Icon Of Sin posted:

The war against museum pieces continues, apparently. At this rate could Ukraine just make plywood decoys to draw fire?

Icon Of Sin posted:

The war against museum pieces continues, apparently. At this rate could Ukraine just make plywood decoys to draw fire?

Murgos posted:

Alex Vindeman predicted before this war started that Russia would attempt to destroy Ukrainian monuments as part of their attempt to erase Ukraine as an independent nation.

GD_American posted:

Again, if you believe the threat to LGBT existence (legal identity) in the reddest states in America is equivalent to the threat to their existence (actual continued loving breathing) in Russia, you are massively uninformed.

steinrokkan posted:

Sure, but that's not what's going on here, imo. Remember that in the first days of the war Russian mechanised forces fought an inclusive battle against a monument of a BRDM

poverty goat posted:

The original statement to which I responded was about endorsement of regressive views at the government level, which is very much a central feature of every republican state government today, as well as all of their media and their likely candidates for president in 2024. And deprival of gender-affirming care and legally mandated detransition are absolutely threats to continued loving breathing for trans folks.

poverty goat posted:

The original statement to which I responded was about endorsement of regressive views at the government level, which is very much a central feature of every republican state government today, as well as all of their media and their likely candidates for president in 2024. And deprival of gender-affirming care and legally mandated detransition are absolutely threats to continued loving breathing for trans folks.

Qtotonibudinibudet posted:

to clarify, i mean the entire government. the US is composed of both red and blue states. we have meaningful competition between parties, one of which does not hold this viewpoint. although not trivial (because it's expensive and requires leaving existing relationships behind), you have the ability to freely move to somewhere where the government does not persecute you, and is usually expressly supportive of you in tyool 2023

this does not exist in Russia. all political power is de facto fully subordinate to the federal executive and its viewpoints. you can move to a major city where the populace is less likely to be hostile and you can associate with a larger community of peers, but the government is never going to oppose the party line. if the mayor of Moscow decides to say "hey, actually the gays are fine" (as, IIRC, mayors of large cities have done in red states), their political career will promptly end. you furthermore cannot form open civil society organizations to advocate against the government's position. your equivalent option to moving to a blue state is to leave the country, which is way more difficult than moving states

Murgos posted:

Alex Vindeman predicted before this war started that Russia would attempt to destroy Ukrainian monuments as part of their attempt to erase Ukraine as an independent nation.

GD_American posted:

Again, if you believe the threat to LGBT existence (legal identity) in the reddest states in America is equivalent to the threat to their existence (actual continued loving breathing) in Russia, you are massively uninformed.

RFC2324 posted:

The governments of several states ARE exterminating by taking our meds away. We don't just detransition without our hrt, we die.

E: sorry hekk/mcnally, this was too important to let slide. We are absolutely being exterminated in red states, and anyone who claims that the US is performing an internal cleansing against trans folk should have their noses shoved in it regardless of the venue

HonorableTB posted:

Do you have a link? This sounds interesting

lightpole posted:

Ukraine thread is for Ukraine, good puns, and praising the metric system.

Gaius Marius posted:

How many Metric using countries have a flag on the Moon?

windshipper posted:

gently caress metrics, respect the working class. Metric systems are developed by the bourgeoisie.

Slashrat posted:

The other system literally has 'imperial' right there in the name.

Gaius Marius posted:

How many Metric using countries have a flag on the Moon?

Cugel the Clever posted:

"Measurement" and "arithmetic" are but fabrications of the oppressor, a mindset imposed by the protocapitalist conning the hunter-gatherer and the subsistence farmer into a vain pursuit of "surplus" they can exchange for goods they might produce themselves. It's ironic that Turkey is now spurned by the West, when Çatalhöyük is clearly the progenitor of Western neoliberal perfidy.

Workers! Let fall the tools of the bosses and go forth to fill your pockets with nature's plentiful bounty!

Cugel the Clever posted:

"Measurement" and "arithmetic" are but fabrications of the oppressor, a mindset imposed by the protocapitalist conning the hunter-gatherer and the subsistence farmer into a vain pursuit of "surplus" they can exchange for goods they might produce themselves. It's ironic that Turkey is now spurned by the West, when Çatalhöyük is clearly the progenitor of Western neoliberal perfidy.

Workers! Let fall the tools of the bosses and go forth to fill your pockets with nature's plentiful bounty!

Cugel the Clever posted:

"Measurement" and "arithmetic" are but fabrications of the oppressor, a mindset imposed by the protocapitalist conning the hunter-gatherer and the subsistence farmer into a vain pursuit of "surplus" they can exchange for goods they might produce themselves. It's ironic that Turkey is now spurned by the West, when Çatalhöyük is clearly the progenitor of Western neoliberal perfidy.

Workers! Let fall the tools of the bosses and go forth to fill your pockets with nature's plentiful bounty!

Lum_ posted:

Two (China, India), one that no longer exists (USSR) and two more if you could probes that crashed on entry (Japan, Israel). The UAE and Japan both have landers planned this year.

Moon's gettin' haunted. (grabs shotgun, leaves).

Computer viking posted:

And the US, who formally adopted metric a while ago - though uptake has obviously been spotty.

Kazinsal posted:

lightpole posted:

What is a 2x4 in a metric country? Is it still called a 2x4 or something weird?

lightpole posted:

What is a 2x4 in a metric country? Is it still called a 2x4 or something weird?

Duzzy Funlop posted:

My people call it KANTHOLZ. I can't write how we pronounce it, because I'm not Australian.

lightpole posted:

What is a 2x4 in a metric country? Is it still called a 2x4 or something weird?

Computer viking posted:

And the US, who formally adopted metric a while ago - though uptake has obviously been spotty.

lightpole posted:

What is a 2x4 in a metric country? Is it still called a 2x4 or something weird?

Oliver Alexander posted:

The flyover is expectedly cancelled. As no rehearsals had taken place, this was a guarantee.

Since the invasion the amount of vehicles in the annual parade has plummeted into a pitiful display:
2021: 197
2022: 131
2023: 51

...

To even get to 51 vehicles, the Russian military had to "borrow" 10 Remdiesel Ahmat Z-STS from Ramzan Kadyrov.

Wingnut Ninja posted:

If only one of their neighbors had recently acquired a lot of surplus Russian tanks, they could have asked to borrow some for the parade.

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

it will never stop being funny to me that american engineers have to work in metric then back-convert to imperial for the rest of the backward-rear end country

stackofflapjacks posted:

I will say, when you use freedom units in carpentry or/ and construction, it is intuitive to using your body as a measuring tool (pacing distance, something 1ft away is one of your feet roughly) although I could just as easily intuit into metric or whatever. I don't care what my tape measure reads, so long as it's consistent.

Although I remember being on swim team as a kid and tales of the US converting wholesale to metric were rife. Maybe wishful thinking from watching events in metric from Olympians etc?