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Farking Bastage posted:Looks like the BBC has reverted to its WW2 mode of operation. This loving owns.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Not seriously? I've seen it a bit, but never enough to stand out. I typically use avatars to sort out who is saying what, and often don't even look at them all the time.
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Mar 6, 2022 22:21
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maybe the Russians can use HAM radio to communicate with their secret space force
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Alan Smithee posted:maybe the Russians can use HAM radio to communicate with their secret space force All the Ukranians smartly shut theirs down, lest they get themselves triangulated and turned into a small crater.
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Mar 6, 2022 22:26
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MRC48B posted:Isn't this the UK's dead mans signal? I can't imagine the letter being anything more than "lol good job being the last survivors lads, do what you want, because we're all dead"
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Mar 6, 2022 22:30
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MRC48B posted:Isn't this the UK's dead mans signal? No, that's the ordinary BBC Home Service radio broadcast.
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Mar 6, 2022 22:32
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Was wondering how long it was going to take before every western broadcaster started to pump as many KW toward Ukraine and Russia as possible. Hopefully more join in.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:If the bombs fall, just remember to close the A/C vents on your car if you're driving through an active fallout area. Hey Arc Light! Eric L Harry’s pretty drat good look at what the actual nuclear conflict would be like. I remember I couldn’t find the book in the US in the late 90s and I actually emailed the author and his wife was super nice and sent me a copy. Invasion on the other hand is a really goofy goofy thing filled with a lot of sex and the Chinese invading the US and honestly I’m underselling the insanity of it. Kind of want many to find out we have some Sir General John Hackett fans here too. 
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Marshal Prolapse posted:Hey Arc Light! Eric L Harry’s pretty drat good look at what the actual nuclear conflict would be like. I remember I couldn’t find the book in the US in the late 90s and I actually emailed the author and his wife was super nice and sent me a copy. I've never read Arc Light but I've read Invasion half a dozen times and love it even if it is incredibly stupid schlock* (the entire notion of the US being so isolationist as to let it's military get kneecapped by China and be forced to sit back and watch them conquer most of the world was ludicrous when it was written, and entirely unfathomable post 9/11). The president's 18 year old daughter refusing to go to safety and volunteering for the Army and rising from private to captain is some video game poo poo and I am here for it. Basticle fucked around with this message at 22:55 on Mar 6, 2022 |
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Mar 6, 2022 22:53
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stealie72 posted:Was wondering how long it was going to take before every western broadcaster started to pump as many KW toward Ukraine and Russia as possible. Duga rises from its feculent grave.
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Basticle posted:I've never read Arc Light but I've read Invasion half a dozen times and love it even if it is incredibly stupid schlock* (the entire notion of the US being so isolationist as to let it's military get kneecapped by China and be forced to sit back and watch them conquer most of the world was ludicrous when it was written, and entirely unfathomable post 9/11). Hell yeah, it was a fun read, despite it being bathsit insane. Let’s not forget the total nuking of Israel. The secret plot to go full nuclear war and the special ops agent running around gassing Chinese soldiers. It was a fun read though granted the sex scenes are always weird, but at least not like George RR Martin weird
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Mar 6, 2022 23:20
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stealie72 posted:Was wondering how long it was going to take before every western broadcaster started to pump as many KW toward Ukraine and Russia as possible. How long until Russia makes possession of a HAM Radio and/or listening to the feed punishable by a trip to the Gulag?
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Mar 6, 2022 23:52
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I need to stop spending every waking moment reading about this war. My brain is starting to feel like a fried egg. What a complete horror show.
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Nuclear Tourist posted:I need to stop spending every waking moment reading about this war. My brain is starting to feel like a fried egg. What a complete horror show. People will probably scoff at this but I felt a similar sort of psychosis this past week. I’d never used Twitter before and had installed it a couple days before it all went down. Basically watched everything happen in real time faster than the news could report on it. Every time I looked I was only more horrified at what I saw and had to come back and check in constantly. After a few days I started getting some constant chest tightness and heart palpitations even when I was trying not to think about it all. The war is hosed up and bad, but checking in on it constantly is not doing anything for anyone and in the worst case might actually hurt your mental health.
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CBJSprague24 posted:How long until Russia makes possession of a HAM Radio and/or listening to the feed punishable by a trip to the Gulag? I believe they tried this in the USSR and it worked about as well as you'd expect.
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:I believe they tried this in the USSR and it worked about as well as you'd expect. It was literally a capital offense in Nazi occupied areas but everyone did it anyway
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Mar 7, 2022 00:21
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Nuclear Tourist posted:I need to stop spending every waking moment reading about this war. My brain is starting to feel like a fried egg. What a complete horror show. Just as an aside, that's a brilliant username/post combo  poo poo is real bad, though. And only going to get worse.
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Mar 7, 2022 00:22
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Yeah, the west was broadcasting into the Iron Curtain for 45 years. Hard to outlaw radios. Though I wonder how many people under 35 or so still have radios.
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Mar 7, 2022 00:23
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They’re trivial to make compared to modern electronics
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Find some time to relax and log off from everything for a while. This war isnt going anywhere anytime soon sadly. 
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Stealing this from somewhere else: You being miserable doesn’t make the victims better. It’s ok to not look.
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A Festivus Miracle posted:On top of that, Russia turning off the gas pipes to get back at the Europeans hits Russia way, way harder than it hits Europe. You can't derive a third of your government income from natural gas and then stop letting your biggest customer buy. The  equivalent of Owning The Libs while unknowingly self-owning.
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Naramyth posted:Stealing this from somewhere else: Yeah ^ and if anything it's actively counter productive. Just staring into the firehose doesn't even really give much insight into anything other than the nature of unfiltered information firehoses. Nuclear Tourist posted:I need to stop spending every waking moment reading about this war. My brain is starting to feel like a fried egg. What a complete horror show. i highly, highly recommend not just basting your brain in war twitter or telegram or w/e. I especially recommend not doing it for long periods of time and particularly not for every waking moment. If you're going to still do it, do it for a set amount of time each day and go do something absorbing afterwards, whether it's playing with your kid or dog or getting lost in video games or some poo poo. I promise you that you are not missing any meaningful developments by not refreshing twitter/threads and tbh you'll probably actually gain way more useful information and insight by just waiting a couple of days to read up on stuff because like 95% of the poo poo coming out is bullshit or mislabeled or mischaracterized in some significant way.
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It’s Anonymous…so ymmv. https://twitter.com/youranonnews/status/1500613013510008836?s=21
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stealie72 posted:Yeah, the west was broadcasting into the Iron Curtain for 45 years. Hard to outlaw radios. Though I wonder how many people under 35 or so still have radios. This phenomenon (listening to western broadcasts behind the Iron Curtain) is the subject of the Rammstein song “Radio”
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stealie72 posted:Yeah, the west was broadcasting into the Iron Curtain for 45 years. Hard to outlaw radios. Though I wonder how many people under 35 or so still have radios. every car??
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A good point I didn't think of regarding people yelling about why we don't give the Ukranians real-time intel: https://twitter.com/blakehounshell/status/1500640414835126274
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Wasabi the J posted:every car?? Car radios typically don't reach into the shortwave bands, I thought? quote:BBC sending out a STRONG signal with the news on 15.735 mhz. AM radios are around 0.5mhz~1.5mhz, then FM tends to be around 85mhz~108mhz typically. You'd need an actual shortwave radio.
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Zamujasa posted:Car radios typically don't reach into the shortwave bands, I thought? Some European and Asian domestic market spec vehicles include radios that receive shortwave bands.
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facialimpediment posted:A good point I didn't think of regarding people yelling about why we don't give the Ukranians real-time intel: https://twitter.com/Sr0bi/status/1500645598495657988?t=wG2VEVUFO3ZGaVgKW9fA3Q&s=19
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Midjack posted:Some European and Asian domestic market spec vehicles include radios that receive shortwave bands. My understanding is that it's basically just us new worlders that mostly gave up on listening to shortwave. Shortwave and longwave are friggin cool and I've been enjoying listening to weird broadcasts around the world using WebSDR lately. I have a USB SDR module but I can't put up a giant-rear end antenna on my balcony so I can't hear much other than local radio.
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Defenestrategy posted:I can't imagine the letter being anything more than "lol good job being the last survivors lads, do what you want, because we're all dead" "Avenge us" is, IIRC, the sum total of the only such letter made PD.
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IPCRESS posted:"Avenge us" is, IIRC, the sum total of the only such letter made PD. Which country?
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Which country? That was evidently the only thing in the Letter of Last Resort under Thatcher. It's an urban legend, though - all of the Letters are ritualistically burned unopened. MRC48B posted:Isn't this the UK's dead mans signal? Not immediately. BBC 4 actually *did* go off air recently and there was some fanfare about it. There are other criteria that need to be met in order for the Letter to be opened. Another scary thought? There are no launch codes for the British SSBNs. The Captain and First Officer have principal control over the missiles and warheads. If there's no PM, there's no one to issue the launch orders. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 04:20 on Mar 7, 2022 |
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So after all the launches and when they finally run out of food, the various nations' nuke sub guys all meet up somewhere remote like Antarctica and hang out and BBQ and poo poo? Actually, I'd read that intersection of Clancy and sci-fi.
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stealie72 posted:So after all the launches and when they finally run out of food, the various nations' nuke sub guys all meet up somewhere remote like Antarctica and hang out and BBQ and poo poo? That’s the book “On the beach” but it’s New Zealand. It makes Threads look optimistic.
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hobbesmaster posted:That’s the book “On the beach” but it’s New Zealand. It makes Threads look optimistic. That was Australia and that book brings a dude to tears every time.
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TheWeedNumber posted:That was Australia and that book brings a dude to tears every time. The bit where anAussie is outraged that the rabbits will outlive humanity is both devastating and hilarious.
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