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The captions about damage are not mine, see my link. This very famous WW2 tank image is even used by WIKI's Tank Mobility Kill page. When a mine hits near the front drive sprocket the track unwinds this way. WIKI also shows a WW2 German Tiger tank damaged the same way. Look. My point was beware claims without evidence in threads about Russia because of the huge volume of Russian disinformation flooding the world, especially since Putin started his war. The point was not solely for you, but, well, I guess you hit the mine.😋

You certainly know more about tanks than about Russia. M4A3 named “Cairo” of 4th Tank Battalion on Iwo Jima. Its track was blown off by a land mine and it sustained five hits from Japanese artillery, but the crew survived. https://www.worldwarphotos.info/gallery/usa/tanks/sherman/m4a3-cairo-4th-tb-iwo-jima/

You mean like the old days, filling in the card standing in line? Just with a hand phone?

Wild double fail! Russian air defense shoots at their own slow helicopter, and misses!

Sounds like you were there, or a GRU beeper? Ukraine has weightless explosives? if it was Ukraine, more power to them. Unfortunately it remains a mystery outside propaganda channels. There are three contending theories: 1. Putin, to split NATO, his no 1 priority. Why not, NS was already closed. 2. Ukraine, to make it much harder for the EU to help Ukraine fight Russia. 3. US, to shift more of the burden defending Ukraine to the US.

30% of native Chinese don't even speak Mandarin, not to mention oft heavy regional accents. How do you expect all common PLA soldiers to speak clear enunciated central Mandarin? Better to make up a story about Los Angeles.

Simple divers in a rented boat without special gear that would raise suspicion planted enough explosives 90 meters deep to cause multiple 2.3 magnitude quakes measured in multiple neighboring countries, including Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Finland, and Norway? Do you know how much a normal diver can carry 90 meters down? Interesting you don't blame America. Putin and every Russian propaganda organ went into overdrive blaming the US. Why? To split NATO, Putin's no. 1 prerogative since forever.

Probably not Nescafe. When Red Cup 400g suddenly jumped to ~300 baht I bought it anyway but it's not the same. It tastes similar but it's a fine powder, not very granular. So I doubt its from Nescafe. Powdery instant coffee was an older technology. So we are being played both ways.

Been buying Red Cup 400g forever. A month ago it suddenly jumped to ~300 baht but bought it anyway (from Foodland). But it's not the same, taste is similar but it's a fine powder, not very granular. Powdery instant coffee was an old technology so I doubt it's from the same source. Lipton Yellow Tea disappeared a few months back. I bought some from Lazada that tasted like dried weeds. So the government is covering up monkey business.

Space is incredibly thrilling and unimaginably dangerous but what I really disliked was the return parades and hero worship ... no! ... wait! ... I didn't say I was in space, I was in Russia! 😋 So no, Russia didn't solve a problem, they lived with known dangers, they did try grease pens 🖍️ and later bought America's Fisher Space Pen when available ~1969. Yes, we sold them space pens. BTW, graphite can also present electrical fire and short hazards in a space capsule. "Whoa dude! Who fired the retros?" I also didn't mean Russia couldn't design a space pen, they couldn't even make cheap Bic pens! It was beyond their technology. On the street we were oft confronted by small groups of Russians chanting "chewing gum, chewing gum, ballpoint pen!" Ballpoint pens were like gold, which is why we brought many. But my point is not Russia bad. I admire both ways, innovation and brute force determination. My point is the human misery wrought by Russian leaders' perennial neglect of its own people. Economic doom if you will.

Great story! But I think you were probably on Santa Cruz Highway 15, which has heavy concrete barriers. Highway 9 is a scenic 2 lane road that also goes to Santa Cruz. No barriers. I used to ride my bike along there all the time. But your call for Bangkok's demise is unfounded. Along that highway you were virtually on top of the San Andreas fault running NS and 4 miles from the epicenter of a 6.9 magnitude quake. The recent 7.7 Burma earthquake was between 700 and 1000 km away along a fault similar to the San Andreas and was a near worst case for Bangkok for a few reasons. Bangkok is not near such large faults and Bangkok's angle from Burma's Sagaing fault was near optimum for Bangkok damage. Engineers I've talk to said it would be extremely unlikely to have a worse quake here. Since only 3 Bangkok buildings were closed, any future quake is likely to cause the widespread damage you imagine.

Understood. I've been here since the 1980s. I was discussing a deeper level. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to speak with a team of 3 engineers that inspected my condominium. I learned a few interesting things. The head engineer was a professor with a PhD in engineering and 30+ years of experience. He said the big classic Western style condominiums built in the 1990s before the financial crisis suffered little damage and are very unlikely to ever be knocked down by an earthquake. These engineers inspect everything including lifts, water tanks, and piping. Newer condos suffered much more damage. He also said something that surprised me. He said that large buildings in Bangkok were speced to survive a 7.3 magnitude earthquake, where survive means not fall down. So all three buildings that were closed or collapsed where newer. Government corruption has been here forever.

Pattaya mid 1990s good.

All three are new buildings well after the 'classic' Western style condo buildings of the 1990s, before the financial crisis.

A famous but false narrative. I know because I was there. Russia could not make ballpoint pens because they lacked the required high precision technology. Back then ballpoint pens were better than rubles, one or two could by a bottle of vodka. Smart? Do you really want to use a graphite pencil in space inhaling graphite dust or worse a broken pencil tip that could damage your lungs? Not to mention sharpen a pencil in a sealed space capsule. So no, Russia was not smarter, just desperate. Russia had excellent scientists but no broad industrial base to support them. Putin is the same but worse, he berates scientists and locks up because he's paranoid and can't trust them.

Yes, Russia has always had ball bearing problems. The Soviets made big missiles with big nuclear warheads while America deployed smaller missiles like Minute Man with smaller warheads. Why? Because the US invested heavily in high precision ball bearings that made their missiles far more accurate. How? High precision ball bearings are used in gyroscopes that make guided missiles far more accurate. Smaller US weapons could take out missile silos more easily than big old Russian weapons. It's always amazed me that all that high technology boiled down to ball bearings. Similar high tech technology gaps exit today. The next revolution has begun with chip-scale atomic clocks (CSACs) so small they can be put in missiles. Such missiles can hit precise positions around the world without radio communication like GPS. Again Putin's lack of a broad based economy leads Russia behind. If Russia had a broad based civilian technology we wouldn't have Putin, or Putin wars. Russians and Americans alike would breath a sigh of relief.

Anyone who discusses this war while overlooking Putin's horrifically barbaric targeting and killing of innocent civilians, families, children, cruise missile a children's cancer hospital? is certainly defending barbarism.

I couldn't find a full list but they did list all closed buildings in Bangkok (2). Most all, 46, are in the provinces not in Bangkok, which makes sense. This is an English translation.

Now parroting Putin's propaganda for him? "If Zelensky keeps making futile attacks on Russia, Putin will bomb more children!" When, did I ever mention Zelinsky? But the calculus has changed. On Friday as global oil prices crashed to $62/bl, sources noted this dooms Putin's highly discounted Ural exports to ~$50/bl, where its hard to see how Putin makes money. Then woops, it dropped again today! Whoever he's killing now it may be out of desperation. The game has changed.

Some evidence. It appears the building snapped at the base possibly from torsional forces. The earthquake at my place had three distinct waves arriving roughly a minute apart, 1) compression P waves (swaying), 2) S waves (heavy shaking), 3) Surface waves i.e., Love and Raleigh waves(worse shaking). Love waves tend to twist things. There are 2 frames a fraction of a second apart. Top 2 images show the base, lower (same) images show most of the building. (Images are zoomable). The pillars snap from the corner as expected from a twisting motion.

Since S300 - S400 systems are no longer useful even against Ukraine tech1), Putin is firing these billion $ systems on masse at Ukraine civilians and children on the ground. Desperate sick dude. 1) https://breakingdefense.com/2023/09/what-an-s-400-kill-and-a-spec-ops-raid-reveal-about-ukraines-ability-to-hit-russia/

Just wondering, will the new submarine be using the same quality steel?

Do you have a reference for your map? I ask because it seems wrong in many ways. The Philippine sea plate should be on the other side of the Philippines, most red lines are borders not faults, and Bangkok is half way to Cambodia. Instagram has similar 'fake' maps, one with Burma's Three Pagodas fault line in Laos! Some were generated with ChatGPT. It's best to double check sources for internet gloom and doom posts.

Z guys may want to cool Z-Putin nukem propaganda. Putin's aging groin is lacking. Here's the max submarine missile balance, the ones you can't see coming (not that S300-S400s would work.) U.S. Alone: 4,648 warheads (4,032 SSBN + 616 SSGN). NATO Total: 6,056 warheads (U.S. + UK + France). Russia (Z): 2,240 warheads

A young Japanese ex Kyiv Post business reporter quotes powerful Czechoslovakian Oryx expert Jakub Janovsky calling it a short-sighted political decision, which rates 'duh' because Ukraine never intended to annex Russian territory. But who is powerful Oryx expert Jakub Janovsky? An internet blogger and Oryx is his blog at blogger.com. Nothing wrong with the sources but to use this to claim Ukraine lost the war in which Ukraine had for years held off Putin's great Russian military might?