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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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Cascade
Australia5405 Posts
On February 02 2017 11:03 Djzapz wrote: Oh wow this is some fucking top tier drama shit right here. This is not a question but this isn't worth a blog and I can't think of a more fitting place to post about it than this thread which might as well be called "general bullshit". + Show Spoiler + I've been playing videogames with this dude I've known for 5-6 months who lives close to here in Canada (he has a long-time girlfriend) and this girl from Denmark. I find that the two have a weirdly romantic-looking relationship but idk maybe they're just broing out so I don't say anything for the most part. I call her his side-chick jokingly yesterday and he got mad. He's 26-27, she's 18. The girl is the most shy, precious little delicate flower who's afraid to talk and is afraid to play badly and she's just all around terrified of everything. Today she shows up and asks me to tell him to re-add her. Curious as to why they'd have fallen out, I investigate. I work it out: she planned to come to Canada to visit him, and he told her she shouldn't. He said they shouldn't talk anymore, as they've gotten too close. So now I understand the full picture, she's balls deep in love with him. And he grew a conscience and pushed her away. Good on him, I thought, not to lead her on or whatever. So, understanding this and knowing that this girl is vulnerable, I thought I'd just tell her to keep her feelings in check since he has a girlfriend. Assumed she knew this already. She didn't. Poor girl is super sad and heartbroken, it's her first time if she's to be believed (which is not confirmed). So I check with other girl buddy and he was flirting with her too, she also didn't know about his girlfriend. This dude just screws with internet girls and leads them on before dumping them. So now my crew of internet friends is in disarray. I'm mad at the guy because not only is he kind of a dick to the other girl, he's also kind of semi-cheating on his girlfriend. What the fuck. I thought that was exactly what you expect from a girl-drama blog? | ||
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Djzapz
Canada10681 Posts
On February 02 2017 11:11 Dark_Chill wrote: There`s a letting off steam thread, might work there. But man, shitty that people can't just be upfront and end up ruining groups. No feedback on letting off steam  On February 02 2017 11:16 Cascade wrote: I thought that was exactly what you expect from a girl-drama blog? I don't want that shit in my blogs list forever. On February 02 2017 11:15 JimmiC wrote: I read all your drama and it's just that, drama. Who cares play your games have your fun and ignore the noise. Nothing you can do will make it better it will only increase and move the drama. That being said if drama is your thing go for it. It's buddies I play with, yo. The dude is a semi-RL friend, went to a LAN with the guy. Reason I posted my drama on a low-key thread is because it'll die down here, doesn't happen a lot really, but this guy just spawned a shitload of drama. I usually just chill and play gaimz, I haven't seen this kind of shit since my WoW days like 8 years ago. | ||
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xM(Z
Romania5299 Posts
-he talks(and wrote some books) about Francois Mitterand and Mihail Gorbachev’s plans to create a Socialist European Confederation or/and Margaret Thatcher's opposing Germany's reunification, the KGB plan then the MI6 counter plan on (an)iranian revolution, the KGB and the Arab spring, al-Qa’eda's, Ayman al-Zawahiri being a KGB/FSB spy among others. | ||
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Acrofales
Spain18292 Posts
On February 03 2017 19:34 xM(Z wrote: dudes, is there anyone into Pavel Stroilov?(physically or otherwise(mainly otherwise)). -he talks(and wrote some books) about Francois Mitterand and Mihail Gorbachev’s plans to create a Socialist European Confederation or/and Margaret Thatcher's opposing Germany's reunification, the KGB plan then the MI6 counter plan on (an)iranian revolution, the KGB and the Arab spring, al-Qa’eda's, Ayman al-Zawahiri being a KGB/FSB spy among others. Never heard of him, but what you just wrote makes me think he's a run of the mill conspiracy nut. So you haven't exactly inspired me to go and read his work. | ||
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OtherWorld
France17333 Posts
On February 03 2017 19:57 Acrofales wrote: Never heard of him, but what you just wrote makes me think he's a run of the mill conspiracy nut. So you haven't exactly inspired me to go and read his work. He also physically looks like a run of the mill conspiracy nut | ||
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xM(Z
Romania5299 Posts
he allegedly siphoned about 50.000 files from the KGB archives a while back. + Pavel Stroilov is a Russian historian who, in 2004, copied a top-secret Soviet archive of about 50,000 documents from the Gorbachev Foundation, where he was a researcher. He smuggled the documents to the West and was granted political asylum in London. He was a friend of FSB defector Alexander Litvinenko, who was murdered in London with the Russian government widely suspected of being responsible. Stroilov translated and edited his writings after his death, titled Allegations: Selected Works by Alexander Litvinenko. His books include EUSSR: The Soviet Roots of European Integration, co-authored with Vladimir Bukovsky and Behind the Desert Storm: A Secret Archive Stolen From the Kremlin That Shends a New Light on the Arab Revolutions in the Middle East. | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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xM(Z
Romania5299 Posts
- he could've had insurances that in case of his death <bad things for Russia/Putin> happen or his copied archive could've been at most annoying for Putin and at least good book material; anything and everything can be realistically reasoned for or against. | ||
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Thieving Magpie
United States6752 Posts
On February 03 2017 21:44 OtherWorld wrote: He also physically looks like a run of the mill conspiracy nut I don't want to sound crazy--but... Ever wonder why "conspiracy theorists" all look like nut cases? It's actually an old soviet tactic that started during the Vietnam War. KGB spies would steal government secrets but could not figure out how to get it back to the Motherland. But with the advent of TV Media as a popular culture trend, they realized that if the spouted half truths filled with Roswell Aliens and bullshit about Fluoride, they could get information back undetected. As time passed their craziness had to ramp up. Suddenly "crazies" looked less and less normal, and more and more "recognizable." The KGB had to ensure that people were certain their spies remained invisible. However, they've now moved to the dark web, pouring their messages nonstop into secret servers in the north and south poles--the biggest servers the world has ever known. These servers are so large and run so hot its actually starting to melt the ice caps. This is when the Kremlin really had to up their game. They've started a long term plan to destroy the Western World through their propaganda of Climate Change. This was their ultimate conspiracy yet, telling Americans and Europeans that driving cars could melt the poles like a Butterfly causing Typhoons half a hemisphere away--the West are idiots and self preserving, so the Soviets knew they'd believe the lie. And if anyone refused--they could always point to the ice caps starting to melt from the KGB servers and say "it must be global warming!" Ever notice that the crazies telling as about Global Warming all have PhD's and Masters Degrees? People that smart wouldn't be saying such stupid shit. However, the what the Kremlin didn't see coming was America's stubborn refusal to act like an actual Western country and no matter how many papers were publish in scientific journals, half the country still couldn't be convinced. That is when they launched their ultimate Trump card. Dressed as an actual crazy nut job, and raised to spout nothing but innane crazy banter non-stop through un-encrypted media, the Soviets decided to fight ire with fire by tossing one crazy into a world of crazy. The plan was to put a crazy person in charge of the united states to control the anti-science contingent of America. But this person had to be so crazy that the rest of the west would not be swayed by his rhetoric into believing that Climate Change wasn't real. Do you see man? Do you see? Open your eyes sheeple! Open your eyes! Soviets are amongst us! Soviets are amongst us! Don't trust your brothers komrads! | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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xM(Z
Romania5299 Posts
@JimmiC - conspiracy theorists would beg to differ (i think there's a little bit of irony here too); | ||
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xM(Z
Romania5299 Posts
did more digging and it appears that Pavel Stroilov is only half a quack and some of "his copied files" are also found in NSA archives like http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB293/index.htm British prime minister Margaret Thatcher earlier had told Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev that "Britain and Western Europe are not interested in the unification of Germany. The words written in the NATO communiqué may sound different, but disregard them." Top Gorbachev aide Anatoly Chernyaev concluded that Thatcher wanted to prevent unification "with our hands" and not her own. BUT IT"S FINE!, i don't need you; i have the internet.Former U.S. national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski informed Soviet Politburo member Aleksandr Yakovlev, "I openly said that I am in favor of Poland and Hungary remaining in the Warsaw Treaty Organization. Both blocs should not be disbanded right now. I do not know what will happen if the GDR ceases to exist. There will be one Germany, united and strong. This does not correspond to either your or our interests." One of the few highest-level expressions of joy over the fall of the Wall actually occurred in Moscow, in the diary of Gorbachev aide Chernyaev, who wrote on November 10, "The Berlin Wall has collapsed. This entire era in the history of the socialist system is over… That is what Gorbachev has done. And he has indeed turned out to be a great leader. He has sensed the pace of history and helped history to find a natural channel." The new documents, most of them appearing in English for the first time, are part of the forthcoming book, "Masterpieces of History": The Peaceful End of the Cold War in Europe, 1989, edited by the National Security Archive's Svetlana Savranskaya, Thomas Blanton, and Vladislav Zubok and published by the Central European University Press (Budapest/New York) in the Archive's Cold War Reader series edited by Malcolm Byrne. | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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Karis Vas Ryaar
United States4396 Posts
how much would turning the US Mexico border into a canal cost? Plus isn't there like a mountain in the way or something? someone actually apparently thought this was possible. I'm just wondering how feasible something like this actually would be. It seems impossible even just from a logistics standpoint. | ||
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Blisse
Canada3710 Posts
On February 04 2017 09:19 Karis Vas Ryaar wrote: read facebook and saw something I thought was incredibly dumb but thought I'd ask. how much would turning the US Mexico border into a canal cost? Plus isn't there like a mountain in the way or something? someone actually apparently thought this was possible. I'm just wondering how feasible something like this actually would be. Price of Panama canal around $15 billion Length of Panama canal around 75km Length of US-Mexico border around 3200km 15*(3200/75)=640 so like $640 billion? Not sure how calculations would change if you were just building a ditch. Plus accounting for elevation changes, Panama canal's pretty close to sea level. Plus all the other reasons it'd be a silly idea. | ||
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Thieving Magpie
United States6752 Posts
On February 04 2017 09:19 Karis Vas Ryaar wrote: read facebook and saw something I thought was incredibly dumb but thought I'd ask. how much would turning the US Mexico border into a canal cost? Plus isn't there like a mountain in the way or something? someone actually apparently thought this was possible. I'm just wondering how feasible something like this actually would be. It seems impossible even just from a logistics standpoint. Theoretically, with enough nukes, you can very quickly turn anything into a "canal" It would need some fairly loose definitions of what "canal" means | ||
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Karis Vas Ryaar
United States4396 Posts
On February 04 2017 09:33 Blisse wrote: Price of Panama canal around $15 billion Length of Panama canal around 75km Length of US-Mexico border around 3200km 15*(3200/75)=640 so like $640 billion? Not sure how calculations would change if you were just building a ditch. Plus accounting for elevation changes, Panama canal's pretty close to sea level. Plus all the other reasons it'd be a silly idea. yeah plus the Panama canal is freaking huge to get all the ships through and they apparently wanted it as a revenue source so an actual functioning canal. I've actually been to the Panama Canal before so I guess I was right that people have no idea what their talking about | ||
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ZigguratOfUr
Iraq16955 Posts
On February 04 2017 09:36 Thieving Magpie wrote: Theoretically, with enough nukes, you can very quickly turn anything into a "canal" It would need some fairly loose definitions of what "canal" means Operation Plowshare wasn't exactly a roaring success. | ||
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Ghostcom
Denmark4783 Posts
On February 04 2017 09:38 Karis Vas Ryaar wrote: yeah plus the Panama canal is freaking huge to get all the ships through and they apparently wanted it as a revenue source so an actual functioning canal. I've actually been to the Panama Canal before so I guess I was right that people have no idea what their talking about Slightly related: Wasn't it Wales that once (mediaeval times) tried to dig itself away from England? | ||
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