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    In ur base, hacking ur rockets
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    Moscow, Russia
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    Anything that doesn't have to do with my actual career

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  1. Like Toyota, this Chinese LEGO clone knows what vehicle accessories their audience cares about https://www.sluban.nl/en/artnr/m38b1257/sluban---army-tank-ifr-t90as
  2. Fun with compound interest: the current Russian fine against Google is 42 quintillion times more than the world's combined wealth of $477 trillion, if WaPo's numbers are to be believed
  3. Keeled over last Friday with some generic cold-like infection, mostly recovered by Monday... or so I thought. About an hour of continuous talking later, I realize I've got all-out laryngitis. I soldiered on for another day, and even a day later I can soeak barely above a whisper. It's... rather novel.
  4. A couple days ago he bought the farm. The fat had concealed an underlying catastrophic cancer. Autopsy estimates he was 12-15 years old, it's a miracle his cardiovascular system sustained such a body in the first place.
  5. Moscow, reporting in thanks to a brief cold snap. There's enough of the snow to make cars and railings white So everything's actually quite consistent
  6. 20.6 km of foot across much of downtown Moscow. I think this was the last sunny day this autumn, so totally worth it.
  7. Well, it's not a Power Leap but it's something https://t.me/rian_ru/264287
  8. Today had a forecast of "mostly cloudless". Had. *grumble*
  9. What, you mean salty fans of the High Seas Fleet? Because they must totally regret Germany not having a longer seaboard /s Basically, yes, this style of xenopatriot is pretty commonplace and universal. Orwell explained them as the consequence of backlash against jingoism that made it impossible to express chest-pounding pride over one's own country, so they do it for a different one, and either don't know better, or can afford to lie blatantly (in the case he was most concerned about, they wore the glasses pictured below). A related and oerhaps overlapping kind of people basically overlook any disadvantages of their fetish because they're also using entire countries as a rhetorical cudgel over their own pet peeves.
  10. Not entirely true. Apparently nukes were studied for the Arleigh Burkes and assuming somewhat higher oil prices, they won out. Do not underestimate the regulatory nightmare the nuckear freighters had to go through, too. Sevmorput' was never really allowed anywhere but North Korea.
  11. Hey, have the new ecological requirements for residual fuel oil been put in effect, or has COVID given everyone the excuse to flunk them? Last I checked, it seemed to veer towards the latter. Can't start greening the industry that still relies primarily on muck from the bottom of the refinery crackers.
  12. Soyuz-L, an LM orbital testbed. Come on, make that horrible pun (the LK wasn't the problem with N1-L3, after all).
  13. Baade 152, GDR's attempt at an airliner. First one crashed, second one was built with a regular undercarriage but the whole project got scrapped.
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