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the popes toes posted:https://twitter.com/francska1/status/1497954962915082247 Possible minimal land gain and a retreat to North Korea levels of isolation and pariah status. The Afghanistan withdrawal was messy, but history books are going to mark this as the largest Imperial loss of the first half of the century.
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After the story from 2 days ago about suburban gopniks in Kyiv shaking someone down for his AA vehicle, this video supposedly shows some rural lads nicking some more Z marked equipment: https://twitter.com/Arslon_Xudosi/status/1498020061398847495
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Antigravitas posted:They are too far away from population centers for district heating (and good luck selling that to the German populace), and millions of homes are set up with gas heating. Those need to be changed soon (to something heatpump-ish), but they aren't now. And good luck trying to get boomers who own all the property to change anything. Electric heating devices are incredibly cheap and doesn't require a lot of work to install.
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Red posted:Seeing long convoy lines like this make me wish the US had sold Ukraine a few thousand A-10s. I don't think the a10 can do well in contested airspace.
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Charliegrs posted:Are they falling out of the sky or just deploying flares? You see flares in this but there is a longer video with two clear hits. idk how kofman can id them tho
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DoLittle posted:In Finland we use electricity (nuclear and other) to run heatpumps to heat homes. More expensive than direct electricity but not inefficient. Would work even better in warmer climates. Oh yeah heatpumps are even better, I just meant that pulling a few nuclear reactors out of mothballs and giving everyone a few 50 euro electric baseboard heaters is a very achievable response to an energy crisis. Electricity can become heat with very cheap equipment.
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Franks Happy Place posted:Yeah I was going to say, all I see there is evidence that some poor Ukrainian drone operator is going to get carpal tunnel syndrome tonight. Nah he's probably got women lining up to help with that.
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biglads posted:Can't have some sort of european aggro without the balkans, it wouldn't be right. I took a quick scan of several Serbian media sources after seeing this and it’s loving bad. They’re going into full overdrive about how western media is painting Russia as the bad guy and how this is a western imperialist plot. Looks like Russia has completely co-opted everything.
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Antigravitas posted:Not going to happen. Not only do they heat homes, heat pumps are an extremely efficient way to do it, and are increasingly common in Europe, especially the Nordics. About 3x as efficient as resistance heaters.
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KingColliwog posted:Yeah I don't understand. Here the temps are worst than in germany and I think most heating is from electricity provided by dams. I guess to him the idea of electricity heating homes is as odd and alien to him, as the idea of piping gas via lines into houses is to me, or having a stove (indoors!) that literally uses flames for cooking.
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Feb 27, 2022 21:28
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I have a hard time imagining what an off ramp for Putin even looks like at this point. No such thing as a "strongman" with a fuckup weak army. he's diminished but he'll probably hold on to power if he gets some kind of symbolic victory, like something that effectively restores the status quo ante but lets him pretend that he protected the donbas at home, or something like that. i think it's dangerous at this point for him to have no way out at all
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Kraftwerk posted:I took a quick scan of several Serbian media sources after seeing this and it’s loving bad. It'll be the same in the RS part of BiH too I expect.
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His Divine Shadow posted:or having a stove (indoors!) that literally uses flames for cooking. Induction 4 lyfe
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Red posted:Seeing long convoy lines like this make me wish the US had sold Ukraine a few thousand A-10s. The Su-24's Ukraine (supposedly) still has would be a better option, dropping a string of bombs down that highway would be catastrophic. 300mm rocket artillery doing a rolling barrage down the road would probably do the trick, too. Stuff like that might not be an option right now, though.
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https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1498029493033881601 I did not expect that.
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KingColliwog posted:Yeah I don't understand. Here the temps are worst than in germany and I think most heating is from electricity provided by dams. Switching from gas to electric or district heating requires breaking up almost every municipal road in the country at a total cost of around 15k per household. It's possible sure, but it will take 20 years or so and an insane amount of money.
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Antigravitas posted:They are too far away from population centers for district heating (and good luck selling that to the German populace), and millions of homes are set up with gas heating. Those need to be changed soon (to something heatpump-ish), but they aren't now. And good luck trying to get boomers who own all the property to change anything. I'm not saying the switch is realistic, but here in Quebec the electricity is produced in dams that are extremely far away from any urban center and used to heat homes. The biggest ones are a 1500km 16 hour drive away from my place for example.
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surf rock posted:https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1498029493033881601 Huh!
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surf rock posted:I did not expect that. Will they provide trained pilots too?
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you feelin fucky posted:Switching from gas to electric or district heating requires breaking up almost every municipal road in the country at a total cost of around 15k per household. You don't need to rip up the gas pipes to stop using gas. TheRat posted:Will they provide trained pilots too? That would be a very Russian way to do it ala Korea and Vietnam.
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surf rock posted:https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1498029493033881601 I don’t want to be a Clancy poster but this seems a bridge too far (in my estimation). I never understood how supplying weapons was a-okay, I don’t understand how this won’t escalate things
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you feelin fucky posted:Switching from gas to electric or district heating requires breaking up almost every municipal road in the country at a total cost of around 15k per household. What on earth are you talking about?
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distortion park posted:Not only do they heat homes, heat pumps are an extremely efficient way to do it, and are increasingly common in Europe, especially the Nordics. About 3x as efficient as resistance heaters. That`s mostly correct, but you need to take into account that they work by making the outside of the building colder, which means that their efficiency drops off dramatically with temperature. Not sure about the latest models, but the general rule of thumb is that they are only worthwhile when the temperature is above -15C.
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KingColliwog posted:I'm not saying the switch is realistic, but here in Quebec the electricity is produced in dams that are extremely far away from any urban center and used to heat homes. The biggest ones are a 1500km 16 hour drive away from my place for example. Please do not tell Europeans about Quebec's hydro dams, when they find out y'all dammed and flooded an area the size of France it just absolutely shorts them out 
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Crespolini posted:How not? they can... if somehow 150+ milion apartments/houses in EU magically switch from gas to electric heating and the whole energy infrastructure is rebuilt to handle the increased loads.
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you feelin fucky posted:Switching from gas to electric or district heating requires breaking up almost every municipal road in the country at a total cost of around 15k per household. Why do you have to do that? Surely Germans already have access to electricity in their homes?
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Yesterday I posted an absolutely bug gently caress op ed from the Russian state media site - on the topic of "The Ukranian Question". Looks like there have been a few developments around the article since then https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1498026277881540610?t=DVNGj00mMLncLknMeARFVw&s=19 https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1498029060085075969?t=44ECP6yKoVm8Zl-CjUUhZw&s=19 Here's a link to the archived version if you haven't read it.
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surf rock posted:https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1498029493033881601 What? What kind? Who is going to fly them? "I know you liked your Mig, but hop in this here F-16, see how it feels for you."
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some kinda jackal posted:Dumb question apropos of nothing other than the “flight turned around lol” I suppose.. So, yeah, airlifts so not happening. American citizens were told two weeks ago to get out. Anybody left is going to have to make their own way out. https://twitter.com/USEmbassyKyiv/status/1497920708894240770
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TheRat posted:Will they provide trained pilots too? As long as they can speak Ukrainian it could happen like in Korea!
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Aramis posted:That`s mostly correct, but you need to take into account that they work by making the outside of the building colder, which means that their efficiency drops off dramatically with temperature. Not sure about the latest models, but the general rule of thumb is that they are only worthwhile when the temperature is above -15C. Getting below or even near that is going to be rare for Germany.
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surf rock posted:https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1498029493033881601 hoooooo boy, hoooo hooo boy
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I knew that centralised heating for multiple buildings was a thing but I didn't know it was so widespread, here's an interesting page with a broad summary if anybody is curious https://www.vaillant.de/heizung/heizung-verstehen/tipps-rund-um-ihre-heizung/fernwaerme/ Pretty cool boofhead fucked around with this message at 21:41 on Feb 27, 2022 |
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Randarkman posted:Getting below or even near that is going to be rare for Germany. My heatpump worked just fine in -15c a few winters ago
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Im gonna need info on the fighter jet thing because that's a big deal and as previously discussed pretty complicated to actually do. Like how do you even do the hand over.
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KingColliwog posted:I'm not saying the switch is realistic, but here in Quebec the electricity is produced in dams that are extremely far away from any urban center and used to heat homes. The biggest ones are a 1500km 16 hour drive away from my place for example.
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All I can hear is the start of the Jackass theme when I watch this
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a podcast for cats posted:After the story from 2 days ago about suburban gopniks in Kyiv shaking someone down for his AA vehicle, this video supposedly shows some rural lads nicking some more Z marked equipment: This is like one of those old "Meanwhile in Ukraine" memes from a decade ago except happening during wartime.
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Warbadger posted:The Su-24's Ukraine (supposedly) still has would be a better option, dropping a string of bombs down that highway would be catastrophic. 300mm rocket artillery doing a rolling barrage down the road would probably do the trick, too. Wouldn't they utilize some sort of distraction to occupy the Russian air force for such a strike, like the electric rabbit for greyhounds?
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