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Dapper_Swindler posted:basicaly their peak was ww2 and not much since. lions led by donkeys did a pretty good episode on soviet invasion of afganistan and i believe the first checen war and it shows alot of the problems they had then, now. Well on the plus side, Russia is done with power projection now. Getting back to it's 2020 equipment sense will take decades. War time economy can't last. China is probably the only country of replacing its losses in a war time economy and do it within a decade.
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Mar 28, 2024 20:39
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Dapper_Swindler posted:basicaly their peak was ww2 and not much since. lions led by donkeys did a pretty good episode on soviet invasion of afganistan and i believe the first checen war and it shows alot of the problems they had then, now. Until the advent of electronics in portable weapons systems the analog and fully mechanical Soviet stuff was on par with the Western weapons, if not sometimes better, and they had more of them than all Europe+NATO combined. USSR also had triple the population of what Russia has now, and the age pyramid was still a pyramid. USSR lost the electronics and computers -race badly, and it started to show in the early 80's. USSR and the Red Army was a real threat until the SU collapsed, and stuff like night vision or precision artillery/air strikes became cheap enough to use everywhere.
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Mar 28, 2024 20:40
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We're soon on page 1337 of the stupid gently caress-gently caress games! What dorkery awaits???
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Mar 28, 2024 21:21
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Karate Bastard posted:We're soon on page 1337 of the stupid gently caress-gently caress games! What dorkery awaits??? Putin schedules a missile test and suddenly cancels it at the last moment and/or there's a sudden 7.8 richter scale reading somewhere in siberia
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Mar 28, 2024 21:22
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Karate Bastard posted:We're soon on page 1337 of the stupid gently caress-gently caress games! What dorkery awaits??? To start with: https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1773420890023145864 Is this something a country doing well for itself does? 
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Mar 28, 2024 21:22
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zone posted:To start with: One fishbrick in every thousand has a diamond in it!
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Mar 28, 2024 22:26
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More proof of growing dedollarisation and US Hegemony already crumbling! No doubt the much awaited BRICS dollar replacement currency will be coming any day now. Any day now... Just wait... You'll see... Honest, its really coming! I know we've said this hundreds of times the last 15+ years but we REALLY REALLY mean it this time.
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Mar 28, 2024 22:29
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Tigey posted:More proof of growing dedollarisation and US Hegemony already crumbling! The concept of BRICS is so dumb. The countries don't like each other but yet tankies talk about it being the next coming of Jesus Christ. The dollar is the go to internation currency for reason not because of some shadow group.
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Mar 28, 2024 22:47
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Tai posted:The concept of BRICS is so dumb. The countries don't like each other but yet tankies talk about it being the next coming of Jesus Christ. The dollar is the go to internation currency for reason not because of some shadow group. Russia would honestly be better off going with bitcoin at this point
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Mar 28, 2024 23:42
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Dapper_Swindler posted:lions led by donkeys drunks led by pimps
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Mar 28, 2024 23:48
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 So this is what the second army of the world is now reduced to.
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Mar 29, 2024 00:12
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zone posted:To start with: Just in time for lab diamonds to drop the price through the floor
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Mar 29, 2024 00:22
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RBA-Wintrow posted:From wikipedia: Would they even need to make the old canal worse to drive traffic to their toll road, if it's really backed up for days as it is? Surely some would pay the toll to essentially skip ahead of the free line a few days?
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Mar 29, 2024 00:30
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EorayMel posted:Russia would honestly be better off going with bitcoin at this point Good News! https://tass.com/politics/1755521 quote:
Now, who'll be the first to sign up? Anyone? Tigey fucked around with this message at 00:51 on Mar 29, 2024 |
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Mar 29, 2024 00:48
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Sorry I'm waiting for my doge coins to escrow
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Mar 29, 2024 01:00
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Tigey posted:Good News! All hail the new Empire of Legoland.
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Mar 29, 2024 01:02
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EorayMel posted:Russia would honestly be better off going with bitcoin at this point I think the army is trying its hardest to be virtual
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Mar 29, 2024 01:04
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Tigey posted:Good News! Sam Bankman-
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Mar 29, 2024 01:41
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Tunicate posted:Just in time for lab diamonds to drop the price through the floor Did some breakthrough or market shakeup happen with lab diamonds recently? I’ve been hearing “lab diamonds will make natural diamonds cheap” for what feels like decades.
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Mar 29, 2024 02:08
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lab diamonds are made more expensive by the persistent value of mined diamonds, it seems to me roughly-equivalent moissonite is a lot cheaper, mostly because “not diamond”
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Mar 29, 2024 02:10
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Tigey posted:Good News! More like blockheadchain!
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Mar 29, 2024 02:12
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Kestral posted:Did some breakthrough or market shakeup happen with lab diamonds recently? I’ve been hearing “lab diamonds will make natural diamonds cheap” for what feels like decades. Tech has improved a lot yeah, to the point where early adopters of the growth tech are getting priced out and collapsing. Lab diamonds are like a fifth to a third of all diamonds sold now. Natural prices are coming down in response, it used to be graded diamond parcels were a very safe investment to park your money in since they consistently grew faster than inflation, that isnt the case now.
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Mar 29, 2024 03:28
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Tunicate posted:Tech has improved a lot yeah, to the point where early adopters of the growth tech are getting priced out and collapsing. Lab diamonds are like a fifth to a third of all diamonds sold now. I've been seeing a lot of op ed pieces from the diamond industry swearing up and down that artificial diamonds are passe and the fad is going to pass aaaaaany day now. 
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Mar 29, 2024 03:33
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Tigey posted:More proof of growing dedollarisation and US Hegemony already crumbling! To be fair Russia is very efficiently de-dollarising itself.
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Mar 29, 2024 04:36
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Moktaro posted:More like blockheadchain! What was the country that invested in block/crypto?
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Mar 29, 2024 05:32
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Venezuela
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Mar 29, 2024 05:34
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Turrurrurrurrrrrrr posted:What was the country that invested in block/crypto? El Salvador put their whole treasury, or near to, into it
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Mar 29, 2024 05:36
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zone posted:El Salvador put their whole treasury, or near to, into it Yep, found this funnyish article naming https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/el-salvador-adopted-bitcoin-as-an-official-currency-salvadorans-mostly-shrugged
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Mar 29, 2024 05:39
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TEMPLE GRANDIN OS posted:Venezuela The Petro was barely a thing. Got some tankies really excited at the time though.
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Mar 29, 2024 05:57
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the holy poopacy posted:I've been seeing a lot of op ed pieces from the diamond industry swearing up and down that artificial diamonds are passe and the fad is going to pass aaaaaany day now. "Diamonds are forever" now becoming a poetically ironic term.
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Mar 29, 2024 06:05
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Samovar posted:This seems very... Callous? Very... Banal in the face of the political reality of the moment. Not disagreeing that it's kinda cringe, but I also feel like this is a deep cut unless you're so nerdy as to be into the Star Trek soundtracks, not just the show. I gotta wonder how many people actually present would've pegged it as being from Star Trek, just as much as I wonder who the heck chose it. I've also heard a couple times over the years that Jerry Goldsmith more or less copy'n'pasted the same theme song for Air Force One with Harrison Ford the year after First Contact came out, so if that's where they cribbed it from, uh... that's even more cringe...
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Mar 29, 2024 06:08
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Karate Bastard posted:We're soon on page 1337 of the stupid gently caress-gently caress games! What dorkery awaits??? *Svetlana, come on down! You are now the next contestant on The Blyat Is Right!* Yes, Vasily, I would like to bid one fishbrick ooh, sorry Svetlana. The real price of your husbands remains is less than one fishbrick! Aleksi, tell her what she's won! *a one-way trip to glorious Siberia! You will now serve an all-expense paid lifetime visit to the great frontier of Mother Russia!*
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Mar 29, 2024 06:38
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beer_war posted:The Petro was barely a thing. Got some tankies really excited at the time though. my bad!
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Mar 29, 2024 07:47
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beer_war posted:The Petro was barely a thing. Got some tankies really excited at the time though. Or the Iran Oil Bourse which would lead to the US invasion of Iran any moment back in 2008.
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Mar 29, 2024 08:43
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zone posted:
ukraine should start hitting belarusian refineries too. they've been involved in this war from the start and what are they realistically going to do about it
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Mar 29, 2024 09:51
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LordArgh posted:ukraine should start hitting belarusian refineries too. they've been involved in this war from the start and what are they realistically going to do about it whatever the benefits of attacking belarusian refineries, would be extremely outweighed by making another active front, when ukraine can't even man the one they're fighting over now
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Mar 29, 2024 10:06
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After numerous human meat wave attacks from the Russian front, Ukraine will never be able to stand the might of Belarus’s human pyramid attacks
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Mar 29, 2024 10:17
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Bohemian Nights posted:whatever the benefits of attacking belarusian refineries, would be extremely outweighed by making another active front, when ukraine can't even man the one they're fighting over now the belarusian army is completely useless and won't win anything except maybe a contest of circus tricks
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Mar 29, 2024 10:19
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LordArgh posted:the belarusian army is completely useless and won't win anything except maybe a contest of circus tricks even if they were the worst army in the world, they would still cost ammunition, artillery and manpower that ukraine just doesn't have to spare
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Mar 29, 2024 10:23
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LordArgh posted:the belarusian army is completely useless and won't win anything except maybe a contest of circus tricks Russia will absolutely meatwave Belarus if they can; even if it's a distraction, it's still getting a response.
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