So in essence:

• US warns Russia for planned terror attack in Moscow

• Russian government and Putin specific either ignore it for the reason the west is fooling them because would fit narrative for the war in Ukraine. Or

• Russian government is just incompetent to do anything with that information. Or they know and deliberately don’t do anything with it to link it to Ukraine (even though the perpetrators are IS). Since this was also done in 1999 to blame the Chechnyans, it would fit the profile.

Either way it will be Soviet style lying. The incompetence will be wiped under the rug. The deliberate holding back information and not adequate precautions will not be easily to be proven, yet it creates the narrative for the mobilisation. Fear is Russia’s weapon of mass destruction, the lies are the instruments to fire those weapons.

“Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid.”

My 127% prediction can still be realized. The 400k+ votes from the Ukraine still need to come in. That has some delay as not all registered voters have been identified…

There is a substantial Russian influence in Niger and surrounding countries. https://www.dw.com/en/niger-russia-sahel/a-66494597

He’ll win with 127% of the votes. AfD, Fidesz, FvD and others have witnessed a very fair and democratic ellection

Exactly this. You see the same in gaming. The amount of remasters of once original successful games is increasing by the year.

Jesus will not return. Fuck he has been on welfare for 2024 years. Why would the man return from retirement if he can live life as the richest person ever existed in a paradise that they told us all about /s

The nuclear wording is as north Korea launching rockets from time to time. It’s really to try and stay relevant.

He has his hands full against a country that is running out of ammo. Bully will always say and do bullishness things.

Should the title not be “Putin’s ally Trump to end the Ukraine war is to totally cut off funding, says Putin’s closes (hopefully soon out of the EU and NATO) ally”

Believe it or not, they still use the .SU top Domain Name. Which they got just before shit inploded in 1991. So just based on that fact they will say “,нет товарищ or no comrade”

100% correct. This is the shoot first ask questions later variant of stealing land.

For only 799. I have the feeling with nVidia’s current tailwind, prices will not be mild.

To me it sounds like these Religious organizations need to start getting taxed, if you can spend that kind of money on a con artist.

War economy for the US would for me be like during WW2. 800+ billion a year is basically planned so you can’t really call that a war economy.

It’s also war economy (Russia) vs non-war economy (Europe/US) which is a big difference. Plus even if you would move into a war economy, to ramp up production will cost time.

Insightful, thanks !

I partially agree with you. Yes mixing and mastering is far more important than bitrate. However if I let my gf listen to a identical song both in normal 16/44khz and 24 bit version, she can hear difference. Now is it night and day ? Not always, but subtle Improvement can matter when enjoying music.

Actually this is a good deal. Curation on tidal is good, meaning they have cool playlists handpicked by people. In the past when I used it it was with questionable MQA encoding, which had a lot of controversy. But 24/192khz flac, If you care about audio quality is a better offer than Qobuz.

Can’t go wrong for the price. But I think the main driver should be audio quality. Because FLAC files (esp 24/192khz) can be very data hungry, for those who use it mobile only. So you need to be careful with that. You can use lower sample rates and higher bitrate mp3 as well if my memory serves well. But that defeats a bit the purpose of what Tidal stands for

Qobuz

EDIT: this is when you have audio quality preferences and currating like Tidal does. But in the end it’s a matter of taste. Platform A has sometimes songs and albums that platform B does not have and vice versa.

But for your decision making, you can’t go wrong with Tidal. If you have a good dac/hifi installation, you may want to opt for hifi plus. But the lossless plain hifi subscription is perfect if you are not super sound picky and not having a above decent installation.

EDIT EDIT:

They are merging hifi and hifi plus to a 10.99 offering. That is actually very good value if you don’t care about the DJ part. I am even considering this to ditch my Qobuz sub.

Haha ignore this post

Because Russia has still a pretty good way of sending rockets to space. The bigger question would be, why you want to do this? And 2nd how would you cool this with no water on the moon

Maybe it was his purpose. It’s basically ammo for feeding his narrative about “how the west is bad, look what they make me do”.

I mean the level of mental gymnastics the Russian government has been performing is like 9d chess /s