#Mining in Russia

[emileparfaitsimb]

Mining investment in Qatar

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[greencarnation]

"ukraine invasion" vs "israel-hamas war" hm. something something wording and western media bias and propaganda

[bloodfreakcastiel]

[thatrandomblogsays]

Source

I know I’m late but I needed to make this. Also I have a theory as to what happened:

AIR ORCAS

Update: he’s alive ://///

You’ll get him next time air orcas! I believe in you!

[dinakisss]

Big fat napoleonic art dump

[i-merani]

If you showed this to a person from a century ago he wouldn't be confused like yeah these are hot topics, you would have a totally normal conversation with him.

[justacynicalromantic]

Elon Musk was forced to reveal who financed his purchase of Twitter. Amongst owners are two Russian oligarchs close to Putin and sanctioned over the Russian invasion of Ukraine: Petr Aven and Vadim Moshkovich.

Petr Aven is a Russian billionaire, founder of Alfa Group, which is one of the main wallets for Putin. Aven also attended a meeting with Putin on February 24, 2022 to mark the start of the invasion of Ukraine.

Vadim Moshkovich owns Russia's largest agricultural holding Rusagro. Naturally, he also attended the meeting with Putin on February 24, 2022 and, like Aven, did not protest against Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

[helpukrainenow]

Help demine Ukraine with a small donation of $5

About 156,000 km² of Ukraine needs to be demined. This is an area the size of Belgium, Denmark and the Czech Republic combined!  Help #DemineUkraine for a small monthly donation of only $5.

This is how to do it:

Go to https://u24.gov.ua

Then, click the "Donate now" button.

Then, go to "Humanitarian demining".

Then, click "Credit Card or PayPal".

Change the option to "Monthly".

Enter the amount you want to donate.

Proceed with the payment.

Make the lives of Ukrainians more safer.

More than 1,000 people have died in Ukraine since the war began due to mine explosions. Approximately 12% of verified mine casualties were children. This is not counting the scores of people who have had their limbs amputated or have been maimed due to mines. Estimates suggest that at least 15,000 people have lost their limbs, with numbers continuing to grow. More than ten million people in Ukraine live in areas in need of mine action assistance. If each of us donates $5 monthly, Ukraine would be much safer.

Slava Ukraini

[goddammitjosef]

i'm failing math anyways

[hellonerf]

a snuff film, my slug record

[emileparfaitsimb]

Understanding Cryptography: How to Get Started and What It Is

Understanding Cryptography: How to Get Started and What It Is

Cryptocurrency is frequently described as “digital money.” This description might also be true, however it fails to seize what makes cryptocurrency special and so attractive to many investors.

What is cryptocurrency? At its core, cryptocurrency is a machine of value. When buyers purchase a cryptocurrency, they are making a bet that the cost of that asset will expand in the future, simply as inventory market buyers purchase securities when they agree with the agency will develop and share fees will increase. Stock valuations boil down to discounted estimations of a company’s future cash flows. There is no similar valuation metric for cryptocurrencies due to the fact there is no underlying company; the price of a cryptocurrency is tied solely to investor appetite. Cryptocurrency valuations boil down to one of two factors: the probability of different traders shopping for the asset or the utility of the cryptocurrency’s blockchain.

How does cryptocurrency work? Cryptocurrency runs on blockchain technology, however what precisely is a blockchain? The time period has grow to be so commonplace, its that means and magnitude are regularly blurred. A blockchain is absolutely a digital ledger of transactions. This ledger (or database) is dispensed throughout a community of laptop systems. No single device controls the ledger. Instead, a decentralized community of computer systems maintains a blockchain going for walks and authenticates its transactions. Proponents of blockchain technological know-how say that it can enhance transparency, enlarge have faith and bolster protection of statistics being shared throughout a network. Detractors say that blockchain can be cumbersome, inefficient, expensive, and can use too a whole lot energy. Rational crypto traders purchase a digital asset if they accept as true with in the energy and utility of its underlying blockchain. All cryptocurrencies run on blockchain, which potential crypto traders are having a bet (whether they comprehend it or not) on the resiliency and beauty of that blockchain.

Cryptocurrency transactions are recorded in perpetuity on the underlying blockchain. Groups of transactions are brought to the ‘chain’ in the structure of ‘blocks,’ which validate the authenticity of the transactions and maintain the community up and running. All batches of transactions are recorded on the shared ledger, which is public. Anyone can go and seem to be at the transactions being made on the foremost blockchains, such as Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH). But why do humans commit computing electricity to validating blockchain transactions? The reply is, they are remunerated with the underlying cryptocurrency. This incentive-driven machine is known as a proof-of-work (PoW) mechanism. The computer systems ‘working’ to ‘prove’ the authenticity of blockchain transactions are acknowledged as miners. In return for their energy, miners acquire freshly minted crypto assets. Investors in cryptocurrencies don’t keep their belongings in normal financial institution accounts. Instead, they have digital addresses. These addresses come with non-public and public keys -- lengthy strings of numbers and letters -- that allow cryptocurrency customers to ship and get hold of funds. Private keys enable cryptocurrency to be unlocked and sent. Public keys are publicly accessible and allow the holder to get hold of cryptocurrency from any sender. It is honest to say that Bitcoin has modified the paradigm -- there has been nothing pretty like it before, and it has unleashed an absolutely new technology, a new platform for investing, and a new way of questioning about money. Cryptocurrency started out as a grassroots motion with an anti-establishment ethos, however today, companies and economic institutions are embracing cryptocurrencies for their plausible to disrupt clunky legacy structures and diversify funding portfolios. As improvements proceed to reshape the cryptocurrency sector, which include interesting new initiatives like decentralized finance (“DeFi”), the that means of cryptocurrency will proceed to evolve.

Source:- https://emileparfaitsimb.blogspot.com/2023/02/understanding-cryptography-how-to-get.html

[tournesoleil13]

Kiss kiss fall in love ~<3😘

Bonus: the piece 2 and a half years ago

[nadezhda-wexler]

The Great 3x04- Stag

- Requested by Anon

[sovietpostcards]

"Volodya's Brothers" by Yuri Korinets (1975)

[dinakisss]

Some food for y’all

Edit: I made some changes on the second pic

I didn’t use a reference so now I’m struggling with the anatomy😭

[iamthetruenhaz]

Russia's prep work

I originally wrote this as a reply to a reddit comment about the prep work Putin's Russia has done to reconquer Eastern Europe (and Central Asia) and soften up the West in order to "reclaim" the "lost" global power status the USSR had.

Putin* has been prepping his "reconquering" of Eastern Europe and Central Asia since he stepped into office. He took on an openly anti-western course since the Munich speech in 2007. He probably saw American global dominance weakening following Afghanistan and Iraq and because Russia had stabilised after the 90s, he thought it was time to act.

First he paved the way with the Chechen war where he "won" and got to jump on the War on terror bandwagon and use Islamic terrorism as a boogeyman for his own imperialistic purpose to rile up Russians against external threats.

Then he invaded Georgia to probe the soil and see how the west would react. They mostly ignored him so he went on to meddle in Eastern European politics, coerce Ukraine for gas and fund right-wing parties all across Europe (at the time mostly to drive a wedge between Eastern and Western Europe and suck EE countries back into Russian orbit) while pumping anti-western sentiment and Soviet nostalgia at home.

He saw that the west was disunited because of the US-UK-EU split following the wars in Iraq, Libya and Syria. He capitalized on that in several ways using both the wars and the refugee crisis that followed. One, to increase racist and nationalist propaganda and stir up hatred against "the liberal gay western cabal" and the resulting Euroscepticism. Two, to prop up the "proper" traditionalist Russia as an alternative. Three, to paint Eastern European countries as a puppet of the US liberals who were "ackschually" nazis in disguise, which was easy when the West was divided between trying to coax them into the EU and leaving them as a buffer-zone backwater. The brightest example of the latter was in late 2021 when Lukashenko started dumping Middle Eastern migrants on the Polish border so the Poles could be painted as a racist, white supremacist state. Unlike, you know, Belarus (really Russia) which weaponized the migrants.

Then he failed in Ukraine when his puppet's sharp turn away from a planned EU accession path caused the Euromaidan revolts. Pro-Russian protesters soon spawned, staging provications (my own country had a wave of protests and pro-russian counter-protests back then and I remember neonazis and other paid protesters being at the forefronts). Russian media started hurling accusations of nazism against pro-western protesters.

All of a sudden, it's like a switch was flipped in Russian society. Decommunization was out the window. In 2015, Stalin was chosen as the most influential figure in *world* history by Russians. All the anti-Western, Russian irredentist, traditionalist, racist and homophobic sentiments coalesced into one, directed against the "evil nazi gay jewish West". Putin started openly provoking the West with displays of military force, close flybys in territorial waters, playing Cuban missile crisis in Kaliningrad. All to rack up the atmosphere of an imminent Cold War II and maybe even WWIII where a "wronged", "humiliated" Russia would finally make the West pay. The WWII victory celebrations also took on the appearance of a war cult, with jingoistic slogans like "we can do it again", "to Berlin" and "we're coming for the German women" displayed on every 9th May parade. Eastern European countries, especially the Baltics and Poland, noticed and tried to raise alarm, but were mostly told to keep their paranoia down and ignored.

In the last decade, he used his military and propaganda machine (what we call "hybrid warfare") to create the impression of the following: (1) The West is imperialist (and is being hypocritical about it), waging pointless bloody wars in the Middle East; (2) The West is weak in those wars, causing Russia to step in like in Syria and deal with the issue "properly"; (3) Western democracies are weak in dealing with "barbaric" refugees because they're too greedy not to let them in but too soft to throw the bad apples out (this was used to boost nationalism and Euroscepticism).

By those means, Russian propaganda managed to manipulate both anti-imperialist and nationalist groups within the West as well as in Russia and Eastern Europe and pave the way for its "just war" of "reconquering" Eastern Europe. In the West, the image of Eastern Europe was molded as either "poor backwards savages we're better off without" (for nationalists), "paranoid silly yokels crying wolf about Russia who is now playing nice" (for moderates), "ingrates not worth defending so we'll pull out" (for Trump-like US conservatives) or "backwards homophobic barbarians we don't want here because they'll ruin our utopia" (for progressivists). In Russia, they were portrayed as "lost property", accused them of being "taken over by nazis" anytime they tried to acknowledge any of the repressions suffered from USSR, and "unconscious puppets of the West" and routinely threatened with "annexation in 3 days" whenever they "misbehaved" by taking a stance against Russia's politics, whether past or current. Finally, in Eastern European countries themselves, Russia tried to ruin the image of the liberal West by portraying them as "the real fascists", "liberalism gone so far it circled back to fascism" and to prop up its own image as the "savior from debauchery upholding the good ols ways".

Also worth noting that Putin was all too eager to intervene in any country that tried to reject Russian dominance or even its own pro-Russian dictatorship. He was ready to support Belarus in 2020 and intervened in Kazakhstan in 2022 just a month before the invasion of Ukraine.

So yeah, it was quite the prep work. All to ensure that when he went on his imperialistic crusade in EE, people at home and in the West and even in Eastern Europe itself would applaud him, failing that be indifferent, failing THAT remain unheard.

* by "Putin" I don't necessarily mean just him, but the lobby behind him as well.