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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (16 children)

Not surprising. It was inevitable from the moment the floodgates opened

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So now we are having hundreds of thousands dead, entire regions devastated and ruined for decades at least. And Boris? Oh he got supposedly banned from running in politics. Not even for that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Makes me suspicious. The media machine never says the full (and rarely says incomplete) truth to the general public. The powers that be have their own channels for communicating the actual picture, without us proles knowing

 

Greetings, comrades. So to cut the story short, my physical state is absolute junk and it's about time to do something about it. I am overweight and lose breath after going up s flight or two of stairs, my back hurts almost daily and lifting things heavier than a backpack is stating to feel hard. All the doctors say I require exercise to resolve most issues. However, due to long commute and a few other issues, I can't really visit gym on a regular basis (plus it's not cheap). So what can I do from home to stop being a useless blob of blubber? For reference, I have a set of dumbbells, but using them hurts tendons in my arms more than it seems to affect the muscles.

I am seeking advice from the comrades

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

5000 is a pretty dang large number. What are the given reasons for this? The usual "it's not economically valid" (aka unprofitable in short term)?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Excellent work! Gotta ask about the bus line - were the authorities planning on closing it? Removing the buses?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

QA engineer. Used to work mainly for front-end of various trade-related websites, currently working with more hardware oriented things. Still essentially trying to break the nice, pretty code of my developers. All in all, not a bad job, pay is decent (something like twice the average for my city), don't have to break my back in manual or deal with customers.

Funnily enough, it was this occupation that had kept me from embracing Marxism for a long time, as I didn't consider myself "proper" proletariat. Proletariat, I thought, were people breaking their backs in factories, construction, etc. I was just a prissy white collar, and any socialist revolution would sweep me away alongside the oligarchs, except they have better chances of escaping justice. It took a good friend to sit down and explain to me the actual definitions of proletariat and bourgeoisie, as well as class interests.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh lovely, so fighting Nazis is now illegal?

 

Josephoartigasia monesi, the largest rodent known to science. Weighing more than a ton, it reached up to 1.5 meters in height. It dwelled in South America during Pliocene and Pleistocene.

Art by James Gurney.

 

Today I bring you something peculiar. Meet Tupilakosaurus. It is an amphibian that dominated western Laurasia in early Triassic, as the biosphere struggled to recover after the Permian extinction.

Tupilakosaurus was a small - just under a meter long - creature, with a long, powerful tail, short limbs and (apparently) external gills, like those of an axolotl. These fine animals lived in rivers without going ashore and hunted small fish or other amphibians.

Tupilakosaurus is a curiosity due to its particular circular vertebrae (pictured below), which is uncommon for their kind of amphibians. Indeed, when first discovered they were originally believed to be fish, and later to be ancestors to Ichthyosaurs.

Despite their short existence, Tupilakosaurus had quite a sizeable habitat, ranging from modern day Greenland to western Russia, such as Vladimir oblast, Nizhny Novgorod region, and all the way to Arkhangelsk and Vyatka. It would take later amphibians millions of years to carve the same range.

 

Today I bring you Benthosuchus - a relative of the Wetlugasaurus from the other week. Another Temnospondyli amphibian, its name translates to "crocodile of the deep". It's skull was ~70 cm long with overall body length reaching 2.5 meters. As with many other amphibians of this order, its eyes were closer to the top of the skull, aiming them upwards. This indicates that the animal was an ambush predator, waiting patiently just underwater until it was ready to strike.

The typical species, Benthosaurus sushkini, was logged by Ivan Efremov in 1929, with overall genus classified in 1936.

 

Thus I bring you Vetlugasaurus. Despite the -saurus in the name, it is in fact an Amphibian of the Temnospondyli order, which lived in what is now Russia and Greenland during the early Triassic period.

Originally discovered and categorized in 1920-s, it is named after river Vetluga - on the shores of which the first fossil was found. The skull measures ~22 cm, with overall body length ranging from 75 cm to 3 meters.

In 2018, a full skull was found.

 

Bonus: artistic rendition of its looks

 

The gorgonopsid was named after the river Vyatka in the Kirov oblast, near which it's been found. Kirov, of course, has been named after Sergey Kirov.

 

Have this beautiful dromeosaurus I found on r/Sino

 

Analysis of the bone structure of Multituberculata demonstrates that they gave birth to relatively large babies, with a fairly short period of milk feeding - similair to modern day rodents.

This is in contrast to Marsupials, who birth tiny babies and milk feed them for quite a long time.

 

"A dress for the Tupandactil"

 

Okay so hear me out, please.

Tyranids, as all other "hivemind aliens" have likely been created originally as part of the Red Scare. Don't think I need to explain this one. GW took it a step further with Genestealers - who use rousing rhetoric (and mind control) to make "the masses" rise up against their oppressors, but are ultimately devoured by the swarm. They (GW) don't shy away from giving GSCs imagery very blatantly inspired by Communist art.

BUT

As always with anti-communist fiction, it is projection. And the things depicted work much better for capitalism. After all, what drives Tyranids? Hunger. That's it, just endless appetite, voracious desire to have ALL, even if it means stripping entire planets bare. No deviation from the dogma is allowed, just look at the western media and try telling me it's not a "hivemind".

And if we go to Genestealers, what are they if not an allegory for colour "revolutions"? Using sweet sounding rhetoric about brotherhood, unity and freedom they force the proletariat to weaken and destroy their society in order for the cult's foreign masters to sweep in and devour it all.

Thank you for reading.

 

The video is in Russian, but I don't think that would be a big issue

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