Posted by alexandra_k on February 25, 2022, at 9:31:10
The media is saying that the Russians have invaded and taken control of Chernobyl.
Post-explosion... It was the Russians who went in to do the containment / clean up, though, wasn't it?
The Russians went in to make the sarcophagus. The Russians who are apparently trying to clean up the region so that it is safe from contamination etc.
In other words, they moved in at that point in time. In other words, it's not a recent invasion that we are talking about.
I don't know anything about Russia, really. I know about as much about Russia and that part of Europe as I knew about China and Hong Kong and Taiwan before Covid. Next to nothing, I mean to say.
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What if...
There wasn't really a melt-down, at all?
What if...
The Russians wanted Ukranians to piss off (just walk away from your stuff, just f*ck off and die, just go away) from before that... Apparently...
I don't remember what it's called. Apparently it has been declared a genocide.
I'm not sure what goes on.
The Government gets caught up in the grip of an ideology (social or political or whatever) and doesn't notice or care about the impact that various things are having on people. They don't see people. They just see obstacles to their ideology. But then you hear their ideology... And it's not usually particularly bright or well thought out or humane or good, either... And they won't allow others to contribute to developing the ideology... People are shut down. Sent away. Ignored. Etc...
Anyway... So there is this famine and it's a bit hard to know if they were focused on feeding the troops proximally or maintaining quality of life for the happy few... Or if more sinister things were going on... I don't know.
But either way, seems the Ukranian people have reason to be skeptical... Maybe fearful... Of Russia.
Something about people leaving because of the famine and coming back to find Russians had invaded or taken over their houses and their land.
So I got to thinking... What if the melt-down was a... Hoax. I guess you say. What if it was a scheme cooked up to get people to leave the region.
Then they set aside a waste-land. Toxic dump. A top secret military / science research facility. A nuclear stockpile... I'm not sure.
And try and keep people away by stories... About birth defects and radiation poisoning and...
Apparently what little science research there is... What seems surprising or striking... Is the lack of or dearth of evidence of a massive nuclear event.
I don't know... But wasn't Japan similar? I mean... Remarkably few effects on DNA and the like.
They want to say increase in cancers... But in Cernobyl, at least, they aren't exactly renowned for their high quality public health system -- yeah?
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The land is a... Strategic? Buffer zone?
Nuclear power... To supply...
Europe?
Russia?Both?
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Apparently there will be trade-sanctions...
To Russia, apparently...
But it is unclear to me that Russia is being prevented, actually, from having anything.
New Zealand isn't allowed to export certain things to them (possibly things they don't want from us anyway). I think the effect of the trade sanctions is more punative on New Zealand than Russia. Perhaps. I'm considering the possibility. Whether that is or seems likely.
That we have basically been told trade-sanctions for or to us.
Why?
Because we refuse to get with the programme / ideology on cooperation etc.
Just can't do / won't do. Not going to do.
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Where is my Degree? for my 1 year of Research in 2018? My place in Med School (if and only if my objective rank order score was high enough for offer of place)? I should be... Let's see... 5th year this year of a 6 year Degree... Second year of rotations. I think it's OBGYN rotations in your 5th year. Where they... Sign off on all and only those who are complicit in performing 'cervical examination' on non-consenting women who have been anesthetised for unrelated procedures...
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They are stopping shipping electronics to NZ. I think...
I think that is currently being phased... Surreptitiously... They don't want people to buy up all the stuff and then panic.
But electronic stores are closing down. Talking things like computers (I don't know about the M1 vs Intel chip... I find it highly suspicious that the M1 chip comes at a significantly lower price-point...) Televisions. Monitors. Computers.
Amazon and various places will not ship to this region (for no amount of money).
Japan... Seems to be the last to withdraw or whatever. So Nintendo is the last to be withdrawn.
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Playstation 5 just blew X Box Series X out of the water.
Just... Annihilated it. In the console wars, I mean to say. The magnitude...
It isn't obvious to people -- because people don't have the capacity to see it yet.
You know how those magic eye pictures... And you squint and wonder... And then your eyes clue in and the picture pops in 3d. There is no wondering if you are seeing in 3d. It just is so obvious that you are seeing in 3d.
Ratchet and Clank (Playstation 5 exclusive) is in 3d and like playing a Pixar Movie. The flow from cut-scenes to game-play. And (parts) pop in 3d.
It isn't obvious to most people because... Most people can't get a Playstation 5. And if they could most people can't get their set-up in 4K.
Most people aren't streaming in 4k. I don't know that anybody is streaming in 4k. So you can't see it. Watching people play it on Twitch or YouTube.
And they are limiting access to the consoles.
Then they made Horizon Zero Dawn 2 or whatever it is called... To highlight the problems and limitations with the Playstation 5.
After being...
Chernobyl-d??
Stabotaged...
Cyberpunk. Unplayable on release. It was a terrible day for Playstation because people were buying consoles etc specifically to play that game.
They intentionally released something terrible... I think the stabotage... It wasn't incopmetence... It was something else...
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X Box Series X isn't / can't do it. They don't have the titles... The 3d I mean. They don't have the art style (the pixar animation)...
I don't quite know...
But the internet connection keeps dropping out of series S...
I have a great connection but when I try and stream a bit of Youtube in 4k I get spinning...
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Hrmmm.....
Apparently next up is the whole network thing on your visa or your master card. We don't have discover. Because, I suppose, that's a card with more security built in for the purchaser (with resepct to returning and not paying for faulty goods or whatever). Giving benefit of the doubt to the purchaser.
We certainly don't do that, in NZ.
They are changing things up, here, with respect to Visa or Mastercard...
I expect that will be the next of the trade-sanctions.
We won't be able to purchase things from overseas anymore.
Not for any amount of money.
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Let's see...
Russia...
What do I know?
Escape from Tarkov.
Metro Exodus.Theme: F*ck off, f*ck off f*ck off. Escape. Exit. Get out. Go away.
Nothing to see here, people. Move along.
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Which means there's likely something very important to see there... And some reason why not to move along...
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