Another Putin Disaster
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UPDATED: Wednesday, August 26, 2026 22:07
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I appreciate Second.
I rather enjoy getting to constantly destroy someone intellectually, particularly somebody who so incorrectly fancies himself an intellectual.
Devoid of any morals or principles, his goalposts are mired in quicksand for easy moving back and forth. A handy trick to be sure, if you're looking to sow discord from the shadows. But not one that serves you very well when you play the same character day in and day out in front of the same small group of people who have already picked up on all of this many, many years ago.
It's just sad now.
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After six decades, Russia will build its final Proton rocket this year
Proton had reliability issues and could not compete with SpaceX's Falcon 9.
International demand slackened, in part, due to a series of high-profile failures. At the end of 2010, one Proton rocket plunged into the ocean because too much propellant had been mistakenly loaded into its upper stage. In 2013, another vehicle performed a fiery dance seconds after liftoff because flight control sensors were hammered into the rocket’s compartment upside down. (The spectacular disaster is worth watching.)
These technical problems arose just as competitors, particularly SpaceX with its Falcon 9 rocket, undercut the Proton on cost and offered better reliability. This reduced costs for satellite operators through lower insurance premiums.
With the Angara-A5 rocket, Russia hopes to recapture some of this international satellite launch market. However, it depends on whether Russia can reduce production costs of the Angara-A5 rocket from $100 million per launch to $57 million by 2024, the country's stated goal.
Even this ambitious target for the fully expendable rocket probably won't help Russia too much in the competition for commercial launches, however. SpaceX has already demonstrated that it can re-fly its Falcon 9 booster for less than $30 million.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/01/after-six-decades-russia-will-
build-its-final-proton-rocket-this-year/
FURTHER READING
Russia’s replacement for the Proton rocket costs way too much
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/russian-official-country-lacks
-a-clear-and-understandable-space-strategy/
Ivan Moiseev, the head of the Russian Space Policy Institute, said these projects are best thought of as "paper rockets," lacking the funding to become real hardware.
“In fact, we do not have a clear and understandable strategy for space travel, and huge problems have accumulated inside Russia’s space industry," he said in an interview. "At this time, Roscosmos is coming up with all kinds of new rocket projects on paper but only those which will remain on paper and will never come to fruition."
These announcements of futuristic rocket projects likely play well domestically, feeding into Russia's image as a superpower. But the real future of Russia's rocket program appears less than bright.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Norway's PM says Russia build-up is `a sign of weakness'
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Norway’s prime minister, whose country borders Russia and is a founding member of NATO, said Wednesday he believes it’s “a sign of weakness” that President Vladimir Putin has to express Moscow’s political views by an “extraordinary” military buildup.
Jonas Gahr Støre said in an interview with The Associated Press that he calls it a sign of weakness because it’s at the negotiating table where issues that matter to people should be discussed, not by “that kind of military demonstration,” and by pursuing Russia’s interests where “the weapons will speak.”
He said he thinks Putin’s demand now for guarantees — including that NATO will never admit neighboring Ukraine and other ex-Soviet nations as members — is a result of the loss of post-Cold War communications channels and dialogue that led to differences being settled through negotiations following after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014.
“So there have been more kind of animosity and destructive relations among countries that need to engage,” Støre said.
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Good idea, Jonas.
Tell the dude he's got a small dick.
I hope it works out well for Norway.
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Kremlin TV Worries Tucker Carlson’s Pro-Putin Bias Has Gone Too Far
Top Russian state propagandists are concerned that no one will take the Fox News host seriously any more.
In 2022, he is unabashedly pushing the talking points favored by the Kremlin and no longer making excuses. Carlson is going so far to support the Russian propaganda narrative that prominent personalities on the Kremlin-funded state television are concerned about his future in the United States. Last Sunday, one of Russia’s most-watched television networks Channel One played the clip from Carlson’s show, where he argued that Russia’s anger at NATO’s alleged involvement in Ukraine was well-justified. Reporter Ivan Blagoy then noted the Fox News host “is predictably being accused of playing along with Moscow.”
Broadcasting the same translated clip of Carlson last week on Russia’s second most-watched TV network, Rossiya-1, host of 60 Minutes Evgeny Popov fawned over Carlson by describing him as one of the “voices of truth and reason” and complained that the host of the most-watched show in all of cable news with millions of viewers is being “silenced and marginalized.” In 2020, Popov demonstrated his affinity for Carlson by introducing him as “practically our co-host.”
On Thursday, Carlson reiterated the same slight and described Ukraine—the largest state entirely within Europe and the second largest on the continent after Russia—as “a pretty small country.” He added: “Vladimir Putin is our most dangerous enemy, they scream. We can’t let him hurt Ukraine. So it turns out Russiagate was actually more effective even than we’d realize. The Steele dossier has been debunked, but in Washington, the theme remains in force: Russia, Russia, Russia. Russia is bad. What is this about, exactly? Well, obviously it’s the usual collection of children falling for the usual collection of lies, but why this specific lie?” He later added: “You still have to wonder, invasion or not, why is any of this a profound concern of ours? Why would you even consider risking American lives or sending billions of dollars to stop it?”
Predictably, Carlson’s portrayal of Ukraine as a small, corrupt, insignificant nation that is of no consequence to the U.S. is in perfect alignment with the way Russia’s beleaguered neighbor is being smeared on Kremlin-funded state television, in order to humiliate the fledgling democracy and dissuade it from resisting Russian aggression.
More at https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlsons-pro-putin-bias-has-gone-
too-far-kremlin-tv-says
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Signy, imo SECOND doesn't believe his lies. He just does it for fun, like poking a stick into and ant's nest.
SECOND doesn't believe the bull that he routinely shits against the fff.net wall. I mean, after all, look how quickly he abandons a post after it's disproved, only to shit something else equally pointless - and often contradictory!- right afterwards. If he REALLY believed what he was posting, he would stand and defend it.
Clearly, he doesn't believe what he's posting. It's just ammunition for his war against .... Republicans? ... democracy? .... Americans? (Just look how much more he loves illegals than citizens!).... Trump? .... Anyway, whatever "war" he thinks he's fighting.
No, he believes that he has the RIGHT to hate and to lie, to "war" against fellow Americans. He doesn't realize what an empty twisted fuck he is.
I've known people like him IRL. Their pathology runs deep. It's disturbing to behold.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Canada pledges non-lethal support for Ukraine, extends training mission
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada on Wednesday said it would send non-lethal equipment to Ukraine, and help the Eastern European country gather intelligence and counter cyber attacks as Russia builds up its military presence on its borders.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/canada-pledges-non-lethal-support
-for-ukraine-extends-training-mission/ar-AATb6EH?ocid=msedgntp
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Germany charges Russian scientist accused of spying
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/germany-charges-russian-scientist
-accused-of-spying/ar-AATccjX?ocid=msedgntp
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Quote:This morning I was reading about Adolf Eichmann, A Thoughtless Man. https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2022/01/a-thoughtless-man.html
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Signy, imo SECOND doesn't believe his lies. He just does it for fun, like poking a stick into and ant's nest.
SECOND doesn't believe the bull that he routinely shits against the fff.net wall. I mean, after all, look how quickly he abandons a post after it's disproved, only to shit something else equally pointless - and often contradictory!- right afterwards. If he REALLY believed what he was posting, he would stand and defend it.
Clearly, he doesn't believe what he's posting. It's just ammunition for his war against .... Republicans? ... democracy? .... Americans? (Just look how much more he loves illegals than citizens!).... Trump? .... Anyway, whatever "war" he thinks he's fighting.
No, he believes that he has the RIGHT to hate and to lie, to "war" against fellow Americans. He doesn't realize what an empty twisted fuck he is.
I've known people like him IRL. Their pathology runs deep. It's disturbing to behold.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
That one word, thoughtless, gets to the center of the problem with people like Putin, Trump, and even nobodies like Signym and 1kiki. Some crucial element is missing from their personalities. What they are missing allows them to deny Putin closed down 22 Russian Republics without a referendum by the citizens of those Republics and to deny Putin will close down Ukraine in the same fashion if his Army prevails.
Putin, Trump, and nobodies like Signym and 1kiki have claimed Putin did not interfere with the 2016 election and Trump did not obstruct justice when the FBI investigated the Russian interference which Putin says never happened. But truthfully it did happen.
Putin, Trump, Signym and 1kiki don't believe the truth. Adolf Eichmann showed them how to avoid truth. Eichmann died with the words: "I'm taking it calmly with peace in my heart which is to me proof that I was correct." -- Unrepentant Eichmann hanged
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1962/06/01/Unrepentant-Eichmann-hanged/36
01527648542/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Canada pledges non-lethal support for Ukraine, extends training mission
Somebody let Trudeau know that there are sticks and rocks in the Ukraine already.
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