okay :3
Hey, /int/, I have some serious talk with you...
The hardest thing in all that shit is that it is basically brother war. I've got relatives on Ukraine, but I can't talk to them because I know the truth that they would not like. I have to tell my relatives in Israel for them to stop sending me memes about dead Putin and how bad Russia is. I cannot reply them properly because they would not understand and say it is all Russian propaganda.
And the reality is that hohols are organising prisoned soldiers torture, they tolerate hate speech against Russians, including suggestions of genocide. They use human schields in besieged cities, they don't tell them about humanitarian corridors and they live in ceilings for months. Only when DNR/Russian military come to place where civilians hide, they can safely evacuate. Also Azov shoot at Ukranian army when they try to surrender, at civilians when they try to just fucking flee...
If I tell them all that shit, real situation on war theaters, first they wouldn't believe me, say I'm just zombified, curse my country. If I offer them help they think I'm just mocking them.
If I tell them about 8 years of bombing of Donbass they just say that it is Putin himself who bombed them(and through these 8 years people were so dumb that didn't notice it).
This shit with fake news media turns me mad. The saddest part is that on our side, we have fake news since 2000, but we are more or less immuned to that shit they tell us, but they blindly believe everything their propagandists tell them.
And all that combined with yearly nazi marches, banning communistic symbols (even on 9th of may no one can demonstrate them), banning Russian language and culture, etc.
My relatives talked about it but it proceeds so slowly that they don't really realise that nazi scum is already rulling Ukraine. Sad but true.
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Rub your finger behind your ear
Describe the smell
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If surgeons opened up your belly button and installed some sort of new artificial connection from your intestines would it be possible to poop out of your belly button? Wouldn't it even be an improvement actually? The positioning of the angus is somewhat of a hassle and not very practical for modern human life
In the Ottoman Empire Turkish nationalists took control before the war began. They drove out Greeks and Armenians who had been the backbone of the business community, replacing them with ethnic Turks who were given favorable contracts but who lacked the international connections, credit sources, and entrepreneurial skills needed for business. The Ottoman economy was based on subsistence agriculture; there was very little industry. Turkish wheat was in high demand, but transportation was rudimentary and not much reached Germany. The war cut off imports except from Germany. Prices quadrupled. The Germans provided loans and supplied the army with hardware, especially captured Belgian and Russian equipment. Other supplies were in short supply; the soldiers were in rags. Medical services were very bad and illness and death rates were high. Most of the Ottoman soldiers deserted when they had the opportunity, so the force level shrank from a peak strength of 800,000 in 1916 to only 100,000 in 1918
When the war broke out in 1914, the Ottoman Empire already suffered from an external debt of 140 million pounds. It also had a predominantly agrarian economy and was perhaps the least industrialized of the belligerent countries. The 1913 Ottoman Industrial Census showed that within the borders of what became modern Turkey, there were only 600 manufacturing establishments with ten or more workers. Manufacturing was largely based on artisanal forms and the empire was heavily dependent on imports of manufactured goods, which was made much more complicated by the war.
The war’s outbreak created a panic in the Istanbul market and disrupted government finance, resulting in the postponement of debt payments, the implementation of special war taxes (tekalif-i harbiye) and requisitions, and a significant reduction in salaries for civil and military officials.
The empire’s limited rail network not only created major problems for troop supply and movement, but also for food distribution. Transportation problems caused by inadequate railway worsened after the Russian navy bombed the coal works on the Black Sea coast and intercepted transport ships. The Ottomans now had to import coal from Germany in order to run their trains.
Harsh winters, the 1915 locust invasion, and other natural disasters also reduced food supplies. By 1916 wheat production had fallen by 30 percent. State policy at its best provided short-term relief; at its worst, it aggravated shortages and suffering among soldiers and civilians. The state attempted to establish supply agencies to provide the public with some basic items such as bread, but these efforts spun out of control, especially in Istanbul. The “system of war agriculture” had a limited effect. The 1916 Agricultural Obligations Law made those few existing large corporations in urban areas responsible for cultivating specific amounts of land. The law also required all farmers to cultivate a minimum amount of land based on the number of oxen they owned. The government asserted the authority to force citizens to work on farms facing labor shortages due to mobilization. In some instances, the army organized women’s battalions to serve in the agriculture industry. A Ministry of Provisioning was created, but only in the last year of the war.
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tfw It's American power hour
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I can't stop trolling Ukranians on social media. How do I stop? Please help.
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Interested in psychology, where should I start? Freud?
You ignore the "humanist" psychology and start with Darwin to establish background knowledge (On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals), then read Pinker's How the Mind Works.
