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TankieTanuki [he/him]
A furry Marxist-Leninist varmint
I used em dashes long before LLMs were a thing, and I don’t intend to stop
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That’s my cousin, TesticlesTanuki
16·2日前Did you pick up some vegetable stock for supper?
18·3日前Gatekeeping is toxic
Good to know, I guess. Impressive knowledge. You ever play KSP, by chance?
I remember the teacher having to go get a giant CRT TV from the AV room, having to wheel it into the classroom
Gen X’s 9/11 (unironically)
Horrifying fact
The astronauts survived the explosion and were likely fully conscious up until the cockpit hit the water at 200 mph. They watched the ocean surface grow closer through the cockpit window for 2 minutes and 45 seconds while fully knowing their fate.
I cried when I learned this.
At least some of the crew were alive and conscious after the breakup, as Personal Egress Air Packs (PEAPs) were activated for Smith and two unidentified crewmembers, but not for Scobee. The PEAPs were not intended for in-flight use, and the astronauts never trained with them for an in-flight emergency. The location of Smith’s activation switch, on the back side of his seat, indicated that either Resnik or Onizuka likely activated it for him. Investigators found their remaining unused air supply consistent with the expected consumption during the post-breakup trajectory.
While analyzing the wreckage, investigators discovered that several electrical system switches on Smith’s right-hand panel had been moved from their usual launch positions. The switches had lever locks on top of them that must be pulled out before the switch could be moved. Later tests established that neither the force of the explosion nor the impact with the ocean could have moved them, indicating that Smith made the switch changes, presumably in a futile attempt to restore electrical power to the cockpit after the crew cabin detached from the rest of the orbiter.
Pressurization could have enabled consciousness for the entire fall until impact. The crew cabin hit the ocean surface at 207 mph (333 km/h) approximately 2 minutes and 45 seconds after breakup. The estimated deceleration was 200 g, far exceeding structural limits of the crew compartment or crew survivability levels. [emphasis mine]
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I really empathize with her struggle with dysphoria and I think go a little softer on her as a result. What bothers me about her is that she’s a de-radicalizer for leftists. I know and see so many people with a sky-high opinion of her who can’t see the faults in her ideology that capitalism and Zionism aren’t going anywhere so the most revolutionary thing you can do is vote Democrat.
I’m characterizing the separation as asylum for the entire oblast of Odessa.
Russia is a semi-presidential republic like France and Portugal. It’s not typically classified as a “liberal democracy” simply due to racism IMO[1]—although I’ll grant that it’s probably more homophobic than those two.
Edit: In truth, I think “liberal democracy” is a useless and chauvinist term. I used it to be provocative.
For example, the BBC is free to operate in Russia, but RT is not free to operate in the UK. Despite this, the UK is near the top of the “press freedumb” chart, and Russia is near the bottom, because Russians are mean and scary. ↩︎
I have. Titushky is not a political party.
a political party [which] got 0.7% of votes
Which is that?
the group […] was not trying to have a socialist revolution in Ukraine, but rejoin Russia (who is not socialist, so honestly no idea what you are talking about)
Ukraine was not on the brink of a socialist revolution, but it was in the middle of a NATO-backed coup spearheaded by nationalist groups like the OUN which desired to exterminate socialists and ethnic Russians alike. The pragmatic course of action for socialists in such a predicament is to seek asylum with the nearby liberal democracy that opposes those same nationalist groups and with which you share cultural ties.
Even though Russia is sadly no longer socialist, as you point out, its socialist past is still held in high regard by many and the country is not tearing down its Soviet monuments and replacing them with ones dedicated to Nazi collaborators. It’s safer to be a socialist in Russia.
And the state ordered firefighters to keep away and let them burn
Despite numerous calls to the fire brigade, which was less than 1 km away, the fire service regional head instructed his staff not to send any fire engines to Kulykove Pole without his explicit order.[1]
European Court of Human Rights: State negligence in clashes between Maidan supporters and opponents in Odesa in May 2014 [PDF] ↩︎
