If Russia and the west start shooting eachother, one of four things will happen.
1 - Russia grows a brain and backs down when they horribly lose a conventional war. (Unlikely, unless someone takes command authority away)
2 - Russia kept their nuclear arsenal up to date, and a tiny remnant.of humanity gets to enjoy the Stone Age again. It won't hurt if you live in a city though.
3 - Only a tiny fraction of their nukes launch, and the west responds proportionally. A lot of people die, but at least we'll fix global warming.
Seems like an amazing system when you're voting between a small number of parties, but the Dutch House elections had hundreds of individuals, with 20 districts with imperfect overlap off individuals. It would be completely incomprehensible for humans to check things.
Not just an active warzone, but I'm willing to bet you can see the military airbase from that beach.
On the other hand, they might not even know about the recent streak of Ukraine missile attacks on Russian sites. For all they know, not being in a city keeps them perfectly safe, since that's what Russia launches it's drones at..
Especially in Australia, where there's an insane amount of empty nothing to place wind turbines. Northern Australia gets twice as much solar irradiation as western Europe, it's absolutely ideal for (rooftop) solar.
Economies of scale and "high density" power generation make sense for some places, but even a place with the population density of the Netherlands can cram in enough wind turbines to get a significant fraction of renewable energy. It should be a total no-brainer for Australia.
One wonders if they've run out of green paint. For civilian use, it's smart to paint these things in a "touching results in death" colour, but that thinking kinda falls apart when death is the goal.
Joining NATO really didn't change the situation in practice at all.
Russia has been shouting the "only defending against NATO" line for decades, as an excuse for annex other countries and/or threatening them. A move like this shows they don't even believe it themselves.
We've had a pretty stable if salty relationship with Russia, since, well... quite a few hundred years since.
Calling the Winter War "salty" is maybe a bit too relaxed. I'm guessing the Karelians would feel somewhat more strongly about it.
The main reasons I've seen from vegans for not eating meat seem to be all about the morality of eating a sentient animal, the practices of the modern meat industry, and the environmental impact of it. And don't have anything to do with the taste of meat....
Sometimes on Lemmy these seem like the only jobs that actually exist, but I'm sure there's a lot of people here with different and unusual lines of work.
When people work with hazardous materials, they hire me to make sure they do it safely or legally. I mostly work in waste handling, soil remediations and laboratories.
It's pretty fun and interesting, but it's been very bad for my enjoyment of homegrown food, swimming outdoors or going downwind of any industrial sites.
Welcome to the new Industrial Revolution, where one person can do the work of many. Sure, mass produced goodscontent aren't as good as handmade artisanal products writing, but there's a huge market for it.
Hmmm, Russia pivoting away from Crimea? Equipment depletion, or reorientation because Ukraine is finally shooting at targets inside Russia? Or just giving up because they got whole bunch of air defense systems blown up by ATACAMS in one day, without doing anything useful against the incoming missiles?
You know how to really get people interested in helping their society? Mandatory unpaid labour! Which lonely elderly person wouldn't love to spend time with a teenager who doesn't want to be there? Who better to help the NHS than a completely uneducated, unmotivated slave labourer? And I can see the police lining up to get the opportunity to work together with everyone who got the rejected from the other programs!
You could even do away with a full skeletal system in the upper section. Could be almost all muscle around some bones for support and mobility.
Having more ribs isn't a problem for a mammal, those are pretty variable between species, unlike vertebrae. And thats quite a puzzle, how many go into the horse bit, and how many in the human bit? Obviously the horses "neck" and the humans lower back overlap, but it'll still be a puzzle. You'd end up with a less flexible body.
Now, I would think that with the extra space, there would be something like a stomach in there to begin breaking things down before sending them along but that isn't mandatory for the basics to work.
Why? Centaurs aren't ruminants, imagine eating grass with those poor underdeveloped human omnivore teeth, or stripping leafs with human lips, ouch. In fact, feeding a human brain and a horse body with a human mouth is going to be a LOT of work.
If you're going to do tentacle-arms without bones, the human part would basically need to be all muscle, with some weirdly deformed vertebra for shoulders.
And that leads me to another thing. It must have some very intricate blood-pumping systems, because centaur hands can't reach the ground unless they bend aaaaall the way down, like head to knees low. In order to actually use those hands, they'd have to be upside down for long periods, but also right side up for long periods. With a very thirsty human-stylr brain.
Title reads like at ad, but this is a new way to reach energy independence. I actually have a small EcoFlow device and it’s pretty good for the price....
Every time I see millennials exposed to zoomer fashion they instantly start seething. it's always some 20 year old celebrity who goes outside wearing baggy clothes with a graphic tee and millennials online start screeching shit like...
We don't? Although I do find myself quietly snickering at how the awful crap I wore as a teen is coming back, but I'm not hating on it at all. I'm a bit jealous sometimes, though.
After being demilitarized in 2005, Sweden re-introduced permanent troops to Gotland in 2016, following Russia’s annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula in 2014. Sweden also became NATO’s newest member in March — meaning it is covered by the alliance's Article 5 guarantee that all other members come to each other's...
How the fuck is Putin supposed to take Gotland? Is the Russian Baltic fleet supposed to sail out of Saint Petersburg, pass within 50km of either Talinn or Helsinki without getting every single anti-ship missile in NATO launched at them and land every soldier they can cram into it's (on paper quite decent landing craft) and conquer one cement factory that I promise will never work again, and some wild horses and rose bushes?
Russia can barely supply it's troops by train against a nation without a real Airforce. How are they supposed to hold an island against inside lake NATO against a country with 2 fighter wings in easy bombing distance, and at least something of a navy?
On the other hand, the fact that they're doomed to fail doesn't mean they won't try, so I can't fault Sweden for getting some troops out there. There are probably worse posts than Gotland too.
The UK's public spending watchdog said government expenditures on implementing new rules for post-Brexit imports would total some $6 billion. The report criticized "uncertainty" surrounding government plans....
I love these points. It's one of the things I run into a lot because I love doing maps for larps. Players all have places mentioned in back stories, or that were visited in past events, and they almost never show up on maps.
Yes, the quaint little village where you killed 200 werewolves was extremely memorable, but if we add every 250-peasant hamlet to the map, it will be solid black.
Yes, it matters a lot to you where your barony is, but just the borders of all the baronies alone will turn the map into a giant blur. And also, I'm not going to name 800 baronies.
So we have a regular worldmap, and a "storyline map" that doesn't exist in the world, only on the wiki. Many towns are notable because "players were here once"
This one time, during the 80s, I watched a lot of popular movies of mediocre quality, and now I can participate in cultural shorthanded discussion on the internet.
This isn't about immediately filtered content, like the disgusting DuffMan George Floyd meme, or Holocaust denial. That's pretty well kept in check by mod tools. I'm also not talking about cogent or even pointed political discussion....
The Russians May Have Lost An Entire Airborne Brigade In Vovchansk ( www.forbes.com )
Pentagon announces shutdown of hundreds of illegal Russian Starlinks ( ukranews.com )
US Navy nuclear ballistic missile submarine surfaces off Norway in unusual flex as 'Doomsday' plane flies overhead ( www.businessinsider.com )
A US Navy nuclear-powered ballistic-missile submarine surfaced in the Norwegian Sea....
What is the superior voting methodology? To whom does each alternative benefit
I'm not very well-versed on all this but it seems...
My workplace has a budget for office ergonomic upgrades, what should I ask for?
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Fuck both of us ( lemmy.world )
Shamelessly stolen from @SkyezOpen
New evidence US blocked Ukraine-Russia peace deal, and a new Ukrainian excuse for walking away ( www.aaronmate.net )
Russian air defense reportedly intercepted an ATACMS missile at a military airfield near occupied Sevastopol, causing four deaths and dozens of injuries at an adjacent beach. ( sopuli.xyz )
https://t.me/svoboda_radio/28064...
The Guardian Australia: Peter Dutton’s nuclear plan could cost as much as $600bn and supply just 3.7% of Australia’s energy by 2050, experts say ( www.theguardian.com )
YSK: The Great Race is Better Than Airplane
The title is the post....
Russian fuel trucks are destroyed in the Belgorod region. ( streamable.com )
https://i.imgur.com/WzPzp5P.mp4...
In the Halls of the Short Mountain King ( lemmy.world )
Russia has moved almost all ground forces from Finland's vicinity to Ukraine, media report ( kyivindependent.com )
Russian Soldier Says Ukraine Almost Wiped Out His Entire Unit in Kharkiv ( www.thedefensepost.com )
Coulda stayed home.
Crypto Scammers Are Targeting Trump’s MAGA Supporters ( www.wired.com )
2.6M Piracy Reports Against French Users Resulted in 234 Financial Penalties * TorrentFreak ( torrentfreak.com )
Vegans of Lemmy, would you eat lab-grown meat?
The main reasons I've seen from vegans for not eating meat seem to be all about the morality of eating a sentient animal, the practices of the modern meat industry, and the environmental impact of it. And don't have anything to do with the taste of meat....
If you don't work IT, retail, or food service what do you do for work?
Sometimes on Lemmy these seem like the only jobs that actually exist, but I'm sure there's a lot of people here with different and unusual lines of work.
AI took their jobs. Now they get paid to make it sound human ( www.bbc.com )
If you're worried about how AI will affect your job, the world of copywriters may offer a glimpse of the future....
Russian propagandists were injured by a mine while filming sappers in the Belgorod region. ( streamable.com )
Russian air defense soldiers have been ordered to evacuate their families from Crimea to the Russian Southern Military District - Atesh military movement reports. ( sopuli.xyz )
https://t.me/atesh_ua/4820
"No food, no clothes!! We wear what we find in these houses!" - Russian soldiers loot the homes of Ukrainians in the temporarily occupied territories and look for things to wear. ( streamable.com )
https://t.me/pravdaGerashchenko_en/32746
Outcry from big AI firms over California AI “kill switch” bill ( arstechnica.com )
Satellite photos show two MiG-31s that were damaged at the Belbek airfield have been painted with primer, presumably to be used as decoys. ( sopuli.xyz )
https://t.me/kiber_boroshno/8571
Elon Musk's xAI plans to build 'Gigafactory of Compute' by fall 2025 — using 100,000 Nvidia's H100 GPUs ( www.tomshardware.com )
Voters in 13 Oregon Counties Approve 'Greater Idaho' Measure Seeking to Secede From Liberal-Run State ( www.nysun.com )
Thirteen counties in Oregon have voted in favor of measures to begin negotiations on seceding from the state and joining neighboring Idaho....
UK’s Sunak promises mandatory national service for 18-year-olds if elected [26 May 2024 | Al Jazeera] ( www.aljazeera.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15826549...
Centaurs have 2 sets of ribcages & internal organs, which make them more resistant to organ failures/heart attacks.
That's it.
What "I was there!" stories are you impatient to brag about to the next generations?
EcoFlow’s $200 PowerStream is so clever, you might buy a $4,000 solar generator ( www.theverge.com )
Title reads like at ad, but this is a new way to reach energy independence. I actually have a small EcoFlow device and it’s pretty good for the price....
Why do Millennials hate Gen Z fashion so much?
Every time I see millennials exposed to zoomer fashion they instantly start seething. it's always some 20 year old celebrity who goes outside wearing baggy clothes with a graphic tee and millennials online start screeching shit like...
Putin has ‘both eyes’ on Gotland, warns Sweden’s army chief ( www.politico.eu )
After being demilitarized in 2005, Sweden re-introduced permanent troops to Gotland in 2016, following Russia’s annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula in 2014. Sweden also became NATO’s newest member in March — meaning it is covered by the alliance's Article 5 guarantee that all other members come to each other's...
Post-Brexit trade border controls to cost UK $6 billion ( www.dw.com )
The UK's public spending watchdog said government expenditures on implementing new rules for post-Brexit imports would total some $6 billion. The report criticized "uncertainty" surrounding government plans....
Trump demands drug test for Biden ahead of first debate ( thehill.com )
Former President Trump said he wants President Biden to be drug-tested before their first debate....
It's weird this happenned twice ( ttrpg.network )
Lessons Learned:...
What's the best wax-on-wax-off-style advice you've heard that you can attest as being helpful in certain situations?
Has anyone else noticed a large influx of Trolls lately?
This isn't about immediately filtered content, like the disgusting DuffMan George Floyd meme, or Holocaust denial. That's pretty well kept in check by mod tools. I'm also not talking about cogent or even pointed political discussion....