• @[email protected]
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      1142 years ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        892 years ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        212 years ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          112 years ago

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

          • @[email protected]
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            42 years ago

            I would guess such a post is a pretty useful tool for Putin. Since everybody is corrupt in Russia, and that is an accepted fact, you always have some leverage over everybody with the looming threat of being charged for corruption if you happen to displease the czar.

      • @[email protected]
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        112 years ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          32 years ago

          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

    • @[email protected]
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      522 years ago

      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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      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.

    • @[email protected]
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      212 years ago

      Alexei Chernykh of Russia’s anti-corruption police

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

    • Erasmus
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      102 years ago

      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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      852 years ago

      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.

          • R0cket_M00se
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            82 years ago

            “Don’t just cut the grass, remove the problem at its source.”

            Raytheon, the landscaper’s favorite military industrial contractor!

          • @[email protected]
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            32 years ago

            They were going to book a press conference at Raytheon’s HQ, but instead it was at Ray ‘n Theo’s Landscaping.

      • @[email protected]
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        132 years ago

        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

    • teft
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      “phew. Last strip…blyat”

  • @[email protected]
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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

    • @[email protected]
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      82 years ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      -212 years ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        102 years ago

        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!

        • @[email protected]
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          22 years ago

          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.

  • Neon
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    Kbin showing a fucking Manga as preview is just hillarious lol

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    Just to complete story:

    1. He was working at Department for Combating Economic Crimes and Corruption, DCECaC(УБЭПиК) for short. Basically financial police.
    2. He was killed by bomb dropped from drone, not by kamikaze drone. It doesn’t look like what Ukrainians would do.
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      172 years ago

      It doesn’t look like what Ukrainians would do.

      I’ve watched tons of grenade drops from drones on the old site. What about this seems like not something Ukraine would do?

    • @[email protected]
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      Popups suck. You should get firefox and ublock origin if you are on mobile. Otherwise, just get an adblocker if you are on desktop.

      • Obinice
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        12 years ago

        I’m genuinely impressed, even with no advert blockers, I haven’t seen a popup in, oh, over a decade now.

        Browsers block popups by default these days unless you specifically authorise them for a particular website, I suspect that’s why.

    • @[email protected]
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      92 years ago

      Thank you. I am a new Proton VPN with ad blocker user and it’s nice to know that it is working!

    • @[email protected]
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      62 years ago

      Every time I read an article with large pockets of whitespace, I wonder how anyone can browse the web without ad blockers.

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        42 years ago

        I’m haven’t seen any whitespaces so I guess ublock origin does a good job of removing white spaces along with the ads

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    Meanwhile, in Belarus, Lukashenko is reconsidering his career aspirations. Maybe being Colonel in Polish army would be safer.

    Edit: wrong word fixed (bring -> being)

    • @[email protected]
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      72 years ago

      Fucking ballsy to just be hanging out 300 yards from the border of a country you’re at war with like, “This lawn ain’t gonna mow itself!”