zabadoh

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zabadoh,

I am waiting for “Russian artillery shells archaeological site”

zabadoh,

Bulgaria’s Defence Ministry held a procurement procedure from September 2020 to July 2022 for a company to repair and maintain the S-300 systems.

Only one candidate was admitted, Almaz-Antey Aerospace Defense Concern, which is owned by the Russian state. However, it turned out that it did not have the ability to keep the missile systems in working order.

“Unserviceable” in this case doesn’t mean the missile systems aren’t working, but that future maintenance is going to be a problem because Bulgaria doesn’t have the technicians and supplies to keep them in working order up to military standards.

So yes, Ukraine would be getting functional S-300 systems.

zabadoh,

Here’s a link to the actual clip: https://twitter.com/kucukmoskovali/status/1706622934234607737

The part showing Sokolov is very brief, a couple of seconds at the end of the twitter video.

He doesn’t move, his eyes are closed behind his glasses, and he’s propped up against a pillow.

It could be a video of a photo.

Not very convincing that he’s healthy, if not dead.

zabadoh, (edited )

It’s been that way for a loooong time.

Movies became so expensive to produce that studios can’t finance them themselves.

So they turned to the banks.

Banks are by nature risk averse.

So a production company has to submit an application to their bank’s movie financing department like you would when applying for a home loan.

The bank decides whether to finance the movie based on the information submitted: Script, subject matter, director, which stars have committed to the project, etc.

Now if you imagine, people from the banking industry are not artists and creatives and visionaries. They just look at raw investment potential, i.e. Is this proposed production going to pay off the loan with interest?

If there’s any risk, e.g. this has never been done before, or there’s no recognizable franchise branding, or if something could be controversial in a meaningful way, the bank won’t approve the production loan.

So sequels, brand name franchises, with writing committees, are easier to get approvals from the banks, therefore are more likely to make it into production.

That’s why Hollywood doesn’t make daring, experimental, and controversial movies much anymore.

zabadoh,

Enshittification doesn’t just happen to online platforms.

zabadoh,

And it’s not just movies.

Hit song analysis systems like Platinum Blue, aka Music XRay, use algorithms to compare new songs to hit songs of the past to rate the chances that they will become hits themselves.

This is why all new songs sound the same and there are so many cover versions.

New songs are scored by hit song analysis system(s) and have to achieve a high score showing how much they resemble previous hit songs before money is allocated for promotion.

zabadoh,

Hmm, the link doesn’t go anywhere…

zabadoh,

They should have worked from home. In Russia.

All of the Russians should just go home.

zabadoh,

Avistaz has the a great selection for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, Thai, Hong Kong content.

zabadoh,

An unconfirmed rumor that these missiles killed Russia’s Black Sea Fleet commander Admiral Viktor Sokolov

zabadoh,

I’m sure all mine clearing equipment has its strengths and weaknesses, and a “massive armored vehicle” with a plow is no different.

What I’m not seeing many of is a small maneuverable vehicle that can go into the treelines and take out the antipersonnel mines and cluster munitions.

There are a few in development like the Iron Caterpillar but not nearly enough to make the treelines safe for civilians.

zabadoh,

If you read the article, evidently the IWW’s customer service was better.

An international union actually makes sense if you think about today’s corporate landscape.

Modern large corps are very international, with facilities for production, distribution, and retail all over the globe, so just striking in one country doesn’t make sense because funds and production can be shifted so quickly to a different city, state, or country.

The pandemic demonstrated how tightly connected the supply chains are, so striking just one or a few parts can have ripple effects on the bottom line.

zabadoh,

The “friendly” fire on the infantry was not an accident if the unit was trying to retreat or surrender.

Still, better than using that ammo on AFU troops.

zabadoh,

Might as well get more aid through before McConnell kicks the bucket or Trump gets re-elected…

zabadoh,

That explosive they dropped must have been bigger than it looked, or it managed to trigger some explosives inside the IFV.

zabadoh,

The Internet version of QVC or Home Shopping Network that previous generations used to watch.

zabadoh,

You’re right, it’s kind of impossible to rule over a territory as large, populated by tribes as diverse as Russia, without some kind of iron fisted imperialism.

Chinese history under dynasties of brutal emperors, and now the brutal Chinese Communist Party, is also a testament to that.

I’d personally prefer to have Russia’s internal security, i.e. their internal occupying forces, weakened enough by being trashed in Ukraine for multiple ethnic republics to break off and chart their own path.

Navalny’s like the Emmanuel Goldstein character in 1984: Demonized token opposition who’s just ineffective enough to let live. I know I know, they tried to poison him even…

This is as opposed to Prigozhin, who was immediately assassinated on showing some worthwhile opposition.

zabadoh,

I’m neutral impoverished.

zabadoh,

There’s a spaghetti image filter already

i.ibb.co/26qjH4W/image.jpg

zabadoh,

Before anyone asks, the photo is from some of the DVD covers and posters for Naked Killer 1992

Are there any Hong Kong movie fans in !bmoviebonanza? (feddit.nl)

I’m a huge fan of Hong Kong genre cinema myself. I’ll watch about anything, from mainstream movies (John Woo and Sammo Hung directed actioners for example), to the more obscure stuff. I especially like the industry’s supernatural horror output from the mid eighties to the early nineties. I get a real kick out of watching...

zabadoh,

Yes, here.

Checkout Johnnie To Kei Fung’s directed movies.

He’s most famous for 90s kung fu action classics like Heroic Trio, and The Barefoot Kid and 00s triad films like the Election movies.

But like most HK directors, the dude does everything from romcom, Chinese New Year’s, police dramas to downright weirdness like the Buddhism themed Running On Karma and the Kurosawa’s Sanshiro Sugata judo tribute Throwdown.

They’re almost all great.

Not so much movies where he’s producing only

I’ve been looking for a new home since lovehkfilm.com stopped posting new reviews.

zabadoh,

It’s kind of hard to say… Johnnie To’s movies with Sammi Cheng don’t get enough credit from the largely male HK film audience: Wu Yen, Love On A Diet, Needing You, and My Left Eye Sees Ghosts.

But in general To’s stuff gets enough international acclaim.

Or got acclaim. HK movies have really fallen off the radar since DVDs became obsolete due to streaming/piracy.

And that was a long time ago.

Honestly I haven’t watched anything new since 2007.

There’s a lot for me to catch up on!

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