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ASAPI posted:In actual Ukraine war news, Israel has banned Russia from purchasing their super cell phone spy software: Worth noting Israel also banned Ukraine from buying it and previously prevented Eastern European countries who bought it from using it against Russian numbers. They really want to play both sides of this fence. Marshal Prolapse posted:Ahahahahaha Yeah, this is not gonna work as well as Putin thought it would. Basically EU is gonna give them euros and tell them to shutup and color or stop buying, and I doubt Russia is in a position (as much as Germany is also not in a position) to NOT accept it.
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CommieGIR posted:Worth noting Israel also banned Ukraine from buying it and previously prevented Eastern European countries who bought it from using it against Russian numbers. They really want to play both sides of this fence. Part of it is that Russia has around 250,000 Jews still living there. This isn’t meant to justify, but possibly explain the Israeli logic, a bit more. For the record Ukraine has a similar number of Jews living in the country and being murdered by the Russians.
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Marshal Prolapse posted:On the subject of fragging, I’m surprised that during the Trump of execution bonanza that this guy didn’t come up. I figured he would be a poster boy for it. Military must have a different process. Considering what he’s on death row for, plus the fact that he stabbed an MP in a bathroom during his trial, I’m sure he’s getting extra lovely treatment in prison.
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Wasabi the J posted:Weird name. I know the DOJ and feds love their codenames, wonder what Woland means... For what it's worth, The Master and Margarita is a great book, the 1993 translation by Burgin and O'Connor is really good. It actually provides some context to the Russian approach to, uh, everything?
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I remember this talk about professional spyware off the top of my head: "To protect and infect" from the 30C3 conference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1aU3uw1QnA
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Hyrax Attack! posted:The podcast Darknet Diaries episode 100 has a fantastic explanation of how that spyware works and how it has been abused to target activists and aid oligarchs. Darknet Diaries is one of the few podcasts I actually pay attention to (sorta, I'll binge all released episodes between audiobooks). I don't think I've gotten to ep 100 yet, but for somebody not in InfoSec I find that poo poo fascinating. Especially the interviews w/ the Israeli groups.
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Alarbus posted:For what it's worth, The Master and Margarita is a great book, the 1993 translation by Burgin and O'Connor is really good. It actually provides some context to the Russian approach to, uh, everything? Yeah, the Finnish translation is rather solid as well. A really strange yet really good.
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Alarbus posted:For what it's worth, The Master and Margarita is a great book, the 1993 translation by Burgin and O'Connor is really good. It actually provides some context to the Russian approach to, uh, everything? Sounds like it from the synopsis, I just love me some thematic code names. Like, say, if a writer was in charge of renaming the company, after the feds got wise to their first company, and that writer decided to go informant to punish an organization they felt was wrong. And if the org were mostly Russians... Wasabi the J fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Mar 23, 2022 |
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M_Gargantua posted:So... I can give them.worthless paper and they give me oil? Putin takes your Euro via his big bank at the rate he wants you to pay. Gives you back his Pariah State Inc. company script. You pay for the oil in company script on the rate Putin wants you to pay. It's bad and also a dark comedy.
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A Bad King posted:Putin takes your Euro via his big bank at the rate he wants you to pay. Gives you back his Pariah State Inc. company script. You pay for the oil in company script on the rate Putin wants you to pay. Lol, no, I know. Number must go up, energy must be cheap. Sorry grandkids, you're gunna die young.
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carrionman posted:This page has been an amazing example of whyleftwingplansfail.txt In my case it's 51% at best, but I don't consider myself a leftist of any stripe. My issue was the possibility of human trafficking, and now I'm rather doubtful that's what actually went down. So... I'm stepping back from my previous judgement. Comrade Blyatlov posted:Build gently caress the NIMBYs
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Build You must construct additional reactors. A.o.D. posted:gently caress the NIMBYs
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stealie72 posted:Just going to keep throwing out there that burning oil is literally continuing to push human extinction, so maybe we can look at this as an opportunity. Yeah I saw a thread this morning about that, I'm fully skeptical that we'll take even the most modest steps to mitigate climate change https://twitter.com/MattZeitlin/status/1506371963857604624 https://twitter.com/MattZeitlin/status/1506614064319016964 "High energy prices" are loving cyanide to progressive political gains.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:BUILD Yes but: atoms?
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zoux posted:Yeah I saw a thread this morning about that, I'm fully skeptical that we'll take even the most modest steps to mitigate climate change Comrade Blyatlov posted:BUILD
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There's nothing doomer about acknowledging we're point of no return on climate change and that nothing will be done about it. That's like point out water is wet.
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zoux posted:Yes but: atoms? Yes, exactly
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:BUILD This is the answer Also: Kaboom: https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1506700059794096132?s=20&t=SZsc0c3BXsTeJzJ85Eqi9Q
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Yes, exactly No, no, I'm not making myself clear: these are the bad kind of atoms. They're always causing problems on TV and in movies. https://twitter.com/AP/status/1506716593102987272 Also seems like atoms are going to pick a side in this conflict
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zoux posted:No, no, I'm not making myself clear: these are the bad kind of atoms. They're always causing problems on TV and in movies. I'm Comrade Blyatlov, and I say ATOMS ARE GOOD
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I'm Comrade Blyatlov, and I say ATOMS ARE GOOD Atoms are good as long as you keep TEPCO/Comrade Dyatlov far, far away from them.
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CommieGIR posted:This is the answer God drat
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Well if they can't agree I'm sure we can just start splitting atoms up
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Cimber posted:When was the last time in modern history that an aggressor actually won their war of aggression? Vietnam?
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Cimber posted:When was the last time in modern history that an aggressor actually won their war of aggression? 2014 annexation of Crimea
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I don't think I'll ever be able to wrap my head around a climate activist political party that would rather burn coal instead of letting nuclear reactors operate for a few more years. But then again I'm also the kind of guy who vacuums on a Sunday.Arrath posted:God drat Looking at the buildings for scale, some pieces of that poo poo went like an entire city block. psydude fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Mar 23, 2022 |
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:2014 annexation of Crimea Technically I think that is still ongoing.
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stealie72 posted:Just going to keep throwing out there that burning oil is literally continuing to push human extinction, so maybe we can look at this as an opportunity. I have two babies and yes the world is totally hosed and I hope Germany just puts on a drat sweater but we all know that cheap energy has created so much shareholder value and number must rise at the same rate regardless of the quantity of skulls on the skull throne of Capital and we ought not even bother staring down at the falling rate of profit inherent in the contradictions of the system hey a long running sentence with almost as much depth as econ 101 and the duration of time it took for us to destroy our planet with carbonized plant goop. I digress, Putin is a poo poo head and this latest news just quickens the pace for Germany to finally understand they made a big oopsie, and are now correcting course. Maybe...
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A.o.D. posted:In my case it's 51% at best, but I don't consider myself a leftist of any stripe. My issue was the possibility of human trafficking, and now I'm rather doubtful that's what actually went down. So... I'm stepping back from my previous judgement. It's complicated... and i've always liked his (Beau) talks. There are a many shades of grey in this life. 
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If you can enjoy Michael Jackson's music then I think you can get your head around watching Beau's videos
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That Works posted:If you can enjoy Michael Jackson's music I extremely can. (Except for some talking about how people don’t understand their love and people should leave him alone, those get pretty eesh)
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Military folks - it seems unusual that a meeting like this would have the read out leaked. Is that an accurate assumption? https://twitter.com/jeremyherb/status/1506728802054983683?s=20&t=zJG0a4vUZAOV8DyEfegeXg Article: https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/23/politics/us-russia-general-meeting/index.html It's also an interesting read of something clearly pretty high-stakes. The meeting was held in Moscow and a Russian general apparently got visibly emotional - pissed or scared is unclear - when asked about his Ukrainian heritage. Seems like all is not well at the higher echelons of the Russian Military - which we knew but it's weird to have it confirmed like this.
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zoux posted:Yeah I saw a thread this morning about that, I'm fully skeptical that we'll take even the most modest steps to mitigate climate change Yuuup. I haven't been able to stop thinking about the ecological aspect of all this either, because if nothing else this war has emphasized how absolutely and catastrophically addicted everyone still is to fossil fuels. This climate change stuff is going to come down on our heads like a ten ton anvil.
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CommieGIR posted:This is the answer https://twitter.com/chaldene6/status/1506705760293691396?s=20&t=2RsT3jy3XEDoIJV1ytYRIQ This intrigues me some. So is that missile that insane, or is the tank built out of melted down and re-stamped Lada Axles with booger welds or some poo poo? Maybe both. Hell of a magazine detonation.
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KitConstantine posted:Military folks - it seems unusual that a meeting like this would have the read out leaked. Is that an accurate assumption? When I was enlisted in the Marines I would have said "No idea" and now that I work on the other side of the desk as a consultant to Coast Guard officers I can still thoroughly say: no fuckin clue
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CommieGIR posted:Atoms are good as long as you keep TEPCO/Comrade Dyatlov far, far away from them. and what of the dyatlov pass incident? Perhaps atoms were to blame 
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:When you think about it atoms are involved in every disaster "He's out of line but he's correct." Yeah the big overlooked thing that was the larger issue with Chernobyl (that the series did cover pretty well actually) was what Dyatlov had the Reactor Operators do was well outside of standard procedure and was the larger issue. The RBMKs reactor flaw just amplified the issue from Dyatlov manhandling the reactor to drag power out of a poisoned reactor.
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