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By Ukraine or Russia?

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Actually a legit question.

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No it’zz not.

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It is, tho.

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Alexei Chernykh of Russia’s anti-corruption police was killed while doing garden work

Must have been Russia. They dislike anything that is anti-corruption.

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I’d be willing to bet that their anti-corruption police are just as corrupt as their normal police.

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I like to think he was killed for shaking down the normal police for bribes to cover their corruption.

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Well they are trying to free Ukraine from nazis with nazis,… so it’s kind of their m.o.

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Corruption = anti-Putin

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And you are correct.

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I’m guessing that these corruption police are just for appearances, or to be used to get rid of anything that Putin himself labels as “corruption”, since they work for him.

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Well there’s corruption that flows to you, but corruption that doesn’t flow to you? You better believe that’s a paddlin’.

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No, they are making sure that corruption is done correctly.

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No, they are for checked box. FSB and GRU does all getting rid of.

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But since everyone is corrupt in Russia, anti-corruption means you can go after whoever you want to get out of the way.

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I figured out the culprit.

Since logically, we would blame the second in command at the anticorruption police, the culprit is number 3 who’s hoping to frame number 2

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I’m surprised he didn’t fall out of a window while mowing lawn. It’s anybody’s guess at his time.

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28 points

Yes.

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Alexei Chernykh of Russia’s anti-corruption police was killed while doing garden work at his country cottage in Shchetinovka, Russia - just 1,000ft from the Ukraine border.

If he was with the anti-corruption police, it might have been someone in the military (with access to drones) that he was investigating for corruption.

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Or, and this might be a crazy theory, if he was only 1k feet from the Ukrainian border, maybe, just maybe, Ukraine got him, since he would be a high profile target and Russia is currently at war with Ukraine. He worked for Putin, so despite the “anti-corruption” title, the chances of him actually going after real corruption is slim to none. “Corruption” in this case probably just means “whoever Putin is mad at atm”. Even if he was killed by his own team for whatever reason, the one behind it would most likely be Putin himself.

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Alexei Chernykh of Russia’s anti-corruption police

Who knows but he probably had many enemies in his own team.

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Man it would suck to be in any sort of military or political position there. Never knowing from day to day who you are going to piss off next or what window you are going to get pushed out of.

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7 points

The Spanish Inquisition

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8 points

Well I guess nobody expected that.

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I hope he had just started mowing, man that would suck to mow for an while then get vaporized.

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I don’t know, a lawn with just a small portion mowed and the rest standing tall? That shit would haunt me in my own afterlife.

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36 points

The knife missile could take care of both problems at once.

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Brought to you by the fine folks at Raytheon™

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From the makers of KnifeWrench™️

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Here’s how I picture it. Half way through in the middle of the row with a 1 to 2 root crater marking the transition between the neat grass and the unmowed grass

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“phew. Last strip…blyat”

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Organic fertilizer

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finishes mowing

Regular Orc: “Looks great! Just need to finish the edging with the weed-gets vaporized

Ghost Orc realizing his edging will remain undone for eternity: blyat

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Hopefully the HOA fines out…

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In Russia HOAs work differently. Basically the only thing they do is managing water distribution(pipes) and other infra. Except electricity, this done by distribution company.

Municipality on the other hand will eat you ass uncooked if they find Sosnovsky Hogweed on your property.

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Uhh, it was financial police, not military or regular police. Basically office worker, that poorly does own job(considering scale of corruption in Russia).

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I bet you used to call arabs towel heads. Im just an orc to you. Oh wait no Im ukrainian. That means im a special boy.

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Waaaaaaaaaaa. sniff sniff Mom! A guy online called someone else online a fictional monster, and now I’m upset! Come hug me, because I’m easily emotionally triggered and a shithead!

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I really like airships as a concept, but they have a major flaw in any universe where planes exist. A plane is much faster than an airship, so airships must be large enough for the mass transport of goods and people via them to be practical. If a plane can haul 10 people from London to Washington Dc in 10 hours, then an airship needs to be able to haul something more economical. Perhaps 100 people in 24 hours. Assuming some degree of technological stagnation, this consideration can allow a dieselpunk setting to have some degree of economic realism.

I really do like the idea of a world war one era for the technology in my airship setting, but I really do feel like I need to be careful when having planes be a part of the picture.

Similarly, I must make sure to have the combat exciting, and sometimes that means sacrificing realism for the sake of awesome air pirate fights. For example, having people run around on the deck of an airship is more important than whether or not running around on the top of a ship going that fast would actually work.

Thanks for reading this comment. I know it might sound like gibberish, but thinking out loud has really helped me work on my Communist steampunk yaoi. It will be very NSFW and involve themes based around the AIDs epidemic and drug addiction, both of which are subjects near and dear to my heart.

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Aww, are you jealous of the Ukrainians who are being invaded by your country?

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Kbin showing a fucking Manga as preview is just hillarious lol

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WTF is up with the random preview images anyway?

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It’s a bug that I saw described in detail at some point. Under a specific set of circumstances (I don’t know what those are) it shows the thumbnail from some other submitted link.

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I… don’t suppose you have a screenshot? Lol

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That’s …. Beautiful.

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Anyone know what that those cells are from?

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3 points

Maybe a hash collision or something

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LMAO, it’s true.

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I’m getting a lemmy vs Reddit meme shitpost on artemis.camp

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I see the KGB stopped trying to be subtle about it

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Pretty sure this was Ukraine. Hard to keep track, it’s dangerous to work for Putin

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I’m guessing Ukraine or Putin doing it to make it look like Ukraine.

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Yeah probably Ukraine though, he’s a legitimate military target within their operational range and currently was not on putins shit list

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