Cult Icon Posted March 30, 2022 Posted March 30, 2022 Ukr defense got nearly split in half yesterday, it might be cut in two by today. Russians are withdrawing units from the Northern theater and are likely to either 1. move them to Russia to refit 2. send them into the Donbas. After Mariupol falls they should have a relatively fresh naval inf brigade left plus the Chechen National Guard. The 150th Mot. Inf division should be heavily battered and of least value to them. Two fresh naval inf brigades are being held in reserve, one in the North and one in Donbas. A day before the Russian announcement the Ukr started counterattacking their threatened position south of Izyum, engaging in attritional fighting. A new battle for the Donbas is forming right now, I think the Russians are gathering forces for X-day. Quote
Cult Icon Posted March 30, 2022 Posted March 30, 2022 Pictures of what happens when a cruise missile hits a building: Quote
Cult Icon Posted March 30, 2022 Posted March 30, 2022 On 3/28/2022 at 6:24 PM, Enrico_sw said: @Cult Icon Do you read other media outside of the US (like French, Italian or Spanish media)? I read the Anglo-saxon, French and sometimes Italian press. The anglo-saxon press is often of poor quality (not just in the US, but the Canadian or British media as well). With this conflict or generally? With this conflict I am mainly following Ukr and Russian sources plus a Ukr news aggregator. ISW and Militaryland have been providing daily summaries of Ukr sources for the war. Generally I use US/UK media and news aggregators with free flowing headlines I prefer hard facts with no opinion, I tend to like reuters as they report the data point/event but don't comment on it. Quote
Cult Icon Posted March 30, 2022 Posted March 30, 2022 11 hours ago, Matt! said: When I heard that McDonald's and other questionable brands leave Russia I wonder if this is actually a net positive for them to leave. I mean, McDonald's should leave the US too LOL. Quote
Cult Icon Posted March 30, 2022 Posted March 30, 2022 On 3/28/2022 at 6:27 PM, Enrico_sw said: I've seen reports of Mayors being abducted, but not civilians. If true, it's interesting. Do you have the source of this info? Yeah, there are mayors being abducted, one was released in exchange for Russian POW. They have also been trading Ukr POW for Russian POW. I don't have a particular article, with news aggregator I just routinely see news of large numbers ( XXX, XXX in total )of refugees going to Russia or being transported by the Russians. Including one Russian state article that said that they were "protecting" these refugees from the Ukr! Quote
Matt! Posted March 30, 2022 Posted March 30, 2022 32 minutes ago, Cult Icon said: When I heard that McDonald's and other questionable brands leave Russia I wonder if this is actually a net positive for them to leave. I mean, McDonald's should leave the US too LOL. Questionable? Quote
Matt! Posted March 30, 2022 Posted March 30, 2022 47 minutes ago, Cult Icon said: Pictures of what happens when a cruise missile hits a building: "wE DoN'T BoMb cIvIlIaN InFrAsTrUcTuRe" - Russia Quote
Enrico_sw Posted March 30, 2022 Posted March 30, 2022 3 hours ago, Matt! said: That's real sad. This guy is an awesome actor and a very humble guy Quote
Enrico_sw Posted March 30, 2022 Posted March 30, 2022 9 hours ago, Cult Icon said: With this conflict or generally? With this conflict I am mainly following Ukr and Russian sources plus a Ukr news aggregator. ISW and Militaryland have been providing daily summaries of Ukr sources for the war. Generally I use US/UK media and news aggregators with free flowing headlines I prefer hard facts with no opinion, I tend to like reuters as they report the data point/event but don't comment on it. Yes on this conflict, but also more generally. I don't trust US/UK media very much, but I'm sure Reuters is more factual than "opinion media". I feel that more and more newspapers around the world are copying US articles, because of budget cuts (and most journalists speak English and it's very easy to copy and translate an article). I see the US media as the equivalent of fast food restaurants. It's cheap, it's unhealthy, everyone complains that it's crap, but they love to go there anyway... There's an obesity epidemic and there's a "dumbing down" epidemic, but somehow, in both instances, the prime pathogen agents don't face lots of immune defenses... Quote
Cult Icon Posted March 30, 2022 Posted March 30, 2022 For general business/financial news I use Wall Street Journal/Barron's the most as I'm US focused. International- Financial times, maybe a quick browse of the somewhat trashy Economist. Quote
Cult Icon Posted March 31, 2022 Posted March 31, 2022 7 hours ago, Matt! said: I heard he did a lot of direct to TV movies recently where he was barely in the movie. He was just used to generate interest in the movies. Questionable brands like "vice" industries- soda, junk food, gambling, and other bad services/products Quote
Cult Icon Posted March 31, 2022 Posted March 31, 2022 4 hours ago, Enrico_sw said: I see the US media as the equivalent of fast food restaurants. It's cheap, it's unhealthy, everyone complains that it's crap, but they love to go there anyway... There's an obesity epidemic and there's a "dumbing down" epidemic, but somehow, in both instances, the prime pathogen agents don't face lots of immune defenses... I think the transition to lower quality/higher quantity came during the transition from print to internet media. Newspapers used to be big bundles, filled with much longer/detailed articles and a lot of advertisements. Eg. the Journal and the Times were maybe 3 times bigger when I was growing up. Now it's driven by the desire to get the information "consumer" to click on it, to stimulate interest/entertain rather than inform. So it is important to make a lot of trash articles with poor quality opinion and misformation The more time the media wastes of their consumers, the better it is for their own revenue. There is theory, that I'm less sure of- where the proliferation of journalism schools and journalism degrees damaged the quality of journalism. So instead of being staffed by long-standing middle aged and old people with regional expertise, there was a big influx of young journalists that joined the fray. Quote
Matt! Posted April 1, 2022 Posted April 1, 2022 Patrick Demarchelier, Fashion Photographer, Dies at 78 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/31/style/patrick-demarchelier-dead.html RIP. Quote
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