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The Geek's Raven
[An excerpt, with thanks to Marcus Bales]

Once upon a midnight dreary,
fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bedsheets,
Still I sat there, doing spreadsheets:
Having reached the bottom line,
I took a floppy from the drawer.
Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE command
But got instead a reprimand: it read "Abort, Retry, Ignore".

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Friday, June 17, 2022

Elon Musk's Starlink internet satellite communication system has failed miserably in the Russo-Ukrainian War

Like most of Elon Musk's "inventions", Starlink doesn't really work. How do we know this? We know this because American generals are praising Elon Musk to the skies for how incredibly effective Starlink has been in helping Ukraine to win its war against Russia. But, as we know, Russia is winning this war, hands down. Russia is liquidating all remaining opposition in the Donbas region, quite systematically, despite tens of billions of dollars in free NATO weapons, and tens of thousands of NATO mercenaries attempting to prop up the Ukrainian regime. In order to disguise and understate this fact, we have an entire "spin" public relations industry currently operating in the western media. So, when rocket attacks are made, they are described completely differently, depending on whether it was the Ukrainians or the Russians who perpetrated them. A rocket attack by the Ukrainians is inevitably a "precision military strike". A rocket attack by the Russians is always a "genocidal war crime". Russians fighting for the Russian army in Ukraine are described as "mercenaries", by the Western media. NATO soldiers from other nations fighting in Ukraine on the side of the Ukrainians are "volunteers", never "mercenaries". Unable to win the actual war, the Western media is trying to win, Josef Goebbel's style, the war of words. A couple of days ago, I saw a particularly interesting and extreme example of this war of words. Several American mercenaries were captured by the Russians. The term "captured" was put in quotations, in the news header. I couldn't really understand why they put the word in quotes. After all, these soldiers were overwhelmed and taken alive as prisoners by the enemy during a war. What other term would normally be used? Then I thought about it a bit: 1. Saying the Americans were captured by the Russians would imply that the Russians were engaged in a legitimate military activity. The Western media do not wish to acknowledge this. 2. To capture enemy soldiers is much more difficult than simply killing them. Capturing enemy soldiers implies an overwhelming superiority, and the Western media definitely does not want to acknowledge overwhelming Russian military superiority. 3. The Western media would really much rather describe the Americans as having simply been "abducted" or "kidnapped" by "Russian bandits", but, this would sound ridiculous. So, the use of quotes for "captured", is simply a crude attempt to create some ambiguity here. It's the pathetic best they can do! So, we can understand the deep affection American generals would have for Elon Musk. Elon Musk is perhaps the world's greatest genius at pure, unadulterated disinformation. American generals need Elon at times like this. Pure disinformation is the only effective weapon America has against the Russians, and the American military knows it!

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