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What is the most powerful flying bug? This poll is closed. |
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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 rest easy with the knowledge that Europe is completely incapable of producing weaponry in any significant amounts.
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Dec 12, 2023 19:11
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Germany, 1945: Paintakingly making new tanks by hand and fiddling with it to make it perfect. Germany, 2045: Paintakingly making new cruise missiles by hand and fiddling with it to make it perfect.
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Dec 12, 2023 19:13
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This seems... less than ideal.
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Dec 12, 2023 19:17
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capital getting nervous about elections again.
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Dec 12, 2023 19:19
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Do the law force US NGOs to disclose all the money they spend in europe to undermine their countries interests? No? Oh
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Dec 12, 2023 19:22
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a hedged garden
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Dec 12, 2023 19:24
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How in the gently caress do 100,000 Ukrainians even fit inside Ireland ?
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Dec 12, 2023 19:43
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Al-Saqr posted:the russians are announcing big gains in Zhaparozhia is there any confirmation of size and scope? Last I had seen the only notable advances made in the Zaporizhzhia region was that Ukraine had withdraw basically all of their excess units from the Robotyne / Verbove section of the front (where they had been pushing up until about a month ago) to send them off to Avdiivka, so Russia had taken advantage of the situation to re-claim territory that had been lost in the Ukrainian counter-offensive.. the last update I've seen is that Russia may be encroaching on the southern boundary of Robotyne itself.. TBH Zaporizhzhia was/is probably the least active Russian front over the last few weeks. The Russians seem to be up to several things at the moment: 1. There's a renewed push starting yesterday to expel the Ukrainian marines from the village of Kyrnky in the Kherson region (the ill-fated left bank foothold which Ukraine has held for a couple months now). 2. In the Donetsk region, Russia is in the process of clearing out remaining pockets of Ukrainian resistance in Mariinka (there have been some surrender videos and de-mining activities going on). To the south of Mariinka the Russians are heavily bombing Novomykhailivka (apparently another fortress town) and threatening to advance on it from two or three different directions. The Ukrainian commentator fears are that if Russia can get Mariinka locked down they could roll south through Novomykhailivka and Kostyantynivka and end up in Vuhledar from the north, securing a railway that runs from the south to Donetsky and shortening their logistics. 3. Also in the Donetsk region (on the other side of the city) the biggest Russian offensive has been going on from 3 different directions against Avdiivka. Ukraine has reportedly made up to 40,000 soldiers availabe to defend the city and the surrounding areas, as Zelenskyy has determined that Avdiivka must be held at all costs due to it's political significance as a "knife" at Russia's throat on the doorstep to Donetsk and it's status as a fortress that has held out since 2014 against every Russian attack. Most recent updates are that Russia has broken through the defense lines on the southern boundary of the city from the industrial suburbs and started advancing down one of the residential streets in the south end of Avdiivka itself. There is also heavy fighting going on pretty much every day to the north around a huge chemical plant and along the Ukrainian supply lines. 4. Around Bakhmut the Russians are also pushing in three directions and making their biggest gains in this region. They have taken the commanding hills to the north of Kliischiivka to the west of Bakhmut and will likely force the Ukrainians out of that town as a result as well as Andriivka to the south of that. To the north of Bakhmut the Russians have re-captured all of the territory which the Ukrainians took during their sumemr counter-offensive - their positions now match or exceed the limits of the push that Wagner made in the battle of Bakhmut, and Ukrainian defenses here seem to be really struggling to hold together. To the north of Bakhmut the Russians are moving in the direction of Si'versk from Soledar and are making some progress in this direction too 5. Finally in the northern front area things have been pretty quiet but in the last couple days the Russians made quite a large advance through this heavily forested region southwest of Kreminna, moving forward as much as 2 or 3 kilometers.. which i grant you is not a huge amount of distance in Ukraine but it is notable for being very large for the type of terrain and defenses the Russians were advancing through - the Kreminna woods are some of the most heavily fortified ground in Ukraine in combination with being largely inaccessible to vehicles and both sides have been struggling to do anything in the region for well over a year now, so a sudden announcement of an advance that basically cut through more territory in a day than either side has picked up in over a year caught people's attention. I will say though the disclaimer is that Ukraine is known to have been withdrawing troops from all over the place to try and re-enforce Avdiivka and stop the Russian push on that town and in combination Zelenskyy has also recently announced a shift to a more defensive posture for the Ukrainian army - which could include falling back from their current positions to more favorable land. The fact of the Russians gobbling up small pieces of land here and there across the front does not necessarily indicate successful offensive actions, it could just be that the Russians are taking advantage of the situation where Ukraine has less people in these locations and those people are making the decision to fall back to better ground rather than fight. Starsfan has issued a correction as of 19:58 on Dec 12, 2023 |
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Dec 12, 2023 19:49
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quote:Politico.eu 
Jon Pod Van Damm has issued a correction as of 20:02 on Dec 12, 2023 |
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Dec 12, 2023 19:54
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Please contextualize this information with the fact that before the war Robotyne had a population of 500 people, and after months of fighting its now more like the collection of burned out sheds where Robotyne once stood. 'Encroaching on the southern borders of Robotyne' sounds way more impressive than 'advanced 100m over some empty fields' but it means the same thing.
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Dec 12, 2023 19:56
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Nix Panicus posted:Please contextualize this information with the fact that before the war Robotyne had a population of 500 people, and after months of fighting its now more like the collection of burned out sheds where Robotyne once stood. 'Encroaching on the southern borders of Robotyne' sounds way more impressive than 'advanced 100m over some empty fields' but it means the same thing. Yeah maybe that got lost in my post but I was trying to convey to Al-Saqr that contrary to what he had heard I didn't think the advance in the area of Robotyne was anything particularly significant. I think all of these battles have to be contextualized in that they all involve like a couple hundred guys at most (and more often numbering only a couple dozen) fighting for a hill or a forest belt. None of this stuff is going to produce huge changes on the map besides if the Russians can choke off Avdiivka I guess, and even Avdiivka is only a town with a pre-war population of 50,000.
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Dec 12, 2023 20:01
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Any time theres word of an advance, on either side, the best thing to do is wait a week and see if it panned out. Most 'advances' in this war are on the order of an afternoon walk, and will get rolled back the next time someone draws the map. Its the result of zooming in too closely on a largely static front out of a need to continuously generate headlines and engagement
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Dec 12, 2023 20:14
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lol
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Dec 12, 2023 20:44
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Remember: pro-EU protesters in Georiga were throwing molotov cocktails at police and trying to storm Georgia's parliament building to prevent passage of that law. Not even a year later and the EU is going to pass a law that does the same exact thing.
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Dec 12, 2023 21:16
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VoicesCanBe posted:Remember: pro-EU protesters in Georiga were throwing molotov cocktails at police and trying to storm Georgia's parliament building to prevent passage of that law. Not even a year later and the EU is going to pass a law that does the same exact thing. The EU law almost certainly does not apply to USAID, the endowment for democracy etc
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Dec 12, 2023 21:35
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cant wait to see trump humiliate this guy
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Dec 12, 2023 21:43
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We are, and will remain, an open society. But
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Dec 12, 2023 21:52
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LOL
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Dec 12, 2023 21:52
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lol https://i.imgur.com/eHDuTnE.mp4
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Dec 12, 2023 21:53
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Danann posted:Germany, 1945: Paintakingly making new tanks by hand and fiddling with it to make it perfect. "look we won since we can always produce more ammo than china has shipyards"
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Dec 12, 2023 22:13
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Narrator: "They could not produce more ammo than china had shipyards"
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Dec 12, 2023 22:16
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Frosted Flake posted:The EU law almost certainly does not apply to USAID, the endowment for democracy etc I’m curious if there’s ever been studies done on the NGO and dirty finance links. One of the ways that we sell “democratic reforms” is by allowing key allies within foreign governments to have access to the British led offshore financial network, where people can move their dirty foreign denominated money into tax havens. the pandora papers proved a lot of the mechanisms in how this worked technically, but what I suspect is that the NGOs help the initial knowledge transfer, as a lot of money being sucked into our system is from cartels and gangsters - unsophisticated people for the most part. it seems to me a great way to instill loyalty for key contacts in foreign governments, as once they are dependent on the offshore structure, we can cut off their resources by sanctioning them at any point. Zelensky is also personally in the pandora papers but I’ve never understood how exactly long time communists and socialists got the knowledge to create very sophisticated financial trickery without some sort of outside help
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Dec 12, 2023 22:23
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WoodrowSkillson posted:I was being flippant and calling wagner nazis the same way people call blackwater nazis or Israeli or US troops nazis. The quoted post is a far more nuanced and correct take of the actual situation. Israel does have a genocidal blood and soil ideology though
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Dec 12, 2023 22:29
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US troops can't be nazis, they don't even know the word socialism. They're fascists.
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Dec 12, 2023 22:31
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dk2m posted:I’m curious if there’s ever been studies done on the NGO and dirty finance links. One of the ways that we sell “democratic reforms” is by allowing key allies within foreign governments to have access to the British led offshore financial network, where people can move their dirty foreign denominated money into tax havens. the pandora papers proved a lot of the mechanisms in how this worked technically, but what I suspect is that the NGOs help the initial knowledge transfer, as a lot of money being sucked into our system is from cartels and gangsters - unsophisticated people for the most part. It doesn't hold together through dark sorcery, it holds together through factional affiliation, the tricks can be observed from outside or obtained merely by asking politely, they only work if some guy at Deutsche Bank has notes in his ERP regarding the account that state that all this activity is monitored by a higher authority and that all is fine, don't ask questions. SIGSEGV has issued a correction as of 01:12 on Dec 13, 2023 |
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Dec 12, 2023 22:31
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Egg Moron posted:How in the gently caress do 100,000 Ukrainians even fit inside Ireland ? Not very well. Filled a bunch of post COVID gaps in the labour market and made very many hotel owners and landlords very happy. But it's another stress factor on top of Ireland's already dysfunctional housing market. Hence the right wing agitation fostered by government mismanagement/enabling.
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Dec 12, 2023 23:02
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I hadnt thought about that. I wonder to what extent the post COVID economy in Europe relies on displaced Ukrainians. Or to what extent we even think of it as 'post COVID' to begin with because Ukrainians have been filling in
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Dec 12, 2023 23:14
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U.S. intelligence assesses Ukraine war has cost Russia 315,000 casualties - sourcequote:WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - A declassified U.S. intelligence report assessed that the Ukraine war has cost Russia 315,000 dead and injured troops, or nearly 90% of the personnel it had when the conflict began, a source familiar with the intelligence said on Tuesday.
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Dec 12, 2023 23:18
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this basically wins the war right?
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Dec 12, 2023 23:19
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Officer Sandvich posted:U.S. intelligence assesses Ukraine war has cost Russia 315,000 casualties - source from the very trustable havana syndrome truthers
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Dec 12, 2023 23:21
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Officer Sandvich posted:U.S. intelligence assesses Ukraine war has cost Russia 315,000 casualties - source so like 60,000 - 80,000 dead out of that 315,000 if it is both dead and wounded? could be, I think the independent tracking from Mediazona has the Russians with around that lower end estimate.. Russia themselves acknowledge around 35,000 last I checked
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Dec 12, 2023 23:25
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Palladium posted:from the very trustable havana syndrome truthers Only the Cubans have advanced sonic microwave technology, and they have kept it under lock and key
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Dec 12, 2023 23:27
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200 million seems like a laughably small amount
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Dec 12, 2023 23:31
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Nothus posted:200 million seems like a laughably small amount It isn't new funding, it's Biden spending some more out of the previously approved funds. Zelensky isn't getting poo poo out of this visit
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Dec 12, 2023 23:49
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Nothus posted:200 million seems like a laughably small amount and remember that it's now acknowledged that like 90% of that total gets siphoned off in America and never actually makes it to Ukraine as tangible military assets.. so basically the Ukrainians are getting another package consisting of 1 million rounds of small arms ammo, some vests and first aid kits, and a dozen of those unarmored jeeps to drive around in.
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Dec 12, 2023 23:49
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Nothus posted:200 million seems like a laughably small amount What is that like a bakers dozen pallets of ammo and a coupon for two free corn dogs?
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Dec 12, 2023 23:58
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Starsfan posted:and remember that it's now acknowledged that like 90% of that total gets siphoned off in America and never actually makes it to Ukraine as tangible military assets.. so basically the Ukrainians are getting another package consisting of 1 million rounds of small arms ammo, some vests and first aid kits, and a dozen of those unarmored jeeps to drive around in. im the six patrol cars (condition: unknown) the germans sent
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Dec 12, 2023 23:59
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Palladium posted:(condition: unknown) oh, u know 
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Dec 13, 2023 00:10
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In Training posted:It isn't new funding, it's Biden spending some more out of the previously approved funds. Zelensky isn't getting poo poo out of this visit The news is blaming Republicans, but they're a shitshow trash fire of a party. Washington wants an off ramp. Z man better keep one duffle bag full of clothes and another full of euros and gold bars ready to go
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Starsfan posted:and remember that it's now acknowledged that like 90% of that total gets siphoned off in America and never actually makes it to Ukraine as tangible military assets.. so basically the Ukrainians are getting another package consisting of 1 million rounds of small arms ammo, some vests and first aid kits, and a dozen of those unarmored jeeps to drive around in. i get $180m, you rando ukrainian get $1, so why aren't your entitled rear end out there getting blowing up by orcs to saving our beloved liberalism
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