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What is the most powerful flying bug?
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🦋 15 3.71%
🦇 115 28.47%
🪰 12 2.97%
🐦 67 16.58%
dragonfly 94 23.27%
🦟 14 3.47%
🐝 87 21.53%
Total: 404 votes
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KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

Hatebag posted:

oh, you don't want twice as much sugary mixers as you do booze? it's like a very lovely margarita by someone who had the concept vaguely described to them

For real, I'd change the raspberry lemonade to just raspberry juice and maybe cut that in half, and maybe drop the simple syrup all together depending on taste, and how sugary the raspberry juice is

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Ardennes
May 12, 2002

genericnick posted:

Certainly not from the streets, but the party?

It is a good question for the CPC in particular perhaps not Xi or even his immediate successor but when the current generation takes over.

Leandros
Dec 14, 2008

Nix Panicus posted:

I take it nothing is actually happening in Ukraine beyond Russia's slow but steady encroachment on multiple fronts slowly bleeding them dry?

The number density of Russians on captured ground is decreasing, yes.

Marzzle
Dec 1, 2004

Bursting with flavor

Ardennes posted:

There are some studies that show there can be issues with nitrates in very high concentrations, like in production facilities, but it isn't really a reason to use them in everyday agriculture. I assume by "black market" they mean their father would buy roadside vegetables people were growing from their own plots rather than state or collective farms.

potassium nitrate is also used as a laxative, ammonium nitrate is basically an explosive. no doubt pure nitrate salts aren't good for you but also they give hotdogs and spam their beautiful pink coloration so who am I to judge 🙏

Ardennes
May 12, 2002

Leandros posted:

The number density of Russians on captured ground is decreasing, yes.

Even Western outlets are admitting that the Russians are taking less causalities than in 2023 and have plenty of reserves.

Marzzle
Dec 1, 2004

Bursting with flavor

dumping concentrated nitrate solution on a plant will straight up kill it tho so dude's dad was probably lying or misinformed or whatever

Leandros
Dec 14, 2008

Ardennes posted:

Even Western outlets are admitting that the Russians are taking less causalities than in 2023 and have plenty of reserves.

The number A/B shrinks when A stays the same and B increases.

Marzzle
Dec 1, 2004

Bursting with flavor

Hatebag posted:

oh, you don't want twice as much sugary mixers as you do booze? it's like a very lovely margarita by someone who had the concept vaguely described to them

raspberry vodka daiquiri

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

ЗеРада posted:

🇺🇦 The army of evaders

Only in the Ivano-Frankivsk region, 40 thousand people are wanted by the police for draft evasion, said Roman Bodnar, deputy head of the regional shopping center.

"We already have an Amulet system in operation, where the data of about 90% of those liable for military service are entered. All these people are officially wanted by the police. As of December 2023, there were 36 thousand such persons in our region. Three thousand more citizens have been added to this database this year," he said Bodnar.

Let's omit the legal aspects of the "search for evaders". In the current Ukraine, legal aspects are generally an oxymoron.

Ivano-Frankivsk region is one of the most patriotic regions + far from the largest.

Accordingly, it can be assumed that there are 2 million "evaders" in the country.

The defense Forces number approximately 1 million, of which about 40% are refuseniks.

In total, those who do not want to fight are 6 times greater than those who do.
(from t.me/ZeRada1/18888, via tgsa)

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

stop talking about nitrate you nerds cant you see the gigantic ukrainian cosplayer

https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1772202117073404081
https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1772492964117483831

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

why are you posting any of that

VoicesCanBe
Jul 1, 2023

"Cóż, wygląda na to, że zostaliśmy łaskawie oszczędzeni trudu decydowania o własnym losie. Jakże uprzejme z ich strony, że przearanżowali Europę bez kłopotu naszego zdania!"

Nix Panicus posted:

I take it nothing is actually happening in Ukraine beyond Russia's slow but steady encroachment on multiple fronts slowly bleeding them dry?

Russia is collapsing

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

C-SPAM stans giant women

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012

Ardennes posted:

It is a good question for the CPC in particular perhaps not Xi or even his immediate successor but when the current generation takes over.

Yeah. My amateur view is that you had a bit too much excitement under Stalin--general excitement for the socialist project even further inflamed by the war, opportunists entering the party during NEP, a whole party of experienced conspirators--so the counter reaction was to have everyone calm down. And that succeeded to the degree that no one was left to blow Gorby's plane out of the sky when he was dismantling the whole project.
And I agree, the big test for China comes when Xi retires.

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012

euphronius posted:

why are you posting any of that

thread relevant imo

Ardennes
May 12, 2002

Leandros posted:

The number A/B shrinks when A stays the same and B increases.

In this case, A stays the same (and has more and more in reserve) while B is being ground to a pulp. It isn't really a mystery, the Ukrainians have a hopeless fight ahead of them and they are losing, badly.

Ardennes has issued a correction as of 17:31 on Mar 28, 2024

DJJIB-DJDCT
Feb 1, 2024

Leandros posted:

The number of Ukrainian soldiers shrinks

/thread

Tankbuster
Oct 1, 2021

euphronius posted:

why are you posting any of that

Neurolimal
Nov 3, 2012
War would look different if Ukraine had retained their 10 foot women, yet another demonstration that Ukraine lacks the mandate of heaven

Leandros
Dec 14, 2008

Jesus Christ way to ruin a joke. A density is amount divided by surface area (or length or volume). I'm saying the amount of captured ground is growing while the number of Russians is staying the same

VoicesCanBe
Jul 1, 2023

"Cóż, wygląda na to, że zostaliśmy łaskawie oszczędzeni trudu decydowania o własnym losie. Jakże uprzejme z ich strony, że przearanżowali Europę bez kłopotu naszego zdania!"

Ardennes posted:

In this case, A stays the same (and has more and more in reserve) while B is being ground to a pulp. It isn't really a mystery, the Ukrainians have a hopeless fight ahead of them and they are losing, badly.

Russia ran out of missiles and artillery shells in March 2022

VoicesCanBe
Jul 1, 2023

"Cóż, wygląda na to, że zostaliśmy łaskawie oszczędzeni trudu decydowania o własnym losie. Jakże uprzejme z ich strony, że przearanżowali Europę bez kłopotu naszego zdania!"

Leandros posted:

Jesus Christ way to ruin a joke. A density is amount divided by surface area (or length or volume). I'm saying the amount of captured ground is growing while the number of Russians is staying the same

I hate to ruin the joke further but the number of Russian soldiers operating in Ukraine is increasing over time.

Leandros
Dec 14, 2008

But is it outpacing the growth of the surface area of captured ground?

Organ Fiend
May 21, 2007

custom title

Raskolnikov38 posted:

if kyiv falls can we all go back to calling it Kiev

The Nazi 'iv'

Leandros
Dec 14, 2008

See my original joke as something said by the type of person that would use "retrograde culmination" without irony

DJJIB-DJDCT
Feb 1, 2024

Leandros posted:

But is it outpacing the growth of the surface area of captured ground?

Even assuming what you're saying is true, if they were continuing to advance with less troop density, it would mean that Ukrainian resistance was decreasing over time.

VoicesCanBe
Jul 1, 2023

"Cóż, wygląda na to, że zostaliśmy łaskawie oszczędzeni trudu decydowania o własnym losie. Jakże uprzejme z ich strony, że przearanżowali Europę bez kłopotu naszego zdania!"

Leandros posted:

But is it outpacing the growth of the surface area of captured ground?

Probably? The gains Russia is making are larger than they were a few months ago but are still pretty small.

I don't intend to do the math to prove it though.

Isentropy
Dec 12, 2010

euphronius posted:

why are you posting any of that

Leandros
Dec 14, 2008

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

Even assuming what you're saying is true, if they were continuing to advance with less troop density, it would mean that Ukrainian resistance was decreasing over time.

Well it's not going very well for Ukraine so I don't see why that wouldn't be the case.

VoicesCanBe posted:

Probably? The gains Russia is making are larger than they were a few months ago but are still pretty small.

I don't intend to do the math to prove it though.

Me neither :hfive:

Thoguh
Nov 8, 2002

College Slice
PV = N(azi)RT

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

Sapozhnik posted:

My father complained at one point that vegetables in the Brezhnev era had so much nitrate in them that they would cause cancer and that people would have to buy edible vegetables on the black market or something like that. I also dimly remember from my very early childhood that meat from the tail end of the Soviet union was gristly and awful as well.

soviet gommunists ruined vegetables. a sad but true tale

KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

euphronius posted:

why are you posting any of that

Its nice to be reminded that every Ukrainian isn't a Nazi

Leandros
Dec 14, 2008

Volkssturm is when the Ukrainians reach a level of compression where the forces of liberalism-induced individualism can be overcome through sheer blood and soil interactions

supersnowman
Oct 3, 2012

genericnick posted:

thread relevant imo

She's way too tall to convincingly cosplay a goblin maid...

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

Orc maid then.

Ardennes
May 12, 2002
Yeah, the Ukrainians tried to do a Volksstrum thing in the first days of the war by handing out AKs to random people, it didn't seem to go over well. I don't doubt they would try again if the front-line cracked and the result would be utter chaos again.

As much as the Putin had underestimated the situation, the Ukrainian response in the early days was a couple poo poo-show in Kiev itself with all types of random people caught in it with a ton of score-settling and friendly fire.

DJJIB-DJDCT
Feb 1, 2024

lol they are never getting those AKs back either, unless the Belgian government donates them.

Danann
Aug 4, 2013

gradenko_2000 posted:

Why would you make a game about a conflict that's still ongoing

You're going to look like a dipshit either way

Ukrainian victory is swift and inevitable until it suddenly wasn't for some reason.

dead gay comedy forums
Oct 21, 2011


DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

I've mentioned before, we cannot entice the company that potentially makes shells to do so, because their orders from the automotive industry are more profitable.

The fact that 19th century liberalism understood political coercion and even would commandeer industry (within restraints ofc, they were liberal) if necessary would get those figures to be called communists today lmao

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Deadly Ham Sandwich
Aug 19, 2009
Smellrose
I'm really proud of FF not posting about the giant Ukranian woman.

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