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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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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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Pistol_Pete posted:From the UK's Times:
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Mar 28, 2024 12:29
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Raskolnikov38 posted:if kyiv falls can we all go back to calling it Kiev They got to put a House of Putin sigil on that giant statue first.
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Mar 28, 2024 12:44
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Egg Moron posted:What are you going to arm yourself with, The West? fidelity 401k’s with a 2% pay matching scheme? Gonna send in western grant writing advisors from American liberal arts colleges? you can invest in my new company, Howtzr, which aims to use AI to disrupt artillery shell production with the power of web3 on the blockchain
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Mar 28, 2024 13:00
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I've mentioned before, we cannot entice the company that potentially makes shells to do so, because their orders from the automotive industry are more profitable.
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Mar 28, 2024 13:05
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:I've mentioned before, we cannot entice the company that potentially makes shells to do so, because their orders from the automotive industry are more profitable. Hmm, is this the German Greens' moment?
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Mar 28, 2024 13:08
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Both the Prime Minister and Premier visited their factory lol
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Mar 28, 2024 13:11
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my bony fealty posted:It's fascinating that Soviet citizens just assumed Western nations also gave their citizens free or heavily subsidized healthcare and housing and guaranteed employment, USSR really failed at the internal propaganda there american propaganda was far more sophisticated then lol. Also at the time you could be a very skilled knowledge worker and move to the west to have a much higher quality of life.
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Mar 28, 2024 13:58
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stephenthinkpad posted:WTF, the sub I go to check new Ukraine Russia Reports has gone private. their discord said they were being brigaded by pro ukraine supporters who were breaking sub rules and reporting it to reddit admins so they took it private.
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Mar 28, 2024 13:58
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Raskolnikov38 posted:if kyiv falls can we all go back to calling it Kiev I never stopped. And it's funny when libs try to correct me.
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Mar 28, 2024 14:03
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spacetoaster posted:I never stopped. And it's funny when libs try to correct me. OK, but watch this: The Ukraine
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Mar 28, 2024 14:08
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I am triggered. I am spiralling.
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Mar 28, 2024 14:11
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In Training posted:Why does iOS have 99.5% market share in dprk???? North Korea is a workers paradise. Every factory worker can have any luxury good they want.
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Mar 28, 2024 14:25
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Tankbuster posted:their discord said they were being brigaded by pro ukraine supporters who were breaking sub rules and reporting it to reddit admins so they took it private. Well I guess the desperate ones were the NAFO dudes not the IDF who control reddit? Too bad I was only following it with a throw away account and didn't subscribe to it. BTW reddit is banning new accounts accessing though free VPN extensions, good thing I have a few paid VPN handy.
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Mar 28, 2024 14:38
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I feel like one day soon, Zelensky is gonna meet up with his handlers and get Daniel Plainsfielded. America please, I'm in desperate times! I need a friend, I feel the walls closing in I HAVE SINNED. I need HIMARS and Abrahms! America is gonna sneer back and drink up that milkshake.
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Mar 28, 2024 15:04
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We already gave him so much and he still managed to lose. Bad investment, costs are sunk.
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Mar 28, 2024 15:10
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stephenthinkpad posted:Well I guess the desperate ones were the NAFO dudes not the IDF who control reddit? gotta keep up to date on those fapping subs, money well spent imo
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Mar 28, 2024 15:17
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gradenko_2000 posted:Also the USSR had plenty of consumer goods. It was Gorbachev's reforms that caused the availability of goods to go down, because without GOSPLAN to mandate that a factory manager had to produce baby socks and wooden toy cars, factory managers would instead chase after the highest-margin products. No more baby socks and toys, because of capitalism. This was always a thing though, and it was part of Gosplan's job to crackdown on anyone doing something like that.
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Mar 28, 2024 15:41
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Lostconfused posted:This was always a thing though, and it was part of Gosplan's job to crackdown on anyone doing something like that. By 1987, companies had to fulfill state contracts but otherwise could do what they willed on the consumer side and so shortages started as companies tried to game the system as much as possible. Also, enterprises could go bankrupt if they couldn't support themselves otherwise. It was basically internal wrecking. The key to it wasn't really Gorbachev himself really, but Andropov who had promoted him and was willing to let Yakovlev back in who was clear was anti-regime. Chernenko tried to throw water on the issue by demoting Gorbachev but he died and there wasn't enough resistance left in the politburo to stop him. Basically, the Soviet Union didn't die in 1991 but in March 1985. Btw, Chernenko was ethnically Ukrainian ironically enough.
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Mar 28, 2024 15:57
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Been hearing a lot of the "Fish rots from the head" over the past two years.
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Mar 28, 2024 16:02
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Lostconfused posted:Been hearing a lot of the "Fish rots from the head" over the past two years. Actually the fish rots bottom up from material conditions
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Mar 28, 2024 16:09
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This GMT game is going to be a train wreck. Still, they start off this dev diary on a solid footing  but then.. 
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Mar 28, 2024 16:12
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Pistol_Pete posted:From the UK's Times: lmao and Ireland know what it's like to live next to an expansionist Britain (and are still occupied in then north by them). The absolute gall of these people.
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Mar 28, 2024 16:17
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genericnick posted:Actually the fish rots bottom up from material conditions How does that happen in the first place though? Arguably, the Soviet Union in the early 1980s wasn't experiencing sudden catastrophic setbacks and if anything the Second Oil Crisis had helped it in some ways. Look at the US as well from the 1980s to now. A country isn't killed on the streets, it is killed in the backrooms. ---- Andropov is an interesting question mark because for most of his career until 1980-81 he was doctrinaire and generally a hardliner but beginning with the Polish crisis he made a right-turn, including appointing Gorbachev and other liberals to the politburo and experiencing some light economic liberalization. A lot of things had let slip under Brezhnev but it seemed Andropov led a more sudden acceleration. ---- hmhb fan posted:lmao and Ireland know what it's like to live next to an expansionist Britain (and are still occupied in then north by them). The absolute gall of these people. The UK always seemed the result of about a thousand years of Norman arrogance running through its cycle.
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Mar 28, 2024 16:17
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genericnick posted:Actually the fish rots bottom up from material conditions Material conditions being that most people are not interested in the socialist project and are happy to enjoy their material comforts so once the party fails to enforce the ideological line it all goes to poo poo.
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Mar 28, 2024 16:23
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Lostconfused posted:Been hearing a lot of the "Fish rots from the head" over the past two years. The purpose of power is to steal stuff, indulge vices, and avoid work. Once all the friction is smoothed out by excuses, power moves in its inevitable direction.
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Mar 28, 2024 16:26
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Lostconfused posted:Material conditions being that most people are not interested in the socialist project and are happy to enjoy their material comforts so once the party fails to enforce the ideological line it all goes to poo poo. I think in the case of Brezhnev and Andropov you had old men who had been comfortable for quite a long time, and at a certain point they "tuned out" so to speak, and became more and more influenced by younger party members who had their own ideas. Granted, in the case of the Soviet Union, you had people in government who were not just not interested in the socialist project but honestly could barely contain their open hatred of the country, which is why it is so bizarre.
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Mar 28, 2024 16:29
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that drink has nothing to do with being a martini other than the glass 
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Mar 28, 2024 16:31
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Sapozhnik posted:My father complained at one point that vegetables in the Brezhnev era had so much nitrate in them that they would cause cancer and that people would have to buy edible vegetables on the black market or something like that. I also dimly remember from my very early childhood that meat from the tail end of the Soviet union was gristly and awful as well. you know maybe ive just been too broken down and brainwormed by the constant influx of putinesque tankie propaganda i consume in this thread but i cant help but feel like your father was mostly just trying to come up with an excuse for why he didnt want to eat his vegetables
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Mar 28, 2024 16:32
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if you put too many nitrates on plants they get burnt up sorta like the osmotic pressures from other salt ions. don't think you can cram so many nitrates into a plant that it can do much of anything to a human body before killing the plant...
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Mar 28, 2024 16:36
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In Training posted:Why does iOS have 99.5% market share in dprk???? dprk going to replace the worker's party brush with a stylus
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Mar 28, 2024 16:36
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Marzzle posted:if you put too many nitrates on plants they get burnt up sorta like the osmotic pressures from other salt ions. don't think you can cram so many nitrates into a plant that it can do much of anything to a human body before killing the plant... There are some studies that show there can be issues with nitrates in very high concentrations, like in production facilities, but it isn't really a reason to use them in everyday agriculture. I assume by "black market" they mean their father would buy roadside vegetables people were growing from their own plots rather than state or collective farms.
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Mar 28, 2024 16:44
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Lostconfused posted:Material conditions being that most people are not interested in: Those are the same thing though. As demonstrated when the socialist project ended and their material comforts plummeted in a world historic fashion.
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Mar 28, 2024 16:49
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:This GMT game is going to be a train wreck. Still, they start off this dev diary on a solid footing Why would you make a game about a conflict that's still ongoing You're going to look like a dipshit either way
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Mar 28, 2024 16:50
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:This GMT game is going to be a train wreck. Still, they start off this dev diary on a solid footing That cocktail sucks
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Mar 28, 2024 16:50
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ammonium nitrate fertilizer costs money. why would they waste it if times were lean? applied directly to the dirt it can get into water supplies, though, and it is carcinogenic. that's one reason it's frequently injected as an aqueous solution a few feet underground
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Mar 28, 2024 16:51
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Raskolnikov38 posted:if kyiv falls can we all go back to calling it Kiev You should call it the Kiev
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Mar 28, 2024 16:52
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Ardennes posted:How does that happen in the first place though? Arguably, the Soviet Union in the early 1980s wasn't experiencing sudden catastrophic setbacks and if anything the Second Oil Crisis had helped it in some ways. Look at the US as well from the 1980s to now. Certainly not from the streets, but the party?
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Mar 28, 2024 16:52
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KomradeX posted:That cocktail sucks oh, you don't want twice as much sugary mixers as you do booze? it's like a very lovely margarita by someone who had the concept vaguely described to them
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Mar 28, 2024 16:53
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https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1772171486520082607
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I take it nothing is actually happening in Ukraine beyond Russia's slow but steady encroachment on multiple fronts slowly bleeding them dry?
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