Octopus Overlords

Formix wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 5:14 am

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 2:27 am Telegraphh

A Russian sausage magnate

Are we certain this was really Pavel Antonov, and not just some kids who were having some zany fun on a Day Off?

Zaxxon wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 10:01 am TIL that 'Russian sausage magnate' is a thing.

Alefroth wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 2:22 pm

Zaxxon wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 10:01 am TIL that 'Russian sausage magnate' is a thing.

How do they work?

Alefroth wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 2:44 pm

Did you make that, because that is a very specific juxtaposition of the two themes.

Chraolic wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 2:45 pm If I was a Russian multi-millionaire, I'd probably be looking to hire every single bodyguard and security firm in existence by this point. How come they don't?

Max Peck wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 2:49 pm

Alefroth wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 2:44 pm

Did you make that, because that is a very specific juxtaposition of the two themes.

I cobbled it together. I also asked an AI for its take:

Alefroth wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 3:03 pm Maybe the bodyguards double as defenestrators.

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 2:27 am Telegraph

A Russian sausage magnate and politician who briefly criticised Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has died after falling from the third-floor window of a luxury hotel in India.

Pavel Antov was a member of Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party and a multi-millionaire, having founded one of Russia’s largest sausage makers.

He was reportedly on a trip to celebrate his upcoming 66th birthday when he was found lying in a pool of blood outside the Hotel Sai International in Rayagada, a district in the southern state of Odisha.

An unnamed police official told India’s NDTV news outlet they suspected he took his own life after becoming depressed about the death of his friend who was found dead in the same hotel.

Vladimir Bidenov was found lying unconscious in his room on the first floor of the hotel on Thursday surrounded by empty wine bottles.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sun Jan 01, 2023 5:55 pm Russia is showing its weak side to anyone who wants to look. At this point Captain Crunch could invade Russia.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sun Jan 01, 2023 5:55 pm Russia is showing its weak side to anyone who wants to look. At this point Captain Crunch could invade Russia.

Kurth wrote: ↑Mon Jan 02, 2023 3:21 am

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sun Jan 01, 2023 5:55 pm Russia is showing its weak side to anyone who wants to look. At this point Captain Crunch could invade Russia.

No offense, but this is kind of silly. No one's invading Russia…It also highlights the fundamental challenge of taking and holding land in a hostile country.

Woman who encouraged sexual assault is on international wanted list

The wife of a Russian soldier fighting in Ukraine has been placed on an international wanted list for comments she made encouraging her husband to sexually assault Ukrainian women. 

Alefroth wrote: ↑Mon Jan 02, 2023 2:14 pm Massive attack on Russian makeshift barracks in Donetsk. You know if Russia is admitting 63 causalities, there must be loads more.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/2 ... n-makiivka

1/ The accounts of mobilised Russian soldiers who survived the Ukrainian HIMARS strike on Makiivka are beginning to emerge. Many more than the official figure of 63 are reported to have died. "We are cleaning their brains off our boots," says one survivor.

2/ The relatives of two mobilised men from Samara region say that a total of four HIMARS missiles hit the building, which they say was occupied by about 400 men at the time. They included soldiers from the 44th and 45th regiments. Some escaped after the first missile hit.

3/ According to the relative of one of the survivors, "Many more people [than the claimed 63] were killed. They are still being pulled out from under the rubble." She suspects that local people gave the location to the Ukrainians: "They were breathing poison on them there."

4/ Some soldiers managed to escape from the building's basement. As previously reported, many of the casualties will need to be identified from DNA records. One survivor says he and his colleagues have been "cleaning brains off our boots".

5/ A wife says: “Indeed, there are many dead. I know that almost everything they had was left in that place [in the school building]. I only know that many were torn apart to such an extent that there was practically nothing left of the bodies."

6/ Survivors have been taken to hospital in Russia's Rostov region. The wife of one survivor says that her husband "just texted a few words to me that he is alive and well. More guys called who survived, they're walking around naked in flip flops.
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Girkin, who has bitterly criticised Russia’s military failures in Ukraine, said ammunition had been stored in the same building where the recruits had been accommodated.

“This is not the only such [extremely dense] deployment of personnel and equipment in the destruction zone of HIMARS missiles,” he said on Telegram.

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Tue Jan 03, 2023 2:37 pm I guess they didn't watch Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

Army regulations forbid storing ammunition within five hundred yards of the barracks.

Parts made by more than a dozen US and Western companies were found inside a single Iranian drone downed in Ukraine last fall, according to a Ukrainian intelligence assessment obtained exclusively by CNN.

Alefroth wrote: ↑Wed Jan 04, 2023 3:15 pm U.S. made parts found in Iranian drones used in Ukraine.

[urlhttps://www.cnn.com/2023/01/04/politics/iranian ... index.html][/url]

Parts made by more than a dozen US and Western companies were found inside a single Iranian drone downed in Ukraine last fall, according to a Ukrainian intelligence assessment obtained exclusively by CNN.

Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Wed Jan 04, 2023 4:08 pm Unless stated otherwise, please assume 98% of my posts are sarcasm.

Alefroth wrote: ↑Wed Jan 04, 2023 4:09 pm

Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Wed Jan 04, 2023 4:08 pm Unless stated otherwise, please assume 98% of my posts are sarcasm.

Likewise. Wait, that must have been sarcasm =)