No_one
Underemployed Slav. Likes playing Factorio.
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No_one
1d ago
100% this was explosive charges in batteries. Funny they didn't notice the batteries had a low capacity somehow.
No_one
1d ago
You could probably find the explosives by x-raying a Hizballah battery a some random guy's battery of the same type.
Explosives have a specific density, I've heard they show up on x-ray the same way cheese does. If you want to give someone a fun time, gift them some oval shaped hard cheese, pack it next to electronics..
What if the Gros Michel banana specifically contained some protein that could have been turned into a low-carbon-emission fuel source using 2025 technology
Don't worry about anything like that. How much energy you can get out of crops is capped by photosynthesis. It's not that much because photosynthesis is extremely inefficient. If there was a plant that had a higher photosynthesis efficiency, we'd know.
they had the technology to farm truffles, and the decimation of France in the war resulted in them somehow losing that capability.
You heard wrong. Truffles are still farmed, and apparently there's been a recent breakthrough. Some micro-testing which lets people buying tree seedlings are successfully inoculated with the symbiotic fungi that grows truffles.
humans have been responsible for the extinction of tens of thousands of species, mostly bugs I think I recall,
There are many, many species of bugs. Notoriously many. Apart from pollinators I've not read anyone related to farming worrying about anything going extinct, as a niche wouldn't stay unfilled for long.
No_one
1d ago
- the spread of inflammatory rhetoric and disinformation propagate by big tech.
Just..big tech?
Are you really saying it's big tech's fault blacks and many liberals whites believe what's basically blood libel - that is, that police kills thousands of unarmed blacks every year ?
No_one
3d ago
Possible, the guy was near psychotic. You might be right, or it was the gun he could get. He was a felon, so probably couldn't get much of a choice.
Or maybe shooting a Russian asset with a Russian made gun seemed like the thing to do.
I haven't cared much about guns since about the cheap russian import era, when that was the case both here and in the US.
No_one
3d ago
Because US thought they had no competition. If you proposed lowering defense budgets now you'd be called a traitor selling out global freedom to the Chinese.
No_one
3d ago
I'm sure there are Czech hipsters and I do know craft beers exist and are drunk (as the chart shows), but it's not really my thing. I've been offered some craft beer and such, wasn't generally bad.
Wasn't generally better than what you can buy in store, just different. I'm not going to 4x my beer costs to get something 'different' now am I?
Due to parentage and upbringing (public school) I'm inacapable of understanding what 'cool' means. Or at least what normies mean by that.
E.g. very early on when at 15 I was out drinking with my high school class (more like a state run & funded prep) and the girls were smoking unfiltered cigarettes & instead of being normal and thinking "they're being so cool" I thought "they think this makes them adults" and having a bit of a laugh internally.
They didn't say they were going to send troops. They said they're going to give Ukraine everything it needs to win though, and press 'the case against Russia' and so on. Politico article on the visit. Video of the speech
I believe the plan was something like a fork in chess - give aid and support to Ukraine so it crushes the rebels and thus also wrecks Putin's domestic support and international prestige, or force Russians to intervene in which case you can paint them as a horrible danger to Europe and impose more sanctions and wreck European trade with Russia, which directly benefits you as they're forced to buy more from Canada and the US. Whatever reaction Russia does, it loses. Pretty basic plan but it can't help but work.
When it comes to other aid, US and West have offered Ukraine more of it and taken bigger risks than just about anyone would have predicted before Feb 2022.
You are right. Almost no one did, but people in Ukrainian politics thought US would take even bigger risks. Check the image. And perhaps also the video of Arestovych talking about the situation.
[Here's a video from 2019 of then presidential advisor Arestovich] explaining the situation as he sees it, and casually stunning the interviewer with frankly speaking about a large-scale war with Russia. I don't really fault much of the analysis, except for the bit saying that a "major war" is a price worth paying for not being in a Russian led union. The fate of Bulgaria isn't one to envy, and that's what'd have awaited Ukraine, at best.. Fodder to keep the population shredder of the EU going for a bit longer. Why would anyone stay in a corrupt & poor state riddled with political strife when they can move abroad easily ?
It's funny how it neatly ties all it together. He says that NATO members weren't certain about taking in Ukraine - but Skripal affair, the airliner shootdown, coup in Montenegro and Syria made it clear they have to oppose Russia by accepting Ukraine.
Skripal affair was, to a 99.99% probability, a psyop done by someone in the British state. There's no other explanation for the utterly unlikely presence of one Britain's highest ranking military medical officers on the scene. It was really weird and poisoning a guy you exchanged who wasn't even very nasty doesn't make sense.
The airliner shootdown might have been malicious, in the sense that Ukrainians did not close their airspace over the area after losing a big jet to a SAM missile. Whether that was deliberate or incompetence is unclear. And as to Syria and the refugee wave caused by the war Americans supported and possibly caused, and in which they supported Al-Qaeda and allegedly also ISIS.
Grand strategy is a pretty nasty affair, the stakes are basically infinite so it's of course going to be absurd.
No_one
3d ago
Did they integrate better AI into it ? Rampant seems pretty computationally simple but it works very nicely and depending on the setting and your bad habits can eat all the resources.
Never cared about pollution in normal Factorio, why would you? In Rampant I'm greener than the Germans.
No_one
3d ago
Does anyone know where the beer trends are going? What's cool now?
As a resident of Czech Republic, the idea of 'trends in beer' seems bizarre. Beer is a daily drink. Asking for a 'trend' in beer is like asking for trends with Coca-Cola. Sure people do try but generally the big established brands produce pretty good lager which is what almost everyone drinks.
It seems in America it's something else, not a basic commodity.
No_one
3d ago
There's no realistic scenario for that. Americans would have to give up attempts at world hegemony and lower welfare while increasing taxation.
Either is politically impossible.
No_one
3d ago
...uhh..what?
You know where your drone is. Today you could even have its position updated live on their tracking devices.
No_one
3d ago
A Republican who had a Biden/Harris bumper sticker. A Republican who is for infinity migration and into castration culture.
Nah. What made him a republican ?
No_one
3d ago
Routh spent all his money on flying around. Had he brought quality camo and laid on the ground looking like some slightly wilting local plants he might have gotten off a shot.
No_one
3d ago
Does he really have any connections ? That's the thing. He's very sketchy but those pictures of him in a cheap suit looking lost in Kiev don't inspire confidence in me. He had websites where he was soliticing passports numbers and saying he could get these people visas.
He appears he wants to have connections, and people on X are making a big deal out of him following some CIA girlboss on there, but people are generally stupid and confirmation bias is king.
Personally I'm leaning towards the guy being basically a fantasist and not very competent.
The only thing he did right was apparently camp out for 12 hours on the golf course, expecting that Trump will go there to relax. Had he used the time to properly camouflage himself, he might have succeeded.
No_one
3d ago
It's trivially true that the current war in Ukraine could've been avoided had the Kievan Russ welcomed Moscow as liberators and acquiesced to their rule instead of choosing to fight.
Even more simply, it could have been averted by not creating conditions for a coup in Ukraine and then not psyopping the Ukrainians into thinking US is going to help them win a war against Russia. And you were telling them exactly that - it's even on video.
Two high profile senators talking, on camera, about "taking the fight to the Russians" and that US will give them all they need is pretty unequivocal in my book.
Voting, even when your vote isn't neccesarily the deciding vote, has value for the same reason honoring your agreements has value. Doing so (or otherwise not doing so) tells the rest of the world something true about you.
Voting is mostly a mechanism for farming legitimacy: "you voted for this, here eat it". It gives people the illusion that they may change some outcome. Seeing how it's gone with migration in Europe, it's pretty clear voting doesn't really work and you don't get to vote on judges and especially international courts which are making it impossible for states to run their own territories in a sane manner. If it's even threatening to start to maybe work then you get calls to ban the new parties, as with AfD.
It doesn't matter that policy is written by think-tankers or NGOs and that representatives don't even read what they vote on.
No_one
7d ago
Pardon me for thinking that that is probably complete nonsense. E.g. it's well known that open spaces are shit for people who need to concentrate, yet almost everyone uses them.
It's probably same for utter majority of workplace and recruiting psychology. Just trash that exists so managers can justify their decisions.
No_one
7d ago
I didn't cotton onto the hidden cases of covid and thought it was way more deadly than it should be.
With hindsight, the Swedes were pretty much right ,and iirc their mortality in the end wasn't notably worse than countries that locked down much harder.
No_one
7d ago
As a kid I was wrong on America, that was excusable. Had a pretty big row with friends over Americans bombing Serbia and Serbian infrastructure over Kosovo. Defended them flattening the bridges of the Danube and putting power plants out of commission because 'genocide'.. which apparently wasn't.
Later on I thought libertarianism is viable. It isn't, unless you can figure out a way of how to have libertarian armies, how to man them and finance them. That's the problem - we live on this mudball, we can't leave it. People are going to want to take your stuff, so you need something more than a 'why can't we all just live along' ethos to motivate people.
Don't look at me. I have no idea what that should be.
I was listening to a podcast w/Malcom Collins*, and he said one of things he's afraid of is the rise in anti-human philosophies. People always want to be the hero of their own story, we evolved to be just that.
So, once there's way more resentful people who are angry they made the wrong choice. 'cope' philosophies that help them sanctify their mistakes like anti-natalism or even efilism are going to get more prominent.
To certain people, you being happy while they aren't is emotional violence. And a reaction to emotional violence with actual violence is okay. We've seen this in certain of the less hinged anti-terf activism.
Techies better invent more impressive distractions or maybe even catgirls or catboys to deal with this.
*husband of the 'elite tech couple breeding to save humanity' who got all those hit-pieces on him. I like his enthusiasm tbh, the systematic way he looks at things. Apparently he's enjoyed Fallout Equestria.
No_one
8d ago
The poverty and criminality of the black community just makes it more sympathetic for someone who sees them as victims of Democrat policies designed to keep them as an underclass
You mean they believe the lack of policing and the lax standards the democrats are okay with are designed to keep them poor and clients and are harming the black communities, and that they believe a higher amount of paternalism would make the situation better ?
I don't necessarily disagree with that, but the amount of control and cultural change needed is rather higher than they'd likely think is needed.
Lol no. That'd mean inventing a whole new type of explosive that can be inside an working battery ?
Why - more likely these are custom made batteries no one thought to x-ray which were modified to have lower capacity and the empty space was taken up by a detonator and explosive. Much simpler.
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