first place, as none of his background information checks out. It might be something to do with what we wrote about in Spies Without Borders – How the FSB Infiltrated the International Visa System back in 2018.
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# ? Aug 30, 2019 12:07 |
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what the actual gently caress
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# ? Sep 1, 2019 12:36 |
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Whats written on that logo? edit: VVVV no, I mean the one with the german/nazi flag Elias_Maluco fucked around with this message at 13:04 on Sep 1, 2019 |
# ? Sep 1, 2019 12:51 |
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Center of national culture
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# ? Sep 1, 2019 12:58 |
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Entschädigung means compensation, ordnung muss sein means "there must be order", I have no idea how they come together but the minds of the Polish right work in mysterious ways
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# ? Sep 1, 2019 13:36 |
Who's in charge of Czech republic nowadays? Are they insane too?
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szary posted:Entschädigung means compensation, ordnung muss sein means "there must be order", I have no idea how they come together but the minds of the Polish right work in mysterious ways "There must be order and compensation"? I've heard worse slogans.
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# ? Sep 2, 2019 18:47 |
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Shy posted:Who's in charge of Czech republic nowadays? Are they insane too? The PM - Andrej Babis, a mega wealthy and corrupt rear end in a top hat. The president - Milos Zeman, an alcoholic contrarian whose hobby is to pursue personal vendettas and courting authoritarians.
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steinrokkan posted:The PM - Andrej Babis, a mega wealthy and corrupt rear end in a top hat. And they're both pretty much insane, just in their own ways. anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Sep 2, 2019 |
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# ? Sep 2, 2019 19:52 |
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Not sure if that's what brought this on, but the PM just had charges dropped in one of his fraud cases: https://news.google.com/articles/CB...CA&ceid=CA%3Aen
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# ? Sep 2, 2019 20:48 |
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Aside from, well, personally being a moderately corrupt rear end in a top hat who benefited from looting of the communist state and also helped demolish the left wing of social democrats, his government has not been all that bad from a leftist perspective. He's mostly a liberal in a coalition with the (albeit gutted) social democrats. In other words there's a lot of crying by the opposition about more rigorous tax collection being unfair, state employees having too high wages, introduction of universal sick leave being a burden on businesses, too many university places being sponsored, FOBT regulation uhh damaging casinos or something, benefits not being policed enough, etc. So while I don't particularly like him things could be considerably worse. e: phoneposting Private Speech fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Sep 2, 2019 |
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He's the archetypical populist, he's throwing poo poo at the wall to keep up his support, without any cohesion, any ideology, any long term plan. By doing so, and by using his wealth / media clout, he's won over the soc dem electorate, completely destroying the old party; but that means that when he leaves, he's going to leave behind a massive vacuum ripe to be exploited by the more right wing form of populism, while the left is gonna be left bleeding to death, completely isolated on the political periphery and all his opportunistic vaguely liberal / lefty policies are going to be overturned, because they never were part of any larger projects, they were just piecemeal stop gap measures to keep up the polling numbers.
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# ? Sep 2, 2019 21:11 |
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steinrokkan posted:He's the archetypical populist, he's throwing poo poo at the wall to keep up his support, without any cohesion, any ideology, any long term plan. By doing so, and by using his wealth / media clout, he's won over the soc dem electorate, completely destroying the old party; but that means that when he leaves, he's going to leave behind a massive vacuum ripe to be exploited by the more right wing form of populism, while the left is gonna be left bleeding to death, completely isolated on the political periphery and all his opportunistic vaguely liberal / lefty policies are going to be overturned, because they never were part of any larger projects, they were just piecemeal stop gap measures to keep up the polling numbers. Yeah that's exactly what I'm really worried about. Being fair the soc dems did cause some damage to themselves on their own (the whole scandal with the PMs personal assistant for one) but the massive election campaign targeting their key demographics, particularly in Prague, really did a number on them. All the same I'd rather not see him replaced by an ODS-led coalition.
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# ? Sep 2, 2019 21:20 |
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Yeah, anything is better than the ODS ghouls.
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# ? Sep 2, 2019 21:26 |
steinrokkan posted:Yeah, anything is better than the ODS ghouls.
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anilEhilated posted:You say that but there's SPD and the new ODS offshoot with an even more nationalist rhetoric. Well, I don't think those are viable at the moment... hopefully.
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# ? Sep 2, 2019 21:31 |
steinrokkan posted:Well, I don't think those are viable at the moment... hopefully.
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https://twitter.com/sl0zhny/status/1168542680495861761
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht-g2CkinlE https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1169884144106528769
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