In university I thought I could handle anything at least soundwise and someone linked a site of the final black box recordings on planes that crashed killing everyone. Listened to about 3 or 4 and was quite shaken.
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oh yea those are surprisingly bad, when you hear about them it doesnt seem like they will be, but in so many crashes almost everyone on board knew they were dying well before it happens, lots of recordings there are audible screams from passengers, so bad
I’ve always tried to avoid the worst in sound, video, and jpgs on the internet and elsewhere and, thankfully, have usually been successful. I don’t watch horror movies or even revenge porn action movies. Often times I’ll check reddit comments before clicking links. There are plenty of widely shared Ukraine videos I intentionally haven’t seen.
I know there are terrible things happening. For every puppy rescued from a hole, many more die. For every seal released from a net, many more suffer. Every animal, insect, and bacteria on this earth eats everything else. If there were a god, he would be the evilest designer imaginable. I don’t need to watch the videos to know this.
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i’m sure it’s nothing
What’s wrong with ghoulishness? I personally find dark humor to be a good way of coping with the realities of war.
Dehumanizing people is how you cope with the realities of your precisely zero percent chance of ever having to endure being in a war?
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Yeah, sure. Why not?
That video is not ghoulish by any stretch of the imagination. The humor is that the tank is driving around wildly and smashes into a tree, not that people are dying. It’s not clear that anyone is even killed in the video.
You’re missing a big part of the point of humor. Of course it sucks that there’s a war in Ukraine. It’s not good that Russian soldiers are dying, even if it’s preferable to Russia winning the war. The reason we have humor is to allow ourselves to function psychologically when everything is bad. You can’t just go around attaching strongly negative emotions to everything you see.
https://twitter.com/tadeuszgiczan/status/1574687624081690626?s=46&t=TJh636K8WZuZyX-CEqyKuw
This is insane. Are these people who had previous service terms or something? Even the tsarist army wasn’t just grabbing randos and sending them to the front.
There was some commentator on CNN stating that the draft wasn’t going to do anything to help Russia right now, because it would be months before Russia could draft, train, and then send it’s citizens to the front.
Putin: “Hold my beer.”
Who’s the most likely culprit for this? Russia? the US?
Mobilized troops are not even being given the most basic supplies
https://twitter.com/saintjavelin/status/1574553649506025472?s=21
Yeah I’m sure these people are going to be super useful on a battlefield dominated by long range artillery.
It‘s unclear who has anything to gain from it. I guess that is Ukraine but I doubt they have the capability to do deep water sabotage in the Baltic Sea.
Russia can simply turn off the supply but maybe they think they can profit from the uncertainty that is created. It would be really stupid for the US to attack European infrastructure. If that traces back to them all hell would break loose diplomatically. The same would be true if Ukraine did it.
The only supply that Real Russian Men need is a deep and pure love for their country. If they get blown up or starve to death or freeze to death, that just means they weren’t loyal enough to Russia.
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According to this thread the pipeline in that area is only 70m below the sea.
https://twitter.com/covertshores/status/1574750260743880710?s=21
Unlike in Lyman, where there is a mix of Russian reservists, separatists and regular army forces, the area around Bakhmut is largely controlled by the Wagner Group, an infamous paramilitary force that reports directly to the Kremlin.
Ukrainian soldiers near the front say that Wagner’s ranks are bolstered by prison inmates from the separatist regions who were drafted into service. One Ukrainian soldier, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for security reasons, said Wagner’s forces attack only so far before sending inmates with little support forward to face Ukrainian guns like “cannon fodder.”
These tactics have left Ukrainian forces in the region with a flood of prisoners as the inmates frequently surrender. Another soldier, who also spoke anonymously, said Russian forces would not trade captured Ukrainian forces for inmates: the onetime Russian prisoners, now Ukrainian prisoners, are seen as deserters.
Ukrainian commanders in Bakhmut said recently that even the presence of U.S.-supplied rocket systems, known as HIMARS, have failed to put much of a dent in the Russian supply chain. That’s a marked change from Ukrainian commanders’ accounts over the summer when the weapons first arrived — suggesting that Russia had adapted to the strikes by better dispersing its ammunition stockpiles.
Seems the Russians have adapted to HIMARS as well