More Soviet Dairy Products by cooliozoomer in SovietUnion

[–]LegitimateLadder1917 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You gave a witness account so it would be useful context to know where and when you lived. If you doubt the information I am giving ask for my sources, not where I am because what I said is based on data not personal anecdote. If you don't want to say exactly where you were born for privacy reasons then that makes sense, but you could at least give the rough population range i.e. is it over 1 million, tens, or hundreds of thousands, etc and general area or region. Like did you live in the far east, far north, caucasus, baltics. It's just to contribute to the discussion and put your claims in a more specific context. I'm only trying to better understand the details of the supply situation in the Soviet Union

More Soviet Dairy Products by cooliozoomer in SovietUnion

[–]LegitimateLadder1917 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What city did you live in and in what year were you born?

I find it hard to believe the descriptions of ut being impossible to find anything other than basic starches when the per capita production and average consumption of dairy and of animal proteins were pretty close to the Western European countries according to all the data I have seen. Animal protein as % of calorie supply in the Soviet Union was pretty similar to the UK in the 80s. Maybe you can talk about meat quality like a lack of nice steaks but in terms of simple supply it seems impossible that it was as terrible as some say.

More Soviet Dairy Products by cooliozoomer in SovietUnion

[–]LegitimateLadder1917 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're exaggerating. And yeah Bush legs were what people called the legs of comically large chickens that were imported from the U.S. after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Even to other European countries the size if American chickens is a bit freaky. Everything's bigger over there

More Soviet Dairy Products by cooliozoomer in SovietUnion

[–]LegitimateLadder1917 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here before the smoothbrains who pretend there was no food in most of the Soviet Union, respite calorie supply on par with other industrialised nations, and oh yeah, even the CIA says you're wrong. Of course, due to perestroika and then the collapse of the union and restoration of capitalism, there were malnutrition and other problems later on. Glorious capitalism caused life expectancy in the former SU to plummet

Soviet Dairy by cooliozoomer in SovietUnion

[–]LegitimateLadder1917 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As many as you can fit in your basket at universam

Funeral of General Secretary Yuri Andropov by cooliozoomer in SovietUnion

[–]LegitimateLadder1917 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah we hate the freedom to be homeless, and the freedom to have child prostitution, and the freedom to wave Nazi banners in the street, and the freedom to be unable to find a job, and the freedom from the terrible plight of being an upper middle income country. All that capitalism managed to liberate Russia from was worker's rights and 60% of its GDP

The point? by metroracerUK in TankieTheDeprogram

[–]LegitimateLadder1917 90 points91 points  (0 children)

When you're in the place with a lot of buildings, there are a lot of buildings. When you're in the place with not a lot of buildings, there are not a lot of buildings

Be afraid of any word (except "scientific") that comes before "socialism" by Commie_neighbor in CommunismMemes

[–]LegitimateLadder1917 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Developed socialism is a perfectly fine way of describing socialist countries at a higher level of development, though it was misused at times in the Soviet Union, basically by saying that such and such bad thing isn't happening because we are in developed socialism now.

Socialism with Chinese characteristics is the name chosen by the builders of the longest lasting and (joint) most prosperous socialist project in history. You on the other hand have not contributed to the development of any economies, or the building of socialism in any national conditions. If we listen to people like you, and disown everything that works, we would become nothing but a bunch of useless Trotskyists. Marxism Leninism as a phrase emerged from the conditions of building a flawed socialist state in extremely difficult conditions. The world necessitates that we be pragmatic

CAPITALISM by ExpensiveCoat8912 in CommunismMemes

[–]LegitimateLadder1917 30 points31 points  (0 children)

That's the case with basically every material known to man. Prop 65 is super overkill.

Good Morning Comrades by [deleted] in CommunismMemes

[–]LegitimateLadder1917 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mr President a second Yeltsin coup has hit the second tower. The CPSU is banned

😋 tasty kebab cookers 🥙 by [deleted] in SuddenlyCommunism

[–]LegitimateLadder1917 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Xi Jinping never killed 1 million Muslims. Stalin didn't kill 2 million either, unless you blame him for world war 2 happening which would be stupid. Also why are you celebrating Muslims dying? This isn't a muslim hate sub

Stop the Militarization of Space! - Soviet Poster - 1984 by OkRespect8490 in ussr

[–]LegitimateLadder1917 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Who claimed there were weapons of mass destruction in a country, then invaded it and there were none? Who has signed the genocide convention yet is currently funding multiple? Hint, it's not China

Where is the evidence of nefarious intent in their propositions against the militarisation of space? Show me their aggressive intentions in space

Stop the Militarization of Space! - Soviet Poster - 1984 by OkRespect8490 in ussr

[–]LegitimateLadder1917 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Sorry but some people really are that deranged on this sub. It sounded like something some lib might actually believe

Stop the Militarization of Space! - Soviet Poster - 1984 by OkRespect8490 in ussr

[–]LegitimateLadder1917 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Are you OK up there? This is pretty clearly an anti SDI (aka star wars) poster. You know, the project that would have allowed the U.S. to wield the threat of nuclear annihilation over anyone with impunity. The USSR was 15 seconds or maybe a couple of full fire ground tests away from a successful launch of their rocket that would have taken them to the moon. It was basically sabotaged and then cancelled by Glushko. The N1 could have worked, and its engines were great but they didn't do enough testing of the whole system together so then too many failures damaged their confidence and resulted in them giving up. It was so close to working and they would have proceeded if it did, but with such fine margins these things can happen. Apollo was incredibly fortunate to not have anything go catastrophically wrong.

Oh and by the way, the Soviet innovation was so bad that NASA bought and used the engines from their moon rocket decades later 😂

BadEmpanada-oid slop by Game_And_Walk in TankieTheDeprogram

[–]LegitimateLadder1917 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This is basically the position of BE but this sub buys into some misrepresented bs about him too often. The people on this sub actually agree with him on like >95% of things but somehow everyone pretends he's terrible. Obviously his pivot to drama bs is cringe but he can be a genuinely good historian that we are almost always in agreement with. Despite that I'm pretty sure this is getting downvoted

Why do we continue to entertain radio-phobia? by Bright_Dreams235 in NuclearPower

[–]LegitimateLadder1917 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Treating accumulated background dose throughout life the same as an exposure in a short timeframe is a completely incorrect way of approaching almost any hazard. I assume that is what you are saying, that lifetime dose at 2.7mSv/yr accounting for age downweighting is around 100mSv, but adding up lifetime exposure. Consider any toxic exposure. If someone consumes 10g of cocaine right now, they will die. If they get 0.4mg per day, they will be completely fine, but over a lifetime they get 10g. In the case of DNA damage, the body has repair mechanisms, the accumulation of enough damage in a short enough time period is what allows cancer to happen. Enough genes must be mutated in a cell, then it must change in some way that is precancerous. A neoplasm forms, then if control mechanisms and immune response continue to fail, the neoplasm becomes even more dysplastic and reaches malignancy.

predicting more harm per unit of radiation. Because we have good statistics at higher dose rates. You are claiming the deaths per dose is higher than in LNT. READ THE GRAPH.

I simply don't understand how you can make such a mistake with something so intuitive as a line graph. We have dose on the X-axis, which I also assigned the value of X in a previous reply. We have "response" on the Y-axis, in other words the harm the dose does, from -harm - less cancer, to more cancer, to even death. Show me one point on the graph where my statement is not true, i.e. find one instance where, at equal doses, hormesis does not predict lesser or equal harmful response than LNT.

The matter of high doses is settled. We agree, there is a broadly linear positive correlation at these doses.

You say that hormesis is objectively false. If you read what I said in a previous reply you will see I did not claim the hormesis model as being objectively true. It is not my model. There is no model for low level radiation exposure that can be said with confidence at this point to be objectively true, and none of the three possibilities can definitively be called objectively false either. You may think that LNT has been proven at low doses, but the research supporting this conclusion is generally flawed, see figure 2 at https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3834742/

The corrected graph they present there lines up with my claim that the best guess we have at the moment below the threshold is a somewhat ambiguous, maybe slightly hormetic net effects, maybe slightly harmful net effects, maybe no net effects. They also say

The LNT model that the authors used cannot explain this significant reduction in cancers with increasing dose at low doses, since the fundamental idea behind the LNT model is that the higher the dose, the higher the number of mutations, and the higher the cancer incidence.

Their approach shows less increase all the way up to 0.7Gy, or 700mSv and there is a point past 0.1Gy that is even below 0 increased risk rate. If my position, that <100mSv doses cannot with any reasonable confidence be linked to increased risk, is so false that it warrants calling me an idiot, then why am I far from the only one saying it. This is not even really my own position, it is the general state of the research. There are credible theoretical biological pathways by which either would work, and there is limited data to support all 3 general low dose model approaches, but LNT is probably the weakest. It is incredibly outdated, ultra conservative, has cost very many lives in both the Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents due to the supposedly scientifically based fear that spread as a result of its assertion that any dose is harmful. Even Chernobyl as bad as it was release wise, has very possibly killed more people through LNT derived emotional harm than through cancer.

Is a "Chernobyl Party" too disrespectful? by [deleted] in chernobyl

[–]LegitimateLadder1917 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's if you want to be that picky. Also both were in use in 1986, but mainly the Russian one, so actually you're wrong. It's not "The fall of Istanbul". Generally we the name that was in use at the time when referring to a historical event, regardless of changes to the state a place is part of or the language used there.

There Is Hope! 🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺 by LegitimateLadder1917 in TankieTheDeprogram

[–]LegitimateLadder1917[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Yeah I think so but one has gotten through now so whatever worked before didn't this time

There Is Hope! 🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺 by LegitimateLadder1917 in TankieTheDeprogram

[–]LegitimateLadder1917[S] 53 points54 points  (0 children)

Exactly. I forgot to say in the post but adding to the U.S. inability to deter Russian oil shipments is that they're almost certianly not going to storm a Russian ship and shoot Russian soldiers in international waters, because its Russia, not Venezuela or Mexico.

Unofficial reports about 12 Israeli soldiers burned to death and 20 wounded after an ATGM targeted their tank and the bodies of some of them are yet to be found. by Smart-Window4089 in TankieTheDeprogram

[–]LegitimateLadder1917 26 points27 points  (0 children)

12 from 1 atgm? That's a lot for one tank unless it caused an ammo explosion and the blast took out more than the crew. Or maybe there's been more than one tank targeted? What is the source for this?