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DIY-HP-LED said:
I thought I'd check to see if this thought occurred to anybody else...

The Ruble is now worth less than toilet paper

The Ruble is sitting at 0.00769235 USD. According to my last order, my toilet paper cost 26.49 for 1950 sheets or 0.013584 per sheet. This means it would be cheaper to wipe your ass with Rubles but probably less comfortable.
If this isn't an endorsement for BTC, I don't know what is.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/ta1cx0
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I connected to and tapped into the collective memory of humankind and found someone who had the same thought:

DIY-HP-LED said:
While taking a shit I noticed there are 124 sheets of (2ply) to a roll of toilet paper, so if you paid $1 per roll of toilet paper, each sheet would be worth about as much as the ruble will be soon, maybe more! It could reach a point where it is cheaper for Russians to wipe their asses with rubles than use them to buy toilet paper. :lol: In short there is no profit to be made there the money is worthless.
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I also vaguely remember a certain someone pointing out that’s not how currency works. Something about liras. Can’t wipe your ass with a currency, at best with banknotes/bills, which come at a minimum amount. Even if you master the 3 seashells technique, you can’t wipe your ass with ‘a’ ruble. Ruble dropped roughly 30% since the start of the war, compared to the dollar. Far less compared to yuan or yen. In no way does that equate to the ruble being wortheless or worth less than a sheet of toilet paper.
 
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printer said:
Which does not change the effectiveness of training when they get one round to fire when they should have had five shots per situation. So you are saying everything is ok but people there say not.
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No, just that it might not apply to small arms ammo in general, but to this particular kind. I'm not happy with the situation either but figure the Ukrainians will muddle through until aid arrives one way or another, they are still receiving aid from others in a steady stream.

If push comes to shove Joe will seize Russian money and give it to Ukraine and it shouldn't cost him a vote, might even gain some, he and Europe will not let Vlad win. They see an opportunity to defang and declaw the Russian bear and keep him behind his borders with a shattered economy under sanctions for a decade while Europe rearms. Defeating and driving them from Ukraine while almost completely destroying their military and economic power fits this agenda. Meanwhile just look at the daily Russian losses in men equipment and resources and the effect it is having on Russian society. Another year of that?
 
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Russia left scars and long memories in eastern Europe and the Baltic states, they don't forget so easily and Putin is no better than Stalin. They see their chance for security by the destruction of Russian military and economic power in Ukraine and know it is easily possible, if the Ukrainians were given proper aid and not forced to fight with one hand behind their backs. Even if he has temporary problems with funding, Joe might be thinking long term too and a longer war makes Russia's economic and military destruction more complete. The run up to the election this summer might be a good time to finish off Vlad in Ukraine and kill two birds with one stone. Even if Trump wins, his master in Moscow will likely be dead.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1749452261795787203
 
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By focusing on rail transport from Asia over a few critical rail lines they can disrupt support from North Korea and China. By destroying the Kerch bridge, it will screw the Russians in southern Ukraine and Crimea, they are already hitting alternative shipping the Russians might use. With a bit of support and some longer-range missile from the EU things could change radically and quickly if the Russian logistics are strangled to Crimea and logistic and C&C points are hit far behind the Russian lines. Vlad might have a half a million warm bodies in the place, but he has to feed and supply them, and it is a hard winter there. Hundres of thousands of Russian prisoners this spring and summer with a major Ukrainian drive properly supported might bring down Vlad's regime or cause a coup in Russia. They don't need so many artillery shells if they have missiles and F16s, and destroying Russia militarily and economically would be a feat that many US presidents could only dream of, especially during election season as vast hordes of starving Russian prisoners are captured in Ukraine. Nothing like actually winning instead of just talking about it.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1749533325092397398
 
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At times a little dramatic, but insight we do not normally get. A woman lawyer, mother, applied to run for Putin's job, was disqualified because of "illegalities" (They did not like a handful of the 1,000 signatures she needed to get to run). You would think her short lived political career is over, but she has some balls. But this is Russia.


Just got to the next section. You got to see right after the frozen boiler room. Russians can sure part their car almost anywhere.

 
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Fogdog said:
Wait, what? A 50 year old main hot water line broke. After it was repaired an even older section blew, burning several people with boiling hot water and a large area of a Russian city now has no heating in their buildings?

Holy infrastructure, Batman!
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The first week of my job working on buildings one of the guys was training me, a valve on a rad was leaking and he had me replacing it. He made a mistake and thought it was a steam system rather than a hot water system. So he turned off the shutoff valve and had me replace the valve. He was wrong and it had a hot water supply. The thing with hot water is the pipes are full, in a steam system the downward section is at atmospheric pressure on the other side of a steam trap. But with the hot water system you need to shut off a valve on the return leg (to the boilers) of the piping.

It was a good thing it was only September and not winter where we jack up the water temperature. I got the valve off and water starts gushing out onto the floor. The pressure of the water (seven floors of water above us trying to empty out of our valve opening) did not let me stick the valve body back in and the water was running out into the retail area and flowing down stairs to the first floor. I am thinking, "Things are bad.", so I took my work gloves and jammed one into the hole as best I could and held it in place with my other gloved hand (split rawhide). Held it over 15 minutes until someone came with the right key to close the valve on the trap side.

So yeah, know a thing or two about these big systems, worked on them for ten years and some things broke where we fought to keep the place from freezing or waterfalls occurring. I would hate to be in Russia trying to fix the stuff under their conditions. They need a cold snap that lasts until after the March elections, see how much the people love Putin.
 
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The first week of my job working on buildings one of the guys was training me, a valve on a rad was leaking and he had me replacing it. He made a mistake and thought it was a steam system rather than a hot water system. So he turned off the shutoff valve and had me replace the valve. He was wrong and it had a hot water supply. The thing with hot water is the pipes are full, in a steam system the downward section is at atmospheric pressure on the other side of a steam trap. But with the hot water system you need to shut off a valve on the return leg (to the boilers) of the piping.

It was a good thing it was only September and not winter where we jack up the water temperature. I got the valve off and water starts gushing out onto the floor. The pressure of the water (seven floors of water above us trying to empty out of our valve opening) did not let me stick the valve body back in and the water was running out into the retail area and flowing down stairs to the first floor. I am thinking, "Things are bad.", so I took my work gloves and jammed one into the hole as best I could and held it in place with my other gloved hand (split rawhide). Held it over 15 minutes until someone came with the right key to close the valve on the trap side.

So yeah, know a thing or two about these big systems, worked on them for ten years and some things broke where we fought to keep the place from freezing or waterfalls occurring. I would hate to be in Russia trying to fix the stuff under their conditions. They need a cold snap that lasts until after the March elections, see how much the people love Putin.
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I've heard of heating buildings with their own boiler but entire districts in a city? Hot water piped across city blocks. That's a new one to me.
 
DIY-HP-LED

DIY-HP-LED

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Fogdog said:
Wait, what? A 50 year old main hot water line broke. After it was repaired an even older section blew, burning several people with boiling hot water and a large area of a Russian city now has no heating in their buildings?

Holy infrastructure, Batman!
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The guys who maintained it were drafted last year and the maintenance budget was cut to fund the war while most of what remained disappeared in corruption!
 
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