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Stanley Goodspeed posted:I'm honestly here to talk about Twilight Struggle more but in a bit of an oopsie it looks like the US Navy has managed to infuse Pearl Harbor's ground water supply with delicious fuel products. I might just do that. Thanks! TheWeedNumber posted:This is pretty rad. I’m having fun just leafing through the manual. Marshal Prolapse fucked around with this message at 16:40 on Dec 7, 2021 |
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Crab Dad posted:Still trying to figure out what the justification is for Russian invasion of Ukraine. They want it.
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Crab Dad posted:Still trying to figure out what the justification is for Russian invasion of Ukraine. Yeah, but did you know that the US invaded Iraq?  I wish we had an emoji of Glenn Greenwald just spewing poo poo out of his mouth or the Russia Today logo (kind of the same thing). lol
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Crab Dad posted:Still trying to figure out what the justification is for Russian invasion of Ukraine. According to the Ukraine guy on Radio War Nerd he doesn’t think Russian troops would be ready for a full scale invasion until after January since the buildup is still in early stages. Maybe they’re trying to be ready for some planned coup/assassination in the future that will give the pretext to hope to avoid intervention from the EU or US. There was already a mysterious hit attempt on a top government official recently in Ukraine that almost certainly involves Russian intelligence in some way.
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Turkey is illegally occupying half of Cyprus, who is in the EU. No one would do poo poo if Russia rolled over Ukraine as long as russia gave the rest of the world just enough of pretext so they could ignore it.
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Crab Dad posted:Still trying to figure out what the justification is for Russian invasion of Ukraine. Proving to the rest of the region that the west won't go to the mat to defend them so come on and save everyone a bunch of hassle and do this the easy way
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Crab Dad posted:Still trying to figure out what the justification is for Russian invasion of Ukraine. Almost 1 million dead from Covid and declining quality of life generally, possibly so a distraction for the Russian population where Putin can flex and do his 'Russia Strong' thing.
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PookBear posted:Turkey is illegally occupying half of Cyprus, who is in the EU. No one would do poo poo if Russia rolled over Ukraine as long as russia gave the rest of the world just enough of pretext so they could ignore it. It’s kinda funny that step one of getting a NATO map accepted into a conop is covering Cyprus with the legend or some other graphic.
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shame on an IGA posted:Proving to the rest of the region that the west won't go to the mat to defend them so come on and save everyone a bunch of hassle and do this the easy way NATO nor the EU have any obligations to come to Ukraines aid should Russia fully invade, and everyone involved knows that. The question is the juice worth the squeeze for Putin? Doing so would put further major sanctions on Russia, further galvanize the EU and NATO towards an aggressive posture towards Russia and most likely lead to a low scale insurgency in the occupied region. Unfortunately rationality might not prevail in this sense, no one is backing down in the Donbas and that could lead to unforeseen events. Putin gains nothing by simply pulling out of the Donbas, and it is not costing him much by staying there other than vacation expenses. I think he is aiming for concessions and lifting of current sanctions from the West in exchange for any good behavior on his part, I also think we should not give him anything...
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ganglysumbia posted:likely lead to a low scale insurgency in the occupied region. I can't imagine the Ukraine hasn't factored in "Everyone is gonna let us hang if Putin decides to invade" as part of a contingency plan and hasn't already hidden caches of weapons, prepped plans to blow up bridges and railroads in place, and have spec ops guys go to ground among the local population.
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It appears the first Omicron preprint is out: https://twitter.com/sigallab/status/1468325162860826634 https://twitter.com/_b_meyer/status/1468319835012673549 https://twitter.com/_b_meyer/status/1468323193299603458 This more or less is the first to confirm the "immune evasion" aspect of Omicron - the best protection against Omicron is a combination of vaccination and prior actual vaccination. Wild cards remaining: what about T-cell / other immune protection provided by vaccines, what about Moderna/J&J and is this preprint just two Pfizer doses (I'm not fuckin reading it), is this thing more contagious than Delta (or will it flame out like Beta), and do we need a special booster for it. All still unknown! facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 22:35 on Dec 7, 2021 |
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facialimpediment posted:It appears the first Omicron preprint is out: First takes I've seen on it from other pretty active covid scientists have stated that the loss in vaccine prevention is substantial, but a 3rd dose puts you in the range to help combat that pretty well. Ultimately a more tailored vaccine for the new spike antigen profile will be better, but a booster should at least help, but not be as good as protection vs the alpha variant / other close relatives of alpha. So, still no tremendous "sky is falling" worry on it at least and it's not a completely novel escape variant (ie the current vaccine would offer almost no protection, the worst case).
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UKRAINE! A musical about why you never give up the nukes
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Madurai posted:UKRAINE! I mean have you listened to Tom Lehrer. Who's Next is exactly the song.
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Zamujasa posted:The "0 approved" here is just https://twitter.com/ktoropin/status/1465453057643360262?s=21 I kind of want to know who is responsible for stopping religious exemptions. They’re doing gods work.
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That Works posted:So, still no tremendous "sky is falling" worry on it at least and it's not a completely novel escape variant (ie the current vaccine would offer almost no protection, the worst case). Yeah another new one agrees: https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1468359520422354944 So basically, boosters and better masks. Get your boosters when you hit 6 months and for gently caress's sake - ditch the paper/fabric masks and get KN95s.
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Oh hey, I just heard NPR play a clip of limp-dick Dole from 1976: https://www.nytimes.com/1976/10/28/archives/dole-denies-talking-of-democrat-wars-says-he-never-used-phrase-that.html quote:Senator Robert J. Dole, the Republican Vice‐Presidential candidate, insisted today that he had never referred to the four wars in which the United States has been involved in this century as “Democrat wars.” Lol @ the standard "he was a good man and a good politician" eulogies.
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Stultus Maximus posted:Lol @ the standard "he was a good man and a good politician" eulogies. Did no one think to do the smug "So you don't think World Wars 1 and 2 where cool and good? What are you some sort of pinko nazi sympathizer?" I guess it was a different time
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Stultus Maximus posted:https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1468288013264371720 The future of our country is these chucklefucks. Jesus.
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Memes are the future of diplomacy https://twitter.com/Ukraine/status/1468206078940823554?t=AiaXEb5ldo7mvvynfAhnPA&s=19 maffew buildings posted:wow no way we're walking in to another debacle because we have surely learned what happens when these people are written off as nothing but fodder for feeling intellectually and morally superior 
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Stultus Maximus posted:Oh hey, I just heard NPR play a clip of limp-dick Dole from 1976: I still remember my shock at Nixon being given a star-spangled prize-winning wowzer of a funeral, which I admit I took worse because I had just recently finished reading all the crazy poo poo about his presidency. Of course I didn't exactly expect him to be dumped into a ditch like he should have been, but the celebrity event his funeral was really took me by surprise at the time. Nowadays, I'm almost embarrassed at how shocked I was.
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