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@Mek101 My disk isn't so hard nowadays… More like solid 😄
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Were there any noteworthy news concerning this depleted uranium stuff? I must have missed something. I remember reading about Ukrainian munition storage being hit, but not much about DU.
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I think that's an appropriate reaction to the thread you have linked to
No, don't get me wrong, it's mostly neutral, except for a few parts that made me suspicious, like this here:
> given the experience of Yugoslavia and Iraq, could lead to an outbreak of cancer in the medium term
There is no given experience of Yugoslavia — connection of use of depleted uranium munitions to increase in amount cancer cases was never an undisputed fact, look here:
https://www.rferl.org/a/moscow-serbian-media-appear-mislead-claims-cancer-fight-nato-bombings-/30320663.html
Of course you might not consider Radio Liberty a trustworthy source a it might be biased, but they cite a lot of sources, including Serbian politician who claimed that there is such connection, but never presented any proof. They also refer to Serbian medical institutions that claim there is no such connections and even that there was no growth in cancer cases.
Back to depleted uranium shells themselves, take a look at what those are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium
Uranium isn't used in some powdered form so it could contaminate the air, it's very dense and that is precisely why it's used for penetrator part of an armor piercing round — it's the sturdiest part, I can't imagine how, even if it gets split by an adjacent explosion, can make it into someone's body kilometers away from explosion.
One more thing worth noting, take a look at the date that article on Radio Liberty's website was published — it's 2019, long before it had anything with Ukraine, Russia was always trying to give the depleted uranium scare a proper spin to use it against NATO. And now Russia is a side of the conflict — that's no proof of course, but whole thing could be a part of psyop.
Radiation spikes still look scary, but there are things to consider other than DU shells — there is Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant not far from there, right in the zone of armed conflict.
I think that's an appropriate reaction to the thread you have linked to
No, don't get me wrong, it's mostly neutral, except for a few parts that made me suspicious, like this here:
> given the experience of Yugoslavia and Iraq, could lead to an outbreak of cancer in the medium term
There is no given experience of Yugoslavia — connection of use of depleted uranium munitions to increase in amount cancer cases was never an undisputed fact, look here:
https://www.rferl.org/a/moscow-serbian-media-appear-mislead-claims-cancer-fight-nato-bombings-/30320663.html
Of course you might not consider Radio Liberty a trustworthy source a it might be biased, but they cite a lot of sources, including Serbian politician who claimed that there is such connection, but never presented any proof. They also refer to Serbian medical institutions that claim there is no such connections and even that there was no growth in cancer cases.
Back to depleted uranium shells themselves, take a look at what those are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium
Uranium isn't used in some powdered form so it could contaminate the air, it's very dense and that is precisely why it's used for penetrator part of an armor piercing round — it's the sturdiest part, I can't imagine how, even if it gets split by an adjacent explosion, can make it into someone's body kilometers away from explosion.
One more thing worth noting, take a look at the date that article on Radio Liberty's website was published — it's 2019, long before it had anything with Ukraine, Russia was always trying to give the depleted uranium scare a proper spin to use it against NATO. And now Russia is a side of the conflict — that's no proof of course, but whole thing could be a part of psyop.
Radiation spikes still look scary, but there are things to consider other than DU shells — there is Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant not far from there, right in the zone of armed conflict.
@kirby
I was joking about traditional leisure of course, but this sort of thing happens all the time.
There was one particularly noteworthy case about five years ago when over 50 people died over the weekend drinking "body lotions" — usually those had ethanol, but someone decided to make it cheaper and used methanol or isopropyl even — I don't remember which exactly.
@johnbessa
What part of what did I not get?
Your statement that old phones could "go for months", implying that modern phones can't do that, is misleading, most old phones couldn't live for months off a single charge, a week sounds more realistic and modern ones can do that too if you have the same usage scenario — mine sure can. And it's not magic, usage patterns got different, devices didn't get inferior. Do we agee on that?
@samuelnorbury
@neural_meduza Пожарский уже собирает вещи и планирует переезд? 😅
@theorytoe Here is your new ringtone.
Actually I have used it for incoming messages for 5 years or even longer. I don't know why Akaza Akari theme in particular, but I think it signifies incoming bullshit quite well 😂
@mjdxp More people are coming to Fedi to check out quality of your posts going up 🤪
@theorytoe Akkari~n!
@RustyCrab
What is this creature? 😍
Is it a wombat?
@gemlog Russian is like that too, people bring a lot of words in from professional slang — even if there is a good native word for that, professional community often communicates in English and use the word they are used to, and then the word makes it into everyday language.
It's sad when this happens and I always try to use native word if there is one and it doesn't sound too old-fashioned 😄
I think in the age of Internet every language is like that.
@gemlog Vodka, matrioshka, balalaika and pelmeni are there. Looks legit 🤣
@gemlog Good word! Among the few Russian (albeit transliterated) ones that have made it into English dictionaries. Along with nomenklatura, apparatchik… Only dacha comes to mind that is not about… a particular group of people 😅
@gemlog TBH when I came across this term for the first time myself, I didn't like it — a lot of the jokes were really poor taste.
But then 2014 happened and I was like: "Okay, they ARE REALLY like that, I no longer mind if this word becomes commonly accepted" 🤣
@gemlog There were a few phone conversations leaked recently hinting that he's getting unpopular even among business elites — no wonder, when their own wealth is in danger due to sanctions. Yet, we aren't seeing any defections, looks like scaring them to "hold the line" works quite well.
@gemlog As stated in the article, there are a lot of "mysterious" suicide cases among businessmen and they are happening more and more often, I can't pick any from top off my head, but it happens to high-ranking "siloviki" too, even if some of these suicides and accidents weren't staged, no one's against treating them as assassinations. It's evident that Putin got EXTREMELY paranoid as of recent, him using this as a tool to keep his inner circle in check isn't hard to believe.
@gemlog Political assassinations are a plausible theory. They have never been viewed as something unthinkable in Russia, after all we've had a few good examples, like Litvinenko, Politkovskaya and the more recent ones: Nemtsov, The Skripals, Navalny's assassination attempt. Some happened domestically so were never properly investigated, but no one believes official version of course. Berezovsky's "suicide" was underinvestigated, but the consensus is that it's also one of such cases.
- Experimental PPC-related (and hosted) instance — now with ✨snac2✨, so I hope it won't be down 90% of time 😏
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