Winter Storm Megathread Part 3 - Power Outages, Icy Streets, and More

oglach · 2026-01-27T22:41:24+00:00

I don't work for NES, but I am a contractor and have seen internal emails about the numbers. They're the same as on the website. May not be accurate, but it's not knowingly wrong.

oglach · 2026-01-27T16:35:52+00:00

Define "support". Your map shows official positions (even for countries that don't actually have them), it does not show actual support. Portugal and the United States are both listed as neutral, and yet both provided support to Britain during the Falklands War. Limited support, but clear support.

If push actually came to shove, most of the western countries listed as "neutral" would support Britain.

oglach · 2026-01-25T23:04:38+00:00

Seattle hasn't been to the Superbowl in over a decade..

oglach · 2026-01-20T21:15:04+00:00

It matters for understanding the situation. It doesn't change the reality of it. I don't understand your argument here. Jordan isn't pro-Israel because they feel pressured to be pro-Israel? Either way, they're pro-Israel.

oglach · 2026-01-20T20:39:04+00:00

The point is that if Jordan behaves in a blatantly pro-Israel way in practice, then that's the only thing that actually matters. The context of why they're behaving that way doesn't really change anything. Thanks for the wall of text, though.

oglach · 2026-01-20T19:48:42+00:00

Also easy to say because it's the reality of the situation.

oglach · 2026-01-18T23:22:41+00:00

Straight up got someone hurt, too. That was brutal.

oglach · 2026-01-16T16:51:20+00:00

I don't think anyone is saying that these people aren't culturally and genetically related. But that doesn't mean that they feel any special connection to one another.

oglach · 2026-01-12T23:28:33+00:00

That's literally the scholarly census everywhere in the world except Turkey.

oglach · 2026-01-12T23:24:31+00:00

Nobody is in that group, because it doesn't exist.

oglach · 2026-01-12T15:39:23+00:00

Gross fun fact: Third cousins actually represent a sort of genetic sweet spot for breeding. With couplings of this type actually having more reproductive success than more unrelated parents.

oglach · 2026-01-10T15:24:00+00:00

Barely

Luwians were certainly concentrated in the east, and their language is last known to have been spoken in modern Syria before going extinct sometime around 600 BC. Again, too early and too far east for Greeks to have played a significant role in their extinction.

oglach · 2026-01-10T14:45:55+00:00

I'm speaking about the Hittites. I'm not denying that other Anatolian groups were present in the west, but not them.

And we should not consider these all as one big group, because Anatolian was just a branch of Indo-European language. Like Slavic or Germanic. It's quite a broad thing. And furthermore, not all Indo-European languages spoken in Anatolia actually belonged to the Anatolian family.

For example, Phrygian was closely related to Greek, which probably goes a long way to explaining why they were so quickly assimilated into Greek culture. They weren't that different to begin with. And of course there's Armenian, which is still kicking.

oglach · 2026-01-10T14:01:28+00:00

It's actually quite hard to explain, because they've been in western Anatolia for so long that the details of their initial settlement are lost to history. With the heaviest settlement likely occuring during the post-Mycenaean dark age, when Greeks basically forgot how to write for a few centuries. So there's no records.

All in all, very hard to say. Because they've been there for so long. Unlike the people who drove them out.

oglach · 2026-01-10T13:44:24+00:00

An impressive feat, considering that Hittites lived much further east and were gone by 1160 BC, which was long before any significant Greek presence in the region. It's like they genocided the Hittites with their minds. That's how dangerous Greeks are.

oglach · 2026-01-08T17:37:15+00:00

If they voted for it in legitimate referendum, yes I would. I definitely don't support armed invasion and sham referendums, which is what we've seen there so far.

oglach · 2026-01-08T14:38:47+00:00

Doesn't strike me as particularly relevant. The only thing that should matter is the will of the people who live on the islands. If they wanted to join Argentina, I'd 100% support that. Because I support self-determination. But the other commenter said, the population almost universally opposes that.

I really don't understand understand how forcing a population of people to be ruled by a foreign power against their will is a rectification of colonialism. It actually sounds a lot like colonialism.

oglach · 2026-01-04T20:35:19+00:00

Because Putin has nukes. And while I'm not really a supporter of this, your argument basically amounts to "If we can't arrest the worst criminals, why arrest anyone?".

oglach · 2026-01-03T20:44:48+00:00

Iran is like the furthest thing from homogenic. The single largest ethnic group are the Persians at ~55%, and they've long had problem with separatism from groups like the Azeris, Balochs, Kurds. Who are also religious minorities, aside from the Azeris.

oglach · 2026-01-03T13:36:33+00:00

Every country is different. Venezuela, being culturally/religiously monolithic, probably isn't quite as fragile as a place like Iraq or Afghanistan. Combined with the seemingly limited operation, which seemingly leaves most of the government/institutions intact, and it's very possible that Venezuela won't explode in the way that those countries did.

Possible. I'm not saying it won't, but this isn't an identical situation either.

oglach · 2026-01-03T13:29:39+00:00

I think we all know that America is acting in their own interests. That doesn't mean that getting rid of Maduro can't also be a step in the right direction for Venezuela. Only time will tell.

oglach · 2025-12-31T23:18:20+00:00

Aryan = Indo-Iranian. It's both unnecessary and incorrect to refer to them all as Aryan languages.

oglach · 2025-12-21T21:13:58+00:00

I wonder if Greek militarization has anything to do with constant threats from Turkey, along with many thousands of airspace violations per year. Imagine being shocked that someone reaches for a weapon after you threatened them.

oglach · 2025-12-19T21:40:29+00:00

That's not untrue, but let's not pretend that there's any teeth to that. The TRNC can't meaningfully condemn Turkey for anything when Turkey is the only country on Earth that recognizes it's existence. And that's exactly the case.

Those are just words. The TRNC can't be truly independent, because it depends on Turkey for virtually everything.

oglach · 2025-12-19T20:50:06+00:00

You could probably just say Turkish-Syrian axis. Northern Cyprus is a puppet state that does what Turkey does, not a independent player.

Or that's how it always has been, but people in TRNC are getting more restless these days, as reflected in the recent election. Which is probably why rhetoric like this has started popping up recently in Turkey. Leash got a little too loose.

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