Николанидвораевич

гражданин второсортной эпохи

[Mark Krutov @kromark]

I decided this video needs some slow motion.

[Andrei Zakharov @skazal_on]

История российских медиа от фраз «Редакция не до конца отдрочена» (2014) до «Просто когда ебут, хотелось бы понимать, за что» (2026)

[Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 @bayraktar_1love]

Russian mobile fire group training goes wrong while using a YakB-12.7 rotary machine gun developed for a Mi-24 helicopter mount

This is what happens when an aircraft rotary gun with brutal angular recoil is treated like a regular ground weapon.

They ignored that fact, slapped it onto a ground setup for a mobile fire group, and assumed it would work like a regular stationary machine gun.

(Full version, no watermarks)

[Николанидвораевич @barbartosh]

Show us TTM please

[Tibo @thsottiaux]

You know it's a good model when you grow more in 1 day than last two weeks combined.

Install the desktop app from https://t.co/K5PquKnV4q and give it a go!

[Alexander Pomazuev @APomazuev]

Andrey Melnichenko, in his interview with The Economist, promotes Vladimir Putin’s ideas to its audience.

When reading lengthy interviews with Putin’s oligarchs, such as Andrey Melnichenko, the principal error is to regard them as independent actors. Russia is a personalist autocracy in which political will is dictated by a single individual, although this may be articulated by thousands of voices. Given this diversity, for every audience—including the readership of The Economist—Putin can select the appropriate voice through which to convey his ideas.

Should this assessment appear exaggerated, it is worth recalling that in 2023 Andrey Melnichenko transferred half a billion US dollars to the Sirius educational centre, established at Putin’s initiative, after the Prosecutor General’s Office attempted to seize the associated energy company SIBECO through the courts. Melnichenko is entirely dependent upon the Russian authorities. Nor is he the first oligarch to voice positions advantageous to the Kremlin. On 22 August 2024, another oligarch, Alisher Usmanov, stated in an interview with Corriere della Sera that the sanctions had been a grave error, since “they wished to harm the Russian economy, and now it is growing”. Do these prominent appearances by oligarchs in the foreign press indicate that they hold independent positions and seek to distance themselves from the Kremlin? No. These are Putin’s thoughts, expressed in a voice that a Western audience is more likely to heed. At most, they form part of a campaign to mitigate the sanctions pressure that is proving so damaging to the Putin regime.

In Russia’s business environment there are no independent actors prepared to voice their own thoughts publicly. This is particularly evident amid the largest state campaign of private-property expropriation in thirty years. Melnichenko’s words in his essay—that “Ukrainian security built on the permanent negation of Russia’s sovereign agency is equally unstable”—are Putin’s words verbatim. No one has deprived Russia of its sovereignty or denied its existence. This purported problem exists solely in the mind of the Russian dictator. The same source yields the claim that “In the eyes of Russia, the war in Ukraine is a war against the West as a whole”. This is propaganda in its purest form, contradicting sociological data according to which 76 per cent simply desire peace. The Kremlin likewise promotes the notion that Russian sovereignty is perceived as a threat. What is in fact regarded as a threat is aggression against another sovereign state, not Russia’s sovereignty. All such statements should therefore be understood as ideas that Melnichenko has merely been tasked with articulating.

Putin’s core proposition is straightforward: every alternative to his rule would be worse. Melnichenko outlines four such scenarios:
- A humiliated Russia, brimming with revanchist sentiment;
- Russia collapsing into anarchy as warlords contend for power;
- Russia falling under the domination of foreign powers;
- Russia turning inward, in the manner of North Korea.
Each of these scenarios is calculated to alarm a Western audience and thereby to justify the proposition that Russia should be left undisturbed, its authoritarian regime permitted to endure without external interference. What is conspicuously absent from discussions of Russia’s future is a realistic scenario: the transition of the authoritarian regime following Putin’s departure from power. A personalist autocracy cannot remain unchanged after the leader’s exit. Transformation is inevitable. The only question is whether this transition will lead to democratisation or will evolve into another authoritarian form.

The principal theses that Melnichenko seeks to obscure are these: first, that transformation is impossible under Putin and inevitable thereafter; second, that during any transformation the central question is whether it will assume a democratic character.

Through Melnichenko, Putin conveys the request that the regime should not be driven to collapse, but that Russia should be left in its current condition. The difficulty is that Europe has already followed this path, turning a blind eye not only to domestic repressions but also to hybrid warfare and the annexation of territories belonging to other states. Over two decades this has allowed the monster to grow.

Returning to the scenarios with which Melnichenko seeks to frighten his audience, it is impossible to overlook that two of them are already unfolding simultaneously under the existing authoritarian regime: Russia is becoming ever more dependent upon China and is increasingly assuming the characteristics of North Korea. This is a threat to the current state of affairs within Russia, not to the regime transformation that Melnichenko is trying to prevent.

[Николанидвораевич @barbartosh]

ICE is a criminal organization

[Rep. Becca Balint @RepBeccaB]

ICE killed a man without wearing body cameras all because someone in his van “resembled the target” though it wasn’t them.

Now we’ve learned that the agents lied about what happened, mocked the man they shot as he was dying, and stripped his ID from him when they brought him to the hospital.

[Дары моря @Kali_Jugent]

Идея для хоррора «Пять через два»: герой попадает во временную петлю длиной в 7 дней, в ходе которой он 5 дней ходит на унылую работу, а в выходные бухает с друзьями, пытаясь найти выход из сложившейся ситуации. К концу фильма герой с ужасом осознаёт, что никакой петли не было.

[Николанидвораевич @barbartosh]

@Nekrolm Осталось решить system design и можно на интервью

[Николанидвораевич @barbartosh]

@vbldra_v_getraX А что случилось, почему девочка осталась совсем одна, ебаные вы мрази?

[This You? @Thiss_Youu]

ICYMI, he won $500,000 + reinstated

[Rep. Jack Kimble @RepJackKimble]

The Islamic Republic of Japan is now threatening to block The Strait of Hormuz following hostilities with the United States.

[Дорогой Иван Эдуардович 🐋 @feofanov]

Ребят, давайте навалимся.

Медиазона это едва ли не единственное СМИ, которое является, не побоюсь громкого слова, мерилом качества.

И то, что мне порой не нравится их публикации или подходы, совершенно не меняет этого факта.

Медиазона это наше достояние и надо его сохранить.

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

CHART OF THE DAY: This is how the IMF believes the oil market has adjusted to the Strait of Hormuz disruption.

“The global economy as a whole has, so far, weathered the shock from the war better than feared,” the IMF said in an update of its World Economic Outlook report.

[Николанидвораевич @barbartosh]

@ianbremmer Wait what happened to Lord Buckethead?

[Николанидвораевич @barbartosh]

@NataliaAntonova Preaches about throwing stones

[Николанидвораевич @barbartosh]

What the hell is this naming

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday.

We’re expanding preview access globally now.

[Николанидвораевич @barbartosh]

@tagir_valeev Ну лучше от тебя, чем во дворе

[Николанидвораевич @barbartosh]

@OlgaBeshley Миминко!

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

Graham Platner’s history of sexual assault proves he does not belong in the US Senate. He belongs on the Supreme Court.

by Susan Collins

[Covie @covie_93]

The allegations against graham platner are so disturbing to the point where susan collins will support him for SCOTUS justice.