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CowperKettle

01:34

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Xanne

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Vikas

07:49

CowperKettle

08:19

LOL

Vikas

LOL

It reminds me of a very specific dialogue from BB.

Vikas

08:48

> Saul:
You're wanted by some pretty scary individuals, not to mention the law. You're a high-risk client. You're gonna need the deluxe service. It's gonna cost you.

CowperKettle

Etymology of the day: piebald -- pie (“magpie”) + bald (“having white patches or blazes”).

> The term "ghillie suit" may be a reference to the Ghillie Dhu (English: black-haired youth or dark-haired lad), an earth spirit clothed in leaves and moss in Scottish mythology.[

Ghillie Dhu

In Scottish folklore the Ghillie Dhu or Gille Dubh (Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [ˈkʲiʎə ˈt̪u]) was a solitary male fairy. He was kindly and reticent, yet sometimes wild in character. He had a gentle devotion to children. Dark-haired and clothed in leaves and moss, he lived in a birch wood within the Gairloch and Loch a Druing area of the north-west Highlands of Scotland. Ghillie Dhu is the eponym for the ghillie suit.This entity completely avoids contact with human beings but it is very aggressive towards grown up adults who tresspasses into his area, but is extremely gentle and affectionate...

Curious.

Sensory processing sensitivity

Sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) is a temperamental or personality trait involving "an increased sensitivity of the central nervous system and a deeper cognitive processing of physical, social and emotional stimuli". The trait is characterized by "a tendency to 'pause to check' in novel situations, greater sensitivity to subtle stimuli, and the engagement of deeper cognitive processing strategies for employing coping actions, all of which is driven by heightened emotional reactivity, both positive and negative".A human with a particularly high measure of SPS is considered to have "hyper...

Curious. I wonder if it's real.

@Vikas Unfortunately, I never watched it, although I heard that it is high-quality :)

M.A.R.

09:14

@CowperKettle this is so oddly specific

@CowperKettle that some people are more perceptive than others, or that some people don't care much when new things happen around them, or?

@CowperKettle it's lots of fun, and very reflective. It also has a great memer base.

CowperKettle

@M.A.R. I just googled about "splitting" in PTSD, and came across the phrase "Highly Sensitive Person" (HSP), and googled that.. eggshelltherapy.com/a-split-in-our-personality

I first came across "Splitting in BPD", and so checked out "splitting in PTSD"

M.A.R.

@CowperKettle I dunno. I don't wanna say it all seems like superfluous intellectualizing of something very obvious. It's psychology. You never know.

CowperKettle

Yes. I also feel like it could be phantasized.

to sploot

CowperKettle

09:57

Several hundred volunteers are searching for a lost 6 yo boy who has an imaginary friend and reduced sensitivity to heat and cold e1.ru/text/incidents/2023/06/27/72437900

Vikas

10:15

@CowperKettle You can watch it some day. I've planned to watch it again after couple of years.

CowperKettle

11:29

M.A.R.

12:52

@CowperKettle is he seething about some recent development in Ukraine or?

How do you guys keep track of all this? It's all moving so fast these days

Robusto

13:20

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I don't agree about those "neighboring" countries.

CowperKettle

@M.A.R. He is seething about Putin's failure to crack down on Prigozhin. He is for a strong Russian Empire.

He has been pessimistic about the war in Ukraine since the summer of 2022.

He sees the only option as "all-out mobilization, an army of 2 000 000 people, an all-out war of 1-2 years"

Robusto

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CowperKettle

Two days ago, RIA NOVOSTI, a state agency, reprinted Karaganov's cranky croaking

ria.ru/20230625/yao-1880235742.html

Sergey Karaganov

Sergey Alexandrovich Karaganov (Russian: Серге́й Алекса́ндрович Карага́нов, born 10 September 1952 in Moscow) is a Russian political scientist who heads the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, a security analytical institution founded by Vitaly Shlykov. He is also the dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at Moscow's Higher School of Economics. Karaganov was a close associate of Yevgeny Primakov, and has been Presidential Advisor to both Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin. He is considered close to Putin and Sergey Lavrov.Karaganov has been a member of the Trilater...

Google Translate link for the article

jlliagre

13:45

Robusto

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CowperKettle

@jlliagre I don't believe there will be a nuclear winter. Probably just one nuclear strike by Russia using tactical nukes, and then, as a response, a severe blockade of Russia by the whole world.

I wonder how soon we'll run out of food in case of an all-out blockade.

Vikas

@CowperKettle I don't think they won't be responded by at least one similar nuke strike.

Robusto

@CowperKettle I don't believe fire will burn the building down, just one can of gasoline in the basement getting lit on fire.

CowperKettle

13:59

@Vikas Why respond with a nuke, and cover itself with similar infamy? I believe the West will respond by a blockade.

jlliagre

@CowperKettle Think positive. A nuclear winter would mitigate global warming ;-)

CowperKettle

LOL

Vikas

@CowperKettle To set a big example I think.

CowperKettle

Putin has just publicly announced that he spent RUB 86 billion on Wagner Group. This is a public confession of crime, because under Russian Law, funding a military company is a severe crime, and directing budget money on personal whims is "stealing".

This is just wild. Is he really such a moron. "I stole a billion dollars from the Budget to spend on a mercenary company, strictly prohibited under Russian Law".

Vikas

@jlliagre Putin will respond like it's a "Special Cooling Operation".

@CowperKettle Who knows how many lies have been told in last one week about the recent happenings.

CowperKettle

15:04

> How many Alzheimer's sufferers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
To get to the other side.

alphabet

15:37

@CowperKettle As I recall, he once said something like "Historically, Russia has tolerated high numbers of casualties well"

@CowperKettle A lot of people in the US have said that, if Russia launches a nuke of any kind, the US should respond by using conventional weapons to bomb wherever Russia fired the nuke from.

I suspect that that wouldn't happen, at least not under Biden. But there is a risk of escalation.

@CowperKettle Of course, at a certain point the US will decide it's not worth spending more money on this conflict, so Russia presumably could win the war if it was willing to put far more money and resources into it than the West. That seems to be what Girkin wants.

Vikas

15:59

@alphabet Remember Biden called Putin butcher. I think he definitely won't tolerate a nuclear weapon use.

Also I personally think nuke won't benefit Putin at all in achieving his goals in Ukraine.

Mitch

A Tiger Begged Soldiers for Help. When they Realized the Reason, they were Speechless

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alphabet

@Vikas Hard to say, but one hopes he still remembers how wonderfully our intervention in Afghanistan went.

Vikas

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Robusto

16:33

@Vikas Not unless his goal is world destruction.

Vikas

17:36

> Belarus can benefit from Wagner experience, Lukashenko says

He means the experience of mutiny? LOL

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19:07

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alphabet

20:17

I am now, at long last, halfway through reading Huddleston & Pullum. I think I've decided that Huddleston is the Garkfunkel of the two. Pullum's chapters are better.

Cerberus

20:48

@Vikas What if...parts of Wagner are supposed to take control of Belarus?

@CowperKettle Putin has been trying to scare us since the beginning of the war.

Nobody believes him.

@alphabet I think Biden will do so if the victim was a NATO ally, though.

@alphabet Except that what is a large amount of money for Russia is still a small sum for the West.

@Vikas Exactly: threatening atomics may help, but actually throwing them has little military value, and it will only cause an extreme reaction from the West, making it even harder for Russia to win the war.

Even just economically: if the West decided on 100% secondary sanctions, Russia would collapse.

Vikas

@Cerberus I think Lukas considered that possibility while making the deal.

Cerberus

@Vikas He must have.

But perhaps few Wagnerites will will leave Russia.

This is a funny map. The Ukrainian army can just walk into the Cream anywhere along the very board conexion to the mainland...not.

Mitch

21:32

@alphabet Clean up on aisle four... some tea was spilled!

@Cerberus Haven't there been so many sanctions on Russia already that a little extra would be hardly noticed? I don't know the scale of anything here.

@Cerberus I don't know the geography well there, but the connection of the Crimean peninsula to the north is not so... connected? There's like only two roads that connect.

Cerberus

@Mitch Noo absolutely not.

100% secondary sanctions means: any country selling or buying anything to or from Russia will be banned from any trade with the West.

Russia will hardly be able to sell any oil at all any more.

Nor will it be able to buy a ton of stuff it really needs.

@Mitch Exactly.

Mitch

@Cerberus I kinda thought Europe was already there.

But that's like telling India and China they can't trade with Russia... is that even possible?

Cerberus

@Mitch That is exactly what it would be.

China will have to choose: trade with Russia, the country that has a small economy and which has nuked another country unnecessarily, or by far the largest and most powerful trade block in the world, on whom China is completely dependent for its own stability.

Mitch

@Cerberus I always imagined Balaklava would have been in a much colder latitude.

Cerberus

I associate Baclava with Turkey.

Mitch

21:42

@Cerberus When you put it that way, why is Xi even bothering to talk to Putin?

Cerberus

Now, you mean?

Xi wants to stand up to the West, as long as it doesn't harm China too much.

Mitch

@Cerberus You don't want to mix Baklava and Balaklava. You get honey in the wool.

Cerberus

But China would really, really hate it if Russia were to throw atomics.

Mitch

@Cerberus now or recently.

Cerberus

@Mitch I know next to nothing about the latter...does it have sheep?

Mitch

21:43

didn't Xi and Putin visit in the past couple months?

Cerberus

Just standing up to the West is what China is doing.

Mitch

@Cerberus Balaklava (like in the battle in the Crimean War) is on that map you posted, just south of Sevastopol

Cerberus

I saw it.

But that is all I know about it.

Mitch

@Cerberus Oh. I suppose I wouldn't do well in negotiations. I'd believe everything everybody says.

Cerberus

Like what?

Mitch

21:44

@Cerberus I wouldn't be surprised if they have a lot of sheep there now.

@Cerberus Like 'The price of this TV is really low, you should buy it.'

I already have a TV

But they said I should buy it.

Cerberus

But the price is low.

Buy it now.

Mitch

I feel like out of politeness I really should

Cerberus

Yes, you should.

Mitch

@Cerberus Do you think so? The price is -so- low.

Cerberus

It will be much higher soon and forever.

Mitch

21:46

A problem though is that I don't want it.

Cerberus

Don't worry about it, that's not a problem.

Mitch

@Cerberus That is very compelling.

Cerberus

Great!

BRB

Mitch

@Cerberus That is also very convincing

@Cerberus OMG now I have to stew for a while thinking about who I have to shoot to get the money to pay for this TV I don't want.

I suppose I could shoot them in the foot.

jlliagre

@Cerberus Brigade de répression du banditisme

Mitch

21:48

But I've heard that's hard

The gun store owner told me that

@jlliagre That sounds like a good thing.

But...

the best vigilantes are bandits

Just give them a uniform

jlliagre

@Mitch Sounds like Wagner.

Cerberus

22:10

@Mitch You can get it on a loan!

Only 20% interest.

MetaEd

@Cerberus That is 80% uninteresting, right?

Mitch

@Cerberus Is that a lot or a little? I can't do a lot.

Cerberus

@MetaEd Or maybe more than 80%.

jlliagre

22:30

Know your numbers!

Laurel

22:45

@jlliagre Being in your teens must be rough

jlliagre

@Laurel I teen percent agree.

Cerberus

@jlliagre Delightful. Is that Japan?

jlliagre

Looks like indeed.

Laurel

It has to be. The characters seem to be, plus nobody but the Japanese would say "eito"

I know katakana when I see it

jlliagre

Fow is cool too. The mysteries of rothicity.

Cerberus

22:58

@Laurel What would Koreans or Chinamen say?

@jlliagre But...in RP there is no r either.

Can't they just pronounce fouh in Japan?

Laurel

Admittedly they're pretty close, though I know English is taught in Japan. If they did the opposite, English speakers writing Japanese numbers, nobody would have any clue.

jlliagre

@Cerberus There's an R in RP, at least I can see it.

Cerberus

@jlliagre But no r.

@jlliagre Would that include Prigozhin?

jlliagre

@Cerberus 'ight

@Cerberus As a brigadier or a bandit?

MetaEd

@Cerberus There's a piroghi in Prigozhin. That's felicitous, given his background.

Cerberus

23:09

@jlliagre I think we know the answer...

@MetaEd I thought pierogi were Polish or something?

Laurel

23:36

@Cerberus Apparently, it's related to the Russian pirog (Пирог)

I searched google for "Пирого́жин" and found the perfect ratio of pastries and bald Russian dudes

3

Cerberus

Oh, fun...

Which ones are the round pastries and which the bald men?

Laurel

It's very tricky to figure out. Someone should train an AI to help with that

Cerberus

Fun.

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