Estimate was 30KT stored there. Most of it went up, even in the hardened bunker sections.
The north west section was completely obliterated. A lot of that was just out in the open so I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the massive fireball.
For reference, Hiroshima was 15KT but obviously this was cooking off for a long time after that big blast.
Suchomimus does a decent breakdown. 60 bunkers confirmed destroyed. Some still unclear because of smoke. 30KT of explosives apparently stored at this site. Absolutely incredible work by Ukraine.
Javelins are pretty good kit.
I mean there’s a saint named after them.
And yeah it would seem crazy to sacrifice it if it wasn’t damaged in fairness.
What a great twist. I’ve had solid success with ChatGPT for stuff like that in the past so put your description in and it couldn’t come up with anything.
It did give some useful information which I can paste in here if you don’t have an account?
Mostly it was asking if you could remember any other detail like character names, setting or even tone of the writing.
I heard about a guy once, who was a POW, and his friend wanted him to keep a watch for his son so he shoved it way up there.
The reference for the younger among us.
Must be great to have such a consistent shipper of arms that lets you use them however you want.
This one sparks joy.
My wife and one of my kids is a lefty. I’ve kinda grown used to half looking out for it in others but only idly. It was fun watching each of the kids to see if any of them would be.
A friend of mine dropped an absolute bomb one day that I’ll never forget: “There’s only right handed and wrong handed”. Definitely more than 20 years ago now but I never forgot it because I laughed so hard.
LOLOL. I’m actually chuckling away out loud here.
“Dig out some of the best footage from the war that we have”
“Yes boss. Done.”
“NOT THAT YOU DONKEY”
Like everyone and their mother knows that’s Ukrainians doing God’s work in the trench.
I also found the whole thing more than a bit distasteful tbh and I’m a huge supporter of Ukraine.
Any lady that old is going to say whatever the hell she needs to to get soldiers (of any kind, I’d wager) away from her. Like there’s no question she considers Kursk to be Russian so any Ukrainian soldier trying to get her to say “oh yeah, the Ukrainian army is great” and she does it is down to the power imbalance.
Like what was she supposed to say? “No lads, you fuck off home now” and hope for the best that she doesn’t get shot?
Yeah, they’re doing incredible work. BBC saying they’re now creating their own prepared lines of defence so it looks like they’re there to stay for the long haul.
Many thanks!
Ah that’s very kind and I’d love to take that level of credit but tbh it came from a moment of reflection doing one of those things that we all do when we’re young which is to over-examine our previous actions.
Sometimes that’s really healthy and in adulthood absolutely imperative (edit: especially as a parent and I try so hard to be a good one) but when you’re young that looking back and cringing can lead to unkindness towards yourself when you’re still growing into who you’ll be.
It was just a decent moment of cop on but it really did serve me well.
Edit: And hey… Don’t stress too much about whether you’re an adult. As long as you’re trying to be a good person and reflect (not too harshly) on your mistakes then jog on, friend.
I don’t actually mind if someone’s been a cunt to me as long as they reflect on it and say sorry. We’re all a cunt occasionally because life isn’t smooth. Sometimes external stressors or being caught up in a moment cause you to behave in ways that aren’t you and result in regret. That’s OK. It’s the reflection with intent to improve and communicating it to your loved ones, usually by saying sorry, that’s really, really important IMO.
For anyone over the age of 26, I want you to think back to how you saw the world when you were 18.
I had a rule that I think is solid… If I looked back two years and thought I was an idiot then I probably was still one.
27 year old me realised I’d become a man at 25.
Serial killers everywhere taking note at the excitement levels in this thread.
That’s fascinating. If you don’t mind me asking what percentage would you say were angry? And where were you knocking? (Approximately).
I worked in a call centre for a summer (no hard sell but it was an awful job) and location and politeness were directly correlated.
I’ve only had one JW call to my door. I’m atheist a long time now. Well over thirty years but we had a very nice interaction. He called back a second and third time, bless his heart.
Yeah it’s hugely popular. According to that article the 14th highest-rated show of all time on IMDB. It was an event for my kids when Disney started releasing the last part of season 3 weekly on a Sunday a few months back.
It’s also a very easy watch as an adult tbh. Like some kids shows are brain death to have to sit through for a cuddle and this is definitely not one of them.
This picture from that set really got me.
In my youth I used to have to “make weight” for fights so you naturally start doing the numbers with food about 6-8 weeks out and you become used to gaining and losing weight and have an understanding of the discomfort that’s involved. You also become good at eyeballing people for their weight class.
That man in the picture on the phone was a chonk (not being offensive here, he was a big lad). He looks over 90KG to me and a lot of it is muscle (edit: that’s 200lbs in freedom units). His biceps and triceps are big. He’s a strong man.
The man holding the picture of his former self has been starved. Your body uses fat stores for energy, but it needs more than just energy. You need vitamins, minerals and essential amino acids.
If you’re using it in any way, your body will generally hold onto muscle unless there’s a shortfall in essential amino acids and at that point it looks at your muscles as reserves.
That is what happened here. He was given so little food that all his fat reserves were used and so little nutrition that his body ate it’s muscle to survive.
Very nice package. No mention of striking inside Russia unfortunately. :(