They’re losing the war at a rapidly increasing rate. But they have to spin it as a victory. They’ve been claiming this entire time that the Russians are throwing massive amounts of men and materiel at them in human waves. It makes sense to keep using that claim and say that Ukraine is cleverly exploiting the dumb Russian tactics to increase the attrition rate.

Of course that all falls apart even if you only read western media, if you read further than the headline. The reality is an underequipped, under trained, under staffed UAF being sent to the frontline in their mass. Pretty much the opposite of what’s advertised. You’re not supposed to remember that Russia has air superiority and at least a 3:1 advantage in artillery and drones. You aren’t supposed to see the military cemetaries in Ukraine adding hundreds of thousands of new plots.

You’re just expected to forget all that, and believe Zelensky when he says that there have been less than 40k casualties, and Russians are throwing themselves on the brave Ukrainian bayonettes. Then this makes sense.

Same flags as above:

1. war crime
2. anti terrorist operation
3. intelligence triumph

I read that article this morning. It’s a well oiled routine at this point. Russians are using human wave tactics in the first half, then the second half talks about massive Russian artillery and air superiority, and how the UAF is taking enormous losses.

I almost think that the reporter knows that their regular readership only reads headlines. But they still want to tell the truth.

Taking away the landowner’s serfs of course.

I very rarely click on video links. But I watched this one. It’s honestly not that earth shattering IMO. Russia has nearly encircled a fairly large area where there may or not be a sizeable chunk of UAF.

I do think that the end of the war is fast approaching, and we’ll see some real change this winter. But this isn’t it. This is a tactical victory, not a strategic one.

I found this article, which might be a clue. Estradiol starts as a cooking oil by-product. Hubei seems to be a hot spot for cooking oil plants, and I did find a few in that general area, although most of China’s production appears to be located northeast of there. That’s about as far as I got. I’m questioning the veracity of this, but it’s not worth it to me to prove it one way or the other. Details are becoming more difficult to dig up.

Completely agree. I haven’t worked up the courage, but it’s something I absolutely would like to do as a part time job. It’s a service like any other, and it should be treated as such.

Edit: to the downvoters, why? My body your choice?

A phenomenon I’ve noticed many a time, and I’m not a tinfoil hat wearing type. This is why anything smart gets removed when I want a serious talk.

Fun fact: in 1950, there were only 500 million people in China. That means that Mao killed half the population of China. That’s a little less than the raw percentage of population loss from the native population of North America in the 19th century (~600k in 1800 to 250k in 1890). Funnily enough, in 1979, the population of China had nearly doubled from the 1950 figures.

I guess we’ll never know what happened in North America, but that Mao guy sure was evil.

I’d not been following the war that closely until the Kursk invasion. I strongly believed it to be the beginning of the end. It makes absolutely zero strategic sense. Zelensky himself has waffled on what the point of it is. At this point it seems to be just a terrorist attack/PR stunt aimed at harming Russian civilians. That’s not really a good use of your best troops if you want to win a war. As we can see with the collapse of the Ukrainian fronts, which Ukraine is still not doing much about. This just isn’t sustainable.

It matters to Canada because the US told them to care. I have absolutely no clue about the US. Presumably they spent a lot of money getting those judges appointed and don’t want to lose their investments?

For anyone else out of the loop: From what I gather, Mexico is currently trying to make it so that judges are elected, rather than appointed. Canada and the US are fussing about this and threating trade sanctions, claiming that electing judges will somehow harm Mexico’s democracy (as you might expect, the reasons I found were a bunch of FUD without much substance). Mexico wants them to mind their own fucking business.

Americans dub English language TV shows. They yell at people speaking Spanish. It’s entirely unsurprising that they would find Chinese language ads offensive.

The last person, I was curious about WTF they were on about. It was wartime propaganda from WW2. They’re openly comparing the war to the Soviet fight against Nazi Germany.

To be fair, my history teachers taught me a lot of propaganda.

This Indian says he can fuck right off.

I got yelled at to go home the other day. By a black guy. I’m somewhat used to it from white people, but I was shocked enough that I actually engaged with him, and told him that I was native.

He told me that everyone was native because of Pangea, and wouldn’t listen to me when I said Pangea was about 200 million years before people even existed (creationist I think). I disengaged very quickly at that point, but I was pretty unsettled by that event for a few days afterwards.

I still have no explanation. Or any idea of where he thought I should be going home to.

That’s the first time I’m hearing about Hitler being a saviour. God what a terrible time to be alive.

The falsification isn’t what bothers me most. It’s saying shit like that, while completely ignoring Dresden, Nagasaki, and Hiroshima.

If you only play one JRPG in your life, make it Chrono Trigger.