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35 minutes ago, kiko said:
What if those men are considered a net loss to the state? They are minorities, prisoners, poor people from far away. The cynics in Moscow might see getting rid of them while gaining a few square meters in Donbas as a positive effect. Once they are no longer available, they can be a bit more careful with the good Russian soldiers. And if they get their goals done, they have traded 10 Asian looking alcoholics for 1 blonde Russian looking kid each.
This war looks more and more like population control. Finally the great reset, the rights all over the world are dreaming of.
As horrible as these losses are, they aren't enough to have a big impact on Russia's demographics. There is another advantage to the Kremlin, though. Dead men don't talk. They have committed and witnessed all sorts of war crimes and know the true situation on the front line. Better get rid of them.
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3 hours ago, Parsons said:
I've seen some twitter footage of some of the cities. It looks like they've been attacked by Godzilla. I fear the death toll will climb since this is winter and they can't rescue people fast enough. The cold plus being trapped for so long will mean a lot of people are slowly expiring.
Well, on the Syrian side things didn't look so great before the earthquake. There's an ongoing war and has been for a decade.
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9 May is probably a more interesting date than 24 February. Can Putin still have that parade as in previous years?
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The BBC now reports more than 7200 dead.
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On 2/3/2023 at 10:32 PM, Iskaral Pust said:
I wonder if this is a case of Ford paying a big sponsorship fee to watch over the shoulder of the RB engineers as they continue to develop their existing engine platform (originally from Honda), or if this is a re-entry of the Cosworth engine. The latter seems a big risk for RB to take (even with fuel changes ahead) while they are champions and have the best racing package, but that’s what makes F1 fun.
The current engine is still developed by Honda. It's just rebadged. The engine for 2026 is Red Bull's own development. Honda isn't evolved. Honda is developing a new engine, too. They will be competitors from 2026.
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So, Brazil has sunk its decommissioned aircraft carrier because there were too many toxic materials on board to scrap it. Because dumping all your toxic waste in the ocean is obviously the best solution...
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Apparently, Putin has made threats against Scholz and Macron, too. At least that's what this German paper reports:
https://www.morgenpost.de/politik/article237498623/putin-drohungen-johnson-scholz-macron.html
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53 minutes ago, mormont said:
It's wild that the only Royal who actually seems to have disappeared from public view and be perfectly happy with that is Edward.
ETA - although to be fair, I don't follow Royal affairs enough to know he's actually OK with it. Maybe he's like the Eric Trump of the Royal family, desperately trying to be relevant while the world is like 'oh yeah, there was another one, wasn't there?'
How relevant is Andrew these days? He was the spare when he was young, and there was a big hype about him and Sarah back in the 1980s, but he has been pushed down in the line of succession by Charles's offspring. Would anybody even talk about him without that scandal? Does anybody talk about Edward and Anne? Or Sarah?
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The German media claims that the German government is now ready to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.
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23 hours ago, A Horse Named Stranger said:
The delivery of Leopard tanks would apparently tilt the balance significantly into Ukraine's favor, as the Leo is apparently superior to Russian models (weapon range of several KM to 1.5 KM). And like I said, he is afraid of the Russians viewing it as German tanks being deployed. (check previous paragraph)
I don't think range is a criterion, but fire control, sights, and the probability of actually hitting your target, preferably with the first shot, as that will deny them the chance to shoot back. Western tanks are optimised for this, Soviet / Russian tanks ... apparently not so much. Some of the Russian tank fleet has modern fire control (bought from France) but apparently it's not common. Same on the Ukrainian side. Apparently there even is a a lot of indirect fire, i.e. they don't even see their target. It's the same with the artillery. They shoot a lot, but not very targeted.
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19 hours ago, Ser Scot A Ellison said:
When did the Russian death count hit 100,000? I can’t believe how fast this is climbing:
I think the number hit 100,000 around Christmas. Casualty rates have been on this level (i.e. several hundred dead each day) since late summer. They don't get much attention in the media, though. You have to go to Twitter. Neither do we know the Ukrainian losses as Ukraine doesn't publish them.
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More Tesla fun:
Tesla staged 2016 self driving video
It has always puzzled me how they got away with selling a "full self driving" feature.
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Surovikin has been relieved of the command of the "special operation." Gerasimov is in charge of it now. And Alexander Lapin is the new chief of staff of the ground forces. Prigozhin and Kadyrov are not pleased.
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6 minutes ago, kiko said:
There are only 15.000 prisoners in the whole of Brazil?
Brasilia is the capital.
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The real question now is when will we finally send battle tanks? Infantry fighting vehicles and battle tanks don't make much sense on their own on the battlefield. They need to be deployed together to cover each other's vulnerabilities. As for fighter aircraft, apparently those requires extensive pilot training, so we won't see Western planes in the Ukrainian sky any soon. Of course if we had started training them in spring last year ...
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1 hour ago, kiko said:
It's Meghan, right? Tell me it's the lady who's job it is to be seen by people who tries to be seen by people, but not in a negative light. It must be Meghan.
What kind of job would that be?
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John Shelby is out. That's very good news for NASA.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/so-long-richard-shelby-and-thanks-for-all-the-pork/
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Ukraine was in possession of some nukes but Russia held the keys. Ukraine didn't have the resources to maintain those nukes either, so using them as bargaining chips was the maximum they could get out of them. Russia didn't keep its part of the bargain and annexed Crimea, but nobody recognises their claim to it.
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18 hours ago, Zorral said:
One of the BBC's favorite stories in 2022 (i.e. it's not a current story -- but hey, it's that end of the year thang in the media!).
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220320-tbingen-europes-fiercely-vegan-fairy-tale-city
McDonald's naturally doesn't like that it is so green so is suing.
All Mc Donalds say is they want uniform regulations across the country, not individual municipalities making up their own. As for Tübingen's mayor, Boris Palmer, he was recently re-elected. Running against his own party.
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There is also the issue of "full self driving." Tesla has been charging for this feature for years, and never delivered.
So far they have got away with it, but not much longer, apparently. California has made a law that forbids to advertise cars as fully autonomous unless they really are (Teslas aren't).
https://gizmodo.com/tesla-elon-musk-full-self-driving-autopilot-1849930860
There are also criminal investigations:
There are also lawsuits from customers. Tesla's defence is ... interesting.
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On 12/23/2022 at 5:24 PM, Ser Scot A Ellison said:
What does it say that social media is generally operating at a loss?
It isn't. At least Facebook isn't. Market cap is down but the company is still doing well. It's more about expectations than actual business figures. Not sure what exactly those expectations were. More growth, obviously, but where that was supposed to come from is anybody's guess. It isn't specific to Meta (Facebook), though. Many tech companies have seen their market cap evaporate over the last year.
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Former Roscosmos boss Dmitry Rogozin has been hit in the arse by a shrapnel while celebrating his birthday in Donetsk.
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16 hours ago, JGP said:
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
Nobody knows my sorrowThe best thing about that whole "stalking incident" is that the kid that Musk claimed had been stalked is named
X AE A-XII Musk.
Seriously.
Twitterly dee dee dum dum ...
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From what I have heard it has always been like that with Musk's companies. They prey on the idealism of young people and exploit them mercilessly. After a few years they are burnt out and leave. Of course, this doesn't work for Twitter, as there is no "good cause" young people want to work for.