Silly geographical comments (or whatever you'd call this)

lrdgck

Anyways, makes me think could've been worse, could've been last seen robbing a warehouse full of razors.

lrdgck

Russia’s “Doomsday Radio” UVB-76 Goes Silent After Drone Strike Hits Power Grid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76

Well, looks like it's not a part of a Dead Hand system, after all. Or not the only part.

glennmagusharvey

lrdgck wrote: »

Russia’s “Doomsday Radio” UVB-76 Goes Silent After Drone Strike Hits Power Grid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76

Well, looks like it's not a part of a Dead Hand system, after all. Or not the only part.

(content warning: LOUD (poorly-balanced audio levels))

glennmagusharvey

a story about the Jamaican patty

glennmagusharvey

lrdgck

News on the street is that Jeffrey Epstein convinced moot to set up /pol/. Of a bunch of silly geographical comments related to the Epstein affair, that's one of the less expected.

edit: I've also had just read that due to inflation, the prices of luxury yachts, horses, and caviar are all going up. Makes me think inflation is about to randomly go down soon.

lrdgck

Meanwhile in Poland: a procurer of zoophiliac porn apprehended for 2018's attempt at selling a presidential pardon.

Or to be more exact, in 2018 a bunch of guys tried to sell a presidential pardon, which, it turns out, is a serious crime. From what I can gather their offer was that, for a bribe, they'd arrange things so that the prezzie would be slipped a pardon to sign, although it's amusing to imagine it as some sort of heist. Also, the porn thing is not directly related, as it was just one of them in what I imagine was a side job. But again, quite a party they've got gathered there.

Stormtroper

I remember an article speculating that that's how interin prez Ramon J. Velásquez ended up pardoning a drug dealer for no known reason, that a secretary "accidentally" let the pardon form slip in among less important stuff until he signed it. The article also speculated that similar things must've happened regularly.

I see I had stuff in my draft:

Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives

I learned about MiniScribe, the company involved in fraud by (among other things) keeping warehouses full of bricked hard drives.

lrdgck

Honestly, prezzie getting slipped a paper to sign is probably better than prezzie being just fine with pardoning drug lords. I mean, I guess?

Meanwhile me, I've been thinking it's gonna be a while since my next post, but just today I learned of this thing:

PMC Ryodan (ЧВК Рёдан) is a subculture primarily present in Russia and Ukraine. It is characterized by groups of teenagers, often anime fans, who adopted the name as an ironic reference to the Wagner Group, a Russian private military contractor (PMC). The name "Ryodan" originates from a group of thieves in the anime series Hunter x Hunter. Members of the subculture are often identified by their attire, which includes black hoodies featuring a white spider symbol.

So, meanwhile in Russia - and as we know, everything in Russia is more hardcore.

The first major online community associated with the group appeared on the Russian social media platform VK in September 2022, and it reached 190,000 users. It was then blocked by Roskomnadzor on February 28, 2023.

I'm trying to come up with some sort of Russian reversal joke.

The subculture's existence gained media attention on February 22, 2023 following a physical fight at the Aviapark shopping mall in Moscow. According to accounts from Ryodan members, the conflict initiated after they were confronted about their clothing by individuals with right-wing and white supremacist affiliations. Following the incident, a video of the altercation was shared online, accompanied by a caption that contained hostile language, contributing to its rapid spread.[2]

After the Aviapark incident, law enforcement increased their presence in shopping malls across Russia. This led to over 500 detentions of teenagers who were assumed to be associated with Ryodan.

I wanted to come up with something like "in Russia dweebs are beating up the jocks", but it looks more like the gov't is fine with thugs beating up random kids all over again.

Law enforcement in St. Petersburg informed detained teenagers that PMC Ryodan is a creation of "Western intelligence services," framing the subculture within Russia"s "confrontation with the West." Similarly, Ukrainian authorities, including the Kyiv Police, have attributed the group to "Russian propagandists," alleging an "informational-psychological operation"

Because of course everyone thinks it's a psy-op by the other guys, when it's just the weaboos doing weaboo things.

I mean, I expected I'm grumpy and hateful enough not to mind the idea of weaboos getting the proper treatment, but turns out I do. Either I'm getting older or that's just excessive.

https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/PMC_Ryodan
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/03/02/explainer-what-is-russias-pmc-ryodan-subculture-a80364

glennmagusharvey

Stormtroper

> 416.67 donuts for an euro

Are they made of mud or what.

lrdgck

It's the Donut Day (ie. Fat Thursday), when everyone is gorging themselves on donuts, so supermarkets are one-upping each other with donut sales. I'm told it's they went for even cheaper a year or two ago.

At the same time, wood pellets are expensive since a lot of that stuff had been sent to Ukraine, which had a Putin-related heating crisis. Wood pellets are a popular fuel as they can be produced locally from locally sourced wood, you can claim it's a renewable energy source since trees grow back, and therefore there's a lot of vested interests in it.

I can't speak for quality of Lidl donuts, but the common opinion is that you shouldn't go to a supermarket if you want a passably good donut.

glennmagusharvey

somewhat more somber geographical comments

lrdgck

Meanwhile in Poland.

(Apparently it's still under investigation, so while arson is certainly possible there's no reason to assume it just yet. Although that didn't stop Varg Vikernes-related memes.)

lrdgck

So, you guys might have heard of the parliamentary elections in Hungary. As of now, it looks like the anti-Viktor Orban opposition will get over two thirds of parliamentary seats, granting them constitutional majority. If everything unfolds as it appears it will right now, Orban will lose his grip on Hungary after sixteen years of rule marked with democracy backsliding by about any respectable standard of it and comparatively cringeworthy levels of corruption.

The victorious party is a big-tent, mostly centre and centre-right coalition that is nonetheless pro-EU and anti-Orban.

In spite of many warnings about the possibility that the ruling party will try various plots and dirty tricks to stay in power, Orban has already congratulated the winner. That does not exclude the option they will try to pull something off, but it's a good start.

Perhaps the biggest achievement of Viktor Orban is that he made Hungary into a darling of the global right. Hungary, a rather mid-tier regional power, has become an exemplar of "anti-woke", "illiberal democracy", kind of state that righties promoted as a role model as far away as the US.

Also, Wikipedia tells me there were presidential elections in Benin and general elections in Peru, but I'm gonna be honest and admit I've got less to say about them.

Stormtroper

Yay for Hungary.

How (non-Russian) rightoids became the side of anti-western-liberalism contrarianism is something I'll never understand, I'd think they'd want to extol the products of Evropa's cultures but I guess not. Maybe it makes more sense in Europe itself I dunno.

lrdgck

It is tempting to say the secret ingredient is Jews. (Only the things you like is Evropa, things you don't like is teh jooz so it doesn't count. If somebody points out it's the same thing in different contexts, that's also teh jooz because only they would point it out, they're perfidious like that.)

lrdgck

WAIT, THIS ISN'T POLITICS!?

...oh well. Anyways, here's Florida Man:



(I hope he's been fine since then.)