Posts by Jack Smith12

Jessica Peterson2 said:Relying on electricity for cooking works perfectly fine for the Capital and other major metropolitan areas that possess their own power plants and a robust, well-developed grid infrastructure.
I don't have gas in my apartment either.
As for heating, nobody actually tries to heat an entire apartment solely with electricity, unless we're talking about supplementary radiators or small convector heaters. In Moscow, centralized district heating is everywhere, powered by plants that run on gas.
But just imagine some tiny village out in the middle of nowhere, hundreds of miles from any major power station or a reliable high-voltage transmission line.
The same logic applies to a small town where the local plant was built back during the era of Lenin’s electrification efforts and now only manages to generate power for maybe two or three hours a day.
It is precisely in those kinds of remote villages and struggling towns that roughly 40 or 30% of households reside.☕

In one apartment I visited recently, there wasn't even a visible heating system—not a single radiator in sight. The owners confirmed they rely exclusively on electric space heaters. It honestly caught me off guard. The place was quite modern, too; for instance, they were using an induction cooktop.

Jessica Peterson2 said:Putin's media outlets are constantly churning out these ecstatic little prophecies claiming Europeans are going to be shivering in frozen apartments next winter because they've lost access to Russian gas. It’s quite a spectacle, really. Yet, curiously enough, they don't seem to give a single damn about the fact that 40% of rural households and 30% of urban homes across the entirety of Russia have absolutely no access to gas pipelines —if they ever did at all. 🤷

Back in early 2000, I was visiting Moscow and spent some time over on Broadway, checking out the high-rises and the working-class neighborhoods. It turns out those apartments don't have any gas connections whatsoever. Not for cooking, not for heating. Everything was done with electric stoves and space heaters.

analogbear5 said:I haven't watched it—not that I want to—just curious who else is showing up, how everyone's reacting (including whoever's actually filming all this).

The footage is stomach-turning. First off, they’re actually torturing a prisoner of war. Second, this "slaughter" by the guy from the other side lasts about a minute, including a pause (maybe using some blunt instrument?). The prisoner has his hands tied behind his back, kneeling, head pressed to the ground; you can't even hear him scream because it sounds muffled, like there's a gag in his mouth, and the man is just gasping for air in pure agony. You can't see the face of the prisoner or the "butcher"—only backs, legs, and a stupid hat that’s the only way anyone could identify them. Honestly, the cameraman is an even bigger psychopath; he calmly films the entire torture session and keeps talking, though I can't make out what he's saying. My personal take? This wasn't a "leak." These two planned this specifically for publication. It's just the two of them and the prisoner; no witnesses, and they were clearly careful to keep their faces out of frame. Usually, guys like this love to brag, even telling the victims, "You'll remember [Name] and [Name]," but that isn't happening here. It’s a horrific display of what some people are capable of. People like this should have been sidelined long ago, but unfortunately, war seems to have a soft spot for psychopaths.