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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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12 | 2.97% |
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67 | 16.58% |
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94 | 23.27% |
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14 | 3.47% |
| 🐝 |
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87 | 21.53% |
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I like it was suggested that billionaires should hold the families of their security forces hostage to keep them in line as if they wouldn’t turn on you the second they could do so safely.
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May 1, 2023 23:12
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Every billionaire driving to the airport with their bug out bag in tow is going to arrive to find their pilots flew off in the jets with their own families.
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May 1, 2023 23:17
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sullat posted:Your expensive horse cavalry which is now eating horsemeat because you can't get enough fodder in the Himalayas That's why you use them. Can't eat a tank. Tom Guycot posted:Every billionaire driving to the airport with their bug out bag in tow is going to arrive to find their pilots flew off in the jets with their own families. With the standard of living these people expect they need an entire world to support it. Better off not chucking everything into the bin in the first place.
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May 1, 2023 23:19
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 Mud-pdate A break in the rain and sunny, warm weather will lead to rapid decline in soil moisture in southeast Ukraine over the coming week, likely marking the end of mud season. If weather truly is truly the only thing holding up the predicted counteroffensive, we should expect it any day. Regionally, models predict that soil moisture in the critical upper 40cm will drop from nearly saturated to around 60% by this weekend: Sunday, April 30 (the marker is in Orikhiv, a front line town on the road to Melitopol):  Saturday, May 6:  It's worth stressing that these are models and not measurements. The actual trafficability of the soil requires on-the-ground geotechnical work; see this helpful treatise by the US Army Engineer School which I somehow only found today: https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/fm/5-430-00-1/CH7.htm. Any goons feel like some field work? 
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May 1, 2023 23:20
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til bono draws atlantic cover fanart
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May 1, 2023 23:28
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Found this interesting, foreign journalist visiting the front from the Russian side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkl--zh80Sw (in Russian) There's some footage where they do a tour of some Russian trenches and fortifications, intertwined with generic discussions about why they went to the front.
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May 1, 2023 23:43
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Ardennes posted:I like it was suggested that billionaires should hold the families of their security forces hostage to keep them in line as if they wouldn’t turn on you the second they could do so safely. the statue avi guys seem to not like reading the part of roman history where the rich fancy bois like them basically served at the leisure of their mercenaries
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May 1, 2023 23:59
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Ardennes posted:I like it was suggested that billionaires should hold the families of their security forces hostage to keep them in line as if they wouldn’t turn on you the second they could do so safely. Imagine that scene from Elysium where Kruger kills Jodie Foster's politician character in a flash when she reprimands him.
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May 2, 2023 00:01
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Z the IVth posted:I wonder what sort of brain genius it takes to not realise the spec ops ninjas you're hiring to be your security won't have any idea how to get past stuff like "security collars" and "only I know the combination to the pantry". One's a professional psycho with skills in enhanced interrogation and the other is a pudgy sociopath. First rule of feudalism: men with swords never starve
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May 2, 2023 00:15
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Hopefully Putin intervenes in the UK election and protects Rishi.
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May 2, 2023 00:30
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Cpt_Obvious posted:EFB^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Mark Blythe talks to a lot of pretty rich and powerful people and he says none of them have plans beyond 2 weeks from now, let alone 2 months. not every billionaire can just relocate because it depends on what their wealth is based on.
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May 2, 2023 00:45
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https://twitter.com/WithinSyriaBlog/status/1652984178613403648 DIY decoys for the 21st century
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May 2, 2023 00:48
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could probably pass for an Orlan. Hard to imagine it flies hundreds of mph though.
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May 2, 2023 00:50
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Surprised they've got wheels, implies that some of them make it back to get reused. Otherwise you'd just have skids or even a little carriage that detaches when they lift off.
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May 2, 2023 00:51
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/WithinSyriaBlog/status/1652984178613403648 This is what 4 million of patriot missile gets you. Shooting down a crash test dummy Mary Poppins.
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May 2, 2023 00:53
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DancingShade posted:This is what 4 million of patriot missile gets you. ok youve convinced me. im going to stop paying my taxes
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May 2, 2023 00:55
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Slavvy posted:Surprised they've got wheels, implies that some of them make it back to get reused. Otherwise you'd just have skids or even a little carriage that detaches when they lift off. bike wheels are probably cheap enough for them to not care, also they don’t have to worry about some launch dolly breaking
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May 2, 2023 01:05
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Maybe the wheels are for "assemble from the trunk on the field, launch in the wild" thing. Those giant wheels make it look like an Alaska bush plane.
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May 2, 2023 01:10
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Zodium posted:nothing is the great filter. the great filter is a dumb idea an economist came up with in 1996 Space is just incomprehensibly big
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May 2, 2023 01:12
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 https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/status/1653183607534505989?s=46&t=-cIUPxFTj7QRhKH3oB_EQw
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May 2, 2023 01:17
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mlmp08 posted:could probably pass for an Orlan. Hard to imagine it flies hundreds of mph though. Ukraine's most effective anti-air gunner took down 15 of these decoys with $100k laser guided MANPAD missiles.
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May 2, 2023 01:18
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it would be very nice if US & their allies further destroyed their economies by neoliberally trying to arm themselves
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May 2, 2023 01:18
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where do i sign up to 5th column for the ROC.
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May 2, 2023 01:19
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Truga posted:it would be very nice if US & their allies further destroyed their economies by neoliberally trying to arm themselves Opening Google Maps. That wouldn't be very nice at all!
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May 2, 2023 01:29
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/WithinSyriaBlog/status/1652984178613403648 Azerbaijan did the same thing to distract and bait Armenia's AA systems in 2020.
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May 2, 2023 01:30
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Isentropy posted:yeah they buy the international community line without realizing that they'll never be part of the international community. Oh most indians posting on leddit know that already. they think they can sell off both kidneys and migrate to canada with the money.
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May 2, 2023 01:37
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Frosted Flake posted:First rule of feudalism: men with swords never starve Second rule of feudalism: You have to be so what nice to those you rule over
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May 2, 2023 01:39
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WaryWarren posted:
So I better buy a graphics card and whatever other PC parts I need before that kicks off.
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May 2, 2023 01:40
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OhFunny posted:Azerbaijan did the same thing to distract and bait Armenia's AA systems in 2020. lmao if AFU spends more money on ammo than RFU when its over
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May 2, 2023 01:42
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Palladium posted:lmao if AFU spends more money on ammo than RFU when its over This would imply AFU pays for its ammo itself…
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May 2, 2023 01:44
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:So I better buy a graphics card and whatever other PC parts I need before that kicks off. Civilization collapse because the yacht club wants more yachts is good actually
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May 2, 2023 01:44
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Raw Sale RTS
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May 2, 2023 01:45
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:So I better buy a graphics card and whatever other PC parts I need before that kicks off. Relax there won't be a war. China only has to sit in place while the US economy shrinks and eventually the fleet rusts. Think years, decades, not next week. The US certainly wants a war for domestic reasons, sure. Wants and gets though?
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May 2, 2023 01:51
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DancingShade posted:Relax there won't be a war. China only has to sit in place while the US economy shrinks and eventually the fleet rusts. Think years, decades, not next week. china knows that all it has to do is put its own ships out in its own territorial waters to accellerate the collapse of the us by another week. cheapest use of a naval fleet you can imagine
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May 2, 2023 01:53
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WaryWarren posted:
If NYT start posting this poo poo then I think the Biden admin is trying to cut Ukraine loose.
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May 2, 2023 01:55
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 freedom of the press in Sweden. A map from the Pentagon leak has now been withheld by the public broadcaster SVT because their lawyers fear they may run afoul of the new law that criminalizes journalism that can damage relations with other countries if they publish the map.quote:https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/svt-stoppar-publicering-pa-grund-av-spionerilag Previously, in 2022: https://twitter.com/MarkAmesExiled/status/1594760417997623298  Caption: two tiny tyrants talking totalitarianism
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May 2, 2023 01:58
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Some Guy TT posted:https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1652723857646551042 My sister took a Russian passport because you've got to have one to have gas/electricity/etc in the part of Ukraine she's in (Russia owns it now) and the US Immigrations agency just denied her "United for Ukraine" humanitarian parole because according to them she's not a Ukrainian anymore and it's not available to Russian citizens. I argued with the agent, and then the agent's supervisor, that they're basically saying that the conquered regions of Ukraine, and the people living there, are now Russian. They just started repeating bureaucrat speak for: "sucks to be you, stop talking to me". And the Ukrainian embassy told me on the phone, and email, that people in occupied areas will not have their citizenship verified.
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May 2, 2023 01:59
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Nix Panicus posted:Space is just incomprehensibly big So's yo momma! 
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May 2, 2023 02:00
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sum posted:
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spacetoaster posted:My sister took a Russian passport because you've got to have one to have gas/electricity/etc in the part of Ukraine she's in (Russia owns it now) and the US Immigrations agency just denied her "United for Ukraine" humanitarian parole because according to them she's not a Ukrainian anymore and it's not available to Russian citizens. Well yeah that's all Russia now. She's Russian. You're probably Russian too now because it transmits by contact. Congrats.
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May 2, 2023 02:05
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