Uh Lindsey, your friends are fixin’ ta bounce
https://twitter.com/jackposobiec/status/1499579480913981441?s=21
https://twitter.com/cernovich/status/1499579804806385666?s=21
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I wonder if the designers at Raven had “shootout at an active nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine” on the big board for ideas crazy enough to lead off the next COD game and had to scratch it?
Nice we’ve doxxed NBZ
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MW had a shootout at a Russian nuclear silo, CoD still staying just a hair more absurd than reality.
Part of this complains about treatment of individual Belarusians in Europe. Which is valid. Taking your frustrations out on low level people is just another form of prejudice.
Countdown, great map. But also “50,000 people used to live here” in Pripyat and the mafia guy seizing control to kill everyone on earth with nukes is maybe not that crazy now.
Does Lin-Z truly believe the kompromat will just disappear with Putin?
One good thing is I doubt Putin really wants to amplify the Lindsay tweet and put ideas in the public’s heads. Not that they would take him out, but just bringing up the topic for discussion is probably something he doesn’t want.
I bet @jack didn’t consider at the time that his little webpage would end up with a high ranking US government official using it to openly call for the murder of the leader of Russia.
Oops.
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some of you guys here idolize Kasparov (rightly most of the time), so he also said in an interview today with 24 news channel that WW3 has already started. he didn’t use this analogy, but we are essentially in the timeline right before lousitania or pearl harbor or whatever, and only armed conflict with NATO can stop mass murder in ukraine. putin has never been shy to kill lots of civilians, so why do we think he is going to shy away now?
the only way NATO can avoid getting involved is if somehow ukraine can quickly rout all the convoys and get to most of the missile and cluster launchers. which is very hard, they are currently largely in belarus and russia.
anyway Kasparov is advocating for no fly zones, massive nato mobilization on poland, turkey, and baltics, to at least make the generals think twice if they so much as shift their troops on the border.
i haven’t changed my mind about this since the war started. no fly zone is necessary, especially of civilian casualties from air strikes become into the thousands.
i believe Nato can start creating zones with low chances of engagement in western ukraine and black sea, and squeeze it as RU forces attrite aircraft. not initiating engagement, but daring RU planes to fire first.
I messaged my wife about this as I was at a Raptors game when it happened. She works in nuclear as a mechanical engineer… my first reaction is this is nothing. Her response was quite emotional in nature which is extremely surprising as she doesn’t get emotional over work. She blames the media, this fire is nothing, it’s as if people don’t realize that engineers plan for this and go to school so that when these things happen it’s not some crazy unforeseen scenario
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Sorry to be facetious, but what happens if a nuke reactor gets nuked?
(I am seriously glad these reactor design seems to be pretty hardy-thanks to mechanical engineers).
I’m gonna guess they generally do not plan for armies shooting each other within them tho
Firstly there aren’t just mechanical engineers working on them, secondly without even asking her nuclear weapons are in a different universe than nuclear energy. They are different, do not conflate them. It’s like comparing the emissions of passenger vehicle to that of a cruise ship.
How the fuck is Russia’s economy only shrinking by 30%?
Unfortunately this is how I fear things will go. I have no faith this stops with Ukraine at all if nothing changes.
Sustained loss of cooling can cause a loss of containment even for a reactor that has been shut down. I don’t know what kind of emergency cooling systems this particular reactor has, but some reactor designs have last resort cooling systems that doesn’t require electricity. You just use convection to promote flow through the cooling system.
russia economy didn’t recover from covid, but yeah. 30% is a conservative estimate. it will be more than half once they runout of semiconductors and airplane parts, which will be soon. Airlines may not have any planes that don’t need some sort of maintenance part in less than 2 months. AvtoGaz stopped car assembly lines already, planned for 4 days. i think it would be a minor miracle if it opened and stayed open until sanctions are lifted.