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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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Truga
May 4, 2014
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Truga
May 4, 2014
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ukreagan

Truga
May 4, 2014
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:discourse:

Truga
May 4, 2014
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actually, all war propaganda on both sides is true and good and my friend

Truga
May 4, 2014
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it is ukraine's right to take crimea as reparations for land lost in the soviet chernobyl exclusion zone

Truga
May 4, 2014
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Cerebral Bore posted:

one of the problems with propaganda is that if you keep at it for too long you risk starting to believe your own bullshit, and i'm p sure that this has happened to some degree with the ukrainian leadership

a lot of countries have been stuck in the room with their own propaganda 24/7 since mass produced audio/video media really took off in the 50s/60s and it loving owns

Truga
May 4, 2014
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Lostconfused posted:

https://twitter.com/tvtoront/status/1588996695790002176

I don't think anyone bothers to mention if the power plant is working at all, but that's not important I guess.

are russians shelling their own plant again

Truga
May 4, 2014
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oh my god the top reply
https://twitter.com/lingerence/status/1526602174104584194

Truga
May 4, 2014
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Slavvy posted:

Wonder what the efficiency difference is between a steam loco and a diesel, let me check...

.... I'm sure it'll be fine

the biggest problem with steam locos was never the machine's efficiency, it's that you need a bespoke locomotive for every sort of rail incline/train weight combination you have on your rail network
like, if you have a 2% grade you need to pull your 1000 ton train onto and you have diesel locos that can pull a 1000 ton train up a 1% grade, you can just couple 2 diesels together and problem solved

you can't easily multiple-unit the old steam locos like you can with diesel-electrics though. firstly because these are hand made, purely mechanical machines, so from the start no two locos are exactly the same, nor do they have any engine control units installed

secondly, you might say, "well, then just have more crewed steamers, surely that works fine!", but it doesn't. it is an absolute loving nightmare for the crews due to how finicky the entire pressure system is in these old machines. the basics of running a single steamer are very simple - if speed starts falling you increase steam pressure in your pistons, if pressure is falling you make the fire burn hotter. as soon as you have two steamers though, this poo poo all goes out the window

even if you had two exact copies of the same loco, unless you also had the exact same fire and boiler level going in both locos for the entire route, you're going to be losing a ton of efficiency from either one of them because one might be burning a bit slower, but your pressure/speed aren't dropping because the other loco is picking up your slack, so you have nothing to react to until the other loco also starts struggling with its own pressure, and by then increasing the fire mass is probably too late because it can take a couple minutes for the heat to kick in and now the entire train is stalled on the grade. and like driving two steamers at the same time is hard, starting two steamers on a grade is just about impossible.

so in the end you'll need like 4-5 instead of the theoretical 2 needed to reliably climb that 2% grade with the same train. you can train the crew to efficiently drive multiple steam locos, or you can just run more, smaller trains and lose a ton of efficiency, but if ukraine is struggling to keep diesels running, lol @ that idea

however, fortunately for them, ukraine is all flat so that's all a non-issue :v:

Truga has issued a correction as of 00:13 on Nov 7, 2022

Truga
May 4, 2014
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none of that matters in a country that's almost perfectly flat, op, i just wanted to post about trains a bit

Truga
May 4, 2014
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auto-stokers have existed for over 100 years lol

Truga
May 4, 2014
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i liked how even back in 2009, the middle east part of mw2 was just a distraction until you got to the real story of soviet weapons dealer bad

Truga
May 4, 2014
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oh look, it's the same map again
https://twitter.com/abolishlife/status/1589450289836609536

Truga
May 4, 2014
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well would you look at that, it's the same map again
what are the odds

Truga
May 4, 2014
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it's probably incomplete research i just thought it was funny :v:

Truga
May 4, 2014
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gradenko_2000 posted:

Person of Caucasus

Truga
May 4, 2014
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it is quite funny how anglo boomers still can't stfu about anime

Truga
May 4, 2014
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ukraine is doing better because calibanibal flipped, not the other way around, op

Truga
May 4, 2014
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dk2m posted:

being a nationalist has got be the most embarrassing thing in the world

Truga
May 4, 2014
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Corky Romanovsky posted:

any of this worth reading

you can't read in here this is a cspam room

Truga
May 4, 2014
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more like Olga Sakrina

Truga
May 4, 2014
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Truga
May 4, 2014
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Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 posted:

the romanian tour guide who told us about vlad the impaler also told us about how pissed off the romanians were about a news article that said the romanian football team in some international match "played like skilled gypsys."

he said if kids got dirty playing outside, their parents would say that looked dirty "like a gypsy" and likewise everything else bad meant being "like a gyspy." it was a whole thing.

yeah, that's just normal speech in the balkans i think, it's pretty hosed up

my grandparents and people at school would constantly tell me i look like a gypsy because i was an outdoors kid that often managed to get dirty even on the way to school and ruined all my clothes in the forest and didn't care

this just confused the poo poo out of my child brain though because one of my best friends was always clean and proper and an actual gypsy

Truga
May 4, 2014
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nato is more united than ever

Truga
May 4, 2014
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Cao Ni Ma posted:

Maybe turkey terroristed itself? Ever thought about that?

gradenko_2000 posted:

to show that they could terrorize other countries, if they wanted to

Truga
May 4, 2014
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ah, another ussr 2.0 post

Truga
May 4, 2014
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:

Yes, it's fundamentally the same as girl-on-girl porno for male consumption
it's fundamentally a lot of different things to a lot of different people, op. yaoi isn't just porn, but you can bet your rear end a ban on yaoi would ban everything not just the 18+ section

Truga
May 4, 2014
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:

Whoa Viccy 3 is a bad game?

the only good paradox game is stellaris because it doesn't shy away from the stupider topics of empires

in hoi4, the whole "actually, germany is doing a triple genocide to everyone south or east of them" never comes up at all lmfao, at least in stellaris i can purge the heretic space elves

Truga
May 4, 2014
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uKKKrane vs ruSSia

Truga
May 4, 2014
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:

I mean, HoI4 is not a war simulator, it's a meme politics simulator
yeah, it owns

i pretty much only played hoi4 in co-op with real life friends, playing meme games like "can we conquer the world as communist <insert 3-4 tiny countries>"

stalin's a real friend so it's pretty much always possible lol

Truga
May 4, 2014
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Calibanibal posted:

Submarines don't exist. Have you ever seen one?

Truga
May 4, 2014
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genericnick posted:

Poland blew up their own grain silo to show they could blow up other grain silos.

Truga
May 4, 2014
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https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1592583021911330816
visegrad24 hyping the world war

Truga
May 4, 2014
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https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/a9qW4Vo_460sv.mp4
nato army already assembling

Truga
May 4, 2014
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u/r war: what the gently caress is this debate lmao

Truga
May 4, 2014
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gas and grain both start with g so it makes sense russians would want to bomb a big pipe full of grain

Truga
May 4, 2014
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Truga
May 4, 2014
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lmfao i didn't know kym was a putinist tankie shithole

Truga
May 4, 2014
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i think you'll find tons of people have gone from "wow, war bad, why did putin invade ukraine" to "actually this war is so loving good" now that russia is losing territory

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Truga
May 4, 2014
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lmao

wouldn't the commies just straight up take control in this scenario? the only reason they didn't in 91 was because the russian people bought that west cared about them

if putin's power disappears overnight, do liberals really think some nobody like navalny is going to take power and not the 2nd largest party?

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