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  1. Putin: I'm going to fly some drones around Northern Europe

    The Netherlands: We are going to partner up with Ukraine and pump 300 million Euros into long-range attack drone and counter-drone systems manufacturing, and it'll be done here, out of reach of Russian attacks.

    Putin: I am a genius.

     

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  2. 13 hours ago, speed817 said:

    This popped up on my instagram feed yesterday and I found out that its from a show on Prime Video called Harina.  Easily one of the funniest skits I've seen....

     

    Which led me to this, and no way this guy can get with somebody like that.

     

  3. 15 hours ago, AnTiM said:

    So why is it apparently bending in the wrong direction?  Need better A I?

    Part of it/all of it has to do with how the frames are captured when a high-speed object is filmed. It’s called Rolling Shutter.

    Rolling shutter is a process of image capture in which a still picture (in a still camera) or each frame of a video (in a video camera) is captured not by taking a snapshot of the entire scene at a single instant in time but rather by scanning across the scene rapidly, vertically, horizontally or rotationally. Thus, not all parts of the image of the scene are recorded at the same instant – however, during playback, the entire image of the scene is displayed at once, as if it represents a single instant in time. This produces predictable distortions of fast-moving objects or rapid flashes of light, referred to as rolling shutter effect.

    It’s why you see things like this

    960px-Jamtlands_Flyg_EC120B_Colibri.JPG

  4. 3 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

    Qatar has been a key financial supporter of the Palestinian militant organization Hamas, transferring more than $1.8 billion to Hamas over the years.

    For some of the MAGA types, this is exactly what it boils down to. In their heads, they’re not very far from turning that into “Hamas is building a base inside of the US” and Laura Loomer and others out there in that fringe far right are absolutely going to push this train of thought. 

    They would be just fine with England or Norway or basically any European country (white people) outside of Turkey doing this.  

    And if Qatar puts up some prayer towers with the loudspeaker that call people to prayer or whatever, holy shit.  And there will be a mosque.  

  5. 1 hour ago, South Austin said:

    Putin will still be fucking with Ukraine,

    I take a bit of an issue with this. It looks like Ukraine is going to keep up their campaign of going after Russian oil and gas infrastructure. The picture is gonna be very different when people are running out of gas in Moscow and  St. Petersburg, and not just this current fuel rationing, not to mention things like food delivery to the large cities. Even if the pace of the attacks on the infrastructure slows down, the disruptions will probably affect food production/crop planting in the spring. 

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  6. On 10/3/2025 at 12:26 PM, Gil Bang said:

    Johnson is standing on his head to avoid swearing-in vote number 218

    That Qatari military base in America is going to cause a lot of problems for Trump.  I’ve been impressed with the meltdown from some on the right today.  If a vote was held today, it would be well above 218.  

  7. No surprise, been mentioned before and we’ve seen footage of Russian soldiers shooting their wounded comrades.


    More at the links above

     

    5 hours ago, Orange&White said:

    Counterpoint: Those guys are all dead but they are being reported as deserters so they don't have to give their families a sack of potatoes.

    The Twitter thread above mentions commanders reporting men as deserters to cut off their pay and benefits as a punishment or extortion. Also to prevent payments.  

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    Russian commanders have falsely declared potentially thousands of missing and dead soldiers to be deserters, as well as using such declarations for extortion. Relatives say they are being deprived of compensation payments and accuse commanders of concealing their losses.

     

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  8. Well, go ahead and book it - the Tomahawks will be sent, after Putin said Trump was bluffing. If you think he’s bluffing, you don’t publicly say that because it embarrasses him.

    Putin responded to Trump’s suggestion of possibly supplying Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine by accusing him of bluffing and calling it “blackmail.” In turn, Putin said Russia would strengthen its air defenses. Air defense, what air defense? You cannot even protect your refineries against simple drones.

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    solid comment: “It looks like a pretty weak response, threatening to increase air defense means you are choosing to cope rather than take measures to eliminate the threat as a real great power would do.”

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  9. The Ukraine defense industry and those providing weapons and getting them proven in the field are going to be raking it in when this is over.

    Sierra Nevada Corp. has revealed new details about a closely held new air defense system that it claims has already helped down scores of aerial threats, though it won’t say where.

    At last week’s annual Air and Space Forces Association conference outside Washington, the company for the first time publicly displayed the Battery Revolving Adaptive Weapons Launcher—Reconfigurable (BRAWLR), which SNC says can carry up to four types of rockets and missiles at once to take out enemy drones and cruise missiles from the back of a pickup truck, a trailer or the ground.

    The company says the system gives troops an all-in-one defensive tool instead of forcing them to lug around multiple weapons launchers made by different companies.

    https://breakingdefense.com/2025/10/snc-brawlr-air-defense/

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  10. 31 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

    It’s always interesting how much people undervalue or simply don't grasp/know about the intermodal aspects of distribution lines. Yes, you can send gas via pipeline to a refinery or ship wheat to a port. From the port you need a train for the wheat/oil the train stops and then you gotta get from the train depot to the processing location for wheat. Once processed gotta go to where is will be converted into consumable or sent to gas distribution hubs. From there then moved to where distributed local to shops. Then from the local/regional distribution hub to to the consumer purchase location. Not every product has all of these steps but most have something similar and nearly all the in-betweens require petrol to power the vehicles. Sure, there are some distribution branches/hubs that have gone electric, but not throughout Russia. 

    Are farmers in the countryside going to have access to fuel for tractors and trucks? If shit hits the fan, are those farmers going to want to ship to the city or processing plants or save it for themselves or the local black market?

    There’s already been some crop problems as it is.  If there’s a reduction in food shipments from farms to the markets, and they are having problems with international markets and shipping, what happens with the large cities?

    That is all in the future though (spring) - we are heading into the winter, which helps a bit since they are mostly relying on food already harvested, processed, and stored, but they still have to move that food around from storage to market to home.  And they may import food in the winter.

    I have faith that the black market is going to contribute to fucking things up as well.

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