the last thread was starting to smell of moldy rye bread, borscht, and berdychiv.
enjoy this new open
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Post Invasion Open
by coldwarrior ( 315 Comments › )Filed under Open thread at March 1st, 2022 - 6:50 am
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
i wonder what false news will be generated by all sides to sustain their narratives about the events of the day.
@ coldwarrior:
Putin’s mental facilities are ‘off’ and he has a debilitating illness, Parkinson’s or cancer
I’m hearing Romney and Christie are thinking they’d make a ‘dream team’.
May God have mercy on their souls.
cuz I won’t
Didn’t we make some sort of deal w/Ukraine that if they promised to not get nukes they would be protected by NATO or something? Where does that leave us?
I can’t cut-paste this but basically – the Ruskies were not told where they were going – not even Spetznaz – only a few officers who fell further back the closer they got – their digital comms are non-existent so all comms are insecure – there is no unit nor mission cohesion, no food no ammo, all supply vehicles are still outside Ukraine, the few that made it in are exhausted or destroyed.
https://twitter.com/sbreakintl/status/1498619309618503680
I don’t see anything about air cover
@ eaglesoars:
Oh. Hell. No.
Almost no on can get a hold of central command, it’s not even a matter of jamming, there’s just no long range commo quipment or relays that went with the troops there
same link
I begin to suspect Putin was lied to about troop readiness and there will be a few generals getting 9 gms of lead to the back of the head in the basement of Lubyanka
eaglesoars wrote:
Yes, but it wasn’t a treaty or anything. It was a “memorandum” signed during the Clinton administration.
https://twitter.com/sbreakintl/status/1498619315222085635
Following the lack of security on their communications, we have been closely cooperating with radio amateurs & translators, across the globe, to document and gather intelligence.
Russian units on ground were then tracked, such as Buran-30, which we can hear planning an artillery attack on a civilian location.
We can also hear jammers trying to interrupt Russian communications and disrupt their coordination capabilities.
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmUMPt9mBbJ4CQS36GNRrcmTYDnjtdXtsN8QWMBYKM3QNF
Using publicly available web radio receiveir (webSDR), callsigns of Russian military units and roles were discovered. Reports of losses, injuries, … everything can be heard. Even them swearing at their own crew, such as in this recording.
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmT93mdDcMMJVBTbVvnQJKUsroGrxqTBj83vS8JkFjK9cR
During a fight West of Kiev, we learned that there was an FOB in Nalivaykovka – to which Yug95 was sent to bring the 200 (KIA) and 300 (Injured).
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmZovWWQ6r3AdHh3ZoWuVMb8vTz2bXEBMUbNJnz44iyrdJ
We also heard them cry during a fight near Kharkhiv, as heard in this recording. But also had fuel issues, trouble coordinating because lack of maps, … While also requesting air support or talking about Iskander strikes.
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmZY41aKtRoKrE8VVKRDbJDkhxyFBTkEh1A87BudQPfENf
Every conversations have displayed a disturbing lack of coordination between units, sometimes even firing at each other. But also, in addition to the simple fact that they are equipped with analogic radios, a lack of logisitical support.
Because unsecured communications, the frequencies have been constantly jammed by civilians, sometimes in the middle of fights, making the ground infantry unable to operate properly and having to withdraw.
where’s the ‘reply’ button?
anyway, note LACK OF MAPS
also, the ukies are fucking with all the road signage
@ lobo91:
so, worth the ashes from its burning then…………
eaglesoars wrote:
Exactly.
@ eaglesoars:
Since it was never ratified by the Senate, it only binds the people who signed it, not the US government.
So they should call Bill Clinton for help.
World turns its back on Russia: Astonishing moment diplomats WALK OUT as Kremlin minister tells disarmament conference Russia was forced to invade Ukraine to ‘stop them getting nuclear weapons’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10564393/Astonishing-moment-diplomats-WALK-Kremlin-minister-says-Russia-forced-invade-Ukraine.html
Odd, that subject wasn’t on Putin’s list of demands
@ eaglesoars:
Too many links…it went into pending.
All fixed.
@ eaglesoars:
https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2019/11/07/moscows_advances_in_modernizing_military_communications_114836.html
I find the claim of open and unsecured radio comms to be a little hard to believe
@ coldwarrior:
Me too. It’s not exactly new technology
@ lobo91:
Yeah.
coldwarrior wrote:
ah. danke
coldwarrior wrote:
That article is all about systems being tested. Nothing said they were actually reaching operating forces. And…Russia.
eaglesoars wrote:
Apparently there is a 40-mile long Russian convoy headed for Kiev. Lets see how it fares
eaglesoars wrote:
i just did some very boring reading (mostly tech pdfs) whilst enjoying a cigar on the deck.
russians use what everyone else uses, SDR (software defined radios) that have all the bells and whistles like packet hopping, secure digital, signal hopping, and are programmable to change with the threat environment.
lunch time!
eaglesoars wrote:
40 miles long!
ummm, that isnt very smart unless you own the sky
even wayyy back in the 60’s our PRCs (fm radios) had ‘scramblers’ on them. they didnt work very well 60 years ago, but by the 70s…no prob
mrs coldwarrior just cracked me up. she called from the hospital and asked me:
‘where is this keev place that everyone is talking about? i’ve never heard of it’
coldwarrior wrote:
some ukies just landed in Poland to pick up some jets
eaglesoars wrote:
IF.
IF the russians decapitated command and control (radar and comms)well, then these airplanes and pilots are easy targets.
stagflation
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/stagflation-deck-atlanta-fed-cuts-q1-gdp-00
0.0% growth.
coldwarrior wrote:
Think Biden is going to brag about that tonight?
@ lobo91:
The ukie war is no excuse
coldwarrior wrote:
how many consecutive quarters before recession?
eaglesoars wrote:
2
eaglesoars wrote:
With egg on the US’ face for dropping a potential ally overboard when the going gets hard.
The US promised TWICE that as long as Ukraine got rid of its nukes the US would ‘guarantee’ protection under the US umbrella even if NATO wouldn’t come to the party. Turned out to be a hollow promise that will make other US allies like Taiwan and even Australia, cause to doubt US guarantees and security guarantees.
coldwarrior wrote:
Especially so if you’re running on empty!
🙂
The Ukies seem to be concentrating their attacks on fuel trucks. Smart move.
Remember the WWII German tank columns stranded on the roads of Belgium with empty fuel tanks. Walking home is a really bad look for tankers. It means that your Logistics system has failed.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Taiwan had access to the bomb via South Africa and Israel. Australia definitely had not only nukes but also thermo-nuclear tech in a joint program with the UK. In BOTH cases the US ‘monstered’ their allies under threats of economic warfare and fiscal ruin and denied their allies the ability to field nukes, in case the US dropped them in the shit, and cut and ran.
The Ukies seem to be learning this hard lesson as we speak.
hey y’all
lobo91 wrote:
Thanks for the update Lobo. Right on the money.
Memos obviously aren’t worth the ink and paper they are written on. Hell even The ANZUS Treaty isn’t worth shit, as it only calls for TALKS between signatories if one of them is attacked. There is nothing solid when it comes to actual support. The ANZUS Treaty has only been actioned ONCE in the 9/11 attack in 2001, during the NYC attack when the Aussies offered the US material support.
so i guess Russia will turn somewhere for the things they need
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/western-companies-pullout-russia-expected-accelerate-2022-03-01/
coldwarrior wrote:
PsyOps on both sides will be putting in overtime!
🙂
heh
https://slaynews.com/news/dem-reps-furious-rashida-tlaib-will-upstage-joe-biden-on-big-night-it-is-astonishing-that-the-radical-left-continues-to-promote-a-democratic-death-wish-and-sees-no-problem-relegating-our-pa/
rain of lead wrote:
THAT was the follow on strategy by Germany during the Battle of the Bulge fighting. The panzers were supposed to capture huge US fuel stocks on the way to coast. That logistics (Hail Mary) plan was still born! Given that modern urban civilization usually only hold a few days food, expecting a modern invasion force ‘living off the land’, is a myth. When movement was at the speed of a walking soldier maybe but when mechanized warfare arrived then that option disappeared.
In modern warfare you carry whet you need with you and expect a serious Logistics system to back you up. The Israelis are major malefactors in planned Logistics systems. They just carry whet they need and when that runs out they go home. I saw this in Singapore when the Israeli trained Singaporean Divisions used this highly flawed tactic. It was garbage and it showed.
{rain}
so there is some reg that precludes ships going from one port to another to offload fuel? Kudlow noted it
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I suspect because most of the fighting they do is just down the street from Granny’s house
@ Aussie Infidel:
It works for their style of warfare, but probably not for anyone else. The IDF is designed to be a defensive force primarily, rather than an expeditionary one. What’s the furthest they’ve ever gone outside their own borders? Beirut?
@ Aussie Infidel:
Not sure how well that would have worked for them, anyway, since their vehicles were mostly diesel and ours mostly ran on gas.
It occurs to me that the ability of POTUS to shut down an entire industry vital to nat’l security – i.e., fracking, Keystone Pipeline, etc. – should probably be revoked.
eaglesoars wrote:
They already took his driver’s license…
Lol
This is so pathetic it’s hilarious. Kamala explaining Russia/Ukraine. To a 5 year, she seemingly thinks
Listen to this bilge
“Ukraine is a Country in Europe. It Exists Next to Another Country Called Russia. Russia is a Bigger Country”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/kamala-harris-explains-ukraine-russia-conflict-black-radio-host-ukraine-country-europe-exists-next-another-country-called-russia-russia-bigger-country-audio/
@ coldwarrior:
*snort*
coldwarrior wrote:
The Russians seem to have local air superiority due to their long and medium range AAA that has been established along the axis of advance of the currently stalled supply column. Strategic air superiority …not so much ….but eventually the Russians will get there too.
eaglesoars wrote:
Kamala is not talking down to the denizens listening. This is Kamala’s current understanding of the situation. She is an idiot who knifed her way to her current position. My condolences to the people of the US but as the old saying goes. “You get the politicians you deserve.”
lobo91 wrote:
True but most of the logistics vehicles on which the panzers depended for resupply ran on gas.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Fast forward to 2030 when there is no more oil/petrol/diesel and all military vehicles are electric.
LOL
Possum wrote:
And as you spot the enemy, your tank’s fire control system won’t work until you download the latest update
@ lobo91:
Finally ” The Blue Screen of Death ” becomes reality.
If you are sitting in your tank downloading the latest update and the screen goes blue, get out of your tank fast and run away!!!!!
lobo91 wrote:
The Israelis were still only good for a week’s combat before they were out of everything.
The Singaporeans were planning on an infantry thrust northwards up the West coast of Malaysia. With an armoured thrust out of Thailand where they kept their armour, South down the West coast of Malaysia. The Singaporean armoured crews would fly into Thailand ( on Singapore Airlines aircraft) just prior to the outbreak of war. Our Brigade was supposed to be the Malaysians and to stop the Malaysians getting upset, we brought the maps with us. It was the area called the Coromandel and is geographically very similar to the West coast of Malaysia. We just changed all of the Kiwi names into Malay sounding ones.
🙂
By the way our piddling little Brigade battle Group whipped the Singaporean Army’s 6th Infantry Division in the warm up ‘free play’ part of the exercise. We attacked them before they could get organized an attack on us. Used naval gunfire to destroy the 6th Divisions artillery. Whipped down the coastal road to the West and destroyed the 6th Divisions Logistics tail. Then retreated back north blowing up the road and 3 cross roads behind us. All that was left was a 50 Km line of stalled 6th Division’s supply convoy on the single coastal access road, just begging for destruction by naval gunfire, and air.
The exercise proper then demanded that 1 NZ Brigade Group just sit still and accept attritional destruction in place… as pre-planned before the exercise started. Still We knew who won the real battle by manoeuvre warfare, They knew who won, and we knew that they knew who won!
2 years later the HQ of 6th Singaporean Infantry Division came to NZ for a rematch. This time it was staged in the Southern Alps … to make them use their brains and not just template their tactical solutions. They absolutely got their arses handed to themselves and to rub salt into the wound we took them onto the ground to see what they had just fought over. They were shocked by some of their assessments. One thing they did learn is how to count map contour lines!
Still they did enjoy the post match visit to the Christchurch Casino. So did I. I was LO-ing and wasn’t drinking or gambling, but just making sure the Singaporeans didn’t get into trouble. On the way out the door I had $5 in change in my pocket. I put it into the poker machine next to the door and won a Jackpot!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Yup. That’s why Israeli tanks are not used by other nations. Great tanks but no serious range.
On topic for anyone interested in the supply of fuel and lubricants to an invading army this is worth a read.
Operation Pluto.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Pluto
Listening to people say ‘KEEEEEVE’ makes my teeth itch
White House Quietly Calls On U.S. Oil Companies To Increase Production
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/White-House-Quietly-Calls-On-US-Oil-Companies-To-Increase-Production.html
Yeah, but keep tapping the SOR. Cretins
eaglesoars wrote:
like i said earlier:
coldwarrior wrote:
i’m still laughing at this
eaglesoars wrote:
and it is a mispronunciation.
its not key ev
its not keev
the vowel combo is in between an is almost swallowed. there is no real english equivalent.
your tax dollars at work! DLI russian grad. they spent a ton of money on me.
lol
quatar
kitar
kgutter
like that.
@ coldwarrior:
Americans have difficulty with “tomato” so what did you expect.
Once they say tomato correctly we can then go to the advanced class.
Worcestershire
Possum wrote:
mrs coldwarrior cannot pronounce that.
she calls it W sauce.
Possum wrote:
toe may toe
as there is a single consonant between the A and the O, this makes the A ‘long’ as in ‘paid’. its a basic rule of english, is it not?
; )
po tay toe
not po tat o
yeah sure, one’s a fruit and the other a starch…but still.
@ coldwarrior:
“Lea and Perrins” is the usual avoidance technique 🙂
coldwarrior wrote:
Or Mel … booorn
and
Bris… baaane
and
Seeed… nee
Makes the teeth itch indeed!
🙂
🙂
HAR! About 20 mins ago. Some poor schlub got caught up in DC rush hour traffic and can’t believe it. Great photo of the beltway – and yes it’s the norm
Did truckers shut down DC or is this just how these lunatics live?
https://twitter.com/Oilfield_Rando/status/1498816472495411201
Possum wrote:
yep!
its hysterical. i tried to get her to pronounce it. no dice.
the native russian speaker just cant do it.
UK and US…. Two nations divided by a common language!
HEH!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
i try to pronounce my kiwi and aussie stuff the way the cricket announcer do.
wouldnt want to sound like a dolt
This is a very dark day for Canada.
This is our banned journalist Andy Lee. This is what they did to her. Because she told the truth.
Canada has fallen.
froze her financials it looks like
https://twitter.com/ShonnOborowsky/status/1498785037633740804
@ eaglesoars:
I95 is…well…its its own world. every year i have to traverse it once or twice. mrs coldwarrior drives out to king of prussia while i sleep. then we get a cappucino and i take over driving duties to the shore.
the driver / co-pilot banter and ‘head on a swivel’ action must be funny to watch. we tell the kids to keep quiet. its insane.
the sure-kill (schuylkill pronounced skookul) express way is particularly absurd.
eaglesoars wrote:
yeah, here she is on gettr
Our government will give all of our assets to China willingly.
They will give our energy.
They will give our mines.
They will give our real estate.
They will give our technology.
They won’t give me – a Canadian citizen with Chinese children – my bank account.
https://gettr.com/post/pxn13t1629
@ rain of lead:
I suspect Russia and China will create their own social media and monetary systems that are independent of the dollar.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Funny. No more tasty MRE’s. I’m packing up and headed homes guys. Good luck with the fight.
@ eaglesoars:
coming here very shortly
@ coldwarrior:
the Surekill has to be updated.
I drove the beltway 5 days a week for years. I’m an expert. What’s even worse, tho was Rt 66. I refused to drive that, would not take a job, house, anything that required me to use it. Fucking death trap.
And I lived on Rt. 7 for five years. Leesburg Pike. Wahhabi Corridor. Great fun!
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
i’ve managed to amass a very nice chink of change over the past 26 years both through traditional (25% of pay into 401k then 403b and some stuff that worked out back in dot com). that said, i have a meeting with a financial guy next week to see what security i have against this sort of nonsense.
i am convinced that they are coming for these sorts of accounts
coldwarrior wrote:
yeah, we’ll be talking to our financial guy about that soon
coldwarrior wrote:
I don’t think cyber is part of the answer
@ eaglesoars:
One thing I don’t miss about my last few years in the Reserves is having to travel out to our headquarters in the Bay Area a couple times a year. The staff out there always treated those of us from the Colorado unit like we were some sort of rubes, and went out of their way to talk about how great it was out there.
I turned on the TV in my temporary quarters at 5:00 am. They were showing the traffic report already. It looked like that picture.
Pass.
@ Aussie Infidel:
My grasp today is that the two independent pro Russian break off regions in Eastern Ukraine welcome the Russians in the majority. Zelensky want in the EU and wants Crimea back. therefore he shut off their water.
The Russians are trying to not kill civilians but are trying to leverage Zelensky. Zelensky is trying to pull the west into a hot war.
The West elites do not care that much how much Ukrainian or Russian blood is spilled.
Lot of talk about a 10 year urban warfare event. I don’t think the Russians need to occupy Kiev. They can just take airfields and chokepoints and sit outside cities. No big threat coming unless NATO jumps in.
@ lobo91:
Andy Stumpf was saying he was flying commercial jets using tablets. I couldn’t quite comprehend how that worked.
eaglesoars wrote:
i wont touch that stuff. something smells really fishy about it.
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
I got into a social media discussion where people were being called racist if they didn’t spell it right. It was always kiev to me. forever. now apparently its kyiv? that seems like the wokeness parasite to me.
I wouldn’t mind using the native version. It’s something like KNIB with a curly K and a double dotted I. My keyboard won’t handle it.
darkwords wrote:
b ack????
The Crimea was part of Russia until 1954 when Khrushchev decided to make it part of the Ukraine. He was a Ukrainian and his Dacha was located on the coast in the Crimea. It was a jab in the eye to the Russians who looked at him as an oaf. The Crimea is the Home of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
see the rest here
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2014/03/03/the-crimea-russia-and-the-ukraine/#comments
@ coldwarrior:
Crypto!!!!! It’s still in freefall. People are down on Real Estate but that is what I would own if the economy was suffering but not totally trashed.
A duplex or fourplex with 2 bedroom apartments. Zoning next to a residential area. Large lot. Recent roof. No foundation issues. Plumbing and electrical up to code. walking distance to the schools.
Has to cash flow after downpayment. And then just turn it over to a good real estate manager. Long time since I last looked. Downpayments might be larger these days.
@ darkwords:
these people are idiots, the cyrillic alphabet isnt going to translate to english alphabet.
poseurs.
@ darkwords:
oh, i still have a 15-20 year investment horizon, so a crash now just gets built right back up agian.
my problem is confiscation by fedgov with or without recourse.
basic marx and lenin…yinz cant have a revolution if there is a strong middle class in the way
darkwords wrote:
this looked like the biggest scam to me from day 1
darkwords wrote:
Beware. There’s a shitload going on with real estate right now and when the bubble bursts it’s going to be a big KABOOMSKI!!
Not to mention that the NWO pirhanas are deliberately destroying the availability of private property. We have been INCREDIBLY lucky in our timing. I’d like to say smart, but no. Pure luck.
@ coldwarrior:
Interesting that you have that post. Still stands up today. Time flies.
coldwarrior wrote:
via what vehicle? A crash isn’t the issue, the issue is the Elizabeth Warren scenario when the Feds take over your retirement plans to protect the senile demo from those awful scammers. And then it will be everybody’s retirement.
Then there’s Yellin who wants a tax on UNREALIZED cap gains.
And who was that Moscow-born cow who wanted to destroy capitalism?
Yeah, a crash isn’t the issue.
coldwarrior wrote:
no one has been able to explain to me how crypto is valued. If the U.S. GDP falls to crap, so does the dollar. It may be called a ‘fiat’ currency but it is not. Its value is a reflection of the productivity – or lack thereof – of the U.S. economy.
Now explain crypto to me. And don’t even TRY explaining NFTs, I’ll beat the crap out of your dumb ass.
darkwords wrote:
thanks. cheers!
it’s not bad.
eaglesoars wrote:
my former MS econ degree does not help me at all to explain these logically or even make me want to invest in them
eaglesoars wrote:
zactly.
thats the pretense to gut the middle class
lenin marx
@ coldwarrior:
from your link
This was illustrated brilliantly during the Sach’s ‘Shock Therapy’ in the 1990’s in Eastern Europe.
Ah yes, the fraud Jeffrey Sachs. IIRC, Russia ran him out of the country and told him to stay out. I imagine he’s at HAHVAHD or some think tank.
coldwarrior wrote:
Classic ‘the emperor has no clothes’. I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but usually if I apply myself and study, I’ll at least get a bit more intelligent about something.
Not this time. Which tells me – it’s not me, it’s crypto
eaglesoars wrote:
he’s lucky he didnt get wacked
@ eaglesoars:
I still don’t understand the modern NFT. I think it is currently just a Klout thing. Where someone just buys a JPEG for $20 million dollars. And then the seller gives the $20 back to the buyer under the table. Then they conspire and sell 20,000 of these things at 2 Million a pop.
Where is reality all an NFT currently is your blogmock avatar with your name under it. Could be worth $20 million I suppose.
Someone estimates only 5 percent of crypto is legit. @cryptowhale is a good skeptic to follow on twitter. @naval is the good smart person to follow.
I was able to send someone $10 over crypto with a 10 cent fee. They escrowed it and made the exchange. It was a complicated pain in the ass though. When it becomes one click then it will replace western union.
@ darkwords:
NFT’s will come to force when NFT standards reach gaming, music, and art.
You’ll be able to attach your ringtone to your blog mock avatar and I’ll hear it every time you post if I have the notification on. The ability will travel with your avatar. You’ll be able to add amazon and spotify playlists to it, your favorite religious texts and find like minded avatars.
ok now you can kill me.
@ coldwarrior:
It had better context in it than most anything I see posted on twitter today.
@ coldwarrior:
This is the best look at NFT’s that I have seen.
https://cryptoslate.com/users-deride-70m-nft-project-pixelmon-following-reveal-of-its-art/
Someone sold $70 million of them for art that a 3 year old could draw. they call it FOMO. Fear of missing out. People panicking that they won’t make millions in crypto. So they APE into everything.
@ darkwords:
Creator collected $70 million from hopefuls, then realized what he produced was not valued by anyone. Then he pledged to spend $2 million dollars to repair his work. So essentially he made $68 million dollars on vaporware and just told people he was sorry.
Called a rug pull in crypto verse.
@ darkwords:
These crypto disasters are amusing to me. But real people losing real life savings in it because the environment is very complex and very unregulated.
The bottom line is that if you gamble $1 in Crypto you have to be happy if you have zero dollars at the end of the day. That is currently the prime directive in crypto.
Basically what I have learned from my little crypto lessons is that every crypto has a completely different method of valuation. NFT’s are a scam, they are valuated by what people are willing to pay. Crypto is an impossible maze to navigate, there are just too many with too many different means of valuation to understand. It’s absurdity, it’s not the future, it’s a fad. The main beneficiaries are people who get in early (those in the know, basically inside traders). Everyone else are just small fish.
@ coldwarrior:
Risk management is the econ answer then? job, house, gold, vodka, gun, ammo, food, water, crypto, friends.
Mike Glover the ex Green Beret operator says a circle of friends is the foundation. Plus learn how to apply tourniquets and stash them every where.
https://fieldcraftsurvival.com
I like this guy. A no bullshit Korean American who knows how to do stuff.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
ponzi schemes for a lot of it.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Crypto ran under the radar for 10 years. Now financial institutions are evaluating it.
CBDC – central bank digital currency. Where the government replaces the dollar with the digital dollar. Your paycheck comes directly from the Federal Reserve where all digital monetary transactions are reconciled.
Fail to annotate your pronouns? The AI following a Biden policy automatically shuts off your digital income. The electric meter remotely shuts off. People will have to conform or else. A common message from Biden.
If that is the case I’d rather be on a farm in Mongolia or somewhere remote.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
A pyramid scheme then
Can I buy stuff at Walmart with it? No. Grocery store? Nope. Gas? uh huh.
It is not a currency, except in the cyber world of other cryptos. And eventually you want to cash out. The other day I saw bitcoin valued at $36k. Who would buy one unit of BTC for $ in any amount? You’re betting there’s another sucker who will pay $40k? You’re still looking for pay out in $. What does that tell you? You’re using a proxy for the dollar?
@ eaglesoars:
If you followed my crypto advice from 3 months ago of putting $100 into coinbase into BTC, Eth, and Matic you would have about $60 dollars today.
But people note Jim Cramer on CNN would only have $30 if he put it in his favorite stocks.
If you had it in gold you might be even.
If you had it in rents you would be up about 5 percent.
darkwords wrote:
Yes, the fed is studying it, I posted about it. Report due in May I think. It was an interesting post, outlined the issues that would be considered.
To my mind, unless the value floats against a reliable fiat (one in the SPR), it’s not reliable.
But the threat it poses to the dollar can not be overstated. Forget the ‘decentralization’ argument. If a country doesn’t have a currency it’s not a country.
Question: If your ‘currency’ is a crypto, how does price discovery happen?
Some APES get on twatter and start typing in all caps w/cute emojis?
old age is rough. I have a login password of 4 characters. Used it for 10 years. Yesterday, I couldn’t remember what it was. blank. empty. nadda.
fortunately I remembered where I wrote it down once.
Bought cat. gonna do a cat scan.
@ eaglesoars:
At that very finite level economics and currency are contractual agreements based on psychology. If you have confidence in it then it has value.
There is something I vaguely recall about the velocity of money and supply being critical to economic transactions and health. You have to be confident you have a store of value and are able to move it and exchange it for goods and services.
Crypto has supply issues also. Some are infinite supply. Bitcoin is very limited. there is nothing I would buy with Bitcoin today. The transaction costs are too high. Better just to hold it as a risk tool.
I’m watching MTG and Wendy Rogers AZ get labeled as being white nationalists for speaking at a Nick Fuentes conference. Never heard of him. But he is banned and canceled everywhere. 23 years old. Like to confront people and pelt them with uncomfortable questions. Born to troll.
I don’t know. MTG has her stuff together. Wendy Rogers is a little brittle to me at times. I see MTG as changing peoples minds. I don’t care where she speaks. I think she will set people to thinking and she won’t acquire any unhealthy views.
I could see White Nationalism making a big comeback through. Not neo nazi based but culturally based as a counterpoint to the illiterate 1619 project being forced on people.
darkwords wrote:
I sold my gold about a year and a half ago. 50% profit.
I still have silver.
My private portfolio is very small, about $10k total. I’m up over 50% there.
My ‘real’ portfolio – well, on paper I’m a worth quite a bit. That doesn’t include my husband’s portfolio. That’s after 30 years of hardcore investing and taking some brutal hits. HAR! I’m trying to figure out a way to hide it. The market is going to crash and I need to protect my gains. I’m too old to wait to ‘earn it back’ I don’t get cocky.
The most important thing to remember when planning/living your financial life – stay out of debt as much as possible. Mortgages are one thing, that’s wealth growth.
Cars are not. Pay them off as fast as you can. Debt is the dream killer.
My parents NEVER HAD A MORTGAGE. Ever. Dad had a neat trick. He looked for houses in foreclosure. And because he worked for General Motors, we had new cars every year, but he never owned them. They were company cars. So no car payment. That’s how I got to go to a private school and live in Mt. Lebanon. After he retired, one of the perks was one person in the immediate family could buy a car at cost once a year. I drove that Pontiac for 5 years. And I got GMAC family rates financing.
darkwords wrote:
yeah, and where does that come from?
not crop failures, not stymied trade, not monoculture industry, not inability to defend your borders, feed and educate your people, provide clean water, safety etc.
Mexico has a thriving culture in some sense. Their primary export is drugs and crime. What’s the peso worth?
Hubby went there on a trade thing once. Fell in love with the people, fell in love with the vibrancy of Mexico City, pollution notwithstanding. still talks about them. But the poverty, even in Mexico City, was appalling. They have the resources. They don’t have the culture.
darkwords wrote:
Major MAJOR asshole. The most obnoxious personality you will ever encounter. I’m sure if I met him in person, I’d punch him in the throat w/in the first 3 seconds. Then I’d stomp on his face.
For whatever reason, he had Ben Shapiro in his sights. He ambushed Ben while he was with his wife AND CHILDREN – walking to services at his synagogue, IIRC – and decided to harass him in front of the kids. Yelling all sorts of abuse, etc. Shapiro’s children are very young, some weren’t even in school yet. If I had been Shapiro’s wife and the mother of those kids, I would have taken him out there and then.
The other day I watched a video of him making fun of the Holocaust numbers while giggling. How long does it take to bake a cookie? 30 minutes? So how long to cremate 6 million? Doesn’t add up does it? Maybe a couple hundred thousand but….
He thought he was very clever and he laughed at his own erudition the entire set.
BUT. I have not (yet) seen any evidence that he is a white nationalist or even an anti-semite. He seems to be trying to set himself more as an iconoclast more than anything else. He has no value system, no core beliefs, he just has to find some way to be the center of attention.
I would like to accommodate him. Give him his own funeral. Truly a mutilation of the human personality, that one
eaglesoars wrote:
Well, there are dreams and there are dreams. That would be a comedic nightmare
eaglesoars wrote:
Lack of maps is a feature, not a flaw, of the old Soviet army. Troops did not have access to maps, only the officers did. Very top down, take out the officer and the unit was effectively removed from the fight.
coldwarrior wrote:
That’ll be the excuse though
eaglesoars wrote:
Brilliant!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
“Knifed her way …”. Is that what you folks Down Under call it? . She’s not called “toes up Haars” for no reason
darkwords wrote:
Thx. There is more, later…
@ eaglesoars:
Ever met Terry McAuliffe?
@ AZfederalist:
That was very true back in the day.
Not anymore.
eaglesoars wrote:
Actually I can use my crypto anywhere. Coinbase has a debit card that makes crypto as usable as any other money…but….because every crypto is it’s own seperate currency it is all divided so I have to go into coinbase and select which crypto I am currently using with the card. So, it will never be as usable or mainstream as just plain money.
coldwarrior wrote:
Kind of thought not. I wasn’t following Russian Army doctrine when I retired but suspected they would have become at least somewhat less top-down
darkwords wrote:
From what I understand you should be hoarding helium, aluminum, and chocolate. I guess those are what we are going to be having worldwide shortages of down the road.
What happened to Russia’s Air Force? U.S. officials, experts stumped
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/what-happened-to-russias-air-force-us-officials-experts-stumped/ar-AAUtLbQ
Poland Says Will Not Send Planes To Ukraine
https://www.barrons.com/news/poland-says-will-not-send-planes-to-ukraine-01646156407
lobo91 wrote:
Only at a distance. In a 7-11 store. He actually smelled. It was almost 24 hours before I realized who it was because he looked familiar but – saw him on the news the next day. He didn’t look happy, which I found delightful.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
And copper and coffee.
insert [eyeroll] here
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
There’s an underlying transaction that has to happen after you check out tho. It has to go thru a clearing house that converts the crypto to $ and I’m sure there’s a fee that somebody – probably you – pays. The merchant gets $, I promise.
eaglesoars wrote:
And when you load up the debit card, you load it with your crypto of choice and how do you pay for the crypto? It’s $$$ all the way down……..it’s a derivative at best.
Remember the mortgage derivative mess of the 2008 time line?
He’ll never win the hearts and souls of the IRANIAN people? Did he actually say that?
Joe Manchin sits with Republicans during State of the Union
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/joe-manchin-sits-with-republicans-during-state-of-the-union
Today is the 10th anniversary of Andrew Breitbart’s passing.
Walk toward the fire. Don’t worry about what they call you. All those things are said against you because they want to stop you in your tracks. But if you keep going, you’re sending a message to people who are rooting for you, who are agreeing with you. The message is that they can do it, too.
https://instapundit.com/506772/#respond
Look. At. This.
Pfizer releases its list of vaccine side effects, and it’s nearly as long as a CVS receipt
https://twitter.com/heckyessica/status/1498868899634458626
eaglesoars wrote:
Here is the source pdf. 38 pages. You want to start at the appendix beginning page 30. 8 pages
https://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/5.3.6-postmarketing-experience.pdf
Beyond cool
Lazzarini Design’s gargantuan helium-powered airship glides on water too
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/01/lazzarini-designs-gargantuan-helium-powered-airship-glides-on-water-too
This compressed helium-powered flying yacht (yes, an airborne yacht!) is targeted towards private owners who will stop at nothing, and push the envelope of adventure – laden in luxury and style. The mega yacht (or should I say a big catamaran) measuring 492 feet will be a revolution in the aviation industry with its twin airships filled with helium. These gigantic airships will be connected via a central carbon deck measuring 33 feet wide consisting of a master cabin, living area, and a large dining section. The outer edges of the airship have five en suite staterooms each, so taking along best buddies for the adventure of their lifetime is certain.
Moldava? that’s a real country? I thought it was a fiction from those Bruce Willis movies Red,etc.
If Putin triggers Moldova (I doubt he will, but just in case) there’s a ton of sleeper agents in the U.S. from there. Their central HQ is Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Right near the Cheney’s.
and wtf does Sundance know?
https://twitter.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/1498879920331796480
darkwords wrote:
Mostly true. The bit about NATO jumping in is just silly however.
🙂
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
NZ protest has just been crushed by the Police.
There were three stages.
1. Valid protesters pushing for the lifting Mandates
2. Joiners with various agendas tacking themselves onto the protest.
3. Mostly Maori gang members looking for a punch-up with the cops arrived last week.
The namby pamby woke Commissioner appointed by PM cindi was finally ordered to get tough. Imported Police heavies for all over the Lower North Island and broke the demonstration.
Oh did I forget… PM Cindi’s ‘would be First Bloke’ Clarke Gayford, surfaced in Tonga to face charges involving drugs felonies. The NZ government is now attempting to extradite him back to NZ.
I think this means that PM Cindi wedding is off!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Of course.
Moldova broke away from Romania ages ago.
Then
eaglesoars wrote:
Moldova broke away from Romania ages ago. Then Transnistria broke away from Moldova and ‘invited a battalion of Russians in’ to ‘keep the peace’!
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I saw it.
Are you ok?
In other news – I haven’t tracked it down yet – but it looks like SCOTUS is going to hear a case involving the Indian Child Welfare Act.
https://www.calindian.org/indian-child-welfare/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI1YHu6dmm9gIVja6GCh1MwgnFEAAYASAAEgKUaPD_BwE
I don’t know if any of you remember, but there was a case in California (I think) a few years back when a toddler was taken from white parents who had adopted legally and was taken from them under this act. I don’t know if this is the same case or not.
I have to say, SCOTUS is brave beyond belief to take this on. Whatever the ruling is, the racial accusations will fly hard and heavy. I don’t know of any Constitutional ruling that puts the interests of the child first. This just may reinforce the institutional protection of specific ‘classes’. There is no good outcome here.
eaglesoars wrote:
also the floods?
Did anyone broadcast Tashida Tlaib’s speech? I didn’t see any coverage
Aussie Infidel wrote:
leave him in Tonga.
@ eaglesoars:
I think PBS covered it
@ lobo91:
There is something about the way her mouth moves that is off-putting. It’s like rubber
It is better to die standing than live a life on your knees
General Emiliano Zapata
alexa, what is “Something Kamala Harris never said? “
Aussie Infidel wrote:
ok but what about Jackson Hole and the Cheneys? Do I have to go all Helen Mirra on these people? And SLEEPER AGENTS?
Oh god. the time. bed. nite.
eaglesoars wrote:
Audio download link – Russian translation would be interesting.
https://twitter.com/sbreakintl/status/1498619324076277761
@ eaglesoars:
Gotcha. Not sure why Wendy Rogers or MTG spoke for him. I think they were pulled in by a Christianity angle.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Do they charge a fee to use. That would be a good way to use crypto. Attach it to a debit or credit card and transfer coins as you use them.
War propaganda is exhausting. Especially when its interactive. I’m finding it destabilizing. Makes me worry about what the hell people are doing.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/czechs-could-face-3-years-prison-supporting-russia-social-media
good little nazis
“[F]reedom of speech also has its limits in a democratic state governed by the rule of law,” asserted Stríž, announcing that anyone who “publicly (including at demonstrations, on the Internet or on social networks) agreed (accepted or supported the Russian Federation’s attacks on Ukraine) or expressed support or praised the leaders of the Russian Federation in this regard, they could also face criminal liability under certain conditions.”
@ eaglesoars:
tomato seeds are in the mail!
these instructions are good
https://www.gardeningchannel.com/growing-roma-tomatoes/
yinzer news!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/oops-joe-bidens-face-appears-live-tv-report-elderly-man-accused-touching-young-girl-video/
hysterical
@ coldwarrior:
Coming to America.
coldwarrior wrote:
sounds like Canada
I shall await the SEEDS!!
coldwarrior wrote:
TECHNICALLY the HOA rules forbid veggie gardens. Well, fuck that, I’m a ‘Merican and nobody tells me I can’t grow my own food. But I have to hide them when I transplant them. I’m going to hide them among the re-vamped flower gardens in the front yard! HAR! Plain sight.
Wisconsin Special Counsel Says: 2020 Election Should Be Decertified
https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/wisconsin-special-counsel-says-2020?s=r
And slams SuckABucker.
It won’t be decertified but this needs to be shared
Ukraine’s letter to U.S. Congress. A list of what they are asking for
All kinds of communication, mainly military portable radio sets
https://twitter.com/timburchett/status/1499052225003413504
but mostly a no-fly zone
@ eaglesoars:
There’s zero chance of that. That would be setting up US and NATO forces to shoot down Russian planes.
@ lobo91:
Yeah, I think that’s why Poland backed off its offer of planes
@ eaglesoars:
What about one of the raised beds like you’d get at Menards or Lowes?
Interesting but hopeless
BREAKING: Wisconsin Republican Leaders Call for Emergency Meeting with All County GOP Leaders Following Explosive Report by Justice Gableman Calling for Decertification of 2020 Election Results
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/breaking-wisconsin-republican-leaders-call-emergency-meeting-county-gop-leaders-following-explosive-report-justice-gableman-calling-decertification-2020-election-results/
right_wing2 wrote:
That would be perfect except no place I could put it that would not be visible. Well, there’s one, but it doesn’t get enough light for tomatoes
Biden did wut?
Our office joined a coalition of 25 states in opposition to President Biden’s proposed rule to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration that would prohibit liquefied natural gas from being transported by rail car in the United States.
https://twitter.com/GeneralBrnovich/status/1499058587397668868
Imagine you are the CEO of a freight forwarding and customs brokerage firm. And this crash lands in your email
Good afternoon, Ryan! I have absolutely loved your posts and Flexport’s posts on LinkedIn! Ryan, I wanted to reach out to you to see you and the team have the capability in serving radioactive shipments?
https://twitter.com/typesfast/status/1498896740954435586
😆
Bannon reporting Powell just said it is possible to have more than one reserve currency.
*thunk*
*POWELL: POSSIBLE TO HAVE MORE THAN ONE RESERVE CURRENCY
https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1499054023860793347
Rest in Peace 50bps March rate hike.
Moments ago, Fed Chair Powell said that he is “inclined to support a 25 basis point rate hike” in March, which immediately killed any market expectation of a 1+ rate hike in two weeks.
However, in the very next sentence, Powell said that if inflation stays hot, he could move more than 25 basis points at upcoming meetings, which in turn pushed the full year rate hike expectations sharply higher, from 5.2 to 5.6.
https://twitter.com/zerohedge
If I knew how to knit, I’d make him one of those pink pussy hats
@ eaglesoars:
better link
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/powell-kills-march-50bps-rate-hike-leave-door-open-later-2022
@ eaglesoars:
I’m going to try to move ours up from the patio to the deck.
darkwords wrote:
Yeah, every crypto transaction has a fee. Taken from the crypto you use, it’s 2.49% for each transaction. I thought it was different for each crypto but I switched them around and it’s the same. But, hey I didn’t purchase any of it with my money so none of it is a loss to me. I just keep taking crypto quizzes when they pop up and they keep giving me free crypto. None of it worth much, but I can occasionally buy a sandwich or taco. At one point I was able to order a bunch of cigars.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
You know that could be taxed as income, right?
real estate
U.S. house prices to rise another 10% this year
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-house-prices-rise-another-10-this-year-2022-03-02/
Already at historic lows, housing inventory levels are likely to worsen as rising input costs encourage builders to build more expensive homes where profit margins are better than the starter homes which are in such high demand.
right_wing2 wrote:
I haven’t been here long enough to know if the deck will get enough sun at that time of year. I don’t THINK so.
worth a read. 24 pages
Patient Betrayal: The Corruption of Healthcare, Informed Consent, and the Physician-Patient Relationship
https://www.thegms.co/medical-ethics/medethics-rw-22021403.pdf
On my lunch break.
What a strange war this is in the Ukraine.
Neither side seems to be trying very hard.
Just stumbled upon this live feed from the Ukraine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZebYm-nenY
All the lights are on. Yes I know in this new age of GPS and inertial navigation it does not matter if potential targets are lit up like a Christmas tree but…. Why is the power still on at all?
( Thinking of WWII when the Germans were following the reflection of the Moon on the Thames to get to London and the low level Mosquitoes were following reflections off Dutch canals. The cities were in total blackout )
Also for all you interested in World economic alliances outside of NAFTA and the EU get a load of this one!
BRICS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRICS
Notice the last part
But at least they are all talking….
@ Possum:
I know why the power is still on in the Ukraine!
Silly me, I should have thought of this days ago….
I KNEW that image of Pelosi rubbing her hands looked familiar
https://youtu.be/bkLurKhQzXA
@ right_wing2:
😆
Possum wrote:
Netflix?
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
No, nuclear power plants NEED a supply of electricity even when they are shut down.
Disrupt the power grid and the nuclear reactors go splody.
@ Possum:
True.
Very True
@ Possum:
nah, Bunk is right. It’s Netflix.
I listened to the ramblings of a man with dementia last night, and his last words even puzzled Andrea Mitchell. After the standard closing “God bless the US military, God bless the USA” stuff, POTatUS added “Go get ’em.”
A playback of the clip shows he actually said, “Go get him.” It appeared in the teleprompter feed and was the cue for his handlers to help him off stage.
[ENTER LAUGHING]
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
oh god
@ eaglesoars:
PuppetOTUS
Katie Meyer, Stanford soccer player, found dead on campus
A cause of death was not given.
https://nypost.com/2022/03/02/katie-meyer-stanford-soccer-player-found-dead-on-campus/
when was she vaxed?
@ coldwarrior:
I did my nuclear power plant training course in the late 80’s . Anyway not knowing the exact date it was before 1991
Was on vacation in Wales and fortunately with a partner who was also interested in Nuclear power, railway steam engines, slate mines and RAF airfields used for the launching of target drones. Wales is an awesome place to vacation.
Actually the friend that I was with at that time 30 years later moved from London and now is living in that area. She got a new friend….
Back to nuclear power plants. I/We got lucky. There was ( or still is, it won’t be fully gone until 2080 something ) a nuclear power plant that was in a shutdown state while it was being inspected to see if the licence could be extended.
They opened it to the public by appointment only. We got one! Just the two of us and a guide. Guide was one of the plant operators so he knew his shit.
It was fascinating, a fully loaded and operational nuclear power plant kind of in standby. Not generating but could be within days of renewal.
To get in we had to do the change clothes thingy and go through radiation detectors before we entered. Whole body detectors and some doohicky you put your hands in and it checked for radiation under fingernails.
Reason for detecting radiation BEFORE you went into the reactor building?
Anti nuclear power activists had been known to contaminate themselves with naturally occurring radioactive minerals, go on the tour and set off alarms.
Well to cut a long story short, while wearing hard hats and really effective ear noise protection spent probably the most interesting couple of hours in my life. The noise in there was so loud you could feel the vibration in your chest.
Reactor cooling pumps running, and they looked really big. Steam generator turbines being slowly turned by huge electric motors. They keep them turning to stop the shafts bending or something. I think lubricating oil had something to do with it.
Up near the top of the reactor was quieter and from an observation gallery you could see the machine that replaced fuel. Was told it was safe to walk across the top of the reactor, but outside of the official tour.
The building that housed the spent fuel rods in a big swimming pool was down a tunnel. That was a nice place, so quiet and the water looked warm and inviting!
I suddenly remembered why I am posting this memory!
Even in a shut down condition Trawsfynydd Power Station was consuming approximately 10% of the power it would have produced when operational just to keep it safe.
As a side note the whole facility was the cleanest place I have ever been in. I mean cleaner than restaurants and hospitals.
@ Possum:
Stop laughing…. Official wales tourist site. Great fishing in Lake Trawsfynydd
https://www.visitsnowdonia.info/trawsfynydd
TRAWSFYNYDD
Another well-located walking and cycling base close to mountains and the trails in the Coed y Brenin Forest Park. Llyn Trawsfynydd is a popular activity and adventure spot with excellent fishing for trout and game species, walking, birdwatching, canoeing, kayaking, and a new cycle loop, boat jetty and visitor centre with café.
Visit Llys Ednowain Hostel and Heritage Centre which gives a glimpse into local culture and the Trawsfynydd of old. Tomen-y-Mur Roman Fort has an Ein Treftadaeth – Our Heritage information hub. Yr Ysgwrn, farmhouse home of poet Hedd Wyn who died in World War One, is now open after conservation and redevelopment work.
Check out the main picture of the lake. That ain’t an apartment complex.
https://www.visitsnowdonia.info/sites/default/files/styles/home_hero_carousel_1400x600_/public/Llyn%20Trawsfyndd%20Lake%201400%20600.jpg?itok=HEwxXrlM
@ Possum:
Nuclear power done right….
eaglesoars wrote:
Of course. I’m just thankful that my #2 son was NOT involved as he’s based in Auckland. A few cops from Manukau went south mostly because they were ID-ing some of their local gang members who has hitched their wagon to the demo for their own nefarious reasons. Mostly it was a Wellington cops plus cops from surrounding provinces like Palmeston North and Napier.
I’m sad that there was no leadership and the initial good work of the first 10 days was flushed down the toilet when the ‘joiners’ crazies showed up and the atsmosphere turned caustic and violent.
Great video. DeSantis telling college kids to take the masks off, ‘this is ridiculous’
https://twitter.com/SethDillon/status/1499095409339379715
Fukushima reactors did not turn nasty because the tidal wave hit them. They went nuts because their electricity supply was cut off.
No electricity and nuclear reactors splode.
@ Possum:
Now, I will eat my lunch and get back to work.
@ Possum:
theses generators were in the design by GE to be 40 more meters up the hill.
tepco cut costs….put em in the basement
@ Possum:
my dad was lead machinist at shippingport atomic power station then beaver valley one and two.
i got to see some really neat stuff!
While eating lunch I am pondering about HVAC electrical transmission ( High Voltage Alternating Current ) and HVDC transmission ( High Voltage Direct Current )
With HVAC the transmission grid has to be synchronized. AC as in Alternating Current is awesome because voltages can be stepped up or down using cheap transformers. But it means that the whole electrical distribution system has to do the ” This line is positive, this line is negative and now swap!!!! all together… )
With HVDC you can send power and you do not have to worry about what the other end of the cable does with it.
Because of modern technology the conversion to HVAC to HVDC and the conversion of HVDC back to AC is easy.
This current situation in the Ukraine is an example of how separating a countries power grid into DC and AC for long range transmission is a smart idea.
The North island of NZ uses AC. So does the South Island.
They are connected by undersea power cables, but the North and South are not synchronised.
Connection is DC
@ Possum:
Interesting how we can’t plan for everything. I wonder if those engineers knew lack of electrcity could happen.
coldwarrior wrote:
They didn’t heed the recommendations of the engineers who warned them. Future FIL was one of the engineers.
@ eaglesoars:
Those ex military leaders are no BS. Well except for the kinzinger guy.
@ Possum:
And now I am sounding like I am taking sides in the Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse battle of the 1880’s
Lunch is mushroom soup.
Heated by a British invention, which was developed from the WWII RADAR
darkwords wrote:
They knew, and there was a remedy for the problem, but the Japanese demurred, said they’d take care of it …eventually. They never did.
@ darkwords:
They did. They had diesel backup generators and bazillions of gallons of fuel in tanks.
The need for electricity to a shut down nuclear power plant was well known and designed for.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I didn’t think of that. Actually funny. I’m just thinking of how many millions in the country would still vote for him knowing this.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I’m afraid that’s going to happen with the truckers’ convoy headed to D.C. Saboteurs. That thing is HUGE – over 70 miles long. Bannon said they are on the way to Hagerstown MD. I know that route . 270 is going to be a nightmare for days, then the beltway. FOR DAYS. It’s going to shut down DC, Virginia and Maryland. Good thing they got practice working from home during the pandemic.
@ eaglesoars:
Yep. My amount was low enough the tax was 0.
coldwarrior wrote:
My former BIL headed up the Braezeale nuclear reactor at Penn State. When we had to evac Harrisburg because of the accident we stayed with his family, so he gave me a tour and explained what happened. The Harrisburg reactors were owned/operated by West Penn and their operators were trained at Breazeale. BIL told me West Penn chose the cheapest, least intensive training course offered because they wanted them online ASAP. Anyway, the tour was fantastic, I learned a lot. The best part, tho, was the pool with the Cherenkov radiation. The most beautiful blue you could ever imagine, it was magical.
@ Possum:
Expanding on this…
Microwaves are a measure of the frequency of an electromagnetic wave, or a radio signal.
The 5G network uses far higher frequencies than a microwave oven so it must be more besteder at heating up mushroom soup and frying brains!!!!
Kind of true but not.. Any high power radio waves are harmful to the human body and pigeons( Look up how the urban legend about the discovery of the microwave oven came about. Fully cooked pigeons falling from the sky near radar installations. )
A microwave oven operates at a very specific frequency that pisses off water molecules. And other things like aluminum foil, bacon, cigarette lighters and kittens…
OK maybe a bad example but microwave ovens operate at a specific frequency for a reason.
Possum wrote:
lovely
@ eaglesoars:
LOL
Yep, the swimming pool is the hight of the tour, quiet, serine, warm, inviting….
@ eaglesoars:
LOL notice the nuclear power station…
@ Possum:
That lake is man made to provide cooling water to the nuclear power station in the background
Possum wrote:
I did. But didn’t see the cooling towers.
My current favorite YouTube channel. They collect videos from mechanics all over the country showing the stupid stuff people do to their cars:
Lauren Moore, Asst Commissioner for Libraries and NYS Librarian, posting under NYS Education Dept twitter account: “I chose “Gender Queer: A Memoir” by Maia Kobabe. I’m grateful for books that let my kid know they’re not alone.”
And….all hell breaks loose. 😆
NY Education Department promotes pornographic book to children
But the images in the book have angered parents due to its graphic depictions of sex acts and apparent encouragement for children to question their gender identity.
.
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Update: After our reporting, the NY Ed. Dept. has pulled the tweet promoting porn to children and is investigating the matter. “SED is investigating the circumstances under which this title was selected and posted.”
https://twitter.com/libbyemmons/status/1499163883805814785
yeah, she’s got the crazy eyes thing going, too
@ eaglesoars:
No need for cooling towers. The hot water went into the lake. The 2022 Goggle images do not show it but there was a barrier around the lake so the hot water flowed around the lake before it entered in again.
What is no longer seen on 2022 images is the trout hatchery and fish farm that used the warm water from the nuclear power station to grow fish faster.
@ lobo91:
The only part I understood was the dead snake
coldwarrior wrote:
You forgot to mention the ‘kicker’. The discovery of three huge oil / gas fields. One in the East, one in the West and one off shore to the West of Crimea. Shell and BP were supposed to develop them but were scared away by the Maiden revolution and they remain un developed. This suits Russia as it prevents these fields competing with Russian oil but mostly Russian gas supplies to Western Europe, particularly Germany.
@ eaglesoars:
This is best pic I could find.
https://www.webbaviation.co.uk/aerial/picture.php?/24506/category/1058
Possum wrote:
Ah. Different design
Possum wrote:
oh I see the barriers
@ eaglesoars:
I can’t post images here because the moderators are sensible but if you see reports of zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, in the Ukraine being encircled by Russian troops but not taking it over as in this example https://twitter.com/KyleJGlen/status/1498959118689779715
Russians are not stupid.
Now I do not know if this will work but check out Google maps of the power plant.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Enerhodar,+Zaporizhia+Oblast,+Ukraine,+71500/@47.5006186,34.5895053,13z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x40dcbf1fe9c5f05d:0xb5620f912ec8bf19!8m2!3d47.5015067!4d34.6341859
Same kind of lake and barrier around it so water cools before it gets to rest of lake. A lake constructed at the side of a big river.
eaglesoars wrote:
This one is better. It’s a “best of 2021” compilation:
eaglesoars wrote:
its a hypnotizing sight
lobo91 wrote:
Ok, there was one other I understood, the ‘bedazzled’ one. Aka ‘how to turn your steering wheel into a Claymore’
eaglesoars wrote:
The fraud is best buds with the bloody Pope. He’s the guy who recruited Frank to the NWO Schwab World Economic Forum clique.
SPIT
Cooling towers? Why bother?
Well to generate electricity you turn water into steam, in an oil fired, coal fired or Nuclear power plant.
A natural gas power plant is kind of different, that is a fucking load of jet engines….
The water you turn to steam is ideally as pure water as you can get. If you use water straight out of a river you is going to get weeds, silt, fish parts, old bicycles and the occasional dead body a jilted spouse dumped in the river.
So, cooling towers. You have nice clean water that you turned into steam and it went through a turbine generator. High pressure, medium pressure then low pressure. All the steam energy is used, but what exits the generator is still steamy.
Hey use a cooling tower to turn that used steam back into wet water and use it again. No need to filter out fish parts and dead bodies. You get nice clean and pure water back.
A costal/lake/river situated power plant uses cold water from the lake/river/sea to cool down your nice filtered water that was steam back to wet water.
Hence no cooling towers by coastal/river/lake power stations.
But as you can see the river/lake water that was used for cooling the nice filtered water that was steam is itself cooled down by making it flow along channels around the lake/river before it, the warm water, is allowed into the lake/river again.
Environmental protection 101 1906’s style.
Limit the effects of nuclear power plants on the environment.
No making rivers and lakes artificially warm…..
Possum wrote:
We can’t post pictures here because the site uses an antique & corrupted version of WordPress.
@ Possum:
I was doing so well until I typed 1906 instead of 1960
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
Also there is NO WAY you going to let me post pics. LMAO
Possum wrote:
I don’t run this place and I’m eating a sandwich otherwise I’d post a photo of what my mechanic did to my shiny new catalytic converter to prevent it from being stolen again. Now if the assholes come back a second time they’ll take one look and slash my tires instead.
@ coldwarrior:
I agree. In the 1950’s anyone who saw it were going to die..
Demon core etc…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE8FnsnWz48
Plainly Difficult is worth looking at on Youtube. His accent pisses me off but that is a regional English thing.
I still watch anything he uploads.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
I have catalytic convertor story.
It is an epilogue to the last month sold my junk car for $615 and I was happy.
If this post gets over 2000 likes I will tell the story.
Or you can donate to me via patrion, gofundme or that place which currently escapes my mind where young ladies take their clothes off.
@ Possum:
ONLYFANS!!!!
I Googled it. I Googled “girls pictures pay to see” and Onlyfans came up.
That is the one.
And now for the next six months all the adverts I will see on Facebook are going to be for Viagra.
Chances of me getting a girlfriend have now gone to zero.
1, I am an advocate of CLEAN nuclear power.
2, I like steam engines.
3, I have multiple cats.
4, I cannot honestly pick a side to be on during the Ukraine/Russia war
5, I like documentaries done by someone from South London but his accent pisses me off.
6, I know what Only Fans is.
7, I eat curry
8, I know what a Dutch Oven is. ( See #7 )
9, I am friends with Bunk.
10, I think number nine is the ruination of any future relationships….
Aussie Infidel wrote:
!!!!!
Possum wrote:
I thought that would be a plus?
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
no garage?
Bunk Five Hawks X wrote:
good thing. Yinz would get sick of the heathen beagles right quick
Demon core movie out takes.
” hey Bubba watch this ”
” Hold my beer ”
” Anyone got a screwdriver I can borrow “
China hoards over half the world’s grain, pushing up global prices
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Datawatch/China-hoards-over-half-the-world-s-grain-pushing-up-global-prices
@ eaglesoars:
Nope, the marking territory thing prevents that.
The boys really do the territory thing.
This latest development will now make Russia withdraw from the Ukraine territory and say sorry and pay billions of Rubles in compensation.
https://www.rt.com/russia/551104-russian-cats-fife-sanctions-ukraine/
Possum wrote:
I have no idea what you’re talking about
eaglesoars wrote:
oh, the CATSS! I thought maybe the wheat thing
sorry
eaglesoars wrote:
I saw ‘marking’ as ‘marketing’.
my eyes
Anyhoo, thinking about what Powell said about another reserve currency…could he have meant not INSTEAD of the dollar but in ADDITION to the dollar. The Fed is studying crypto and I’m wondering if he’s thinking a cyber regulated by the Fed could come to be considered a reserve currency.
just a thought
4:30 today
BREAKING: First Major Ukraine City Falls to the Russian Invaders
A couple of things to take note of. First, Kherson was not defended in strength by the Ukrainian army. That was a good decision because Kherson is away from the center of gravity of the war that lies around Kiev. Taking Kherson does give Russia access to lines of communication crossing the Dnieper River and opens the route to Odessa. Second, I think we’re beginning to see an outline of what Russia sees as the endgame. The “breakaway” regions of Donetsk and Luhansk have expanded to give control of the Sea of Azov and a large part of the Black Sea coast to Russia.
The surrender of Kherson has to be seen as expected. It will be disheartening to some Ukrainians. Kherson has a population of about 300,000, and it is 70 percent Ukrainian. If an insurgency spawns there, the Russians will not be able to hold the city. Its loss, however, is more critical to what happens at the cease-fire negotiations than it is to what is happening outside Kiev.
https://redstate.com/streiff/2022/03/02/breaking-first-major-ukraine-city-falls-to-the-russian-invaders-n530639
https://twitter.com/trenttelenko/status/1499164245250002944?s=21
This is a thread that will explain the implied poor Russian Army truck maintenance practices based on this photo of a Pantsir-S1 wheeled gun-missile system’s right rear pair of tires below & the operational implications during the Ukrainian mud season
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In particular you want to exercise the central tire air inflation system (CTIS) to see if lines have leaks or had insect/vermin nests blocking the system.
@ eaglesoars:
I love my cats, but nobody visits me anymore.
About 18 months ago I had visitors and said ” don’t let them near your purse, they will steal things ”
Now they just piss on things they would like to steal later.
Just had a 30 minute break from here because one escaped and ended up on the building roof.
He took a lot of talking back down. I should apply for a job with Houston EMT or police. Defusing hostage situations or persuading suicidal people not to jump.
Being honest, if it took five minutes longer I would have shot him!
can’t post pictures here but I has scars from when he got close enough to grab him. LOL
@ Possum:
Got three in apartment. Only one missing is Boris.
I think 27 generations ago his ancestors were Russian. So he getsky to sleepsky outsidsky tonight.
@ Possum:
That was a reference to banning cats that were bred in Russia or have Russian cat DNA from competing in international cute cat competitions.
@ Possum:
Um, and the lady cat here is Princess Natasha Katinski.
Out the door she goes!
White Russian heritage. Royalty.
eaglesoars wrote:
Garage holds 1.5 cars.
@ Bunk Five Hawks X:
Fucking architects need to be stood up against a wall and severely tickled for that design mistake.
@ Possum:
LMAO I lived in Africa. House had a nice garage.
No way you could get a car in it without at least 30 mins back and forward maneuvering.
Did it once, took an hour to get it back out.
Possum wrote:
I’m a dog person.
Iron Fist’s wife is a cat person.. she has 7 – or maybe 8 – now. I don’t remember life before dog hair. She has exponentially more housekeeping than I do.
But my dogs are fascinated by cats. There was a feral kitten here when we first moved in that used to visit and she is adorable. I thought about taking her in but $$$ and I don’t know enough about cats to care for them properly. Also, I have enough animal crazy. But I was smitten. Fortunately the people next door took her in to control the mice in their barn so she’s well cared for and I see her every now and then. She’s all grown up and she beats up on their Great Pyrenees when he decides our Psycho Puppy is making too much noise and starts barking at her.
Altho I don’t understand why – with a cat and a Great Pyrenees – none of their chickens have been slaughtered en masse.
@ eaglesoars:
Cats are great companions. You do not really have to do anything except make sure they have water available somewhere and food.
Normal cats do not even have feeding times. They will not over eat like dogs do. Cat food here is available 24/7
Indoor only cats obviously need a liter box. Indoor/outdoor cats need one too but they only use it when it is raining outside.
What I like best about cats is they do not do anything you tell them to do and even though they know their names and know when you are talking to them ( That ear rotating or tail twitch gives it away ) they usually don’t give a shit.
we’ve all been distracted – watch the Iran ‘deal’. I have to catch up. But not tonight
As compared to dog owners. Apartment next to mine has a dog. Last year it was a small dog. Now it is a big dog kept in a cage.
How do I know it is kept in a cage? Because the cage it is in is next to my wall and it is constantly trying to get out.
I could record the audio but I won’t
@ eaglesoars:
Distracted? Damn cats!!!!
@ Possum:
My brain is dog. I was adopted at 6 mos. by the neighbor’s collie, Rex, who had already raised 2 babies. This is rural Pennsylvania. He slept by my crib and notified Mom when I woke up, babysat me in the playpen on the patio and taught me to play fetch by throwing my toys for him, I learned to walk holding on to him. When I was teething and cranky he let me bury my face in his fur and cry. According to my utterly horrified mother I barked before I ‘talked’.
To this day I can still smell him.
He was killed by a car when I was 3.
Possum wrote:
break in, release the dog, drop the owner from the roof
@ eaglesoars:
In an ideal world I would ask neighbor if I could borrow the dog.
I need to get out more, walk, exercise and basically get outside.
Go to a park, but as a single old white man going to a park where fit young ladies were jogging and me walking alone would look creepy.
I am not a creepy old man.
Borrowing a dog to take with me would be a benefit to both me and the dog.
I would REALLY like to be able to knock on neighbor’s door and ask to take dog for a walk.
But how do I do that?
Possum wrote:
Plain truth is always a good start. You’re home all day. The dog needs exercise. Just offer. See how it goes.
Good God.
Parents of kids <5 are desperate for baby vaccinations. We are fortunate our infant is now in the @pfizer clinical tria but the @US_FDA has made this moment bittersweet: trials seem never ending, @moderna_tx vaccine review, and the schools are lifting
#ImmunizeUnder5s
https://twitter.com/KammeyerSLP/status/1499141689167912962
her bio:Treating Differences, Delays & Disorders using Evidence-Based Fun
Rachel Kammeyer, MA, CCC-SLP
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what is CCC-SLP?
MA I assume is ‘master of arts’ so I’m DEFINITLY bowing down to that bullshit
@ eaglesoars:
Actually I may try that approach.
I know what dog is. It is a white thing that about a year ago got lost and I fed it.
fed it at night, then fed it next morning as it was still outside my door. Posted videos on Facebook and got yelled at because I fed a puppy cat food.
If it had been a hungry squirrel it would have been fed cat food!
I only have cat food…
Lucy posted it on Twitter!!!!!!
Apr 21, 2021 a nasty man feeding a puppy cat food.
https://twitter.com/Lucy_Dynamite/status/1384916391560613891
@ eaglesoars:
the baby is dressed in a t-shirt that reads
we are going to be the kids you read about in textbooks
Possum wrote:
that’s a well cared for puppy. what happened to it?
@ eaglesoars:
It lives in a cage next door.
As to Lucy commentating ” you just ate a full can ” that was next morning after the first can of cat food. It ate a second can in two bites before video started.
I was feeding it before it now lives in the cage.
@ Possum:
Cat food cans are only 5.5 ounces. 3 ounces if it is Fancy Feast.
Dog food cans are 16 ounces.
Still, look at the size of Lucy’s hands compared to size of dog.
Lucy is transgender, but that has nothing to do with things. LOL
As to cats.
1. If you do not like cats do not sleep with a window even if you live on the second floor.
2. Do NOT get involved with a TNR ( Trap Neuter Release ) program
You are going to end up with a house full of cats. They will have clipped ears, but they are still cats!
Tough crowd in here tonight…
Nobody wants to discuss cats or nuclear stuff.
Hey Bunk, start a quilting thread.
@ Possum:
A few days ago someone posted about smoking a duck. But he never said which end you put in the mouth and which end you are supposed to light.
Last time I had a visitor in my apartment it was Sunday 26th December and my visitor who was helping me clean yelled ” I just saw a MOUSE!!!! ”
I said, ” No way is there a mouse in here, I have four cats. ”
Visitor was not reassured,.
Then I saw the offending thing run past me and said ” It isn’t a mouse, it is a lizard! ”
Visitor left shortly after, never too be seen again…
Cats all laughed.. Cats are assholes.
@ Possum:
call animal control about the dog.
@ eaglesoars:
No. I am no way disrupting where I live. I am a minority here like you never imagined.
Also I have a cat. I paid a pet deposit to have a cat.
They never asked for a picture or description of my cat.
The little fuckers move so fast in here when there is a knock on the door from Amazon when they deliver then good luck to the landlord identifying which cat is mine.
I fell into the ” illegal ” trap.
Cannot accuse anyone of illegality when I am doing illegal things myself.
@ Possum:
I think there is a biblical reference to smiting the first stone while you have a splinter in your own eye or never throw rocks at a glass house when your house is made of glass and you shower naked. Or something.
Do lady cats who have been spayed. Basically rendered neutral and not at all interested in sexual stuff mark their territory?
YES!!!
I am hers…
Did you all know that cats have anal glands?
The most famous cat sort of creature is a skunk and we all know what a skunk is famous for.. Anal gland squirting!!!
Neutering a male cat ( removing testicles ) or spaying a female cat ( removing ovaries and uterus ) stops them reproducing.
life here is turning from a pissing contest to an anal gland type of warfare.
Going to do laundry tomorrow.
Possum wrote:
My main experience with nuclear stuff was on the bottled sunshine end. As to cats, you may recall that I live out side of any city limits, there usually anywhere between 3 and 6 feral cats hanging out close to me. I feed them once a day, they keep the mice and snakes away.
Come to think of it, I once maintained a couple of the computer systems at a nuclear power plant under construction. The first time I went there I noticed a sign that said to check all weapons with the gate guard. I mentioned that I had a pistol and the gate guard freaked out, turns out I was the first to surrender a weapon and they didn’t actually have a place to secure a weapon. After about 15 minutes of dickering we agreed that the magazine would go in the trunk (boot for you) and pistol in the glove box. They never mentioned the pistol again.
Possum wrote:
let me think about that.
bed time. nite.
eaglesoars wrote:
Not hopeless, prepping the battlefield for the 2022 election
Sorry about the cat posts. My girl who was a feral cat who decided to visit me four years ago and so I did the TNR thing to her and she stayed with me is acting odd.
Fur on her belly is gone and she is growing breasts. All the signs of pregnancy but she cannot be.
A tumor somewhere producing hormones?
Lost three young cats before to cancer. (nose and kidney ) Why do cats that do not smoke get cancer?
no more cats….
@ Bordm:
Notice any of the feral cats have the tip of their ear missing?
@ Possum:
No, they’re true feral, the ones that are around are the ones that learned to avoid the eagles, falcons, hawks and owls that hunt around here.
@ Possum:
You cannot control the population of cats really. If animal control comes and takes away all the feral cats within a few months other cats move in to that vacant territory.
The TNR ( Trap Neuter and Release ) program keeps the feral cat population in place but they do not breed.
Animal control are not, in theory, supposed to catch and kill a cat that has an ear clipped.
Bordm wrote:
And run faster than the animal control Nazis
@ Possum:
I live in an unincorporated area, the only animal control is when the sheriffs help round up loose cattle.
@ Bordm:
well if you see a cattle with the tip of its ear missing it is a feral cattle and should remain not rounded up.
eaglesoars wrote:
The go too man of the Pope for all things NWO and the great reset.
🙂
Possum wrote:
You definitely need a couple of Main Coon cats Mate.
You can take them swimming, they beat up other cats and establish their territory AND you can walk them like dogs. Great talking points with the ladies in the park as well.
🙂
Problem solved!
@ Aussie Infidel:
If ever in the next life had a chance to get a cat a Maine Coon would be it.
In this life the cats chose me…
eaglesoars wrote:
Capturing an urban area is one thing. Holding it is quite another matter, especially when you have very limited troop numbers, spread out over a huge area.
So before I go to bed, Russian invasion of the Ukraine.
World reaction to stop it is….
Seize bank accounts of Russians. No effect.
Prevent overflights or landing of Russian airlines. No effect.
Kick Russia out of SWIFT financial system. No effect.
Then it got nasty. Prevent Russian cats from competing in cat beauty contests. No effect.
Now they are getting really serious! Stop Russians that have no arms and legs from going to the paraplegic winter olympics.
That will do it. Way to stop a war.
Possum wrote:
It was years before I learned that “fucking architect” was two words.
In the case of our house, the fucking architect worked for the fucking developer who told the fucking architect “fuck the homebuyer.”
Possum wrote:
More fucking.
Possum wrote:
“Oye, vato. Quiero su perro.”
eaglesoars wrote:
Maybe “I’m a malignant mole factory.”
Possum wrote:
More people should wear blue and yellow lapel pins.
Possum wrote:
You got it.
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2022/03/03/by-request/
lobo91 wrote:
The segment at 2:38 is exactly what my mechanic did to my new catalytic converter to prevent another theft, except the braided cables are tight and spot welded. No rattles.
@ Possum:
We’re involved with TNR.
We keep saying “we’ll take this cat in, get it fixed, socialize it, then take it to the Humane Society.” Everything happens except that last step. How else would we end up with 20 cats? Plus an outdoor stray (very well fed and friendly) and a feral.
At our old house, we put a cat flap in the garage door so that the stray and ferals could get in out of the bad weather.