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How concerned are you about Mr. Putin launching a nuke?
« on: February 28, 2022, 10:58:57 AM »
Scientific poll to gauge public sentiment.

And if concerned, are you stocking up on supplied like Doritos, mountain dew, and pepto bismol.
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Re: How concerned are you about Mr. Putin launching a nuke?
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2022, 11:07:03 AM »
Being an American that doesn't live on a coast, I'm not feeling anxiety over a nuke dropping on my head.

If I was European, I'd be anxious about things popping off. Europe being nuked in any way would change civilization for a very long time.
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Re: How concerned are you about Mr. Putin launching a nuke?
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2022, 11:24:30 AM »
I'm fully protected from global thermonuclear war by the anthropic principle. I would simply drift into a timeline where it didn't happen.
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Re: How concerned are you about Mr. Putin launching a nuke?
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2022, 11:39:25 AM »
Look, they've got a lot of them, but those things remain Russian constructed.

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Re: How concerned are you about Mr. Putin launching a nuke?
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2022, 11:48:55 AM »
I'm posting from the The Bore Admin Bunker as the Designated Survivor.
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Re: How concerned are you about Mr. Putin launching a nuke?
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2022, 12:14:28 PM »
Even if he gave the order, unless Putin is arming these nukes personally I think it would be another Stanislav Petrov situation where protocols arn't followed. Nuclear war is suicide, that's probably not lost on the guys whose job it is to turn the key.

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Re: How concerned are you about Mr. Putin launching a nuke?
« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2022, 12:27:29 PM »
Even if he gave the order, unless Putin is arming these nukes personally I think it would be another Stanislav Petrov situation where protocols arn't followed. Nuclear war is suicide, that's probably not lost on the guys whose job it is to turn the key.

Thats what I think. Putin might get to the point where he feels he has nothing to lose....but everyone else below him might not agree and wont follow through
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« Reply #7 on: February 28, 2022, 12:44:13 PM »
I'm posting from the The Bore Admin Bunker as the Designated Survivor.

Would you let me if I procure 20TBs worth of vtuber content?
Gotta be boring in there.

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« Reply #8 on: February 28, 2022, 12:48:27 PM »
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« Reply #9 on: February 28, 2022, 12:49:37 PM »
Enjoy dying out there, suckers.

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« Reply #10 on: February 28, 2022, 01:04:58 PM »
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Re: How concerned are you about Mr. Putin launching a nuke?
« Reply #11 on: February 28, 2022, 01:06:47 PM »
If Putin aims for the porn servers, I give us all about 14 days until society crumbles.

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Re: How concerned are you about Mr. Putin launching a nuke?
« Reply #12 on: February 28, 2022, 01:09:46 PM »
Enjoy dying out there, suckers.

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Re: How concerned are you about Mr. Putin launching a nuke?
« Reply #13 on: February 28, 2022, 01:22:00 PM »
I don't know this doesn't really say bunker food to me.

I just want to eat some beans and watch Cars 2.

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Re: How concerned are you about Mr. Putin launching a nuke?
« Reply #14 on: February 28, 2022, 01:37:15 PM »
Im a little sus about the orange juice. Is it basically tang?
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Re: How concerned are you about Mr. Putin launching a nuke?
« Reply #15 on: February 28, 2022, 01:43:56 PM »
Not concerned at all.

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Re: How concerned are you about Mr. Putin launching a nuke?
« Reply #16 on: February 28, 2022, 01:53:08 PM »
We're all going to die, James. May as well be from a nuke rather than cancer or heart disease.
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Re: How concerned are you about Mr. Putin launching a nuke?
« Reply #17 on: February 28, 2022, 01:54:37 PM »
Take me home daddy Putin  :jeb
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Re: How concerned are you about Mr. Putin launching a nuke?
« Reply #18 on: February 28, 2022, 02:57:25 PM »
Suppose you have 8L, 5L and a 3L bucket with you. The buckets have no measurement lines on them and you are asked to measure exactly 4L of cum using the three buckets. How could you measure exactly 4L cum using only those buckets and provided you have as much extra cum as you need ?

fill 3

3 -> 5

fill 3

3 -> 5 (leaving 1 in the 3)

3 -> 8

fill 3

3 -> 8 (leaving 4 in the 8)
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Re: How concerned are you about Mr. Putin launching a nuke?
« Reply #19 on: February 28, 2022, 03:02:26 PM »
Suppose you have 8L, 5L and a 3L bucket with you. The buckets have no measurement lines on them and you are asked to measure exactly 4L of cum using the three buckets. How could you measure exactly 4L cum using only those buckets and provided you have as much extra cum as you need ?
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Re: How concerned are you about Mr. Putin launching a nuke?
« Reply #20 on: February 28, 2022, 03:04:47 PM »
Nevermind, starting to get concerned now:


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Re: How concerned are you about Mr. Putin launching a nuke?
« Reply #21 on: February 28, 2022, 03:20:40 PM »
Suppose you have 8L, 5L and a 3L bucket with you. The buckets have no measurement lines on them and you are asked to measure exactly 4L of cum using the three buckets. How could you measure exactly 4L cum using only those buckets and provided you have as much extra cum as you need ?

fill 3

3 -> 5

fill 3

3 -> 5 (leaving 1 in the 3)

3 -> 8

fill 3

3 -> 8 (leaving 4 in the 8)

I suck at these kinds of problems but cant you just:
1. Fill 5, take that and use it to fill 3, so you'll have 2 left over in the 5 bucket.
2. Take that 2 left over in the 5 bucket, dump it in the 8 bucket.
3. Repeat the first 2 steps, now the 8 bucket should have 4 in there
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Re: How concerned are you about Mr. Putin launching a nuke?
« Reply #22 on: February 28, 2022, 03:23:26 PM »
Enjoy dying out there, suckers.

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« Reply #24 on: February 28, 2022, 03:40:24 PM »
Suppose you have 8L, 5L and a 3L bucket with you. The buckets have no measurement lines on them and you are asked to measure exactly 4L of cum using the three buckets. How could you measure exactly 4L cum using only those buckets and provided you have as much extra cum as you need ?
Who is asking to measure the cum if everyone else outside the bunker is dead or a radiation zombie?
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Re: How concerned are you about Mr. Putin launching a nuke?
« Reply #26 on: February 28, 2022, 03:44:13 PM »
I'm ready for madmaxx style living  :sicko me n karla will repopulate the earth  :hump

Being an American that doesn't live on a coast, I'm not feeling anxiety over a nuke dropping on my head.

If I was European, I'd be anxious about things popping off. Europe being nuked in any way would change civilization for a very long time.
change it for the better tbh  :yeshrug
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Re: How concerned are you about Mr. Putin launching a nuke?
« Reply #27 on: February 28, 2022, 03:56:32 PM »
If you are sick and need medical attention, contact your healthcare provider for instructions.

Cant wait to be packed into a moldy basement shelter on hold with Aetna while Im trying to figure out if the doctor at the fallout shelter is covered by my plan and I can get my anti-radiation pills without a copay
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« Reply #28 on: February 28, 2022, 04:15:13 PM »
Cant wait to be packed into a moldy basement shelter on hold with Aetna while Im trying to figure out if the doctor at the fallout shelter is covered by my plan and I can get my anti-radiation pills without a copay
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« Reply #29 on: February 28, 2022, 05:00:00 PM »
:rogan "Yeah it was crazy and look I'm no radiation expert Alex. I'm just saying this is what worked for me. I took my iodine pills, took a bath, smoked weed and hid in the fridge"

:info "On CNN they tell you that's fake, because that's what they do in the movies. I hear a lot of guys where touching their ding dongs when it went down"

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:info "I think Lindell is the guy Joe. I mean, Florida is just gone now and so is the Washington deepstate, Elon left earth but we no longer have to worry about Russia or China"

:rogan "Yeah, I can't believe they nuked each other, so tell me how did we end up nuking ourselves. Do you know?"

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« Reply #31 on: February 28, 2022, 05:03:02 PM »
Have a standing desk that can raise over my height. Don’t even need to duck to get covered.

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Re: How concerned are you about Mr. Putin launching a nuke?
« Reply #32 on: February 28, 2022, 08:27:14 PM »
Suppose you have 8L, 5L and a 3L bucket with you. The buckets have no measurement lines on them and you are asked to measure exactly 4L of cum using the three buckets. How could you measure exactly 4L cum using only those buckets and provided you have as much extra cum as you need ?

1) Fill 5L bucket and dump it into the 3L bucket. You now have a filled 3L bucket and a 5L bucket with 2L in it.

2) Dump the 3L bucket and fill it with the rest of the 5L bucket. You now have a 3L bucket with 2L and the 5L bucket empty again

3) Fill the 5L bucket and then fill the 3L bucket till it is full. You now have a filled 3L bucket and a 5L bucket with 4L in it.

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« Reply #33 on: February 28, 2022, 08:28:57 PM »
Ngl had a few thoughts last week over what a call with mom and/or dad would be like should some kind of nuke alert come across all our phones in the middle of the day.

Assuming the networks wouldn't get clogged instantly.

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Re: How concerned are you about Mr. Putin launching a nuke?
« Reply #34 on: February 28, 2022, 09:22:52 PM »
The fuck are you all worrying about, just think good thoughts and that nuclear bomb will pass right through you.

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Re: How concerned are you about Mr. Putin launching a nuke?
« Reply #35 on: February 28, 2022, 09:48:17 PM »
For those concerned, why and where are the first nukes gonna be used?

With quite literally every Western country pouring resources into intelligence gathering on Russia, as soon soon as any silo or nuclear launcher is prepped, incredibly harsh retaliation would take place against Russia. If there's even a nuclear fart, multiple weapons and probably nukes would be launched against Russia.

I'm not saying it's impossible for Putin to get a nuke thrown somewhere, but this will be a very fast game if things pop off.
« Last Edit: February 28, 2022, 09:54:39 PM by mormapope »
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Re: How concerned are you about Mr. Putin launching a nuke?
« Reply #36 on: March 01, 2022, 03:39:12 AM »
Suppose you have 8L, 5L and a 3L bucket with you. The buckets have no measurement lines on them and you are asked to measure exactly 4L of cum using the three buckets. How could you measure exactly 4L cum using only those buckets and provided you have as much extra cum as you need ?

fill 3

3 -> 5

fill 3

3 -> 5 (leaving 1 in the 3)

3 -> 8

fill 3

3 -> 8 (leaving 4 in the 8)

I suck at these kinds of problems but cant you just:
1. Fill 5, take that and use it to fill 3, so you'll have 2 left over in the 5 bucket.
2. Take that 2 left over in the 5 bucket, dump it in the 8 bucket.
3. Repeat the first 2 steps, now the 8 bucket should have 4 in there

There is an even simpler solution that does not require the 8L bucket.
Fill 3L bucket, pour it into 5L bucket. Fill 3L bucket and pour it int 5L bucket again. 1L remains in 3L bucket.
Empty 5L bucket, pour remaining 1L from 3L bucket into 5L bucket. Fill 3L bucket again, pour it into 5L bucket.
5L bucket now contains 4L.
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Re: How concerned are you about Mr. Putin launching a nuke?
« Reply #37 on: March 01, 2022, 08:08:39 AM »
It's Scotland. Nobody would notice. Might actually improve some places.

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« Reply #38 on: March 01, 2022, 08:09:11 AM »
For those concerned, why and where are the first nukes gonna be used?

With quite literally every Western country pouring resources into intelligence gathering on Russia, as soon soon as any silo or nuclear launcher is prepped, incredibly harsh retaliation would take place against Russia. If there's even a nuclear fart, multiple weapons and probably nukes would be launched against Russia.

I'm not saying it's impossible for Putin to get a nuke thrown somewhere, but this will be a very fast game if things pop off.
We could see everything happen on the borders and they still moved in. Russia's nuclear strike will be exercises until they are not or an accidental hit on Chernobyl as they retreat.

They now want to Denazify Germany. WW2 cost millions of Russian lives. So why not prevent another world war and nuke Berlin instead? After all didn't the Americans do the same to Japan to prevent a costly invasion, the hypocrites! What is Russia to do? Wait for Macron and Scholz to march and drive on Moscow like Napoleon and Hitler? They have already provided the weapons to kill Russian soldiers in Kyiv and Kharkiv!

Coming soon to a Russian theatre near you


I say we strike at Belarus from Poland citing the nuclear threat after yesterday's vote. They have already violated international law on multiple occassions too. Putin then has to decide to cancel the campaign against Ukraine or lose his ally. Lukashenka is weak and would broker a seperate peace deal with the allies to save his own skin.
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Re: How concerned are you about Mr. Putin launching a nuke?
« Reply #39 on: March 01, 2022, 09:54:16 AM »
It's Scotland. Nobody would notice. Might actually improve some places.



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Re: How concerned are you about Mr. Putin launching a nuke?
« Reply #40 on: March 01, 2022, 10:02:53 AM »
It's Scotland. Nobody would notice. Might actually improve some places.



Nature can finally start healing.

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« Reply #41 on: March 01, 2022, 06:29:51 PM »
Im a little sus about the orange juice. Is it basically tang?

That’s day 2’s urine.

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« Reply #43 on: March 04, 2022, 04:58:59 AM »
If you can't immediately recognise 4 litres of cum without resorting to measuring buckets, you've no place in my shelter.

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« Reply #44 on: March 04, 2022, 05:04:26 AM »
Suppose you have 8L, 5L and a 3L bucket with you. The buckets have no measurement lines on them and you are asked to measure exactly 4L of cum using the three buckets. How could you measure exactly 4L cum using only those buckets and provided you have as much extra cum as you need ?
Pour a full 5l into the 3L, then the 2L left in the 5L into the 8L twice.

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« Reply #45 on: March 04, 2022, 05:18:35 AM »
Putin's nuclear threats are meaningless he is so scared to die he won't even sit next to people and hides in his bunker.
A nuclear war would kill him. If we don't stop him just because he has nukes than no country is safe or able to defend itself, NATO or not.

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« Reply #46 on: March 05, 2022, 07:42:17 PM »
It's Scotland. Nobody would notice. Might actually improve some places.
You say this in jest but after Putin's comments today and his clear threat to the UK ("I will remember this") I think he would nuke jolly old England first.

No matter how you slice it, it is still the most formidable military power in Europe when it comes to being able to deploy quickly.
Most importantly it was the one 'prize' the Germans could not take when they attacked western Europe because it would take an amphibious or air assault.
The Russians could grind their way to the coast of Holland and France with tanks, trucks and trains but not to the UK.

Not to mention it would be a 'single' target as an island and force the rest of Europe into submission without doing any damage to the lands to be conquered.
It has no meaning to the Russian or Orthodox world and if the aim is to destroy the rulebook of the west and capitalism than England provides little more than banks and services the Tsar does not require.
There is no vast manufacturing capability like in Germany, large farmlands like in France or a massive port, logistics and energy hub like in Holland.
It's a fortress and vault that would never submit and Putin can do without and as a nuclear hazard would form a formidable barrier for any US based navy force.

If he would ever nuke something it would be the big floating rock.
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« Reply #47 on: March 06, 2022, 04:27:26 AM »
My wife and I bought new construction up in Eugene, Oregon but we currently live in Los Angeles. We don’t move until June. I’m trying to convince her to move sooner because of my minor concern.
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« Reply #48 on: March 08, 2022, 08:48:42 PM »
Is anyone else getting tired of these Russians and Ukrainians running about the place. It was fun at first but enough already. Tanks and fields for days. It's too much. Get over it. Move on. Let's give China their moment.

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« Reply #49 on: March 08, 2022, 08:52:48 PM »
I hope I never have to hear about the ukraine again for the rest of my life after this tbh  :pacspit
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« Reply #50 on: March 08, 2022, 09:30:37 PM »
My wife and I bought new construction up in Eugene, Oregon but we currently live in Los Angeles. We don’t move until June. I’m trying to convince her to move sooner because of my minor concern.

Yeah move now before fire season renders it uninhabited in July
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« Reply #51 on: March 08, 2022, 10:46:26 PM »
nukes would solve all and any problems you might have, while the new problems they create would be over in a flash.

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« Reply #52 on: March 08, 2022, 11:14:42 PM »
nukes would solve all and any problems you might have, while the new problems they create would be over in a flash.

Theres a work project due in June ive been pulling off and a nuke after memorial day would clear things up nicely for me
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« Reply #53 on: March 09, 2022, 08:39:33 AM »
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« Reply #55 on: March 11, 2022, 10:12:11 AM »
He really wouldnt be that fucking stupid would he?
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« Reply #56 on: March 11, 2022, 11:08:10 AM »

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« Reply #57 on: March 11, 2022, 10:02:39 PM »
He really wouldnt be that fucking stupid would he?

It's not clear how much he understands about it, and how his cronies may be filtering information. But, yes, apparently his army is THAT FUCKING STUPID.

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« Reply #58 on: March 12, 2022, 06:26:21 AM »
Every sentence that starts with "Would Putin" can now be ended with: "Yes he would"

He made his goal very clear. He wants NATO to return to its 1997 borders and the US to remove their nuclear weapons from Europe. He also wants to undo the 'national states' like Estonia and Latvia created after the collapse of the Russian Empire.
It is unlikely that at this time anything can stop him from trying achieve it. If he is willing to rain down bombs on Kyiv, which is the 'cradle'  of Russian civilization he won't shy away from bombing cities further west and he has in recent days.
As close as 50km from the Polish border.

However, first in the firing line is everything and everyone not aligned with NATO. As the US has made their red line clear: NATO territory.
Which means Georgia and Moldova are fucked. And it is damn near certain he will conquer them or attempt to. Much like in Ukraine Russia already has rebel provinces there.

It is unclear what happens next, probably an attempt close the Suwalki gap and taking Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania.
Once Ukraine falls some of these states might even be pressured or corrupted to leave NATO and demilitarize to become 'neutral' or 'vassal' states.
I think he will settle for neutrality or a coup or starts some seperatist bullshit again in those regions. Short of armed conflict between militaries as that would trigger a NATO response as long as they are in NATO.

Then it becomes less certain what the plan is. Finland is not in NATO but part of the EU.
Poland is in NATO and the EU. He won't wage a ground war as far as France but will probably settle for German neutrality and a chunk of Poland that once belonged to the Russian Empire.

It won't stop at Ukraine, in fact that's where the nuclear threat becomes real as he would be able to 'safely' deploy short range and tactical nuclear weapons further west than he can now.
That would tip the scales in a 'convential' war that the Russians can't win. They can only defeat NATO by deploying nuclear weapons on troops and armor concentrations.
Their military doctrine and planning is very much open to this idea to gain the upper hand in a large armed conflict.

All we can do is buy time by keeping Ukraine in the fight and decoupling from Russian energy. Which according to the EU can be fully achieved by 2027.

I don't buy this idea that a no-fly zone would trigger a nuclear war. In fact, I believe Putin would welcome it as it would allow him to shoot down NATO aircraft outside of NATO territory.
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