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Shibawanko posted:oh apparently the IAE already told people to lower their thermostats by 1 degree to be less dependent on russian gas but it seems to me that it could be a lot more drastic than that. most people seem to have theirs set to like 22 which is like warming putins asscheeks, just tell people to at least drop below 20 Heating is just off in my building, because the temperature is above 0 outside.
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Alchenar posted:Looks like Russia has come up with a solution to its rear security area issue it's genocide https://mobile.twitter.com/biannago...%5Es1_&ref_url= More war crimes.
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Xerxes17 posted:Anyone repeating the "intentionally designed to be poo poo" ideas needs to think about what kind of biases they carry if they weren't sceptical of such claims upon hearing them. That, and take a careful look at the technical marvel that is Bradley.
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Qtamo posted:I'm sorry for derailing the thread a bit, but do you have a source for the bolded part? The reason I'm asking is that the Finnish food safety authorities haven't advised for any restrictions on mushrooms for years now. According to their studies, a Finn eating 6 kg of mushrooms per year, with most of them being species that have the highest cesium concentrations, will gain an extra 40 Saladman posted:This is the mushroom info thread, right? Anyway I was curious because I've heard of this before, but despite living with a mushroom woman for a couple years and having a good friend who is a mushroom man and mushrooming with both, this never came up and even taking mushrooms to be checked at the mushroom centers in Switzerland, they never like... waved a geiger counter in front of them or whatever one would do. I was able to find a pretty decent breakdown for Switzerland https://books.google.ch/books/?id=Y...shrooms&f=false Since this is specific to Norway all sources will pretty much be in norwegian, but google translate should work. The Norwegian Environment Agency is responsible for measuring the shrooms. The legal limit when you're selling mushrooms is 600 Bq/kg, the highest measured in 2020 was 7100 Bq/kg and the record was 33.700 Bq/kg in 1992: https://miljostatus.miljodirektoratet.no/tema/straling/radioaktiv-forurensning/radioaktivitet-pa-land-og-i-ferskvann/radioaktivitet-i-sopp/. This is all probably fine to eat in practice, but in terms of the impression of nuclear energy for the past decades it wasn't great when you were reminded on TV that shrooms in your backyard might irradiate your children due to Chernobyl.
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Nenonen posted:That, and take a careful look at the technical marvel that is Bradley. Turns out it’s hard to design a perfect battle taxi
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Nenonen posted:That, and take a careful look at the technical marvel that is Bradley. The Bradley's supposed awfulness is largely mythical fyi
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Xerxes17 posted:Okay, about the BMP doors: How are they supposed to be used anyway? I keep seeing videos showing the door is about 2 feet high and you'd have to crawl in and there isn't room to sit on the other side anyway.
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Alchenar posted:Looks like Russia has come up with a solution to its rear security area issue it's genocide Do we have satellite evidence of this sort of thing? I'm not doubting the report, just seems like a high priority to get images of this with the crazy commercial (MAXAR) imagery that we now know is possible
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Nuclear chat: I remember watching a long lecture about reactors, Chernobyl, Fukushima, etc. And in a part about various units and different safe levels I've heard something along the line "Thankfully we're not sure what's the safe levels. We've been lucky enough that there's not enough definitive data". Hopefully it will still be the case for many years..
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sean10mm posted:The Bradley's supposed awfulness is largely mythical fyi Yeah, you can check out the excellent documentary The Pentagon Wars to see how it was created
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SirTagz posted:Yeah, you can check out the excellent documentary The Pentagon Wars to see how it was created It’s basically the precursor to the F35 on land. Horrible procurement process, but turns out if you just throw enough money at the problem you can end up with something decent.
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Comstar posted:How are they supposed to be used anyway? I keep seeing videos showing the door is about 2 feet high and you'd have to crawl in and there isn't room to sit on the other side anyway. When you're in a BMP you're sitting on a bench that faces outward. When it's time to get out you butt-scoot your way along the bench until you swing your legs out and then off you go. I think there are hand holds on the ceiling inside to help with this too.
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MikeC posted:Is there a reason why the Europeans are so averse to nuclear power? In Ontario Canada, nuclear makes up well over half our energy with Hydro making up another quarter. In addition to chernobyl, fukushima and other good points itt, the sad fact is not one reactor in the eu, which construction started after 1987, has produced a single kilowatt of energy. Making reliable cost assessments is pretty much impossible - which, rather ironically, means any new proposed projects have to be optimist calculations to the point of being cynical in order to be taken seriously. in retrospectr, "don't abandon your technical know-how and industrial capacity to replace your energy infrastructure because of chernobyl" sounds like the lesson to be learned, but really, "don't chernobyl" would have been much less work really
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Mr. Smile Face Hat posted:Ah, regrouping attempt #23947, and reported by the ever-reliable NEXTA. This time for sure! It would be a miracle if the Ukrainian forces are able to hold off Russian forces from sieging Kyiv and other major cities, no matter how much damage Ukrainian forces are able to do.
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There's been an awful lot of "regrouping" so far, they've been primed to attack Kyiv in the next 24 hours for about five days now, and two Major-Generals have died at the front. Of course this could all be a legitimate slow, inexorable advance, but part of me suspects the Russian soldiers know they're being ordered into a bloodbath and are slow-walking this as much as they can, leading to division level officers marching themselves up to the front (and dying) to try to force them on.
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CSM posted:That's been the consensus of most observers of the status of the war in the north? That they're regrouping to attack Kyiv en mass. I'm sure some of the stalling has been because of supply difficulties and Ukrainian resistance, but everyone expects a full assault on the capital in the coming hours or days.
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We have our answer to "is it just some civilian contractors carrying gravel or is RUA really that desperate": https://twitter.com/markito0171/status/1501169703431163910 Previously (27 Feb): steinrokkan posted:These can be just some ad hoc guys with a truckload of gravel coming to fix a damaged road... Doesn't mean anything. (this is not a gotcha; I would've guessed gravel too) ronya fucked around with this message at 13:22 on Mar 8, 2022 |
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Often Abbreviated posted:There's been an awful lot of "regrouping" so far, they've been primed to attack Kyiv in the next 24 hours for about five days now, and two Major-Generals have died at the front. Of course this could all be a legitimate slow, inexorable advance, but part of me suspects the Russian soldiers know they're being ordered into a bloodbath and are slow-walking this as much as they can, leading to division level officers marching themselves up to the front (and dying) to try to force them on. The odd general getting killed is a great headline, and Ukrainian publication of ambushes, Russian supply issues etc are uplifting news for everyone. But they're definitely painting a misleading picture for a lot of casual observers. The Russians are still making steady forward progress along multiple attack fronts every day. This is just yesterday's movements:  The Russians for all their issues have still occupied almost half of Ukraine east of the Dnepr, and have expanding bridgeheads to the west of it.
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Another aspect of the whole sieging and demolishing Ukraine, is that Belarus already has an army refusing to move against Ukraine. Assuming that the Belarus public has somewhat better access to information on what is going on inside Ukraine, I would think that there is a limit to how brutally Russia can conduct this war before the army of Belarus become too outraged and turn against Lukashenko and possibly even Russia. Especially if the Russians are suddenly not looking quite so fearsome after sending everything combat-viable and much that isn't into Ukraine - and failing to achieve objectives. Russia is de facto occupying Belarus and propping up the Lukashenko regime. That's another reason the Putin regime shouldn't walk away with a compromise or a victory - it will mean Belarus has a much harder time freeing itself from the Russian grasp. A Russian 'defeat' (ie being unable to force any kind of concessions from Ukraine and possibly suffering a coup/putsch) would increase the likelihood that Belarus can get back on track to a better future - it wasn't that long ago that Lukashenko lost the election and then just grabbed power anyway. There's still hope for Belarus too. And I hope they end up helping Ukraine either directly or by making the entire venture untenable for Russia due to being forced out of Belarus.
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Xerxes17 posted:When you're in a BMP you're sitting on a bench that faces outward. When it's time to get out you butt-scoot your way along the bench until you swing your legs out and then off you go. I think there are hand holds on the ceiling inside to help with this too. This being the same as in Bradley: 
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Is there a danger that Russia may strike Poland to stop the supply of aircraft should Poland decide to send some to Ukraine?
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Alchenar posted:Looks like Russia has come up with a solution to its rear security area issue it's genocide I don't doubt the Russian army is willing to do this, but does this really make sense from a practical standpoint? How would they do this? Waste a ton of ammo levelling everything? Or do they have a tank run everything over? Neither makes much sense.
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ronya posted:We have our answer to "is it just some civilian contractors carrying gravel or is RUA really that desperate": It’s even worse if you know what those trucks are. The blue one is like 60 years old, and the red one is ferrying a standard construction waste container. This is like the third double bottom of the barrel.
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Willo567 posted:Is there a danger that Russia may strike Poland to stop the supply of aircraft should Poland decide to send some to Ukraine? Oh yes please do, I would love nothing more for NATO to be obligated to directly attack the Russian army.
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Willo567 posted:Is there a danger that Russia may strike Poland to stop the supply of aircraft should Poland decide to send some to Ukraine? No, not unless he wants to lose his air force in a couple of days as that would be an Article 5 attack on NATO.
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Willo567 posted:Is there a danger that Russia may strike Poland to stop the supply of aircraft should Poland decide to send some to Ukraine? No, there isn’t.
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Willo567 posted:Is there a danger that Russia may strike Poland to stop the supply of aircraft should Poland decide to send some to Ukraine? No.
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uXs posted:I don't doubt the Russian army is willing to do this, but does this really make sense from a practical standpoint? How would they do this? Waste a ton of ammo levelling everything? It's a question of incentives. Officers on the field need to report back victories, and it's easier to be a hard man making the real decision to crush the rebellious Uranians in order to protect military secrets than it is to win battles against soldiers.
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Blut posted:The Russians for all their issues have still occupied almost half of Ukraine east of the Dnepr, and have expanding bridgeheads to the west of it. Russia is absolutely not occupying all that territory. There is a difference between their lines of advance and what they control/occupy. Lines like that look good on media presentations but it's a poor representation of the actual conditions. Look at the urban centers and how few have been taken. That Kharkiv hasn't fallen is highly indicative of what the state of the offensive is. UAR is wisely not engaging Russian units in pitched battles outside of Urban centers, but that does not mean the Russians have occupied vast swathes of the country.
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uXs posted:I don't doubt the Russian army is willing to do this, but does this really make sense from a practical standpoint? How would they do this? Waste a ton of ammo levelling everything? Or do they have a tank run everything over? Neither makes much sense. Yeah, last tank better have couple hundred shells in it.
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Blut posted:The odd general getting killed is a great headline, and Ukrainian publication of ambushes, Russian supply issues etc are uplifting news for everyone. But they're definitely painting a misleading picture for a lot of casual observers. The Russians are still making steady forward progress along multiple attack fronts every day. This is just yesterday's movements: Vastly overstating how much of that territory is controled by the Russians.
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We’re on day 12 of the invasion I think. This fees wrong. It fees like a month at least
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Charlz Guybon posted:Vastly overstating how much of that territory is controled by the Russians. It does note the lines show the furthest forward spots Russian units have been seen. Like those riot police who Leroy Jenkins'd into Kiev
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Willo567 posted:Is there a danger that Russia may strike Poland to stop the supply of aircraft should Poland decide to send some to Ukraine? As far as I can tell Russia has not threatened NATO countries over arming Ukraine. Probably to avoid further conflict and inevitable nuclear conflagration. It has been more belligerent with regards to economic sanctions.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:We’re on day 12 of the invasion I think. This fees wrong. It fees like a month at least To be honest, quite the opposite for me. Feels like the attack began just a few days ago.
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The O, V and X guys must be feeling pretty down at this point. https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1501173649591701507
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EU is working on an even more extended list of sanctions. The article makes Germany sound like the main country slowing things down, but hard to say https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1501150484840824834?t=QO4WJFv2AKHiJX1d0reR4w&s=19
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