Red Mosquito

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

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

"But Belarus officials arrested 33 Russian mercenaries, allegedly on their way to the Middle East, at a spa outside Minsk"

Mercs & Spas

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

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

Does that mean Hunter Biden should be helping Belarus somehow?

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.

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.

you ever kill a guy?

96583UP wrote:

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.

you ever kill a guy?

I did once hit someone with the high beams for driving badly. So... basically?

All time highs in the stock market !

crazy

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?

Probably some combination of the two.

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.

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.

Unfortunately, Belarus ended up with a lot of high end military related electronics and optics factories. Unless Russia has more recently developed more of these industries domestically, they rely on Belarus for the defense supply chain, just as Ukraine was an important supplier for certain aviation components.

BurtReynolds wrote:

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?

Probably some combination of the two.

It’s the country’s most successful anti-gentrification effort. DeBlasio/Harris 2024!

What could possibly go wrong?

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/19/health/g ... index.html

E.H. Ruddock wrote:What could possibly go wrong?

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/19/health/g ... index.html

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.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterile ... _technique

simple schoolboy wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:What could possibly go wrong?

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/19/health/g ... index.html

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.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterile ... _technique

There was an excellent episode of Short Wave (NPR science podcast with 10 minute stories) on this about a month ago!
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.

The Town wrote:

simple schoolboy wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:What could possibly go wrong?

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/19/health/g ... index.html

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.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterile ... _technique

There was an excellent episode of Short Wave (NPR science podcast with 10 minute stories) on this about a month ago!
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.

Sorry for beating you to the punch.

A compromise for residents of the Florida keys is to cultivate Dengue and Zika mosquitos in the keys, and dump the genetically engineered ones on the tip of the peninsula.

I just wouldn’t drink tea in Russia. Especially if I was an opponent of Putin

** ‘ BREAKING! Desperately unlucky Vladimir Putin loses yet another opponent to poisoning!’

How bad is Doug's air quality right now?