I'm the kind of loser who takes summarized notes on the books he reads
Okay, serious suggestion:
I've always wanted to read How to Hide an Empire: A Short History of the Greater United States
Me when I wake up in 2025 and immediately break my resolutions to limit consumption of the GODDAMN NEWS this year:
In all seriousness - the image is from Mercouris' 31st december video (Invidious link in "listen only" mode so you can close your smartphone while listening).
It's a very good review of 2024 with a heavy focus on the Ukraine war. Nothing in itwill be news to News mega maxxers, but Mercouris uses all of his talent and slow-ass reading voice to summarize the countless insanities and failures dreamt up and executed by Western and Ukrainian leaders over the past year. It's pretty brutal and I would encourage you to give it maybe a 5 -minute listen and see if you like it; I thought it was one of Mercouris' best video I've seen over the past months.
I really dread what will happen to Europe after they slowly start to realize they've lost yet another war to Russia in the coming months, it will affect everyone I know.
Also includes some anti-dooming on the Middle East situation where he elaborates why Israel's position might not be so good after all; this is after the 1-hour mark I think.
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(sorry posting this again, I just thought it was such a good joke for old C&C Generals players)
wow you can really see him aging in those pictures
the Old Lion of Moscow 
Thank god I touched grass and didn't have to read the news today, just did a quick glance of the headlines and it's all terrible, may the lib MSMs be damned.
So I would already like to do some self-reflection and I have to say, what the hell Alexander Mercouris? I didn't have much time to doom over the past week so I just listened to his soothing voice every night, and he was all "oh yeah maybe the situation doesn't look good but I have news of Iranian militiamen preparing to move in, and the Russian air force is much stronger than it was in 2015 and it is hitting the rebel hard, or so this Russian telegram channel is saying..." I was close to posting his happy face in this thread several times over the last few days to counter the dooming voices here, I mean just look at the guy:
Then yesterday there was a SHARP change of tone in his Syria opening reporting and he said stuff like "Russia will probably cut ties with Assad if they deem it approriate" and I was like, well that's new, sounds almost like a kiss of death to me!" and then I wake up to the ousting of the Young Lion. I'm pretty bummed at Mercouris right now, like WTF dude? You sold me a damn bridge man, I was THIS close to investing a few hundred bucks in Assad staying in power through 2024 on Polymarket. Damn. You really can't rely too much on these multipolarity guys. Wonder if there's any self-critique in his next program.
That's all, thanks for reading, hope it doesn't get deleted because it's not really news, but I had to write it down, you know how it is.
Hey comrade just wanted to let you know that I enjoy all your rocket and space posts. I though I knew some stuff about rocket designs, having spent way too much time and retina cells reading up on all that, but you always have some fact, opinion or perspective I didn't know about. For example I didn't even know how messed up the Shuttle design process was until you pointed it out. (repeatedly, lol)
Please never hesitate to post or comment on space stuff. Thank you!
Oh we're doing missiles again? Great!
There's one thing that was bothering me about the small speculation of what the actual damage at that Dnipro plant might have looked like. Years Decades ago I sat in a lecture by some NASA engineer who'd worked on the Deep Impact probe where they blasted a comet with a small impactor and looked at the resulting cloud or something. His main point was that above a certain speed that's sometimes (but not always) reached by a comet crashing down on Earth every impact is going to look pretty similar because it's basically just like an explosion on the ground. So no matter the impact angle or shape, above some speed you always get an explosion crater, or rather these typical meteor craters like this one:
(could you tell which direction that meteor hit the ground from?)
Now I've looked it up and apparently there's this thing called a "hyper-velocity impact" which seems pretty consistent with what's written above, and which starts to occur at around Mach 11. That would also be the main damage-doer those Rods from God things. So my take on what the Oreshnik damage might have looked like would be a lot of little explosive craters, since the actual payload and hence energy on these 36 impact vehicles was probably not too big, and the velocity they travelled at was very close or equal to what a "hyper-velocity impact" would require.
Of course, all these assumptions might be wrong just as well and it actually was just little holes and huge explosive cavities below, who knows.
Just wanted to write this down, now I've got closure. Thanks for reading!
Not good, but also not over.
Not yet Basharover, but also not so Basharback
50% of Wehrmacht deaths happened in the 9 months from June 1944.
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a hat-making business in alsace
"It used to say HATE. Now it just says HAT. [...] Who doesn't like hats?"
I heard it came from a hexadecimal interpretation of The Quran, which was first done by an important wahhabi scholar who may have played a part in 9/11, and then some El Chapo trap-house picked up on that because he hates America and the Russian bear is America's nemesis and everyone here gets paid Putin bucks on the side, or so I've been told.
Its time for 4 Austrias
Austria 1, 2, 3 and 4 MUST join NATO now!
all the software devs/engineers were definitely working at least 55-60 hours
Sounds insane. Would you say that was useful work for some broader goal, or was it just about money? I could not imagine working like that.
Syrian Rebels HTS launched an offensive and are right outside Aleppo
2024 2012
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