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[–] [email protected] 99 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well, they would know wouldn't they.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 11 months ago

Local butcher says someone chopped up this cow and put it into nice little convenient paper packages with a bit of twine for the low, low price of $6/lb

[–] [email protected] 72 points 11 months ago

"Notorious wife beater says that his wife may have been punched in the face on purpose."

[–] [email protected] 40 points 11 months ago

"may have been"

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago

No shit Sherlock

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm surprised that airplane didn't fall out of a window.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

The sky is God's widow so technically he did fall out a window

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I say we wait for more information to come out before we jump to conclusions

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

In what world is “What?” a conclusion?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] PinkPanther 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

In case you missed it, their comment was satirical.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I heard a Russia expert on some podcast talking about the biggest thing to Putin is loyalty. That is why Nevalni is in prison and Prigozhin is a collection of pieces in a jar. Nevalni is an enemy, a trouble maker, who after Putin tried to kill us now in jail. He'll probably die there, but Putin is in no rush about it. He doesn't particularly care about Nevalni. Nevalni was never disloyal because he was never on the inside, he's always been an outside agitator.

Prigozhin was in the inner circle, he had Putin's trust, and he betrayed it. He was disalloyal, the most serious of crimes in Putin's Russia. The Russia expert said Prigozhin like knew when he retreated that his days were numbered. But why did Putin wait so long? He doesn't like to feel like he's pressured to do anything, he likes to take his time and strike when he feels like it, to make it clear that he's making a decision to act, not reacting to circumstances. Also, he may have wanted to lull Prigozhin into a false sense of security, trick him into thinking maybe he had been forgiven. Prigozhin appears to have thought so, posting about how he and Wagner were staffing up in Africa.

Anyway, the dude is cold, or at least that's how he wants to be perceived. He's sending a message about the importance of loyalty to him. Same with the Russia spies who got the nerve agent treatment in the UK after defecting to the west - disloyal = the harshest death penalty.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

He also probably waited a bit to see who else might be emboldened to stand up to him.

He probably saw the coup as an opportunity to weed out any undesirables who expose themselves in favor of Wagner. As we all know, nobody stepped up.

Would've been interesting if at least 1 high-ranking official joined in with Prigo.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (6 children)

In other news, water is fluid

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago

Planes are so unreliable nowadays

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

“We kinda…maybe sorta killed him”

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

This headline made me snort my gin and tonic out my nose.

[–] entropicshart 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

If you think about it, this really is the best way for him to get out of the spotlight for the coup attempt.

Plane crashed, everything is burnt to shit, some official list says he was on it, some poor blokes remains get buried, and he moves on living under a different name

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

They also confurmed it with DNA. Then again, a bottle of vodka to the right person, and the DNA test says the bloke who got buried was mr. Pringles.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

What a shocker! None was expecting that.

(It's obviously sarcasm)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Russia's Top Exports:

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In other words "we did a poor job trying to convince the whole world it was an accident"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I think they're trying to pass it off as a terrorist attack.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I mean, it was a terrorist attack. Its just that in this case, the terrorists are the ones doing all the talking and investigating.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Those damn Ukrainian terrorists. I think at some point Russia needs to think about a military operation against them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I'm sure they'll find evidence of a Ukranian special ops team in their investigation. Or maybe bomb parts in imperial sizes, indicating American origin. It doesn't matter what the lie is; just that they have one that can't be questioned.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


MOSCOW, Aug 30 (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Wednesday that investigators were considering the possibility that the plane carrying mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was downed on purpose, the first explicit acknowledgement that he may have been assassinated.

The plane crashed exactly two months since Prigozhin took control of the southern city of Rostov in late June, the opening salvo of a mutiny which shook the foundations of President Vladimir Putin's Russia.

Russia has informed Brazil's aircraft investigation authority that it will not probe the crash of the Brazilian-made Embraer (EMBR3.SA) jet under international rules "at the moment", the Brazilian agency told Reuters.

The day after the crash, Putin sent his condolences to the families of those killed and said he had known Prigozhin for a very long time, since the chaotic years of the early 1990s.

The Kremlin has rejected as an "absolute lie" the suggestion by some Western politicians and commentators - for which they have not provided evidence - that Putin ordered Prigozhin to be killed in revenge.

Followers of Prigozhin laid flowers, messages and poetry at his grave on Wednesday, hailing him as a fearless warrior.


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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

You don't say?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Are they going to blame Ukrainian drones?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Im shocked, shocked! Well not that shocked.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Try it like this: ![](https://media.tenor.com/QrTqjCgS2lsAAAAM/obi-wan.gif)

[–] can 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

Better yet, like this for accessibility:

![Well, of course I know him. He's me](https://media.tenor.com/QrTqjCgS2lsAAAAM/obi-wan.gif)

well, of course I know him. He's me

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you type it like this you can imbed: ![](link)

Although it looks like your link goes to a page, rather than directly to the file. The link for that is https://media.tenor.com/sLU0qs_Oa30AAAAd/patrick-star.gif so we can imbed with that as ![](https://media.tenor.com/sLU0qs_Oa30AAAAd/patrick-star.gif)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Doing the (insert omnipotent being here)'s work! In these situations I always wonder if there's a page, or something, that I should know about that describes all kinds of format/syntax requirements in 1 place. So, ugh, does that exist?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Not that I'm aware of lol. Obviously the main thing lemmy uses is Markdown, but I think the syntax is expanded for links and such. Like, there's also the various ways you can link to communities and users - some are instance agnostic, some aren't.

  • /c/community@instance - will create an instance agnostic community link.
  • !community@instance - will also create an instance agnostic community link.
  • /u/user@instance - will create an instance agnostic user link, but will not send a mention to the user's inbox.
  • @user@instance - typing on the website pops up a dropdown box that allows you to select the user, when you click it generates the code [@user@instance](https://instance/u/user), which is not agnostic (it's in the user's instance) but does send a mention to the user.
  • ![accesssibility text](image link) will create an imbedded image.

The first 3 can be a little hit and miss, as they don't use actual link code but instead rely on the instance or app to generate the link. Lemmy instances running v0.18 and above have this function, with apps it varies more.

There's also currently no easy way to link individual comments or posts across instances. Each lemmy instance assigns each post and comment a number, but every instance assigns a unique number so none of them line up. I'm hoping that eventually they'll just let the first instance decide the number, then every other instance could use number@instance for their copy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

We can blame Kony again, says the Kremlin.

[–] _haha_oh_wow_ 2 points 11 months ago

You don't say...

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