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NoiseAnnoys posted:we could always trade him for the Salisbury tourists.
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May 29, 2023 13:49
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GABA ghoul posted:I'm not sure why this is a huge deal. The US does that with allied nations too. The nukes remain under direct control of Russia and have PAL devices installed. Those are easily circumvented once you have a PAL key. You first use it as normal, then you freeze the key and use it, then you heat the key and use it.
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May 29, 2023 13:52
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Cartoon Man posted:Those are easily circumvented once you have a PAL key. You first use it as normal, then you freeze the key and use it, then you heat the key and use it. A weapon to surpass Washing Machines?!?
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May 29, 2023 13:55
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It's still absurd that nuclear annihilation has lost (almost) all its teeth for threats and scaling it back by about 8 steps to blowing up internet cables would be tremendously more effective (not that Russia should, obviously)
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May 29, 2023 13:55
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There was talk of linking certain Twitter account posts before, because they would sometimes post things that were a bit sus. Might this be the same one?
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May 29, 2023 13:57
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Credible nuclear threats are just as effective as ever; it's just that it's also pretty transparent when those threats are meant seriously and when they are just bluster.
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May 29, 2023 13:59
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Dwesa posted:Zelenskyi with a fake moustache and glasses requesting nukes on behalf of friendly Malorussian Peoples' Republic President Walenskyi, wears purple camo pants and fitted tops with a deep V
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May 29, 2023 14:09
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https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1663139540444250113 Take it with a grain of salt but reportedly a bomb threat was made in Moscow, aimed at the State Historical Museum.
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May 29, 2023 14:10
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steinrokkan posted:Credible nuclear threats are just as effective as ever; it's just that it's also pretty transparent when those threats are meant seriously and when they are just bluster. zone posted:https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1663139540444250113
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May 29, 2023 14:13
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Is that unusual in Russia? In the states bomb threats are like fire drills, just something that happens occasionally that nobody really takes too seriously
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May 29, 2023 14:15
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Vaginaface posted:Is that unusual in Russia? In the states bomb threats are like fire drills, just something that happens occasionally that nobody really takes too seriously It's not occasionally, it's like every single time there's finals a student will call in a bomb threat to try and get an extra day to study.
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May 29, 2023 14:24
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GABA ghoul posted:I'm not sure why this is a huge deal. The US does that with allied nations too. The nukes remain under direct control of Russia and have PAL devices installed. If Kazakhstan(or whoever agrees to this) gets uppity one day the Russian officers on site and guarding the nukes probably have orders to scuttle them immediately. As if Russia would ever deliver actually functional nukes to their new servant's arsenal to begin with.
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May 29, 2023 14:30
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GABA ghoul posted:I'm not sure why this is a huge deal. The US does that with allied nations too. The nukes remain under direct control of Russia and have PAL devices installed. If Kazakhstan(or whoever agrees to this) gets uppity one day the Russian officers on site and guarding the nukes probably have orders to scuttle them immediately. https://twitter.com/meduza_en/status/1663165416158420997
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May 29, 2023 14:31
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Throwing so much shade at it that the whole of Belarus can no longer get any sunlight.
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May 29, 2023 14:42
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Neddy Seagoon posted:What causes/enables them to target their own launcher like that? Wouldn't being behind the launching missile/torpedo prevent that just by its nature? From what I understand, it's a two-point problem where a) The missile tries to take into account what it thinks is the trajectory of an incoming round, so it will end up accidentally striking its own launcher if it assumes there is incoming fire from what it perceives as an intercept-able target. b) Depending on the system, the missile may not take the ground into effect. I can't speak on Russian systems, but this was another problem with the early Patriot. It would try to intercept incoming fire, and due to the trajectory, the point of contact may be somewhere underground or even a mountain or tall building. This could end up causing collateral damage, so that's why Patriots now have the kill switches for this kind of situation. My expertise isn't in these systems, but I've come across materials on them while reading for my job.
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May 29, 2023 14:42
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I prefered when time travel devices came with analog dials. This new one seems to be stuck on last century and keeps beeping about nuclear proliferation.
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May 29, 2023 14:46
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Saoshyant posted:Throwing so much shade at it that the whole of Belarus can no longer get any sunlight. They'll need to import it in cans...
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May 29, 2023 14:48
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mobby_6kl posted:Yeah but I don't think any nuclear threats can be credible because everyone knows at this point they lead to MAD. Yes, that's the point, nuclear threats are only credible in existential circumstances, and that's how it's always been
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May 29, 2023 14:57
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free hubcaps posted:A weapon to surpass Washing Machines?!? Under direct control of Washingmachineton.
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May 29, 2023 15:11
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https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1663182724323000323 loving seriously? are they trying to wipe out their entire stock of missiles?
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May 29, 2023 15:13
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Someone has to blow up those schools and hospitals. It's denazifying those kids and cancer patients.
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May 29, 2023 15:18
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zone posted:https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1663182724323000323 One of these days they are going to scratch the paint on a Patriot launcher and it will make it all worth it
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May 29, 2023 15:22
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steinrokkan posted:One of these days they are going to scratch the paint on a Patriot launcher and it will make it all worth it They already did that and crowed that they blew up the whole battery. Then later they quietly memoryholed that it ever happened and only the dumbest vatniks still bring up the "destroyed patriot battery" mostly out of desperation.
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May 29, 2023 15:28
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zone posted:https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1663182724323000323 Look like Russian negotiators were able to secure a bonanza contract for quassam rockets from technological powerhouse Hamas.
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May 29, 2023 15:46
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madeintaipei posted:You ever tried to fix a modern washing machine? If you can find the parts at all, they'll be just as expensive as buying a whole new unit. Depends. If its LG or Samsung or some other high end or European brand then yes it can really can get that expensive and hard to find the parts. If its Whirlpool or Maytag (they may as well be the same at this point) parts are usually easy to get and prices aren't bad at all. At least in the US anyways. Dunno about elsewhere. So long as you're not replacing something that is too hard to get at its actually possible to fix it yourself as well with the help of a view DIY vids to walk you through it. If you have to start pulling the whole unit apart to get at 1 thing then IMO its not worth it but that is me. Depends on how much you value your time and how much money you've got sitting around to spend on a new unit.
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May 29, 2023 16:01
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Deptfordx posted:drat. Read this about Sergei Shoigu and his ludicrous medal collection. 
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May 29, 2023 16:05
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This is pretty old. I don't think any of them are still defence minister. Other than Shoigu lol.
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May 29, 2023 16:09
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Broke: woke Woke: wood
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May 29, 2023 16:10
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spankmeister posted:This is pretty old. I don't think any of them are still defence minister. Other than Shoigu lol. of course, who could outlast the great Shoigu and his fearsome array of military parade participant medals?
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May 29, 2023 16:16
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Vaginaface posted:Is that unusual in Russia? In the states bomb threats are like fire drills, just something that happens occasionally that nobody really takes too seriously
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May 29, 2023 16:27
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https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1663204693022048256 L bozo
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May 29, 2023 16:32
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Was this a case of an obvious collaborator being too dumb to get a ride out of town when the Russians were fleeing, or did the Russians just refuse to take him?
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May 29, 2023 16:38
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Deki posted:Was this a case of an obvious collaborator being too dumb to get a ride out of town when the Russians were fleeing, or did the Russians just refuse to take him? Doesn't mention, but maybe they were considered dispensable and left behind when the other occupiers fled.
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May 29, 2023 16:39
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E: Lol I have no idea where I got that idea. I'm wrong at least. VVV
Potrzebie fucked around with this message at 16:55 on May 29, 2023 |
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May 29, 2023 16:43
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Don't know about the other three, but von der Leyen was never Foreign Minister.
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May 29, 2023 16:50
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Deptfordx posted:drat. Read this about Sergei Shoigu and his ludicrous medal collection. quote:24/ Shoigu's medal "For the return of Crimea" has an interesting story. Its existence was denied until 2018, when Shoigu first wore in it public. The medal dates the start of the operation to seize Crimea as "20.02.14" – while Viktor Yanukovych was still the president of Ukraine. I can hear the goalposts shifting already. "Russia only liberated Crimea in response to the illegal NATO coup!" "Actually, Russia started publicly bragging about the upcoming seizure of Crimea months before Yanukovych fled." "Russian is so prescient and adept in its intelligence gathering that it knew of the clumsy NATO coup months in advance!"
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May 29, 2023 16:57
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The missile barrages might partly be an attempt to run down Ukrainian air defenses as much as possible before the apparently fairly imminent Ukrainian assault. Russia is gonna want every Sukhoi and Mig in the air and on tank-killing duty when the Leopards finally start rolling towards the front lines, and not having air superiority due to effective Ukrainian AA will keep them from doing exactly that.
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May 29, 2023 17:21
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barbecue at the folks posted:The missile barrages might partly be an attempt to run down Ukrainian air defenses as much as possible before the apparently fairly imminent Ukrainian assault. Russia is gonna want every Sukhoi and Mig in the air and on tank-killing duty when the Leopards finally start rolling towards the front lines, and not having air superiority due to effective Ukrainian AA will keep them from doing exactly that. I would simply not try to exhaust the enemy's new and proven AA capabilities with my precious, significantly-smaller-than-ideal supply of missiles by prioritizing bombing hospitals and schools with the vast majority consistently intercepted instead of trying to target enemy ammo dumps and training camps OP
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May 29, 2023 17:26
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Neither side has air superiority or is flying regular close air support missions. Having loads of unfired Patriot missiles in Kyiv or Lviv wouldn't help at the frontline in any case.
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May 29, 2023 17:27
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barbecue at the folks posted:The missile barrages might partly be an attempt to run down Ukrainian air defenses as much as possible before the apparently fairly imminent Ukrainian assault. Russia is gonna want every Sukhoi and Mig in the air and on tank-killing duty when the Leopards finally start rolling towards the front lines, and not having air superiority due to effective Ukrainian AA will keep them from doing exactly that. Russians haven't hit the broad side of a barn with their planes for the most part on the fronts. Trenches and occasionally the hiding places of Ukrainian soldiers, but the majority of the destruction of Ukrainian armored equipment has been because of ATGMs, drones, mines, artillery, and a small portion of tank on tank/IFV on IFV or similar. They'd have better luck massing together as much artillery as possible along the routes of attack, though with how much of it bit the dust in recent days, they'll probably find themselves not having enough to cover all the parts of the defense network as they might like.
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May 29, 2023 17:28
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