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I've roasted 3kg so far. I'm pretty happy with the resulting cup

Putin places head of the FSB's foreign intelligence branch under house arrest for failing to warn him that Ukraine could fiercely resist invasion Clown. Putin is preparing a terrorist attack on Chernobyl Power Plant and will blame Ukraine - says Chief Directorate of Intelligence, Ukrainian Ministry of Defence YIPE.

More Blue Coast. As always prettied up, melancholy covers from a likely sparse basement just a little while ago.

All things considered the 40mm equivalent lens does make it a more appealing camera for me personally, but yeah what a joke of a marketing effort there.

Interesting move... Russia says its businesses can steal patents from anyone in ‘unfriendly’ countries https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/03/09/russia-allows-patent-theft/ Also probably worth a listen... The Russian War in Ukraine: A Conversation with Garry Kasparov https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/275-the-russian-war-in-ukraine https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/waking-up-with-sam-harris/id733163012?mt=2 or

Another one of these

Third from the right.

No big news here (Ricoh releases a new edition of a model that's just a focal length change from another model), but check out someone exercising their marketing muscles! | Main Features of the RICOH GR III Street Edition Special Limited Kit | The RICOH GR IIIx Urban Edition camera body is accented by a navy-blue ring around the lens barrel. This color was selected to represent typical street shooter imagery such as deep blue skies reflected in a puddle following a rainfall or the bright neon signs of a never-sleeping city. The camera body is finished in metallic gray, reminiscent of the gritty tones of the urban landscape. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ricoh-announces-ricoh-gr-iiix-urban-edition-special-limited-kit-301499622.html

Cold war morning: Some of these I forgot about....

Two Putin attacks in the UK in recent years need to be taken into account. In 2006, Alexander Litvinenko, a defecting KGB and FSB officer, was poisoned in London with Polonium added to his tea. He was so radioactive that he was buried in a lead coffin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko And then in March 2018, two identified Russians travelled to Salisbury with USSR era Novichok nerve agent (one of the most potent ever made) in a perfume bottle, and sprayed the door handle of a Russian double agent's house with the stuff. He and his daughter were hospitalized for weeks but ultimately survived. They then astonishingly dumped the perfume bottle in a waste bin, where it was found and then used with fatal consequences. There was a major cleanup with teams in full hazmat gear that went on for days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yulia_Skripal Both of these attacks on UK soil were widely reported, their perpetrators identities known and absolutely identified as being initiated with Putin's knowledge. And what did we do? Precisely fucking nothing.