Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@social.cleverlibre.org
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Consulting SW Engineer, mostly Pacific Northwest these days.
Medical Informatics - Carrier-Grade Network Video Distribution - Real Time Clinical Telemetry
Formerly: Motorola, Tektronix, Intel, HP, Qualcomm, Nintendo; others you're less likely to have heard of.
"Millions for nonsense but not one cent for entropy."
Will code for pie. 🥧
Joined Dec 2022
Hm. Where have we seen "scorched earth" tactics ordered by an occupying dictator facing a reconquest?
Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧
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Absurdity of #Russia public relations is that their narratives can change by 180° literally as a matter of hours.
That was the case with #MH17 when one minute they boasted about "another success of Donbass self-defense in downing Ukrainian airplane" only to switch to denial of even possessing anti-air weapons, about which they of course also boasted just a week before.
With #Dnipro Kakhovka dam destruction it's the same story: the area is held by Russian 205 Separate Motorized Brigade. In October 2022 their channels openly boasted about planting explosives in the dam, which was presented as a "last resort" in case of "uncontrolled advances of Khokhols" (Ukrainians). The channel was providing advice to their troops on what to do when the dam is blown up and estimated "70% likelihood it will be necessary":
https://t.me/mototroopers_205/377
https://t.me/mototroopers_205/387
The knowledge of having the dam mined was giving peace of mind to Russian troops on the left bank of Dnipro — they knew their command can at any time "flush the Khokhols down to the sea". Which is precisely why their reporter "Thirteen" was so triumphant this morning, praising the idea and suggesting other dams are blown too. I've posted these before, so just for reference his morning statements:
https://t.me/m0sc0wcalling/25120
But as the official denial from Moscow was published, "Thirteen" and other suddenly changed their line. Now he's blaming Ukraine, as if everything he said in the morning was to be remembered:
https://t.me/m0sc0wcalling/25137
Not surprisingly, Ukraine directly mentions 205 Brigade as the one responsible for this nights disaster:
https://t.me/Pravda_Gerashchenko/72784
It's not clear if the scale of the destruction was entirely what was planned. According to some sources only 11 segments out of 28 were destroyed which may indicate they "only" intended a much smaller breach but overshoot. It doesn't change what they actually have done.
That was the case with #MH17 when one minute they boasted about "another success of Donbass self-defense in downing Ukrainian airplane" only to switch to denial of even possessing anti-air weapons, about which they of course also boasted just a week before.
With #Dnipro Kakhovka dam destruction it's the same story: the area is held by Russian 205 Separate Motorized Brigade. In October 2022 their channels openly boasted about planting explosives in the dam, which was presented as a "last resort" in case of "uncontrolled advances of Khokhols" (Ukrainians). The channel was providing advice to their troops on what to do when the dam is blown up and estimated "70% likelihood it will be necessary":
https://t.me/mototroopers_205/377
https://t.me/mototroopers_205/387
The knowledge of having the dam mined was giving peace of mind to Russian troops on the left bank of Dnipro — they knew their command can at any time "flush the Khokhols down to the sea". Which is precisely why their reporter "Thirteen" was so triumphant this morning, praising the idea and suggesting other dams are blown too. I've posted these before, so just for reference his morning statements:
https://t.me/m0sc0wcalling/25120
But as the official denial from Moscow was published, "Thirteen" and other suddenly changed their line. Now he's blaming Ukraine, as if everything he said in the morning was to be remembered:
https://t.me/m0sc0wcalling/25137
Not surprisingly, Ukraine directly mentions 205 Brigade as the one responsible for this nights disaster:
https://t.me/Pravda_Gerashchenko/72784
It's not clear if the scale of the destruction was entirely what was planned. According to some sources only 11 segments out of 28 were destroyed which may indicate they "only" intended a much smaller breach but overshoot. It doesn't change what they actually have done.
Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧
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Way back in October, the D.C.-based think tank
@TheStudyofWar
predicted this exact outcome -- the blowing of the dam "at the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP) to cover their withdrawal and to prevent Ukrainian forces from pursuing Russian forces deeper into Kherson Oblast"
They could be really immersive. I remember the Snoopy and the Red Baron one vividly. Some guy has captured it and a few others in his Flickr stream:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/crackdog/3280206193/in/photostream/
@evanpeterjones Besides, if there's one thing an urban cyclist needs, it's gesture support.
@BashStKid Hey, someone knows his Lazarus Long!
@ottocrat
"Siri, where's my remote?"
"You don't need a remote. You have me."
A true man can grow a garden, repair machinery, minister to the sick or injured, and speak Welsh.
Your positions are emotional and tribal, mine are arrived at by well-informed dispassionate reasoning.
Said everybody ever.
@briannawu Don't forget Reagan, with the support of the NRA, signed California's gun control laws, because black people were carrying. Don't for a moment suppose the principles he espoused were principles he actually had. I don't imagine for a moment he'd be out of step with today's GOP on anything.
Just saw a guy on *ahem* another social media service claim, in practically the same breath, that neither the slave trade nor economic colonialism were linked to capitalism, but Stalin's genocides were closely linked to socialism. Honestly, you can't even talk to these people.
Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧
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So in an effort to refute allegations of being pro-Putin, Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally party set up a parliamentary inquiry to investigate foreign interference in French politics.
Instead of refuting the allegations, the inquiry has found that LePen is a Kremlin mouthpiece.
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20230603-le-pen-s-far-right-served-as-mouthpiece-for-the-kremlin-says-french-parliamentary-report
@mpesce "It looks like you're trying to write a science paper. Would you like me to hallucinate some bollocks?"
@samlitzinger The most willing consumers of disinformation are presumably the best targets for deceptive advertising. Of course they're not going to undercut their business model.
@samlitzinger "disproven assumptions". FFS. A deliberate lie isn't an assumption, and "disproven" means "provably false".
Ranked from best to worst:
• Moral
• Immoral
• Amoral
• Balmoral
"key reason so many offenders went missing was because they had changed their names"
- Enthusiasms
- 🏍️ 🪂 🚀 🎷 🔬 🔭 🎞️ 🐧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
- Pronouns
- oneself / whomsoever
- Faction
- Beltalowda 🪨
Consulting SW Engineer, mostly Pacific Northwest these days.
Medical Informatics - Carrier-Grade Network Video Distribution - Real Time Clinical Telemetry
Formerly: Motorola, Tektronix, Intel, HP, Qualcomm, Nintendo; others you're less likely to have heard of.
"Millions for nonsense but not one cent for entropy."
Will code for pie. 🥧
Joined Dec 2022
