Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 posted:

just making shells one at a time in my backyard foundry

OctaMurk posted:

A quran a day keeps the nato away

Al! posted:

you usually contemplate war crimes when youre winning right

gradenko_2000 posted:

I was at the beach over the weekend, and I picked up one of those toy shovels, and I started digging

One of my nieces comes up to me, and asks me what I'm doing, and I tell her "well, if the enemy starts coming in from the ocean, we need to have a trench for cover. Would you like to help?"

She nods, and starts digging too

When the trench gets to about four inches deep and a foot and a half in length, I change direction to angle it perpendicular to the coast. My other niece then asks why, and I explain that it's to prevent the enemy from being able to see down the entire length of the trench if they ever get inside. "This way, we can isolate them to just the one part of the trench that they get into"

it's like a lightbulb goes off in her head, and she helps her sister zigzag the trench on the other side from the one I'm working on

Later, I help them fill up a bucket with sand (not too wet!), and then turn it over, to create "a big bunker that's going to overlook our trenches", as I use my fingernail to carve out a small firing slit. Later, they start looking for rocks and start putting them in the trenches and on top of the bunker. They're "the guards", they tell me

By the time we left the beach at sunset, we had one more bunker, about ten feet of trenchworks, and a communications trench running between the main line and the bunkers

That was all stuff I picked up from this thread, and I'm glad I was able to entertain and connect with my extended family for a while

Al! posted:

you usually contemplate war crimes when youre winning right

Homeless Friend posted:

https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1674550868455178240

Al! posted:

you usually contemplate war crimes when youre winning right

OctaMurk posted:

A quran a day keeps the nato away

The Oldest Man posted:

I wonder how many mines are already on the ground in eastern Ukraine right now. I'm guessing it's at least a million.

OctaMurk posted:

A quran a day keeps the nato away

mawarannahr posted:

the title should start with [UKR/RUS War] or [UA/RU War]

gradenko_2000 posted:

that's not alphabetical?

Russo-Ukrainian would be more like it

Best Friends posted:

when he said he posted all this on his phone (one of the six key doxxable facts) I was like okay this is some sort of bit. That’s not real.

gradenko_2000 posted:

I was at the beach over the weekend, and I picked up one of those toy shovels, and I started digging
...
By the time we left the beach at sunset, we had one more bunker, about ten feet of trenchworks, and a communications trench running between the main line and the bunkers

That was all stuff I picked up from this thread, and I'm glad I was able to entertain and connect with my extended family for a while

gradenko_2000 posted:

I was at the beach over the weekend, and I picked up one of those toy shovels, and I started digging

One of my nieces comes up to me, and asks me what I'm doing, and I tell her "well, if the enemy starts coming in from the ocean, we need to have a trench for cover. Would you like to help?"

She nods, and starts digging too

When the trench gets to about four inches deep and a foot and a half in length, I change direction to angle it perpendicular to the coast. My other niece then asks why, and I explain that it's to prevent the enemy from being able to see down the entire length of the trench if they ever get inside. "This way, we can isolate them to just the one part of the trench that they get into"

it's like a lightbulb goes off in her head, and she helps her sister zigzag the trench on the other side from the one I'm working on

Later, I help them fill up a bucket with sand (not too wet!), and then turn it over, to create "a big bunker that's going to overlook our trenches", as I use my fingernail to carve out a small firing slit. Later, they start looking for rocks and start putting them in the trenches and on top of the bunker. They're "the guards", they tell me

By the time we left the beach at sunset, we had one more bunker, about ten feet of trenchworks, and a communications trench running between the main line and the bunkers

That was all stuff I picked up from this thread, and I'm glad I was able to entertain and connect with my extended family for a while

Homeless Friend posted:

https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1674550868455178240

Zeppelin Insanity posted:

You have to see it in the context of Americans admitting in the 90s that economic collapse in post-Soviet states came about partially because "they believed in capitalism" because "they had grown up without it" and "never experienced poverty and homelessness".

People believed they would retain everything from the Soviet system, but have more stuff. They wanted more stuff, but did not see it as a trade. They did not feel that free education, free healthcare, and affordable housing were benefits of the Soviet system: they simply thought that was normal, universal, unquestionable. The only thoughts related to the Soviet system were the things it denied them.

I see it to this day. My parents loudly tell me they hate everything communist. I tell them they had free education, free healthcare, and received more than one apartment for free (which then turned them into minor landlords post-90s). They say: of course, but that's not communist. When I point out capitalist countries did not have this, they get angry at me.

Lostconfused posted:

Men's wear? We're talking about US chauvinism erasing all cultures by dominating foreign markets with exports.

Ytlaya posted:

^^^ At its core I think it stems from a narrative-based view of reality, where outcomes are desirable based on whether they'd be considered good or bad outcomes in a narrative (and our cultural understanding of WW2 heavily contributes to this).

So in a "bad guy invades" narrative, the only good (and thus acceptable) outcome is "bad guy being defeated." Even if hundreds of thousands of people have to die to achieve it, it's worth it because it's "a good ending." But surrendering is not "a good ending," even if it results in hundreds of thousands of fewer people being dead.

All the stuff about sovereignty or "Russia's going to do genocides" is just an attempt to rationalize this gut feeling.

KomradeX posted:

He's the closest thing we have to an expert on this subject and he publicly disagrees witb liberals and nothing makes a liberal angier than an expert who tells them they're full of poo poo

Frosted Flake posted:

Is there a way to buy East German jeans? People buy western vintage clothes the same age, so the textiles themselves probably survived, right?

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 posted:

just making shells one at a time in my backyard foundry

Orange Devil posted:

Everything I have read about East-Germany brings this up constantly. All the benefits of communism were seen as natural, obvious things that would be retained no matter what. There was no cost-benefit analysis when they thought about capitalism, as they thought they'd get the best of both worlds. It's a disturbing lack of materialist analysis and naivité in the regular population.

When I talk to Chinese students in NL I regularly see this same kind of naivité about capitalism.

Frosted Flake posted:

It makes sense to me that they didn't think it was Levis and bananas or lol basically the entire fabric of their society, but goddamn someone should have better communicated that to them.

also Grandenko (No crying PHL smilie for whatever reason) that rules.

Best Friends posted:

when he said he posted all this on his phone (one of the six key doxxable facts) I was like okay this is some sort of bit. That’s not real.

mawarannahr posted:

Ardennes posted:

To me, it is more interesting to see present-day Muscovites or Chinese students from major cities being impressed by anything in the West. It is something I don't get at all. There isn't a real material difference, if anything, potentially a downgrade.

Frosted Flake posted:

Chinese students at the $$$ Canadian university here drive Maseratis and poo poo, so I'm assuming "more consumer goods" seems great for the socioeconomic strata sending their kids to study abroad.

Frosted Flake posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek2P-Ui46GE

Well There's Your Problem convinced Russia blew up their own dam, while listing all the reasons it benefitted Ukraine and that it killed Russian soldiers, flooded the Russian side of the river.

Frosted Flake posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek2P-Ui46GE

Well There's Your Problem convinced Russia blew up their own dam, while listing all the reasons it benefitted Ukraine and that it killed Russian soldiers, flooded the Russian side of the river.