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https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@noelreports@mstdn.social/110656479456523567quote:Because of the persistent traffic jams on the Crimean bridge due to car inspections, Putin decided to allow the flow of vacationers through the occupied regions of Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Kherson. What kind of mega-moron do you have to be to not only vacation in an active war zone, but to decide that getting there by driving through an even more active war zone is a good idea?
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Jul 4, 2023 17:17
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Only 28.5% of Belrusians speak Belrusian in their house. That's pretty wild.
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Jul 4, 2023 17:18
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The_Franz posted:https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@noelreports@mstdn.social/110656479456523567 Russia media heavily plays down everything. It probably told them that the war was no where near there and Ukraine is getting wrecked by real men.
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Jul 4, 2023 17:19
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At this point, probably the main value of Bahkmut is that it fixes the opposition there so they can't be used elsewhere. And by extension, the men and materiel Russia must use and replenish to continue to invest the town also can't be used elsewhere. If the cost can be borne by continuously attriting the defense there, and the replacements, it serves a purpose. Ukraine may also feel the political gain makes the cost worthwhile: losing Bahkmut may have an adverse political effect for Russia and that alone may be worth the cost. But in the end, the risk/reward equation for Bahkmut is very different for both parties. It's Ukrainian territory and they need not justify the attempt.
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Jul 4, 2023 17:25
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Tai posted:Only 28.5% of Belrusians speak Belrusian in their house. That's pretty wild. Right. Ukrainian and Belarusian were actually in similar positions back in 1991, but government policy and social attitudes have made all the difference since then. For example, Zelensky gives all of his domestic speeches in Ukrainian, despite being a native Russian speaker.
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Jul 4, 2023 17:27
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Phlegmish posted:Even the Ukrainian speakers who migrated from the countryside ended up basically being forced to adopt Russian for reasons of prestige and social mobility. Good point. My dad said that it was considered uncool (i.e. uneducated, uncultured) to be heard speaking Ukrainian.
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Jul 4, 2023 17:32
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NoiseAnnoys posted:any chance they were from the karpat'ska rus, if you don't mind my asking? that was one of the last yiddish speaking areas in central europe that remained after the second world war. I had to look up karpat'ska rus, but yes! That's exactly the region.
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Jul 4, 2023 17:38
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RockWhisperer posted:If this earlier NYT piece is any indicator, there is home-grown pressure to speak and adopt Ukrainian. I remember reading from Tim Snyder somewhere (might be from On Tyranny) that the pace at which Russian language books were being collected and destroyed early on in the war was causing alarm among scholars that it would disadvantage those struggling to adopt Ukrainian and destroy rare and valuable works. No doubt the East will remain Russian speaking, but I could foresee change in areas of more mixed language use. It seems evident that Ukrainian is becoming the lingua franca. Oh absolutely, people are making an effort switching to Ukrainian, or surjic (Russian-Ukrainian hybrid dialect) even in private. Not sure about migration - our friend from Kharkiv, when city was under shelling, went westward with family to take refuge in Ivano-Frankivsk and it was tough: there are no jobs there and locals still are quitely prejudiced against people from the east. Thankfully she is back home now. Most migration already happened in 2014 when people left Donetsk, once a thriving city, either to Russia or other central/eastern Ukrainian cities, depending on what connections they had at the moment.
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Jul 4, 2023 17:41
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The_Franz posted:https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@noelreports@mstdn.social/110656479456523567 Honestly it looks like Putin knowingly baiting tourists to be killed by a stray shell so Russian would be able to martyr them. Or he (and the tourists that would dare) are lobotomized into sense of security by TV.
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Jul 4, 2023 17:47
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Suck-Me-Own-Cock Gobbler
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Jul 4, 2023 17:52
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Tai posted:Russia speed dialing it's way to the top of the rankings on being the most polar opposite country in regards to communism and yet a sizeable amount of tankies are communist is still something I continually struggle to grasp. Good guys/bad guys thinking. If America is an empire, and it is, then whoever opposes it must be anti-imperialist, even if they've themselves been a genocidal empire since before Columbus got off the boat. Tankies cannot deal with the fact that there are no good guys among the sovereign states, and that no state will ever bring about a society free of exploitation because states literally cannot exist without exploiting their subjects. 
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Jul 4, 2023 17:58
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Ukraine scored 5 air kills with a patriot battery. I don't think it was today but that is an absolute record. I think they are talking about the instances of claimed friendly fire over beryansk that were later revealed to be patriot batteries. Lol at the amount of data the US is getting from Ukraine using generation old anti air system s.
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Jul 4, 2023 18:53
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GABA ghoul posted:Does "running out" have a much narrower meaning in English than in other languages? I’m not English native speaker, but it implies that you’re soon to reach 0 if nothing is actively done, i.e running out of air. I think it technically can be used in the broader sense - but many if not most people will think of the narrow usage A clearer way to say it would be “They’re running out of artillery shells faster than they can replace them”. If I were to say it I’d say “their rate of fire is unsustainable”
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Jul 4, 2023 19:03
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I'm gonna say that Russian artillery won't actually stop until all means of producing shells and artillery literally shut down or are blown up. Instead, they'll probably just slow down the rate of artillery fire, or save up their rusted garbage until the time comes for them to make another ineffectual push.
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Jul 4, 2023 19:08
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CommissarMega posted:I'm gonna say that Russian artillery won't actually stop until all means of producing shells and artillery literally shut down or are blown up. Instead, they'll probably just slow down the rate of artillery fire, or save up their rusted garbage until the time comes for them to make another ineffectual push. Supposedly they're already finding Russian positions stocked with rotting 80+ year old shells.
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Jul 4, 2023 19:12
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https://twitter.com/GloOouD/status/1676223654932168704 That's the end of another Mig-31.
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Jul 4, 2023 19:18
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Can we allow the Ukrainians to put Patriots in Alaska lmao
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Jul 4, 2023 20:03
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Prigozhin gets back ten billion rubles ($111m) cash and more seized after mutinyquote:According to local St. Petersburg outlet Fontanka, Yevgeny Prigozhin has had boxes of cash that were seized during his mutiny returned to him. Authorities took possession of the cash during a search related to the mutiny. higher power intervened  Also massive explosion reported near Donetsk in Makiivka, likely some ammo dump
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Jul 4, 2023 20:27
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Lmao that prigozhin gets to do a coup and not only gets away with it, he gets his money back too. Lmao.
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Jul 4, 2023 20:48
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HonorableTB posted:Lmao that prigozhin gets to do a coup and not only gets away with it, he gets his money back too. Lmao. A bunch of money...maybe a bottle of perfume, too!
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Jul 4, 2023 20:52
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Coup will be successful or your money back.
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Jul 4, 2023 20:54
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Here we go...  They're gonna loving do it aren't they HonorableTB fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Jul 4, 2023 |
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Jul 4, 2023 20:56
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Draw a picture of a Ukrainian flag and your dad gets thrown in jail Stage a military coup and you get rewarded with a paid vacation to Belarus
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Jul 4, 2023 20:56
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fatherboxx posted:Oh absolutely, people are making an effort switching to Ukrainian, or surjic (Russian-Ukrainian hybrid dialect) even in private.
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Jul 4, 2023 20:58
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 This is so so hosed
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Jul 4, 2023 21:00
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https://twitter.com/WarMonitors/status/1676299884427636741 Something want bang
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Jul 4, 2023 21:06
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HonorableTB posted:Lmao that prigozhin gets to do a coup and not only gets away with it, he gets his money back too. Lmao. Putin forgot to offer him receipt so he got his order refunded.
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Jul 4, 2023 21:09
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HonorableTB posted:Here we go... Russians have consistently acted with a certain maliciousness this entire war so far. Why wouls this be any different? Right because its loving stupid but they absolutely do not care.
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Jul 4, 2023 21:09
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 Anti-radiation units brought in
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Jul 4, 2023 21:16
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Losing a war despite being a superpower? Cause a radiation disaster! Sovereign countries hate this one weird trick
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Jul 4, 2023 21:18
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If that dipshit irradiates Europe the mood is gonna get super ugly.
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Jul 4, 2023 21:24
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If the contamination reaches the international waters at the Black Sea, or Poland or Romania that's the NATO's "we get directly involved"-red line, right?
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Jul 4, 2023 21:29
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I don't think they're going to irradiate anything. They're going to take all the fuel and blow the gently caress out of the plant so they have nothing of value when they take it back over.
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Jul 4, 2023 21:30
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Tarkus posted:I don't think they're going to irradiate anything. They're going to take all the fuel and blow the gently caress out of the plant so they have nothing of value when they take it back over. Pray tell, how do you take fuel from a nuclear power plant that has recently been operating?
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Jul 4, 2023 21:31
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spankmeister posted:Pray tell, how do you take fuel from a nuclear power plant that has recently been operating? very carefully  ... 
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Jul 4, 2023 21:32
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spankmeister posted:Pray tell, how do you take fuel from a nuclear power plant that has recently been operating? load it into the back of a truck and drive it out, duh
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Jul 4, 2023 21:33
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spankmeister posted:Pray tell, how do you take fuel from a nuclear power plant that has recently been operating? "Platoon, take fuel!"
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Jul 4, 2023 21:33
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spankmeister posted:Pray tell, how do you take fuel from a nuclear power plant that has recently been operating?
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Jul 4, 2023 21:36
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spankmeister posted:Pray tell, how do you take fuel from a nuclear power plant that has recently been operating? True, I guess they'd be hot for quite some time.
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Jul 4, 2023 21:36
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Lmao they are going straight to red alert 2 demo trucks.
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Jul 4, 2023 21:38
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