Mar 082022
Mar 062022
The hope among many is that the sanctions on Russia will cause the Russian people, or business class, or military, or *somebody* to pull their thumbs out and give Putin the boot. And it’s starting to look like those sanctions are really making a mess of sizable chunks of the Russian economy and daily life. but… as has been noted here and elsewhere, many, MANY times… Russians are kinda used to trouble. No boom today. boom tomorrow. Always boom tomorrow. Consequently, if the Russian government can adequately spin this mess as being the fault of EEEEVIL westerners, rather than their our bad behavior, chances are pretty good that the Russian people will simply muddle through as they’ve always done. The effects of sanctions are hardly likely to make things worse in Russia than they were during the Soviet years, at leas after the initial confusion settles down, and Russians lived under communism for 70 years without overthrowing their dictators.
Some relevant videos on the subject. The first one is the source of the title of the post:
The next one, if the translation is to be believed (I don’t speak Russian beyond “blyat” and “suka,” so for all I know they’re actually debating the merits of Cardi B vs. Justin Bieber), is some rather brave soul doing vox pop in Russia, showing locals photos of the attacks in Ukraine. A distressing number think – or at least express – that Putin is doing the right thing. Disturbing that the dangerhaired girl is on the side of right and reason here…
Mar 042022
And this was *Texas.*
UNT MASS STUDENT PSYCHOSIS #TXLEGE #GOP #UNT @YctUnt @kelly_neidert @UNTPrez @UNTnews pic.twitter.com/ysu7W4IRTb
— Current Revolt (@CurrentRevolt) March 4, 2022
How much did Mom, Dad and the taxpayers have to pay to send these lunatics to university?
An explanation of this extrusion of Clown World into reality:
Mar 042022
I feel like that now. An eBay auction for a B-70 document I’d hoped to win with an initial bid of something like $36 just went for nearly $700. *My* $700 as it turns out. Even though it was crowdfunded, those last few seconds of the auction were stress inducing.
Mar 032022
Europe’s largest nuclear power plant on fire after Russian attack
A spokesman for Europe’s largest nuclear plant says the facility is on fire after Russia attacked the power station in the southern Ukrainian city of Enerhodar.
“We demand that they stop the heavy weapons fire,” Andriy Tuz, spokesperson for the plant in Enerhodar, said in a video posted on Telegram. “There is a real threat of nuclear danger in the biggest atomic energy station in Europe.” Tuz told Ukrainian television that it is urgent to stop the fighting to put out the flames.
BREAKING: Europe's largest nuclear power plant in southern #Ukraine is reportedly being shelled by Russian troops right now. Watch ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/HGklnjOuQL
— The News with Shepard Smith (@thenewsoncnbc) March 4, 2022
WATCH: The Associated Press reports there are elevated levels of radiation at the nuclear plant under attack in #Ukraine. ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/rv4mZUhVWQ
— The News with Shepard Smith (@thenewsoncnbc) March 4, 2022
From the AP:
Europe’s largest nuclear power plant on fire after shelling
Firefighters cannot get near the fire because they are being shot at, Tuz said.
A government official told The Associated Press that elevated levels of radiation were detected near the site of the plant, which provides about 25% of Ukraine’s power generation. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the information has not yet been publicly released.
This map might prove useful:
https://www.windfinder.com/#5/47.0252/47.3730
Shows current wind directions. At the moment, the winds in the region of the reactor under attack are circling around a region in north-eastern Ukraine, then seemingly drifting south-east over Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran. If the reactor pops, the Caspian Sea is likely to get trashed. Tomorrow the wins is to be more generally easterly, but Saturday the wind will come down from the north and then hang a right straight over Greece. From then on it looks like the region of Greece and Turkey will get a constant flow from the area of the reactor.
Mar 032022
UPDATE: A better look, courtesy Russian state TV:
Russian State TV report from Gostomel Airport in Kyiv. Sadly An-225 completely destroyed. pic.twitter.com/9kN04Gkz91
— Aldin 🇧🇦 (@aldin_ww) March 4, 2022
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Here it is, on fire. You can see the blue, yellow and white nose laying cocked at an angle.
Гостомель, 25 или 26 фев pic.twitter.com/qfYx8nZAu6
— IgorGirkin (@GirkinGirkin) March 3, 2022
I see yellow inside of the hanger 🙁 pic.twitter.com/rYtg66hRaY
— cameron (@csm231_) March 3, 2022
Good job on deNazyfying the Antonov 225. Bah.
Mar 032022
Ayup.
Mar 032022
Gosh, I’m sure the residents are real glad Putin has come along to “deNazify” their town…
Looks like Detroit now.
An additional vid showing brave Russian troops shooting up civilians:
Mar 032022
“Ukraine is a country…”
One can argue whether VP Harris is a moron or not. But it’s pretty clear that she thinks that the people listening to her are at the very least monstrously ignorant. Of course, the possibility exists that she may be right: the interviewers seem thrilled to have her, and thus the listeners stand a fair chance of being like-minded; to be thrilled to be graced with the presence or “wisdom” of anyone from this Administration would be indicative of ignorance at the very least.
The full interview, if you want to subject yourself to it:
Mar 022022
Based on the timing, seems like they were about 1.7 miles from the second detonation. That kind of light from that far away probably indicates a pretty sporty explosion… thermobaric bomb of great magnitude, or a hit on an ammo dump. One person suggests the first explosion was nuclear; I would *guess* that the yellow-orange nature of the flash would argue almost immediately for a chemical explosion. A nuclear one – at least one measured in the kiloton range and beyond – should be white, perhaps blue-tinged, like a welding arc. If you see *that* kind of flash light up the sky… well, go perpendicular to the wind, then turn into the wind and get out of the fallout zone.