simple schoolboy wrote: Per a Russian I worked with, Belarus should never have left Russia. Probably considered more Russia proper than Crimea.
Good luck Belarus. I hope the autocrat that ends up ruling you is kind and just. Go people power! *chortle*
In one case, activists recorded video of a poll worker escaping the back of a polling station on a ladder while clutching bags of what the activists claim are excess ballots.
"But Belarus officials arrested 33 Russian mercenaries, allegedly on their way to the Middle East, at a spa outside Minsk"96583UP wrote:simple schoolboy wrote: Per a Russian I worked with, Belarus should never have left Russia. Probably considered more Russia proper than Crimea.
Good luck Belarus. I hope the autocrat that ends up ruling you is kind and just. Go people power! *chortle*In one case, activists recorded video of a poll worker escaping the back of a polling station on a ladder while clutching bags of what the activists claim are excess ballots.
https://www.businessinsider.com/belarus ... tin-2020-8
Does that mean Hunter Biden should be helping Belarus somehow?96583UP wrote:pretty baller move
just gonna extract more cash from putin
takes a real crazy guy to do that
it works bc Putin wants him so bad
you ever kill a guy?simple schoolboy wrote:RE: Belarus, the candidate that was the true winner of the election is now in Lithuania*.
So, hooray, Belarus is probaly still nominally independent! Most of the green men are domestically sourced. Organic, free range, Minsk riot police/ special military units, not imported Russian factory farmed green men, this is an important distinction.
*Poor gits thought NATO's assurance was worth a damn. On the other hand, there is a Lithuanian armory churning out 62 gr 5.56.
I did once hit someone with the high beams for driving badly. So... basically?96583UP wrote:you ever kill a guy?simple schoolboy wrote:RE: Belarus, the candidate that was the true winner of the election is now in Lithuania*.
So, hooray, Belarus is probaly still nominally independent! Most of the green men are domestically sourced. Organic, free range, Minsk riot police/ special military units, not imported Russian factory farmed green men, this is an important distinction.
*Poor gits thought NATO's assurance was worth a damn. On the other hand, there is a Lithuanian armory churning out 62 gr 5.56.
Probably some combination of the two.tragabigzanda wrote:Genuinely not sure what they're trying to tell us. Is that meant to imply they were all looted by Antifa? Or is it just a reflection of all the big commercial tenants pulling out due to lack of sales?
Perchance I was too pessimistic, but after what happened to Ukraine, its hard to believe the Russians would allow another 'color revolution' without some significant counter action.simple schoolboy wrote:RE: Belarus, the candidate that was the true winner of the election is now in Lithuania*.
So, hooray, Belarus is probaly still nominally independent! Most of the green men are domestically sourced. Organic, free range, Minsk riot police/ special military units, not imported Russian factory farmed green men, this is an important distinction.
*Poor gits thought NATO's assurance was worth a damn. On the other hand, there is a Lithuanian armory churning out 62 gr 5.56.
It’s the country’s most successful anti-gentrification effort. DeBlasio/Harris 2024!BurtReynolds wrote:Probably some combination of the two.tragabigzanda wrote:Genuinely not sure what they're trying to tell us. Is that meant to imply they were all looted by Antifa? Or is it just a reflection of all the big commercial tenants pulling out due to lack of sales?
We've been doing something similar at the panama canal zone since the 50s. Those pests were sterilized via irradiation, but seems to be a similar concept.E.H. Ruddock wrote:What could possibly go wrong?
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/19/health/g ... index.html
There was an excellent episode of Short Wave (NPR science podcast with 10 minute stories) on this about a month ago!simple schoolboy wrote:We've been doing something similar at the panama canal zone since the 50s. Those pests were sterilized via irradiation, but seems to be a similar concept.E.H. Ruddock wrote:What could possibly go wrong?
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/19/health/g ... index.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterile ... _technique
Sarah Zhang wrote about it for the Atlantic: a decades-long scientific operation in Central America that keeps flesh-eating screw worms effectively eradicated from every country north of Panama. Sarah tells the story of the science behind the effort, and the man who came up with it.
The Town wrote:There was an excellent episode of Short Wave (NPR science podcast with 10 minute stories) on this about a month ago!simple schoolboy wrote:We've been doing something similar at the panama canal zone since the 50s. Those pests were sterilized via irradiation, but seems to be a similar concept.E.H. Ruddock wrote:What could possibly go wrong?
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/19/health/g ... index.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterile ... _technique
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/09/88934855 ... ting-worms
Amelrica's 'Never-Ending Battle Against Flesh-Eating Screw Worms'Sarah Zhang wrote about it for the Atlantic: a decades-long scientific operation in Central America that keeps flesh-eating screw worms effectively eradicated from every country north of Panama. Sarah tells the story of the science behind the effort, and the man who came up with it.
