Yanqui_UXO

joined 4 years ago
[–] Yanqui_UXO@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

car go far, but at what cost!

[–] Yanqui_UXO@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I doubt this was re the Baltic states specifically. Their politicians say many unhinged things, but if the push came to shove, these countries would fold very quickly under conventional weaponry, and they're too close to Russia to use nukes anyway. UK, Denmark, the Netherlands, on the other hand, that's where the politicians have been particularly dense.. But it's also just rhetoric, imo, even if F-16s come to Ukraine, they'd be too few and low impact to start a WW3.

[–] Yanqui_UXO@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

President Joe Biden has given Ukraine permission to use American-supplied weapons to strike targets in Russia, but only near the Kharkiv region, US officials say.

US concedes Kharkiv region now belongs to Russia

[–] Yanqui_UXO@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

He said:

Representatives of NATO countries, especially in Europe, especially in small countries - they should be aware of what they are playing with. They have to remember that these are usually states with a small territory and very dense population. And this is a factor that they should keep in mind before they talk about striking deep into Russian territory. [ x ]

[–] Yanqui_UXO@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ah shit, you're right! Thank you! Hello again from Firefoxxx

 

For half a year I thought my account was deleted because I couldn't log in. Turns out it was a Firefox problem (and a million plugins I use?). Now I'm here using Chrome smdh

[–] Yanqui_UXO@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

I took my cat to the vet to double-check his blood. Last week we did it some parameters looked bad. This time they look OK. Healthy cat good.

[–] Yanqui_UXO@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Firofox pls chomsky-yes-honey

[–] Yanqui_UXO@hexbear.net 49 points 2 years ago

Have I ever mentioned that I'd met Evan Neumann, one of the Jan 6 rioters, here in Belarus where he got an asylum? It happened about a year go, but I haven't posted in a while so.

There was an interview with him on the local news, that's how I recognized him. I was just drinking with a friend at a place that only sells shots, and he was there with some dude. So I went to say hi bc I was sufficiently drunk :) He said he sold (or was selling?) his house in San Francisco, so on that money alone he can just happily grow old in Belarus.

Real cold war shit really. Our govt topplers flee west, western flee east. Get weaponized in the war of narratives, ofc.

[–] Yanqui_UXO@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I was logged out when I opened the site and, for a second, I showed as u/GarbageShoot in the upper right corner

a bug? a feature? a threat? who am i?

[–] Yanqui_UXO@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

"intellectual"

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I simply cannot (hexbear.net)
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BHL in Rojava, 2020

https://hexbear.net/post/223315

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submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by Yanqui_UXO@hexbear.net to c/ama@hexbear.net
 

I posted two months ago that I had left the US to... somewhere. Well, it was Belarus. Because my mom is from here. So there's that. I'm just one smol human bean with vicious brain worms, but I'd be happy to answer questions about/from the perspective of this point on the Google Maps before we're disconnected by the Iron Curtain 2.0.

(It's evening here, I have a few hours, but if I don't answer your question I'll get back to it tomorrow I promise (unless it's redundant/silly/makes me mad lol))

E: I'm going to bed but I'll answer any new questions when I'm up, as promised.

 

https://www.nme.com/news/music/jonny-greenwood-pretended-play-keyboards-radiohead-3156953

“Thom [Yorke]’s band had a keyboard player — [whom] I think they didn’t get on with because he played his keyboard so loud,” he told NPR’s Terry Gross. “And so when I got the chance to play with them, the first thing I did was make sure my keyboard was turned off … I must have done months of rehearsals with them with this keyboard, and they didn’t know that I’d already turned it off.”

“They made quite a racket, quite a noise. It was all guitars and distortion — and so I would pretend to play for weeks on end and Thom would say, ‘I can’t quite hear what you’re doing, but I think you’re adding a really interesting texture because I can tell when you’re not playing,'” he said. “And I’m thinking, ‘No, you can’t, because I’m really not playing.’ And I’d go home in the evening and work out how to actually play chords and cautiously over the next few months, I would start turning this keyboard up. And that’s how I started in with Radiohead.”

lol damn i sure hope he wasn't just trolling, which is a real possibility too

[–] Yanqui_UXO@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

i'd love to see a chinese actor playing a stereotypical white american, that'd be amazing on so many levels. but the consequences are unpredictable. might tank a movie, might make it even more popular because of the lolz and giggles factor.

[–] Yanqui_UXO@hexbear.net 0 points 3 years ago (3 children)

yeah the american actors were very b-movie level, the cineese ones were better i feel, which would make sense. but also, having watched a bunch of expensive chinese movies now, i gotta give it to them: if there is an american in the movie they hire an american and they speak proper english, if theres a russian--same. none of that broken accent, dubbing, or straight up gibberish

 

The Battle at Lake Changjin (2021)

I went on a bit of a research expedition and learned that Mao's eldest son, Mao Anying, who was killed in 1950 by a US bomber during the Korean War briefly depicted in the movie, studied in Moscow, petitioned Stalin to send him to the front during the WW2, got his wish, and served as an artillery officer, during the final Battle of Berlin including. Also had no idea Mao had 10 children lol

 

We're all in this together ™ ✌️

Replaying the Outer Worlds sober is already paying off, I didn't read all those computer things before

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