Cimber posted:

Ahh yes, having nuclear reactor crews be exhausted sounds like a great idea!

Ajaxify posted:

Is this the story you're referring to? https://www.businessinsider.com/germany-senior-wwii-nazi-tank-in-basement-fined-293000-2021-8

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For Heikendorf's mayor Alexander Orth, the find is no surprise: "The man used it to trundle through Kitzeberg during the 1978 snow disaster."

But he couldn't say much about the owner: He lives very withdrawn and: "He has a certain weakness for certain things. You can have different opinions about that." He couldn't say whether that was illegal. "One loves steam trains, the other old tanks."

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Ten years later, local authorities were again tipped off after officials in Berlin searched the home for stolen Nazi art. During their search, they also came upon busts of Hitler, an Arno Breker bronze statue of a nude man that was reportedly once outside Hitler’s Reich Chancellery, mannequins outfitted in Nazi uniforms, swastika pendants, a V-1 rocket replica, and SS rune-shaped lamps.

Naked Bear posted:

The reactors are shut down, yes, but there's still spent fuel on-site which requires cooling. If they keep losing power or the cooling otherwise stops, they're going to have a disaster on hand.

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A Findlay man is in Ukraine to rescue dogs from the war zone and get them to Poland today.

Then Marc Pruitt, 66, plans to return to Kiev to take more dogs and cats to Romania. But time is running out: Russian missiles and bombs are getting closer to the high-rise apartment Pruitt occupies in Kiev.

Pruitt got permission from his boss to take time off from work at Best Buy Distribution Center. He got a bulletproof vest, donated from Hancock County Sheriff Michael Heldman. Then he got on a flight to Poland, all the while keeping his sisters in the dark about his plans while they exchanged text messages.

Pruitt is on a mission as part of a group he has been active with for years, called Transform a Street Dog. Based in San Francisco and Ukraine, the nonprofit rescues and rehabilitates street dogs in Ukraine.

“There’s a lot of dogs here (in Ukraine). Everyone loves dogs here. Seems like almost everyone has a dog,” he said Monday. “Unfortunately, there’s a lot of street dogs, too. We’re trying to spay and neuter the population.”

Spaying and neutering of dogs has not been as common in Ukraine as in the United States.

Pruitt and others will be taking 35 to 40 dogs in several vans on a 10-hour drive to a kennel near the border with Poland. Kennel workers will then take the dogs across the border into the safety of Poland.

Some dogs have not been so fortunate.

“The ones we were supposed to get earlier, the Russians have already got in there and they’ve killed most of them and some have just been starved to death,” Pruitt said. “It’s a horrible situation.”

Russian soldiers shoot dogs for fun, he said. Other dogs get killed by bombs.

“Some have died horrible deaths of starvation over the last two and a half weeks,” he added.

All of the dogs Pruitt has seen are afraid because of the horrible sounds and sights of war. Many do not want to eat. The dogs Pruitt and others will be taking to the Polish border today are in an area that is secure for now. Some were from other kennels. Others were abandoned in apartments, and still others are street dogs that have no home.

Pruitt is on the 15th floor of an apartment building in Kiev, staying with his new Ukrainian friend, Dennis. He has been on the mission for a week. He has been to Ukraine before, raising money for dogs and shelters and helping feed dogs. But he’s never been in a war zone before.

He flew to Warsaw, then traveled to another town on the Ukraine border. He said he waited five hours to get on a train for the Ukraine city of Lviv. He then made his way to Kiev a few days ago.

“It’s almost like a spy movie, because we have friends all over,” Pruitt said.

When he got to Warsaw, he was given an address to pick up some keys to an abandoned BMW car that would be waiting in Kiev. He’s had a taxi dispatched for him. He was told to make a stop in Krakow, (Ukraine) where he had to pick up keys to an apartment that had been donated.

Until he got to Kiev, he had not really seen anyone. But he never felt like he was out of harm’s way.

“It’s just so dangerous. There are areas where there are snipers. Word gets out. You’d get a text, ‘Don’t go there today,’” he said.

The pickup of dogs was delayed for another day due to reports of hazardous conditions.

“It’s just frustrating. We want to get out, get this done, pick up some more dogs. But we have a network of people tell us, ‘No, you can’t go to this city today because there’s a lot of activity,” he said.

The dog rescue routes, meeting times and days of travel often get changed.

After getting the dogs to Poland today, Pruitt plans to be part of a group that will take 45 cats and 30 dogs from Ukraine to Romania in a few days. The trip to Romania may take a day and a half. It’s a coordinated effort involving volunteers like Pruitt and others from Sweden, Poland and Ukraine. Pruitt is using multiple apps on his phone to communicate with the others.

But there is not an app for everything.

“We know that we’re running out of time. We can tell the bombing is getting closer and closer, the windows rattling,” he said. “I don’t know how much longer they can keep them away from the center of Ukraine.”

“We know our time is running out,” Pruitt added. “We’re going to keep going until it’s so dangerous you can’t.”

His sisters were in the dark about things for a while.

“They kept texting me. I kind of lied a little bit,” Pruitt said. “I was in Poland, which was true. And then I was at the border. And then, I told them, yeah, I was in northern Ukraine.”

“Finally I had to tell them I was here in Kiev,” he said. “I knew they would be angry and upset and worried, of course.”

“But my three dogs are being taken care of while I’m gone. I’ve also got my will on the table. I have everything laid out and people to adopt my dogs,” Pruitt said. “So I have everything taken care of if something happens.”

CommieGIR posted:

Not entirely. Not a disaster. The spent fuel can easily air cool if the ponds evaporate, its old enough. They would not melt down.

Technically you only have to keep spent fuel actively cooled for 5 years or so before its moved into spent fuel drums. Chernobyl that's been a slow process since, really, nobody cares versus an active nuclear plant.

Basticle posted:

local to me, a guy who has been involved for years with a nonprofit that finds homes for street dogs in Ukraine, got a bullet proof vest from the local sheriff and flew to Poland for some crazy John le Carré underground doggy railroad poo poo. It's equal parts and

https://thecourier.com/news/375510/findlay-man-rescuing-dogs-in-ukraine/

Basticle posted:

Russian soldiers shoot dogs for fun, he said.

Marshal Prolapse posted:

https://twitter.com/siobhanehughes/status/1503810117204123658?s=21

Elviscat posted:

A US company was actively providing casks and expertise for long-term storage before the conflict, yeah.

Tomn posted:

You remember how we were talking about letters of marque earlier? Well...

https://twitter.com/ScotlandDX/status/1503893185621278723?s=20&t=dnqeu2aonwNS0gNx0Y-2Kw

CommieGIR posted:

Not entirely. Not a disaster. The spent fuel can easily air cool if the ponds evaporate, its old enough. They would not melt down.

Technically you only have to keep spent fuel actively cooled for 5 years or so before its moved into spent fuel drums. Chernobyl that's been a slow process since, really, nobody cares versus an active nuclear plant.

CommieGIR posted:

The bigger issue is the pool does two things: Keeps the latent fission heat down, but also protects workers from excess radiation from the rods. Without the water, while the rods won't melt or anything, they'll be much more difficult to approach safely.

But thankfully power was largely restored last I heard.

Tomn posted:

You remember how we were talking about letters of marque earlier? Well...

https://twitter.com/ScotlandDX/status/1503893185621278723?s=20&t=dnqeu2aonwNS0gNx0Y-2Kw

Herstory Begins Now posted:

These might be old unless they attacked the queen again?

Herstory Begins Now posted:

These might be old unless they attacked the queen again?

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Icon Of Sin posted:

CommieGIR posted:

The bigger issue is the pool does two things: Keeps the latent fission heat down, but also protects workers from excess radiation from the rods. Without the water, while the rods won't melt or anything, they'll be much more difficult to approach safely.

But thankfully power was largely restored last I heard.

KitConstantine posted:

Looks like the Russians are gonna gently caress around with an amphibious landing in Odesa
https://twitter.com/CovertShores/st...ingawful.com%2F
I wonder what they will find out?

Perhaps that the water is 2 degrees Celsius? Or that the air is 0 Celsius? Whomst can say

FrozenVent posted:

It’s not piracy if it’s done by a nation state, that’s just an act of war.

But I always love posturing over NAVTEX, Turkey and Cyprus get into some nice pissing matches.

KitConstantine posted:

Looks like the Russians are gonna gently caress around with an amphibious landing in Odesa

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

Did this get posted?

https://www.9news.com.au/world/russia-ukraine-update-ukraine-destroys-russian-helicopters/f7827408-25ca-4341-92d1-7ffb8a7ad124



Got at least 3 apparently

psydude posted:

That article also mentions that a fourth Russian general was killed yesterday in Mauripol.

SMEGMA_MAIL posted:

It’d be like the tet offensive, which despite popular memory was actually a complete military disaster where the NVA tried to fight like they were the US army against the US army.

Bored As gently caress posted:

If the Russians are able to cut off the Ukrainian Army in the east, and encircle and start sieging Kharkiv and Mariopol, just exactly how bad would that be?

Bad? Or completely catastrophic?

SMEGMA_MAIL posted:

I don’t see how Ukraine would launch a successful counter offensive. Russia continues to slowly advance almost everywhere besides Kyiv they’re just doing it badly. Trying to launch a counter attack would just get in the way of Russias own gently caress ups while also giving Ukraine the potential to make all the same mistakes themselves. It’d be like the tet offensive, which despite popular memory was actually a complete military disaster where the NVA tried to fight like they were the US army against the US army.

Does anyone know about Russian anti tank weaponry? I saw a video that said Russia doesn’t have any infantry weapons remotely as capable or any self-guided infantry weapon systems which makes it a weird situation where the Russian infantry likely cannot get a tank kill without a mobility kill first while Ukrainian troops can just fire off a NLAW or Javelin and run off and pop a tank.

SMEGMA_MAIL posted:

Does anyone know about Russian anti tank weaponry? I saw a video that said Russia doesn’t have any infantry weapons remotely as capable or any self-guided infantry weapon systems which makes it a weird situation where the Russian infantry likely cannot get a tank kill without a mobility kill first while Ukrainian troops can just fire off a NLAW or Javelin and run off and pop a tank.