Luckily a totally different type of reactor. The WWER concept is much closer to western designs and optimized for civilian usage, just producing a lot of energy safely. Chernobyl's RBMK on the other hand was optimized for creating plutonium for the military and therefore inherently unsafe.
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Luckily a totally different type of reactor. The WWER concept is much closer to western designs and optimized for civilian usage, just producing a lot of energy safely. Chernobyl's RBMK on the other hand was optimized for creating plutonium for the military and therefore inherently unsafe.
Right wing Twitter is claiming he tucked tail & fled the country. Obviously this claim is being made with no factual basis or credible linking.
Not quite. They will know there is something up there, they just won't know exactly what/where. It can't be hidden totally.
Thanks.
I know. It doesn't matter though, they won't even need to be in Russia to nuke Moscow.
I know she was well liked but was she that good? Germany has sleep walked into this situation totally reliant on Russian energy and with a depleted military that couldn't defend it's own borders.
This is correct but she more reflects the wider Western penchant for delaying the solution, as opposed to addressing problems head-on.
Yeah, it’s certainly the case. To be fair, the Rus’ from the anthem is Kievskaya Rus’ (Kyiv’s Rus’), but not many Russians remember that.
It’s hard to complain when Ukraine is literally getting bombed as we speak, but pretty shit. Putin decided to get a world record on a turning into North Korea speed run.
I, during a talk about museums I did whilst working at a museum, while standing right in the centre of the museum said the word 'musician' instead of the word 'museum'. It's not a sign of advanced old age, it's just a slip of the tongue.
Anyway, using his own polls is counterproductive — just like you’re not going to use arguments from RT while discussing the situation in Ukraine, are you?
It’s very tough to get a clear picture of how the public took that decision but you don’t shut down every independent media & introduce heavy prison sentences for anyone willing to share the truth when you feel confident about the popular vote.
I’ve already explained why Crimea was very different — and there was certainly a wave of patriotic support there, the wave that I don’t see at the moment at all. It doesn’t mean that there aren’t many people who genuinely believe in Putin’s arguments, but it’s far from an overwhelming sentiment country-wide.
My apologies for posting the crappy DEFCON website, should have checked it first.
Spot on. I hope you are doing well, mate. Hope we all get rid of the cruel cnut asap which would go a long way in finally bringing some democracy to the majority of ex-USSR states. Take well care of yourself.
Out of curiosity, are there areas more pro-Putin/anti-Putin than others in Russia and if so...which? Wondering how split it is, whether certain regions would cause more civil unrest than others?
Apparently Putin liked her. Not much of a surprise given she presided over a militarily punny Germany that consistently undermined NATO and shut down Germany’s nuclear power stations making them more dependent on Russian energy.
I want to go back to windows 95 myself, still the best.
Yeah, that’s it. Yet, you can see what just ten years of massive, directly funded, Putin driven sh*t has done to the gullible, complacent, ignorant, some times complicit public opinion in our free democracies. We are lucky he did not went all-in in 2019, when the mess was at its peak in the West. There is still a lot discord, but a number of very relevant, extremely fast corrections happened in four days and set a new, clearer, much more grounded line for the difficult times ahead.
What will this mean practically? Probably a lot of the software is stored locally and will continue to run, or how does this work?
China needs to join in or get sanctioned too. They're clearly on Russia's side now that they've failed to act in any meaningful way.
First time the US talks about war crimes?
There's gonna be an active black market, that's for sure. Factories in China will steal them off the line to sell them at a mark up to Russians.
No Teams? Lucky feckers.
I'm sorry but.
Public street parade as soon as SAP stops selling in Russia
How are you still managing to access internet access to RedCafe? Isn't the internet largely shut off - aside from internal Russian sites - for people in Russia?
There’s been a big noticeable decrease in the number of journalists I have been following tweeting updates from Moscow in recent days. You can really feel the lines of communication to the West being cut off.
Well I didn't mean the factories would become sentient, it's the employees who will steal them.I'm sorry but.
Or is it funny because security is too tight? Or most stolen goods are taken in transit? Or are Microsoft computers made in Malaysia?
I must know.
Very interesting...
Not just the thread itself but the infos you get in the comments...
Not just the thread itself but the infos you get in the comments...
China controlling their media narrative in line with Russia’s isn’t concerning at all? Ok.
Moscow & St Petersburg are less pro-Putin… some regions, like Khabarovsk, have a strong history of distaste for centralized power. On the other hand there’s regions like Chechnya with 99% votes for Putin (literally) in every election.
Especially with Biden, who's been known for his verbal flubs for ages.
Both were much more of a general national vibe than Merkel's doing though. It's worth remembering that Merkel's party are the centre right conservatives. It was their "archetypical" role to lobby for nuclear energy and armament. Nuclear energy has always been a very contested topic with a lot of visible and disruptive protests around nuclear power plants and nuclear waste transports and after Fukushima the pressure to get out of this type of energy was immense.
No, I don’t think so. A lot of social media & websites are restricted, like FB, Instagram and then specific websites of certain media.
But I’m using VPN anyway, so until they cut out the server that I’m linked up to, I can do whatever I want.