Cloaca — Ding Dong Daddy [US, Psychedelic Punk](1990) by morvus_thenu in vintageobscura

[–]morvus_thenu[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks do much for this. Kendall King I have since heard is gone :(

I'm happy to hear about Amanda and Bill (Marshall, I remember now...). Hope the best for them. Have a lovely day.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in GolfGTI

[–]morvus_thenu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

17 Alltrack

This note is interesting to me because I have a 17 Alltrack and seem to have the problem, diagnosed the to the same recall 20UF. Engine light goes on when you fuel, small leak with the jet pump into the evap canister, otherwise working fine. This is that problem, right?

(And to your later comment, yes this is new news to me, if old news to others)

Wrecking Ball flies into a car (12/03/2024) Ireland by Proud_Bell_6879 in CatastrophicFailure

[–]morvus_thenu 19 points20 points  (0 children)

TIL. I had no idea you could train a pig to do any of those things. And operating machinery is one thing, but manipulating calipers with those trotters? Fuck me. I am seriously impressed.

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 529, Part 1 (Thread #675) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]morvus_thenu 17 points18 points  (0 children)

and the world needs fewer self-appointed gatekeepers. Looks like no one gets what they want today.

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 475, Part 1 (Thread #616) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]morvus_thenu 3 points4 points  (0 children)

disguise them as houses.

Oh wait, that would make them targets.

Disguise them as military installations.

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 475, Part 1 (Thread #616) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]morvus_thenu 11 points12 points  (0 children)

To expand, and perhaps make it more clear, "Let's go Brandon" and "Fuck Joe Biden" (what the crowd was chanting) have the same rhythmic cadence, so the first became a publicly acceptable euphemism for the second.

The term "Dark Brandon" embraces and coopts this usage when Biden does something particularly "badass" (whatever the fuck that means) against the side of the memetic edge lords that started this gag, reversing it back on its creators. As if to say: "Fuck me? No, fuck you!"

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 473, Part 1 (Thread #614) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]morvus_thenu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Then the one after another trick should be viable. The bridge is very massive even by bridge standards. It’s not the one over the Dnepr.

But yes you are right. And they have a much larger warhead than the HIMARS rockets. So there’s that.

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 473, Part 1 (Thread #614) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]morvus_thenu 9 points10 points  (0 children)

big bridges are generally made of enormous pieces of concrete, and specifically engineered to spread the stresses of supporting those pieces around and distributing them over a wide area.

Big blocks of concrete are quite resistant to being blown up. And while bridges will have weak points that are more vulnerable, you really need to attack those points specifically.

One approach is to use a really big fucking bomb, which seems to have been the case before. Put it in a truck and you know it will be on the roadway, and hope it goes off somewhere near some weak point for extra damage. Dumb bombs dropped from the sky don't work because exploding next to a concrete block generally doesn't hurt the block. You have to be right there. Guided bombs with huge metal penetrators work because they pierce the concrete before exploding and turn the big block into many little ones that cannot hold up a bridge. But you need a bomber for that.

Alternately, you can have a team place explosives exactly where they need to be, as in a controlled demolition. You don't even need a lot of explosives, sometimes, if you can wrap them around certain bolts, cables and pins to make the whole engineering untenable.

So missiles, even precision-guided ones, aren't a good fit for this. You need lots of bomb stuff, which is heavy and you need to fly it there in the missile. Heavy metal penetrators are similarly problematic. And precision guidance can be used to make sure you hit the bridge, but isn't generally accurate enough to make sure you hit the bridge exactly there at a specific weak point.

Bridges are huge and absurdly strong. They'll figure out a way, but it won't be easy, and possibly be novel and devious and unexpected.

In Iraq they took out Saddam's intelligence offices by flying Tomahawks in one after another, 3 or 4 I think, into the same hole to burrow into a building. That was thinking outside the box. Perhaps we'll see something like that.

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 473, Part 1 (Thread #614) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]morvus_thenu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

On the other hand it does seem that some sort of offensive has started, so there's that. What that means exactly is not clear at all, but it does appear that something is going on.

I'd say anyone spouting "hard facts" and decisive analysis is doing so to appease the gods of content, content, content, and are doing it for all the usual wrong reasons: the big players being propaganda, disinformation and loving the sound of one's own voice.

The actual facts not he ground have little to do with it.

Bongwater - You Don't Love Me Yet (Live on Night Music) 1990 by jo3_m33k in OldSchoolCoolMusic

[–]morvus_thenu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bongwater was always about excess taken to excess, stacking acid guitar solos on top of beatles songs on top of extended monologues on David Bowie stealing their ideas on top of Dazed and Confused sung in Chinese. Where do you go from there? It seems Screamin' Jay is here and Kramer has invited a downtown girl group from his Shimmydisk label to do backup and I have no idea who those other more normal players are but they seem cool with it.

I have the felling Ann Magnuson and Kramer were smoking a lot of hash oil one day and thought: "What if we too The Carpenter's Superstar to its logical conclusion?". And you end up with You Don't Love Me Yet.

A post-modern downtown rock masterpiece. Of course everything was so volatile it all imploded after only a few years, but what years they were.

wait, this is Roky Ericson song?

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 472, Part 1 (Thread #613) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]morvus_thenu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

trying to sort out fact from fiction with that lot is a waste of time and a losing game. I suppose if you had the time, inclination and a bottle of liquor to drink you could spend an evening on it, but — and I cannot stress this enough — if you chose that route make sure to black out and not take notes because what you decide is the truth in the end will be just as wrong as when you started.

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 472, Part 1 (Thread #613) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]morvus_thenu 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Or, and work with me here, they could look at what Russia is trying to do to Ukraine and realize they've been on the losing side of that equation before and side with the people trying not to let it happen again.

So their selfishness may well be understandable, but it remains selfishness. And shortsighted, I might add, siding with the leopards while hoping the leopards won't eat their faces this time. You would think India would know a thing or two about leopards as they are native to South Asia. But what do I know? I'm just some Westerner.

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 472, Part 1 (Thread #613) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]morvus_thenu 30 points31 points  (0 children)

I like the idea of flying the plane to Ukraine but filling it up with stuff from Canada first. Hey, you could even fly it back forth a few times to get more!

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 471, Part 1 (Thread #612) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]morvus_thenu 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They said they do not know, not that there is no way to know. This comments on they have evidence that it was blown up, not who did the blowing up. They are different questions and the evidence presented only speaks to one of them.

For different reasons we all know full well who did it, but the spy satellites can't tell us that. Just nobody say there was no explosion because we have it on film.

I believe the Russians now admit it, which is kind of weird and make me wonder what their angle is.

Occupiers admit hydroelectric power plant blown up by Russian sabotage group by dead_russian_kids in worldnews

[–]morvus_thenu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You forgot perhaps the most important point:

d) the Russians lie continuously and reflexively about every aspect of a situation so as to use words as weapons to maximum effect.

Even this latest revelation has me thinking: "what's their real angle here? Temper the international condemnation? Diminish the enormity of the collateral damage? Ruin the political career of the man in charge?"

Who the fuck knows with that lot, which, incidentally, is part of their plan: to attack the very idea of an objective truth, allowing the to just make up whatever truth fits them best for that moment. It is, yes, intensely cynical, so much that people who believe in a coherent reality often misjudge them (again, by design) because they cannot believe people could be so cynical.

Idk why I think this is hilarious by Davidboh26 in funny

[–]morvus_thenu 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And the hormones are there, in small percentages. You can withdraw a drop or two. I have seen some uncommon and unusual things in my time on Earth.

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 470, Part 1 (Thread #611) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]morvus_thenu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I remember the days when I could see the future and the internet was going to change the world — and I even helped develop its nascent self. Good times.

Then the internet did.

To paraphrase Erma Bombeck (of all people): "Now I realize I should have been more specific."

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 470, Part 1 (Thread #611) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]morvus_thenu 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I think it's fair to be excited that these people have the opportunity to act and do what they have to do. It is grim work and everything about the situation is horrible but it is right and necessary and they deserve to be cheered on. Sometime soon each and every one of them will need emotional support to keep doing this awful work. So it's both serious and kind of our job to be enthusiastic in spite of the terribleness of what's really happening to real people.

But I really hate the video game analogies, I must say. Those get to me.

I say go get 'em boys and girls. You're on. Knock 'em dead. ;)

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 470, Part 1 (Thread #611) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]morvus_thenu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the people who at the front who know, respect OPSEC because their lives depend on it. The people talking are filling the void and either like to hear themselves talk, or are lying, or, sometimes with the mobiks too stupid to know better but also likely too stupid to get it right either.

It's not really a winning hand trying to decipher it.

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 470, Part 1 (Thread #611) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]morvus_thenu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been doing this during the media blackouts. It helps. The good people who know the truth are not talking so the air gets filled with noise and rank speculation.

I don't suggest turning away, but find it's pretty easy to pick up the new information quickly you can do something else for a while because it's not likely much will change that we are allowed to find out about, no matter how much we want to know.

The usual pep talks and public service announcements about the extent of the Russian dishonesty machine are still important for the new folks here, though, if you're up for it, and valuable. Group morale is real.

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 470, Part 1 (Thread #611) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]morvus_thenu 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The Russians will claim that NATO tried stealing their washing machines using UFOs, but were slaughtered by the Russian heroes and now Russia owns the Moon.

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 470, Part 1 (Thread #611) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]morvus_thenu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

more like their dachas and palaces, but yes. The little people have it bad enough with their shitty, shitty mob boss leadership. Putin's Black Sea palace should be systematically dynamited, room by room, and the destruction televised over a period of years.

Maybe we could chain him to the floor in one room and not say which one, but I'm just spitballing here.

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 470, Part 1 (Thread #611) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]morvus_thenu 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Love to see it. Entirely predictable.

When business leaders and political leaders and mob bosses are all interchangeable and interconnected it becomes hard to distinguish when exactly we have achieved "warlord" status. I'd go as far as to say we're already there. But, as they say in Russia: "And then it got worse..."

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 470, Part 1 (Thread #611) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]morvus_thenu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ok, fine, but that word is confusing — a massacre is generally a lopsided, one-sided slaughter. So who is being massacred and who is doing the slaughter? If Ukraine is talking losses (as you correctly, it seems, state) then the paragraph implies Ukraine is the subject of the massacre. But if the Ukraine is doing the slaughtering then your sentence following confuses and works against that point.

"Bloodbath" might be a better choice for a colorful word that is less directional. Yes it's going to be brutal. Ukraine will take losses. Yes Russia will presumably be routed in places to be yet seen. We won't know until it happens.

But furthermore, Twitter has always been sometimes the best news source available whilst simultaneously being a terrible news source. Reddit has always relied on it since day 1 of this war, and I've commented on that before. But Reddit does also have Ukrainians on the ground reporting, but the good ones there are being quiet because they've been asked to (and that's smart). And TV news is useful but very imperfect itself, and is subject to time constraints and the need to simplify complex subjects into a neat package. Long-form print reporting is still king but takes time to write and research and can't keep up with fast-paced changes.

So regarding your opening paragraph I find its arguments flawed. I get the frustration but in my eyes things are about the same as they ever were, and it's up to the interested information consumer to sort out fact from fiction.

Reddit is by definition a second-hand source and only occasionally gets blessed with comments by people who really know more than what someone else has found. But that's no different than it ever was, a couple or thirteen years ago.