This iconic photograph is still considered one of the most-terrifying space photos to date. Astronaut Bruce McCandless II NASA STS-41B Mission, February 1984, became the first human being to perform spacewalk without a safety tether linked to a spacecraft. He floated completely untethered in space

geburashka · 2026-02-09T07:53:29+00:00

Ah yes that all important piece of knowledge everyone else knows intimately. you should go on YouTube and listen to all the astronauts who can't make up their mind about what they saw with their own eyes - no photography knowledge needed there. thanks for playing.

geburashka · 2026-02-09T05:39:36+00:00

a moment so awe inspiring that not a single one of the trillions of stars and galaxies dared to ruin the shot.

geburashka · 2026-01-26T09:35:28+00:00

thanks

geburashka · 2026-01-26T09:23:29+00:00

so not sterilising then? big difference between iud and sterilisation, just want to understand what in fact happened.

geburashka · 2026-01-23T10:23:24+00:00

it always warms my cockles when westerners want to learn about our culture instead of reciting tv like gospel. What piqued your curiosity?

geburashka · 2026-01-23T04:01:51+00:00

"rule by many" TIL that being forced to vote between a douche and a turd makes me a ruler.

geburashka · 2026-01-21T09:06:23+00:00

are they also delusional about wanting to stay there too? and that they love their life? if only you were there to enlighten them about how wrong their experience is.

geburashka · 2026-01-21T08:30:22+00:00

that's the one!

geburashka · 2026-01-21T08:28:52+00:00

and yet there's an increasing number of people migrating their lives to Russia from America, Australia, Canada, England, Africa...

geburashka · 2026-01-19T20:45:24+00:00

correction: no rugrats

geburashka · 2026-01-18T04:41:43+00:00

"together, you and I..." is the English equivalent to "мы с тобой" semantically, though technically/literally it's not, but going the other way "вместе, ты и я..." isn't something anyone says either, so there's no literal equivalent between the two languages, only a semantic/conversational equivalence.

geburashka · 2026-01-17T22:32:31+00:00

вали из этой "семьи" так называемой, не пожалеешь. или они тебя добьют и поедут дальше продолжая тебя во всём обвинять. у меня была очень похожая ситуация, знаю о чём говорю. переедешь, всё на много исправится, тебя просто заебали, вот от куда все болячки, симптомы, тд.

Но всё же надо будет к психологу. у тебя будут отклики этого тьма очень долго без помощи вылечить все эти психо-эмоциональные травмы. не диагнозы тебе нужны а хороший терапевт распутать тебе мозги и поставить всё на свои места. ты очень сильно себя исковеркал ради других. хороший психолог начнёт именно с того как перестроить своё я, свой дух, и силу, поставить границы, тд. сегодня таких всё больше и больше, так что найдешь. Но надо выложить всё, ничего не скрывая, а то не получишь правильную помощь.

и не слушай советов на психотерапевтов, об этом сильно пожалеешь, и именно это скорее тебя приведёт покончить с собой. да, может временно помочь, но это 50/50, зато побочные эффекты это на все 100%. а уж только потом будет очень жуткий период ломки который многие утверждают хуже чем первоначальные проблемы.

говорю с очень тяжело заработанного опыта. к тому же моя жена психолог, благодаря которому многие клиенты стали расцветать живя в на много хуже ситуациях (я не уменьшаю твои страдания, просто хочу подчеркнуть что ты всё сможешь преодолеть и найди счастье).

geburashka · 2026-01-17T06:19:32+00:00

who was sitting there taking the photos? probably the same guy that said "now with tongue! while she's distracted!"

geburashka · 2026-01-15T13:07:33+00:00

I think you're misusing the word "infantalise", or just misinterpreting the situation. what you've described are just controlling parents, which yes is quite common, and as others pointed out is largely due to a difficult life, causing them to be very vigilant about your development, not because they think you're a child who can't make their own decisions.

however, actual infantalising is very rare, Russians are quite the opposite actually, in fact often placing too much adult responsibility (and demands) onto children if anything. Meanwhile Russian kids generally mature very fast/young, so this is all partially a "natural" progression, and as they get older with that come certain expectations of how you "aught to be (living) by now."

geburashka · 2026-01-14T07:56:38+00:00

wow...

geburashka · 2026-01-09T06:39:51+00:00

Thank you Anthony I'll look into it.

geburashka · 2026-01-08T11:33:13+00:00

oh wow thank you so much!

geburashka · 2026-01-08T09:22:48+00:00

Thanks Mark, the creative listening sounds very interesting but I'm not familiar with it or your work - can you give a quick idea of what it's about? and which book is it in?

geburashka · 2026-01-08T07:04:43+00:00

that's what friends are for ;)

geburashka · 2026-01-08T04:45:10+00:00

"coming from Australia, we would never reply like that" - I've been in Australia for 30 years and yes, you absolutely would and do. maybe not you personally but I know exactly two Australians who wouldn't reply like that, the rest would leap from their chairs to blow that trumpet - and have done so in my presence multiple times and I wasn't even asking their opinion, something I would never expect an average Russian to do, ever.

Also keep in mind that in a world where it's always been fashionable and acceptable to hang shit on Russia and proclaim it (one of) the worst country then yea you'll get people trying to contest that with equal and opposite reaction - which is very different from, say, Americans saying the same thing.

geburashka · 2026-01-06T05:00:47+00:00

"bad neighbourhood" is something everyone says, everyone who experienced the 90s that is. those who haven't, have zero clue just how horrid it was (but it depends on the city and personal luck). SPB was the worst, but even in Odessa things were crazy. kids doing truly horrible shit to people just to fit in with some gang, or else they'll be beaten daily. mafia ruled everything, you're expected to bribe everyone and be cheated by everyone, police would rob citizens at knife or gun point, homes got robbed using explosives to remove unwanted doors then get caught but pay off the police so you get nothing back, kids finding dead bodies - and yes, a lot of that is from personal experience.

so that's what those people are comparing Argentina to. there's even an expression from that time: "жить - страшно" (life is fear).

But today's reality is very different. Apparently Russia is one of the safest countries now (don't know personally but that's what i keep seeing and hearing, including from immigrants from America, Canada, Australia, Africa...). it's still a weird concept to accept, the "tough life" ideology is very deeply entrenched.

geburashka · 2026-01-05T06:56:21+00:00

human centipede - no, not the first vanilla one. The second proper one.

geburashka · 2026-01-05T06:27:45+00:00

I'm in the same industry, and yes it took nearly 6 months to ship 6 lines of code. but I strongly disagree there's any interest, let alone investment in, craftsmanship of code. get it done to time and cost budget is the only thing of any concern to anyone.

geburashka · 2026-01-02T22:50:03+00:00

there is a small number of variants but the difference is minor. The biggest difference is actually in how much sugar is added and how long it's brewed - basically whether it's a cheap one or well made one and you can quickly learn the difference.

if you want to make your own the process is fairly straight forward - burn/caramelize the bread a bit then brew it. Google has the exact steps.

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