Lizzardspawn
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Lizzardspawn
20d ago
Update: Yermak has resigned. That was unexpected. I really want to see the hottakes of the kievologists about what that means and why
Lizzardspawn
20d ago
During the pandemic there was such beast as asymptotic covid ... for those obtuse enough to be healthy.
Lizzardspawn
20d ago
I was never able to understand what the issue with that advice thing was. Except that it has Trump in the sentence. As if no one has ever advised Zelensky how to talk with Trump.
Or just people have invested so much of their identity and prestige in the whole Ukraine situation that for them any deal that is good for Russia is treason towards US.
Lizzardspawn
20d ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c058lp086zvo
Ukraine's anti-corruption agencies have begun searching the apartment of President Volodymyr Zelensky's chief of staff Andriy Yermak.
One of the two agencies, anti-corruption bureau Nabu, confirmed that its investigative searches had been authorised and said further details would follow.
A corruption scandal has engulfed several figures close to Zelensky, though neither he nor his right-hand man Yermak have been accused of any wrongdoing.
Yermak has played a crucial role in Ukraine's response to Russia's full-scale war, and he is Kyiv's lead negotiator in peace talks with the US. However, his position has become increasingly under threat from critics calling for him to go.
Yermak, 54, confirmed on social media that both Nabu and the specialised anti-corruption prosecutor's office (Sapo) were "conducting procedural actions at my home" and had full access to his apartment, with his lawyers on site.
"From my side, there is full co-operation."
The searches come at a very awkward moment for Zelensky and his chief of staff, with US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll due to arrive in Kyiv by the end of this week as US President Donald Trump pushes ahead with a draft peace plan. US officials are heading to Moscow next week.
That is definitely a foreign directed strike against Zelensky - but I always thought that the anti corruption services were EU puppets and US, so not sure what and why is behind it, and why exactly in this moment.
There seems to be great pressure mounting to force Ukraine leadership to sign whatever rag of a document is presented to them and let the whole thing be over.
Lizzardspawn
21d ago
And hospitals/hospital personnel
Lizzardspawn
23d ago
Be glad that NATO hasn’t discovered Agile methodology.
If I was NATO enemy I would pray for them to discover Agile. They would defeat themselves before reaching the battlefield.
So far the whole Agile/Scrum and similar silver bullets industrial complex is roughly split into 3 parts - grifters, useful idiots and just idiots. Sorry - there is tiny sliver of people that work in small companies and teams - but there agile comes naturally.
Lizzardspawn
23d ago
First - no ceasefire ever. Just work on the treaty. Hammer Ukraine until they relent on this point. Second - take only majority Russian territories. Third - Ukraine is forbidden to be in military alliances, but allowed to have whatever and how much they want of conventional forces. No foreign peacekeeping force, but are allowed generous amount of observers/trainers as long as they are not affiliated with NATO. Also allow security guarantees. Fourth - give USA and EU the frozen assets to reconstruct Ukraine in trade for sanctions lift. Not Ukraine. They are allowed to draw for them for paying EU and US companies that do work there. Fifth - Create international company that gets ownership of the gas transit infrastructure of Ukraine with ownership split between Germany Italy and couple of other countries. Ukrainians will squeal like pigs, but bribing parts of EU is always a good idea. Sixth - offer Ukraine discounted hydrocarbons for couple of years. Seventh - make Ukraine take blame for Nordstream and make them pay reparations to Germany that will be used for rebuilding it. There is not a chance in hell of Ukraine having the money to pay, but a nice pressure point.
For casualties - I would say probably parity. Ukrainians having favorable ratio before 2025 and giving more from Kursk onwards.
Russia is hurting now so it actually needs peace.
Lizzardspawn
23d ago
The UK has participated in at least two wars of aggression and invasion this century - Iraq and Afghanistan. Not buying that explanation.
Lizzardspawn
23d ago
That is ... not exactly BS, but somewhat distorted. The only reason the war in Ukraine is as it is - is because no air superiority exists on the Ukraine side. In a large scale conflict Nato vs Russia we will have orders of magnitude more jets than Ukraine has and probably enough to make sure that Russian airforce won't be able to lob KABs at their leisure, their Geran launch sites will be exposed, their fiber drones C&C will be easier to neutralize and we will be totally free to conduct as deep strikes in russia's territory as we feel is needed with whatever weapons we have in our arsenal.
So don't rush drawing a conclusions about what the nature of the war is. Ukraine has been fighting with limited resources, some of them with strings attached and Russian airforce is far cry from the USSR numbers - and russians don't seem to be able to mass produce them.
And completely automatic jets are at least some years away.
Lizzardspawn
25d ago
And yet in all other markets people take losses all the time while still not wanting. And everyone that wants to sell their house can't afford to wait forever. They will break and probably sooner than later. Of course we will also have to keep private equity and some other over capitalized entities out of residential housing, but that is hardly a bad idea anyway.
Lizzardspawn
25d ago
Which will lead to prices falling and stabilizing in another point.
Lizzardspawn
25d ago
Here is one for you - what will happen if the Federal Government straight out forbids mortgages longer than 15 years? This question was raised in my head after the consensus about how terrible the Trump idea about 50 year mortgage is. So what happens if we go in the other direction?
Lizzardspawn
25d ago
Korean BBQ. Slicing the beef is a bitch unless you have proper deli slicer at home. And even then it is not a complete cakewalk.
Lizzardspawn
25d ago
First explanation greed or something even shadier. Second - just pulling crap dependencies without thinking (hello wordpress)
Lizzardspawn
26d ago
Play stupid games win stupid prizes. It is refreshing to see virtue signaling bearing consequences.
Lizzardspawn
27d ago
Unless the Europeans are willing to sink migrant boats by the thousands and let them all drown
You won't need that much. If you kill couple of boats the rest won't set sail at all. And I think that with drone tech advancing so much - creating a solar powered unmanned submarine that will just ram them with private funding is feasible.
Lizzardspawn
28d ago
Can anyone explain from where comes the staunch pro Ukraine, no compromise ever position of UK - I can understand the other players in this tragicomedy, but have absolutely no idea why UK believes and acts as it does?
Lizzardspawn
29d ago
Hey chat, what's your best solution to constipation?
Epsom salt. 20-40 km of walking also helps.
Lizzardspawn
29d ago
Isn't it easier just to subtly modify your dna to start creating cancer antibodies. Mind over matter.
I was trying to do some DIY projects lately so I needed 2 pieces of 250mm 2020 aluminum extrusions. Cheapest I could find in Europe was 11 euro with cutting and shipping. From temu with delivery - four costed 10 eur. PCB - from jclpcb 5 boards came at a lower cost than in EU they will charge you for answering your email. let alone production. Same with bearings, flanges, housings, transistors, resistors, capacitors and so on.
How do we unfuck ourselves from the situation where China can produce so much, at such a low cost, witch such a degree of automation that they don't even bother with paying low wages or producing low quality anymore. And they seem to accelerate in automation.
On a side note - the only EU company that produced cheap-ish PCB - only 3 times the price of jcl - had such a long lead times, that I am fairly sure they just group the orders and send them to jcl.
Lizzardspawn
1mo ago
My TikTok is suddenly filled with Trump, Clinton, Epstein and Trump giving Clinton a blowjob. Does anyone know WTF this thing started?
Lizzardspawn
1mo ago
What else are they supposed to do ?
Cut a deal in 2022 that gives Russia veto over their international military cooperation. The one that according to the rumor mill was offered by Russia, Ukraine was close to accepting, the body count was still low enough for the thing to be swept under the rug and the UK pressured them to refuse.
Lizzardspawn
1mo ago
Let's just say that if you cremate all of the honest government officials and big company CEOs in eastern Europe, you will be able to cram their remains in a matchbox.
Lizzardspawn
1mo ago
Let's start with the fabled danger zone for food. That you can only hold food at room temperature for 4 hours. Observation shows that even 24+ hours is totally safe. If you have been in a frat house - probably have figured out that even week old is ok-ish The other is about extension cords - especially in the context of using 240V appliance when the only outlet of 240V is not in the kitchen.
To have a 100000$ salary (more than 1M yearly in today money) during the sexual revolution, after the pill and before aids and obesity epidemic ... yeah take away the iphone and doordash.
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