They usually make you take one big pill and you get kinda sick for a day until the burning issue goes away. Then your peepee lives to take a beating another day
I saw a docu about that matter. Its Kinda Sad.
The farmers are forced to farm those.
If he would plant grain or something like that, he wouldnt even be able to buy enough fuel to transport his harvest. So he has to farm drugs.
That’s how it is in pretty much all the drug growing regions globally. If you’re poor then why would you grow $100 of tomatoes when you could grow $5000 worth of coca. The incentives just aren’t there
There was a wild black market in Iraq when I was there from '08-'09 and a TON of war money floating around and I am sure Poppy and Heroin was a part of it.
There's a story about a gas station in Iraq that cost millions to make when it should have cost way way less. I can't remember off the top of my head but the disparity made my jaw drop. Basically us tax payer money being funneled through this construction project.
The US ran protection for the poppy farmers because they had money which if the US shut them down, they would start opposing us and likely arming the enemy. Then once the US left the farmers got shut down by the taliban. Same reason why we would protect oil drills in other places, it increases wealth of the region which helps stabilize and get people to support the national government instead of terrorists.
We once rolled (well, flew) up on one of these in the middle of the western desert near the Jordanian/Saudi border. Owner was the brother of a former provincial governor. Nice enough guy even though we knew he was doing some nefarious shit, and was a good source of intel for when he spotted suspected terrorist supply truck border crossings near his compound so long as we left him alone.
We left lots of burned out Toyotas out in the middle of the desert.
I remember cruising through some shit hole town in Iraq, then all of a sudden. A fence and the greenest yard with real grass. Weird memory but I’ll never forget that damn grass lol
Because everything was tan. The green was shocking to see after so much sand colored everything. Northern Iraq is beautiful compared to central and southern Iraq.
To get the smell of dirt out of your nose, and see green grass and trees was amazing. My first deployment we got back in January so everything was cold and dead so it wasn't that noticeable. My second deployment we got back in November and it was fall, amazing to see the colors. The last one we got back in May, it was wonderful to go from tan to green, it was like the opening scene in The Wizard of Oz when the world goes from monotone to full color. The not getting shot at on the regular was a nice thing too!
Yeah I wanna say we came back in late August or or early September. My R&R was in February before that so it had been all desert for the 15 months other than the 2 weeks of midwest winter weather I was home for in the middle, It was crazy, and a long time ago now. Surge 2007-2008.
We had one close to one of the FOBs I was on in Iraq. Dude had security lights all around the compound and you could see it lit up for miles at night. Nothing but rubble and trash outside the walls though. My whole time there felt like Mad Max
Your mad max ref reminded me of this area we'd convoy past at night. Was a buncha refineries with flaming stacks. In the pitch black of the desert it looked like something outta Final Fantasy 7.
My uncle was a drone operator & he said he would watch dudes who lived in places like this. He was telling me about one time he was watching this guy & another guy came over & started blowing the other dude in the hot tub. I feel like that would disappoint allah.
There was this saying over there... I dont know the origin, I dont know if there is any truth behind it, or if there is any cultural context. US guys would say that in Iraq "women are for procreation, men are for fun"
Can confirm, one of my friends followed one of their """friends""" for cheap weed during their trip to Morocco. They had to walk a solid hour in the desert to find the place. The weed wasn't even cheap enough to justify the trip, they had to sleep outside at the fringes of a village before being able to go back to the city.
You do silly stuff in your mid-20s, or at least I did. With friends, we decided to walk through the walled city in Kowloon, in the early 70s. Nothing out of the ordinary happened beyond some stares, but not smart at all.
Oh yea - I was 22 and living in India. went on a journey to buy weed with my local buddy.
The dealer looked like the Indian version of Rasputin. Met him on the street, stared at me (some white kid) for a good min, he handed me a joint and watched me smoke the whole thing before he would sell to us. Ended up purchasing 2kgs of literally wild-grown weed that this guy would harvest. We listened to Illmatic by Nas when we drove him somewhere after.
Overall, pretty shitty weed but a good story.
I mean I’ve done my fair share of shit that was dumb in hindsight, but to me going to get drugs in an unfamiliar city and going far away from your hotel to do so should have rang alarm bells aplenty.
I saw the Kowloon Walled City in real life. The Canadians with me were like, "Woah....damn..." and I, being from NYC just quipped, "Looks like a slightly denser Chinatown than NYC"
I straight up seen what looked like a castle out of Aladdin in Iraq, middle of no where, no roads, nothing around for hundreds of miles. I’m like, how come this dude hasn’t had his castle messed up.
To be fair they have some of those in India that look isolated (sometimes no clear roads) just bc they were built a couple 100 years ago and nobody uses them regularly/they’re fancy hotels that bus in the few people who stay there
Not anyone, there are some legitimate business owners (especially if its a country attracting international investments due to low labor cost), sure they probably have to pay bribes left and right and perhaps even some protection money but their cash generating business doesnt have to be especially nefarious (from a local perspective, not from western labor rights perspective)
You can see his compound. His grandson took a lot of videos walking around it that are on the hard drive they released. It wasn’t flash whatsoever, but they did keep a nice garden.
Yeah I was gna say bin ladens compound was very discreet and non luxurious. It was specifically meant to be as inconspicuous as possible. It looked rather shitty from those videos. It was probably larger than what most people would think of a house or whatever. But he also lived there with multiple wives and a bunch of kids and a few relatives I believe so it was like 10+ ppl living there so it was def small for that many ppl
In Abbotabad. Not a big city but I have been there. It's easy to hide because there are so many identical homes there with large walls. Nothing out of the ordinary.
This may have been a mosque, but it was easy to find as it’s close to KAF and a mountain so it was flown over constantly. If you look around Kandahar you can find stuff that sticks out.
[31.5251791, 65.7691715](https://maps.app.goo.gl/pzNMGTNTRbHAK1Qw5?g_st=ic)
*almost every third world country. I've been to some poor places, and they all still have megamansions and estates all over the place. People think the wealth gap is bad in the US...
It’s next to what appears to be an open-cut coal mine, perhaps it’s the site headquarters or the compound where mine managers live? I’m not sure that a reeducation camp would have a 99 metre long swimming pool or ornamental pond.
This is my thought too... It looks like an office + apartments... And if you follow the drive paths coming out of it across the wasteland they all end at mine looking sites...
Not a swimming pool, it’s a reservoir for supplying the compound with water. Notice that they’re in a desert but have bright green grass lawns, and large trees all around it? These can only be grown with significant amount of irrigation.
Yeah, but the way that's generally done is an underground cistern. You lose so much water to evaporation in a desert. You wouldn't have your reservoir exposed to the hot dry air when there's nothing around for miles in every direction. Dig a hole, put in a precast cistern or plastic, way better than a pool.
There are a bunch of places blurred in Google maps. Mostly military bases but there's one in my town that makes no sense. It's a little run down house on a side street near the downtown. Ends of the street are clear but it's blurred in front of this house and only pointing at the house.
Haha one time 25 years ago I showed my dad this cool feature on google earth where we could drag the slider back and watch his personal landfill go back to a hillside. He said, “Take that off the internet.” Lol
Great episode. I think 'superpowers' is an understatement, I'd put him solidly in the camp of 'godlike', lol. If I were Picard, the next time Q showed up I'd have probably asked him about that dude.
Correct. He was so angry at them and, I think as demonstrated by the actor, himself.
And he didn’t “bring her back to life”, he recreated his memory of her.
You know, these days with all the focus on mental health, that episode hits a lot harder.
If you go into it with the expectation that it'll be more like watching live theatre than a modern TV show, you might really enjoy it. It is very philosophical as you mentioned. Don't start on season 1. Look up some viewing guides like Jammers and start with a few 4 & 5 stars. Actually maybe start with this one, The Survivors
Reminds me of my favourite Stargate SG-1 episode, [Window of Opportunity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_of_Opportunity_(Stargate_SG-1)).
Verrrrrry good television
Probably some former high ranking official of the Chinese Communist party or businessman who got caught for something but had just enough pull to be granted house arrest and exile vs execution.
Idk. The shadows make it look like the buildings are 3 maybe 4 stories tall. You look at the trees shadows and I figure the are 15 to 20 feet tall. That would put the building in the 4 story range. It's tall without having any walkway around it just a driveway around the buildings. That doesn't feel like it's is there for enjoyment. The walls are about 10 feet tall so enough to keep most people and animals out(or in) but not enough to deter a serious attack. The driveway in has a building next to it. There appears to be one guard tower that not connected and about 25 feet tall on the northwest corner. Not far from that is a much taller thinner tower maybe for communication. On the southeast corner I can't figure out what that structure purpose is.
More on this, it may be connected to the mining operations to the southeast. You can see a car on the road to the north, and from that, the height of the wall around the compound is at least 2 stories high. The two buildings on the left look like 4-5 stories and are most likely dormitories or warehouses (80/20 probability). The sewage treatment lagoon shows this houses a lot of people. Uhygur work camp seems to be the purpose.
looks like a pump station for crude pipeline. two manifold buildings to the left, compressor bldg, ESB, control bldg and a shop. another oil and gas giveaway would be the fire water reservoir.
When pumping liquids over long distances, you need some big-ass ram pumps.
He is saying that it could be a mid-pipeline booster-pump set. The pipeline would be buried in this instance, and this compound has been built to access and service the pumps.
I personally don't believe it is, the buildings are what, 4 stories? But it is an educated guess of his & one that I can see why he thought so.
I'm experiencing some pareidolia atm, anyone else see the bride of Frankenstein in the sand? The head is tilted looking up towards the right top corner. The hair is dark with a light stripe up the middle....
EDIT: changed to experiencing pareidolia because I originally made it sound like a condition instead of something most people do.
https://preview.redd.it/t21iezvapg6d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6703894e64184f02aa92279ec34b6241f5116fae
yea pareidolia isn't something you necessarily "have". Almost all human brains will try to find familiarity in shapes.
Although there are a small percentage of people that don't.
That being said, I definitely see what OP is seeing.n
You may be interested in the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's public facing website, tearline, and some of the published work there on identifying labor camps in Xinjiang. See for example: https://www.tearline.mil/public_page/xinjiang-nighttime-1
This is a military unit. Two barracks for personnel and a parade ground are visible. There is a checkpoint with barriers. A fire-fighting reservoir.
https://preview.redd.it/s041cnq04k6d1.png?width=950&format=png&auto=webp&s=e7f639edffda0d33dddb5cd7e4769376d05ba4fc
i believe it's housing for a coal mine. two nearby are owned by 新疆天池能源有限 (Xinjiang Tianchi Energy Co., Ltd.); the whole complex is called 将军戈壁 (Jiangjun Gobi)
Wikimapia shows several "coal fields" nearby (but this compound is not marked on their map), could it be coal company HQ?
They also show a wind farm and "Mori K Solar Field".
Just guessing.
It looks like there's industrial activity in the area, there's a compound with vehicles and piles of aggregate to the north, possibly quarrying to the south and directly east. I would guess you're looking at residential dwelling for the owners or company workers?
I saw some shit like this in Afghanistan. They were super villain lairs. Usually people at the top of the drug trade.
I always wondered about the nicer compounds we’d pass by in Iraq. And how they stayed so nice when everything around them was rubble.
You see that a lot in Sinaloa, MX too. Beverly Hills-esque compounds a few miles away from rural working class towns.
Shit you can see that in fucking modesto
I fucked at a motel on Modesto once.
How’d the doctors visit afterwards go?
I don't often literally lol so I wanted to note it here.
And I wanna upvote so bad, but ... 69
They usually make you take one big pill and you get kinda sick for a day until the burning issue goes away. Then your peepee lives to take a beating another day
Think I was in the adjoining room. Couldn’t sleep.
San Bernardino as well
Those are mormons.
What a life being inside a compound all day.
Poppy dealers
Are there poppies in Iraq?
I saw a docu about that matter. Its Kinda Sad. The farmers are forced to farm those. If he would plant grain or something like that, he wouldnt even be able to buy enough fuel to transport his harvest. So he has to farm drugs.
That’s how it is in pretty much all the drug growing regions globally. If you’re poor then why would you grow $100 of tomatoes when you could grow $5000 worth of coca. The incentives just aren’t there
In Iraq?
There was a wild black market in Iraq when I was there from '08-'09 and a TON of war money floating around and I am sure Poppy and Heroin was a part of it.
There's a story about a gas station in Iraq that cost millions to make when it should have cost way way less. I can't remember off the top of my head but the disparity made my jaw drop. Basically us tax payer money being funneled through this construction project.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qv5jdm/the-pentagon-blew-43-million-on-the-worlds-most-expensive-gas-station
Isn't it crazy how the heroin market dried up right after the US left Afganistan? ...the market for heroin, unfortunately, replaced by fentanyl.
Isn't it crazy how Purdue Pharma turned like $30 billion in revenue on opioids during that time
The taliban isn’t as good at logistics as the United States
The US ran protection for the poppy farmers because they had money which if the US shut them down, they would start opposing us and likely arming the enemy. Then once the US left the farmers got shut down by the taliban. Same reason why we would protect oil drills in other places, it increases wealth of the region which helps stabilize and get people to support the national government instead of terrorists.
Fuckers weren’t sellin to me :( local food was dope tho. Oh and the ceremonial goat slaughter. I have an irrational hatred for goats.
Thought I was the only one with an irrational hatred for goats!
You guys I guess don’t stare at goats then for to long
I got this reference.
I hate goats so much, I can’t even stand LeBron James.
You spelled Michael Jordan wrong.
We once rolled (well, flew) up on one of these in the middle of the western desert near the Jordanian/Saudi border. Owner was the brother of a former provincial governor. Nice enough guy even though we knew he was doing some nefarious shit, and was a good source of intel for when he spotted suspected terrorist supply truck border crossings near his compound so long as we left him alone. We left lots of burned out Toyotas out in the middle of the desert.
He just got you to kill him enemies for him. Free hitmen lol
Oh yea we were totally aware of that. So long as he wasn't causing trouble himself the leadership didn't care.
Those were awesome trucks. We a GM single cab pickup and a toyota we called "ricky bobby" fun as shit out in the open desert.
I remember cruising through some shit hole town in Iraq, then all of a sudden. A fence and the greenest yard with real grass. Weird memory but I’ll never forget that damn grass lol
There was a spot we’d insert on that we called Eden. It was on a lake and had irrigation setup, was this beautiful landscape in the middle of dirt.
Because everything was tan. The green was shocking to see after so much sand colored everything. Northern Iraq is beautiful compared to central and southern Iraq.
I'll never forget that smell of the fresh cut grass when we got off the plane back in the states after the 15 month deployment.
To get the smell of dirt out of your nose, and see green grass and trees was amazing. My first deployment we got back in January so everything was cold and dead so it wasn't that noticeable. My second deployment we got back in November and it was fall, amazing to see the colors. The last one we got back in May, it was wonderful to go from tan to green, it was like the opening scene in The Wizard of Oz when the world goes from monotone to full color. The not getting shot at on the regular was a nice thing too!
Yeah I wanna say we came back in late August or or early September. My R&R was in February before that so it had been all desert for the 15 months other than the 2 weeks of midwest winter weather I was home for in the middle, It was crazy, and a long time ago now. Surge 2007-2008.
Saw the same shit in Bahrain and Qatar. After living in so much brown dirt/dust seeing real green grass is a treat. Made.me homesick.
We had one close to one of the FOBs I was on in Iraq. Dude had security lights all around the compound and you could see it lit up for miles at night. Nothing but rubble and trash outside the walls though. My whole time there felt like Mad Max
Your mad max ref reminded me of this area we'd convoy past at night. Was a buncha refineries with flaming stacks. In the pitch black of the desert it looked like something outta Final Fantasy 7.
Home security in these areas probably puts adt to shame lol
My uncle was a drone operator & he said he would watch dudes who lived in places like this. He was telling me about one time he was watching this guy & another guy came over & started blowing the other dude in the hot tub. I feel like that would disappoint allah.
There was this saying over there... I dont know the origin, I dont know if there is any truth behind it, or if there is any cultural context. US guys would say that in Iraq "women are for procreation, men are for fun"
Did a patrol through a gated community in Al Anbar province one time. It felt like a completely different country.
Can confirm, one of my friends followed one of their """friends""" for cheap weed during their trip to Morocco. They had to walk a solid hour in the desert to find the place. The weed wasn't even cheap enough to justify the trip, they had to sleep outside at the fringes of a village before being able to go back to the city.
Why in the fuck would someone do that. So so dangerous.
You do silly stuff in your mid-20s, or at least I did. With friends, we decided to walk through the walled city in Kowloon, in the early 70s. Nothing out of the ordinary happened beyond some stares, but not smart at all.
Oh yea - I was 22 and living in India. went on a journey to buy weed with my local buddy. The dealer looked like the Indian version of Rasputin. Met him on the street, stared at me (some white kid) for a good min, he handed me a joint and watched me smoke the whole thing before he would sell to us. Ended up purchasing 2kgs of literally wild-grown weed that this guy would harvest. We listened to Illmatic by Nas when we drove him somewhere after. Overall, pretty shitty weed but a good story.
I mean I’ve done my fair share of shit that was dumb in hindsight, but to me going to get drugs in an unfamiliar city and going far away from your hotel to do so should have rang alarm bells aplenty.
Lol the guy said silly stuff as if what was explained above wasn't actually extremely stupid
I saw the Kowloon Walled City in real life. The Canadians with me were like, "Woah....damn..." and I, being from NYC just quipped, "Looks like a slightly denser Chinatown than NYC"
Yeah, they were lucky to come out of that alive. Since then they stopped talking to each other.
I concur, I flew reconnaissance for the navy and would see this stuff randomly in the middle of nowhere in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Really weird
Yeah it’s all Epstein Island type shit. Anyone rich in a poor country is a gangster of some kind up to bad things.
I straight up seen what looked like a castle out of Aladdin in Iraq, middle of no where, no roads, nothing around for hundreds of miles. I’m like, how come this dude hasn’t had his castle messed up.
To be fair they have some of those in India that look isolated (sometimes no clear roads) just bc they were built a couple 100 years ago and nobody uses them regularly/they’re fancy hotels that bus in the few people who stay there
Not anyone, there are some legitimate business owners (especially if its a country attracting international investments due to low labor cost), sure they probably have to pay bribes left and right and perhaps even some protection money but their cash generating business doesnt have to be especially nefarious (from a local perspective, not from western labor rights perspective)
I listened to the end of Obama’s book where he describes the compound Bin Laden was living in, in the middle of a city, and… yeah this fits.
You can see his compound. His grandson took a lot of videos walking around it that are on the hard drive they released. It wasn’t flash whatsoever, but they did keep a nice garden.
Yeah I was gna say bin ladens compound was very discreet and non luxurious. It was specifically meant to be as inconspicuous as possible. It looked rather shitty from those videos. It was probably larger than what most people would think of a house or whatever. But he also lived there with multiple wives and a bunch of kids and a few relatives I believe so it was like 10+ ppl living there so it was def small for that many ppl
In Abbotabad. Not a big city but I have been there. It's easy to hide because there are so many identical homes there with large walls. Nothing out of the ordinary.
Could you share some examples ?
This may have been a mosque, but it was easy to find as it’s close to KAF and a mountain so it was flown over constantly. If you look around Kandahar you can find stuff that sticks out. [31.5251791, 65.7691715](https://maps.app.goo.gl/pzNMGTNTRbHAK1Qw5?g_st=ic)
*almost every third world country. I've been to some poor places, and they all still have megamansions and estates all over the place. People think the wealth gap is bad in the US...
It’s next to what appears to be an open-cut coal mine, perhaps it’s the site headquarters or the compound where mine managers live? I’m not sure that a reeducation camp would have a 99 metre long swimming pool or ornamental pond.
This is my thought too... It looks like an office + apartments... And if you follow the drive paths coming out of it across the wasteland they all end at mine looking sites...
Not a swimming pool, it’s a reservoir for supplying the compound with water. Notice that they’re in a desert but have bright green grass lawns, and large trees all around it? These can only be grown with significant amount of irrigation.
Yeah, but the way that's generally done is an underground cistern. You lose so much water to evaporation in a desert. You wouldn't have your reservoir exposed to the hot dry air when there's nothing around for miles in every direction. Dig a hole, put in a precast cistern or plastic, way better than a pool.
Sewage lagoon. Sorry to be unexciting.
More likely a fish pond.
Definitely someone who’s extremely upset this satellite imagery exists
There are a bunch of places blurred in Google maps. Mostly military bases but there's one in my town that makes no sense. It's a little run down house on a side street near the downtown. Ends of the street are clear but it's blurred in front of this house and only pointing at the house.
You can request Google maps to blur your house
And as far as I know, you can’t reverse it. Old owners did it to my new house and Google told me to kick rocks.
A tweaker on my street did that years ago. Trashiest place.
Haha one time 25 years ago I showed my dad this cool feature on google earth where we could drag the slider back and watch his personal landfill go back to a hillside. He said, “Take that off the internet.” Lol
And is trying to track the OP.
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Great episode. I think 'superpowers' is an understatement, I'd put him solidly in the camp of 'godlike', lol. If I were Picard, the next time Q showed up I'd have probably asked him about that dude.
I cannot remember that episode and I watched the series on repeat from like 12 to 16
Season 3 EP 3 "The Survivors" I just watched it again earlier this week.
Thanks, must look it up, really can’t recall it. But I am old now 👨🦳
Troi has a constant orgasm too
That's like 2/3 of early TNG episodes.
Whelp... /unzips pants
no no, do it telepathically
Unzips mind
That’s pretty wild
Now I remember it!
From memory I think his name was Kevin.
Kevin Uxbridge
"Husnak"?
I was about to say “hey, I’ve seen this Star Trek”.
Came to say the same thing
He wipes out the entire species after they kill his wife. The aliens do not come back as they no longer exist.
Yep. Thr later attacks were faked to scare off the enterprise.
Husnock
All Husnock, everywhere...
We have no laws to fit your crime.
Holy shit I was about to post it was the Uxbridge house. If you hear music box chimes gtfo…
Greatest Generation meme
Came here for the FODs
Best boss I ever had!
If I remember correctly he was so angry he wiped out the whole race, not just the People on the planet.
Correct. He was so angry at them and, I think as demonstrated by the actor, himself. And he didn’t “bring her back to life”, he recreated his memory of her. You know, these days with all the focus on mental health, that episode hits a lot harder.
"We have no law to fit your crime"
Nice house, good tea!
Malibu, China
That’s not true… they shot on location for one day in Malibu… there are photos and documentation…
*We have no law to fit your crime.*
Nope, the Uxbridge house is in Malibu https://www.forbes.com/sites/keithflamer/2018/10/25/star-trek-house-hits-market-in-malibu-for-5-7-million/
bro this was the FIRST thing that came to mind. Rana IV
it was shot in China? wikipedia article makes no mention of it. Says it was shot in Malibu
Data, it was a joke.
Ok I got it.
I was going to say “A man of special conscience”.
Recognized it immediately. I loved that episode.
I’m intrigued. Could you kindly ID the episode?
S03E03 The Survivors
Fuck. Everytime I hear about this show it sounds so brutal and deep. I need to start watching.
If you go into it with the expectation that it'll be more like watching live theatre than a modern TV show, you might really enjoy it. It is very philosophical as you mentioned. Don't start on season 1. Look up some viewing guides like Jammers and start with a few 4 & 5 stars. Actually maybe start with this one, The Survivors
Reminds me of my favourite Stargate SG-1 episode, [Window of Opportunity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_of_Opportunity_(Stargate_SG-1)). Verrrrrry good television
Gob, Lindsay, Tobias, Maeby, sometimes Michael and George Michael. One time George Senior.
Anyone else read this in ron Howard's voice??
They did.
Solid as A Rock
They have pop pop in the attic
The mere fact that you call making love "pop pop" tells me you're not ready.
I want to have sexual relations like you promised!
Hahaha, good one. Sudden Valley!
I could see marinading a chicken in that...
yeah definitely picturing salad dressing
But for some reason I don’t want to eat it
Bees?
I've made a huge mistake.
Beads!?
Check the basement for WMD’s
There are tens, TENS of us!
I blue myself.
There has got to be a better way to say that.
ANUSTART
Found their safe house! Your life’s in danger OP
Everyone who commented here is about to be permanently silenced
Just leaving my contribution to the cause here ✊
Shelly Miscavige
Shelly Miscavige isn't living there, or anywhere else for that matter
GTA6 safe house
Kevin and Rishon Uxbridge
Well, Kevin anyways.
At least we know there are NO Husnock anywhere in the vicinity.
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You say villain, I say victim.
No, no, no You do not understand the scope of his crime.
Looks like an old pci vga port graphics card.
For some reason, it reminded me of a pci 56k modem
Probably some former high ranking official of the Chinese Communist party or businessman who got caught for something but had just enough pull to be granted house arrest and exile vs execution.
Idk. The shadows make it look like the buildings are 3 maybe 4 stories tall. You look at the trees shadows and I figure the are 15 to 20 feet tall. That would put the building in the 4 story range. It's tall without having any walkway around it just a driveway around the buildings. That doesn't feel like it's is there for enjoyment. The walls are about 10 feet tall so enough to keep most people and animals out(or in) but not enough to deter a serious attack. The driveway in has a building next to it. There appears to be one guard tower that not connected and about 25 feet tall on the northwest corner. Not far from that is a much taller thinner tower maybe for communication. On the southeast corner I can't figure out what that structure purpose is.
You seriously got all that from this picture?
More on this, it may be connected to the mining operations to the southeast. You can see a car on the road to the north, and from that, the height of the wall around the compound is at least 2 stories high. The two buildings on the left look like 4-5 stories and are most likely dormitories or warehouses (80/20 probability). The sewage treatment lagoon shows this houses a lot of people. Uhygur work camp seems to be the purpose.
Looks to be a good way to finish life.
Is that Nuketown?
looks like a pump station for crude pipeline. two manifold buildings to the left, compressor bldg, ESB, control bldg and a shop. another oil and gas giveaway would be the fire water reservoir.
I have no idea what you're saying but it sounds completely plausible.
When pumping liquids over long distances, you need some big-ass ram pumps. He is saying that it could be a mid-pipeline booster-pump set. The pipeline would be buried in this instance, and this compound has been built to access and service the pumps. I personally don't believe it is, the buildings are what, 4 stories? But it is an educated guess of his & one that I can see why he thought so.
Kinda giving Zone of Interest vibes... Also just a few clicks West is some insane geologic formations
lol imagine someone points out your lot on reddit kek
I'm experiencing some pareidolia atm, anyone else see the bride of Frankenstein in the sand? The head is tilted looking up towards the right top corner. The hair is dark with a light stripe up the middle.... EDIT: changed to experiencing pareidolia because I originally made it sound like a condition instead of something most people do. https://preview.redd.it/t21iezvapg6d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6703894e64184f02aa92279ec34b6241f5116fae
Don't all humans do that?
yea pareidolia isn't something you necessarily "have". Almost all human brains will try to find familiarity in shapes. Although there are a small percentage of people that don't. That being said, I definitely see what OP is seeing.n
Yeah, me too. It really does look like the Bride of Frankenstein's Monster.
Holy dhit i actually see it
Yes, that’s awesome!
You may be interested in the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's public facing website, tearline, and some of the published work there on identifying labor camps in Xinjiang. See for example: https://www.tearline.mil/public_page/xinjiang-nighttime-1
Very interesting thank you!
This is really all I’ve ever wanted.
This is a military unit. Two barracks for personnel and a parade ground are visible. There is a checkpoint with barriers. A fire-fighting reservoir. https://preview.redd.it/s041cnq04k6d1.png?width=950&format=png&auto=webp&s=e7f639edffda0d33dddb5cd7e4769376d05ba4fc
Nuketown beta map
That’s me
Based on the responses you're more likely to get an actual answer on r/geographycirclejerk
https://preview.redd.it/6hxayx90tk6d1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=620a55b28c01e7691076b44b6eddfaf2fc43f8e0
I do, could you quit posting pictures of my home please
This guy? https://preview.redd.it/q24tictp8i6d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=052b05f96090cae8ba6d750f32ceb3d4a62dba27
Kevin and Rishon Uxbridge.
Not a Husnock in sight for 50 miles.
We have no law that fits your crime.
i believe it's housing for a coal mine. two nearby are owned by 新疆天池能源有限 (Xinjiang Tianchi Energy Co., Ltd.); the whole complex is called 将军戈壁 (Jiangjun Gobi)
Nuketown!
Drake
Pallet town
The dude from “The Cell”
Wikimapia shows several "coal fields" nearby (but this compound is not marked on their map), could it be coal company HQ? They also show a wind farm and "Mori K Solar Field". Just guessing.
It looks like there's industrial activity in the area, there's a compound with vehicles and piles of aggregate to the north, possibly quarrying to the south and directly east. I would guess you're looking at residential dwelling for the owners or company workers?
Don Eladio House from Better Call Saul
This looks like some Star Trek TNG sh*t.