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ethanol posted:Apparently the usa has the largest rail network in the world. Not having passengers on it kinda makes it feel invisible. Fortunately for me I have a Canadian pacific cargo line that runs through my backyard so I never forget It's true that USA is huge on rail transport and this is not commonly known. Compared to Europe, USA moves much more freight by rail both in tonnage and as a percentage. One reason often given is that the US does not have much of a network of usable rivers and waterways for bulk freight, so there's been a huge demand for rail links.
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Grouchio posted:We discussed this a few hours ago but yeah gently caress you reuters for yet another anxiety headline. I've seriously had to ration my use of social media because of clickbaity bullshit like this. Glad my reading's correct.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Arm crosses the microphone around the 7th second, if you ask me. Also, the hair of woman in the middle seems to be lit entirely differently from anything around here. I don't know about the lighting but the hand appearing to clip through the mic could easily be artifacting. The colours in that area are very similar and his hand appears with clear square edges in other frames showing that it's pretty heavily artifacted. The clipped part is basically a vertical bar of colour in the frame posted earlier.
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Trump posted:I'm puzzled by this statement. Do you get delivered oil directly from a barge to your gas station? Most oil refineries and power plants along the Mississippi/Ohio/Missouri are directly on the river so you can just scoop them up from the barge itself. The coal plants have a little deposit shoot right next to it to put leftover gypsum (byproduct of burning coal) for making drywall
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Vampire Panties posted:Normally its a little bit longer, but close. Google Maps is missing data for tons of railways, you can't use it for railway routes across Europe. It's not indicative of current travel times, either. In normal times, there's a Moscow - Nice train.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/03/05/russia-ukraine-insurgency/ Interesting article, I'm going to quote: quote:The Ukrainian military has mounted an unexpectedly fierce defense against invading Russian forces, which have been dogged by logistical problems and flagging morale. But the war is barely two weeks old, and in Washington and European capitals, officials anticipate that the Russian military will reverse its early losses, setting the stage for a long, bloody insurgency.The ways that Western countries would support a Ukrainian resistance are beginning to take shape. Officials have been reluctant to discuss detailed plans, since they’re premised on a Russian military victory that, however likely, hasn’t happened yet. But as a first step, Ukraine’s allies are planning for how to help establish and support a government-in-exile, which could direct guerrilla operations against Russian occupiers, according to several U.S. and European officials. Pretty interesting all in all, confirms the general viewpoint we've seen from military analysts connected to NATO/western government so far that Russia can afford to grind down Ukraine, but they're just setting themselves up for a doomed occupation. I think Zelenskyy as a symbolic figure is probably extremely crucial, so I hope he's not actually in Kiev anymore.
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smug n stuff posted:Who do you think Naftali Bennett is lol
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The US is using Israel as it's diplomat to avoid public knowledge of the Russia - US communicating a solution to this.
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d64 posted:One reason often given is that the US does not have much of a network of usable rivers and waterways for bulk freight, so there's been a huge demand for rail links. That’s just not true though. Points at the goddamn Mississippi and intercoastal water ways... again. And lol guess they don’t know about the huge rear end lakes bulk trades either!
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Great lakes transportation would be a pretty cushy scenario for maintenance. Boats do well without salt.
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Grouchio posted:Someone super pissed that Vova is attempting ethnic cleansing against Jewish Ukrainians? I would think that if he were that pissed then Israel would, as a first step, maybe impose some sanctions on Russia.
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d64 posted:It's true that USA is huge on rail transport and this is not commonly known. Compared to Europe, USA moves much more freight by rail both in tonnage and as a percentage. One reason often given is that the US does not have much of a network of usable rivers and waterways for bulk freight, so there's been a huge demand for rail links. The US doesn't really do rail links for smaller companies, something that is more important in Europe. Moving tons of gross tonnage of the same freight is where US railroads are strong. Apparently, only a very pitiful 1.36% of the US rail network is electrified, which is pretty sad.
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d64 posted:. One reason often given is that the US does not have much of a network of usable rivers and waterways for bulk freight, so there's been a huge demand for rail links. This is completely loving wrong. The river systems of the us are huge and while needing to be dredged and dammed required less work to become navigable than the river systems of Europe. The us is less dense than Europe sure but almost all inland cities east of the Rockies and west of the appalachians are on a river that’s part of the Mississippi River system, save Dallas and okc. That river system is also linked up with the Great Lakes via Chicago river and the st Lawrence river and New York via the other Great Lakes and Erie canal.
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Kavros posted:Great lakes transportation would be a pretty cushy scenario for maintenance. Boats do well without salt. The oldest one I ever boarded was a 1923 build. I had colleagues who surveyed ships built in the 1890’s as late as 2005.
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Bar Ran Dun posted:That’s just not true though. Points at the goddamn Mississippi and intercoastal water ways... again. And lol guess they don’t know about the huge rear end lakes bulk trades either! Its possible to sail most of the US eastern time zone without ever leaving protected water https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Loop
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Bar Ran Dun posted:That’s just not true though. Points at the goddamn Mississippi and intercoastal water ways... again. And lol guess they don’t know about the huge rear end lakes bulk trades either! Idaho has its very own working seaport.
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Bar Ran Dun posted:That’s just not true though. Points at the goddamn Mississippi and intercoastal water ways... again. And lol guess they don’t know about the huge rear end lakes bulk trades either! Most petroleum products (gasoline, diesel, natural gas) are transported from the refineries throughout the eastern US via pipeline, as well. Tankers take it from the depots to the gas stations. Tennessee and Ohio rivers are major shipping arteries, as well. Western US relies more on railroads due to fewer rivers. So the relative importance of various modes depends on where you are.
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Thom12255 posted:I'm not sure what I'm meant to be seeing? Whatever it is it's likely just video compression artifacts. defocus your eyes. youre supposed to see a spaceship, putins hand is only part of it.
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KitConstantine posted:German Embassy in South Africa not mincing words (CW: WAR) Ukraine v Russia: Sadly, we're kinda experts on Nazism. !!READ OP WARNING!!
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DeeplyConcerned posted:defocus your eyes. youre supposed to see a spaceship, putins hand is only part of it. Always hated those 3D images back in the 90s.
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DW has produced a recap(?) of sorts of the last few days, mostly filmed by their own people in Ukraine: War in Ukraine: A week that shook the world No narration, just interviews along with speeches by politicians. Note : Also shots of wounded people giving interviews and other war footage. Deutsche Welle is a German state-owned broadcaster. They typically do good work, though.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:it would be survivable in a sense if For me the most interesting question right now is: how exactly are Ukrainians doing w.r.t. losses? They have a really tight grasp on the opsec side of things it seems, obviously good for them, but also (as a complete amateur) I'm at a loss when trying to figure out how many men, planes, tanks etc Ukraine has lost so far. I do agree with your second point though that the Russian air just isn't performing well at all. And I'm pretty optimistic about Ukraine's losses as well, even though we lack visibility
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PerilPastry posted:https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1500168055850213382?s=20&t=0rl4bw0Mv1HCXzRfWilVWg You might want to win your first war before starting a second one glad
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Apparently Ivan was trying to clear an apartment building, and thought it would be a good idea to take the elevator to the top. Ukrainians then cut the power to the building after all the Ivans piled in.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:You might want to win your first war before starting a second one vlad
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Natty Ninefingers posted:Idaho has its very own working seaport. Yeah the Columbia has a pretty robust grain barge trade down to Portland.
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I'll bet you're wondering how I got in this situation
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The_Franz posted:https://twitter.com/BDStanley/status/1500093881349808128?s=20&t=n-buJlQkIaCj6IVOR0PuCw It takes a whole lot of effort to be this bad at war.
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go play outside Skyler posted:https://youtu.be/p7_epng277s They also edited the table so that the women look like they're not seated 20 metres away from their dear leader, but that's to be expected.
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I hope I’m really wrong, but I think some of you are getting carried away with this “Russia is a Keystone Cop,” narrative. I think we’re in danger of reading too much into whatever dribs and drabs we see on social media. But every day an independent Ukraine is still standing is a good one.
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Cimber posted:Apparently Ivan was trying to clear an apartment building, and thought it would be a good idea to take the elevator to the top. I...I don't know why anyone would take the elevator in active war zone. Feels like an easy way to get trapped and ambushed, let alone get the whole squad in one.
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PerilPastry posted:https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1500168055850213382?s=20&t=0rl4bw0Mv1HCXzRfWilVWg Putin isn't gonna start a war with NATO over loving sanctions
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:shermans were designed such that the transmission was easily removable! instead of disassembling the entire tank, you only needed to remove the tracks and unbolt the front, at which point you could pop out the entire transmission assembly. it was easy enough to do at a forward repair depot with a hoist, whereas if a german tank transmission poo poo itself it was, as you say, easier to just abandon the thing then drag it back for repair Fun fact: that idea has stuck around until this very day. I worked briefly with an Uzbekistani armor capain, and he was amazed at how quickly we could remove an entire engine from an Abrams (about 30 minutes taking our time; a fast crew who knew what they were doing could do it in about 15). He said that removing an engine from a T-72 took about 2 days. He also thought the steering wheel model control for the turret was strange. Russian tanks apparently have a control that moves back and forth, rather than turning like a wheel. cinci zoo sniper posted:It’s considered overly casual/familiar. To better understand that, you also need to be aware of existence of formal and informal pronouns in Russian language. When you first meet someone, you’re supposed to use formal pronouns, and their full name and patronymic - and to wait for them to offer you to refer to each other in more casual terms. German is like this, too, if I remember my German from university. My poor German professors. How they suffered so... VDV chat: Russian air mobile operations are starting to play like gooninawell.txt.
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Despera posted:They are two very different countries Yes, but couldn’t Putin at least take some bites from China? Such as 5 Year Plans, SEZ, and nationalizations of key aspects of the economy? Or are the oligarchs truly powerful enough to prevent two of the three above from becoming a reality?
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Young Freud posted:I...I don't know why anyone would take the elevator in active war zone. Feels like an easy way to get trapped and ambushed, let alone get the whole squad in one. This is probably the effect of zero training on poor conscripts. If your missing training has made you so disconnected mentally from actually being in a war and this is the first thing you're ordered to do, you'd probably pile in without a second thought. Until elevator No. 10, when your enemy has noticed you doing this and just cuts the power after you walked in
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Most oil refineries and power plants along the Mississippi/Ohio/Missouri are directly on the river so you can just scoop them up from the barge itself. The coal plants have a little deposit shoot right next to it to put leftover gypsum (byproduct of burning coal) for making drywall I just want to inform you that a minority of people in the world live around the Mississippi/Ohio/Missouri barge served area.
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Not a huge deal but Belarusian consul in Munich resigned in protest.
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punk rebel ecks posted:Yes, but couldn’t Putin at least take some bites from China? Such as 5 Year Plans, SEZ, and nationalizations of key aspects of the economy? Or are the oligarchs truly powerful enough to prevent two of the three above from becoming a reality? Nationalization isn't a meaningful concept for Russia. The state is Putin, and everything oligarchs own is by the grace of Putin.
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Cimber posted:Apparently Ivan was trying to clear an apartment building, and thought it would be a good idea to take the elevator to the top. they really do look like complete teenage dumbasses that have no idea what they're doing or why they're there. i hope they at least got captured alive afterwards
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