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Tar_Alcaran

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  • Wargame reveals Germany would freeze as Russia seizes Lithuanian territory in three days

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  • Western wargames are usually "what if the badguys catch us at the absolute possible worst?"

    So yes, if one side decides not to fight, the other side wins, that's literally all they did in this politics-game (since the fighting wasn't simulated at all).

  • A classic

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  • First billionaire on the planet was a genx.

    Pretty sure the first billionaires predate genx by decades.

  • Volkswagen overtook Tesla as Europe's top EV seller in 2025

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  • Who wants to drive a dated fascism mobile that has lane keeping behind a subscription?

  • US ambasador to Poland threatens to withdraw troops and equipmyfrom Poland

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  • It is in 2026

  • Feds Identify “Leader of Antifa”

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  • I've seen quite a few christians pretend they were atheists who converted.

  • Feds Identify “Leader of Antifa”

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  • They've got em. Our most closely hidden secret leader. What will the cabal do without him?

  • US government to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in Europe

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  • USAID to be replaced by USHARM

  • How you prepare for collapse?

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  • Nuclear war? Best hope you're in a target zone, you don't want to try and live through a nightmare where growing food may be impossible. Your canned goods will run out in months unless you can supplement them.

    Your food will be fine. Animals are going to die WAY before plants, they're much more resistant to radiation than we are. System failure is much more likely to kill you than actual fallout.

    Global pandemic beyond what COVID-19 was? Yeah, COVID sucked, but it had a rather low kill rate. A super bug that has a rate to kill society as we know it around the globe is going to spread quickly, easily, and be highly deadly by comparison. You're more likely to contract it and die than survive.

    A disease that kills quickly is much more likely not to spread too far. One problem with COVID-19 was that you can walk around spreading it, that doesn't happen with ebola because by the time you're contagious, you're not moving. What you should worry about is a slow spreader like COVID-19, but only a few times more deadly. It doesn't take much to collapse food and energy distribution.

    Climate change? You may be able to survive this one but you'll need to think of how high waters will rise, how that'll effect local growing ecology for food, etc. It's going to be insanely rough.

    Nah, sea level rise won't kill you. It might kill your grandkids, but climate change is mostly going to cause massive storms, and ruin farmland and destroy water supplies. System failure will kill you, not drowning. Unless you live in a river floodplain with inadequate defenses or a low shore, in which case storm-caused flooding might kill you.

    Any other plausible event? Again, it requires a massive die off in a short time or just general destructiveness that'll kill a lot of people initially then everyone slowly afterwards.

    Oh yeah, really anything that will stop food, water or power getting to you. Or getting to someone with the ability to come get yours.

  • As Ukrainians freeze, donated energy equipment sits unused

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  • Non-technical, non-expert people often hugely underestimate how incredibly complex large systems are. You can't just wheel up some generators to a bombed-out substation and plug in the local grid.

    The same applies to systems of organisation. Cities don't know how to run this, local governments don't know shit about power systems, so someone will have to tell them what to do. But they have to find experts to advise them, and there aren't an infinite number of those available.

    So you've got a situation that is very complex, being run by an organisation out of its depth. It's going to get fucked up no matter how well intentioned everyone is. And since they're human, they're not well intentioned.

  • Russia Wasted $325 Million in One Night Trying to Cripple Ukraine’s Power Grid

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  • The pertinent question is why isn't russia using those weapons on the frontline?

    Because thats hard.

    EDIT: a little add-on. The civilian infrastructure is huge and spread out, so pretty much impossible to defend. It also doesn't move and isn't hardened. You can plan a strike on powerlines and transformers from your bathroom with google maps.

    On the other hand, the frontline is, by definition, defended. It moves and it's usually more resistant to damage as well.

  • Russia Vanishes From Asia’s Biggest Airshows as Its Arms Export Industry Shrinks

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  • Russia is still literally the fucking Muscovy occupying other countries.

    Not even other countries, Russia is basically the colonial empire run by Moscow and St Petersburg.

  • Azov commander: Stop counting kilometers—Ukraine’s real war is psychological

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  • The only reason you would say "you can't measure our victories in kilometers" is if it would look bad if you did.

    It actually looks pretty amazing though. At the rate Russia has been advancing and losing troops, it would take over a hundred years and more than all of Russia to take Ukraine.

  • ‘Just Skin and Bones’: Russian Soldier Says Hunger Is Ravaging Frontline Units

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  • Couldn't happen to nicer people

  • no person is illegal

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  • And even IF there is some kind of "illegal person", they still shouldn't freeze, starve or get kidnapped off the street by masked thugs.

  • 17 years*

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  • Damn, I'm stealing that quote

  • Lake Oswego theater loses rights to screen ‘Melania’ after marquee jokes

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  • Yarhar twiddle de dee...

  • Alone, it is a fool's errand!

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  • It's a very 2nd edition way to solve it. Ahhh old D&D giving us ranges and not dice

  • Youve been brought back from the dead to participate in a competition that involves all of the world's greatest to ever have lived, what is the competition?

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  • You're not going to enjoy that competition though...

  • Youve been brought back from the dead to participate in a competition that involves all of the world's greatest to ever have lived, what is the competition?

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  • Ohhhh, you're the mysterium zxqwasball champion?