Grumpy

Provider of opinions that nobody asked for, or even wanted. Member of the ironic generation. May contain sarcasm.

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@Auriel_zy I would first question her foresight and planning abilities, the decide that if the work can be done remotely then why not? I mostly work from home myself.

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@MartinSchum9 @AdarshWritess Also except VAX VMS which had a rather complex syntax for directories, not involving backslashes but square brackets.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Negotiations with the Iranian regime

[Four Seasons Total Landscaping @TotalSeasons]

You think that's funny, you should have seen how much we charged him for the privilege.😂😂😂

[Filip Hric @filip_hric]

To all my friends and colleagues learn the damn difference!!! 🇸🇰🇸🇮

[Bricktop_NAFO @Bricktop_NAFO]

Here we go. Have they not seen how the film ends.

[墓碑科技 @mubeitech]

卡德罗夫当众结巴着交底，车臣要凑出8.4万男丁送去乌克兰填线。

短短50秒的讲话视频里，这位平日里在镜头前趾高气扬的车臣头目，舌头打结，身体发颤。
嘴里反反复复塞着口头禅“don”，一连念叨了五遍“8.4万”。

把车臣语和俄语夹杂的原话拆开看，意思非常露骨：
莫斯科给车臣划定的征兵动员储备底盘是8.4万到10万名男性。
卡德罗夫在镜头前强撑着辩解，说只要这8.4万车臣人“自愿”走上前线，共和国就能免掉更难看的强制抓壮丁。

算一笔人口账就知道这个数字有多恐怖。
整个车臣共和国总人口才150万出头。
扣掉老人、妇女和儿童，适龄青壮年男性一共才有多少？
一次性抽出8.4万人塞进俄乌战场的绞肉机，相当于把车臣差不多十分之一的男性人口连根拔起，每几个家庭就要被抽走一个顶梁柱。

那所谓的“自愿”是怎么凑出来的？
纪念人权中心（Memorial）与乌克兰国家抵抗中心（NRC）记录的现场是另一番景象。
在车臣当地，交警拦下交通违章、警察抓到轻微行政违法，甚至网上发句牢骚的年轻人，转头就会被塞进特种部队或俄国防部的征兵车。
不签字上战场，全家人立刻面临连坐和牢狱之灾。

最荒诞的历史循环就在这里。
上世纪90年代到本世纪初的两场车臣战争，莫斯科的大炮和轰炸机把格罗兹尼炸成了废墟，几十万车臣平民死伤流离。
当年车臣人流尽了血抵抗莫斯科的吞并；
今天，普京扶植的代理人卡德罗夫，为了保住自己的家族权位和克里姆林宫的拨款，转头把当年幸存者的儿子们按进征兵办，替毁掉自己家园的帝国充当一次性消耗品。

卡德罗夫在镜头前停不下来的颤抖和结巴，藏不住独裁者爪牙心底的恐惧。
前线缺口越撕越大，莫斯科催命的指标越压越重，连看门人自己都清楚，把整个民族的男丁抽干去填无底洞，这条路走到头会是什么下场。

[Multiverso @MultiversoTM]

Bill Murray retomando su papel de “Atrapado en el tiempo” para un spot publicitario de Jeep.

Maravilloso 🤣

[Daniele 🇺🇦🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @HartreeFock]

1/6 Short thread. The equipment here is damaged, has nothing to do with Israel or Gaza, and is NATO equipment purchased mostly by European NATO countries. The system is known as the Archer troposcatter.

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@Eddystone506 Brexiters love comparing the UK with the worst performing countries in the EU.

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@RasmusJarlov @SavLocal The purpose of WhatsApp is for Meta to collect your personal details, of course. I use it sometimes, but only under protest.

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@SavLocal It appears to be true. I’m Swedish, living in the UK. I still have a Swedish mobile number. Friends in Sweden always try calling me on Messenger (which I don’t have installed). Rarely on my actual mobile number.

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@HeidiBachram

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@RealSpitfire

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@UbbeLothbrok17 Så att man har 20 år kvar att jobba efter att ha krigat.

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@spanaren @DenimDude88 Tidigare satsade man ju mycket på t ex kärnkraft söderut, tills t ex danskarna kom på att de inte ville ha Bärseback och de i Klimatpartiet ville ju förbjuda allt. Bättre att producera elen nära, för vi kommer inte att bygga ut fler älvar. För mycket natur har blivit förstörd.

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@MacallanSWE @UbbeLothbrok17 Vi behöver fler MC-förare.

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@spanaren @DenimDude88 Varför just Umeå?

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@Boyanbc Like France discovered during the napoleotic wars. Dutch people made up surnames such as Naaktgeboren, Zondervan, Poepjes etc.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The scariest guy on the start line of the New York City Marathon on Sunday had never run a marathon.

He'd never even run 26.2 miles in practice. And he picked New York a full year ago for a reason that sounds completely backwards. It's one of the slowest courses in the sport.

He's Andreas Almgren, the Swede who won the world half marathon title in September, and slow was the whole plan.

Most of the big marathons like London, Berlin, Chicago and Tokyo pay pacemakers to drag the leaders through world record splits for most of the race. Those races basically turn into time trials. Whoever can hold the pace the longest wins, and that's usually a guy with 2:02 on his resume.

New York got rid of pacemakers in 2007. Then it throws five bridges at you. The Verrazzano climbs over 150 feet in the very first mile, and Fifth Avenue gains about another 100 between miles 22 and 23, right when your legs are toast.

So nobody runs fast there. The last two winners ran 2:07 and 2:08. The world record is 1:59:30, and New York's course record is 2:04:58. Almgren built his entire debut inside those five and a half minutes.

When nobody's chasing a clock, the pack stays bunched up for 20-plus miles and the whole thing comes down to who still has a sprint left in Central Park. Benson Kipruto won it last year by a hair at the line.

Almgren started out as an 800 meter runner. He ran 1:45.59 back in 2015, which is the kind of finishing speed marathoners almost never carry. He told Swedish TV in August his plan was to sit with the leaders and sprint for the win, and that he'd worry about a fast time on a flat course next year.

Honestly, it's a miracle he made it to a start line at all.

He played soccer for AIK in Stockholm until he was 18 and quit because he kept getting hurt. Running wasn't much kinder to him. He lost about four years to stress fractures, including a broken bone in his foot and a fractured sacrum in 2019, and in 2024 a shin injury knocked him out of the Paris Olympics the day before his 5,000 meter heat.

That sacrum injury ended up shaping how he trains. While he was rehabbing he copied the Norwegian double threshold method from another Swedish runner, Kalle Berglund, where you do two controlled hard sessions in the same day. He still does it every Tuesday and Thursday, and he writes most of his own plan. For this build he ran over 2,000 km in ten weeks with three runs out to 40K. He also spent months training his stomach to handle around 120 grams of carbs an hour, because you can't sprint in Central Park on an empty tank.

He was honest about the part he couldn't train for. He said he'd learned how to suffer for about an hour, and two hours felt like walking into a new world. When it gets bad, he tells himself "don't be a crybaby."

Going into Sunday, no European-born man had won New York since Giacomo Leone in 1996. The guy on his shoulder in this clip is Yeman Crippa, who won the Paris Marathon this year and picked New York because the hills reminded him of Paris.

What you're watching is the last four minutes of a race Almgren started planning last November.