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But can’t take a clear picture.


Of all the toys to throw, that’s a big one, if he holds to it.


Sounds like a training exercise for a planned invasion.


To replace all Marmite with Vegemite.


My novel set partly in the Polygon (Semipalatinsk) is “State of Matter”


RR is awesome, totally agree-


That you are writing the above is testament to his success, so I don’t know what you mean? You don’t understand why someone so successful is successful?


In my novel writing experience, this technique has a serious limitation. I find that writing the story leads to major epiphanies that would never derive from outlining alone. These would render much of the outlining pointless.

Also, the only dialogue I’ve ever written that stood the test of time came from writing in the context of the written story.

Writing the story itself is the idea generator. You build a machine as you write and eventually that machine will do much of the writing. But you have to build it.


He sh start by not wasting our time


Don’t forget P Feyerabend, Against Method

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_Method


What I would give to see Polish tanks riding into Ukraine to give foreign aid.



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I think Poland would be more effective, that’s why. And the Poles have cause —


I'm sure Polish soldiers appreciate your opinion and would gladly die for the cause, whatever it is.


I’ve spent thousands of my own money on equipment for Ukrainian soldiers.

They’ve used it to kill lots of russian terrorists, invaders, and rapists.

Your comment here, and all of your previous comments, inspire me to spend more.

Crimea is Ukraine. Donetsk is Ukraine. Luhansk is Ukraine. Zaporizhia is Ukraine. Kherson is Ukraine. Odesa is Ukraine. Kharkiv is Ukraine.


>Crimea is Ukraine. Donetsk is Ukraine. Luhansk is Ukraine. Zaporizhia is Ukraine. Kherson is Ukraine. Odesa is Ukraine. Kharkiv is Ukraine.

You see that's the difference between us. You care about control of territory, but do it staying perfectly safe while other people are dying. I care about ordinary people's lives and want this meat-grinder stop right now.

I'd suggest that you google the word "Бусифікація"[0], it was the word of the year in 2024 according to a dictionary of modern Ukrainian slang. Come and see this video[1], for example, and listen to the pure terror in the screams of that man being forcibly mobilized to fight for the territory you care about so much.

There was really heartbreaking one where a man was screaming "I want to live" and some old woman was desperately and futilely trying to help him get free. Thank God, I haven't bookmarked any of such videos.

[0] https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Бусифікація

[1] https://t.me/ASupersharij/37513


I've lived in Ukraine during the war, while your people fire missiles and drones at us. I've had to spend countless nights sheltering underground from the terrorism of your country.

That is the difference between us, кацап.


>I've lived in Ukraine during the war

Curious, why haven't you joined the army? You want to take Crimea, but prefer other people dying?

> sheltering underground from the terrorism of your country

Do you remember Poroshenko saying "our children will go to kindergartens and schools, their children will be sheltering in basements" about people of Donetsk? [0] (Also you can have a laugh at pathetic attempt of "stopfake" (what an Orwellian name) to present this as fake. It only works if you don't read anything but the title.)

I have a friend in Donetsk.

>кацап

That's an ethnic slur for Russians. Why is it always about ethnicity?

[0] https://www.stopfake.org/ru/lozh-petr-poroshenko-poobeshhal-...


> Why is it always about ethnicity?

Ask Putin.

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putin-is-...


That's a lengthy piece from a Russophobic organization. If you have in mind something specific, say it. I read the first paragraph and it is about citizenship, not ethnicity.

And I am asking you.


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