koti

These war news someone compiled in Polish needed to be translated:

1. Russians asking for food in a country they are trying to occupy.
2. Elite Chechen soldiers obliterated in the fields in a few hours.
3. Gypsies who stole a a russian tank.
4. Polish hackers who play polish disco-polo on russian TV.
5. Russians asking Ukrainian police for fuel in Ukraine.
6. Kiev thugs beating up soldiers in an armored vehicle and passing them to the Ukrainian army.
7. Russians drowning a tank because they drove onto a wooden bridge.
8. Russians abandoning tanks and armored vehicles because the drove them into mud.
9. Wołodymyr Zełenski (Ukrainian president) cannot be evacuated becasue his balls do not fit through any door.
10. Russian tank wanted to refuel, Georgians informed them to f off and paddle away.
11. Ukrainian activists and LGBTQWERTY+ people beat up russian soldiers and took them into captivity.
12. Kadyrow, a big fan of Putin and leader of super-elite Chechens demands Ukraine to surrender with a deadline of February 31st.
13. Russian radio communications disrupted by hackers playing Barka-electro version.
14. Farmer taking a rocket launcher with his tractor.
15. Ukrainians pretending to be lost asking russians in russian for their location, receiving the location and killing the russians.
16. Russian armored brigade engaging in battle with a statue.
17. A russian saboteur marking positions for russian fire having his pants and underwear taken and being plastered to a tree with plastic foil where he awated Ukrainian police.
18. A Ukrainian carrying a mine into a field while smoking a cigarrete.
19. Russains being caught while driving aimlessly in an armoured vehicle around houses. When asked what theyre up to they replied: We don't want to fight, we need to burn the fuel.
20. The gypsies from number 3 put out for sale a catalytic converter they stole from that tank.
 

Two stories which we probably won't hear on the news:
- Two gypsies stole a tank and cut out the catalytic converter.
- An old Grandma in a village gave poisonous food to a couple of russians and when they went to a wooden toilet outside she lit it on fire.

16 minutes ago, iNow said:

The "Julius Caesar" solution doesn't strike me as likely given that his inner circle is small enough to include only like 2 other people right now, but a popular uprising could definitely get more popular and achieve the same outcome. 

A few thousand have been arrested for protesting and 1 million has signed a petition to stop the war. It’s not much in a 140 mln country but this will change when the food runs out.

26 minutes ago, iNow said:

Maybe not hosting the talks, but at least he’s hosting Ukrainian refugees… around 25-30,000 already, it seems. That’s a huge help to real people facing real danger. 

Despite a month of promises, on Thursday the 24th at night, conviniently while the Putin shitstorm started he reinstalled a prosecutor in the disciplinairy chamber who tormented a pregnant woman resulting in her death becuase of religious BS. The disiplinairy chamber is an illegal entity and a private tool of Kaczyński and Ziobro (minister of justice and prosecutor general in one person)  and is the main reason which prevents us from receiving the 150 bln euro form the EU post Covid fund and results in us paying around 1mln euro in fines. Daily. The president is not autonomous, he's a tool and a clown, unfortunately.

23 minutes ago, MigL said:

It will be interesting to see whether the Russian Command has an equivalent to General Milley, who, in the last crazy days of the D Trump Presidency, took steps to make surenuclear war would not be started during one of Donald's hissy fits, and went as far as contacting Russian and Chinese counterparts to reassure them.

Hope those counterparts he contacted in Russia think the same way, and some will choose to walk away from the brink.

Maybe we should be urging the Russian military to stage a coup ...

I hope the last couple of days has taught you that there are State Presidents who are much much worse than yours, Koti.
Stay safe.
( and open your house to some refugees 🙂 )

Just came back home from a day of trips, dropping people off at shelters and getting food and supplies. 

46 minutes ago, J.C.MacSwell said:

Who will host/moderate the discussion? Surely not Belarus?

If it’s going to be our Polish clown President we can all pack our bags and leave for Australia and NZ.

4 hours ago, Sensei said:

koti, I am astonished by the level of misinformation that you introduced by yourself into this thread to provoke and blacken. I gave examples from history what happened to other similar dictators and their families, who were responsible for mass murdering people..

Probably, if I told you what the future held for you, you would claim I was threatening you.. Wouldn't you?

ps. Didn't you say to stop writing to you? You broke your own rule..

 

You’re treading on thin ice creep. Be careful, one wrong step and you can fall.

5 hours ago, iNow said:

Agreed. Same here. Stay safe over there, sir. 

Thank you.

On 2/25/2022 at 1:28 PM, geordief said:

 

Good points but you should apologise for your outburst earlier.Your language and intent was deplorable.

When a right wing incel sitting at home in a basement drooling in his underwear talks about raping and murdering women, hell breaks loose (and rightly so) But when the same happens coming from a long time forum contributor, everyone turns their heads away. The hypocrisy and double standards have really hit stratosphere here.

I don’t think Putin is either mad nor is using the madman strategy, he’s doing what he has been preparing for years - realizing his dream of an imperial Russia. He’s probably the richest man on the planet, he has absolute power in Russia, he’s turning 70 years old this year, he knows his time is running out and he’s playing war games which are the only „fun” he’s got left to do which he hasn’t done yet. The scary part is that his methods of destabilizing countries and regions are very effective, in the 24 hours after his initial attack on Ukraine thousands of trolls and bots on FB and Twitter started spreading missinformation that petrol and gas is going to run out in Poland. Result - all gas stations had long lines, people started to hord petrol and gas to a point in which stations started to raise prices and the government had to intervene  yesterday - a few thousand accounts on social media is all it takes. Fun fact, this has been happening for years as Putin carefuly prepared by slowly destabilizing the eastern europe region through social media. My summary is: Putin will take Ukraine and Biden and the EU will let him to avoid WWIII. EU and NATO will grow stronger because of this war.

1 hour ago, Noice..gui said:

That's not even the first problem! The first problem is that if it's less than one 'metre' (as they say in Europaien/euROPEan cunteries) it can't even be considered an integral anymore!

Yeah right, screw those europaien countries.

Wow I am impressed. There is so much invaluable input from @Peterkin on torture in this thread that we should make her the torture expert on the forums.

12 minutes ago, Buai said:

If Swansont had not locked the topic you would have received the coordinates. Now one reality replaces another.

And I went from a positive reputations to a..not so nice rep.

„Converging” a hypothetical graviton when we don’t know it exists or not sounds like crackpottery. Plus your coordinates should be the nearest library. 

On 2/24/2022 at 9:25 AM, Sensei said:

Putin's daughters will be RAPED and MURDERED.... and their children too...

Are you high or did you forget to take your pills?

26 minutes ago, Genady said:

A few minutes after this^^^ topic has appeared on my screen an ad showed up, "¿Jesús resucitó de la muerte? Jesús enseñó que la vida no termina después de la muerte física."

Coincidence? God? AI?

It starts with a "G" and has 2 o's inside. And ends with "gle"

On 1/2/2022 at 9:19 AM, Alex_Krycek said:

I watched this over the weekend.  Overall I thought it was a humorous, provocative, and scarily accurate depiction of what happens when human beings are confronted with a dire threat (in this case an extinction level event arising from a direct hit by a 5-10 km wide comet).  

Meryl Streep's character, President Orlean, was very well written.  She's basically the female Trump, governing an administration infested with nepotism, corruption, and private donors.  

Interestingly this film was panned by critics - perhaps because it's message about the superficiality of the media hit a little too close to home.

Synopsis from IMDB:  "Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence), an astronomy grad student, and her professor Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) make an astounding discovery of a comet orbiting within the solar system. The problem - it's on a direct collision course with Earth. The other problem? No one really seems to care. Turns out warning mankind about a planet-killer the size of Mount Everest is an inconvenient fact to navigate. With the help of Dr. Oglethorpe (Rob Morgan), Kate and Randall embark on a media tour that takes them from the office of an indifferent President Orlean (Meryl Streep) and her sycophantic son and Chief of Staff, Jason (Jonah Hill), to the airwaves of The Daily Rip, an upbeat morning show hosted by Brie (Cate Blanchett) and Jack (Tyler Perry). With only six months until the comet makes impact, managing the 24-hour news cycle and gaining the attention of the social media obsessed public before it's too late proves shockingly comical - what will it take to get the world to just look up?"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11286314/

Political satire at it's best. Subtle, funny, eye brow raising.

8 hours ago, dimreepr said:

How unsafe are the gullible, they're prone to eugenics... 😉

How unfortunate are the ones who do not seek medical help.

3 hours ago, John Cuthber said:

Yes they do.

 

I like how the ionizing screws up the mic auto volume detection. +1

This can be forged into something useful, they should be encouraged to wear these bracelets as close to their reproductive organs as possible.

2 hours ago, CharonY said:

I think it is a bit of a false dichotomy to pit quarantine measures vs human rights. There are a couple of good discussions out there and I can link some once I am bit less tired.

But fundamentally the argument is that in order to prevent serious harm (and millions of deaths clearly qualify), such measures can be justified, as long as certain limitations are in place (e.g. scientifically justified, time limited, non-discriminatory application, etc.)

I think youre right that its a false dichotomy but on the other hand, if there is an open discourse well on its way in Europe about letting people use efficient and very easy to use suicide capsules then why couldn’t we fine the living daylight out of anti vaxxers or force them to isolate?

23 minutes ago, CharonY said:

Except of course sometimes the morons are those in power and if they are allowed to throw democracy out of the window they can effectively neuter health responses.

 

I think power has largely shifted from polititians to social media influencers, at least in the pandemic/vaccine context. In my opinion this should be the primary objective in dealing with the pandemic crisis.

I think we’ve learned 3 main things,

1. We simply can’t manage to deal with a global pandemic through existing mechanisms.
2. There is a significant amount of complete morons inhabiting our planet and without throwing democracy out the window there is no way of dealing with the pandemic.

3. Too late for education, we have to bribe or tax the sceptics and send the morons to islands.

I’ve had my Moderna booster shot 2 weeks ago after prior 2 doses of Pfizer. I’ve had Covid exactly a year ago with a fairly moderate course, a bacterial infection in Nigeria years back was far more taxing for me. I’m not even scared any more, just waiting for next week when we can vaccinate our almost 6 year old.

1 hour ago, studiot said:

Thank you for the article.

Sorry to pour a bit of cold water, but I have some doubts about the scientific veracity of both the article and its publication site.

I am wary of a site that also offers articles like "Did Hubble discover God ? Einstein amazed"  and  "DNA code points to a creator"

The article offers a description of wave motion that we teach as an introduction for 14 - 16 year olds at 'O' level.

It has actually been known for a century and a half or more that there are more types of waves than transverse and longitudinal.

Some (Rayleigh waves) are even named after the Physicist who studied them.

 

This is not to say that the Hong Kong scientists have not discovered something interesting and perhaps new.

 

But the article does not say what is vibrating in its diagrams. (Plots c and d)

Pressure is not a vector.

The demonstration device (in picture a)  looks like some sort of focusing device.
An array of sound sources.
It is well known that the sound output is more and more narrowly focused the more speakers you put into a line array.
This fact is used in stage speakers.

Pictures d and e seem to me to show interference from multiple sound sources.

However the group of pictures are entitled negative refract induced by the spin- orbital interaction in momentum space.
The false colour appears to give intensity values, but intensity of what ? It does not say.

So perhaps the scientists have engineered a clever way to manipulate sound.
 

 

 

They’re sciting the original article in Nature:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26375-9

1 hour ago, joigus said:

It already did in 1992, when I first listened to it.  

Yep, me too. 

Interesting, any thoughts on how to apply this into use?

https://scitechdaily.com/physicists-discover-a-remarkable-new-type-of-sound-wave

8 minutes ago, iNow said:

I recommend you calibrate your PC Detection device if this is what qualifies for the 25+ times in this thread you’ve lashed out against it, bc right now you’re getting far too many false positives. 

Why thank you iNow, you've always balanced your arguments so well through bias free rhetoric that I will give your recommendation a thought. Maybe later.