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The Guardian says the new Russian war film "The Witness" is a complete failure and is playing to empty movie theaters.

Terrible writing, incompetent acting, poor lighting, no production value, complete and utter lies and propaganda paid for by Vlad Putler himself and if you watch it there is a non zero probability you will go blind.

Some other western reviews-

Reddit:

Witness, First Russia propaganda film about Ukraine invasion plays to empty theatres, nets $140,000

NYPost:

No one in Russia is going to see a Kremlin propaganda film fictionalizing and justifying the invasion in Ukraine

Seattle Times:

The Ukraine war, propaganda-style, is coming to Russian movie screens.

After reading these great reviews I'de like to see the film but so far haven't been able to locate a copy.

I've always wanted to create a ecommerce site that has a checkout cart with a check box marked:

[ ] Veterans and First Responders

and if you check the box it adds %10 to the total bill.

BRICCS

Can we have a moment of silence on the news mega?

RF hit Chernigov Drama Theater with an Iskander and word on the street is 11 senior NATO got got i'm cryin rn

Russia made a drone that is launched from a kornet tube

I should point out this isn't mine. I'm looking for some bike parts and I came across on an Amazon review and thought it was pretty funny and very representative of America . The buyers name was 'IBUYTOOMUCHSTUFF'

I don't understand who really makes decisions in Ukraine. What individual or group of people need to make the call on suing for peace? Ukraine has a unicameral parliament (Verkhovna Rada) with 450 members not including prez, prime minister and cabinet. Any law passed by the parliament can be vetoed by the president; parliament can override their veto with a 2/3 constitutional majority vote. Rada's history reads like a shitshow (fist fights, bribes, Ponzi schemes etc.) and they don't inspire a lot of confidence.

March 2022 everybody was saying Zelensky would be assassinated if he didn't take a hard line and other Ukrainians have already been murdered for even suggesting a peace deal with Russia so in this kind of a paranoid environment who would even do that? Are they really waiting for Biden to give them an ok? Russia seems to still be in land acquisition mode. If they start an offensive in the north and far south while holding the line in the middle they could force Ukraine to choose between Odessa and Kiev. Once they secure the south they could make the situation untenable for Ukie politicians and bypass USA/UK approval (maybe) for a peace deal. Ukrainian leaders like those big bags of USD but you can't spend it when your dead.

Just finished Liu Cixin's 'The Three Body Problem' where Venezuela defeats the USA in a guerrilla war. It got me thinking that if I took 100 seasoned RF off the front line and put them on one side of a field with 10 artillery pcs and I took 100 USA military and put them on the other side of the field with the same 10 guns and ammo the RF would eat USA for dinner and poop little pcs of them the next morning. The same is probably true for the Ukies. Ukrainians would have their guns ready and drone swarms in the air locking in coords before the Americans knew what hit them. When the Russians are being honest they admit Ukrainians hit hard. Get lazy for a minute, sit on top of a trench and smoke a cig and a Ukrainian sniper will give you a lobotomy. Launch mortars from the same spot for too long and they will hit you with artillery rounds. Use whatsapp to say Hi Mom and himars soon to follow. In a real war the US would face a huge learning curve.

This is a good example on how the exploitation works. By gaming the system and picking off the best orders you're making good money but these type of comments are Survivorship bias . Doordash model makes money off of all the orders in aggregate and needs a steady supply of churners to pick up all the rest of the orders and deliver. MTurk has the same model. When it started I did it for six months and made +$20 hour by figuring out the system and using software to snag the best jobs but amazon makes money from all the penny machine learning jobs and not the occasional $15 psych study. By gaming it I helped guarantee new people on the bottom would churn $2 hour for a month and wash out. The insidious nature of it is that they use us to exploit ourselves.