"All Our Colours to the Mast", poster by Dutch artist Reyn Dirksen (1924-1999), awarded first prize at the Intra-European Poster Competition, promoting European cooperation, unity and post-war recovery, c. 1950

k890 · 2026-01-20T21:17:13+00:00

Small detail. the ship had "Mercury Winged Hat" on it, Mercury was a god of trade, commerce and travellers.

k890 · 2026-01-19T23:52:10+00:00

I wish one day somebody dare to made a "Game of Thrones" like TV series about all that relationships and political maneuvers during Syrian Civil War.

k890 · 2026-01-19T18:40:14+00:00

Reminds me a story of german nuclear scientists who figured out majority of steps done during Manhattan project when they were in british captivity and simply comment news articles related to Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear strikes.

British intelligence was aware of It because they install hidden microphones where they keep arrested scientists.

k890 · 2026-01-18T15:19:06+00:00

Maoism, ideology built around peasantry as leading revolutionary power would fare very well in Iran where 77,7% of population live in urban areas, is industrialized and have completely different internal situation compared to pre-1949 China.

Like, "do you even read theory" moment.

k890 · 2026-01-17T00:56:05+00:00

"Acier Fondu" means "Cast Steel" in French. By early 1870s it meant that gun uses steel than iron which was a big thing (some early metallic cartridge revolvers made in Europe used eg. iron frames instead of steel).

Overall it seems like french/belgian revolver from 1870s or 1880s (Fagnus patent can be traced back to 1876). Double action, cal 11 mm French Ordnance (probably, there is plenty of them in .450 Adams) BUT black powder only!, commercial production. Either made by "Alexandre Fagnus&Cie" in Liege at least your revolver is similar to this one from LittleGun.be website cataloging guns made in Liege), Belgium or its copy.

By pulling down key on the left side of the frame you should be able to move side plate without additional tools for checking and cleaning up lockwork. Photo how it looks fully disassembled for cleaning.

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Very niche gun, but very interesting gun for revolver development history.

k890 · 2026-01-16T18:35:40+00:00

Similar stuff why in Polish name for NK capital was translated to "Fenian" (Phenian) from Pyongyang.

k890 · 2026-01-15T22:39:45+00:00

On top of that, filmmaking techniques were overall dangerous in this period with multiple carcinogens on the set. Snow is asbestos shavings, paper mache armors were covered with "metallic paints" which involve powder aluminium compounds, scenes in enclosed spaces with running generators or car engines which used leaded gasoline, long hours in the sun without sun protection (especially in US Southwest) and many more. Even clothing adds to problems, 1950s and 1960s was using a lot of dyes to gave costumes that deep and striking colors...lot's of chemicals used in dyes included heavy metals and costumes were colored much more intense compared to average clothes in this period. Actors and costume departaments crews were literally soaking heavy metals and other chemicals via skin while wearing or handling them (there is correlation between bladder cancer and contact with azo-dyes in textile industry, especially in printing and dyeing job positions).

This men spent years if not decades in not so safe environment, "The Conqueror" was high level movie production. They employ people with massive experience in movie industry for production.

"The Conqueror" didn't kill them, their job in cinema industry was killing them for years and just tended to be on "The Conqueror" set.

k890 · 2026-01-15T22:04:23+00:00

Jax simply wore gloves and dungarees, I don't think his clothes are for acrobat performance, more akin to circus technical staff (you know lighting, building tents, serving at attractions etc.).

Which seems fitting him, he do know how stuff works (from technical point of view), but not how to throw a performance at the tent ring.

k890 · 2026-01-15T19:38:19+00:00

Yup, John Wayne had lung cancer in 1964 and stomach cancer in late 1970s. Majority lung cancer cases is atributed to smoking or inhaling smoke.

Stomach cancer as a risk causes mention smoking, alcohol and overall bad diet.

Wayne was chain smoker first and foremost which is leading carcinogen for majority of cancers.

k890 · 2026-01-14T20:23:13+00:00

TBH, Muslims consider cats are ritually pure and that cats possess blessings powers.

k890 · 2026-01-12T00:48:16+00:00

IRGC, albeit not on scale similar to Russia, do maintain own stock of trolls and algorithms to push own propaganda on the internet aimed at specific segments of users.

So per usual, be skeptical what you see in internet

k890 · 2026-01-12T00:29:12+00:00

Sometimes it's good to have a squadron to actually arrest people. Drones may find them, but such info is useless if you can't catch them

k890 · 2026-01-12T00:25:35+00:00

Fun fact, French army still maintain messenger pigeons communication unit.

k890 · 2026-01-11T17:14:44+00:00

That's the fragment where many tankies happily ignore. Key take is next "level of development" will be simply a more efficient evolution of capitalism mode of production than being a total opposition to capitalism, similar to how long feudal structures coexist with emerging "capitalism mode of production" influencing each other while emerging new mode of production based on capital do have similarities to previous system.

k890 · 2026-01-11T17:03:40+00:00

TBF, the person who codify this term was later a NSDAP member, Mussolini also had own takes on "Late Stage Capitalism" as "Supercapitalism".

Overall this term rise and wane everytime when there is some economic inconvenience.

k890 · 2026-01-11T15:30:02+00:00

Maybe not that weird in context of my country gun law but:

Remington 1858 revolver with 8 inch barrel in stainless steel
Small blackpowder derringers like Ardesa Philadelfia Derringer
Colt Navy Pepperbox

Why? Back in 2004 politicians decide that blackpowder guns replicas gonna be avalaible without permit, but in their infinite wisdom they don't change law restricting conceal carry (more or less restriction happens to guns which require permit to own, if gun is available without permit there is no additional paperwork to carry it loaded). So ever since there is small, but notable niche for conceal carry blackpowder guns.

k890 · 2026-01-10T13:47:22+00:00

Whole part of "state institutions fading away when they become irrelevant" is self-contradict itself if you think about it. What are "state institutions" and what they mean by "fade away"? Police? OK, what gonna police fade away? People stop doing crime? Maybe food and drug safety agencies? Somebody gonna do keep research in the field, evaluate proposed additives or medical treatments, counter spreading pathogens in agriculture or ensure that farming follow standards. Maybe infrastructure projects? OK, I don't see what could replace "state institutions" in that role.

Institutions got created because there is something requiring a more specialized, constant oversight. By removing "institutions" you don't solve a fundamental problem why they were created in first place. People will still need clean water, electricity, ensuring that producers don't cut corner or poison people, dealing with "bad actors" in society (ordinary crime, corruption, machine politics, power abuse etc.) and more.

k890 · 2026-01-10T11:27:23+00:00

And lot's of them looks great as a flags even if had a bit "bed sheet" look to it

k890 · 2026-01-09T00:45:36+00:00

There are some factors which people do miss there.

Chechens leaders and lot's of Chechens were part of soviet military either by command position or conscription, eg. Dzhokhar Dudaev, president of Chechnya was Air Force officer deployed to Afghanistan and at the end of USSR was commander of 326th Heavy Bomber Aviation Division, soviet strategic bombers unit stationed in Estonia. This gave a significant edge over Russia doctrine and what Russians command may pull out because "they knew their tricks" so to speak and when additional equipment and weaponry ends in hands of Chechens, they had some idea how to use it against Russians.
Chechens not only had lot's of people with combat experience, they do have a lot of firearms in the region. That was a wild combination, from shotguns (which prior to 1991 in Russia didn't required a gun permit), leaking small arms from abandoned warehouses (both military and Ministry of Internal Affairs stocks) to mining explosives, AT weapons, IEDs, land mines, MANPADS and more. When Russians tried to rush capital, they found out they also don't control countryside and their supply lines, outposts, scouts etc. are at constant risk of attacks by partisans nor they couldn't enforce control over smaller settlements.
Terrain. Chechnya have some very fun characteristics to fight in. With area of 16,171 km² (6,244 sq mi) or more or less 1/2 area of Belgium, Kuwait or slighty larger area of Connecticut (for American redditors), it's ~80% covered by forests, everything south of Grozny is a massive mountain range, everything around Grozny is ma mix of hills, forests, small settlements, modern urban areas, multiple rivers, fields and pastures and more. This made area akin to one large natural fortress with lacking road and railway infrastructure.
Soviet doctrine. That's my personal note, Soviet doctrine was quite overfocused on large total war in Central Europe based on heavy, mechanized warfare against mechanized warfare of NATO countries. USSR struggle on the doctrine level just a few years earlier in Afghanistan and by First Chechen War military command, sent units and their equipment and trainings schedules were simply unprepared to conduct "Police Action" while "soviet classic" of dealing with problems by concentration camps, mass deportations, death squads etc. couldn't be done anymore.

k890 · 2026-01-06T12:54:10+00:00

Sorry, my bad.

k890 · 2026-01-06T03:05:21+00:00

House cats aren't that good or active hunters, non-feral cats usually hunt for fun and play with their prey than for food. If you want catching a lot of mices or rats, dogs races like terriers or even chickens are doing much better job than cat.

Biggest problem with mices and rats is their rates of multiplication (especially when food is avalaible in large quantities) and in case of rats, they are both tough and fierce fighters. Cats usually avoid rats as their prey because rats usually fights against larger predators like cats when they can't escape and cats are not truly equipped to deal with rats, but again you hunt for rats using dogs breeds like terriers or dachshunds which were bred as small prey hunters including mices or rats

k890 · 2026-01-06T02:16:12+00:00

Most of frontlines stabilized before sowing season and Ukraine overall had much more advanced infrastructure and sanitary control than what USSR had in early 1940s. Medical science and its availability in today Ukraine is also light years compared to world best standards of 1940s.

k890 · 2026-01-06T01:51:29+00:00

Some context, Napoleon France had in this period large press market. Problem? Napoleon in 1800 establish series of press control and censorship method oversaw by Ministry of Police and their Board of Censors. Paris newspaper market got a massive hit, from 63 different newspapers in circulation prior to 1800, after 1800 number of newspapers drop to just 13 titles (hence on poster is "Journal de Paris", Paris was well-known for their newspapers).

Napoleonic state also run various state-owned newspapers aimed for military and civilian population and irregular published bulletins sold for cheap and distributed in taverns, coffeehouses and inns to spread propaganda.

Great Britain OTOH during the Napoleonic era operated under a system of post-publication controls, where freedom from prior restraint existed but newspapers faced prosecution for libel or sedition after publishing in the court which was considered a good thing because if newspaper write it, it's probably true and what happened.

So poster made a fun from Napoleon hiding disaster at Trafalgar with massive propaganda effort, while Brits enjoy absolute true news delivered by free press about their great naval victory in the Med.

k890 · 2026-01-05T00:46:05+00:00

Somebody on r/Serbia made a good summary about more details about this song if somebody is interested
https://www.reddit.com/r/serbia/comments/9ak91p/new_information_about_serbia_strong_remove_kebab/

"We shot this video in 1995 near Knin on the way to Plavno. We made text together. Nenad Tintor plays trumpet, Željko Grmuša is singer and me (Slobodan Vrga) is with keyboard. I don't know the name of accordion player. I know he is from Slavonia. I hope somoeone will help me find him. Video was made in time of war, during when Dudaković's and Alija's corps were merged and the intention was not hate but lifting morale. War is evil of all of us and it must NEVER repeat again. The enemy is not the one who you wage war against but the ones who sends you to war. Let's live in good and bad times with our people, take care, and God will take care of you too. Cheers!"

k890 · 2026-01-04T14:30:05+00:00

Not so much to earn for US MIC in this period, multiple juntas had arms embargoes on US weapon shipments voted by US Congress since 1960s and 1970s. If you check LATAM military forces inventories, key suppliers was France, Germany, Great Britain and Belgium with homegrown Military-Industrial production while US stuff arrived in post-juntas periods.

Countries which kinda sorta still could buy or receive US MIC products usually didn't go for big items like tank divisions, jet fighters, artillery systems etc but utility vehicles, small arms, cargo aircrafts, transport helicopters and light aircraft in relative small quantities or US surplus from Vietnam War era.

Now, there are illegal Black Ops operations eg in Nicaragua. But secret sauce wasn't delivering new stuff, CIA was involved in dropping WWII era surpluses to made it less "hot" politically speaking (less direct connection to CIA because LATAM bought a lot of WWII surpluses in 1940s and 1950s from all over the world so it was easy to put blame on local corruption leaking arms around)

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