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[hector13]

Russian cops are corrupt, the bribes they take allow them to live an upper class lifestyle. I know this because I used to provide expensive services for one. I think they abandoned the concept of doing the right thing a long time ago.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66924404

I think part of the reason they take bribes is because they don’t get paid very much.

But sure, tar a group of people as bad because you think one you dealt with was bad.

[Strongpoint]

On February 28, for the first time in 18 years, Transnistria will hold a congress of deputies of the so-called "Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR)". The opposition believes that at the meeting they will ask Putin to "accept" them into Russia

"Leader" of Transnistria Vadim Krasnoselsky said he is initiating the congress because of "pressure from Moldova". The oppositionist Gennady Chorba is sure that they received such an order from Moscow.

The very next day, on February 29, Putin is scheduled to deliver his address to the Russian Federal Assembly.



Hmmm. Interesting. Not that it changes anything militarily, we already have to keep forces on the border with this thing.

[Bumber]

Put down the crack pipe, please.

Mmm hmm.

Wanna tell me what this is, right here?

Spoiler: Captured "Shrimp" (click to show/hide)

Looks like a broken image to me.

Based on your description, I'm wondering the relevance. Waiting to see where on the doll Trump touched you.

[nenjin]

It loads for me.

Can't wait for you to blame Biden for your image not loading, and how images were served better under Trump.

[martinuzz]

People who were arrested for placing flowers at memorials for Navalny have been sentenced to join the army and will be sent to Ukraine.

I can't seem to find any evidence of this, can you give a source?

Can't find the article I read earlier today, but instead my newspaper has written a somewhat more extensive report on it.

8 people that were arrested in st. Petersburg were threatened by police that they would break their fingers if they would not sign the papers for joining the army.
According to activist group Idete Lesom (meaning 'get out of here'), people in other cities that were arrested for laying flowers received papers for joining the army as well.

Refusing to join can get you up to 2 years prison time.
It is not certain that people who join will be sent to Ukraine. Legally, draftees are not allowed to be sent to the front, but people are terrified that they will be, regardless, and once you are enlisted, you are no longer allowed to leave the country, and even have to leave your passports at the recruitment office to make sure they don't leave.

https://www.volkskrant.nl/navalny-overleden/bloemenleggers-voor-navalny-moeten-voor-straf-het-russische-leger-in~b4887e22/

[Maximum Spin]

Ah, okay, that would explain why I couldn't find anything saying that they would be sent to Ukraine. I'd say that it's pretty unlikely, since it hasn't happened yet, but a posting in "the new Russian territories" that are part of Ukraine is, I think, legally possible.

[Starver]

Looks like a broken image to me.

Nothing seems to be wrong with it, SFAICT. Seems (without opening it with a more analytical file-reader than I have immediately at hand) to be perfectly standard image-data.

Possible options:
1) Your connection glitched, your system broke the file but doesn't realise it needs to reconnect and refresh it.
2) You have somehow actively blocked the host-site (within Discord) so you can't get it.
3) Discord has blocked your IP/agent-id (hopefully accidentally/collaterally, but I could see it doing so to reject DOS-pests, overscrapers or just really annoying 'readers').
4) You've got an even less current browser than me, with a libjpeg/whatever.

Solutions range from merely doing a hard-refresh on the page, taking the URI and removing the "?ampersanded"-elements (could break it, as much as fix it, depends if the served requires the 'reference data', rather than if possibly confusing to whatever <img>-tag parser/renderer expects just .jpg-like ending) or trying elsewhere.

Though, to my eyes, it's just a gun and I don't know enough to recognise it as a specific type. Well, it's certainly not a bolt-action rifle (which I've held/wielded/slung a movie-prop version of, e.g., in an actual movie), but not much beyond that.

[Great Order]

Broken for me too, might be a Firefox thing? It breaks a few random bits and bobs across the web.

[Bumber]

Broken for me too, might be a Firefox thing? It breaks a few random bits and bobs across the web.

Broken on both Waterfox and my iPhone's DuckDuckGo. Visiting the link directly says "This content is no longer available." I don't know that Discord is a reliable image host to begin with.

Though, to my eyes, it's just a gun and I don't know enough to recognise it as a specific type. Well, it's certainly not a bolt-action rifle (which I've held/wielded/slung a movie-prop version of, e.g., in an actual movie), but not much beyond that.

And I've still no idea what it has to do with Trump or stolen children.

[Starver]

Broken for me too, might be a Firefox thing? It breaks a few random bits and bobs across the web.

Actually opening the (visible, likely now locally cached) image in a new tab gives me This content is no longer available., so you're probably just out of luck. No idea what Discord has as a retention policy, as it's not somewhere I consciously use myself. but clearly not enough. Or just too short to have stuck around for the full two years or less since posting, vanishing between being seen by some (like me) and then not being seen by others (like you).

(Apart from being unable to new-tab it, it still exists (cached, seemingly) in the browsers that I browsed this thread in, since its appearance. Namely Firefox 122.1.0, Firefox 122.0.1 and Chrome 121.0.loadsmorsnumbers... (I don't know why I even opened it in Chrome, but it seems I did.) Can't currently check the oldest browser version that I saw it on, but that was also Firefox, less updated still. Anyway, that's not at all the problem, and I've never had real problems of any other kind with my Firefoxes anyway.)


I'm not the one who brought this discovered weaponry up, or past-presidents of disrepute, so I've really not much to say about that. Of my suggested 'tech support' answers, maybe #3 was closest to the now uncovered reason, but only if you back up a bit and squint at it in low light.

[Ziusudra]

Yeah, it's a Discord thing

According to the information made available, these links, which could include images or videos, will expire after 24 hours and subsequently become inaccessible.

Too many were using Discord to host stuff for use else where.

[MaxTheFox]

I gotta kick that habit tbh. It was very convenient.

But I understand them, it must have taken up a lot of resources to have millions of people use the CDN as a free file hosting service...

[StrawBarrel]

Yeah, it's a Discord thing

According to the information made available, these links, which could include images or videos, will expire after 24 hours and subsequently become inaccessible.

Too many were using Discord to host stuff for use else where.

Thanks for linking that article Ziusudra. I didn't know Discord was making those changes.

It loads for me.

Can't wait for you to blame Biden for your image not loading, and how images were served better under Trump.

lol

[King Zultan]

When exactly did the war start?


Also what is happening in this thread and what does Trump and Biden have to do with some random picture of a gun?

[Maximum Spin]

When exactly did the war start?

February 2014 is the usual cited date, being the time when Russia annexed the Crimea. The DPR and LPR formed shortly afterward.