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What is the most powerful flying bug?
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🦋 15 3.71%
🦇 115 28.47%
🪰 12 2.97%
🐦 67 16.58%
dragonfly 94 23.27%
🦟 14 3.47%
🐝 87 21.53%
Total: 404 votes
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Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice
I mean maybe it was a stray missile that just wouldn't suddenly invoke article 5 the NAFO accounts just exist to try and to vaporize us all.

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Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

Slavvy posted:

One of the major selling points was that it is inherently aerodynamically unstable and would instantly crash if flying it was down to the pilot alone, it can only fly thanks to continual computer controlled micro corrections. This evidently gives it superlative agility. Make of that what you will.

This is most Boeing 777s

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

Nonsense posted:

Something interesting will happen wrt Zelensky.

Biden is going to sniff his hair.

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

Frosted Flake posted:

Can someone clarify what a permaban means and is the penalty for in real terms?

I’m waiting for Sex Pig to return to posting here as long as he behaves, but somehow it hasn’t happened yet.

You can’t just pay $10 to come back as the same account/username .

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

euphronius posted:

has it been reported yet where the drone was

The bottom of the Black Sea

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

Lostconfused posted:

Still super funny how the west is burning down the legitimacy and relevance of every institution over Ukraine.

Really looking forward to totally destroying dollar hegemony and really the entire post WWII geopolitical system over Ukraine, really.

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice
https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1668676547585224704?s=46&t=vNKUIzc4nvqsPFaYLiXegw

So this is the US laying the groundwork to leave Ukraine to it’s own devices, right?

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

Raccooon posted:

Like all the ones focused on the ukraine war. /r/worldnew and /r/ukraine as well.

Pretty sure they think they are a valuable part of the Ukrainian fighting force and can't shut down lol

It's because all of those big subreddits are totally captured by various agencies and corporations and their only purpose is astroturfing. So of course they aren't shutting down.

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

yellowcar posted:

the ukraine government would collapse over night if western support was pulled so why would zelensky ever admit that the russians are beating them

I don't think the western support cares much at all about whether they win or not, just that they're inflicting damage on Russia and providing real life test data on weapons systems.

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

Horizon Burning posted:

read the last ten pages or so and i don't really have any idea what the gently caress is happening

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice
I have no idea what is going on other than being confident that it is not what western media is reporting.

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

gradenko_2000 posted:

Wasn't this how Red October started

Uhhhhhhh lmao

https://youtu.be/zsC2ETsZL0g

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice
Who am I supposed to hug and kiss this morning? Is it still Putin?

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

evilmiera posted:

I take no pride in reporting we must now kiss Zelenskyy.

Hug too?

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

If I were that guy I’d consider regifting that helicopter.

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

Frosted Flake posted:

Is it citizenship conferred to the children of non-citizen volunteers?

Up and coming conscripts, now.

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

Not fair to expect Ukraine to fight on a lawn that isn’t freshly mowed.

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

celadon posted:

what is the original source of this, was it an egyptian pharoah who had carvings of victories against an enemy that got closer and closer to home? i remember hearing about it but not being able to google it again

The French newspapers which, in 1815, were subject to the censor, announced the departure of Bonaparte from Elba, his progress through France, and his entry into Paris in the following ingenious manner:

— 9th March, the Anthropophagus has quitted his den
— 10th, the Corsican Ogre has landed at Cape Juan
— 11th, the Tiger has arrived at Gap
— 12th, the Monster slept at Grenoble
— 13th, the Tyrant has passed through Lyons
— 14th, the Usurper is directing his steps towards Dijon, but the brave and loyal Burgundians have risen en masse and surrounded him on all sides
— 18th, Bonaparte is only sixty leagues from the capital; he has been fortunate enough to escape the hands of his pursuers
— 19th, Bonaparte is advancing with rapid steps, but he will never enter Paris
— 20th, Napoleon will, tomorrow, be under our ramparts
— 21st, the Emperor is at Fontainbleau
— 22nd, His Imperial and Royal Majesty, yesterday evening, arrived at the Tuileries, amidst the joyful acclamations of his devoted and faithful subjects.

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice
The only reason I can think of for doing that is if they're afraid some other unit is going to steal their supplies before it gets to them but I feel like that concern would be equally valid for the candy bars you disguised them as.

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice
Disguising my bullets as candy corn to make sure they reach the front undisturbed.

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

crepeface posted:

makes it harder to cancel government funding for the MIC when you can make attack ads about job losses against more politicians so yeah

I do wonder what the long term impact of getting rid of earmarks will mean for this type of approach though. Like, what's the value in spreading everything out when it's no longer something that you can use as a bone to throw a politician to vote on your initiative or upcoming budget?

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

Starsfan posted:

My soul will leave my body if Prigozhin was somehow on this second airplane and he isn't dead

Doubly so if he disembarks dressed as Borat.

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

Mr SuperAwesome posted:

the computer touchers will avoid getting drafted to the front lines in the climate war and will instead be blown up in the Cyber Bunker by JDAMs, so it at least dodges the trenches

*checks the news from ukraine*

oh.

If a draft is not just reinstated but pulls in people in their 40s we’re past being hosed regardless of occupation.

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

KomradeX posted:

Who the gently caress is this supposed to appeal to?

The type of person that watches 60 Minutes.

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

dead gay comedy forums posted:

ahahahahahahhahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Look, I see no possible escalation that could result from attacking third party countries that provide military supplies or support. It'll just be a simple one off and then be over.

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

Gripweed posted:

Has there been any analysis of how the pro-Ukraine guys keep believing that Russia is on the verge of collapse? I can understand believing that when the initial invasion went way worse than anyone expected and Ukraine was able to push Russia back in places. But that was a long time ago, they've been pushing on that door for over a year now and so far that rotten edifice refuses to collapse. How do they keep the faith that something has been about to happen any day now for so long?

It's questionable whether NAFO contains any actual real people but it's certain that if it does they are not connected with reality.

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

Officer Sandvich posted:

I watch a lot of uncensored combat footage of close infantry fighting. I feel literally nothing seeing Russian soldiers get killed. Occasionally I have a twinge of paranoia that I’m some kind of sociopath. But when I see photos (I can’t even watch the videos, I just cannot handle the screams of the dying and wounded) of these attack on civilians I’m at least reassured that I’m not.

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

KomradeX posted:

Once you see the light of materialism you can't understand the world of liberalism anymore

The strangest thing to me about the liberal response to Ukraine is that even though we are inundated with capitalist messages about how everyone is a rational actor acting in their own self interest we just… aren’t allowed to consider that about designated bad guys. It isn’t enough for Putin or Xi or whoever to be opposed to our aims. They have to be insane creatures of pure evil whose actions are completely unmoored from material reality.

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice
I wonder what Ukraine is gonna do in the next few days to try and get people to pay attention to them again.

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

genericnick posted:

Nothing would help now, but a week down the line it's do or die

Yeah they could make that nuclear power plant go boom this week and it wouldn't make the front page.

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

supersnowman posted:

They tried diplomacy. The problem is for decades, diplomacy in the US meant "getting whatever the gently caress I want" so it becomes a train wreck as soon as someone stand its ground.

I don't think there are any diplomats or soldiers left in the US that are still actively working that have ever lived in a world that wasn't just the US doing whatever it wanted whenever it wanted. There are politicians left that lived and worked in a bipolar world but they're all 90 years old and brain damaged from 30+ years of that being the case.

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

Ardennes posted:

The Russians don't even need to really attack, they could simply keep firing their guns until there is no one left to fill the trenches in front of them (which is mostly their strategy already). Basically, they have to figure out a way for Russia to throw in the towel just because.

It's the same thing we're seeing in Gaza right now - every single person around in diplomatic positions and the vast majority of people in political positions have never lived in a world where we could simply declare terms and have things be done. Sure it might be messy for a little bit while the situation on the ground got ironed out, but at a strategic level it was as simple as that. And the idea that Russia might not just go along with a Korea type freeze isn't even under consideration. We don't know how to do diplomacy we only know how to do ultimatums.

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

Oligarch never meant much, but lol at ‘Greek shipping Oligarchs’

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

Isentropy posted:

edit: if FF is unbanned please don’t doxx me.

FF isn’t banned he just got an aggressively long probe and will be back soon. I hope the memory on his phone’s notes app has been up to the challenge of holding his pent up posts.

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

WoodrowSkillson posted:

my own cynical take is that human greed is so omnipresent that the mechanisms/temptation of capitalism will never be fully excised and that any successful socialist state will need some kind of legacy private sector to redirect the greedy and ambitious from political power. everyone should have healthcare, UBI, and safe shelter. however some dickheads will always try and get as much power and influence and wealth as they can. So allow some kind of private enterprise around commodities that are not essential. that way the people that just cannot be satisfied with a life of safety and health and freedom to pursue their passions will have an outlet in the form of working for some lovely corp that makes dirtbikes or sports cars or watches. that will also exist to address the concern brought up that people laterally had forgotten what some of those mechanisms look like.

this belongs in another thread though so we should probably keep it focused on the subject at hand

Congrats on your awakening as a social democrat.

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

‘Terrorism’ has lost all meaning when you apply it to a sovereign nation state for engaging in a war with another sovereign nation state.

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice
if Ukraine had Jagers they’d probably be winning IMHO.

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

Stairmaster posted:

apparently a wounded vet suicide bombed a meeting of his village council by chucking a bunch of grenades in the room.

A Russian wounded vet or a Ukrainian wounded vet?

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Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice

OhFunny posted:

America just imposed secondary sanctions. We'll see what damage those cause to the world economy.

US Wields Risky Bank Sanctions in New Bid to Deny Putin Cash

Surely we just haven't sanctioned them hard enough and this time it'll work and not just further hasten dedollarization as other countries see what's happening and work to make sure that it'll never happen to them.

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