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Re: The Swedish cabin on the frontline of a possible hybrid war

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Post by cyberax » Fri, Dec 27, 2024, 12:57 AM UTC

mistrial9 wrote: post #106

cyberax wrote: post #101

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From a practical standpoint, sailing in the Bay Area is dead boring. There's not that much worth visiting. And once you go outside of the Bay, the next interesting stop is Japan. Puget Sound is way better. It'd be nice to quantify this somehow. I guess one metric would be "navigable rocky islands"?

you have got to be joking or else wildly uninformed. SF Bay Area sailing is known across the world. There are international races here.

I sailed both. Sorry, but the Bay Area is just boring.

Yes, it has races. They have little to do with sailing itself.

Re: The Swedish cabin on the frontline of a possible hybrid war

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Post by AtlasBarfed » Fri, Dec 27, 2024, 5:53 AM UTC

The russians are pretty much totally dependent on Scandinavia not shutting down / blockading their ocean access like Turkey has somewhat effectively done in the Black Sea.

Russia is being really stupid in my opinion. They are antagonizing a far superior military force. The nuclear risk is obvious, but it seems that Europe will have to escalate the conventional conflict in Ukraine with more direct action.

Europe has to do some "growing up" militarily. At least it appears that Finland and Poland have their act together

Re: The Swedish cabin on the frontline of a possible hybrid war

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Post by derelicta » Fri, Dec 27, 2024, 10:51 AM UTC

If Westerners don't like getting invaded, then they should stop invading or destabilising countries themselves. Might do the trick.

Re: The Swedish cabin on the frontline of a possible hybrid war

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Post by ninalanyon » Thu, Jan 02, 2025, 10:03 AM UTC

unwind wrote: post #20

ninalanyon wrote: post #12

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Why doe it need to blend in? It's not a secret installation. The cabin is discreet simply because the red paint is the traditional colour for pretty much all rural plank clad non-residential buildings in Scandinavia. I doubt that any thought went into the colour scheme.

It's called Falu red [1], btw. Made from mining residual products and originally liked because it resembled luxurious brick. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falu_red

No one (well almost no one) in Norway would call that luxurious, it's what you paint the cowshed or other agricultural buoldings with. Almost no one here would paint a residential building that colour not even a hytte (cabin) in the mountains. It's one of the few class related behaviours that I can think of in Norway. Once white paint became available wooden residential buildings (that's most residential buildings) of any quality would be painted white and south of Drammen mostly still are. Cabins are normally beiset (originally a kind of two component grey or brown stain, now more properly a varnish).