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What do you read when you're on the shitter?

Well this certainly seems like a really big deal!

If Russia can't win by overwhelming military force, they will enact their genocide in different ways. If not by direct murder, then by indiscriminate murder. If not by occupation and cultural reeducation, then by kidnapping. If not by forcible location through troop presence, then by ecocide through intentional ecological disasters.

It is nice to see someone speaking even the simplest and most basic facts about the Russian invasion and how Ukraine is clearly in the right to Joe Rogan and his meathead audience. I'm sure they'll forget it by the time Glenn Greenwald comes on the show next week.

I have no clue who this guy is and I'm not listening to 12 minutes of Joe Rogan. Where am I supposed to start?

Yeah, that seems like a very empty threat.

That's why he likes this channel so much

Better get those Blu Rays while you can.

It's real hard to imagine we're going to find our way out of this one.

Okay, THAT is an escalation.

I only read tweets nowadays. My brain has been smoothed to a mirror finish.

Man, he really chose poorly with the party association. The People's Party has taken horrid stances, including making anti-Semitic statements in the past. They've also been associated with idiots like Jimmy Dore and Russel Brand. This is a real bad look. If West wants national visibility and ballot access, this isn't where he needs to be. This really makes me respect him less due to these associations because either he's blind to them or he simply agrees with them.

Then you're someone who likes working at 9pm on a Saturday. #grindset

Sad, wet, exhausted animals will grab peoples' hearts in a way that normal human suffering cannot. It's all terrible. Otherwise, signs are pointing to an "internal blast" causing the destruction of the dam: archive.li ARCHIVE.LI I've gotten stick from people cautioning me that we don't have evidence pointing to this definitely being caused by explosives. I'm not a dam expert, but I am experienced in hydraulics and civil engineering. The failure doesn't seem to me to be due to overtopping of the dam. The powerhouse and turbine hall "separated" but this is likely due to the dam failing in the middle and the water washing away the structure, causing subsidence that pulled the powerhouse in two. Likewise, one of the sections of the powerhouse is missing--possibly swept away downstream as water flowed through it--not through the main breach, but a second breach in the hall itself.

That's precisely what happened to me a month ago! Learning this lesson was tough, but I'm in full on fuck it mode now. Doing what I can.

My experience is in the engineering consulting world designing/constructing water and wastewater infrastructure. We've seen lead times on electrical equipment go from ~6 months pre-pandemic to 18 months now. Pumps and motors are at least a year. "Hiring headwinds" is also something we've experienced. We had to pay through the nose for new employees and people we've poached from elsewhere. Because of that, current employees howled for more (rightfully). Because of that, I got a 10% raise out of cycle. That's big money and it happened the company over. Now, we're scaling back on our offers to new employees. We're turning people down more when they ask for 120k when their peers would be at 100k currently, or whatever. But the flip side of that is that I'm hideously busy. And so is everyone else. I don't know what will happen down the road, but something has to give. We have to hire more. We just don't have the employees. And rightfully, we're recognizing that (and that there aren't a ton of people we need in the mid-level arena with 10ish years of experience). As part of our mitigation efforts, we're relaxing our immigration sponsorship restrictions too. Basically, everything MrVic is experiencing, I'm seeing as well. I could also have job-hopped if I wanted for bigly raises. But I like where I am and it's not solely about the money.

Russia is literally altering the geography of Ukraine with this act.

The Russians generally have control of that dam and it had been mined previously. It was the Russians. Video: (I tried to copy the video, but I can't figure out how.) This flooding will be devastating for the lowlands across the river from Kherson, and potentially some areas in Kherson itself. This will affect irrigation and water supply upstream, potentially for Zaporizhzhia itself.

I'm hoping that comes through. Those would be just as good as the F-16s.

How intriguing! Not the boat wreck. That's clearly a combination of bad weather and incompetence. But the Italians and the Israelis together on a little sightseeing tour after an unspecified joint training? THAT'S what I'm interested in. What were they corresponding on? I think the Russian captain is a mere coincidence.

I think they pre-load targeting data into the missile's computer and it just flies off to do its thing automatically once it's released.

Su-24M equipped with two Storm Shadows. This is the future liberals (me) want.

It is, in fact, very bad.

Here's more info on the Hunt plane crash. In the Shadow of Watergate: The crash of United Airlines flight 553 | by Admiral Cloudberg | Medium ADMIRALCLOUDBERG.MEDIUM.COM On the 8th of December 1972, a United Airlines Boeing 737 on approach to Chicago’s Midway Airport fell out of the sky and plowed into a… The episode played fast and loose with the facts to lean in to the conspiracies:

That Spartacus Educational website is a well known conspiracy theory website. It is not to be trusted for accurate information.