An old institutional tradition continues as well.
Then the state TV feed cut straight to Oleg Gazmanov again. Where the hell is Putin? What happened?
Like I said - hologram. 
the feed cut out because of a server problem.
Yeah, right.
But - perhaps the Russian intranet really is running short of servers as well as storage?
(And - in before some dumb repugnicon - couldn’t he at least wear a suit? Not very presidential.) /s
Too bad that they didn’t cut to Swan Lake ballet. That’s when you know SHTF.
It would be so poetic if these two asshole Texans ended up shooting each other.
Short thread:
As a native Texan, oh how I wish I could go handle it myself.
One man, who works in the Moscow metro, told us that he and other employees had been forced to attend the rally…
Ah, so literally a page out of the Soviet Playbook. Forced attendance for patriotic events.
Fighting reaches central Mariupol as shelling hinders rescue attempts
(updated version of article posted earlier)
Yabbut . . . What if someone just sinks the boat?
The Syrians ought to be worried by Putin’s anti-Nazi rhetoric. I mean, the Al-Assad regime employed an honest-to-god WW2 Nazi, Alois Brunner, up into 2001 or 2010 to help them refine their torture techniques.
Same thought. A panic room on a ship seems, less than ideal?
I was thinking it could be for use while docked? In case miscreants jump aboard? They’re not about to sink the boat in that situation.
Meanwhile, you can deploy techie booby traps against them while watching them on camera.
When asked to design a large impractical mega yacht for a paranoid oligarch with no clue how ships are supposed to work I expect you just nod and add “more wasted space” to the plans while adding more zeros the the right side of the bill.
