Off-Topic / What is a woman? [295]


WELL THAT'S WHAT IT IS!

Why is Paulina getting so angry?

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

@AntV

You seem to have had a much more glamorous experience of the city than I have.

Most of my experience of the city, consists of sitting in a moldy bathroom of a pre-war apartment - smoking a dirty bong and watching public access television at 2 am.

If visiting back home, the majority of the time consists of pretending that I am an interesting person in New York, with a vibrant social life. But more often than not it also ends in someone's apartment in a bathroom or a balcony, smoking Marlboro Reds in a 12 sq ft place with 4 200 lb dudes.

Most of my intelligence is toilet/bathroom derived.

Not the sort of thing you're likely looking for.

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This fella is not around anymore, as of a few hours ago.

Convicted for spying for Iran.

For the non-autistic, non-Asperger's people... what do you see in his eyes?

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Some advice also for Iran - last time Moscow took someone's gold reserve for safekeeping it never returned it.

Stalin simply claimed he doesn't recognize the new fascist government in Madrid.

That's not to say that storing your money in the West is a good idea either - as we Russians can tell you.

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P.S.S. - we are living in the stupidest timeline. Look at the below:

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Hehehe.

Who do you think I am when you say "anyone else"? All I have is Russian media. And of course they would never know, when it comes to something as good as this.

This sort of puts me in awe of America. Some guy, living in Missouri, nearly sabotaged one of America's most important bombing campaigns in the last 50 years. What's gonna happen to him? Nothing.

This is really what makes America such a great country, and why it will be so hard for anyone else to emulate its success.

The rights and freedoms of this one American are bigger than the overarching foreign policy goals of the entire state.

One could bring up McCarthyism and the Red Scare, but even in that case - one has to remember this was a "popular" witch hunt. Americans were largely in support of suspending the civil rights of suspected commies.

Really... America is something else, and I mean this sincerely.

With that in mind, lemme tell you that nobody who is somebody will ever tell you anything in Russia. That guy that reported B-2s flying over his house in Missouri - if he were Russian - he would be in a basement dungeon of the Lubyanka right now regretting he was not born a woman.

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Long story short - I don't know anything. Probably the Minister of Defense and head of the National Security Council do not know. Such is the nature of Russia.

There's conjecture about what it could be, but it's still conjecture.

What seems to be a given, is that Russian anti-air defense specialists have been dispatched to advise, and Russian precision strike specialists. They perfected various tactics to breach Ukraine's American and European-provided defenses. The Iranians would likely benefit from this advice.

Then there is some speculation that Iran's nuclear material has been moved to Russia. That what the Iranian foreign minister wants in Moscow this week, is Putin's permission to develop Iranian owned weapons manufactories on Russian territory - to preclude them being disabled by Israel.

There's even rumors that Iran is transferring gold and cash to Moscow in planes loaded with pallets of the stuff. That's not very encouraging to hear, of course, if you are a friend of Iran.

Off-Topic / What is a woman? [295]


The things I say - if I said them in earnest - you have the full right and my permission to punch me in the face.

The things we write are so ridiculous, that it is insulting you would think we meant them sincerely. I am sure Kania is the best dad, and very good husband. AntV - ditto.

We have a different chromosome from you - so some things will always be funny to us, and maybe not so much to you.

That is not to say we don't believe in Truth of Scripture, or that you are not misinterpreting Paul - but I mean the overall gist of it. It's a joke, Paulina, relax.


You've placed this goddamn cross on your own shoulders. Why does Lena not feel obligated to respond to every misogynistic joke? Atch ignores them all completely. Roz- same.

You don't have to be Captain Underpants here, saving the world from woman hate. If anything - you are actually fueling the imbeciles that can't tell fact from fiction - like Johnny and Sralec.

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No - that it was not bluster - because he never meant that we were gonna give them nukes. That he meant someone else, whom we do not control.


This has always worked marvelously. From Dresden and Hamburg, to Tokyo, to Ho Chi Minh City.

People always love whoever bombs them, and begin hating their government! Of course!

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Which have been empty for the better part of two weeks.

The Kabuki theater continues.

Off-Topic / What is a woman? [295]


We were all joking?

What's the use of getting so worked up about these things? If someone were to say these things to you in earnest - you could freely decide that the person is an idiot and ignore him.

As Iron said - 90% of guys are normal people. Why focus on the ten percent of sh*tters that get a rise out of humiliating someone?

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This is like High School Bullying 101. By acting outraged and immediately reaching for the icons and the relics - you are giving us exactly what we want)

Best way to treat idiots like us is to ignore us, or do what Lena does - kinda sigh, roll your eyes, and move along.

History / Heil Poland!.....? Poland is a pro-Nazi state? [185]

@mafketis

Maf I'm always curious how old you are.

Are you closer in age to me and Torq, or to Milo and Novi?

I was born 1989. Got to live for three years in the glorious USSR.

Happiest time in my life.

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]


Supposedly the Kremlin has been briefed too. This may mean that Medvedev's rant isn't just bluster, and that there truly was minimal damage.

Their foreign minister is traveling to Moscow for consultations in the Kremlin. I imagine the first thing the Russians will ask him is "How bad is the damage?"

In a few weeks, unless this whole thing goes completely tits up, the IAEA will have to tour the site. They should be pretty objective about what they see.

I think a few weeks or a couple months maximum before we know.

What the WSJ and NYTimes writes when they say "We may never know" - I don't understand. Of course we will find out soon - too many people involved.

Off-Topic / An average brain weight by ethnicity/nation [36]


I will explain further.

Most of the Russian brain has same density as average statistical brain. But we have a very thick and dense hypothalamus. In Russian - name of hypothalamus is "Chekhov's Gland".

Chekhov's Gland is thought to control a range of critical survival behaviors, such as:

1) The ability to drink undiluted methanol without going blind.

2) The ability to sense betrayal from a minimum distance of 450 meters.

3) And the innate instinct to crush a chessboard with your forehead after a draw.

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Sorry this probably made no sense.

What I imagined, while sitting on the toilet, is that there must be some kind of massive blast door at the entrance. Then maybe a series of further doors.

If you open this door, and open a few others, then pile a bunch of dirt at the entrance - you could make an improvised "blowout panel".

The GBU-57 supposedly has a new smart fuse since a few years ago, which is "void sensing". So when it breaks through into the void of the tunnel, the blast door securing the centrifuge hall remains closed, while the others leading up to the outside are opened.

Since keeping the doors simply ajar, might mean inviting an Israeli commando raid - a sand wall is a good further precaution, while not enough to "bounce" the destructive shock wave back into the complex.

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Regarding the ventilation shafts... As stupid as such an idea sounds, let's assume they really did exist in the specific configuration which is claimed.

Maybe there's a very practical reason why ventilation can't be routed through subsurface pipelines, and has to come from "the top". In that case, it seems to me like no facility can't be protected, since a shockwave traveling through a ventilation shaft will tear to pieces any fans and heat exchangers, and will then propagate freely through the entire interior.

Surely this is something that must have been addressed by designers? Perhaps it's possible to create some kind of "sump" for air, to preclude a single connected system?

Anyway - just very curious.

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@Ironside

Yesterday AntV quoted Medvedev saying several states were already considering transferring nuclear weapons to Iran. I dismissed it, because of the source.

But then I read a bit more about it in the Russian press, and understood that nobody is thinking this is a Russian weapon that will be transferred. Medvedev instead likely meant North Korea (more likely) or Pakistan (less likely).

Maybe he has access to some intelligence, that indicates those parties are considering such things.

If I were Pakistan - I would not do it. Iran already burned them once, by revealing the program to the whole world. Pakistan managed its program entirely in secret, using things like London and Dubai shopfronts as proxies to procure materials.

Then, relying on silent Muslim brotherhood, the AQ Khan network helped Iran get its nuclear program off the ground.

Iran's eventual transparency (e.g., public Natanz and Fordow revelations, IAEA inspections, the defiant enrichment milestones) effectively "blew the cover" on a covert proliferation chain. I think this may have endangered Pakistan's own network, invited global scrutiny, and compromised Pakistani deniability.

The Persians can't keep their mouth shut about anything. I'm sure if Pakistan gave them a nuke, they'd immediately threaten Israel with it - getting Pakistan into a lot of trouble.

North Korea is different. It's known for not giving a sh*t about anything, as long as it pisses off people in Washington DC.

Life / Why there is always around a horrible smell of sweat in Poland [217]


Shiiiiiiiiiiiit....

This is very good. Hats off to you sir!

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History / Heil Poland!.....? Poland is a pro-Nazi state? [185]


Yes, like when Torq replied to me in the rotten teeth thread with this:

"Unfortunately for Russia, no matter how few bidets Poles have, how much our arses smell and how rotten our teeth are, you will still lose this war!"

Off-Topic / What is a woman? [295]

Women are made out of ribs. It says so in Genesis.

Ribs have no brain.

Skull has brain. Spine has brain. Rib has no brain.

Off-Topic / An average brain weight by ethnicity/nation [36]

@Torq

This data does not look good for Amiga 500.

History / Heil Poland!.....? Poland is a pro-Nazi state? [185]


What is more genuine than the sad lament of a Brit living in a sea of Poles?

Off-Topic / An average brain weight by ethnicity/nation [36]


You can rely on the objectivity of this report, because Russian brains were not listed as largest.

It's easy to see what is going on in this data - whoever had a larger Jewish population, developed a bigger brain. Belarusians, Germans, Poles and Ukrainians had more Jews - so consequently they grew bigger brains.

This is not to say that Germans, Belarusians, Poles and Ukrainians are smarter than Russians. What this data does not account for, is that Russian brains are typically at least 15% more dense than other brains.

For example, if a German male brain weights 1,400 grams, then a Russian male brain can easily weight 1600-1700 or even 1,800 grams! All within a smaller package.

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@WarSore

Mister - I see you are finding all my favorite threads.

"Heil Poland" is good. The ones about littering Poles, and Poles being the most ignorant or rude race on the planet - these are good too. Well done finding them!

But have you seen the thread about Polish teeth? No? Why not?

https://polishforums.com/life/poland-worst-teeth-world-54002/

What about the thread discussing why there is a strong smell of body odor all over Poland?

https://polishforums.com/life/poland-around-horrible-smell-sweat-26785/

An excellent thread.

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

What kind of tickles me, is the idea that the GBU-57s were dropped right into two systems of ventilation shafts.

Now I have no idea if this is true, but a lady on Fox News said so, and some publications have written the same. There's some kind of cgi schematic of the Fordow complex going around on Twitter, that was first published in 2021. It seems to show that there is indeed a vertical ventilation shaft reaching to the top of the mountain.

This is some Death Star level bullshit lol! Why on Earth would the Iranians do that?

Is there some language in the Koran, that forbids building a separate ventilation building connected to the complex by... say two pipes?

In New York City, we have two big buildings - one in Lower Manhattan, and one in Brooklyn, that pushes air through the Midtown Tunnel. They're nowhere near the tunnel, and not above it either.

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The other thing that's got me scratching my head are the excavators that had been photographed by satellite, ramming earth into the tunnel entrances. What's the point of this? When I try to imagine what the purpose could be, I can think of:

1) Preventing an Israeli commando raid. I guess the commandos can't bring enough explosives on their person, to blow through tens of meters of rammed earth.

2) Preventing radioactive material from flying all over Iran, in the case that America succeeds with its bombing mission.

3) A sort of makeshift mineshaft "support", in case of an American strike on the tunnel entrances. The sand might presumably absorb more of the damage of the blast, preventing a wholesale collapse of the tunnel. This way you can just dig the sand out later and have a usable tunnel again, instead of building a whole new tunnel entrance.

These are all my conjectures, originated while sitting on my toilet. Curious what other people think that could have been for?

Maybe the complex has some kind of interesting internal geometry, with sharp angles and blast doors, where you can use a wall of rammed earth kinda like an ammunition blowout panel on a tank? These sand being less dense and easier displaced than a blast door, it might channel the shock wave in a direction towards the outside, rather than the center of the complex.

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These residual effects can also be quite destructive.

Seemingly, how could the attack on the twin towers affect people living in the former Soviet Union?

But it did, and in major ways. America's need for our airspace and other forms of cooperation in enabling the mission in Afghanistan - meant it closed its eyes to practically everything it had cared so much about throughout the 1990s.

Suddenly, autocrats like Islam Karimov (Uzbekistan) or Nursultan Nazarbayev (Kazakhstan) or Ilham Aliev (Azerbaijan), were rebranded by the State Department from "autocrats" to "valued allies".

When America goes to war, it stops caring about everything else. All efforts go towards "ensuring the safety of our boys". If this means collaborating with dictators to be able to fuel your jets at their airports - it's a price you are always willing to pay. Regardless of the corrosive after effects of the patina of legitimacy that you provide these tinpot dictators.

So the knock on effects can be beneficial, but they can also be unpredictably bad - and bite you in the ass in a way you didn't expect. When some Central Asian dictator represses his homegrown Islamists to such an extent, that they decide to take their franchise global.

The main knock on effects of Iraq and Afghanistan seem to be massive refugee flows and the rise of the Islamic State.

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Obviously you would!

What I would want - obviously - is a forceful Russian intervention. Cold War style. That shows America it can't bomb whoever it wants willy-nilly, whenever it decides. That puts the bully on the backfoot.

Obviously - this cannot happen. Russia is hopelessly mired in Ukraine. Every single piece of weaponry and ammunition MUST go to the front. There cannot be any discussion about helping anybody else - whether its Armenia or Iran. We're at the serious risk of a big embarrassment here in Ukraine, so everything else is kinda peripheral (at least for the time being). In the same way it was for commanders during WW2 debating about opening new fronts...

Furthermore - we are just not so close with Iran. It's been a marriage of desperation. There's a lot of things we don't like about them - first and foremost their overt Islamism, with which our country has had problems in our Caucasus regions as recently as the early 2000s.

We are much, much, much more close to Israel. Our exiled oligarchs, our pop stars, and war dissidents - most of them are in Israel. They are broadcasting daily on Twitter and elsewhere what ******** we are for being neutral. There are millions and millions of people in Russia, that have relatives - however distant - living in Israel. Not so with Iran.

So the Cold War style showdown I want - its never gonna happen. And if it did - its probably terrible for my country and the world. Hence - "romantic and naive".

Doesn't mean I can't rant. Also doesn't mean you are going to win in Iran.

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Yesterday, when a journalist asked Putin why he was not taking a more active approach to the situation in Iran, he replied:

"We have two million of our former compatriots living in Israel. These are people that speak Russian, and identify with our country. We have to be cognizant of this."

To me - that was like a big flushing down of Iran down the toilet. He couldn't say it any worse.

He could have said - we are busy with Ukraine (and this would have been true). He could have said what the Chinese said, and say - "We don't want to add fuel to the fire". Instead he said what he said.

So no, don't worry that Putin will give Iran nukes. Let alone the fact that Putin has spent twenty years saying Iran cannot have nukes.

What I hope for in Iran is naive and romantic, it's never gonna happen. Maybe it's for the best.

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What's astonishing about these strikes, is that people knew they were going to happen approximately 12 hrs ahead of time.

This guy is now famous on Twitter. He saw 9 B-2s flying over his house as they took off from Whitman Airbase.

Then some flight trackers reported on the fact that the B2s got refueled immediately after takeoff. This was a sure fire way to indicate that strikes were planned.

Finally - and this is more dubious - an Iranian foreign ministry official said that the Americans called ahead of the strike and explained that it was about to happen, and was going to be a "one off".

All this "telegraphing", tells me that Iran likely had if not several days, then at least several hours to prepare.

It may not have been sufficient time to relocate fissile material, but it likely wasn't completely irrelevant either.

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Hopefully a bluff.

A sure fire way to plunge the world into death.

Given that the guy that said this is Dmitry Medvedev - I wouldn't worry too much.

That guy announces he will nuke somebody every weekend.

If it was Putin that said it - that would be a different matter.

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I decided not to bring up Jared, because Trump allegedly hates him, and is disappointed with Ivanka, that she married this quiet nerd.

Trump supposedly said that giving Jared and Ivanka access to the WH was one of the biggest mistakes of the first term.

No wonder - since they're both essentially Democrats. They were never gonna be comfortable with the red meat he was tossing into the cage.

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To some extent, I've felt this and noticed it.

In America we have Luke Walton. Supposedly the 39th richest person in the world, with exactly $39B in net worth.

Dude shows up to his fund everyday, and sits on conference calls for hours. Meets with the heads of his portfolio companies. Helps navigate day to day problems, etc.

In Britain, he'd lead some charmed life hanging out with William and Hugh Grosvenor, and making sh*t appearances for stupid charities in Lesotho and Burundi.

You guys still have a real aristocracy. It's still considered in bad taste for sons of the gentry to do real work. It's bad taste to actually want money, or to try to crawl out of your skin just to have a taste of power.

But this is what makes British society so absolutely inaccessible to outsiders. Doesn't matter if you are a US tech billionaire, a Russian oil oligarch, or some Indian metallurgist.

America's "elite" is much more democratic.

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CMS - did you listen to me and buy all those oil stocks?

I could have made you a **** ton of money in the last three weeks.