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kravietz, 16 days ago to random Polish

Jprdl ikona lewicy nazywa obronę przed agresywnym neofaszystowskim reżimem “siermiężną zasłoną ideologiczną państwa narodowego” 🤦

kravietz, 1 month ago to random

It’s certainly not students of history faculty protesting there… 🤦

kravietz, 2 months ago to random

Please note this dependency is a direct consequence of two long-term EU policies: high energy costs and carbon emissions curbing coupled with unrestricted imports of high-carbon products from non-EU countries. Separately, each of these are just trade policies but when combined, they are contradictory and suicidal for EU economy.

Europe is more food dependent on Moscow now than we were before the war, with the bloc replacing energy dependency with fertiliser dependency, the CEO and president of Norwegian chemical company Yara warned.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/eu-increasingly-food-dependent-on-russia-fertiliser-company-ceo-warns/

arnie_dxer, 2 months ago to shortwave Polish

6300 kHz: #pirate Radio Palianitsa, in English, "do not cause any horse (?), be kind to everybody, we're living on one planet", then in russian, greeting listeners, "slava Ukrainye, geroyam slava", condemns rashi aggression, "in Ukraine there are Nazis, they arrived in tanks", all while Blondie - One Way Or Another was playing. Then Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swings. Generally good but noisy #shortwave

kravietz, 2 months ago to Russia

Routes of #Russia ships sailing from Novorossiysk to Turkey show a certain, very consistent pattern 😂

kravietz, 3 months ago to Russia

#Russia Il-76 transport aicraft crashed in Ivanovo, north-west from Moscow today. Local residents filmed the aircraft at low altitude descending with burning engine, likely attempting an emergency landing on a local military airport. The aircraft ultimately crashed.

Source: https://www.moscowtimes.eu/2024/03/12/voenno-transportnii-samolet-il-76-upal-vivanovskoi-oblasti-a124146

kravietz, 3 months ago to random Polish

Dwie główne wiadomości z dzisiaj z jednego z polskojęzycznych kanałów na Telegramie, wchodzącego w sieć “Cyfrowej Armii Rosji”.

Na jednej niewybredny żart na poziomie szkoły podstawowej, na drugiej - dramatyczne doniesienia o tym jak to “pijani rolnicy” urządzili na granicy “koszmar” i “nie przepuszczają autobusów pasażerskich”.

A poza tym jeszcze kilka doniesień z frontu, przetłumaczonych z rosyjskiego “War Gonzo”…

Mapa Europy z Finlandią i Szwecją zakreślonymi w ten sposób by przypominać penis i podpisem "nowy członek NATO"

kravietz, 3 months ago to Russia

#Russia Dmitry Medvedev once again in anti-Ukrainian genocidal ramblings, this time presenting a map of Ukraine that demonstrates the country largely partitioned between its neighbours. This is a return to old fakes from 2022 when Russians revived an even older fake by Zhirinovsky from 2014 with a very similar map.

P.S. note his clothes, is he cosplaying Comrade Mao or Kim Ir Sen? 🤔

kravietz, 3 months ago to nuclear

All high-level waste produce by #nuclear 2 GW power plant North Anna in USA since 1978. That’s almost half century of low-carbon, stable electricity.

That’s about the literal size of the “problem of nuclear waste” that is being presented as an absolute show-stopper by nuclear power opponents. Also, the spent fuel inside is trapped in glass and concrete, so these containers are almost literally like reinforced concrete pillars that can withstand any weather or other external impact, and can stand uninterrupted for thousands of years.

Except, even that is not really necessary because in only 100% years the activity of high-level waste will decrease to only 7% and then further down to background levels. The whole point of high-level waste is that it’s subject to fast decay…

arnie_dxer, 4 months ago to WX Polish

Recently I've been using Taiwanese #KiwiSDR's a lot in the mornings for Chinese music shows on CNR5 & Voice of Strait - and perhaps other stations if those don't deliver.

I also tend to snoop over what others are listening.

So today I found somebody listening to 21437 kHz.

It turned out to be Japanese hams exchanging quite detailed #wx rpts incl. air pressure & wind strength & direction.

And so I found an Okera Net ➡️ http://www.okeranet.com/
Apparently it's for leisure boats #hamradio

UT3UMS, 4 months ago to random

I'll be honest, last few weeks where sweaty as hell. Not enough time to sleep, no time for anything besides jobs and family.

But finally I made a better grounding for my Mini-Whip and I feel a relief for the first time in a month, I think. Louder and clearer it goes now.

The Japanese approach of small steps towards perfection gives some positive emotions at the end of the day

OlgaPatlyuk, 4 months ago to random Ukrainian

We honor bread and grain. Since childhood, my mother taught me to appreciate every slice of bread.
When parents bless newlyweds, they always bless with bread.
It is very painful to watch how on the one hand ruzZia burns our grain, and on the other Poland spills it on the ground💔

ai6yr, 5 months ago to gardening

Gardening observation: after record rainfall in our area, my garden is going into "jungle mode" -- ie everything is growing very fast and large. Many volunteers!

In great contrast, the house I am staying at now (very close by) the garden beds are doing: nothing.

The difference is here they have removed all organic matter as a matter of course (previously thrown in the trash, now to the yard bin), and only used chemical fertilizers (for 50 years). Also used to regularly spray weeds wit weed killer.

At my house, every last organic scrap of food or plant trimming gets composted and turned into the garden.... Totally supercharges the garden beds.

#gardening

kravietz, 7 months ago to Ukraine

A few comments on the rising interest to the topic of #corruption in #Ukraine - and I don’t mean state-level corruption, but mostly cases of misappropriation of donations or material help sent for humanitarian or army needs:

• Cases described by Western media - like selling of food sent with humanitarian help - are most likely true.
• Scale does matter - articles I’ve seen described dozens of such cases, which sounds a lot by mere concentration in a single place and confirmation bias, by not mentioning thousands of transports that were delivered and distributed correctly.
• I know about the latter, because I myself have been sending material support to Ukrainian army almost from day zero. As I have many friends there and some joined army, I had a direct channel to people I trust and I know where every piece of equipment I sent was going.
• There’s a massive difference in the support needed back then and now. In May 2022 the guys in Territorial Defence were asking for summer shoes, uniforms, medikits and other rather basic equipment. Those serving in regular army were apparently much better supplied, so they asked for items like drones, radios or optical devices.
• And I never saw any of my deliveries lost or sold or in any other way misappropriated. Each of them was confirmed by my friends as delivered, sometimes with a photo and “thank you” note from the front line.
• But even these requests largely stopped by end of 2022, as the direct supply chains were largely established for commercial purchases, large scale Ukrainian army tenders and supplies from Ukraine’s allies. Since then I was only occasionally asked to help with some very specific radio equipment etc which was e.g. much cheaper in UK or market for used devices was much larger here.
• And I’m very happy about that because the logistics was pain: even with periodic volunteer trips from UK to Ukraine, it took from 3-5 weeks from purchase to delivery. Today, when asking if any help is needed, I mostly hear that they can now buy everything either in Ukraine or get it delivered to Ukraine easily.
• The volunteers did a huge job over the last year, driving from literally every single town in Europe and moving thousands of tons of goods donated by good people willing to help Ukraine.
• There’s some things that the recipients of the help will rarely tell you: for the example, when what you honestly thought may be needed comes out to be a completely wrong guess. I had that with some cheap Baofeng radios I bought last year - by their reaction I saw something was wrong and only after a long questioning they reluctantly confessed these simply can’t be used on the front line due to no encryption and modulation that is easily triangulated and jammed.
• I never again made the mistake of guessing what they might need, I just started simply following their very specific orders, and that worked perfectly. A single professional Motorola radio purchased for 200 GBP exactly to their specification delivers much more actual value to the soldiers than 10x cheap radios they can’t use at 20 GBP each.
• What you do with even the most sincere gift you can’t use? Just go and sell it, and then buy whatever you actually can use. I don’t know if they donated my radios to some civilian emergency service or sold them, and I don’t care - as long as the guys who risk their lives on the front line could have in any way benefit from my donation, it has worked.
• There’s the soldiers, and there’s the volunteers. The word sounds nice, but if you’re doing something for well over a year now and you need to spend significant amount of your time and resources, is it still just “volunteering”? The people certainly are volunteers in the sense of donating their time voluntarily, but they’re now playing an important part in optimising the war logistics, adding flexibility and speed to the huge but less agile army tenders process. For many of them it became almost a full-time job, but they also have families to feed and cars to fuel.
• Also remember that Ukraine’s economy has been severely impacted by Russian aggression. There’s much less ways people can work or make business, and significant part of the economy has shifted towards the war effort.
• While this may sound controversial on the first look, I’m absolutely ready to accept the fact that a percentage of the material donations will be sold, because it allows the everything else to be delivered and distributed. I don’t think it’s rational to donate say thousand of pairs of socks and then expect they will magically appear on the front line, and that will repeat every week or month. In the same way, if one soldier gets ten pairs of socks from donations, it’s rather natural that he will sell the surplus and buys whatever else he needs more. Anything that helps Ukrainian economy is OK from my point of view.

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kravietz, 7 months ago to Israel

Medical analysis of human remains found in the #Israel houses attacked by #Hamas indicates unprecedented level of cruelty, involving torture, burning people alive, decapitation and other atrocities committee by Hamas fighters. Just one example:

> Charred remains and a CT scan of the remains show a parent and child who were bound together and burned alive by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7. Two spinal columns—one of an adult and one of a child—can be seen in the scan. The pair were likely embracing as they burned.

How do you know they were specifically burned alive?

> There is soot in their trachea, their throats—meaning they were still breathing when set on fire.

https://themedialine.org/top-stories/eviden...

ai6yr, 8 months ago to Candy

Ah, just what I need, #radioactive #candy #dish. It's #Uranium #glass..."Grandma, why is your living room glowing green?" https://ctbids.com/estate-sale/24274/item/2600582/Rare-Uranium-Glass-Candy-Dish-Collection

Closeup of one of the green candy dishes

vga256, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to hamradio

this past year alone, my family has faced evacuation twice in the #canadian north due to #wildfire. during the current evac, thousands of northerners have zero communication with their families, emergency personnel or access to wildfire data.

this is entirely due to the collapse of NorthwesTel's fibre network infrastructure and zero secondary systems for comms. the sub/arctic is infamous for its fragile, ancient comms architecture.

i want to change that, and i'd like help thinking out loud about potential citizen-owned/operated technologies for long-distance emergency comms.

#hamradio and #packetradio enthusiasts - could you please recommend some research resources on the following:

• legal/frequency considerations for non-voice/packet transmission specific to #Canada
• recommended hardware & software for 1000km+ transmission, tcp/ip
• examples of amateur radio clubs that have undertaken this kind of role before

if possible, please respond with links to documentation, research and/or policy papers.

my entire family has worked wildfire management since the teletype days, and i hopefully can effect some actual useful change for northerners here.

kravietz, 10 months ago to Russia

Two #Russia citizens were detained in #Poland after they were spotted placing #Wagner stickers in public places across the country. They had over 3000 stickers, leaflets and other “Wagner” propaganda items, and they themselves documented placing over 300 in various locations on photos, based on which they received over 500’000 RUB from their coordinator in Russia.

In Polish: https://www.polsatnews.pl/wiadomosc/2023-08-14/dwaj-rosjanie-zatrzymani-przez-abw-kolportowali-materialy-grupy-wagnera/

I can’t say they’ve done the business of their life as Russian rouble exchange rate is collapsing and choosing Poland for advertising “Wagner” is probably the most idiotic choice you can make as a Putin supporter.

This year Polish law enforcement has already detained 16 citizens of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, most of them for documenting Polish critical infrastructure and military supplies movement, and sharing them with contacts in Russia.

kravietz, 11 months ago to italy

Jorit, graffiti artist from #Italy, apparently came to #Mariupol to paint a huge mural depicting a crying girl under bombs with... #NATO markings. He also repeats all the classic #Russia propaganda tropes about "Donbass being bombed for eight years.

I'm struggling to comprehend the level of idiocy — or financial greed — that makes people such as Jorit blindly take Russian narratives for granted while ignoring the fact that Mariupol was a flourishing town, an industrial and cultural capital of the south of Ukraine. It was exclusively Russian artillery, bombing and tanks that turned it to ruins, that now are destroyed to much larger extent than Donetsk, that was allegedly "bombed for eight years" (it wasn't).

Source: https://www.leggo.it/schede/jorit_murale_ma...

Mariupol before and after Russian invasion

kravietz, 11 months ago to random

Reuters[^1] is such a master of euphemisms that someone could say they're whitewashing #Russia Ministry of Defense rather delusional speech today:

> The Russian Defence Ministry said on Monday that flooding in the Kherson region after the breach of Ukraine’s huge Kakhovka Dam could lead to mosquito-borne diseases such as West Nile fever breaking out in the area.

In reality (see attached video), Russian official delivers a lengthy conspiracy theory where USA blew up the Kakhovka dam on #Dnipro because after the land dries, it will become a perfect habitat for West Nile fever, which is going to be delivered to Russian soldiers using patented American UAVs which have a special pathogen delivery compartment for that purpose...

[^1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/ukraine-cri... o

Russian military official delivers a speech

kravietz, 1 year ago to random

This sparked a crazy idea: Could we create a place in Counter-Strike, where the millions of young Russian men playing this first-person shooter game would be forced to face the terrors of the war in Ukraine? (…) The room is hidden near a monument of eternal flame. Eternal flame monuments are common in Russian and Ukrainian cities. They serve as memorials of WW2, or the Great Patriotic War, as it is called in Russia.

https://www.hs.fi/ulkomaat/art-2000009555855.html

#CounterStrike #Russia #Ukraine