This was already argued extensively. Basically what happens is the standard infantry gear every Russian soldier is fitted with sucks. No armor plating (or if there is, it’s fake), shitty weaponry, shitty helmets if at all. Hardly any cooking gear or anything at all really.

Now, second to understand is that the Russian army is basically a racket from top to bottom. If you start at the bottom, sucks man. You get extorted and people beat the shit out of you regularly.

So why Wildberries? When you’re conscripted into the army (and yes, conscription does actually occur quite regularly now in Russia) you’re going to need… stuff. To survive. Helmets, armor plating, a drinking tin, anything at all to survive basically. For yourself? Perhaps. If you’re Lucky. Most likely though your commander will beat you into buying it for him and he’ll pawn it off to someone else.

This has created a massive market for military gear to be sold by webshops like Wildberries where they sell armor plating, vests, jackets, boots, helmets, camping gear, med kits, you name it. It has essentially become a grey market.

That’s why Ukraine is claiming these are legitimate targets. They are, after all, supplying the Russian army in a way. Whether you agree with that stance is up to you, but that’s what their argument boils down to basically.

Edit; and to add: if Russia does not want Wildberries to be a legitimate target, it is also incumbent on them to make it not a legitimate target by restricting the sales of military gear for example. It is up to Russia to keep military and civilian strictly separate but as we know from Russian actions like using schools, hospitals and even a nuclear power plant as storage and/or staging areas for future assaults,

they don’t give a flying fuck about the distinction between civilian and military. Any claim from Russia that these are ‘not legitimate targets’ will inevitably be met with every single fucking civilian target that Russia has hit since the start of this war, from apartment buildings to train stations to a guy on a market with a fucking vegetable stand being hunted by a drone. So don’t come asking stupid questions and acting sanctimonious here and accusing Ukraine of these things while ignoring Russian actions.

No doubt the takeaway from the article is supposed to be ‘just use Brave’ instead of ‘don’t fucking use AliExpress’

You know, I like Ramaswamy. I like seeing him speak. He’s such a fucking buffoon. An absolute fool of a man. Absolutely terrible at everything he does. It’s a marvel to behold, like a traincrash you can’t look away from. Keep spending up those funds buddy. You got this.

I mean, yea no shit

I hate this headline. It’s not an actual bank. It’s a storage facility that provides financial products to the producers of PR who need a steady cashflow for day to day operations and can’t afford to wait until the cheese wheels are mature and ready to be sold. So the storage place provides this steady cashflow with the cheese as collatoral basically.

With Europe’s recent heatwaves the facilities that store these wheels are struggling to keep the wheels at the right temperature to make sure they mature right. If they lose the wheels, they lose their collatoral and the whole thing runs the risk of collapsing.

This headline implies that Italy’s banks deal solely in cheese which, even though it would be very funny, is just ludicrous. It’s clickbait nonsense really.

Even tasers are ‘less lethal’ as people can and do die from them.

I appreciate the artistic vision and the craft, they’re both excellent. I will say, this is not what dissociation felt like to me at all. It wasn’t an escape as much as it was me just losing control and just. Disappearing. And then ‘waking up’ when people inevitably were like ‘yo are you hearing me?’

It would sometimes coincide with anxiety or panic attacks but the worst part to me was still just this feeling of losing control. Feeling myself slip away and both wanting to just disappear and not wanting it.

Do yeah while I totally see this vision and I do appreciate the execution of it, it doesn’t really match with how, to me, this was more like an existential horror I had to relive multiple times per day.

Edit: checked the comments and I recognize this isn’t necessarily the experience others have with it. Dissociation from neurodivergence can be a completely different experience, no doubt! Mine unfortunately was more trauma/ptsd related I guess. Love to read all the input about the topic and I’ll see if I can read more on autism/adhd related dissociation as I am also autistic.

You underestimate how intertwined the US and Israel really are and how much political damage it would do to allow this to happen to anyone in the US who can be held responsible for it. There is not a chance in hell they’ll have Netanyahu on the chopping block if they can help it.

It’s the right thing

But don’t expect someone like Erdogan of all people to suddenly do the right thing. At least I’m not getting my hopes up you know. Erdogan is a bastard too.

Turkish elections are coming up. They won’t risk their NATO membership so this is just bluster from an autocratic regime.

The man or the small duck?

That’s pretty cool I guess but he did try to kill V and is still taking over their brain lol

Also I’d get to be a woman (female V is superior) and that was genuinely euphoric to me so my egg may be cracking

Sad about the death part, but hey, tits. Pretty cool. I can get down with that.

Cyberpunk 2077. V is sooooo fucked holy shit.

Do not underestimate a human’s ability to delude themselves or, more importantly in this case (in my opinion) buy into being part of a social group. Flat earthers have a pretty active social community going online and some people will absolutely buy into the things they say just to be a part of it. And this isn’t some ‘I’ll just pretend to so they’ll talk to me’ thing, they will convince themselves they’re true believers. The belief in a flat earth is often downwind from the belief in other conspiracies, things that may be pretty benign or just outright true (Tuskegee experiment, MKultra etc), putting Flat Earth on a path from the benign to the deeply harmful, like Pizzagate or raging antisemitism.

In all this, community is extremely important. If a person loses this access to the community, their beliefs may turn somewhat more mainstream. We see this with cults too, though I’m not saying Flat Earthers are a cult by any means.

Anyway, there are Flat Earth books, podcasts, YouTube channels, conferences, you name it. There’s a real dedication to showing everyone in the community just how much you bought into the thing. I think approaching this from the standpoint of ‘this is a personal failure for the one believer’ doesn’t provide us with any answers about the ‘why’ of it all, nor will it necessarily help anyone with leaving such a worldview.

Anyway. My two cents. The best way to make sure someone leaves a cult or a toxic worldview is to allow them to be part of communities that aren’t that cult or that worldview. The more insular you force them to be, the more insular they will become. Within reason of course and especially with cults, within what’s safe for everyone.

Sorry, long ass post. Tl:dr, they don’t necessarily believe the earth is flat, they believe that they believe it because that allows them to join a social group.

He is abandoning South-Korea because he spent all his reserves on Iran. Like the American THAAD system they had to hurridly redeploy from Korea to the countries Iran is targetting. He doesn’t care and thinks Un is his personal buddy lol.

Not wrong you know

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I’m sure .ml will be extremely normal about this

Love to see it

Israeli troops are getting smoked in Lebanon by what is essentially a guerilla army. Yes, Israel is committing horrific crimes there too. But their troops are having a horrible time.

Syria is so much worse than Lebanon.