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Better that the car's full of booze rather than the driver.

Cyclist wrote: ↑Wed May 11, 2022 4:52 pm Better that the car's full of booze rather than the driver.

bafo-de-tigre (Tiger's Breath) - Brazilian nickname for Cachaca.

Gives a new sense to "Put a tiger in your tank"

Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Wed May 11, 2022 9:55 pm

Cyclist wrote: ↑Wed May 11, 2022 4:52 pm Better that the car's full of booze rather than the driver.

bafo-de-tigre (Tiger's Breath) - Brazilian nickname for Cachaca.

Gives a new sense to "Put a tiger in your tank"

Ooh, I like Cachaca. Many a late night at a beachside kiosk necking Caipirinhas...

https://theprint.in/world/under-fire-fo ... ue/951672/

It saddens me somewhat that leftist thinkers that I used to revere continue to come out with astonishingly bad takes on Ukraine.

Remember - first casualty of war and all that.

Putin ‘very ill with blood cancer’, Russian oligarch recorded saying (links to The Independent)

Also:

If there really is an attempt to get rid of Putin under way the best way of helping it succeed is to splash it across the internet.

I'm not sure how the West will recover from this:

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/uk ... 022-05-29/

Russia has scaled down their ambitions since February but I'm rather despondent at how the Ukrainian defense seems to be running out of steam. As poorly trained, equipped, and led as the Russian army may be they have a vast reserve of dumb artillery they can use to flatten Ukrainian cities from afar then waltz in to claim the ruins unchallenged.

An important thread on what is currently happening

A somewhat depressing (for me, anyway) read, but informative.

Thank you for posting it.

I do wonder if any radio amateurs are active in .ua and I could receive them? It's a better bet than the Internet these days.

Boiler wrote: ↑Mon May 30, 2022 9:02 pmI do wonder if any radio amateurs are active in .ua and I could receive them? It's a better bet than the Internet these days.

I can't remember where I read it, but apparently all amateur radio licences in Ukraine are suspended whilst martial law is in place, which I guess makes sense. There was one pirate SW station supposedly based in the country at the start of the invasion (dunno if it's still going) and a few naughty boys/girls are still creatively jamming UVB-76.

Not exactly anything we didn't suspect, but to remove pretty much all doubt...

Medvedev resorts to hate speech, saying wants all Ukrainians "gone"

“I tell you, I hate them. They are scum and bastards. They want death for us, Russia. And as long as I’m alive, I will do everything to make them gone,” Medvedev wrote on his personal Telegram channel.

Medvedev's frankly fascist statement came against the background of numerous threats he had earlier voiced, addressing Ukraine, NATO, Poland, and other allies of the embattled nation.

However, the article published on the RIA Novosti propaganda resource turned out to be the most outrageous piece targeting Ukraine. It called for the genocide of the Ukrainian people, and also substantiates the alleged need for mass repressions against Ukrainians in order to force them to renounce their own nationality and culture.

Earlier, Russian journalists conducted on Moscow streets a poll on people’s attitudes to the war against Ukraine. Ordinary Russians were heard offering to “wipe Ukraine out” of the face of the earth and take away Ukrainian lands.

https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polyti ... nians.html

Is he unwittingly setting himself up to be the (Russian) scapegoat for the whole thing?