Youtube comments of C S ~ \x5bDuke of Ramble\x5d (@DUKE_of_RAMBLE).
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Goddamn do I absolutely love hearing about instances where we have realized something that's been operating forever, has happened to have been conducting a whole load of science it was never even meant to!
Or, similarly, being able to leverage something's data by analyzing some fringe aspect of it, and getting a huge catalog of additional, albeit completely unrelated, information about something.
I feel like these people, assuming they're isn't already a title for it, ought to be allowed to call themselves "Science Re-Engineers"... Because they're literally re-engineering already conducted science, to do even more science! ๐ค๐คฃ
(or maybe "Science Wranglers"? lol)
Absolutely stellar -- and yes, pun intended! ๐
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It's a little known fact that in 1980, there was a Kaiju attack... But thanks to being near the Atols in the Pacific, it went unnoticed. Lots of military ordinance was expended, and since we couldn't write it ALL off on "training exercises", nor could we explain what the rest was actually used for.... The US military secretly contacted McDonalds to buy the killed Kaiju's remains!
And so, in 1981, after a year of development... McDonald's debuted their product: the McRib
Now you know why it has only periodically ever come back for limited time runs... The meat is kept in cold storage, knowing that it would only last so long! Whereas of they put it on the menu and it was successful, then they'd eventually have to pull it, which would create outrage!
Doing it this way, though, ensures it's available for decades, and maintains the demand. ๐
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Ironically, over the last decade here in America, they've SIGNIFICANTLY relaxed the rules on foul language usage on cable channels. Even on broadcast networks, there's been things said that surprised me, like on a Law&Order SVU episode I was watching ~7 yrs ago when someone said "douchebag". Admittedly, not very vulgar... but I believe "bitch", and variants of "ass" are also allowed now (but don't hold me to those).
Whereas back in cable land and as of the last 2 years (3?), I believe that so long as it's not being said in a derogatory manner, "fuck" is allowed; although, there may still be some restrictions. I know initially it was only allowed like at/after the 9pm time slot, and also only one instance per show.
"Shit" has been allowed for quite a number of years now, but went through similar restrictions when first allowed. Now though, I've heard it uncensored in a show/movie that was playing at 11am on the weekend! lol (was either FX or FXX, 6-8mo ago).
Comically, "goddamn/goddammit" still is not acceptable... ๐๐คฃ๐คทโโ๏ธ
In terms of YT's decision to crack down on swearing, all of the above is to say: goddamn that is fucking dumb as shit!
....๐ค Wonder if I'll get that "Heyyyyy now... Be nice!" warning and have to click "Post It Anyways"... lol
EDIT: HA I did not!
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That is INDEED a threat... It is the very definition of "Double-speak", that the mob used.
Say something that sounds innocent, seems non-threatening, and wouldn't stand up in court that he was ordering any sort of retaliation if he were to be... but is really meant to be taken as a exactly those things: aggressive, threatening, and as though it was an order!
"What is it you want me to say... Where do you want me to say it?
<looks into the camera>
"Proud Boys... Stand back and stand by."
โ THEN-President Donald J. Trump; 2020 Presidential Debate
Same shit happened there, and in the relayed-message from Trump to a J6 testifier (aka obstruction). He is a pony of few tricks, so there's nothing to be mistaken about here in terms of his intentions
"LOCK. HER, HIM, ME. UP!"
โ 2016 Presidential Candidate Trump; Said in reference to Hillary Clinton's "mishandling" of emails containing 'sensitive information', and modified to reflect present day events.
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To offer the opposing side a chance to surrender, and the assurance of humane treatment... Common and unsurprising.
To further offer the assurance that you will NOT be listed as having surrendered (in other words, officially you'll be marked as "captured"), JUST SO THAT SOLDIER'S HOMELAND โ YOUR ENEMY _โ doesn't imprison them....? That is an epically generous gesture by Zelenskyy and gets my standing applause!
Seriously. You're on the invading side, you are the enemy to a country. Your side is now losing, but your government is doubling down by drafting and sending _even more _ into this pointless slaughter. Yet, still, that country is willing to go out of their way, to make sure YOU aren't punished...
I hope that offer was also sent out in a mass txt message, because it completely undermines Putin's threat to his troops. Now they can surrender without surrendering... The only way now, is if Putin says "we are closing all future prisoner exchange deals", since he'll no longer know who surrendered and who was actually captured! Partial Mobilization seemed like Strike Two for many Russians, so halting prisoner exchanges might be Strike Three...
Anyways... There may just yet be a chance for humanity to redeem itself, as long as more countries are able to get leaders who have Zelenskyy's principals!
๐ค๐ฃ๐ค
Stay strong. Stay united. Stay alive. STAY UKRAINIAN!
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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EDIT: Based on fellow commenters weighing in, it seems the title may be implying it's only a "China's-first" and not a "global-first" as the title appears to claim.
<original comment below>
Small correction:
World's THIRD Fully Autonomous Drone Ship
America has had some in testing for the last few years, the USS Sea Hunter (launched 2016), having made solo trips from California, US to Hawaii, US with no crew onboard. ๐
Then last year they took delivery of the sister ship, the USS Sea Hawk.
And yes, they deploy drones, too. Sea Hunter is an Anti-Submarine vessel and it I remember correctly, has at least two ships it can deploy to track subs. (I think they're autonomous subs, but don't quote me on that as they could be surface boats)
Sorry! ๐
Gotta research before making video titles that claim world-firsts!
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I want, more than anything, to live in such a delusional bubble like that guest does... I would be so much happier if I could convince myself that whatever I wanted to be a fact... is a fact, even if it contradicts reality!
Unfortunately, my brain isn't wired that way, and so I end up being compelled to live according to facts instead of fiction, which is how we all should be living, in this day and age. We no longer need to make shit up in order to have things make sense. Hell, we don't even have to make to many educated-guesses anymore, thanks to our advancements just in the last 50 years!
Sadly, not everyone is wired like me, and instead, cling to archaic nonsense and practices, continuing to repeat the same drivel just in new ways. ๐
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Great video, delivering the perfect message: Putin is no better than Hitler, and if not stopped, is well on his way to becoming the Hitler of the 21st century.
Yes, Putin, let that sink in... YOU ARE THE BAD GUY! YOU ARE THE ONE DOING EVIL THINGS TO PEOPLE, NOT JUST OF OTHER COUNTRIES, BUT YOUR OWN PEOPLE!
Slava Ukraini! โ๐ฑ๐บ๐ฆ๐ป
As an American, I'd also like to nominate Zelenskey to also be given a "Hero of Ukraine" medal! Your efforts are just as deserving of it as those who you've given it to. Without your personal resolve and confidence, your people would not be where they are today. They would have fought, yes, but I feel you've been a beacon of hope to Ukrainians and that you've inspired them, imbuing them with courage. It's for that reason, I have no doubt they fought even harder and is what has allowed you to be so successful in this war. With any other leader, I do not think this would have played out the same way...
Again, Slava Ukraini!
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As a Democrat I'm miffed over things not being done sooner.
I have a hard time believing we didn't know about it until it had reached Montana... ๐
If true, then man, we've got some BIG gaps to fill in our radar network. It's not a high speed object, even though it was a dozen miles high. Scary, if it indeed had penetrate so deep into our skies...
(looked massive in terms of payload suspended under the balloon, with a large solar panel array, based on the news footage; he highlighted it in the rectangle)
EDIT: Since my message is being misinterpreted/misunderstood, and replies down below are getting skipped, I'll add my one reply to here -
cliffnotes:
- yes, of course I'm speculating, and involving feelings (both gut, and emotions)
- you, as have others, misunderstand my sentiments: I'm responding in a tone that reflects the patronizing going on by our government, who had responded to this as though "gosh, this thing just came out of no where!" โ which we all know is BS; therefore, why the feck did they take their sweet ass time?
Anyways, my tone and speculation aside, I'm not an idiot like your seem to think.
I even called it ON WED and THURS, exactly what they did on Friday!
On Wed, I said how I don't get why they don't use an inert missile (no warhead) to deflate its balloon. Though... I further suggested using a helicopter or plane (ie the ones purpose built for this) to then "catch" it mid air, given such things have been developed for other purposes.
On Thurs, after its location was updated and it had been mentioned they had no intention to shoot it down where it was, due to it now being over too populated of region. At which point I said I guarantee they'll wait until it's over the ocean, skip in-air capture, and retried it from the water.
(one comment was on a CNN vid, the other an MSNBC vid; as you can see, I'm all for transparency)
Which they did just that. ๐
I think letting it slam into the water and incur damage, plus get soaked with salt water, maybe wasn't the best idea... but oh well. At least they made a large effort to retrieve it, which is what matters most.
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โI'll assume RAF means you are indeed British... To which I will say: I have no doubt in my mind this happened. The people you can, and will meet over here in day to day life, might shock you. We just say "what a small world".
Here's an example... I'll try to keep it super brief (despite my name lol)
One year at our cabin in Alaska, my dad and uncle befriended an older gentleman who they met at the emergency walk-in clinic on back to back days. Turns out he was the first black State Trooper of Alaska*, and also the Anchorage chief of police for a time. And as it further just so happens, he lives like 35 minutes away from my uncle down in the state of Georgia - that's 5499km from where they were!
Crazier yet, a couple years ago he was telling me that he was recently grocery shopping in Georgia, and this BIG guy approached him, and said
"YOU'RE <first and last name>... You kicked my ass back in <sometime in 60s or 70s>!"
Turns out to be an Inuit gentleman (Native Alaskan) from some remote town in Northern Alaska, which he did indeed have to give dude a whopping for resisting arrest... (the guy wasn't mad, which they shook hands and chatted for a bit)
So yea, it's crazy the people you meet in every day life! We're just more open about it lives I guess, so it's easier to find out those nuggets of info from otherwise-strangers. ๐
[* I include that tidbit above for no other reason other than him being damn proud of that fact]
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Glad I'm not the only one who considered that. Although, admittedly, I discounted that due to figuring they lacked the necessary target locking capabilities...
Or am I mistaken, and they do possess that, in order to relay locations of the things they're trying to coax out of hiding?
My take away was these MALD were primarily passive. They were told what sort of bird they were to spoof, and then they flew around doing just that, with their "smartest" ability being that they could coordinate with actual planes (and maybe each other, to form up).
Or as a jammer, where they loiter, 'screaming at the top of their lungs' so that the enemy couldn't hear.
If these can become a kinetic weapon though, then holy shit, that certainly makes them all the more terrifying!! ๐ค
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It would be VERY interesting to see a breakdown of those ~4500 missile strikes and ~8000 air raids (bomb runs?).
To see just how many of them impacted civilian structures...
- houses/neighborhoods
- apartment buildings
- shopping centers (grocery/malls)
- schools
- entertainment (theaters, etc) and religious buildings
- hospitals, elder care facilities, special-needs facilities
- water infrastructure (pumps, waste treatment, wells, reservoirs) and central heating stations (geothermal, etc)
- power plants (of any kind), distribution stations, etc
- train stations (to buy tickets, board trains)
- grain structures (storage, processing, or distribution)
Then, if possible, include in this breakdown of each, indicate how many (if any) of those strikes Russia had claimed were because they held ""military significance/value""...
Would be even better if the government could supply how many of each total (eg 4500 and 8000) really did manage to hit, or barely-miss, a legitimate "military" target (of any sort, but as little as three soldiers being there would qualify it, in my opinion)
_[NOTE: any confirmations by the Ukrainian government would be of NO strategic value, since they WOULD NOT divulge the "where" or "when", or even ordinance type, of the strikes; all they would be providing is strictly a number for "hits to, near misses"
That would really paint a picture of how ruthless Russia is. Even moreso, if these numbers were allowed to include how many actually hit a Ukrainian military target, as it would provide even further transparency to the world as to just how careless they are with their ordinance! It would display further that Ukraine has nothing to hide, by publicly offering these numbers, in a "Yes, as much as we would like to say that our enemy can't hit what they aim at and that they always act on bad intel, but occasionally they DO hit something of military value."
Context and clarity are an extremely powerful things these days...
Stay strong. Stay united. Stay alive. STAY UKRAINIAN!
RUSKIES: ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ ะ ะพััะธะธ ััะปะฐ. ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ ะณะตัะพัะผ ะฃะบัะฐะธะฝั! ๐ค๐ท๐บ๐ฅ
BELAWANNABES: ะกะปะฐะฒa ะฝะตะปัะณะฐ ะฝั ัะบัะฐััั, ะฝั ัะทััั! ๐ซ ๐ง๐พ๐๏ธ
MY BROTHERS: ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ ะฃะบัะฐัะฝั, ะะตัะพัะผ ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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Today, I think it might make for a rather amazing Support Drone... Likely able to be made smaller now, just due to advances in materials and powerplants; however, could likely get shrunk a bit more without the need for the entire cockpit module (dropping mass, meaning smaller rotors).
Have it be able to operate in multiple modes:
- Autonomous Escort, basically UAV mode, where it sticks in close proximity to its target, only straying to engage potential/incoming threats; will sacrifice itself under extreme conditions by acting as a shield by blocking gun fire or even missiles (if possible).
- Close Remote Piloted, where the escorting craft (say, A Chinook) would have 2-4 additional pilots onboard to control them. If that remote pilot is wounded or killed, it'd enter Autonomous mode as a fallback. If the target aircraft goes down, it would remain around the crash site as long as possible to provide cover. (not sure about rescue use, due to considerable down-wash?)
- Very-Remotely Piloted, like current unmanned drones where the pilot is sitting at a base operating it, albeit with the slight communications delays (hence why I figured a close remote piloting would be better if entering a hot zone).
Beyond that, I think the shape alone and clearly being unmanned, would be extremely intimidating, not knowing what it exactly is and therefore what it's capable of. Watching it transiting from flight and hover modes?? I know I wouldn't want to mess with it! lmao Current models are all familiar in design, which in my opinion, gives peace of mind in how to combat it.
Helicopter drone? Take out the rotor and it can't fly.
Airplane drone? Needs its wings to fly.
This thing? Rotors are semi armored thanks to the ducting...
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If the washing machines and refrigerators are "smart" models, then I'm willing to bet that they are indeed being salvaged for their components in order to be used probably in drones.
Same with breast pumps... I'm willing to bet they are pumps capable of monitoring how much vacuum is being drawn, potentially through a small barometric sensor. If so, then you're looking at a means of determining altitude, albeit crudely (since weather will impact the reading).
On the flip side, with Huawei moving next door, to "abide" by the imposed sanctions, there's not much reason why they couldn't simply function as the "components mule". Make products for the Khazakh market only which have an absurd Bill of Materials, that aren't necessary conventionally, just to legitimize their inclusion into the products. Then, off to Russia, where they would go straight to some disassembly shop!
Hell, for that matter... Depending on how these washers/dryers and fridges are being procured and shipped... THEY could be mules! There's a LOT of empty space inside them. Plenty enough to pack full of various things Russia uses for war efforts... Like off the shelf DSLR cameras their drones use.
Might be something the EU Port Authorities might want to start X-Raying, in case they've been ignoring them purely in the basis of what they are... a harmless product you'd typically think nothing of!
Stay strong. Stay united. Stay alive. STAY UKRAINIAN!
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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@8:43 ... All joking aside (ok I lied, joking held until the very end), I almost feel like it'd be factually accurate/correct to have worded it as a "misinformation network"....
It seems like the 'Russian Way' of conducting their country during this Kleptocracy-period (1991 - Present) has been:
"Do or Say whatever you must to become an Oligarch,
and remain an Oligarch. If that means steal, you
steal. If that means lie, you lie. Doesn't matter if it's stealing
from your government and lying to your boss... everyone
_does it, so either you're smart enough to succeed _
playing by the rules or you're a cunning snake in the
grass who succeeds by ignoring the rules entirely."
In other words, when it comes to relaying information, it's very much like the game of "Telephone" (professionally called 'transmission chain experiment'). But, instead of the message drifting away from the original because of the next person forgetting or accidentally substituting a word, it's now a case of whether or not the person you give the information to thinks their 'person' will like it.... If it's not going to make them happy, well, now a few details are changed so that it looks like you've been really helpful!
Problem is, by the time it reaches its destination...
"They do not want to be under Russian authority, and will
put up a considerable fight if we invade."
...now has turned into...
"Their government is full of neo-Nazis, and the people
are offering untold riches if we come save them!"
I know that's just the lie Putin told the world, but it's just an example lol
That same thing seems to be at every turn in this conflict.
"Yes, our military is large with many well trained troops"
.... Probably is an 1/8th the size and the upkeep costs to support one that large are being pocketed; half of the actual troops are poorly trained.
"Yes commander, we have lots of fuel reserves/well maintained vehicles/properly stored ordinance/rations still within their 'use-by' date!"
... Fuel has been stolen at every turn/vehicles left to rot or been looted for parts/armories poorly looked after/rations that were made (probably) in the 90s and exceeded their shelf life.
I mean, sure... "lies" are still technically information in the most basic form since you're still passing along something... which is going from one person to another, and that qualifies as being a network....
But it's a bit of an insult to a true "information network" like a real government has! ๐ฅด
I mean come on... lol Even that second intercepted phone call using word substitution was so very unprofessional and cringey. ๐
Anyways, at least after Ukraine wins, there will be some awards-winning movies to be made! Action. Spy-Comedy. Drama. Mafia-Comedy. Documentary.
And if we play things right, a part of the profits could go towards helping Ukraine rebuild their country and its economy. Which if you pounce immediately once the war ends, you can film the Action war movie ON LOCATION, instead of an expensive soundstage!
Here's a freebie Action-Comedy:
"Saving Private Ivan" l
A story of Wagner Group, where a team has to bumble their way across Eastern Ukraine in an attempt to save the sole remaining clown merc/soldier from being captured... [spoiler alert: they fail!]
Stay strong. Stay united. Stay alive. STAY UKRAINIAN!
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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ย @pauliewalnuts240ย At the end of the day, they were indeed abandoned in any sense of the word, whether it was the parents, or the staff.
But, Ashes brings up a rather valid point in my opinion... It is war over there, it's ravaged towns, disrupted communications, and causes a lot of deaths...
So it's unfair to every speculate, really, what the reason is for them being left behind, as there are quite a number of explanations that even in able to come up with right now.
Family could not be contacted because of down communications, be it on the staff's side or the family's side.
Family could be stuck in their basement, but contact was made, and were on their way when nearby shots caused staff to panic and flee, perhaps hoping the soldiers wouldn't bother with them and then maybe the family could have reached them.
Or, the family had no means of getting there, either due to no transportation or the only bridge had been destroyed.
Or, simply, the family was dead or captured, but the staff had no way of knowing, only that they couldn't reach the family.
Either way, it's unfortunate, and awful, and sad, and understandable. In war, hard choices are not strictly left to military commanders, but everyday people as well, just as it was for those staff... because they were these kid's caretakers, and there would've been a bond just for that reason. Plus, you have to be a special kind of person to even work in that field to begin with, so I find it hard to accept that the staff fled because of selfish reasons (primarily because it was mentioned that they made efforts to evac those they could, but what if silence is key, or one tries to run away... again, endless "what ifs").
Anyways, hopefully this isn't taken as me chastising. Only to help, so you (or anyone) don't have any animosity towards the staff/parents due to there being so many unknowns. (once more is known, then we can place judgement where it ought to be.)
Slava Ukraini โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ป
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Kathryn and Manuel, I think you're unfairly jumping down Delano's throat here.
I feel the same as he does, which is that: the Uncle is having problems keeping things straight and cohesive, nevermind coherent. He should've been pre-screened and determined beforehand that he was in this sort of stupor.
It could very well be just as you've stated: his stammering and even being unable to keep himself on track, as well as some of his recounting of things, certainly could have been stage fright/nervousness.
But even then, the fact remains that he was all over the place and simply didn't make for a good interviewee.
Genuinely, from my perspective after painfully sitting through the whole interview, is that nothing he said can be taken as credible.
Even if I were to trust what was said, I still can't help but wonder what exactly goes on in that household where another person living there can have NO IDEA about an altercation between the dad and son. Our that he wasn't aware of the kid's previous run-ins with the law (as previously reported, about a parole violation). Families, siblings in this case, who are close enough to cohabitate will almost assuredly be close enough that they'd confide in each other about issues, or offer their ear when either one needs to just vent.
At the end of the day I can only be left to think three things based on this interview... Either the Uncle:
- is lacking in some mental faculties (not an insult), which would explain quite a lot, to be honest, and therfore leeway given for how this interview turned out
- is not being honest, in order to spare his family some shame, which is understandable but will only exacerbate the current issue (this seems likely, as why else would he close with what he said about people with mental health issues and owning guns?)
- is indeed as oblivious to the day to day going-ons in the house; could be for any number of reasons, both legitimate or illicit.
Just my 2ยข...
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I'm admittedly no expert, but I suspect you'd be safe, in a court of law, as long as you stated in the agreement:
"I guarantee my work to be to the exact specifications and to be free of flaws. This is all I ask being contracted to do and payment will be provided, regardless. If the assembled device does not function as expected, that is not on me, as my work will be performed to said specifications delivered to me; I am a machinist, not an engineer, nor a physicist."
ANY claim to sabotage can easily be proven incorrect by any other competent machinist who can look over the specs and inspect the parts. (mind you, said machinist will need to have no past involvement with either of you, to remain impartial)
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This was the response I was scrolling for and confirmed my gut instinct! ๐ป
(and I'm not a tow-er, and haven't turned a wrench in years)
You'd have to be towing something with SO MUCH WEIGHT that would need to be FORWARD of the trailer's axle(s), in order to hit that 10,500lb of purely-vertical weight...
Like, to the point that you've WAY exceeded the 11,000lb tow capacity!!
I love the channel, this isn't going to change MY opinion any, but it's definitely a bad call on Zach's part. He's a standup guy, so I'm sure he'll do the right thing and issue a retraction when he realizes his error... at least I hope he will.
(I also am no fan of Musk, just for the record)
As for the galvanic issue, I think that MIGHT be less of one than we think.
I say this because most new aftermarket hitches are painted or powder coated. If this is factory (likely) then I'm sure they're doing similar to these, because rusting of THAT is still a real concern they need to be mindful of.
Granted, chipping during install and bolt tightening can happen, but the water's access to it to complete the circuit will be minimal and I have a feeling the vehicle will be toast well before this becomes a problem.
Nevertheless, I think all they'd need to do to further mitigate this would be to use that purple glue between the hitch and the frame. (assuming they haven't already)
edit: typos
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โย @jeromethiel4323ย That's the one thing I've found beautiful about science/scientists, and there's a saying that I'm going to butcher but is to this affect:
"There is no failure/bad data in science."
(it goes on, but I'm cutting it short there)
Because all failures inherent show you how not to do something, and that in and of itself is very important.
Similarly, no data is "bad" because ALL data is useful. Hell, look at all those space related observations done years ago, where people go back to it and run through the numbers again to find NEW insights! They originally didn't find that, but now we do. Back then it might've been considered "insignificant data" (which someone might qualify as being 'bad'), but turns out there was something profound held in it!
Even literal "bad data" caused by a malfunction, it's still useful, because now you have a known failure point to check beforen running an experiment or using the equipment! ๐
So yea, ALL failures are good and ALL data is useful. ๐
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I might be wrong as I'm not in the know on the actual machinery capabilities/longevity for the various process nodes, but I know that the turnover rate for a lot of the machines from the last decade is pretty high, due to the smaller and smaller manufacturing processes and new processing methods.
With that said, 35nm would have come in around roughly 2010 (45nm was 2008), so I have a hard time believing that three year old machines would be capable of that since they'd have been made during the time of 600nm lol
2 decade old puts it inbetween the 130nm and 90nm nodes, and still an absurdly long time ago in this context.
That being said, you may be correct on you machinery dates, just incorrect on the node...
From what I turned up after a rudimentary search, a news article on mid-April on a site I trust with hardware news, TechSpot, had mentioned this (emphasis mine):
"Approximately 420 billion rubles ($5 billion) will get invested
in developing newer fabrication nodes and ramping
up production. Russia aims to ramp up the local chip
production using a 90 nm node by the end of the year.
By 2030, they intend to manufacture chips using a 28nm
process technology, something TSMC did in 2011."
So just about 20yrs ago like you said, is when 90nm was the latest node, just as I said. ๐๐ค
(oh, and that $5bn estimate by Russia is fucking hilarious... then again, they probably hope to mostly steal their way to that goal... or maybe that focus is only for R&D ๐คทโโ๏ธ I'll just chalk it up to a "delusional Russia number" lol)
HOWEVER, that aside, this all isn't to say they would be unable to manufacture capable and "fast" chips on that 90nm node. They will just require more power (significantly, in terms of our computer's CPU) in order to operate, but their actual PCB footprint isn't really going to increase โ or it shouldn't have to, technically speaking at least. Although, when it comes to SRAM or other memory types, that WOULD require more PCB realestate, as each module wouldn't be able to store as much on account of the far-less dense manufacturing node...
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I love it as well, and bust it out anytime someone doesn't consider them a scientist... Because honestly, doing science and being a scientist, doesn't REQUIRE you to have a fancy and expensive degree, or to work at a prestigious or high paying job.
You can be a scientist and do meaningful work as long as you do it methodically and write everything down! In this day and age, I still use it for anyone recording videos, attributing "writing it down" to any means of documenting entering, to which recording video if definitely a valid method in my eyes! (usually people are talking, to offset not seeing what's being used, etc, which would ordinarily be noted on paper)
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My thinking is that every single one has them, and that during development a financial decision was needed, or a time crunch occurred, and sacrifice had to be made... The choice to have the missile guidance be programed to function with the additional weight, or, programed to let it work without.
Eitherway would've resulted in every manufactured missile being just the one variant: with, or without these decoys. Which if it were me, I would've gone with having them all have the decoys, given this would be marketed to other countries.
Of course, this is pure speculation on my part, but given what we know about the bumps encountered during various Soviet/Russian development programs, it seems at least slightly-better than plausible. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
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Small correction: That's not a Velocity Stack.
What they have is closer to a Tunnel Ram.
A velocity stack is a cone inlet mounted before the throttle plate (butterfly), but most importantly, at the opening of the cone is an airfoil shape. It's that airfoil that causes air to actually accelerate into the opening and down the throat of the cone; hence "velocity".
Almost like ram-air -- on an airplane, not the cold-air mounted on the hood that we called ram air in the muscle era -- but at a standstill, since it does with without the use of a headwind.
BONUS FACT: Cooling towers, those big ""smoke stacks"" of a nuclear power plant (used on any steam power facility, coal before nuclear), is actually an upside-down Velocity Stack. The whole cooling tower is not sitting flush against the ground, but is raised up. As the hot air rises, it draws in cool air through the bottom, then rushes up and out the smaller top opening.
Aside from that, you're totally correct on everything else!
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There was less than 170 missiles (80% being ballistic, the rest cruise), with the remaining ordinance being drones.
So whether that 7 figure is literally missiles, or just ordinance in total that hit, could be higher or lower than 2.1%.
But also, is important to factor in exactly WHAT was hit. It's easy to tell where a ballistic missile will hit, and Israel might've opted to let certain ones land, prioritizing other ones that would've hit important targets.
I heard that some that landed in the airbase, apparently hit the runway, which was shown to have repair work finishing up that very morning after. (at least, repaired enough, to be operational again)
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Before the show was announced, I had wanted to suggest Adam build a suit of Power Armor, like his Iron Man Mk.1... but didn't think Adam would have enough interest in a game to do it.
However, now that it's a show that Adam can more easily get into it... I really really hope Adam will make one now!! ๐ค๐๐ค
Would make me SUCH a happy guy! ๐
EDIT: Also, I think it deserves mentioning, that there are MULTIPLE different models of Power Armor that Adam could pick from. He would just need to look at the Fallout Fandom-Wiki to see all the variants, across all the games. There's even various paint schemes for them, thanks to Fallout 76 (my fav is the "Blackbird" scheme, which is SR-71 inspired and is matte black with red accents). WHAT'S MORE... There's also the "Raider" variants, which are 'Mad Max' modified.
AND, in terms of the games, you had 2 arms, 2 legs, the helmet, and the torso... So what I did for my FO76 character's armor was mix and matched from the different models, to create an even more unique look. (they were all affixed to a power armor "exoskeleton" chassis) ๐
So it's definitely a "kid in a candy store" scenario, with a lot of choices and freedom. (as cool as the Raider armors look, I hope Adam would go for one of the "pre-war" models heh)
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As a fellow American that doesn't disagree with you, I can't help but say that I'm not sure which is worse...
- How the UK's government is able to go through PM's so casually, and even have the same PM who stepped down only weeks prior be ELIGIBLE to be reappointed, all without holding a public vote...
- Or that we had a shameful excuse (but shameless person) as a leader, who managed to skate by being twice impeached, then does nothing as an insurrection happens โ which is even ignoring whether or not he was involved in or had incited it โ and then is not only found to have stolen thousands of government documents of which some were classified/top secret, but is still able to run for re-election NOR IS HE behind bars for any of it......
Ok... Now that I type all of that, yea, no contest: ours is waAAay worse ๐
But, Brits, yours is still pretty damn messed up! So you haven't "won" anything here... you're just not as big of a loser as we are!
๐คฃ ๐ ๐คจ ๐ค ๐ ๐
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ย @pipercessna3827ย HA... You know, you're probably right, in reality that'd be the extent of it. We'll just have to "Westernize" it a bit, ala Hogan's Heroes ๐
And indeed, it's sad on so, so many levels... Not just the senseless killing and destruction, but the mind-numbing gullibility of those helping Russia... and just to take it down another level ('gullibilinception' you could say), gullibility not just by those in Russia's military, but those helping who are Ukrainian!
That these individuals expect they actually will end up being giving the grand rewards they've been promised... From the initial "they'll give you gold as thanks for liberating them", to promises of being in control of towns, villages, cities, or even just apartment complexes. ALL HOLLOW!!
Which even though there's internal evidence, from both Russian and pro-Russian soldiers, stating how they've not received payments promised for either general service or for having been wounded, and that they were promised (in contact) only a 3mo deployment yet are not being relieved....
But that doesn't deter their faith that their Fuhrer-Tsar Voldemort Puddin will come through on the even grander rewards!! ๐คฆโโ๏ธ ๐คฆโโ๏ธ ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
Anyways, to end on a positive note...
If you have not checked out the channel "Operator Starsky" then I highly recommend him. He is part of the Ukr National Guard, releasing briefings or insights into things taking place, but every video is full of very sarcastic humor (aka "dry humor") towards Russia! The videos are serious, don't get me wrong, but he is always in high spirits ๐
I had told him: One's humor is a mighty weapon, that Russia can never claim victory over Ukraine so long as Starsky draws breath, and can use it to sling insults! ๐ค๐คฌ
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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@Lee T I don't know if there's a need to test with them having sat in the cold? They showed them coming out of a dewar of liquid nitrogen (possibly dry ice, but more likely LN2).
I'm sure they've also tested them at high-heat temperatures for extended periods, but that would still be my concern, as there would be a larger shift in thermal cycling as you go from peak day heat to lowest night coolness temps, rinse & repeat for 5 months. (add in occasional UV exposure if they're getting reused; black want a great choice there).
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Initially came here to say I'm also not thrilled by the use of plastic since at least metal ones are able to be reused by anyone, in that you can collect and smelt them down. UV damaged polycarbonate... not so useful when re-melted lol
However, with they're being a weight savings, I'm less critical of that. Right now I'm all for anything that helps Ukrainian soldiers, and if it means every 5 or 6 full belts now saves a belt's worth of weight, then more can be transported! (space permitting) ๐ค
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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ย @teresamccartney1309ย haha They STILL do it, even when they know their calls have been intercepted! They want to talk to friends and loved ones, and this is the only way they have. In sure if people had cellphones in WWII, there'd have been this sort of stuff happening as well, since it's not like you can use encrypted comms to call home... heh
(that is to say, you wouldn't be allowed to)
But yea, on the Insights from Ukraine channel, he plays intercepted calls almost every day. You end up recognizing some voices, or in one case you know their names. The one youngish soldier calling his GF (maybe wife), they've been intercepted a few times and aired on his channel. Then more recently when he called, the GF was panicked because she saw the video, telling him about it and how we ("they") know everything. How we know both of their names, job, address, and even what they look like because he had shown us pictures.
You'd think the call would end right there, but nope! lol
He got upset with her, for always wanting him to tell her where he is and what's going on, saying that "see, this is why I can't do that, so don't ask me that stuff anymore, because you know I'm not going to keep stuff from you or lie!".
So that was the new plan lol Otherwise, business as usual! Literally! She has some sort of clothing business and she started telling him about new stuff. heh
"It is what it is", as he said, in regards to their calls being intercepted. It mattered, just... not enough to keep them from calling each other. ๐
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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ย @BlackCeIIย You're not thinking about it in the right way.
If you have all these signals that are well known, transmitting 24/7 at a constant power, you can set up an antenna to receive it. You record that for a long period of time and compare it to more advanced systems that give you known results (ie RADAR) in order to work out when there is nothing in the immediate airspace... or in other words, to establish a "Baseline".
When something comes near, now the received signal will (or can, theoretically) change as a result. By how much, is slightly irrelevant as long as it's outside of margin of error, it's the fact it does change is the important part. From there you work towards determining how much it changes for what objects are passing by. Then, all that antenna (and receiver) has to do is sit there and report signal values.
Now, place more, and more, and more of those antennas, and you begin to have a much higher fidelity. (see: "Very Large Array" of satellite astronomy, for an analog)
If it can reflect a radio wave, you can then track it (albeit with some effort), and passively.
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ย @ravenlord4ย I even GOT the joke, appreciated the genius snark of it, and yet... came here to post exactly that: Too Soon!โข ๐ญ๐คฃ
But on a serious note, I don't think "clearing one's orbit" is the best determining factor. Unless we're saying:
A) that an Earth-sized planet in Pluto's place, with a similar orbital time frame as Pluto (300-some years?), would be able to...
B) or that it is in no way possible for 2 hypothetically-identical planets to occupy the same orbital distance from its patent star, at the same speed, but 180ยฐ apart; which would thereby mean each planet will not have cleared their orbit due to the other's presence... ๐ (lol now I'm tempted to fire up Universe Sandbox, just to see what happens in such an instance, even with the inaccurate physics that takes place in the game when time is sped up)
And yes, I know how infinitesimaly small the chance of B happening is, given it'd require the other planet to be a captured one, and still equal in mass, and insert at the same speed, and end up in an orbit 180ยฐ from the other planet's. Alas, their definition was of clearing an orbit, so I'm just coming up with a hypothetical situation to invalidate its use towards determining a celestial body's classification as a planet! ๐
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ย @Vlad_-_-_ย Personally, I found it poeticly-ironic, as the first time I had heard it pronounced that way was in the second month of the war, in a video interviewing why Russians were emigrating ("fleeing"). The one lady had pronounced it almost exactly as "rubble". (it had a slight 'oo' sound, but almost imperceptible)
My thought in that moment was: "how fitting that they pronounce it the same way that it currently is... in ruins!"
The Ukrainians ARE indeed taking much of this on the chin, in turn dishing back insults and mockery, you're not wrong there; however, I'm not certain that's what's going on in this case. Still, I'm totally onboard with joke, no matter how "Western" it may be!
After all, I am a westerner, so... ๐คทโโ๏ธ๐คทโโ๏ธ lol
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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โย @ronschlorff7089ย Actually, they did TWO episodes of it!!
They revisited it towards the end of the series, to apply all the various techniques and knowledge they had acquired over the show's tenure.
If I recall correctly, they built like 3 cars the second time. They also built a mobile, armored command and control bunker out of a dump truck, to pilot the (again) remote controlled JATO car(s) from.
A spectacular episode, to say the least! (but, just about every MB episode was, which is what made the show so great)
For anyone who doesn't know, Adam has a channel called "Tested", and frequently fields viewer (well, Patreon supporters') questions during live streams, which many revolve around Mythbusters. Adam is still just as passionate about the show now, as back then, and he never half-asses an answer! (well, I say that, having never actually watched one of the live streams, but... the clips that get put on YT are always of him giving long winded answers! heh)
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....*SIGH* If this doesn't cause the UN (or even NATO) to get involved... in an 'inspector' type of roll to determine that these people are being treated humanely and kept in humane conditions... THEN. WHAT. THE. FUCK. |WILL| IT TAKE?!?!? ๐ก๐ค๐ข
Seriously #UnitedNations do your job, please?!
I'm genuinely concerned... Not only due to there being no involvement by the world powers to put a stop to this (when there were agreements in place to ensure this exact shit would not happen, vis-ร -vis the Budapest Memorandum), by which I mean physical involvement, not this proxy-war delivery of military hardware... But also the fact that everything Russia has done thus far and without repercussions has only sent a signal to Putin that he can do WHATEVER the hell he wants.
Yes, sanctions, I know. Yet, those are a deterrent, to prevent further actions by the aggressor, as an indicator that the imparts of the sanctions will not stand for what is happening - a passive 'show of force', in other words. Yet here we sit, half a year later, with Russia only ramping things up in an effort to make Ukraine bend a knee. Cluster munitions dropped or fired but without targeting capabilities, so civilians end up bearing the brunt of it! Phosphorus munitions utilized, not just on the Azovstal steel plant after civilians were evacuated, but on countless farming fields, not because of hunkered down soldiers but in order to wipe out crops! Flechettes have been used... which I don't even have to put a spin on it, Russia is just using them out of pure spite! Stealing grain that was harvested prior to the invasion, or when they can't secure it, dropping munitions on the grain storage structures so that no one can use it!
Must I really go on??
Because I'd rather not, but there's certainly 3 to 4 additional things I could add without even thinking, if I thought it'd actually convince the UN to do something... anything...
So again...*sigh*
Now if you'll excuse me, this frustrated American is going to go watch a silly pet video in an effort to lower his blood pressure. ๐
Stay strong. Stay united. Stay alive. STAY UKRAINIAN!
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
edit: fixed typo; "kept in humane conditions"
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Russia has their own satellite positioning system, called GLONASS, GLObal NAvigation Satellite System. As does China, whose us called BeiDou. While the EU's is called Galileo.
Typically, if a lay person uses the term GPS, they're probably using it generically. Whereas in this video, and likely any large news org (like NBC), they're using it to specifically refer to the US system since that's what ours is called.
The question becomes, whether or not the news item you're referring to was using GPS generically or not. But given that all the systems can be used by any person with a system capable of picking up the signals (any modern smartphone), and with satellite tracking it becomes a case of "the more, the merrier" (ie more accurate), so it'd be smart to use even your adversary's systems. That is, because your own system may not have enough satellite to provide coverage all over the globe, or at all times, leaving periodic dead zones.
In other words, jamming even one of the systems could theoretically be advantageous... IF Ukraine had been jamming it before, they may have stopped one they started receiving US hardware. In turn Russia may have noticed that and decided to start jamming it since they figure a slight impedance in their accuracy might be offset by taking fewer losses of heavy armor.
While this is purely speculation on my part, and doesn't really provide any answers, I figured it was still worth sharing ๐
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This reminds me of my Minecraft server, where I made a simple chandelier with flat glass panes, but due to how they connect together at right-angles, a player determined to make a fuss... Because PART of the inner design I created happened to zig-zag outwards from a middle crossing point, which paired with the fact I used yellow glass partway through, caused there to be a pattern resembling a swastika. ๐
My point: when looking hard enough, a person will always be able to find things about something or someone to complain about...
In this case, I went into this_expecting_ to see one of the VARIOUS non-Nazi swastikas, yet I immediately saw a contrasting-squares pattern, not the knot she showed on the website; either way, not a swastika. Again, even if it has been, there's still numerous ones used today which are completely unrelated to the one we all know promotes antisemitism. So this is one again the Russian propaganda machine doing a really shitty job at trying to justify their war! ๐
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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Alex, for your consideration... On the intro animation, I recommend changing it to:
"Expertise, Objectivity, Combat Veteran" (or Military Veteran)
I'm an admitted nobody, with only a few years editing computer hardware reviews (albeit, some articles needed heavy rewrites), but that's just how I'd have worded it ๐
My logic is: someone can be an expert and objective thinker, but doesn't necessarily mean they exhibit those all the time... Whereas phrasing it this way, to me, presents you/the videos as exhibiting your expertise and objectivity; a guarantee, you could say. As for the Veteran part, it just clarifies, as you could've been an "industry veteran" for example, so this removes that ambiguity. As a bonus, it reaffirms that THESE topics are ones you've spent a lot of time around, thereby highlighting why you're an expert and objective.
Just my 2ยข! ๐ป
Now, back to the video I go...
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ย @Rosa-lv8ywย My Google-fu was strong back in the early 2000s, since the algorithm was the crude style where you had to be precise and succinct, it made it difficult for some to nail down terms to find what they needed.
Basically, had to think of the sentence/question, then remove 90% of the words lol
Today, as you've highlighted, doing that won't quite garner what you're after, so now you have to append additional terms just to hone in on where Google should even LOOK on the net. But even then, it'll hand-hold by substitution of words, which often times such a small shift can drastically change the context of your search... thereby exacerbating the problem by returning incredibly irrelevant results...... requiring even more refinement terms... ๐ซ๐ค
And it seems that using quotes around words doesn't quite work how it's claimed to, being it should treat those terms as "verbatim", no substitution, find that exact term. Yet, frequently I've had it STILL swap them out! ๐๐คฆโโ๏ธ
To conclude this rant... lol
I noticed this regression of YouTube around 2010, but it's definitely gotten much worse the last 4-5 years, which might be what you've started noticing.
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I agree with Stephanie's prediction. He will certainly, willingly, go... JUST so he can continue with his song and dance routine.
I think we can all safely say, he doesn't expect anything to come from sticking to his story, he just doesn't want to fade away into obscurity like basically every president does afterwards.
Instead of being a large orange baby, he could've been trying to make up for all the bad shit he did. If he had enough sense to knew he lost, then SURELY he must also be aware that โ even if he had an otherwise uneventful, controversy-free time in office (which it wasn't, even prior to CoViD) โ he must see that everything after the election has solidified him as being written into the history books as America's Top-3 Worst Presidents...
"Some might even call me THEE worst, I dunno! ๐ ๐๐" -#45, probably
Or is he really that narcissistic, that he doesn't care about the 'how' he is remembered in a century's time, but simply that he'll be remembered...?? ๐
(edit: typo; paragraph separation)
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And as you can see from your first reply (as well as others replies I've seen), it's WELL PLACED, as sadly Scott's video is now rife with deniers. ๐ฎโ๐จ
They can't seem to understand that the difference now vs back then, is that there were humans controlling the lander, whereas now it's software that is not only fallible, but probably not capable of massively dynamic on-the-fly corrections.
It's the difference between human car drivers and autonomous ones... The SIMPLEST situations have caused the latter to glitch out! (there's was one where a whole fleet of autonomous cars had accumulated in an intersection, unable to navigate due to some software but, causing a self-driving traffic jam)
So, yea, just because we've had issues landing doesn't mean we've never been there! However, I don't expect the change any of their minds, which is fine... that's their prerogative. ๐
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When I found out that those two people's last name want familial, but because THEY WERE MARRIED... that absolutely blew my mind!
I'm sure she was, at one point, a very different person (at least politically), and they meshed much better... But Jesus! I've only known of her within the last 6yrs (and him; I've abstained from politics) and clearly she drank Trump's kool-aid, becomibg such a toxic person. It was astonishing to me that he could remain with her during that.
Their split was certainly for the best. I just hope she won't act entitled, pulling the "mom card" on him, to bleed him dry. ๐ค๐ค
Am amicable split is better for everyone in the end, and particularly the family inbetween you. Then the parents can go off and be happy, which can filter down to the kids as well.
So while I'd agree with the sentiment of "it sucks and you don't want to see that happen", but in this case... No, this was a good thing. (hell, maybe she was acting that way, politically, or if spite, and now she'll dial it way back after realizing the err of her political ways?)
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The rotating hardpoints are what I walk away impressed by the most... heh
Not because it's technologically advanced, in fact it's positively primitive in its operation. Nay, it's the simple fact that they incorporated such a novel thing! (presumably others didn't simply due to the added weight)
Granted, I'm by no means knowledgeable on the vast amount of military aircraft designs, so admittedly this might have been done on another swing-wing bird and I just didn't know about it. Still, once he mentioned the wings could move, my brain immediately said "hooolllldup... or has wrong hardpoints, so how does it address their changing orientation?!" ๐
I was a good boy, and remained patient in order to see if that gets explained, which it did. ๐ค
Also, being so used to seeing twin tail designs, the size of the Tornado's single tail caught my eye pretty much every time a full side view showed up... lol
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I hope Ukraine can get back their territory, and that includes Crimea, with minimal losses.
I also hope that the two groups in Eastern Ukraine who wanted to break away (secede) from Ukraine, will see that remaining part of the country is for the best. That everyone can remain "one" and lookout for each other, to fight together when foolish people try to take what's yours, like Putin (Fuhrer-Tsar Voldemort Puddin as I call him).
[As a note: if any Ukrainians could clarify/explain the reasoning
behind why those regions wanted to break off in the first place,
I would genuinely appreciate the info! The info that's on Wiki
seems like it might be biased or tainted, and I'd rather learn of it
directly from its citizens (Ukrainians). Thanks!]
I still think Mr Zelenskey needs to be awarded the "Hero of Ukraine" or the "Order of Ukraine" for what he and his administration have managed to do these last few months... Lesser men/women would have fled the country before it started, just as some of their administrators and even some military commanders had done...
You and your people stayed, and some even joined the fight (like your former president), which I think this behind the scenes work has been just as important as what those on the front lines are doing!
Slava Ukraini! ๐ฑโ๐บ๐ฆ๐ป
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ย @janedvinssonย Came here to say just that.
As awful as it may be, killing an enemy soldier in wartime is not murder; thus, not a crime. Not to say there aren't circumstances where it would be, such as if they're surrendering, or have been taken captive.
It's indeed far more likely that he's referring to things like war crimes, of which Russia has committed a while range of them โ and many different types, not just multiple instances of one kind!
Or the more common practice of exterminating your own combatants, because commanders have the order to, even though clearly they're undeserving of it. (surrendering to the enemy could be grounds for it, but retreating back to your own side is not a justifiable reason... imprisoned, is the typical action for that, as I understand it)
Still, I dunno about his escape... Particularly when dogs are on your trail.
If there's snow on the ground, I'm inclined to doubt it even MORE.
At the same time, he could have legitimately escaped, but is embellishing his story in an effort to gain more favor/sympathy... Which would be their M.O. lately! ๐
(makes him seem like a fast more important asset and worth protecting)
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To piggyback a bit off of Jonathan's last post, about us perhaps misunderstanding something....
I've had a silly idea on dark matter/energy, that could apply here, as well. ๐ค
So to try and summarize it, my thinking is:
What we are attributing to 'Dark Matter', could perhaps be matter that had existed in the universe, but, had been consumed by black holes. That the matter is accumulating, to borrow from Sci-Fi, in regions of "sub-space" that are created by the black hole. They are out of direct 'view' (observation) due to not existing in our visible universe, but are still under the surface and exhibiting some or all of their influence; some as gravity (mass), some as Dark Energy.
To put it in an analogy... think of how we depict gravity in 2D, where am object is pulling down on a plane, creating a concave region. NOW, think of dark matter as I've explained it above, as lumps and ridges... Like your body underneath a blanket.
So perhaps the sun creates this dip in the fabric, but, just before Mercury is a ridge which once an object travels by, is now on a bit of a downhill slope; thus, giving said object a slight acceleration as it slides down...
(my thought on Dark Energy is a little more simple: since the universe behaves in macro, as particles do even in micro, that perhaps galaxies have "poles" and behave much as magnets do... where a galaxy might have it's + pole facing another galaxy's +, pushing them away from each other; some may be even monopoles, strictly + or - and no matter how they're oriented, will always be attracted or repelled towards galaxies of an opposite charge ๐
๐คทโโ๏ธ๐คทโโ๏ธ)
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I'm pro-Ukraine, but indeed, it looks more like there WERE NOT PoWs on the plane. From what I've seen, the Russian footage shows no sign of any people in custody being loaded onto the plane, plus there was an obvious jump-cut in said video which makes it even less credible. Just as well, their names list of this supposed-65 had a few who had already been previously transferred, or confirmed dead. And if Russia doesn't even correct their OWN dear of the battlefield, I doubt they'd bother with Ukrainian bodies.
I know the transfer of the dead is important even in these exchanges, but that would mean they were alive when captured and that doesn't look good for Russia if they died in custody; however, it sounded like that wasn't the case here.....
๐ค Although... that would explain why there seemed to be no prisoners under guard getting loaded onto the plane, as I guess it's possible they were all dead in the first place...
If that's the case, then I'd speculate it to be a false-flag op where they claim living soldiers and then Russia shoots it down from Russian-held territory, to make it look like Ukraine did it. Hoping the bodies would be destroyed our too-far damaged to gather any Time of Death by investigators โ not like Russia would conduct that sort of investigation anyways, or even let any Ukrainian or third-party investigators come over there (since it happened deep into Russia).
All the news outlets are taking Russia's word for this, and THAT'S the problem. They've not been truthful this entire war, so why should this be any different?
It's only made worse by the fact Alex used it as an advertisement. (and I hold Alex in high regard, and love all that he does, but realistically... this wasn't the best example to use for an advert)
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Mr Riggleman is clearly an UPSTANDING example of not only an American, not only a Politician, but a Republican!
My god, how incredibly far we could be as a nation if the last 15 years (or at least the last 8), all Republicans had this man's intellect and level headedness! I can imagine the amount of issues that could've had a reasonable middleground settled on, in short order without dilly-dallying, and more importantly without namecalling or ludicrous accusations made...
But no, that's just a fantasy.... He's the Republican we deserve, whereas the Republicans we got ended up being... *sigh* You know what, I'm not even going to sink to that level... "a nightmare", I'll leave it at that.
My sincere gratitude to that man, though. Thank you sir.
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I really appreciate that Adam pre-reads the questions. Means he's potentially given the reaper even a moment's thought, and so it's going to be more useful! Also, he can answer more, since he can double up, as seen here.
I know I'm being repetitious, but I love how helpful Adam is to everyone and so willing to give away secrets, which I repeat this so often BECAUSE I applaud it and appreciate that willingness. โฅ๏ธ
(granted, the questions are coming from people who have memberships, but the amount given vs the value of info... he's giving far more than what was given.)
Thanks for, and keep on being, a textbook case of how we should all be towards each other: willing to help and give away knowledge that's potentially taken a lifetime to accumulate! ๐ป
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Something I've learned just from fishing (it's a convoluted connection, so I won't even try to explain it lmao), but will apply here, it's that thinner might actually work worse.
The smaller the diameter, the lighter the wire. While true, that would technically help, from the motor's perspective, I'm not sure it'll achieve the intended results...
Reasoning: the speed increase will mean an increase in air resistance as well. Which, coupled with the wire's lower mass, would cause the motor to eventually (quickly, to our perception) over-rotate the wire and twist up.
I think he'd be better off by increasing the arm length, making it out of carbon fiber, and giving it a symmetrical airfoil. Then it'll be even lighter weight, still super strong, but also aerodynamic -- but also the symmetry should prevent it from acting like a propeller and stay balanced.
I do agree that moar arms/wires = bettur. Though at some point it needs to be asked whether it's cheating... lol
At least 2 is a valid type of jump roping (Double Dutch, if my 30yr ago recollection is correct), albeit performed wwwway differently. But we lack the third arm that'd make 3 possible... ๐ฅด๐คฃ
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I remember around 2003 I was using some Parts Degreaser on... I think it was the throttlebody on the 1991 Firebird (350 TPI) I had. The degreaser came in an all-metal paint can, was a name brand product but don't remember who by. Quite sure it's the same stuff that was used in a Parts Degreaser Bin (the kind that pumps this fluid through a brush).
Anyways, it was certainly a learning experience!! ๐ณ
The stuff doesn't make you gap for breath or make your eyes water, so I was just kneeling on the garage floor with the van open and scrubbing away at the gunk on the part. It had only been like, a minute maybe, and I noticed my hands.... Imagine how your hands looked when you've been in the bathtub way too long as a kid, and multiply that x2. They also starting to tingle a little.
So that's when I grabbed some latex gloves and put them on, just to - now hastily - finish with what I was cleaning. About 20 seconds later and the gloves had gotten a krinkle-coating like look to them...
Now I started to work even FASTER! lol
After another 10 seconds, the gloves just started falling apart on my hands as I worked (big sections fell off). ๐
Oh, and that tingling turned into a burning sensation!
By then, even though I hadn't completed cleaning the part, I was finished either way! Put the lid back on and went in and washed the hell out of my hands! Which at that point, since I hadn't washed them before putting the gloves on (just dried them with paper towels; dumb), they're turned more pale a color than I'd thought possible!
Thankfully, I suffered no ill effects and my hands were back to normal by that night. But not have those details have sure stick with me! The less important stuff may not have, but thinking my skin was about to fall off any moment sure has... ๐ That was some potent-ass solvent, that's for sure, whatever the fuck it was! hah
(this was all brought back from the fact the one guy was cleaning the oil pan without gloves on)
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ย @homomorphicย While there's certainly nothing that stands out about Falcon 9, the fact it can now land itself and be reused, was something just about the entire rocket industry considered a fool's errand to pursue...
But here we are.
Is that bot the exact opposite behavior of what you're claiming? lol
Lots of changes had to be made to their golden goose in order to facilitate attempting to land, but they still made them despite the fact it could sacrifice reliability. That's not something the rocket industry or their clients take lightly. That'd be like you booking a flight on Spirit Airlines, if they suddenly started to have a 1 in 15 crash rate... lol
So yea, I'm quite skeptical that SH+SS are only being worked on in order to keep Musk busy and out of the adult's hair. A big point for me saying that is the fact that there's a launch/catch tower going up at Cape Canaveral. Because if this was just busy work as you claim, then we both know that Shotwell would've reigned him in and told him:
"No, you don't need one in Florida! We built one for you in your sandbox at Boca, you can play with that one, you don't need another one! I said no, and that's final..."
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Even if the project started off that way once upon a time, it's clearly exceeded their expectations, turning it into a legitimate project now. Something that even the Spruce Goose might have become, had it succeeded...... or been a modern-day Boeing venture, where those writing the funding checks don't care either way. ๐
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I started watching CRUX at the start of this war, and despite being a news group from India, they seemed very impartial and focusing on the facts...
However, about a month ago, their content started to shift ever so slightly, being a little less critical of Russia.
While I have zero evidence to back this up, MY thoughts are they (CRUX) had been told by their government to show Russia a little bit of love. My basis is that India's military consists of Russian hardware, if not exclusively, is pretty close. So it wouldn't be outside reason for them to have been pressured a little by Russia, who isn't above antics like deciding to raise prices (or hold it 'hostage') on hardware, despite being under a prior contract to deliver it.
That's just my take on it...
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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ย @keespqrsย Just to clarify, I'm an American, so when you say "pretty embarrassing to see YOUR Russian hardware is actually worthless", hopefully you only meant 'your' in a general sense ๐
Other than that, I agree with you! Russia has been making bold claims for quite awhile about how capable, and even "superior" their systems are in comparison to the US' in particular. Yet, the Moskva sitting at the bottom of the Black Sea is evidence to the contrary, which brings us back to exactly what you said: Russia's hardware is actually worthless! ๐
[EDIT] Clarification: The ship was not even sunk by US weapons, but by Ukraine's own "Neptune" anti-ship missiles -- which, comically, are based on a former-Soviet design that Ukraine had significantly upgraded... That, in my outsider's opinion, is a much bigger blow to Russia's claims of 'superiority', when their FLAGSHIP vessel that was touted as having cutting edge defenses -- intended to be able to protect not just itself, but THE OTHER SHIPS in its fleet -- can't even manage to stop missiles that were made by the same people!! (I'd even bet that some of the Moskva's components/systems were literally made of designed by at least a FEW people who were involved in that Soviet anti-ship missile the "Neptune" is based on ๐). Juuust sayin'... Doesn't reflect well on Russia's capabilities! lol ๐ [/EDIT]
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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ย @isaacwestย And, of those 20, at least one that was on parade one year, broke down in the middle of the road. (don't remember if it was the rehearsal, or day-of)
Then the T-14 that hooked up to tow it, just squatted when the throttle was mashed down, making matters look all the worse.
Mind you, I don't think it was due to lacking enough torque, but likely because the broken down T-14 couldn't be taken out of gear. So I'm sure it would've gotten no where it it hooked up to a giant concrete block that had a high friction rubber coating... stove that's effectively what it was trying to tow anyways! lol
But yea, I agree with OP... They're no doubt trying to sell the thing to other countries, so unlike any other manufacturer who has confidence in what they've created, Russia knows there's a HIGH chance that it'd only end up destroyed, and they can't afford that - on multiple levels. Like, if I were China and saw what's happening, THEN watched Russia's Creme de la Creme instantly get its shit pushed in... It's instantly forget about Taiwan, and take over Russia instead! lmao
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ย @christophermclean5620ย not a horrible idea at first blush, but unfortunately falls apart scientifically and mechanically. (lol not saying my idea would be any better... ๐คฃ)
Because it's hard to have exactly repeatable tests conducted, and that would only test torque.
Then mechanically, even two motors with 0 use, can make different power levels, all due to how well the motor was assembled... (some of the high end cars badge each motor with its dynoed results, and signed by the single-person assembler; Nissan GTR does this I believe) Which I think we can assume that the Lada factory is probably not very strict on tolerances getting met from one motor to the next lol
Cars that come out of the factory, in America at least, which happen to perform significantly better than another, we call "factory freaks", as they just happen to be above average. (this even happens in the computing industry, where processors have samples produced that are able to be overclocked way higher than others; we call these "golden samples")
But yea they definitely need something to get numbers... Even if it's something like a G-Tech meter, just for the time being, until a proper dyno can be obtained ๐
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.... lol So we're just going to ignore that AMD dominated the CPU scene from Mid 1999 through 2005.... ๐
(I'm not surprised by the oversight, at least insofar as the video title)
And the real reason Intel clawed ground back was heavily thanks to their illegal tactics with system vendors, with what equates to bribing them (through heavy discounts) to not only use Intel parts in their systems and laptops, but also by making sure that on the systems they DO sell with AMD components, they only use lower quality parts (only single-channel memory, less RAM, lower resolution screens, less configuration options etc); thus, ensuring people didn't even want to buy AMD-based systems! This made AMD starved for cash and couldn't put in the R&D to keep up. [NOTE: Intel was found guilty on these claims, in multiple courts around the world, so I'm not just some fanboy/troll making crap up. ๐ Although this does happen to be the reason I vowed to never buy anything using an Intel CPU (and I suppose GPU, now); networking interface components are fine, though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Micro_Devices,_Inc._v._Intel_Corp. ]
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ย @KootFlorisย I think they have plenty willing and able to serve. I suspect a lot had filled early on, thinking their country WOULD collapse... Then weeks later, and they're managing to drive the Russians out... I imagine many of these able bodies returned and enlisted, having been filled with pride and confidence.
Even though we don't have reports of Ukrainian losses, i t clearly hasn't suffered as badly as Russia, since Russia's next wave of mobilization is said to have women make up some 30% of it (if I recall correctly).
They can send all they want, though, and it won't make a difference. That much is evident just from this first round of mobilization, which have suffered significantly... All because Russia either lacks the ability to, or doesn't care enough to, train their soldiers for more than a week (based on the intercepted phone call of a Russian soldier). ๐
Untrained fodder and convicts do not make for good intimidation, as it's a sign of desperation...
Plus! Winter is upon the northern hemisphere...
In addition to their poor training, is poor equipment! At the BEGINNING of the war, intercepted calls had indicated they were being given summer clothing, and freezing. For a battle that was "not supposed to last but a well", you'd think they'd equip them for the season... February is still winter.
However, even if that wasn't because of poor planning, it means they lacked supplies THEN... Do we really expect they'll have focused on making cold weather supplies during the summer? I doubt it... They've exhibited a remarkable lack of foresight this entire war.
So... Winter is going to be Ukraine's time to strike. Poorly trained, ill-equpped soldiers, who can't start their vehicles in cold weather, or maintain their equipment, who are starving AND freezing? All while Ukrainian soldiers have multiple nations supplying them with cold-weather gear and training??
Yea, everyone is saying how winter is going to be tough for Ukraine...
I SAY winter spells the end for Russian occupation in mainland Ukraine!! ๐
Next spring, if the Crimean bridge wasn't already taken out (again) and Crimea already on its way to liberation... That'll be the summer campaign. ๐
The ONLY way Russia comes out of this war better off than when it started, is by eliminating Putin. The sooner they realize this, the better. ๐
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๐ ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ ะัะดะพะฒั! (Glory to Grandpa)
Also, this part made me chuckle, mostly due to how the translator read it, which added to the seemingly already laid back response...
Anastasia: "Whose drone is that??"
Yevhen: ๐คทโโ๏ธ๐คทโโ๏ธ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Also Yevhan: "... but we should take cover anyways."
Tomorrow, July 4th, is our Independence Day here in America, a day we celebrate our own freedom as a nation; however, instead of my freedom, I will celebrate UKRAINE'S current and continued freedom!
Here's to another 215 years of freedom to Ukraine! ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐บ๐ฆ
(context: this year is our 246th of independence, but Ukraine has already been free-ish for 31 years; hence, 215!)
Stay strong. Stay united. Stay alive. STAY UKRAINIAN!
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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ย @rrpearsallย You should check out the Budapest Memorandum, which was an agreement with Ukraine between Russia, the US, and the UK. That these three, in exchange for Ukraine surrendering is ex-Soviet nuclear arsenal, would ensure that Ukraine's "independence and sovereignty and borders" never came under threat. Additionally, that none of those three countries would invade NOR would they allow their weapons to be used by any invading force...
So yea, that shows how worthless Russia's word is. Not only have their weapons been used to invade Ukraine and take land from them (Crimea), but Russia is the one that did it!!
Which now, yet again, they're meddling in Ukraine, despite that agreement stating they wouldn't!
(and for the record: no, I'm not just mad at Russia over this, I'm just as upset at both my own country and the UK, for letting Russia get away with this the first, and that neither have sent troops to help this time! [yea yea, the agreement said they'd petition the UN if anyone did invade Ukraine, but these are unprecedented circumstances since it's another signatory doing the invading])
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I wish I could feel like this sort of action is going to change the tide of the war in Ukraine's favor... but it continuously is going to be just not quite enough every time... ๐
So, either we can continue feeding the fire, or, step in and extinguish it!
There's zero question, Ukraine and her people are some tough SOBs, having been able to stick it to the Russians like they have! However, they don't let their pride get in the way, so if we stepped in and helped, pretty sure they aren't going to be offended. They know, as we all do, they're putting up an amazing fight and most definitely do not appear weak... but they are outgunned and out-manned (at least numerically). So while we could give every 3 soldiers a nice tank, capable of laying waste to Russia, it'd be unfamiliar to them, just as the HIMARS is, and they can't spare that time needed to train them; thus, we need our already-trained soldiers over there to operate things and fight with them, before it's too late! ๐ข
Because I just realized yesterday, Putin isn't doing this for the land like I had thought... It's not for food, or even genocide! It boils down to one simple thing...
THE. MAN. IS. BORED!
He's lived such an adrenaline junky life, that after getting elected as president and having enough money and power to do whatever he wanted, soon enough all he had left was "running a country"... I mean what, did we expect him to stave off boredom by playing video games or reading books??
Instead, periodically, he now takes risks.
Rig his reelection, or "fix" it so that he supposedly won.
Invade a country, annexing a chunk of their land.
Make comrades even more money.
Invade some other country, butchering its people. Oh, that was fun, let's do that again in a few years!
OK I'm bored again, let's whisper in some ears and dispute-ruffle some -fathers feathers again in Eastern Ukraine... Well that didn't pan out (DNR & LPR)... I'll spread some lies about them for failing me, then use it to justify a quick invasion, just to get my adrenaline fix...
Alright, this isn't going well, but now I can play General, so this will be fun for awhile!
Yea... What started as a flame has grown into a house fire. Unless we put it out with actual fire hoses manned by firemen, even if Ukraine does stop the flames, it's just going to roar back to life again before long. THEN it'll engulf the neighbor's house, and before you know it the entire neighborhood is a raging inferno...
But that's fine, we live on the other side of town, so we're safe! ๐๐
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(please excuse any typos)
[EDIT: fixed a number of typos; struck two major ones in the middle, incase anyone rereads this, so that it stands out]
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I understand the psych-warfare reasoning they're doing this, as well as the human compassion approach it has... although, that too, it's a bit of a PW tactic, given Russians are being told the Ukrainians are these evil monsters.
So yes, in either case, it's a great move I think. I can appreciate why some might feel it's macabre, or even harsh, but the reality is that Russia isn't confirming these details, even if they happen to know. So how else can it be accomplished except through showing a photo? Can't necessarily say "your child has died in combat, we have the body" (that also comes off cold heh), as Ukraine doesn't truly know its the person the algorithm claims, so this is the only way to confirm it... Same exact way a morgue/police do it.
But yea, the sentiment about world peace through causing loss of support by a country's people, is a very interesting consideration/conclusion that I wouldn't have come to! Hopefully it shows to have a meaningful impact here, as it'll be a good litmus test of your hypothesis. ๐ค
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"Don... Is that you?!?!"
๐คฃ Love it...
Reminds me of my dad, who wasn't in the military, but just had been around and met enough people that resulted in him always seeming to run into someone he knew, no matter where we were! lol
(which for me, as a kid, was rough, since that meant he'd be bullshitting for 10 of 20mins... in a time before endless entertainment in our pockets [cellphones]! ๐
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Anaya, thanks Alex, for all you've done and coverage you've gotten for us. Those nominators and awards are well deserved, and those mentions in all the papers just further proves it! ๐คโฅ๏ธ
So you brag about it all you want! You've earned it, man!
(plus, it's a humble brag, it's not like you're being pompous!)
Looking forward to what you bring us in 2024!
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ย @andy_in_colorado7060ย He says, about some guy, while he watches a mini-documentary by a nerdy physicist type of guy... lmao
(I won't even touch on how "nerd" and "physicist" are synonymous haha)
Joking aside, back then an interest in space wasn't sexy, or even cool. Astronauts, sure, but that's also celebrity status at play.
I'd argue it's only within the last 10, maybe 15 years, that space and science (therefore, physics) has become popular, ie sexy AND cool! A lot of which is thanks to SpaceX, but also with that span of time where there were a bunch of shows being made which featured Michio Kaku and Neil deGrasse Tyson, etc. It was Michio that made my friend decide to transfer schools, and she even managed to get into his class. (Though, unfortunately it was all taught through his assistant.)
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Totally agree.
I'm in my 40s now and I've been making it a point to be ok with being wrong, but also being open about it by including in comments something like "I could be wrong, and I'm fine with that if so".
For example (mind you this doesn't at all compare to how important it was for Alex): on a Community Post with a Poll by an entertainment-oriented channel about an upcoming video, a comment had said how in no way would something be able to happen. I replied saying that I felt strongly that it would, given the speed the object would be traveling.
Well, the video game out, and... I was totally wrong!
However, I didn't leave it at that. I immediately paused the video and went to that CP, tracked down that comment, then replied to admit he was right and I was not.
While it definitely sucks to be wrong in the moment, but to anyone reading this I want you to know, in the long run it feels better to admit to it! You may not be able to take pride in being right, but you can take pride in being a stand up person after the fact. ๐
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I just said the same. We let Puddin get away with so much, that he feels invincible, like he can do WHATEVER the hell he wants and suffer no consequences... because, unfortunately, that's been the truth these last 2 decades.
I'm glad we've done something this time, but none of our leaders are willing to do ENOUGH, yet...
Actually, I take that back: France, Canada, and Estonia ARE starting to do the right thing.
We can't keep ignoring it, not when doing so results in 1/4 of a country being reduced to LITERAL rubble! We should've stepped in LAST year... ๐
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ย @ni9274ย If you in terms of being a hard moral decision? I understand, but also I was purely commenting on how great it was to at least offer them a punishment-free option (for now), should they feel this war unjust.
Whether they are actually able to, accept their decision to surrender, can look themself in the mirror each day and not feel ashamed... that's another matter entirely! (although I can assure them that living with who they are and the choices they've made, will be much much easier this way, compared to surviving until the end of the war and having to deal with all the horrible things you've seen and done for the rest of your life...)
However, if you mean "it's not simple" in terms of everything you have to do... You're probably right.
But, Ukraine does have a phone number they can call and arrange their surrender, which the person they talk to can answer any questions beforehand, and then tells them where to go. So at least having that in place, helps alot and makes it easier. ๐ฅด
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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Absolutely massive kudos to the Berlin team, and institute, for letting you not only go there to have hands-on experience, but even let you screw around! I mean seriously, letting you put a tomato in there is just epic! lol
...... Although, I winged [cringed+winced] so damn hard when you guys put your hands in the airstream ๐ฃ (pneumatic injection injury... DO! NOT! LOOK! AT! IMAGES! you've been fairly cautioned). As I know it can happen with just an aircompressor and blower nozzle, albeit, when it's placed right against your skin (that's why they come with a goofy stand-off tip), but given the insane amount of air that thing was moving.... I was concerned for you guys!
Probably why he didn't want you sticking your face in there, so that you didn't end up having your head degloved... ๐
( DO! NOT! LOOK! FOR! "DEGLOVING"! IMAGES! Seriously, I'm not putting these as a joking challenge. It's just legitimately nightmare-fuel medical stuff! I don't know why, exactly, they termed it that, since literally "glove" == "skin" and it can occur anywhere on you... so why not just call it what it is to begin with? ๐คทโโ๏ธ Anyways, duly warned, again. [RIP you who didn't heed it ๐lol] )
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ย @vsevolodbatishchev4836ย Thanks for taking the time to explain some of the things brought up here! (that guy I debated with is going to hate finding out he was wrong lol)
As such, I'll take the time to share my thoughts...
Personally, I can't say I was necessarily "annoyed" by the ads, but there's two issues at hand that I feel you might have going against you. First, there's SO MANY illegitimate ads on YouTube that it's too hard to know when there is a legitimate newcomer that's just offering their real product. Problem is, YouTube has such a massive audience that you simply can't ignore it to advertise on, so there's not much that can be done there besides improving in the message the ad delivers and it's delivery.
Which brings me to the delivery in the ad: which is that it so confidently can be more or less used to rebuild society after an apocalypse....
THAT is where I think many take issues, and where it feels like it could simply be a "cash grab" product instead of a "passion project".
If you market it as a "coffee table book" for people to page through and spark discussion, it would be better received since you aren't setting such high expectations for what is contained within. Perhaps also try to fit in that it was a successful Kickstarter campaign, and show a couple images of the illustrators creating the art, even if you have to sort of stage that for the ad (as I assume there might not be any photos that were taken of that process for you TO use).
The real point behind that last bit is to try to help convey that it isn't AI generated, since that also is a very real issue at present. Not just in terms of actual art being made that's sparking controversy, but both the fact that so many ARE using it to make up stuff in this way, just to earn a quick buck from a half-assed product. Also because so many ads on YT fake everything, the items, the info, the "celebrities" endorsing them (I report those ones)... Some do it intentionally, others just because it's cheaper, but both aren't well received currently. Thus why showing real artists doing it might help people see it for what you intended all along. โบ๏ธ
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ย @Varko-Farsightย I think you've misunderstood what I had said. The "super thin" communication method TOW system uses are provided by two copper wires with a diameter of 0.01 inches [0.25mm], not thin fiber optic.
My thought was that the fiber they're hand, along with its additional outer sleeving, might weigh more than that copper wire, since I suspect they are running very long distances where that much copper WOULD become heavy.
However, the light pulses that fiber optic system uses do not require any significant power source. Lasers, after all, require very little power for systems like this. Which is why I mentioned that part at the end about the communication over wires maybe requiring a high voltage system. In a TOW missile, that would be supplied by the launching system; however, in this application it would be a mothership drone with a finite power system, so the extra power draw AND additional power supply would be at a premium.
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If you read the Budapest Memorandum, sadly no, we did not. TECHNICALLY we only promised to SPEAK TO THE UN of any threats came against Ukraine.... ๐However, it's my belief that WE SHOULD BE protecting them, beyond sending aid. Russia signed that are well and I feel that the only reason the US and UK signed it was an an assurance that RUZ wouldn't beach the agreement...
If a school bully said "Fine, I'll stop, but you have to give up your stick" and then two older kids said "Yea, give up the stick, and if something happens we'll speak on your behalf!"... well, that's not very reassuring, because at that point I'll already have gotten smacked around! I don't need you to go tell the hall monitor, I need you to step in and block the punches! ๐
So yea, we've failed Ukraine on MULTIPLE occasions now and I've openly apologized on Ukrainian channels for my country failing to PROPERLY help. Because our inaction just gave ol Puddin Pants that he's invincible and can get away with whatever he wants. We indirectly caused this... and sending aid just isn't enough!
(YouTube doesn't like me talking bad against R... And I've held back in this comment, having to be slightly vague (I suspect just mentioning the countries like I have, will be empty to get this comment removed... But I hope not...)
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I, and I think I speak for many others, sure do hope that you, Gav and Dan... hell, even Bobby... will get together for shenanigans AT LEAST once a year!!
I really do miss TV Adam ๐
Another collab I'd LOVE to see Adam do, would be with Scott at Kentucky Ballistics!!
Gav and Dan just did their second collab with him. Scott is such an amazing and HILARIOUS guy, that I think Adam would get along with him so well!
Plus, he has such a vast arsenal at his disposal, I'm sure there are things he might want to try but might be concerned about safety, and could benefit from Adam's wealth of knowledge.
And the opposite... I'm sure Adam has some things he might like to do but couldn't with Mythbusters!
Anyways, I've sewn that seed... Hopefully it bears fruit! ๐โฅ๏ธ
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Not sure if you were accounting for BOTH facets of their name-choice humor, but in the off-chance you missed one:
- Falcon being the name of their bread-and-butter rocket (obvious)
- Falcons, all types, are part of the Raptor family ๐
But yea, for population control, I'd figure 30+ Raptor 2s roaring by the entire launch tower, would create a combination of extreme gear and extreme air movement ("wind" but obviously not meteorological). So if there was a nest, either....
- it'd get incinerated, along with any eggs or offspring, potentially rewiring SpaceX to factor it into their Carbon Offsets if the launch tower becomes an aviary...
- it'd still get hot enough to make Eggsplosion Scrambled Eggs or Raptor Roasted Raptor..... Chicks (scrambled, as the rapid temp rise would cause the egg to start boiling and then explodicate and the resulting ejecta getting cooked)
- it'd at least become ""windy"" enough to destroy the nest, but also potentially serving as a baseline experiment in the always fun science class Egg Drop Challenge
(and hush... lol I know my jokes are "dark", but we are talking about an animal that will be exterminated [period] in order to protect the other wildlife; technically the falcons are the monsters here!! ๐)
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[Am I onto something here, or just ON something?]
I'm not one to have suspicions that are borderline 'conspiracy theory' level... However, I'm strongly feeling like this is partially legitimate (CoV related) , but partially a secret favor to Russia, as part of Putin's recent pitch about "unforseen consequences" that may occur as a result of The West/US supplying Ukraine with military aid, and that we should stop helping them......
Admittedly, this next part is a much bigger stretch on my part, but I can't help but wonder if all these recent warehouse/industrial fires aren't also part of that same warning ("threat") by him... Or is this sort of thing common and I just don't hear about it until now due to YouTube's "In the News" feed showing me it??
And no, I don't mean anything like "sleeper agents" who have been here laying in wait! lol But certainly could still be spies, or gov't funded loyalists acting on Russia's behalf. ๐ฅด๐ค
(and before I get labeled as looney... I'm a D, not an R/QA!)
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I'm not a cosplayer or fan prop maker, but I wonder...
Would there be a market for the studios, once everything has wrapped, to SELL "Maker Kits"?
So for example:
- If they had to make a costume almost entirely from scratch, offer a "costume kit" that contains all the materials/baubles/pstches/doodads that might be hard to source, as well as a BoM List of the easy to source items, to still let the fans literally make it to their size requirements. (maybe labeling the kits as "Sm to Md", "Lg to XLg", "XXL to XXXL" which have sufficient material)
- Prop Kits would similarly have all the hard stuff to source, but not anything circuits that might have been custom made since having to make more would now be entering into a produced product.
The maker would still have to do all the legwork in crafting it, cutting stuff to size, and then painting and/or weathering. Therefore, presumably, still giving you a sense of pride in the end.
Or, would this actually NOT interest folks? Since now many, many people would be walking around with that prop, or as those characters, robbing you of being more unique compared to before? ๐
I can totally appreciate that if so...
๐ค On the flip side, it might still sell alot since now so many others who considered it too laborious to source stuff, would now be able to build their favorite costume/prop... ๐คทโโ๏ธโบ๏ธ
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ย @Gh0st_-3ย Given we're ALL operating on assumptions of who downed what, and where, I'm going to ignore the majority of what you said and just reply to your egregious oversight of:
"Why would SAM lock onto targets that are not in their airspace?"
When you're at war, or when both sides have attacked each other, it doesn't matter whose airspace the attacking jets are in because you're in combat and that no longer matters. It's a threat, and the longer it's in the she, the higher the chance become that it'll hurt you in some way; therefore, you take it out even when it's in their airspace.
Analogy: If someone is shooting at you from across the street, from their own yard, you fire back! At that point it doesn't matter WHOSE property they're, you are in danger and so you protect yourself.
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I feel like Battlestar Galactica S1's first episode titled "33", is a great analog to this. (note: this isn't the first episode of the series, as the mini-series pilot episodes came before it)
Synopsis:
_"Having fled the besieged Ragnar Anchorage, the convoy of refugee spaceships is relentlessly pursued and attacked by Cylons. The colonial fleet must execute a faster-than-light (FTL) jump every 33 minutes to escape the Cylons, who consistently arrive at the new jump coordinates approximately 33 minutes later. After over 130 hours and 237 jumps, the fleet's crew and passengers, particularly those aboard Galactica, have been operating without sleep while facing the strain of nearly constant military action."
After every jump, all their pilots and "ground" crew are scrambling to prepare the Vipers (single seat fighters) and Raptors (2-3 crewed bombers/EW) to launch again every 33 minutes. They're usually not engaging into a huge battle every time, but are out there to protect the flotilla as the enemies (Cylons) deploy from their own fighters from their battleship-carriers.
All the while the pilots are using stims to keep them sharp, which is also screwing with their judgement due to no sleep. So whilst I don't think our men and women are living like that, it might actually be just as stress inducing because there ISN'T a like-clockwork pattern to the attacks. So our navy is basically always on pins and needles, not knowing when the next all hands on deck will occur...
I'm glad no one has been seriously hurt, unlike on BSG where they didn't leave unscathed.
๐ซก to our men and women... โค๏ธ๐ค๐
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I recently looked into printing gaskets based on a Garbage Time video early last year where he talked about the good OE Ford gaskets now being out of production for his motor. My concern was that the TPU (flexible) filament wouldn't be petroleum safe; however, much to my surprise it apparently is!
I presume it's minimum temperature of 220C (428F) should be sufficient, but I admittedly have never checked external locations for what they reach during operation. For example the valve cover next to the exhaust manifold. I know most commonly our THERMOSTAT is 210F here in the US, but... I've just never bothered to wonder what various locations actually get up to! I would suspect it'd vary depending on so many factors, cylinder count and whether it's gas or diesel. So yea ๐คทโโ๏ธ
However, pistons and connecting rods are just an immediate no. There's absolutely no point in testing them, not with plastics.
3D Printed sintered metal on the other hand, now we have something worthwhile to test! Problem is, I don't know if places like PCBWay or similar, which offer that kind of service (your send a 3D model file) would ship to them. Granted, I assume PCBWay, being a Chinese company would have no issues shipping to Russia, so that's an avenue for G54 to consider. Problem is they'd need nice 3D models of the parts... (not saying they're incapable, but just it's an added expense)
Yea yea, I've lived up to my name ๐
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Viewer Tip: there ARE auto-generated subtitles (CC), which helps alot! ๐
Very helpful info, and hopefully Russians will start to use it to help themselves.
Please know "the west", & the world, IS NOT fighting against the people of Russia! Our fight is with Putin and anyone who does his bidding.
I personally felt our militaries needed to send in troops months ago, to help Ukraine fight Putin's army.
Now...? NOW I think we need to send in troops to help innocent Russians fight Putin! ๐
That man clearly has zero care or concerns for any group of people... Regardless of your country, ethnicity, religion, creed, values, status, contribution to society, none of that matters because he does not spend even a second to think about how his actions impact you!
Yes, the "you" I'm specifically referring to here, are Russian citizens. He drains your whole city/village of those able to fight, doesn't care whether that town can continue to even function with potentially half the people taken... People with skillsets the others (likely) will not possess, so it's not even a matter of man vs woman, as a woman with that skillset is just as capable!
(I think women make amazing fighters [equal to men], and in some situations are even superior, so I don't get why he doesn't mobilize them... unless he's worried his prison soldiers will get ""distracted"" ๐๐)
So yea, I understand why some countries are turning away "tourists". (I'm guessing many Russians are not stating they're "fleeing", but are "going on vacation".)
Ukrainians were fleeing because they were being invaded, but Russians are fleeing because โto put it bluntlyโ they don't want to deal with their problem at home, a problem they allowed through their complacency, a problem named Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.
You are allowed to own shotguns in Russia, and shotguns are a VERY powerful, and capable weapon. You can_easily_ remove the BBs and replace it with a hard and pointy projectile, and have it fly accurately! (Taofledermaus channel has even tested many slugs made by Russian citizens, sent directly to him from Russia, and 95% of which have performed insanely well in accuracy and stopping power!!)
Viva la Russoluciรณn! โโช๐ตโช #Russolucion
Ukrainians... You need no criticism or pep talk! You all just keep doing what you're doing: kicking ass and taking back territory! ๐ค๐ซ๐ค
Stay strong. Stay united. Stay alive. STAY UKRAINIAN!
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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Listen, Russia hasn't shown itself to be the major threat they always claimed to be, so I get that we (the US, but really, any country) might want to remove components that aren't on par with off-the-shelf consumer goods. For one, it's a slow bird so it wouldn't take advanced SAM systems to take one out. For two, as stated, advanced tech isn't even needed to beat Russia! So why include certain advanced and possibly superfluous components, if they can be replaced by cheaper ones... even if it means the platform might be a little less capable?
I suspect the big thing the US is worried about is the SatUplink tech. Swap it for Starlink though, and ๐๐ (win-win for Musk, to test varying speeds, altitudes, and sudden course changes)
It's like a car honestly... They're are various option packages to meet the needs and wants of the buyer.
The Gray Eagle was sort of designed only for a tight knit group (I assume at least UK, but maybe only for US use?), for specific missions that โI feelโ are more covert or loiter-intensive. Whereas Ukraine kinda needs overwhelming-force, where a drone can be a weapons platform. See: the rotary-bomb-dropper carousel equipped drone Taiwan has sent, which had a capacity of... how many could it carry, some 180-bomblettes.
4x Hellfire missiles would be quite handy, though!
OR, even as an unarmed surveillance platform, it would be crazy helpful! Which would plausibly mean it wouldn't need all the targeting goodies. However, that, would likely be heavily integrated with everything and would no doubt be a long term project to remove/supplant with different components...
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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Ukrainians, you're doing a fantastic job, particularly considering you're at an equipment disadvantage! However, thankfully, you have multiple key advantages the Russians lack... Your soldier's skills along with their ferocity and bravery. You have the world's support*. Most importantly, you don't want to become part of Russia!
The ": I wish we (๐บ๐ฒ), along with other nations which have capable militaries, would send TROOPS and not just supplies... It's a little sickening for me that we're letting this happen (... *again! 3rd time in 20 years) when we could each send in a battalion or two, and at least have them do defense/policing so that Ukrainian troops are freee up to perform counter-offensive operations to drive the occupiers out!
Which brings me to...
Ukrainian civilians staying in their homes: they need to be convinced to leave ๐ข
I understand their desire to stay, as some have farm animals they couldn't live with themself if they abandoned/ser free. Others want to at least try to protect their belongings and homes.
The problem is, Russians are shelling everything and don't care if civilians are there. So if these people die, the whole reason for staying behind will have happened anyways, but now they and their family will also be lost... And that's EXACTLY what Putin wants!! Of you can at least flee and stay alive, that's another way you can help prevent Putin from achieving his goals! ๐๐ป
Stay strong. Stay united. Stay alive. STAY UKRAINIAN!
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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ย @macthelostย Your heart is in the right place, but not sure if you're grasping all of the issues with your suggestion to "just weld it!"
There's a reason you bring a ship into a dry dock to perform major repairs like that.
With the space station, you have such a finite amount of space, so you literally use every inch and millimeter of it. That means you have spots you can't access, at least not easily without shuffling major components all over to gain the necessary access.
Then there's the issue of the layering. I don't know specifically how they are setup, but my gut tells me there's a fabric layer (ballistic fiber maybe); a thermal layer; and one, maybe two, metal layers.
The amount of heat generated during welding is quite possibly (even likely) going to melt any fabric layer.
What's more, is your going to have to also depressurize whatever module your welding on, because during that heating, the metal is weaker until it cools... So having a blowout would be quite catastrophic!
Even then, the dexterity while in a spacesuit diminishes significantly. Dunno if you've welded before but I've welded before, it's very fun. If not, then you don't just pull the trigger and drag it across the metal. You have to prep it first. If you want to do it RIGHT, and sufficiently, you have to grind a bit of a channel. You can lay the bead on top, overlaying the crack, but it won't be as strong.
Then there's laying the bead, which is a back and forth motion, imparted by twisting your wrist. Which goes back to the issue of dexterity. I think ideally, you'd want a robot to handle that, maybe attached to the CanadArm.
Anyways, I've speculated enough. ๐
Enjoy the read!
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ย @zoidersย I don't have any semblance of explosives knowledge; however, even then I've been able to follow along in this conversation to have very easily understood that they're using a high-speed explosive for its ability to send tiny shrapnel outwards at a similar high velocity.
They're taking apart a round that was already meant to disable armor, so they're obviously not trying to replace that.
Their goal is to make something that's far more effective at wrecking a person's day by both direct and indirect means. They have internal objects plus the sharp fragments of the vessel, in order to rip into people. They also have a large amount of HS explosive to quickly disperse them... but as I see it, that also offers a great side benefit of creating a high-speed shockwave that will undoubtedly cause permanent hearing loss to anyone inside the building/vehicle, or significant temporary hearing loss to them; both are great outcomes.
If you can't hear the enemy approaching, you're as good as dead, and I think it's pretty safe to assume that hearing protection is likely the last thing on the list of "essentials" that the Russians have to buy on their own dime! Actual ballistic body armor and a helmet that can do more than stop a baseball, any semblance of night vision or thermal optics, those in sure take priority. ๐ฅด
So as far as I can tell, this improvised round achieved the end-goal, even if it takes a few extra bullets after... Where at the end of the day, this is point and shot, whereas any trap laid still relies on some poor bastard triggering it. We've already seen plenty of Russian-left boobytraps that have been discovered and disarmed... no reason to think the obverse doesn't, or couldn't happen. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Just my 2-observational-ยข worth. โ๏ธ
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I think what he means is that a lot of the people fighting in Ukraine right how, aren't proper military personnel. Mostly civilians with a couple months of basic training, just enough to ensure they don't end up shooting themself or their squad mates; instead of career soldiers, who know how to function as a cohesive unit and how to react in various combat situations.
Just my take, though. But it would corroborate why it's been such an awkward shitshow for the invaders...
Even if not, in my opinion, that's how wars should be fought, and seemingly have been... at least up until modern times.
A invades B
B's military is sent in; A & B's militaries engage in combat
Some civilians get caught inbetween and are collateral damage.
But when it's an intentional genocide, that's when civilians become the target as well. However, Putin has done what he can to not make it (initially) look like they were trying to wipe out Ukrainians. Except, with modern weapons and communications, that should be relatively easy since pinpoint accuracy should be possible. Emphasis on should, since the accuracy dissipated by the Russians has been WWI/II in quality (although I feel WWII ordinance teams might've been more accurate... heh). They lay waste to entire towns, "kill em all, let God sort em out" ๐
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There's been attempts and they've been canceled ๐
Mythbusters Jr., despite being aimed at tweens demograph, was still something I enjoyed watching.
Tory also had a show that was exclusively vehicle focused and I enjoyed that as well.
The B-Team (Tory, Grant, Kari) was also going to have a Mythbusters show, but Grant's passing (understandably) hit Tory and Kari too hard and they decided not to go through with it.
Unfortunately, I just don't think that anyone is willing to fund that sort of thing anymore. Even if they did, wouldn't give it a chance to become successful, canceling it at the first sign of ratings dipping, or even not giving it a chance to get its footing (poor initial ratings).
Like Adam has said, Mythbusters was something special and unique, coming around at just the right time.
I wager that if we never had the show and our world was otherwise identical, that someone pitching that show to Discovery ch. or Science ch. TODAY, it wouldn't get greenlit. ๐ซค
The world is a weird place right now...
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โโย @Gormathiusย That episode is in my top favorites! Just a combination of things... Their absolutely unadulterated surprise, their house-analog being blown to absolute smithereens, and the insane hang time of the waterheater before landing back in shot! Oh! And the horror of not knowing where it was during that time, being so palpable! ๐ณ๐
It's coincidently in my Watch Later, as it came up in a recommended list, and I think I'll go watch it right now! (it's on some chan that got a license to upload episodes; it's manger MythBusters, but I'm 99% certain it's not official)
You're not wrong, though... Steam really is impressive!
Hell, I didn't know until sometime in the last 10 years, that there's "Wet" and "Dry" steam... If it's superheated, it's the latter. (apparently, even near-superheated is as well, like what comes out of a kettle when it whistles, but take that with a grain of salt)
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I was sad when SyFy canceled it...
Happy that Amazon picked it up, even if I would likely never see it โ where I live in E. TN, corpo America didn't care to roll out capable internet here and at that time, had no plans...
Then, Starlink came, which also lit a fire under asses and suddenly we have fiber ๐ (but yay!)
Then I watched the new episodes of The Expanse.... and was sad all over! To see that Amazon (or the writers?) had dropped the ball by taking their sweet time with the story, and then they, too, canceled it RIGHT as the story was getting good. ๐
I had just finished re-watching Battlestar Galactica (2003) and honestly, if The Expanse could've maintained the escalation in story as it had been progressing on SyFy, it could've been better than BSG!
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An old (ish) show on, if I recall correctly, the then-named Wings channel (might've been on History) actually proved it WOULD HAVE been stealth for the time.
They built a full scale mockup of it and then took it out to a radar test facility, whose purpose is to test aircraft's radar cross sections, which mounts aircraft atop a large pole so that it can be bombarded by microwaves. As I remember, the range could detect even a small bird on the test stand, and lengths were taken to prevent such occurrences.
At the end of the day, verdict was that the Allies certainly lucked out that the Ho-229 hadn't entered full production, as detection of it WOULD have been challenging. Not impossible mind you, but it presented a significantly lower signature than other aircraft of the time. They were testing against V3, and I think it was mentioned that V5 or V6 had modified air inlets, which they speculated would have indeed made for a truly stealth aircraft!
The world was genuinely lucky that the war took the turn that it did, given the multiple advancements that Nazi Germany had by the end of the war. <_>
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I wasn't able to find the show I mentioned, but I did find this, which will require a Google search:
"Is It Stealth? | National Air and Space Museum"
It's possible it did air on NatGeo when I watched it; however, I would've figured I'd watched it around 2009. If so, that is prior to their followup paper's findings being released.
The show had detailed the entire structure though, and honestly, I hadn't even remembered that there was an attempt at creating a Radar Absorbable Material. So that isn't factored in, and only the design bring what I remember as the show's focus.
Still, my recollection of "stealth-ier, but by no means full-stealth" seems to hold up. As something to consider is a radar operator's mindset back then, which wouldn't have a concept of "stealth" like we know it. So if a radar return is detected but less than anticipated, it may not be given much priority... particularly if they're are other planes flying and are a confirmed threat. In other words, I feel ANY change in radar signature is going to be helpful!
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My personal suspicion has been:
A combination of Putin having become an "adrenaline junky" -- or at the very least, excitement junky/thrill seeker -- due to his covert and counterintelligence days in the KGB. That work got him recognized high up, which lead to his political career, where he basically started right at the top, as prime minister. So although his life slowed down a lot by comparison, he no doubt was able to live more lavishly and luxuriously.
Then, he became president... He reached the top! Except, that junky-itch still lingered, and what better way to scratch it, but by starting shit with another country Which I suspect is where things started to spiral downhill...
Because starting wars is kind of the biggest sort of chest pounding a leader can do, but you can't just start another war immediately after the last one finishes, as that'll end your career, in one way or another. So in the interim, he lives like a king and does whatever he wants... Like, have people killed that he doesn't like or opposes him politically! It's not a war, but... war is sort of "legal" killing, in a twisted way, at least as long as you go about it the right way in terms of the justification behind it. Having people killed, that's a new kind of risk/thrill, because that's taboo, it's not acceptable!
Now his life is a chess match... A poisoning here, a war there... But then he needs more. I know, let's annex Crimea!
Welp, he got away with that (as a citizen of 'The West', I'll accept the blame for that nonsense), which only means he'll dial it up further...
I'm sure they're were some more poisonings or science experiments to see if gravity still works through the test of pushing someone from a multi-story building window. My gosh, works you look at the time? I need to start another war! He's taken a country's land, what's there left to do that's bigger?
WAR CRIMES, baby!
Enter Syria, and the act of genocide (amongst other things, no doubt)! ๐
It's OK though, because he got away with it again. Surely he won't amp it up next time?
Blah blah, having opponents killed, modifying your country's law for consecutive presidential terms -- oh, I forgot, in between the wars and killings, he also (almost guaranteeingly) had an election rigged so that he was momentarily prime minister again, thereby resetting his reached limit of 2 consecutive terms, and that 'elected' president turned the country back over to him! ๐
But where were we... Oh, right, figuring out how he can once again, somehow, dial his evil up another notch!
I KNOW! A little of column A, and a little if column B!!
Let's invade Ukraine... again... and try to take the entire damn county, by overthrowing their government, while justifying it all by making an absurd lie about neo-Nazis and liberating Ukrainians, calling it not what it is... (an invasion) but a "specialty memeitary operation"!
BRILLIA--... What?? What do you MEAN they're fighting back?!
I don't care, take the country! How? You know damn well how! Rape, pillage, plunder; raze it to the ground! Steal their food, burn their farmlands, use 'dumb' cluster munitions while giving zero-shits about whether they actually his military targets, then use munitions no one else will because they're deemed too inhumane... gas them, launch phosphorous at them, rain flachettes down upon them!!
"But...... Why, daddy?"
Well, my dear... Because the man is bored. That's why.
Remember when we got our puppy, and almost every day was a situation where it pissed here, destroyed that, shit there, chewed up that? That's because for part of it they didn't know any better as they were just a puppy, but the other parts were due to the fact they were bored. So when it happened, we told them "No" so they stopped, and played with them when they were bored...
Now, remember when the neighbors got a new puppy? All the same things happened, except, they never corrected it. They just yelled and got mad every time, yet all these years later, it's still doing that because it doesn't know any better...
That's Putin.
He was never told No, never told that's bad behavior, never told to be nice or shown how.
He just keeps repeating the same bad behavior, over and over and over, because everyone gets mad, but no one tells him "No! That's a bad asshole, don't do that!!" โน๏ธ
FIN.
Thus concludes this week's Story Time, with the Duke of Ramble. ๐
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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So it's genre is a bit mislabeled then, and needs to be classified as "Satirical Docudrama"? ๐ฅด
Joking aside... Personally, when the comedy is like you describe, I rather it be a Stand-Up routine by someone. I find it hilarious when a single person is pointing out and making fun of the things that are frustrating in our lives.
However, turning it into a scripted comedy, I find it hard to enjoy (again, personally). As an example, and I know this is quite blasphemous to some, I can't stand The Office (US), solely because it's so cringeworthy and relatable. It gets turned into something not enjoyable, as a whole at least... Clips of segments, some betting taken out of context slightly, I DO find humorous.
"Beets. Bears. Battlestar Galactica." deserves a chortle, albeit requires some insight into the characters to appreciate (often enough, the TV being on in the background would be on a channel that reruns aired on; thus, I picked up some details heh)
Same goes for Seinfeld. I can't stand the show and only enjoy Kramer's antics!
**locks himself in a safe-room to ride out the downvotes**
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ย @hokiturmixย You bring up a good point, about fighting the entire county.
Which even Ukraine has, itself, leveraged to great effect! So many civilians who are unable to fight, but WANT to fight, have been allowed to defend their county through Ukraine's brilliant phone app(s).
They already had utilized app(s) to unify many of the country's services, which allowed them to piggyback off of that framework โ to "weaponize" it in essence โ by allowing civilians to send alerts about incoming airborne threats. If drones or missiles were spotted, people could mark the location and direction of them, which prompted AA batteries to prepare themselves... Absolutely genius, if you ask me!
(I wouldn't doubt they've done more since then, and probably provide civilians the ability to deliver other intelligence, like troop movements... but that's purely speculation on my part)
Point being, everyone wants to help defend their country, and Ukraine is providing their people with even more non-combative forms of contribution! ๐ค
They're pioneering modern warfare, as far as I'm concerned. โบ๏ธ
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY President Zelenskyy ๐๐
That out of the way: Let's be totally clear... It is NOT POSSIBLE to "compromise" with terrorists. Doesn't matter if it's only 1, or 12, or an entire county being run by many.
They only want what they want, and will not accept anything else. It's not a hostage situation, where we can give Putin something and cause him to retreat from ALL of sovereign Ukraine โ the borders agreed were rightfully Ukraine's, as per the Budapest Memorandum that Russia is a signator of...
THE REALITY IS... Compromising, negotiating, or god forbid even surrendering, ARE UNACCEPTABLE AND SHOULD NOT BE SPOKEN OF AS PURSUABLE OPTIONS!!
Period.
The ONLY thing that does, is it continues to make Putin think he can do whatever the f...duck he wants and get away with it. (losing 1/4 million troops, or 5 million, impacts him zero if he remains in power.)
That's what GOT US HERE in the first place!
He does something unspeakable.... He gets away with it.
.... Political Opponents, Industry Oligarchs, Some-Dude-He-Dislikes is killed (see: murdered) at his request? He gets away with it! <+3 to Ego per kill>
.... Rig an election to have your guy win, who then cedes power to Putin, just to circumvent consecutive term laws? He gets away with it! <+10 to Ego>
.... Start an insurrection, overthrow a government, invade a country, install people loyal to him in other country's positions of power? He gets away with it, time and time again!! <Logrithmic boost to Ego per success; starting boost of 10%>
Yea, his head is so big now and his appetite for conquest grown so insatiable, means there is no compromising. Not by any reasonable standard at least.
"Sure, I'll stop this war. In exchange, I want all of
Ukraine, Alaska, Yukon, Nunavut, hmmm Greenland
Scotland, plus the top halves of Norway, Sweden and
Finland.
You know what...
Throw in Poland as well! ๐"
Yea... We created this monster by letting his shit slide all along.
It's time to speak his language, which means the only way this ends is with a LITERAL, not figurative, boot on his throat and gun to his head.
Because short of that, even if one of his own manages to take his place (by force), the same crap will happen.
They know how complacent we all are ๐
At least Ukraine was, and is, willing to fight for all of us...
God-speed to all you fine folk, and to all those in their Foreign Legion! O7
Sสแดแด แด Uแดสแดษชษดษช, Hแดสแดสแดแด Sสแดแด แด! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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White Phosphorous.
It's use as a weapon is very old, and in actuality, it's use as an "incendiary weapon" (artillery shell, bomb, or rocket, etc) โNOT a "chemical weapon"โ has been basically banned for use. Mostly because of how hard it is to extinguish, as it just keeps burning, and so it's considered inhumane.
The US doesn't fully adhere to that ban, but ONLY because we still use it in certain bullet tracers. It's ability to still set stuff on fire is not the official intention for continuing to use it, but it's nowhere near as bad as what Russia has used in Ukraine. ๐
Is been used a few times already. One video I had seen was it raining down on Azovstal Steel factory in Mariupol. Another was it being launched out of the rocket artillery vehicle, or across a field and wooded area (probably with the intention of setting the farmer's crops on fire).
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ย @mromuttย Let's not forget the music, either! Being able to put the game disc into a CD player to listen to it. (which most games required the game disc to be in, for that reason)
Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) did the sound and music for Quake 1, and holy cow is the music cinematic... It's no wonder he became a great movie score composer (won two Oscars; I'm slightly biased as a NIN fan lol)
Quake 2 and 3 had great music as well, but in an actual music sense (same musician for these; Sonic Mayhem). I listened to both a LOT in my vehicle as a teen. Hell, I still listen to Quake 3's from time to time, and it's always been on my phones โบ๏ธ
Unreal Tournament I believe also had great music from what I've been told. And I think Unreal, and/or Unreal 2, as well as the later Tournaments did, also? Unfortunately I wasn't much of an Unreal player, so I don't have first hand knowledge.
Although games occasionally do to have good music, but it's less of a focus. Except for โand to come full circle โ Fallout 3/NV/4/76, which had THEE BEST selection! Granted, they are real music from the Golden Age, but still... ๐๐
It's a shame that most digital copies of those 90s games don't include the music (Quake 3 is an exception since its music was contained in the data)... Though I think I read that GOG (Good Old Games) started to on some of the 90s game, which is great if so!
Also yes, manuals were great then as well, even containing additional game lore and artwork. I remember Mech Warrior 2's was thhhhick! (albeit it's size was only like 5in x 8in)
Man I miss the 90s...๐ฎโ๐จ๐๐
[/rambling fanboy] lol
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I still have my dad's SKS. I was only like, 10 I think (early 90s), when he got an interest in them. He went threw a number over the years, as he'd get one, play with it, sell/trade it worth buddies, then for some reason want another, so back to Sportsman's Guide lol
A later in life discussion with him about their prices, early on he could get them for $80, but I think those were the inferior surplus from various countries. I might be wrong, but I swear that the Chinese surplus were in the "crap" category...? The one he kept is a...
*checks... researches all the damn stampings... other traits*
Well I'm kinda stumped lmao
Doesn't appear to be Chinese. It's clearly a 55 or 56, but, has a refurbished BUT solid birch stock, not laminated. Yet, it seems that's the only refurbished part, as everything else has no signs, being still in original blued finish, no painting, no X'd out serials, and all numbers matching. Only unmatched part is the rear top return spring cover (where the makers stamp should be), which while blued, has zero stampings outside or inside lol *shrug* (I have an aftermarket Norinco one on it now, for a rifle scope)
Either way, it's accurate and in ๐ perfect condition.
A great hunting rifle that people don't give enough credit to ๐ (even though I use the Mosin 90/43 Sniper [authenticโฅ๏ธ] for deer, cuz the rounds in the SKS magazine rattle while walking)
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Ukrainian War: A Brutally Honest Report - Russian tactics are nothing more than "Be Hit & Run Away".
๐
Seriously though... One has little room to knock another's tactics, if they're being decimated by said tactics!
As a westerner, Russia's PR during this entire war โand by that, I mean "Propaganda Regime"โ has been so damn cringy, it blows me away that anyone can actually believe it completely. (then again, a good portion of my own countrymen and women bought into some absurd politics, and tried to turn us into Russia... so ๐คทโโ๏ธ)
They'll run out of steam soon enough... Both in terms of their war effort, and all the hot air they keep putting out. ๐
RUSKIES:ย ย ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ ะ ะพััะธะธ ััะปะฐ. ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ ะณะตัะพัะผ ะฃะบัะฐะธะฝั! [The glory of Russia is gone. Glory to the heroes of Ukraine!] ๐ค๐ท๐บ๐ฅ
BELAWANNABES:ย ย ะกะปะฐะฒa ะฝะตะปัะณะฐ ะฝั ัะบัะฐััั, ะฝั ัะทััั! [Glory cannot be stolen, nor taken!] ๐ซ ๐ง๐พ๐๏ธ
BROTHERS:ย ย ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ ะฃะบัะฐัะฝั, ะะตัะพัะผ ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ! [Glory to Ukraine, Glory to the Heroes!] โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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I can't wait for Fuhrer-Tsar Voldemort Puddin to be removed from power... However, I very very much hope it is not through death! He needs to be alive, and kept in as uncomfortable of a cell as UN Human Rights permit. Not in Siberia, either, but in a sweltering hot climate with high humidity! Because cold, body parts eventually shut down and are numb. Hot and humid? THAT'S pure misery in my opinion! Always hot and soaking wet from sweat, which then drains your energy... ๐
At least when it's cold you can move around to generate heat, but in hot humid climate, sitting still doesn't cool you off... lol
But do give him a window, so that he can see the freedom he is unable to have. ๐
๐PUTINA
(yes, I know I feminized his name, it was intentional lol)
Stay strong. Stay united. Stay alive. STAY UKRAINIAN!
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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It's kinda funny (in a sad and scary way) that Trump has sewn the same mess that Putin has...
PUTIN: Has generated enough fear in everyone under him that their lies are systemic to how he operates and is now operating on misinformation. No one wants to oppose him out of fear... of being killed.
TRUMP: Has caused so many small problems and spoken so many lies (if something Trump says is false/incorrect but he's conveying it as the opposite, that's technically lying), which have culminated in huge issues (understatement). It has reached a point that everyone around him and voting for him believes whatever he says, and is willing to do whatever he says, assuming that they'll become successful because he will be successful _(even though he's more than willing to turn on them in an instant [ie Pence, for not "stopping the steal"]). And knowing that he'll literally throw a temper tantrum of he isn't told what he wants to hear and or do what he wants to do, everyone just gives him what he wants, feeding the problem further. As a result, no one wants to oppose him out of fear... of being left out.
The case with Putin is at least legitimized by not wanting to lose your life, or tossed in a cell for the rest of your life on the grounds of "because I say so", either way a case of your life as you know it coming to an end.
The case with Trump is.... just flat out pathetic, despicable, and utterly sad, because 99% of the people who are 'along for the ride' are not going to get one damn thing for their loyalty........ except maybe their life as they know it ending because they're now locked up on charges of sedition or insurrection.
Thus concludes another hot minute, with the Duke of Ramble
Stay safe everyone, and please remember to get your local Republicans spayed or neutered! โค๏ธ
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โโย @lyfandethย The landings being offshore has NOTHING to do with the landings being "too dangerous", but everything to do with how much fuel they have left! To keep enough fuel to return to launch site would require them to loft lighter payloads, which would take away customers and therefore foolish.
With that being said... The Falcon Heavy side boosters BOTH return to launch site, because they have the fuel to do so. And that's why we get the awesome footage of two boosters landing side by side, within seconds of each other!
(caveat: unless a mission requires every, last ounce of DeltaV, in which case they get expended; the core booster is typically [always?] expended for this reason)
edit: As a further followup, Blue Origin's landing ship is, just that, a large ship, with a crew. For the first few landings in sure they might have all hands be offloaded, or maybe just a skeleton crew for 'station keeping' (to borrow satellite terminology). Although I think BO has ditched that ship plan... At least I seem to recall some mention of that.
However, SpaceX is all about autonomous machines though, which is presumably why they have never made the switch from the unmanned barges, given they do so have manned support vessels nearby during landings.
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ย @Alpha99333ย I don't disagree that it's stupid to do this voluntarily when a camera and ballistic dummy are just as good, but... I'm pretty sure that's the whole point of signing a waiver, no?
At the end of the day, if smart and/or sane people want to do stupid things which might render them unalive... well, they have my blessing. ๐
And yet, it's really no different than what an astronaut does. They've done the science, then they ran simulations, then built a test article and run it through its paces, then sent it skyward to collect even more data, only to build a completely new one* to strap human beings to โ it's a calculated risk that science deems should be safe, but it's still a risk.
[* prior to SpaceX pioneering reusable Stage 1 rockets, which everyone else still does it the old way (at least for now), expending everything but the capsule every launch, and thereby having to build everything brand new for the next time]
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ย @Vlad_-_-_ย When I first started getting a glimpse of their dry, sarcastic humor, I knew right then and there that I had found 'my people' ๐คฃ Which on that note... If any Ukrainians are reading this: Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota are three states in the US where you'd have no trouble fitting in! ๐ I can say that, as a Minnesotan.
We have the exact same sense of humor and so I really appreciate ALL the jabs they take at Russia, as well as the fact that they keep it up even during times like this! ๐๐ค๐ [note: by no means am I saying this to imply I'm correct; you could very well be spot on.]
I got a kick out of the husband of the wife being interviewed on Radio Free Europe channel. She had been explaining how far-East Russians were perplexed at the comforts of living that the Ukrainians had (indoor plumbing, hot water, natural gas, etc). She had said that he had "no idea about the" specific technology that provided their hot water+room heating....
Right then, her husband who was walking through the debris of what used to be their damn home chimes in:
"Yea, and now WE have no idea where our couch is.... or my welder..."
Subtly implying, not that they'd been destroyed by the artillery, but had been stolen by Russian soldiers. ๐คฃ
Makes me wish my welder wasn't old and would be worth the cost of sending to him... I'll just keep my fingers crossed that the Fates are looking over us, and that they make sure the donation I made ends up going to him, so that he can then buy a new welder! ๐๐
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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It makes me want to go finish my Fallout 3/4/76 inspired mashup "Alien Blaster"...
I found an old 60s (50s? ๐ค) corded drill that is LITERALLY Ray Gun in design. Even has a curved "rocket fin" looking protrusion at the back that nestles in the crook of your thumb and index...
Then the vents at the back were all individual holes to draw in the air. At the front it had two vertical slits, to exhaust the air. All aluminum, even the trigger. Smooth corners all over.
I had found an all brass garden sprayer (twist style) of similar vintage, as it was my grandpa's, that was going to be the barrel.
I bought some sort of vacuum tube, I think it might've been for a high power radio transmitter. It stepped down with two separate glass compartments. That was going to be between the drill body and the sprayer nozzle.
Then, for the "power cells" (ammo), I bought these things called Decade Counters, "Dekatrons". They're vacuum tubes, and they were used to count up to 10 (I think 0-9), hence decade.
They displayed the value by arcing across two contacts, which was viewed from the top, clock like. The color of the plasma inside was determine by the neon gas they were filled with, which I picked the ones I bought because it was purple ๐
BUT THEN the kicker: there's a 9V battery powered circuit a guy made called a Dekatron Spinner, which generated the hundreds of volts needed to power the Dekatron. But also, as the name implies, would cause the counter to step around and look like it's "spinning".
So my ammo cells would be animated thanks to this compact circuit!
Each trigger pull then would just activate a simple camera flash, which would reside in the front compartment (the gearbox of the drill) and emit light out the vent slits.
As an added bonus, the capacitor recharging whine would give it a bit of extra character. ๐
Alright, sorry about that... I didn't initially intend this to be so long, but I got carried away. haha
Now you know why I call myself the DUKE of RAMBLE! ๐๐ฅด
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Is that Rohrbacher guy, the same one who was Trump's presidential campaign leader (in 2016)?
If so, he apparently had previously worked for Putin, in a very similar capacity.
Everything starts making alot more sense when it's all put into ("putin to"... *slaps knee*) perspective. Particularly given all the ludicrous crap (see: lies) Russia has been spewing these last 4.5 months regarding Ukraine...
"Democrats drink the blood of babies" (or was it 'eat babies'?)
"I'm going to drain the swamp that is DC, to remove the corruption"
"Were conducting a special military operation against Ukrainian Nazis"
"The democratic West is censoring their people, closing news outlets, and 'arbitrarily' treating journalists" (90% verbatim; I have no clue what Putin meant when he said "arbitrary treatment of journalists", unless it was a translation error of 'mistreatment'...)
Because with the exception of the part about babies, everything Trump said and ran on, had been the complete opposite, which just so happens to be the exact same situation with what Russia/Putin have been saying.
Eliminate DC's corruption/removing corrupt government officials = creating corruption/installing corrupt government officials (or firing them when they didn't play bail)
Stopping Nazis and nazi-like practices = acting like Nazis and committing genocide against a particular people
The democratic West are doing X, Y, Z = the exact things taking place in Russia right now.
I'm both blown away and sickened by the fact that people actually BELIVE that garbage they're being told... ๐
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ย @MarcosElMalo2ย I doubt Ukraine is using any munitions that contain shrapnel that can't be medically detected, because those sorts of weapons are considered unlawful ("banned", if you rather) for use against other nations. I say this, because it would severely hamper Ukraine's "War Crimes" trials' efforts towards Russia, if they were also committing them. Zelenskey is clearly a really smart guy and being that they wanted in NATO years ago but were declined, I anticipate he'll play this "By the Book", to ensure they're accepted after the dust settles.
That being said, there IS a caveat to all of this "banned weapons" in treaties...
Which is, has Russia has already used this type of weapon against Ukraine? In which case, if they have then Ukraine is permitted to utilize them as well (if they want) and cannot be punished for it. _['punished' being a bit of a hollow term unfortunately, as it requires your country to recognize the ICC"s authority, which Ukraine does, but US, Russia, China and various other smaller nations do NOT sooo... They can't be punished **sigh**]
That said, if playing by the rules... Russia has thereby unlocked the following weapons for Ukraine to also utilize at their own discretion:
- White Phosphorus Incendiary weapons
- Chemical weapons [gasses; eg Mustard Gas]
- Indiscriminate (Dumb-fire) Cluster Bombs [ie bomblettes without their own targeting capabilities; targeting any area that may still have civilians present]
- Flachettes (micro-darts; basically a fin-stabilized carpenter's nail a little short than your pinky finger) I don't know if this is it's own banned item, or if it's lumped in with Cluster Munitions, so I made it a subset just in case.
Though I'm certain I've missed at least one other, maybe more...
Thankfully (?I guess?) there's no Unlockable Achievement in war for the other war crimes like Pillaging Civilian Property, Razing Civilian Structures, Murdering Civilians, Torturing or Rape (the last two I believe are "full stop", not even of enemy soldiers, but I could be wrong...)
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Stay strong. Stay united. Stay alive. STAY UKRAINIAN!
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
[edit: stupid typo]
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Da, in Mother Russia, bicycle rides you!
So, clearly, they were shooting at ONLY the bike, undoubtedly trying to save that poor Ukrainian from being that evil bicycle's "play thing"... *shudders*
Unfortunately, the man became collateral damage, but they at least managed to rid the world of another masochistic bicycle... ๐
(excuse my joking... tis just my coping mechanism, too crack a sarcastic grin instead of a frown)
But seriously... I'm pretty sure that the last we saw, the man had gotten OFF the bike and was walking it. So what sort of threat did that idiot gunner think he was protecting the convoy from?
Or, and unfortunately, this feels way more plausible... ๐ข They probably gunned him down to prevent him from relaying their position. Looked like they shot once and may have missed, at which point he probably got ON the bike and was making a retreat, but down that same road, away from the Russians... Hence the followup shots (plural) *sigh*
In other words... war crime ๐ญ
RIP innocent cyclist. May damming evidence of your loss help in the conviction of these soldiers and Putin! ๐ปโค๏ธ
Slava Ukraine โ๐บ๐ฆ
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ย @ni9274ย Not all of us think every Russian, be they a soldier or a citizen, are evil. ๐
Thankfully, this is plainly evident thanks to intercepted phone calls of soldiers who don't agree with the war and are pissed at Putin... Also evident by the things that can't be faked, such as all those who initially left Russia after they invaded, and those who protested, and have continued to protest.
(I'd like to include the current exodus, but that could be just to avoid the draft, and may not be because they actually like Ukrainians or disagree with the war... most probably are leaving now because they don't want to be sent to their death.)
But yea, you're not totally wrong... Surrendering could be, and probably is, kind of tough.
The good news is, almost all the Russian soldiers lack nightvision gear. That means dissenters can much more easily escape during the night, as none of their comrades would be able to detect them leaving. On top of that, just about (or every) soldier has a cellphone, therefore, a compass and probably satellite mapping. So all they'll have to do is plug in the location the Ukraine Surrender Hotline person tells them to go. ๐๐ค
This war also seems to be, rather curiously, primarily doing day campaigns only, at least on Russia's side. (I'm not saying they don't conduct SOME night missions, but seemingly all the missile strikes, bombings, and the like, occur during daylight)
Traversing the terrain at night might be harder, but, sounds like it'll at least be a safer time to travel for those wanting to surrender... Just be sure to have something handy that's white, so Ukrainians know not to shoot ya... ๐๐ณ๏ธ
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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Sorry for making a third comment, but it is just such an amazing video...
I feel like you're filming two stars colliding!
I really really REALLY hope that you guys can come up with a mounting system that enables the charges to be precisely mounted, allowing for a true head-on collision of the "cores"! ALSO, maybe Phantom will loan you their absolute fastest camera, to capture it in color! (as I assume they have some ludicrously, prohibitively expensive cameras)
The only thought I have as to facilitating a true head-on collision, would be to:
- Lay each panel on top of each other to drill center holes (for alignment), with two additional holes marking where the angle iron edges will touch.
- Then, mount those metal panels in a welding jig, and weld 4 small pipes to each corner. This will ensure they're not only very rigid, but more importantly, very "true" to each other.
- Finally, weld the angle iron (or, do it before, either way... lol)
That should be the goal for next Shape Charge video you do. ๐ค๐๐ค๐โฅ๏ธ
This was a great video, and the perfect Fireworks Show to end 2023 on.
Thanks guys! ๐ซก
Here's to 2024 ๐ป
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Side Question: Is it YouTube (app, video, content creator, etc) at fault, or something intentionally done by you (The Enforcer) that caused the video to be so small?
With my phone on portrait, it filled the allotted content box size just fine; however, rotating to landscape and the video frame basically remained the same size, with a huge amount of black borders on all sides... (or also wouldn't respond to a double tap to 'zoom' in to fill the screen; hence my thought it might be YT's fault somehow)
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That being said, why no mention of the ""T-90"" variants? (quotes because, as you've pointed out, it's still just a T-72, so the new model number is a bit of a misnomer)
As far as I know, there's been at least a handful of T-90s destroyed by Ukraine, which frankly I find surprising that Russia hasn't rolled those out en masse...
Are they wanting to hold them back as a "just in case", in order to protect the motherland should Russia end up being invaded?
Or are those actually more of an export-only model, kinda like the Su-57?
As always, thanks for your reporting!! ๐โค๏ธ
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ย @operator9858ย I can't disagree about Ukraine's efforts in that sense, and as much as I'd like to say "But I've never seen anyone say they didn't leave because Ukraine didn't send help to evac me", I can also admit that it'd be HIGHLY unlikely to ever be aired either way. [note: I know that Ukraine HAS done quite a bit with bussing civilians out, but they've allowed too many to remain willingly in my opinion.]
However, I can't agree on Russia playing the long game... I also don't know if Russia is even helping to evac as you've said, since Putin there said he's recommending everyone should leave. If it were a military operation to evac, he'd have buttered it up in that way: "I've sent in our troops in order to assist in all the citizens getting our safely"... except, all the reports seem to indicate that Kherson is a ghost town (militarily, as least). Getting back to the long-game-claim though... It will never matter what he does from today forward. There's simply no forgiving what has gone on SO FAR, and even if he did everything by. the. book. from here on out, it won't be enough.
For that matter, even with Ukraine not making sure people are evacuated (predominantly the reluctant individuals), the war crimes still rest SOLELY on Russia....
The rape? That's not Ukraine's fault, nor the victim's.
The looting? That's not Ukraine's fault, Putin literally authorized it and has transportation logistics in place to have it shipped back to the soldiers home (albeit, only after those in charge of the efforts are allowed to take their pick of the goods [I'm not even joking!]).
The murders? (non-combatants) That's the only thing that Ukraine can slightly take some blame on, but still, Russians pulled those triggers.
The flechettes/white phosphorus rockets and bombs/cluster bombs/non-self-disposing landmines? Russia, Russia, Russia, and Russia are solely to blame for their use.
The tortures/inhumane prison conditions/lack of food (military and non-combatants) All Russia again.
Not supplying food/water to their OWN soldiers? Yea, Russia again.
I could go on, too, but why bother when committing multiple counts if just HALF of that list is enough to qualify Russia for "Unforgivable" status...
(to clarify, "Russia" as in the military and government, not its citizens... no matter how brainwashed some of them may be, into support this war)
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It really is an interesting notion, as I've come to realize...
Because now you can have one epic plane, except... it's spread across two airframes. Meaning the piloted plane can remain super maneuverable or fast, as it isn't burdened with X, Y, or Z since that's been moved over to the wingman drone!
In other words, you can have an "E/A-18 Growler" capable combo, but now each single pilot also remains just as lethal as an F/A-18! That's in addition to whatever pieces of ordinance the wingman drone is packing... (I use those two purely as an example, due to the differences between them.)
Then there's also the other benefits mentioned in the video, like the ability to act as a "shield" for the piloted plane, or the fact it will be cheaper since it won't need to be equipped with all the bells and whistles a conventional combat aircraft needs...
Basically, it's sort of like having a "Tactical Donkey" / "Combat Mule" ๐ Which I imagine, during the early endangerments where these are first deployed, it's probably going to be a matter of "ignore the drone, lock onto the piloted aircraft!!"... That is, until enemies start to realize that the wingman is almost an equal threat, and they shouldn't discriminate, just lock whichever and fire! ๐
And if the US/allies maintain a huge technological advantage in this sector, future conflicts are going to be reeeal depressing for the instigating foes! ๐
[edit: fixed my embarrassing error, a typo, and made a small adjustment to the second sentence to make it comes across slightly less idiotic... lol]
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I had started calling Putin and the Russian government "murderers" on account of their modern, accurate weapons somehow always landing on civilian populated targets. It's at such an outstanding degree that I'd genuinely love to see a breakdown of the missiles/bombs that Russia claimed were fired at "military targets" and, at the very least, show how many actually hit a military target, how many hit a civilian occupied target, and how many hit hit nothing. Though ideally, broken down further, for whether it was a sea, air, or land launched missile; as well as how many missed a possible military target but ended up hitting civilian occupied target; and then those that hit civilian targets, how many instances were there civilians inside vs soldiers...
But I digress, my point was that their actions are not adhering to the conventional way of waging war, where targets are military and civilian casualties are only by accident. Which is clear that they are INTENTIONALLY hitting targets they know have civilians.
Except, I see that "murderers" was a poor choice of term to describe them, and that Terrorist(s) genuinely is more fitting based on actions!
They've become a terrorist-state, whose targets are "anyone we feel like terrorizing this year"... Which is to say, if we don't stop them now, this sort of shit is going to continue to happen every couple years, just as it has been. Doing what we have been all these years, which is "not nearly enough", it's only done one thing: show Putin he can get away with it.
G7 nations: no matter how you feel about it, the fact remains - YOU ALL NEED TO SEND YOUR TROOPS TO UKRAINE!
They don't have to fight on Russian soil, but they need to drive Russians out of Ukraine... and that includes Crimea!
Stay strong. Stay united. Stay alive. STAY UKRAINIAN!
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
๐ - ๐ท๐บ = โฎ๏ธ
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hahaha I feel so stupid... โบ๏ธ
I have the same sense of humor as the Ukrainians -- dry and sarcastic -- and yet I still went into this video with a ๐คจ perplexed look on my face.
Initially, I thought the title was implying Ukrainians were sending back the faulty, unexploded bombs, rockets, and missiles Russia has launched. Though I couldn't figure out what Ukraine could even want back in that exchange... So I figured maybe they were sending them back purely as sarcasm, a "middle finger to Russia" you could say.
THEN I thought maybe the exchange was for unused ordinance, or perhaps heavy weapons, that had been captured by each side... but I couldn't see Russia agreeing to do that...
Want until half way through the video, when it clicked... ๐ก!
_"Oo.. OOOH, they mean captured equipment and
using it to rain down ordinance on the Russians! ๐คฆโโ๏ธ"
Yep, not one of my finer moments! ๐คฃ๐ฅด
Well played, UATV. Well played. ๐
Stay strong. Stay united. Stay alive. STAY UKRAINIAN!
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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ย @major__kongย I tried to reply but the automoderation system removed my comment, presumably because I mentioned cellular service provider names...
In the US they run on 900MHz, so their signal penetration isn't any better than cellphones. Actually worse, depending on the network, since Band 13 is 740-780MHz, and Band n71 is 660-690MHz. Granted, those are now LTE bands, but I suspect they can still be piggybacked on, given 3G still is using Band 4 (I think) which is the same frequency range as 13.
I think the other "paging system" that Gemini provided results for, was the in-building wireless system, similar to what restaurants use for letting patrons know a table is available.
[edit: typo... studied -> suspect (glad it didn't get removed this time!)]
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โย @kruleworldย I understand your sentiment but... It's a pride thing, and rightfully so. Even video games have credits too, in case you weren't aware. They roll after you've beaten it.
Plus, today, no one wants to believe anyone anymore... No one's word is good enough.
"Hey I did this-and-that on such and such movie!"
"Buuullllshiiiiit.... Prove it..."
Can't do that with the credits detailing everyone involved.
If you really want to be annoyed with anyone, then let it be Marvel, for adding mid- and post-credits scenes. Because before that, no one forced you to ever sit through the credits.
So even in this very small niche of movies (by Marvel), your complaint is just so empty. If it really is such a "who cares?" situation, why do you garner such animosity towards the credits?? lol ๐
(For the record, I have no skin in this game, maybe only being included in the credits of a couple games, as they often will include closed-beta tester's names... I've never actually bothered or cared enough to look! heh)
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Crazy, but also I suppose not surprising, that a childhood movie I watched countless times growing up, also had its special effects done by ILM: Explorers (1985)
I had an itch to watch it again, having not seen it in at least 30 years or more, and it was every bit as I remember it... ๐ฅน
Also, now being an adult, familiar with actors, I'm surprised at how many now-well known names were in it! Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, James Cromwell, Taliesin Jaffe (who in not familiar with, but HAVE heard of the YT show "Critical Roll"), but... the biggest surprise was that the zany alien (named Wak) was played by Robert Picardo! ๐คฏ Actually, he had THREE roles in this movie: Wak, Wak's father, and a character called "Starkiller" from the sci-fi movie shown at the drive-in theater... ๐
(additional coincidence: I've been re-watching Stargate: Atlantis, which Picardo is also in)
Thus proving true the screen text at the beginning of these videos, saying how pretty much every movie in the 80s and 90s came through 32Ten!
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Yep, there are a bunch that have the "SAME kind of VERY OBVIOUS video title formatting" that I recently clicked on one, then scrolled through the relateds list to select "Don't Recommend This Channel" on each one.
What REALLY pissed me off was the fact that a video had just gone up about Musk speaking at a conference, uploaded a week or so ago. Which I think to myself "Oh it's that one where the scientists there were actually quite excited for the possibilities SS brings"... Nope, it was something from like, 2016, where Elon is still referring to it by the "internal name" of "BFR"...
Which, why that matters isn't that it wasted my time, but that I live in a ""rural"" area with only 4G internet access, so my data is precious to me (and expensive, and slow as hell [4mbit]). [/mini-rant]
TL;DR - I'm so glad we can block these channels on Browser YT now!
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2,400 troops?!
From what we've seen these past 8 months, that'll be more than enough to delete Russia's existence in Ukraine! ๐
I've been begging for us to go in since April. I still feel that way, even though Ukraine has shown they're more than capable of pounding Russian troops into the ground, but having our troops finally get sent in would significantly reduce the senseless destruction of targets with no military significance โ or with such a low % chance to, that opting to attack anyways, should be an instant war crime!
Kombat: "Artillery group, attack this target..."
Artillery: "But sir, recon predicts only 1% chance of enemy
troops taking refuge there!"
Kombat: "If there is so much as even one government-issue
sock inside, then it is target of high military significance!"
๐๐คช๐คฃ
RUSKIES: ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ ะ ะพััะธะธ ััะปะฐ. ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ ะณะตัะพัะผ ะฃะบัะฐะธะฝั! ๐ค๐ท๐บ๐ฅ
BROTHERS: ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ ะฃะบัะฐัะฝั, ะะตัะพัะผ ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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Yup.... And it leaves one to wonder, if Russia really DOES think they are going to win, then where exactly do they think they're going to get the money to rebuilt their newly acquired territory?? ๐คจ๐
Which leaves me thinking only one thing now.... Deep down, Putin knows he has no chance, which is why they have changed up their scorched earth campaign slightly, by shelling everything and everything, with random trajectories and coordinates, using whatever ordinance they have left... (ie, using Air-to-Air missiles for Air-to-Ground targets)
REASON: Putin is throwing a tantrum. The classic "If you won't let me play in your sandbox, then I'll stomp on all you sandcastles! ๐ถ"
He's just doing it out of spite now, and doesn't care how many of his own people are lost...
Same with yesterday's """mysterious""" attack on the PoW camp that killed 200 or more Ukrainian prisoners! A complete middle-finger gesture, absolutely nothing more than that... ๐
NATO, seriously, it's time to send in troops and remove Russia from all sovereign Ukrainian territory. Enough with this bullshit the Russians are doing... Why must we stand by while obviously intentional acts like this are allowed to continue??? ๐ฃ๐ญ๐คฌ
Stay strong. Stay united. Stay alive. STAY UKRAINIAN!
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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Not the pinnacle of... They may assemble the leading edge products of the world, but they do not possess the actual intellectual property designs of the chips used in these products.
This is evident in the fact that they do not have the capability to create their own homegrown CPUs and GPUs that can hold a candle (yet) to the likes of those designed by AMD, Intel, Apple, or nVidia.
Nor so they have the manufacturing process to create the physical chips! Hence why they're so keen on taking Taiwan, where the world leader of chip manufacturing, TSMC, resides. (you can guess what the T stands for heh)
Thankfully, if they happen to take over Taiwan, it won't spell the end of manufacturing chips for our military, as we have our own fabs in North America (US, but there's stuff in Mexico), some stuff in Europe (Denmark makes the hardware for chip fabrication plants) and I think Israel.
Thankfully, as much as IP Theft China is keen to doing, they can simply de-lid the chips and instantly know how to design their own by studying them under a microscope. ๐
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This is awful, but, I think it's time we started using punctuation, or stopped using all-caps in headlines... ๐
Genuinely, I initially thought this was a satirical thumbnail!
Nathan, chasing [a] horse, accused of sexual assault
Glanced at the channel name... Thinking _"What in thee hell do they DO in Vegas these days?!?"
Took a number of times rereading and finally seeing the video title, to understand it for what it really meant:
"Nathan Chasing Horse, accused of sexual assault"
Just sayin... ๐
That's why we use capitalization of proper words, and punctuation! ๐
The classic example being the huge difference between:
"Time to go eat grandma."
vs
"Time to go eat, grandma."
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ย @_BangDroid_ย The only flaw in what you've said is that "good, clean fun" is subjective.
If all they ever harmed were themselves, one could argue that was "good, clean fun" since no others were harmed and no damage caused. However, to the authorities it would look different, as would it to lawmakers, as such, a law would still get passed.
Here's a better example... Salmon are saltwater creatures which swim up freshwater streams to spawn before dying in that very same stream. Once they've spawned, the Sockeye turns a vibrant red (hence their nickname, "Reds"), with a forest green head, grow a hunchback and a hooked nose. There was backwater lagoon that formed on a river where they would collect and die. They've served their purpose, yet, it's still illegal to equip a treble hook and snag them to enjoy the fight.
Cruel? Arguably, yes. I'd still classify it as "good, clean fun" though...
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ย @RogerM88ย Over the years, I have seen many many SpaceX enthusiasts who have openly expressed on many occasions, that they do NOT much care for Musk. I think Shotwell is, and I may be alone in this sentiment, an even more important figure at SpaceX than Musk is!
Either way, I feel like perhaps you, too, have colored lenses on, and are perhaps acting in just as toxic a manner as some of those admittedly-toxic SpaceX fans can act...
Myself? I define myself as a "Realist SpaceX fan".
Yes, I very much root for them and want them to succeed.
Yes, I want SLS to fail, as harsh as that may sound.
However, the latter is fueled by the facts: far far too much money has been poured into it, and for what?
Development of new, innovative tech or methods? Reusablility? Some otherwise-unattainable capability?
No, no again, and "... eeehhh". It's recycled tech, where money has to be dumped into recreating things needed to make the old engines (because the industry moved on). No, because even though the main engine were technically reusable, everything (AFAIK) is scrapped every launch. And "eehh" because, others will be able to meet and exceed its lifting capability which congress claims is reason SLS is needed, but yes, in that those other capable rockets won't be able to offer the same level of "jobs program" that SLS has and will offer.
The one legacy I hope that comes from SLS, will be the lesson that Cost-Plus contacts are an incredible waste of money and should never be used again (not on this scale of project). Also, that letting congress decide how and on what NASA spends is funds, is pretty close to criminal, as it takes the experts out of the decision making loop.
Admittedly, that's just my opinion. I could very well not be correct on any of my points, but I will stand behind that what I've said is not wrong. ๐ฅด
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Congratulations on creating a paradox!
The engine needs fuel and air to run (generate RPMs)...
The injector is hooked up where it only pulses ON (opens) every time the crank (well, cam) makes a full revolution.
To increase the RPM, you need more air and fuel, on an upward trending angle... But the fuel rate can't increase until there's more RPMs... But the RPMs can't increase without more fuel... lol
But seriously, I like the idea a lot, was interesting! (even though they are just trying to recreate a really crude "Throttle Body Injection" lol)
I think where they went wrong is they should've used a DC drill motor and trigger as the "pulse generator" to keep it separate from the engine RPMs. Gas pedal is connected to the drill trigger, giving variable speeds. Of course, matching how much electric motor speed with engine RPM would be the real trick.
Right now as it is on this vid, it's running too rich at low RPM, but then starts to lean out and can't make more power. (which he confirms)
The reason you have to *go easy on the gas pedal" is because the air:fuel ratio (AFR) is way off and the engine has to catch up once there's more air... But then it leans out to much... etc etc paradox.
If they still have access to the open internet, I suggest they lookup 1950s era fuel injection and how they went about tackling the AFR with only mechanical systems... If start by adapting the fueling system from a diesel Lada ๐ค
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ย @markbirmingham6011ย es, you're right, life begins at conception, but "life" is also a B.R.O.A.D. term that encompasses even single celled organisms. So her point, which frankly is an insult to "points" given how all-over-the-place she was white trying to answer or counter... but I digress, apologies, her point that is a "human life" is a very weak argument given the scientific meaning of the term.
Which I think, as you pointed out, these folk really mean "a person" when they say "a life", and that really isn't close to being accurate. Admittedly, that's the viewpoint I was replying with, as that is the general one every pro-lifer claims. Pamela even asks her whether she thinks an IVF Doctor is a "murderer", knowing that's the common mentality. Such as the one response to my comment on another video, where she chalked abortion up to murder, saying that "abortion is murder and if I think that abortion needs to be legal, then I also must think every murderer in prison ought to be set free."
Which, no, it isn't murder, and it isn't "wrong" to allow it, because that 'human life' is literally part of the parent.
So if the person interviewed wants to speak "scientifically", the fetus -- up until it becomes "a viable human life", as Pamela even mentioned -- is equatable to a 'parasite' since it cannot survive if it's own. That's genuinely far too cold of a way to describe it for my tastes, but if she's going to be absurd by saying (and again, not sure what her point was, if she even knew) by droning on about the fetus having to "have its arms and legs removed, and then put back on" (?๐คจ?), then I'm comfortable with the parasite analogy.
But yea, it's a part of that parent, so it's really not too different than electing to have a mole removed, or a mastectomy during gender reassignment surgery. Granted, intercourse wasn't involved in those cases, but neither the more or the breasts can survive after removal. Yes, it's living tissue, with blood flowing, but it's not "a living being". Same way an unborn child isn't "alive" yet, until it takes its first breath.
So while conception IS the beginning of a life, it's just that, the start of. It is not yet alive until it has reached a point where the parent could die, yet the baby be removed and still survive.
As one final analogy: once a filmmaker has begun shooting, a movie is being made; however, it is not yet a movie until at least every scene has been filmed, otherwise just a bunch of randomness by people that been recorded up until then.
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ย @TheZachary86ย I KNOW you didn't say multiple.
You said:
"So one missile for 1 drone. Not a good trade off."
To which I replied, with my opening line, which to put it another way, is saying:
"Of course only 1 missile for 1 drone! How could it be any different?"
Then I proceeded to breakdown why it's foolish to have even reinforced your point with: "not a good trade off".
As though you were expecting for them to shoot down multiple drones with each missile!
So that's why I started out my content the way I did, because you worded YOUR comment in a way that implied that they were under-performing. When in reality, accomplishing a 1:1 is what they're designed for, so IF Ukraine used them for drones (which they wouldn't, they'd use them for large aircraft, as others pointed out), they would already go in with the expectation of hitting drones at a rate of 1 for 1; therefore, the trade of would technically be acceptable since it would have achieved their expectations. ๐
But yea, since they'll be used on larger aircraft, that will in turn free up more MANPADS for drone hunting duties, making life even harder for Russia! (particularly if they are knocking down Iranian-made kamikaze drones)
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Isn't it amazing, how much love and blessing they give towards Ukraine, but as soon as one of us shares the same exact sentiments but happens to mentions OUR beliefs (or, lack thereof)... suddenly those kind people become hostile towards us, towards people who are on the same team!
Shame on you all, not only for those aggressions -- which, news flash, that mentality and anger happens to be the exact sentiments Putin has towards Ukraine (they don't agree with his line of thinking), so that means they have to be 'dealt with' -- but also for the fact that you all think it's perfectly acceptable to inject your religion and beliefs into the comments without any regard for how anyone else feels about it.
This conflict is a wakeup call to the free world, and if the religious amongst us are so willing to turn on those who are on the same damn side... well, then I suggest you please take a hard look in the mirror, otherwise WWIII may really just be another Crusades. ๐๐
[/end rant]
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ย @dougerrohmerย Yea, but that wouldn't be the point of it, or at least, as I was figuring its implied role to be...
That this would provide the passive detection that doesn't reveal its location like active systems.
So in a time of conflict, when everything except military aircraft have been (presumably) grounded, this could and would cover the large gaps across the country. Therefore , this could track/detect certain threats, or rather, provide some amount of evidence to prevent the "blind" (randomized) or "at timed intervals" power up of systems which would give away their positions. Just like the video mentioned, it was good practice to only power up the SAM/AA's RADAR twice before they'd relocate.
Admittedly, I don't even have any education on this kind of subject, so I'm just arm-chair speculating. It's quite likely this sort of thing, given our current level of technology, wouldn't be necessary or even useful. Even back in the 50s it probably wouldn't have been since our RF Pollution was comparatively almost nonexistent, so there wouldn't be enough background noise to sufficiently monitor in the first place...
Still, I wouldn't be surprised if, thanks to dopler-shift, it could be used for targeting... (I don't know if Starlink user terminals have orbital paths stored in firmware to assist, or if they solely use their dish's 50+ micro-atennas to do the satellite tracking, but that's what's partially inspiring my confidence heh)
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Such a great video. AND uplifting, which was certainly something needed during these dark days! ๐
Loved the part where you were able to appreciate the irony in what you had said, because that shows just how wrong your principal was! Never forget what that jerk said, but not as a negative comment by some mean person... instead, keep it as a TROPHY! Every time you succeed in life, it'll be another time you've proved that person wrong! ๐
As a final thought...
If I understood correctly, the reason someone else had to hold the keyboard or tablet for you while you type, is because of the neuro motor problem?
If that's correct... I noticed you were able to hold that laptop using both hands, which gave me the idea that perhaps you could mount a tablet computer to your wrist. Then when you need to type to talk with someone, you only have to raise your left arm up in front of you to type!
Also, if you have never tried using the "Swipe" method of typing, that may be worth attempting; take getting used to, but is much faster to type. That's how I type these messages on my smartphone, using only my righthand thumb. ๐๐
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โย @robo5013ย I agree! The fact that Obi cuts off a blaster-welding arm and they SHOW the body stump on the ground, right there is proof enough that it's not a kid's movie. Nevermind the genocide of an entire culture! (or at least the planet, as the culture could arguably live in through the remaining survivors)
Even Empire after seeing all the youth being interested and where they could've toned it down a bit, still had some of that same gore with the Wampa and the following Tauntaun.
I was born in 83 and my mom recorded the trilogy when it aired on TV in the mid-late 80s (bless her, for stopping, rewinding, and waiting during each commercial break in order to remove them!)... and I still remember being grossed out at the Tauntaun scene. every. time. I watched it! ๐
And I think I watched the movies at least once a week, or if not, for sure once a month! lol
Now, that being said... it's so incredibly light on gore, and devoid of any foul language (at least in our galaxy lol), that it's more than suitable for children! But I draw the line at classifying it as a series aimed at <12 year olds.
The made-for-TV Ewok movies, on the other hand, I think are! Though I haven't seen them in decades and could be forgetting some aspects... ๐
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The sheer stupidity and/or insanity of the commanding officers of the invaders and pro-Russian militias -- and arguably their soldiers who are likely just as absent minded given they're carrying out the commands -- must be something Russia rewards for....??
I know that the tragic history around Chernobyl (Chornobyl) was hidden from Russians, so they still (...somehow...) have no idea what bad bad things can result from destabilizing/compromising a nuclear reactor's cooling systems or containment chambers....
It's the fact that they weren't taught, even in the most rudimentary sense, that nuclear plants are very safe but still very delicate... just amazes me. AT LEAST it's something they could've (and should've) mentioned during basic training!! Keep it simple, just something brief, like:
Listen up. You will be deployed into an area which utilizes nuclear reactor's at the >insert name/s here< power plant(s).
_ ARE YOU PERMITTED TO _____ ?:_
- Calmly Seize Da!
- Throw rocks Nyet!
- Shoot-at Nyet!
- Grenade Nyet!
- Shell Nyet!
- Rocket NYET!
- Missile NYET!
- Bomb Ni v koyem sluchaye!!
[ In no circumstance, ever!! ]
... Granted, we've found out they're operating with very outdated maps -- because.... modern day cartography is hard?? ... naw, more likely, because some genius oligarch siphoned away the funds earmarked for that project!
But I digress, point being, perhaps the maps they have only indicate it as a traditional 'power facility', as it hadn't been converted to nuclear?
๐ค Then again, such an endeavor, they probably would build from scratch as opposed to taking the already-much-needed generators offline in order to perform upgrades on a one by one basis.
So I dunno lol Maybe they DO know and indeed, Russia is conducting operations based off the "Modern Terrorists Playbook for Dummies!".........
Or, maybe they just think they're only shelling more farmland...? ๐คทโโ๏ธ๐คทโโ๏ธ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Stupidity? Corruption? Pure negligence?
ALL THREE match Russia's actions throughout this war, so take your pick.... You'll probably be right to some degree! ๐ฅด
Stay strong. Stay united. Stay alive. STAY UKRAINIAN!
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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Here is what this showed me... That Bobby with his team; Adam, with some of his makers; along with Gav and Dan, with their camera(s) NEED TO DO THIS ON THE REGULAR!
I'm not saying restart Mythbusters, but I am saying to restart Mythbusters! ๐๐
On, not quite that, but... basically a YT show where scenarios like this are dug up and then recreated in this safe way, to capture it with high speed cameras!
Now I'll get COMPLETELY real: that's a big ask, and infeasible on multiple fronts, I'm sure.
So... at the very least, I hope that you the can AT LEAST make this a yearly thing, where these three channels brainstorm good scenario to recreate and then get together at some point to film the tests.
โฅ๏ธ ๐ฅน โฅ๏ธ
๐
P L E A S E
EDIT: ๐ฎ I just saw the SloMoGuys comment where Tested (Adam?) replied "So what's next?"!! ๐ฆ๐ง๐ณ๐คฏ
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ย @APLANEDUDEYTย ย Hmm... Are you using "ram air" to imply force fed air into the intake (maybe not at super/turbo pressures, but above is own sucking power)... OR... Are you implying it in the sense of a Ram Jet engine?
Because as in-love with the SR-71/Y-12/"Ox Cart" and those hybrid engines... I don't think even a supply of compressed air would be able to achieve that here lol
So I'm hoping you just mean the former! ๐ฅด
Banking on that... Well actually, first of, my thought of the collab is that Integza provides this engine, and ProjectAir did the aerodynamic related stuff, so the airframe I didn't think would matter too much.
However, now that I say it, allowing Integza to have a crude plane to refine the engine probably would be a good idea. Given the distance (I assume) between them, and shipping time of upgraded components, that would make it a better idea.
Anyways, as I was going to say after banking on it [ram air being just higher than intake pressure] - I think Integza needs to find some models of Velocity Stacks to print out and attach. That'll first help accelerate intake air even when stationary. I'm sure it'd sufficiently double as a ram air intake, ie the fan turbine cowling on a airliner's turbo fan.
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ย @assertivekarma1909ย Sorry, you're absolutely right. My chuckle at the end, I now see how it can be confusing! No, I was INDEED sincere and complimenting you.
Just to explain my thought process: I found the humor in that there's an unfortunate lack in outside-the-box thinking in the government for things like you suggested, for ways to offer preventative measures, or "trust-wall" security implementations (to borrow from the term "pay-wall") which after trust is established then additional functionality is unlocked; be it a keycard inserted, firmware update, etc. (although if firmware method is used, it'd be best to have said features COMPLETELY ABSENT from the locked-down shipped firmware, as to prevent unlocking the features through dumping and modifying [hacking] them, and re-flashing)
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I wouldn't be surprised if either:
A) there's a standing order to "fuck with any unarmed aircraft however you like", because making war 'fun' will boost morale
B) there's a bounty program for downing enemy aircraft, so that the wreckage can be recovered and studied, similar to how there's one in place for "Western Tanks/MGC" (or at least, for their destruction)
My initial, hit reaction was that this was a commanded action by the higher-ups.
Then I suspected that maybe, given how things on their army side of things are going, perhaps it was drunk pilots. Although I've scuttled that thinking, at least in terms of being completely plastered.
Now? I just don't know...
I'm kind of thinking "All Of The Above"...
Had a shot of two already before being scrambled + Commander telling them to try and knock it down w/o weapons (plausible deniability) + ineptitude/incompetence. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
All I know is, Russia has no honor, nor glory, worth fighting for.
Sสแดแด แด Uแดสแดษชษดษช, Hแดสแดสแดแด Sสแดแด แด! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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ย @paulfredriksteinerย The funny thing is, no matter what the final result is... Russia will be the only true loser!
The world has turned their back on Russia. The only countries that want anything to do with you anymore is China and India.... maybe North Korea, just because "Hello new friend! We are social pariah, too!" ๐
But seriously, even then, China doesn't actually give a shit about Russia, the only thing they are interested in is to make money off of them! I'm genuinely not sure if China would bother to ally with Russia if WWIII did start...
India? Not sure they care much about Russia either, as their involvement with Russia is mainly for their military exports! (tanks, jets, etc)
Politically, Russia is the laughing stock of the world. They flexed as being this mighty unstoppable force that was going to roll into Ukraine and have the keys handed over.... Well, how'd that work out for you?
Then it was 3 months to take Ukraine..... Mmmm nope
The only, and I genuinely mean only reason Russia has managed to gain the ground they have is due to numbers, and that's it.
Superior fighters? NOPE! With western support, Ukrainian soldiers are proving to be far more capable! Russia just has more of them to throw to the slaughter.
Superior weapons? NOPE! With western support, Russia is currently at a disadvantage in terms of who has the better assets. Russia just has more of them to deploy.
Superior tactics? FUCK NO! Russia's deployment has been a shitshow from day 1. They've somehow managed to achieve a military milestones of most high-ranking officers killed on the front lines! Not to mention... things have been going so horrible that Fuhrer-Tsar Voldemort Puddin has also fired who knows how many and felt it necessary to make himself the commander of this war machine...
Last but not least.... You trolls...
You all have the worst (see: dumbest, lamest) comments...
I sincerely hope it's because you don't REALLY believe in this war, and so you feign support by making the weakest possible effort you can, not in how your rhetoric actually impacts opinion, but simply in a hope it's enough to convince your Russian Troll Farm Overlords so you get paid...
And let's be clear... we all hate Russia right now, but we DO NOT HATE RUSSIANS! Her people are not to blame, even the ones that are brainwashed into support. It's your government we despise and your leader. This is Putin's war, and he's only waging it because he's bored of life and wants some excitement.... how sad and disgusting is that?
Rise up against Putin - Viva la Russoluciรณn! โ๐ท๐บ
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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As a former grease monkey, I facepalmed SO HARD when the second SLS launch was scrubbed due to the 8in hydrogen filling hose's seal blowing out... WHICH THEY ALREADY SUSPECTED TO BE DAMAGED DURING THE FIRST SCRUB!! ๐
Seriously... Unless they're wanting SLS to result in a Wickwick Event so that they can move on (something a lot of us are hoping for, and many secretly hoping for), that was an EXTREMELY half-assed and armature call to make, to not have that seal replaced after the first scrub! Any industry, where a bad seal is found, as long as the repair doesn't mean shutting down a huge assembly line which would mean a massive amount of money lost to shut it down... that sort of thing would be fixed! After all, they'd already mentioned that they keep those parts on hand.
(and yes, I know it's not as simple as replacing the o-ring on a kitchen sink [although, I'd argue that can be a real PITA lol] but we're talking about a billions of dollars in hardware)
I dunno, maybe I'm overreacting, on account of SLS already being a huge embarrassment... It just feels like Armature Hour when that thing keeps failing, every time it tries to take a step forward... ๐ซ
Just take it behind the barn and leave it with me, I'll put it out of its misery! ๐
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ย @bolbyballingerย It's massive and 'slow'. (Jetstream currents are still around 100mph in places)
I'd be all colors of surprised if conventional radar couldn't detect it.
Smoke trails are not being produced by many things, so that's a bad example to have used.
But you're sharing my point about its ability to carry something potentially catastrophic.
It doesn't even have to be explosive, to be a hazard. An exposed radioactive source would be enough to be a problem. That was a "selling point" of old US designs for a nuclear powered (SCRAMjet-like) cruise missiles, which irradiated the air and rained down radiation wherever it flew. (which is also Putin's flex over their decision to have actually built one, in addition to the time it can stay in the air)
All the elements of a dirty-bomb, minus the telltale explosion.
But yes, don't worry everyone, I appreciate how tinfoil hat that all sounds. We're not saying that's China's goal.
However, the point is, leaving it to float across your entire country could be disastrous if it had such nefarious intent.
(I also know we have the means to detect radiological threats that are spewing radiation, so obviously that want the case here... I hope lol)
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ย @imperiumgrim4717ย You misunderstood me. I'm saying that we certainly knew, yet sat on our thumbs for a week anyways, and then continued to until it traversed the entire continent.
Also like I said above in my other reply, Biden only said HE became aware on Weds. Which "if" true is way too late to be alerting our president of such things!
My whole reason for wording it how I had, is because it feels patronizing that nothing was done sooner... As if we all think it was only discovered on Wednesday, and "by then it was too late to take it out, since it was over densely populated areas".
(also, anyone mentioning Canada as a reasoning, doesn't realize we jointly operate a massive radar network in Canada, to protect our collective assess from this exact kind of thing; this very thing isn't the first time, as Japan did the exact same in WWII with bomb equipped weather balloons!)
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ย @thomaswinston5927ย You should read my other replies in this thread. (it does, but simultaneously does not, surprise me that people will still reply to the main comment before reading what the OP might have discussed in the replies.)
I'll cliffnote it though:
- yes, of course I'm speculating, and involving feelings (both gut, and emotions)
- you, as have others, misunderstand my sentiments: I'm responding in a tone that reflects the patronizing going on by our government, who has responded to this as though "gosh, this thing just came out of no where!" โ which we all know is BS; therefore, why the feck did they take their sweet ass time?
Anyways, my tone and speculation aside, I'm not an idiot like your seem to think.
I even called it ON WED and THURS, exactly what they did on Friday!
On Wed, I said how I don't get why they don't use an inert missile (no warhead) to deflate its balloon. Though... I further suggested using a helicopter or plane (ie the ones purpose built for this) to then "catch" it mid air, given such things have been developed for other purposes.
On Thurs, after its location was updated and it had been mentioned they had no intention to shoot it down where it was, due to it now being over too populated of region. At which point I said I guarantee they'll wait until it's over the ocean, skip in-air capture, and retried it from the water.
(one comment was on a CNN vid, the other an MSNBC vid; as you can see, I'm all for transparency)
Which they did just that. ๐
I think letting it slam into the water and incur damage, plus get soaked with salt water, maybe wasn't the best idea... but oh well. At least they made a large effort to retrieve it, which is what matters most.
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<replying to you again> Ugh, the automoderation system removed my first reply (I suspect I know why), so hopefully it won't this one:
No no, don't worry, I took no offense! I was just explaining that I have no idea where I picked it up, since you shared where you had. ๐ป
And it's not your display name that's not working, I do see the "Captain Random", but that's not what gets tagged for replies. Actually, it was displayed that way for a time, but the scammers that try to imitate a channel were able to make themselves look like the official one by renaming that Display Name. What's blank is your Username, which is what gets tagged.
My Display Name: CS ~ [DUKE of RAMBLE]
My Username: DUKE_of_RAMBLE
My only guesses are that either your username contains unique non-latin characters and YT or the app can't display them. Or, that perhaps your username was offensive and YT removed it. Or maybe you deleted it, thinking it was for something else.
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The funny (well, sad) thing is...
[and you don't even need to take my word for it,
since this first part is historically documented]
In accordance with the Budapest Memorandum, it was agreed by all signing parties that in exchange for Ukraine giving up former-Soviet nuclear arms, Ukraine's sovereignty and, more importantly in this case, its BORDERS would remaine unchanged and intact, which would be ensured (protected) by Russia, the UK, and the US!
The signers (those three) agreed to protect Ukraine against any form of invasion, not just by other countries, but also from the signers of this memorandum (Russia, the UK, or the US) trying to take over Ukraine.
It further outlines other, equally relevant elements to this war -- such as vowing that no weapons made by the agreed parties will ever be used against Ukraine -- but the indisputable fact remains: Russia has broken this agreement in multiple ways, starting with the original invasion, then by the annexation of Crimea, changing the government in occupied regions, and Russian weapons being used to attack Ukraine...
So EVEN IF what this channel reported on here was actually true, the free-world would STILL be in support of Ukraine and its people solely due to the fact that Russia had no legitimate reason to invade in the first place!
Which is also ignoring every atrocity that came afterwards, and frankly, that only solidified our support Ukraine.
There's just no way around it... even if Ukraine did use human shields: there plenty of damning evidence showing that Russia is on a scorched-earth campaign, by doing things like shelling/bombing regardless of whether there are even ANY Ukrainians there (i.e. farm fields, which have no trenches dug, or tank tracks across the terrain to illustrate something that might've been a target)
Again I urge you, DON'T take MY word for it, please go read it for yourselves... ๐
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction#Budapest_Memorandum
In the end, this war never needed to happen in the first place, and regardless of who wins, it will not benefit a single one of us common folk. ๐
โ๏ธโค๏ธ๐ค
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ย @dankovac1609ย First off: Any reply where the end-goal is to have a "civil conversation", is... well, awesome, and what we all should strive for! (at least, when the other[s] are not obvious trolls... lol)
Even if it's a disagreement with what they've said, they're no reason one can't start off with:
"I see where your coming from, but I'm not sure I
can agree, because..... [>insert reasoning or your
opinion; use sound logic, include any experience
and/or relevant credentials you may have<]"
Back on topic though, what you said had spurred a further thought โ It could very well, at least in part, be made the way it is, as... to use a cringey phrase... a " shock and awe" round.
After all, it's:
- visually bigger, by comparison to a regular RPG round
- heavier, more room = more harm-doing stuff packed in,
and obviously so, due to its now-arched trajectory
- bright-ass red, so I imagine you can see it if positioned
side-on, whilst it flies at your comrades
- bigger and louder boom, different from anything else
All together?
The little-to-no-training Russians civilians in fatigues Soldiers must be thinking Ukraine now has been given some kind of new, yet strange and vibrantly colored, weapon....
"๐ค It doesn't fly, look, or act like an RPG AT-round...
It sounds like one when launched, but doesn't when
it goes off...
Yet it does still have AT penetratration...
But has a much bigger explosion, and with shrapnel...
Except it's not a mortar, because clearly it's propelled...
I mean honestly? It looks like they took a fire
extinguisher, packed it full of plasticized explosive
and ball bearings....
THEN after all of that, crammed an RPG in the middle!
But that's just absurd, and nobody would do that, right? ๐
....R-right?!
๐คจ ๐ ๐ ๐ฐ๐ข ๐ฅบ
. . . . B l y a t . . . .
I WANNA GO HOooOOME!!! ๐ญ"
โIntercepted Russian Phone Call, probably...
๐
Sorry, I get carried away, but get a kick out of coming up with these absurd scenario conversations! ๐๐คฃ
(because look who you're talking to, and... โ๏ธ... yea,
you needn't worry about the length of your reply... lol)
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I had this same thought, and my idea was to basically borrow from the earth-based travel industry.....
Presumably the commonality between the systems will be the mixture being breathed (I think they long since did away with pure oxygen?). So the life support connections will likely have an air inlet and outlet.
Next, Suits will no doubt need power no matter which ship you're on (heating/cooling, small lights). So there will be some sort of power jack included next to the air exchange ports.
The unknown for me is whether there will be waste disposal plumbing... Or if it'll be like Scott said, with a suit hatch that handles that. So if anyone happens to be utilizing a plumbing system with no external hatch (which I think you'd still want, as a backup), that kills my idea...
Which my idea is...
Why not just make adapters? lol
We have "Travel Adapters" for power, after all! Doesn't seem far fetched to have a similar adapter for life support. The biggest issue here being power delivery, as some providers may not have a suit power bus that's intended to supply high current, whereas another provider's suit might need it. So even if the voltage has to be bucked or boosted, if the total supplied wattage by the bus is insufficient, that would also nix this...
But yea, a small adapter box that routes air from their connection style, to yours, and also provides whatever power conversion from their bus to your suit's needs. ๐
(of course, it'd be in everyone's best interest to standardize a port for this, regardless of which suit you're in, as needing to pack these various complex and heavy adapters for 2 different life support systems is a complete waste of mass budget...)
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ย @jupiterlove76ย Actually, with the war, they have had some issues with power, as Ukraine's 6-reactor plant supplied more than just Ukraine.
Eastern Europe has managed to cope with the issue, but, there's still been a knock-on effect to other countries.
I dunno though... Nuclear vs Natural Gas vs Coal... Any way you slice it, there's huge negatives. The latter two are probably the worse option right now, as we're finding ways to utilize the radioactive waste for other things, or convert it into non-radioactive waste (albeit, still toxic).
As they say, it's "six of one, half a dozen of the other".
So until we can get better efficiency with solar โ current panels are only ~35% efficient, but IIRC, we've cracked the flaw which limits us to that low efficiency, so better panels are on the horizon (no pun intended) โ or until we can build enough wind farms, or decide to start utilizing geothermal tech... we're left with those three evils.
And personally, nuclear seems to be the lesser of said evils at the moment... At least, as long as the idiots running them, perform proper and preventative maintenance!
The "Hey, so this plumbing is 50yrs old, but we've not had issues yet... So.... why bother, right?" kind of mentality isn't that great when you're running a nuclear power facility... ๐๐๐คฆโโ๏ธ
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Continuing to use without expressly accepting the ToU
will be considered as an acceptance to said terms."
Ok ok... it might not really say that.... but we all know that's what's actually going on here. ๐
Shame that Google Search can't just be a functional search engine instead of the hand-holding, un-helpful, privacy-thieving, ad-injecting, product-slinging system that it has become...
And that YouTube can't just be a content sharing service instead of the broken, infuriating, userbase-ignoring, broken (did I say that yet?), ad-delivering, parental-unit replacing, babysitter that is and/or is trying far too hard to be...
Anyone else miss ~2006?
....because I sure do.... ๐
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We involved parties definitely dropped the ball over the years, in aiding Ukraine's protection.
I hadn't known of this agreement specifically, but yea... Seems it's been completely forgotten about by the signing parties.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction#Budapest_Memorandum
If you are Ukrainian, or have Ukrainian family, I know this doesn't really mean much given I'm just a helpless citizen with no political influence.... But nevertheless, I deeply apologize for my country not acting sooner, like Crimea annexation and preventing it. ๐
(even if you aren't Ukrainian, that extends to any who happen to read this)
Russia violated is agreement multiple times now, and worse yet, the other signatories have also violated it by failing to defend it in a meaningful way... Offering support is good, but defending... at least to me... implies action!
It's that kind of help we're not providing, which is letting this go on longer than it should...
So again I say... I'm sorry for America failing Ukraine. ๐
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As someone who stayed up to 2am to watch in hopes for case of a Wickwick Event... Yea, I was highly annoyed that there was no telemetry (except for callouts; 8000mph, 10k, 17k by the time they were deploying the panels). I was somehow further annoyed by the lack of onboard footage. ๐
Which what little there was, had been interrupted every few seconds. Though now that I think about it, plausibly due to having to cache and downlink the footage in real time and that was the limited buffer duration.
Don't get me wrong though. I didn't want it to explode for fanboy reasons... I am glad it succeeded for all those involved! I just hate what it means: that the greatest boondoggle will continue, even though it doesn't really deserve to (not at its price, that is).
With that said, I expect to be footage into oblivion for my negativity, and, will understand once it does. ๐๐ฅด
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ย @Youbetternowatchthisย Then I have great news for you... You don't need to use a gun to help make a huge difference! If you are able to CHANGE your fellow Russian's view, and get them to see what is REALLY happening in Ukraine... THAT is more powerful than a gun!
A better future for all of Russia, begins by helping others see through the false information that your government-operated news channels tell you all day long (it's basically brainwashing).
If you have friends that enjoy technology, but believe everything Russian news says, show them videos of SpaceX's Falcon9 rocket landing by itself! Then show them the Falcon Heavy video where both of its boosters land side-by-side. Showing them things that appeal to their interests but are things your news channels don't show or talk about. That will help convince them that what your news shows you is only what your government wants them to, which is only things that makes your country appear strong, which means NOT showing you a lot of what happens in the world...
It will be tough, but it's people like YOU who are the key to helping Russia. They won't listen to us westerners telling them these things, which is why coming from you is so important!
That's why you and people like you, are so important right now. ๐
Stay safe, stay strong, and change minds! โ
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"Russia wants to save as many lives as possible..."
-- Putin's Mouthpiece
No.... No no. I'm willing to bet my house that Russia, or more specifically Fuhrer-Tsar Voldemort Puddin, has absolutely ZERO interest in anyone's lives... ON EITHER SIDE! ๐
I concluded a few days back that this whole invasion, and I'd argue all of the conflicts Russia had been involved in since being under Puddin's reign (including his fraudulent reflection), come down to one sad thing...
He's BORED and has lived such an adrenaline fueled life, that riskier and riskier endeavors are needed to keep him entertained! ๐๐
So he definitely needs to be stopped, doesn't matter which country steps in to do it, it has to be done. It's for the sake of all humans safety, since there's no telling what sort of shit storm he will stir up next -- and it doesn't matter if he loses in Ukraine, as long as he's in power, this sort of inhumane atrocities are SURE to occur again, somewhere...
Stay strong. Stay united. Stay alive. STAY UKRAINIAN!
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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ย @JeepGirl941ย I've heard that it's a cultural thing, moreso than here in "The West", to not show any sign of weakness.
However, I also believe that their mob-run style of government is exacerbating matters. None of the underlings want to deliver bad news, since that would make them seem weak and incompetent, but also because their kleptocractic system would result in them no longer getting a slice of the pie. (assuming they're still alive, after taking at their duties)
So I think everything is a mix of lies and false bravado, where Puddin Pants is being fed half truths that actually make him think they are doing well, but even on those where he IS told the truth and knows they're losing, he still won't back down...
That's just my take, though.
I could be completely wrong! ๐คทโโ๏ธโบ๏ธ
But I do think he was fed a healing plate of ๐๐ฉ by his underlings before the start of this war, as to me that would explain why he would actually claim they're doing this due to there being "notseas" and that Ukrainians are pleading to be saved.
(I have to "obfuscate" some words, because the YT automoderation system has it in for me and certain words trigger it to remove my comments ๐ Even still, there's a high chance this will get removed, so we'll see!)
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Remember... those Weaps are indeed banned, BUT, those very treaties also PERMIT their usage by a country IF an adversary uses them FIRST!
So any that get used there, legally become 'unlocked' for UA to use... if they should want to (and if they even have them to use). I doubt they will, as they haven't used White P (that I'm aware of), despite it having been used against them on many many occasions.
It's a very important distinction to note, since it's meant to act as a deterrent, should anyone decide to unlawfully use them. (granted, 'unlawfully' in terms of countries that signed the treaties)
[I have used short hand and vague terms in this comment to try and prevent YT's automoderation system from removing this comment, since it has it in for me these days. However, I still expect it to be deleted even though it's completely factual... ๐ฎโ๐จ So if either Enforcer reads this before it gets removed, maybe you can spread this info. EDIT: It did indeed get removed, so I've changed a couple words in hopes that'll do the trick this time (doubtful) EDIT2: It might've passed this time!]
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โโย @BBBrasilย The thing is, you train ONE and you've trained them all! So that's definitely one upside.
Another being, one learns a new trick, and they all will have that ability.
I do really like that aspect of these AI Wingmen! _(in addition to not risking a human's live, that is)z
I'm still not sure where I stand on letting them have fire control, or if someone back at base should be monitoring one (more?) drones, as a human co-pilot of sorts, similar to current drones. Or, maybe ideally, having the lead aircraft have a Weapons Systems Officer, except he's not control his aircraft's ordinance, only the Wingmen's...?
Which for all I know, that may indeed be the plan... ๐คทโโ๏ธ [EDIT: And turns out, it's indeed not a thing they (currently) permit the drones to do autonomously, I just hasn't gotten to that point in the video yet lol]
(aside from the latter, since there's aren't any two-seat F-35s, and I'm not sure if elongating the plane to accommodate one would be possible)
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This episode encapsulates every reason why I so very much want Adam to host a few workers in a field, to just sit down, eat snacks, have beer (if they want), and literally just tell war stories and shoot the shit!
I've suggested it before, after the awesome videos celebrating 32Ten where Adam chat with a few of the veteran employees; specifically one where it was Adam and two modelers at one of the sound stages. Having them ping pong back and forth over stuff, but more importantly, where mentioning something invokes a memory and a new topic begins... just like Adam was doing here, but himself... ๐
Even if it's a video of only Adam rambling ad nauseum about whatever comes to mind, all seeded by a simple question at the start... I might be biased (๐), but I'm all for that, as well!
However, as I've said before, I'd happily kick in $50 for snacks and libations, if it helps to get a round-table of experts together for an evening if reminiscing!
(preferably ILM โบ๏ธ)
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๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ Stay strong.
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ Stay united.
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ Stay alive.
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ STAY UKRAINIAN!
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
๐ค๐๐ค Here's hoping that the great nations of the world come to their senses, realize that the Fuhrer-Tsar Voldemort Puddin is only waging this senseless war because he's BORED and not because he truly wants the land (we already know the "liberating" excuse was a complete lie), and collectively sends our troops to push Russia back across their pre-annexed borders!!
When countless civilian deaths are caused by a war that has at least SOME semblance of an "arguable purpose" -- by that I mean, while it might not be 'right | logical | morally sound' it can at least be recognized/accepted as the driving force behind one side's actions -- then those deaths are (albeit, unfortunately) considered collateral-damage as opposed to senseless killings.
HOWEVER, when civilians are killed due to a leader's junkie-like need for an adrenaline rush (a "fix")...... THAT IS DEFINED AS MURDER!
It's 2022 for fucks sake! (sorry, necessary word choice)
There's NO EXCUSE for your ordinance to drop on populated civilian areas/structures. Your arsenal should already be made up of 'Smart' weapons that can hit a target with an accuracy better than 15 meters, where I suspect even Soviet-era hardware would conceivably be able to hit within 150m...
Alas, we see them dropping ordinance with what seems like an accuracy that instead gets measured in CITY BLOCKS! Thus, my conclusion that the targets are either hit due to carelessness or are their intentional targets, which is my justification for claiming that Russia is both attempting to and succeeding in committing murder of Ukrainians, and it needs to be stopped, N O W ! ! ! ๐คฌ๐คฌ๐คฌ
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ย @nedkelly9688ย Not entirely sure what point you're trying to make, there. Because no shit it would be nice if Ukraine had been allowed to procure advanced defense systems from NATO countries during the time leading up to the fiasco that is the horribly-executed invasion on their country. Which yea, we all should've sent more and better, far sooner... like actual soldiers, to prevent this needless destruction...
But we didn't, so they quickly had to innovate something.
That something happens to be working quite well, given the slow pace it can operate at.
Nevertheless, I don't even think that's the entire point of its creation though... as is existence allowed hundreds of thousands of civilians who couldn't evacuate, the ability to lend a meaningful hand towards kicking Russia out of their country!
A strong morale goes a LONG way when it comes to winning a war. One needs to look no further than Russia's military to see how much of an impact its having on them, knowing you are little more than a meat shield and are likely to die!
So again I say: I'm not sure what point you were aiming for, since who gives a fuck about the abilities of OUR systems, since a fat lot of good it does when said systems won't be placed in Ukraine anytime soon (eg: acceptance into NATO)? ๐คจ๐คทโโ๏ธ๐คทโโ๏ธ
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My thinking, well my hope as I have no data to back this up, is that while Starship might not attempt to be recovered... that SpaceX may still execute the """landing""" program....... there just won't be anything beneath it to actual, you know, land on. Therefore, less of a hover-slam, more of a hover-splash (or hover-kersploosh).
I think this would be the most ideal thing to do, all things considered, since it gets them more data on their procedure, with zero risk to infrastructure.
Or am I waaay offbase, and this would never be allowed by the governing bodies that be? ๐
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I want to think there's some kind of correlation between the fact there is an unconfirmed program dubbed "Aurora", and also happens to be one that came only a little while later which is dubbed "Borealis"... ๐
Maybe it's more obvious than one may think: both are nearly identical programs for extremely high altitude, high efficiency engines, but it simply comes down to "Aurora" each not feasible and therfore never made it to the flight-demonstrator phase. Whereas it's counterpart, "Borealis", proved possible through small scale and in turn that small plane was modified to accept an upscaled model of that test engine.
Which would be just as you said: Occam's Razor.
What's more likely? The US had a ultra-fast and top secret plane that was operating for who knows how long, since the mid-80s...
Or, that it was a canceled sister-project to "Borealis" program?
_(because to me, it seems odd that the Borealis program is named this and instead wasn't called Aurora; however, if there's another program that similarly aimed to test a new engine design, but was called "Australis" [the name of the southern hemisphere aurora], then I'd be content to concede to that being a more likely "sister" program...) _
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ย @zachnar0125ย Yea people have lost sight of things...
Admittedly, _shamefully_, I didn't know anything about Ukr before the invasion*, nevermind said memorandum... So when I did learn of it, damn that made me mad.
(* a fact over which I've apologized to folk like Starsky, Denys Davydov, and any Ukrainian I've come across in comments; Starsky in particular has shown me that the sense of humor I have and which defines me as a person, is exactly the same as theirs... we are kindred spirits)
SPECIFICALLY that the US and UK signed it and we've done nothing up until now, because you know damn well the ONLY reason we signed it was as an assurance to Ukr-then that we wouldn't let Ruz renege on the agreement...
And what did they do? Reneged.
And what did we do? Jack shit. ๐
Made me ashamed of my country.
The words of that agreement, yes, only state that in any such situation where their sovereignty was threatened that we would only go to the UN on their behalf... However, the basis of that agreement, giving up their โข๏ธ arsenal and the very thing that would've protected them from such a situation, to ME that document was saying _"we'll protect you"_! And we didn't... ESPECIALLY when it was that very country who we were signing it with and simply to keep them in check... was the one doing the invading. ๐ฎโ๐จ
Anyways, sorry for ranting ๐ฅด
I'm sure the automoderation system will smite this comment down anyways (hence not using the full country name; I've found that for me, it's a trigger), but sometimes I get lucky, so maybe this is one of them! ๐ค๐
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edit: spelling error; also, the automoderation system have me a pass!!
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Having family in the US state of Alaska, I spent quite a lot of my life there even though we didn't actually live there. They have a Magpie, too, which is similar in pattern to the Aussie kind, but when you get the sun on them just right, they have this beautiful irridescent blue/purple that comes through the black.
Anyways, I've strayed from my point... lol
For most of my 38 years, I always knew them by the name my dad would call them by, only within the last few years coming to find out they are "Magpies"...
The name I knew them as? "Camp Robber"! :P
For exactly that reason. They're cunning and brave, willing to swoop in and rob your camp of any food you've left unattended. Thankfully, I've not been robbed by them!
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ย @theamazingmarlbito6293ย Sarcasm aside, you should be. Unfortunately, you know way more than the rest of us and you'll never ACTUALLY be impressed, so I guess it doesn't matter either way, does it? ๐คฃ
As long as people like you think it's easy peasy and that they're should be countless dozens nay, hundreds of companies offering solutions, then the reality will never be impressive.
(PS, your math is lacking, as 2 + 5 = 7, not that you'll find 8 impressive, either... lol)
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#ThisIsFine ๐
No no, please, #UN, don't make an effort to legitimately help put an end to this fucking madness...
Is it because it's white-on-white inhumanity that makes it not merit your attention??
I don't care if that comes across sounding racist, because it's the furthest thing from the truth... I'm just pissed no one is physically getting involved, because why? You're worried about nukes...??? HE'S BLUFFING! Do you not see that him going nuclear would definitively get HIM killed?? Either by those in his government, those in his military, the civilians revolting, all three, or by a black ops hit squad... He is a mad man, yes. But he's an egotistical one who doesn't want to die! So where's his motivation?
ESPECIALLY when all that you have to do is push Russia out of Ukraine. You don't have to go into Russia to stop the bulk of these atrocities! Hell, you don't even have to help with Crimea! Just unwind their 2022 progress and free up Ukraine's forces so that they can push into Crimea without worrying that Russia/Belarus will push in from the North or East.
Russia doesn't recognize the UN's ICC (?whatever the war crimes investigative council is called) โand yes, I know the US also doesn'tโ so claiming that you're "helping" because of that involvement, only makes YOU feel better, as it does jack shit to stop Russia from continuing to do this stuff to civilians! Because these soldiers can just go back to Russia and they're out of reach. Whereas you stepping in and capturing soldiers for illegally operating within sovereign Ukraine territory... THAT has a helpful impact here and now!
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This was originally a reply to someone but I felt deserved a wider audience; modified to fit this context...
We involved parties definitely dropped the ball over the years, in aiding Ukraine's protection.
I hadn't known of this specific agreement until just now, but yea... Seems like it's been completely forgotten about by the signing parties. ๐
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction#Budapest_Memorandum
To anyone reading who is Ukrainian, or has Ukrainian family... I know this won't really mean much given I'm just a helpless citizen with no political influence.... But nevertheless, I deeply apologize for my country [๐บ๐ธ] not acting sooner, like Crimea annexation-sooner and preventing it. ๐
Russia has violated that agreement multiple times now, and worse yet in my opinion, is that the other signatories have also violated it by failing to defend Ukraine in any truly meaningful way (up until 2022 at least) ... Offering money and monetary support is good, but defending... at least to me... implies every means possible!
It's that kind of help which we're not providing, which is allowing this to go on longer than it should have...
Every day Russia targets some other large building because... "Our intelligence claims it was housing military assets..." ๐๐ (or at least if asked, that'd be their excuse in order to justify it)
So again I say... I'm sorry for America failing Ukraine. ๐
(I can't speak to the the UK, but I imagine anyone there would feel similarly after reading that link)
Stay strong. Stay united. Stay alive. STAY UKRAINIAN!
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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I continue to beat this dead horse, I know, but... Yea, Crimea belongs to Ukraine, so it should be rightfully returned to you. Russia has no right to claim it, as they had already agreed upon and formally recognized Ukraine's sovereign borders as per the Budapest Memorandum -- and to help protect their integrity, so that they remain unchanged, but clearly Russia is ignoring that part as well...
So in the end, whatever happens to Russia, there's no one to blame but their Fuhrer-Tsar Voldemort Puddin. His time in power looks to be coming to an end though, and it can't happen soon enough! ๐
Stay strong. Stay united. Stay alive. STAY UKRAINIAN!
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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I heard similar, from one of our other media outlets (would've been either CNN or MSNBC), but it was SO much more realistic... Indicating things like it's be the actual black market arms dealers who live in Ukraine, which legitimately could be native Ukrainians but just as easily could be superior of another nationality, and at no point was this other non-CBS implying or was the Ukrainian Government selling them!
There is also, what I can only imagine has occurred at least once or twice (statistically speaking), where Russia had managed to capture some unfired Javelins and then RUSSIA gave it to some arms dealers just to ensure a finger could get pointed at Ukraine for possibly negligence, or worse, outright corruption.
Personally, I choose to believe that any native Ukrainian arms dealers who are still in the country, that even despite their questionable morality, they would rather the county be under Ukrainian rule and therefore would actually be doing what they can to HELP!
Hell, let's go truly "glass half full", by speculating that these same individuals may even go so far as to buy any of these weapons FROM the black market, to them use against Russian forces... ๐ค๐๐ค
(after all, the one report showed a dark web listing where a Javelin was only $13K USD, which as someone who doesn't have even close to that much money, I still think that's quite worth buying if it helps ensure the country remains free of Russian rule!)
Stay strong. Stay united. Stay alive. STAY UKRAINIAN!
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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ย @The_ZeroLineย This is all good info to have. (admittedly, all I was going off of was wiki; not an excuse, just an explanation for why I was coming to the wrong conclusion)
Makes it plausible now that he simply thrives on the authority he came to possess, and each time he exerts "another level" of his power (ie wars, having people killed), he feels a new rush.
So it's not that his worklife caused him to be that proposed junky and that he does all of this out of boredom... but that he has become a junky - thriving moreso on power, than on adrenaline.
At the end of the day, my point is intact: he's illustrated that he is a threat to our world society, a monster partially of our own creation, through letting his actions go unchecked for far too long. ๐
(as such, my puppy analogy would also remain valid)
[/speculative armchair psych-eval] ๐
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Their trolls flag our posts, which then puts us on the automoderation system's shitlist, but officially, we're technically not in timeout ๐ฎโ๐จ
I've been dealing with it for about a year now. You have to REALLY tiptoe on eggshells. Use vague references to people and places (I say Pudding Pants, Ruz, and Ukr; don't use their flags), and instead say things like "unalived", etc etc.
Further tips:
- Copy your Replies before posting, as they won't be visible to copy of they get hidden (they're actually not removed, just publicly invisible)
- Exit that comment thread, wait 2 minutes and then go back in; if it's there still, everyone can see it.
- If you're making a standalone comment, wait 45 seconds and then click on it; if it gives you an "Error loading comment" it's hidden, otherwise it's visible. IF hidden, edit it, copy the comment, cancel and start a new comment. Make minor edits to it to remove any buzzwords, then try again and repeat the steps.
- If you notice COMPLETELY unrelated comments being removed elsewhere around YT (ie places unrelated to politics, news, world events), copy your comment, copy the video link, and send a YT Feedback. Give them the video link (for context), tell them your comment was removed without merit, and paste the comment for them to see. This won't do anything, BUT I've made it a mission to annoy the hell out of them with EVERY SINGLE COMMENT OF MINE THEY REMOVE! Some days they'll get a handful of feedbacks... Others, more. ๐ (I have noticed it's been a LITTLE better for me since I started doing this, but I doubt they're reinstating the comment; I usually made corrections and reposted it anyways, telling them what minor change allowed it to remain visible)
Welcome to the club. ๐ป โฅ๏ธ โ๏ธ
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ย @somebody700ย Personally? NATO needing to send in troops has been something I've felt AND been saying, for just about three months now! ๐
Coincidentally, I also said exactly what you are claiming is rumored about HIMARS, except I was suggesting it before HIMARS was on the table and havef US or NATO troops manning the artillery being sent (M777, etc; sparing Ukrainians 1mo+ of training, just to reach minimum "operational" level).
TL;DR - Putin is an adrenaline junky and is getting his fix right now. He doesn't want it to end, especially in a way that would result in the loss of his power or life. Granted, operations have become spite-fueled, but only because we've shown that he can do that AND still get away with it, as he's been left unchecked since coming into power, and remains to be even to this day. However, he won't go nuclear unless we take it inside Russia. Stick to Ukraine, but certainly, send in those with the training to put a stop to this quickly, and with precision! That means NATO, F-16s, A-10s, etc!
Only because I've come to multiple realizations about our tart bowl of Puddin...
- First and foremost, he's bored these days, after having first lived a risky life in the Soviet spy agency doing whatever he did -- even if a desk job, data he'd sign off on would directly impact field agent's lives and undoubtedly have induced a chemically release (dopamine, adrenaline, etc) and therefore a slight natural-high, which is imagine would've increased as rising through the ranks would result in higher risk+reward scenarios that he experienced... As just about always is the case, that peak level can only satisfy a person's desires of the rush for so long. I figure, at that job, he had either reached the top or had sinking achieved the maximum thrill possible from it... as by that point I suspect he had been directly involved in the intel-gathering or planning of 'conflicts' engaged in between Russia/militias/governments/etc.
What's more, it's this period was probably what really got him involved with the whole "Mafia" style of business that Russians have felt is the best way to run a government, or even an entire country (๐). That's getting ahead of ourselves though, as here, it's have been low level stuff, in order to "grease the wheels" so that things would happen they way they wanted/needed. Of course, by the end of his agency career, he no doubt had a least one credible threat to his life, which only fueled addiction cravings even more!
Eventually? It was time for him to pursue a new position in government, one that would allow him to satisfy this now-larger itch he needed scratching: El Presidente!
And thus, he became...
This afforded him all manner of new thrilling risks to take, money to be made, ..... power, to make large groups of all armed people do what you tell them. ๐
_Roll the footage depicting crimes against humanity... _
Donny? The montage, Donny!!
To.... try and cut out some rambling, we witness...
egregious acts, seeds of corruption sewn, a phony display of being "all about the electoral process" where he doesn't get elected (but is effectively vice-pres), coming into power... again..., harvesting and re-sewing seeds of corruption, more (worse) egregious acts, rigging his reelection to remain in power, further egregious acts, another bountiful crop of corruption, egregious behavior that's once again unchecked, oh yea poisoning his oppositions over the years, and sprinkled throughout are him spending inordinate amounts of ill-gotten money on items and property... both to make him seem powerful/important, but also act as financial securities for when he needs them.
I think we've covered most of the going-ons, and just now passed the "Annexation of Crimea" in this Timeline of Voldemort Puddin...
=INTERMISSION=
A LIKE-MINDED INDIVIDUAL BECOMES PRESIDENT
OF A POWERFUL COUNTRY; POTENTIAL ALLY TO
ASSIST IN PLANS OF WORLD DOMINATION?
ALLY'S COUP ATTEMPT FAILS; ISN'T REELECTED.
=END INTERMISSION=
Well, he can't make it obvious that taking over Ukraine has hinged on the other president being in power again, so he waits... Subtly laying some groundwork to make things easier for what's to come, such as making Russia's free-press unable to report on certain activities, such as covering any space launches happening outside of Russia so that parallels cannot be so easily drawn and therefore won't make their hardware seem as interior or antiquated as it actually is. Now, future press-blackouts will not seem so out of place...
Enter, Feb 2022: He needs another adrenaline fix and can't wait anymore... After all, his subordinates have all reported nothing but good news this entire time! Plenty of will trained troops. Stockpiles of well maintained ordinance, with plenty of far more advanced and new variants. Well maintained, capable and modernized ground and air equipment. Flawless logistics chain. Solid intelligence gathered about the enemy, concludes a short 3-day conflict before surrender and insertion of pro-Russian government within a month. Iron-clad cover story in place, told to both their own troops and the whole world; no shenanigans will happen, we promise.
FF>> 3mos... things have gone off the rails!
But, this turns out to be in Voldemort Puddin's favor! How thrilling that now he gets to fire so many inept generals, and become Supreme Commander of his military and their campaign: all hail Fuhrer-Tsar Voldemort Puddin ๐๐คฆโโ๏ธ
BUT, again, this is fun for him now... Why would he want to stop it or do anything to prevent it continuing??
He still has goals: take over Ukraine, at least in some part. This in turn means that to use nukes, even small tactical yield artillery shells, would render their newly occupied territory completely unusable in random pockets. That would cause even further problems since those pockets would need to be (rather, should be) avoided, and that isn't always possible OR conducive during a battle.
Strategic nukes would end up being either, political suicide at best, or result in his death at worst... But he had to much to live for, so he isn't about to take THAT sort of risk! Which, it would take invasion OF Russia for his subordinates to be onboard with that level of stupidity... They also are the ones feeding him lies to save their own asses, so certainly they know how bad things really look, and what it'd mean for them if they didn't try to stop him if it came to it...
In other words yea, I think NATO should officially deploy! As long as we limit it to taking back Ukraine -- which involves Crimea -- while not setting foot inside Russia's borders (those formally recognized by the world). I'd love to stick it to them on their side, to teach Putin that his actions have consequences... but it's more important right now to make Ukraine whole and safe!
At the very least, offer government-merc programs where we're not officially sanctioning deployment, but don't expect mass volunteering either, so to offer compensation for those who do. (officially label it lend-lease for all I care lol)
So send A-10s, F-16s, F-22s, F-35s, BOnes, whatever! Just so long as the pilot in the cockpit has about a thousand hours training already. To do otherwise, would genuinely be an unnecessary loss of life (and hardware, but that's trivial by comparison), which is precisely why I wish NATO would get involved in that capacity: to stop, or at least lessen, the current unnecessary losses of life that are happening on a daily basis!
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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I'll put money on it that Russia's unspoken strategy is:
Destroy everyone's homes by whatever means possible, help yourself to whatever's intact/of value, leaving their people with nothing. That way, when this is all over, they won't feel there's any reason to come back, and then Russians can live there.
In other words... Fight their people, not their military.
Which if that isn't already a war crime, it fricken ought to be!
However, they'll OBVIOUSLY claim that they were only targeting positions where they were """taking fire from""".
In reality, they probably saw lights or movement, opting for the strategy of "shoot first, ask questions later."
In the end, whatever the reason, true or not, they are still cruel and inhumane monsters! ๐ก
Slava Ukraini! โ๐บ๐ฆ๐ป
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I'd like to say, that those of us who DO understand that this is Putin's war, do NOT hate the Russian people for his mess... no matter WHAT your governmentt-controlled news says! Even if you are believing everything your news says and are supporting your country... We understand, and forgive you!
Some of my fellow Americans (even my own family, my mother) were recently deceived in a similar way, convinced to follow a foolish man and believed the lies he told -- and still tells. BUT those that saw their error and stopped supporting him, we've forgave them for it!
MANY of your soldiers, but especially your government, has to be punished for the horrible things that they are doing in Ukraine and to her people. The method right now of punishing your government, unfortunately also is hurting innocent Russian people, and we're sorry for that... but I repeat: our hate, our fight, is only for those in charge of Russia, not with the Russian People!
And I know at least some of your fellow Russians in these comments do not believe what you're being told about this ""special military operation"" -- it is actually a 'war', but you are not allowed to say that word, and you should be suspicious of why your government doesn't allow you to say things or else you get arrested (that's something you can mention to anyone who believes in Putin's actions, and ask why that's acceptable) -- and so it's you who are the key to helping your country! Convince more that we (people of the West) do not hold a grudge against Russia's people. Find topics they are interested in, search YouTube for videos about those topics. Then find important differences between the information in those videos and compare it to what your news does not talk about, which you can then show to those people! Because if your state news is willing to leave out details on a topic like that, what else are they not telling you, or have been telling you instead?
(An example is SpaceX. They have reusable rockets [thr Falcon 9], that land themselves after launching, to be refueled and launched again... Similar to a car, in a sense. But Russian state news doesn't share that, instead tries to portray them as a failing company, showing just the failures during testing. The "Falcon Heavy" landing video is even more impressive, even for me and I have seen it multiple times!)
Once you get more people understanding how your news is misleading everyone, then any of them with family in the military, can begin convincing their soldiers of what's wrong.
Soldiers convince more soldiers... and soon you, the people of Russia, have power to remove Putin and his oligarchs from their positions of power!
Give Russia's power to who rightfully deserve it: her people! Show the world that you are NOT the cruel people that Putin has made you act like. That you are not WEAK when you're fighting for a cause you believe in, just as the Ukrainians are in their fight to keep their freedom!
Slava Ukraini! โ ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ป
Viva la Russoluciรณn! โ ๐ท๐บ ๐จโ๐ฉโ๐งโ๐ฆ
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Reminds me of the "ARCHER: 1999" season of the show Archer, and one of the episodes features a sentient doomsday device, who was aptly called Mr. Deadly ๐
"I would like to explode at the earliest opportunity."
"The sole aim of my being is to explode."
The whole episode was him trying to convince someone to ask him to detonate (as he can't do it himself). He was even having a conversation, via pheromones, with a butterfly and asked if it would ask him to explode ๐
Mr Deadly: The butterfly. A remarkable illustration of the capacity of living things... to change.
Lana: Hey, is that something you think you might be able to... What's going on, bud?
Mr Deadly: Oh, I'm conversing with the butterfly via pheromones. I just asked it to say, "Please detonate."
Lana: I thought you weren't gonna try to explode!
Mr Deadly: That's not... anything I said.
Mr Deadly: Anyway, it was a hard pass. Much more foul-mouthed than I expected.
Mr Deadly: Same to you, you bastard! <shakes fist>
Archer: <sarcastically> Well, then I guess we're safe.
Sorry... It's just a great show, and episode! Makes me chuckle just reading the transcript ๐
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How funny would it be, if part of their noise-cancelation for the rotors, simply utilized the same technology used in higher-end vehicles... AUDIO!
In the cars, the road/engine noise is sampled and the piped into the car through the speakers, but the sound is 180deg out-of-phase. It doesn't eliminate the sound, but it certainly decreases it to an appreciable degree!
So I'm imagining they might have the Blackhawks outfitted with some large flat panel speakers (basically utilizing the body panels themselves), cranking out this out-of-phase audio as it flies and dampening its output.
Of course, it would only impact those who are mostly-beneath the chopper (a sound umbrella, basically), since there's little point in dampening the noise above the aircraft.
Just spitballing, thinking outside the box... ๐
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OMG ๐คฏ With the advent of 360ยฐ and VR video.... How effing incredible would it be to have the ability, as a viewer, to pan around the scene as you watched an episode of Mythbusters?!?! ๐ฅน
Just as an easy example for anyone not familiar with those video types: for SpaceX's most recent Super Heavy+Starship test launch they uploaded a 360 video, where are you watch on your phone, you can physically move you phone around and it virtually moves the camera, because special cameras can capture all angles simultaneously.
So in this example, as the rocket goes up, you have to follow it up with your phone. (act as though you're filming and trying to keep it in frame)
What that means is you could be looking "behind you", opposite of the action, to see what's happening all around...
So imagine an episode of Mythbusters and being able to look around and see crew reactions as an event happens, โORโ being able to track a piece of debris that otherwise would be flying off screen due to the a conventional camera being static!
<insert Futurama's Philip J Frye Shutup and take my money!" meme HERE>
If YouTube and Discovery were smart, they'd fund a 6-episode special Mythbusters series, utilizing that tech!
Adam had one said how much of a game changer 'GoPro' cameras were... Well, now done of those have that 360 capture, as well as the EVEN SMALLER (thumb sized) 'Insta360 GO' camera! ๐๐
(I know a reunion thing had been in the works, but Grant's untimely passing robbed everyone's motivation... But maybe they'd be willing to with something small like this? ๐ค๐๐คโฅ๏ธ)
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ย @stormhawk31ย It's still a matter of Beyond Visual Range. Since we've had a 30 year head start on stealth, and therefore innovating ways to detect it, asking with the fact that we won't be sitting on our hands in between now and whenever that encounter happens, means we'll have just as much of the upper hand then as we do now.
One has to remember that their technological leaps were achieved through stolen data and designs. So whole, yes, you can definitely understand the why's and hows of technology by having that kind of secret data, you'll not have the fundamental knowledge gained by getting there yourself. By that I mean, there's just as much knowledge held in tests that yield failures, as there's is with tests that succeeded. That's the beauty of science, as ALL data is useful data. Knowing the ins and outs that you've learned asking the way can allow you to exploit flaws in designs. I'm sure they'll have liked at their birds and thought "Yea, we considered that, but it produces a telltale radar return and we opted to not go that path."
Of course, I'm speculating, but it's all valid viewpoints. ๐
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ย @stormhawk31ย Granted. Thankfully we do have multiple non-stealth and very capable fighter aircraft, ones that are, overall, still more capable than their J-20. That's important, since everything else in their stable is rather ho-hum do to being Russian, and in the future these J-20 will likely be their general fighter, in the same way our F-15, 16, and 18s are. I still see these having the edge over them, since future advancements will undoubtedly provide upgraded to them, too. ๐
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Scratch another very important bird!!! ๐ค๐ช
Great news, paving the way for safer skies, even before their new toys take flight this summer! ๐ Well done, boys... well done... ๐๐
[YT's automated moderation algorithm thinks I'm a horrible person and basically removes half of my comments, even ones in jest on comedy channels. I've basically given up commenting entirely but this news deserved praising our guys; however, this is why I've worded the above the way I did, to not give their algorithm any reason to silence my praise of their work. Hopefully those hearts get a pass, as using them before was enough to do one of my comments in, but that's also why I've foregone my typical glory related sign-off message. ๐ (and yes, I've contacted YT about this about half a dozen times in the last few months, to no avail)]
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ย Victory in Truthย And Nixon... Republican Hypocrite... lol
But seriously, I don't think Sonic was speaking in any sort of partisan tone. I know I wasn't.
Because historically, both sides have made boneheaded mistakes, so name calling over political blunders is foolish and not worth doing. A classic example of _"he who lives in a glass house, should not throw stones."
That being said, your example is otherwise accurate, and I agree with you completely.
On the flip side, and I'm not defending him, you're comparing apples to tomatoes here. His adulterous actions pale in comparison to a soon-to-be-judge lying under oath... NEVERMIND a soon-to-be Supreme Court judge!
(not saying they did lie, as their use of legalese might've been sufficient enough to protect them, so my comparison here is purely hypothetical when I say your use of Clinton wasn't a great example for a whataboutism)
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Thankfully, the "Tactical Nukes" (very small yield) will not trigger the end of the world. It's the ICBMs like the video displays, that will, as they contain roughly 5 city-destroying nuclear bombs each, along with around a dozen dummy-bombs (which might be targeted instead of the actual bombs).
However, while I don't think the Tactical's use would trigger the apocalypse... I DO think it might trigger a conventional style WW III, which is just as bad, really. As then you would end up with a chance of ICBMs being launched. ๐๐
Because it's pretty clear that Putin's mind is currently living in an alternate reality, and being as degraded as it is, could very well result in that psychosis manifesting...
My hope is that either his own peoples manage to take him out soon and things won't be able to escalate further, or, if it did come to launching ICBMs, then perhaps there'd be internal resistance to such an order. (but who knows, given how many Russians appear to have drank the kool-aid ๐)
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Is it just me or does ESA's track record with Human Launch Systems very much resemble a "great idea" conjured during a night/weekend out drinking with friends? Even down to the scale of time spent on the endeavors... ๐
Early: still sober or only a beer into things, an idea to do something gets seeded, and is generally well received by everyone, agreeing it should happen.
Later: everyone is now full on drunk and all very much onboard with the earlier idea, as more and more brainstorming has and continues to occur; maybe a drunk-purchase gets made!
Next Day/Week: as everyone recovers and reminisce over the events, replaying discussions, after which maybe some remain onboard, while others see how silly it was; the purchase arrives to whomever ordered it, having no recollection, and only then realizes the enormity of it all / gets reamed out by their significant other.
At which point, all parties involved agree: ill conceived, best left to others.
........ Until the next time everyone gets together for drinks, and the same process repeats itself! ๐คฃ
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ย @S.ASmithย It's widely used as a paint stripper, and in fuel system cleaners, meant to clean out sludge.
However, yes, it DOES add a bit more oomph to the fuel. I used to work at an autoparts store and one of the old timers who was a regular, said back in the day they added it to their racecars for this very reason.
That's why I always use Berryman's, because A) it works great, but B) it helps performance just on its own. ๐
I always put two cans of it in my 1990 Chevy Suburban (4x4) with its 38 gal tank and 195,000 miles on its 5.7L V8 (two can treat slightly more than 38 gallons). Highway driving through the mountains to my cabin, plus a bit of driving in town, and it still manages 15-17 MPG!
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>1200 mi round trip to/from airbase (just to that staging area, not ๐๏ธran), and so if we assume a VERY SLOW loitering airspeed of 400MPH, that gives them less-than an hour of time to do their missions...
I'm admittedly only a civilian, so I'm probably getting a LOT wrong... but it still seems unlikely to me that they would be traveling that slow, meaning they'd have even less loiter time.
Therefore, refueling by no means it's indicative of them hanging around for a long time, since 20-30 minutes wouldn't get them very far, nor leave them with enough fuel for emergency needs. Whereas topping up upon arrival would leave them enough for any contingency plans.
[/uninformed armchair 2ยข]
(excuse the emoji usage, just trying not to trigger autoKaren, even though I'm sure I have with other buzzwords)
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Seriously, that "selector override" issue, to me, trumps all the other ones (a close second is the wobbly front rail)! Which I think I'll affectionately dub it "fucked-off mode", for the obvious reason that the selector has 'fucked-off' and is doing its own thing, irrespective of the guns designed operating modes...
AND EVEN IF the gun operates just fine in fucked-off mode, the reason it's so severe is because it prevents YOU from being able to operate it!
If it's only as minor as the first instance in the video, just barely hanging passed the frame, then genuinely that's not impeding anything. HOWEVER, if it fucks-off like it did when more force was applied (ie selecting in a panic; @ 45ยฐ) or like it was in the photo where it's now parallel with the pistol grip (@ 90ยฐ)... Both of those I feel are apt to get you killed, and here's why:
@ 45ยฐ you are likely going to encounter it with your finger whilst trying to get it wrapped around the trigger to repel whomever, causing you to have to look down at it to see WTF. At which point either you're calm enough, and savvy enough -- you aren't, and, you're not -- to quickly ignore it by getting your finger behind it, at which point, only your squad mate has died due to your selector having fucked-off. But as mentioned, you're not calm or savvy due to being a conscript under fire, so not knowing if that'll cause a problem, now you take the time to move it back, but now you've safed your gun, meaning you bumble around to get it into any fire mode... but, now you and your squad mates are dead!
@ 90ยฐ it's much the same, except now it's fucking uncomfortable or downright painful to operate, thanks to that superfluous tab at the end of the selector which protrudes out and is now digging into your palm... So either you again, bumble around to rectify it having fucked-off almost literally to Australia, and squad mates die, or, you put up with it causing your accuracy to suffer and... again, you all die...
And! While typing that, I further realized the possibility that your selector now has TWO protrusions to be lovingly snagged on, potentially wrenching it into a fire mode (although, I say this out of pure ignorance, having no idea how stiff those are to actuate).
If they had to make a new stamping-die to make the new selector... why not just eliminate the original tab, and half the selector along with it?? I'm mean sure, weapon familiarity, but c'mon... ๐
(I have a better mechanism for the folding butt, too, but I've lived up to my name enough the way it is! Kudos to anyone who has gotten this far!)
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For me, my trouble is that their voice over speaker lacks and sense of "grammar" in what's being said. I don't have any trouble understanding the words because of their accents, it's purely the lack of pauses where we would otherwise include them.
Not sure if this is because the translation was done and they're just reading it aloud, so that this is caused by the English translation lacking punctuation where necessary...
Or if they're dubbing it in real time as they watch the video, and are not professional translators...
Based on watching videos like UN meetings where the translator is frequently a person of the same nationality, where I don't have the issue I have on UATV vids, I'm betting they're reading the translation.
Which, now that I think about it..... ๐ค
I bet they are using software to translate, perhaps even YT auto translation, and are simply reading that as it comes up! As anyone who has used the auto translation/subtitles knows, there's zero punctuation.... That'd certainly explain the "spoken run-ons"!
But just as you said, basroos, I mean no offense to UATV by what I've said, as I also greatly appreciate the work they're doing and watch multiple videos from them each day (particularly since US news has had to shift focus to the absolute mess we've had these last 2 weeks, with the insane increase in mass shootings were having and trying to reform our gun laws).
Slava Ukraini! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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Gosh, Russia... It's almost as though what you've said about southeastern Ukraine are NOT true, and that all of these regions DON'T want to be ruled by you... ๐๐คจ๐ค
M... maybe when they said...
"Russian warship, go fuck yourself!"
... what they were actually meaning by it, was:
"Fuck you Russia, go home!!"
Either way, that seems like a really good idea, huh?
Since, if you keep this campaign up, you'll be able to trade the shit that gets pushed into the back of your throat thanks to the missiles they ram up your backsides! ๐๐ฉ๐ต
If you end up LOSING a bunch of territory as a result, don't come crying to the rest of the world, because we're just going to let them keep it!
Slava Ukraini! โ๐บ๐ฆ๐ป
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1) Putin's rhetoric was purely for Russian consumption, not outside threat. His claim they are newer and better is evidence enough that it's just to make his people feel like Russia isn't the "washed up, has-been nation of yesteryear" that this war has made the entire world come to realize.
2) He may be making foolish and boneheaded plays, but that's only because OUR inaction over the years has made him feel invincible. That he can say and do whatever he wants and we/NATO/UN will not get physically involved. HOWEVER, there is one thing we can be sure of, based solely around the fact he has had a doctor make housecalls: he does not want to die yet.
Therefore, his nuclear threats are hollow. He may be doing stupid things, but he's not so incompetent to not know that using even a small-yield Tactical nuke will get him killed... Either at the hands of his own government/military, or his citizens, or if nothing else than by a multi-nation black ops mission.
So yea, I'd bet all my assets that we could put boots on the ground in Ukraine and push Russia out of even Crimea, and the only thing he'd authorize involving radiation.... might be a full body X-Ray!
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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Here's a thought... We leave it [creation of a "tribunal"] up to the people! ๐
Which people?
I'd say the entire population of Earth, but that would be a difficult task, since most likely half the planet isn't aware of the war or know nothing other than there is one (either due to rural life and intl news doesn't reach them, or their local news not reporting on it for some reason, or similar).
Therefore, leave it to the people of the countries which are involved, determined by:
- countries who have troops fighting (Russia, Ukraine, Chechnya, ~Belarus, others?)
- countries who have sent financial aid (monetary or deducted through owed debts) to any of the participating countries listed in the first bulleted item (too many to list); likely this support is at taxpayer's expense
- countries who have sent military equipment (weapons, vehicles, medical supplies intended for troop use) to any of the participating countries listed in the first bulleted item (too many to list); likely this support is at taxpayer's expense
- countries who have sent humanitarian aid (monetary, food, or any other supplies intended for civilians) to any of the participating countries listed in the first bulleted item (too many to list); likely this support is at taxpayer's expense
- countries who have officially abstained from involvement, but have had any form of support provided by a company which is headquartered or has manufacturing facilities in said country (not certain if they've official abstained, but Turkey comes to mind; Byraktars); the citizens would be the ones employed at these places, so they should get a say regarding what their work is going towards (even if that work is making the company a profit, so that it is capable of sending financial support)
- etc, etc
We're all the ones who bare the load from this and feel the impact. Those in our governments do not (at least in the third-party participant countries), as they are connections and wealth. Food or supply shortage, fuel price increases, or gas supply issues resulting in concern about whether there will be heat during the winter, all have minimal impact on those in power, regardless of what country you're in!
Therefore, the decision for a tribunal ought to be left to those impacted, especially those directly impacted like Ukrainians and even Russians. This is a war which has far-reaching impacts, even on those who have not a clue as to what's happening, which is why the everyday people need to be who decides. Because some of our governments have shown that they don't quite represent their people's interests, despite claiming their actions are, and can't be relied on in a situation like this (the UN has done precious little to help out or to end things, for example).
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Stay strong. Stay united. Stay alive. STAY UKRAINIAN!
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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I'm all for keeping an open mind for this kind of thing, but Gaetz and MTG โtwo of the most toxic politiciansโ bring a huge yikes-factor to this otherwise legitimate proposal.
BUT, you made some good points. The one you made in the intro is certainly very eyebrow raising! Just goes to show that, regardless of which side you're affiliated with, our government is quite fucked up...
Things that should-be, or that you'd think to be common-sense, aren't, when it comes to our government. (yet, the same can be said for alot of us, as well, so it's really our problem as a whole society)
I'm a unicorn though... I'm a gun-owning Democrat. (almost 15)
That being said, what I've seen in just the last year, our youth has unfortunately proven to us that they aren't in the necessary mindset and lack the required discipline to be owners of certain gun types. No, it's not a problem with every single person of youth, but it's enough of them that have made it a dangerous problem. As such, I see no legitimate reason why assault-grade weapons can't have the same limitation that is put on alcohol and legal drug use: 21.
Is even be alright with a system where an 30+ adult will vouch for a youth, to buy weapons, but where they become just as liable for punishment if said youth does something stupid. Just provides that extra bit of critical thinking on whether that kid's desire to own one, is for the right reasons (since obviously, anyone willing to go on a rampage isn't going to care what their own punishment is [if they live through it], whereas a cosigner definitely would)
Want to own a hunting rifle? I'm all for it! 5 shots is more than adequate, and if it isn't, then it should be motivation for you to practice, not motivation to own a gun with a high capacity magazine.
Whereas shotguns earn themselves a bit more freedom just through their inherent lack of accuracy (at higher distances; even rifled shottys suffer), so 8 shells isn't a big deal.
Anyways, bring on the hate. ๐
It's just as much your right to dislike my opinion and voice it, as it is my right to have an opinion and voice it! ๐๐
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It's funny how something we take for granted EVERY single day โour own armsโ happens to be an equally overlooked but no-less-important an item, that's been equally as important to things-that-needed-doing in space. โค๏ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐ช
"OOOH Ca-na-dARM, your articulation hath humbled meeee!
some-some-something, and the fewww whooo rode-on-it with gleeeee
It can walk itself, fr-o-m end-to-end, aaaal-lowing for space as-sem-bally!"
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I wonder if the remote "telepresence" manipulation happened to have a hand (sorry, eh!) in enabling doctors to perform remote, intricate and delicate surgeries on patients hundreds, to thousands, of miles away... ๐ค
If so, then that really does solidify the importance of the system!
And yes, I realize that it would've probably been NASA that created the remote operation system for the arm... but... I STILL attribute it all to Canada in the end, since without that arm one of their own companies had made, and without Canada's own agreement to participate... Well then, we possibly could have been without remote surgeries! ๐ค
But genuinely, all jokes and speculation aside, my introductory sentiment is legitimate. My personal opinion is that without CanadARM, our endeavors in space would be SIGNIFICANTLY altered...
(and seriously, the fact the arm can walk itself around the ISS โalbeit not autonomously... I don't think?โ is both creepy and funny!)
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<insert Kylo Ren screaming "MORE!!" meme here>
Here's an idea for you, in this same vein...
Invite two or three of these industry veterans who worked together, or even just at ILM but maybe at different times, to just sit down to reminisce like this! With all of those who have worked at ILM/32Ten, this could be many many episodes worth of content... content that would need little editing, if any, I bet!
Where to do it, I don't know... Maybe at Adam's place, if Adam's better-3/4s (to borrow from @AvE) would be okay with it?
But no specific topic other than share interesting (Star?) War stories ๐
Because as we're seeing here, the conversation kind of takes care of itself! One story inspires another, or might inspire Adam to ask a question, rinse and repeat!
These people not only have a goldmine of very interesting stories to tell about all the films (and probably shows!) that we all love dearly.... BUT they have stories that deserve to be told! Without these fine people, we wouldn't have the films we have such fond memories of โ at least not as we know them โ so this can sorta be their time in the limelight, in a sense...
I'll gladly shell out $30 to help buy snacks or libations (granted, not that it'd go very far currently), if it'd help make it happen!!
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edit: THAT ENDING SENTIMENT! I typed this before that point in the video, but that sure drives my point home! ๐
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Zelenskyy is a very smart individual (any who claim otherwise it's a hater or a troll), and I can honestly see this move it trying to court China, solely as a way to coax some Western countries into contributing more to this effort. At the end of the day, way more COULD be contributed, than is being... basically, current contributions are slightly above "bare minimum" in my opinion.
So if saying they're willing to get in bed with China, lights a fire under our counties' collective asses, then I say bravo! ๐๐ ๐
Talk is cheap, and at the end of the day, even if China DOES offer support (regardless of the type; monetary or physical goods), Zelenskyy can always refuse it for <insert polite reason>!
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ย @afridgetoofar1818ย Winning is the key word.
That is a present tense term, and means things are in a state of flux. Hence the saying 'You may have won the battle, but the war is far from over."
Which, as others have pointed out, Russia is getting their assess kicked! This is so easy to determine, too!
Are you the aggressor?
If yes: Are you taking a lot of ground easily, every day?
If no: You're probably losing or are reaching a stalemate...
Are you taking heavy losses?
If no: Stalemate imminent; reassess the situation.
If yes: You're losing; Fuhrer-Tsar Voldemort Puddin
instructs you to open emergency kit and
consume contents of compartment labeled
Objekt B.
If yes: Are you taking heavy losses during minimal costs progress?
If yes: Something is wrong; hold position and radio
your report to command. Meanwhile, Fuhrer-Tsar
Voldemort Puddin instructs you to open emergency
kit and consume contents of compartment
labeled Objekt B.
If no: Good job comrade. Press forward even harder!
Repeat the above, replacing initial question with the following:
- Are you the a nuclear power with superior manpower?
- Are you fighting on territory that belonged to a prior empire of your country, with potential allied forces who can assist?
- Do you have a giant stockpile of supplies, weapons, and vehicles?
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ย @afridgetoofar1818ย I can't fault you for not wanting to read my message and follow the pathing.
However, how aren't you a troll? No sane person or democratic country is siding with Russia in this war, so why are you?
I mean I already agreed with you that they're currently winning... The problem is, we're only talking about their status during the initial part of the war up to now. The score is not a clean sweep like your making it out to be, as their current situation that is only thanks to a decent initial push...
However, they HAD a lot more territory in the north east, but somehow managed to lose it! That was back when they weren't even properly supplied yet, either!
Plus, let's not forget the enormous "lawl wut?!" in the room... The fact that Russia has managed to lose something like a dozen of their GENERALS! That many top brass getting killed (or succumbing to injuries) is literally unprecedented, especially in modern times with the level of communicative Russia should've had at their disposal...
This isn't even counting the however many, 6? 8? that ended up being fired by ol Puddin! That alone shows you the ineptitude of the Russian military! But THEN they lose not one, but TWO flagship naval vessels. ๐ณ I could then bring up the fact that Ukraine has manage to double their armor thanks to this rampant ineptitude, through capturing Russia's own armor, sometimes having been just abandoned due to running out of fuel! Or what about the some-33,000 soldiers killed, or even better, that some soldiers are surrendering....
Pfft "winning"... Get the fuck out of here with that! ๐คฃ๐คฃ
This is very very much a chess match war, and I personally think I'm starting to see how Ukraine is going to be playing it after what's been going on the last few weeks. Which is why a smart person won't boast about Russia's CURRENT status in the war, because I'm only in agreement with you based on land gain!
In the real world, Russia is losing, and quite badly, in part because of the list of reasons I've already given. Again, though, that was facing a Ukraine that was weaker than they are now... and as their allies become more and more impressed on how they handle themselves, and more and more confident in their abilities, they're going to be lending better and better toys. So it very much isn't about how this have gone thus far, no, it's now only about the end result! Which right now, if you don't factor in occupied territory, Russia is losing badly... it's only when you include it that things appear better, but ONLY is that an appearance. ๐
So yea. Preach their current standing all you want. Because that "winning" status right now is but only by a fractional amount! Which they're only managing because of a) having a greater number in the beginning, and b) having no morals, which means they have no qualms about killing civilian's (you know, those same people they were supposedly liberating?), and doing so with weapons that most civilized countries have agreed shouldn't be used due to collateral damage or causing inhumane suffering.
To bring this to a close... The reality is, that even if Russia were to take the ENTIRETY of Ukraine...
RUSSIA
HAS STILL
LOST
Because this war has lost them any shred of trust or respect the rest of the world has for them, and will remain gone for at least as long as Puddin draws a breath. ๐
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
Viva la Russoluciรณn - rise up against your tyrannical oppressor! โ๐ท๐บ
[thus concludes my longest comment ever]
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ย @escutusย Yea, and, he probably has GPS on by default, just to make it easier! (though, I'm not sure if the carrier has access to that, or just "Emergency Services"... ๐ค)
Also this just occurred to me, too!! ๐คฃ
Either... Ukrainians have a standing order to keep paying their cellphone bills even after they've been stolen, just so that the thief (Russian soldier) will be able to help out (by giving away their position)...
OR
Ukraine's telecom company/ies exempted all Ukrainians from having to pay their bills during this conflict; therefore, (potentially) any phone with the carrier's SIM will work, no matter what.
I know the gov't did tell everyone to inform them of their number, if (*cough* when) your phone has been stolen, but I never even thought about the bill aspect until now... ๐ (furthest thing from my mind when watching news about this conflict! heh)
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(edit: fixed major grammatical errors ๐คฆโโ๏ธ oof lol)
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ย @jeep146ย In this case, no. In quite a number of other cases, they actually have. (at least based on the many calls the Insights channel has shared)
You have to keep in mind that the more cell towers there are, the easier it is to triangulate where a cellphone roughly is. BUT ALSO, these soldiers end up using these phones a lot, for texting as well no doubt, and so over the course of days, weeks, months... A very detailed picture gets painted of who this person is. Pair that with the fact that in a lot of calls, at least a first name gets shared, sometimes a surname as well. In those instances, you now have pretty much everything you need when it comes to determining who might have committed a war crime. Or at the very least, who was in the vicinity and could have witnessed a fellow soldier commit them.
(this sort of thing has already helped them in identifying culprits, but I don't know the specifics of "how", so everything above is just my own deductive reasoning from knowing enough about the technical side)
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โย @cbalan777ย I think the mixup is your usage of "dull". Dull knife is still "sharp" as it can still cut you very easily, but it doesn't good through stuff with ease.
Sounds like you're talking about something that is more akin to being "blunt"... Somewhere between a letter opener and "dull".
However, dull and blunt can still cut you, but they indeed are far worse.
I was helping my neighing remove the mower blade from his rider's deck, as he hit a rock and it left jagged piece protruding from it... said protrusion was arguably dull.
Yet, as the nut came off, I slipped, and sort of filleted the back of my hand on it. Only about 1.25in gash, but it penetrated and cut me good, except I didn't feel it. Wasn't until me neighbor pointed out I was bleeding profusely that I was even aware of the fact! lol
I needed stitches and got a scar (and very very minor nerve damage). A bandaid would NOT have sufficed
Whereas, I cut myself numerous times with VERY sharp knives, and sometimes deep; however, because the cut is SO CLEAN, I've learned I do not need stitches, I just need a bandaid and Neosporin. Leave it on for 2-3 days before changing it to ensure it has started to heal. These rarely leave scars. I've learned to not goto the urgent care for stitches in these because when I DID one, I got stitches, and it left a scar!
But yea, the sharper the better, as it might cut deeper but it'll do "less damage", which means it'll heal better and faster.
The best scalpels now use Sapphire blades for this exact reason: insanely sharp, heals super fast AND cleanly (comparative to a metal scalpel).
But otherwise, as my previous comment attests to, a "blunt" object is perfect for opening boxes! So I can agree with you there, that sharp is not needed at all.
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Sounds like they need to have a non-mannequin mannequin. Use flat-stock steel to act as the skeleton and keep it rigid... THEN use air bladders with fabric to give it the needed human figure shape.
This way you can easily move in the various sections (ie: foot, lower leg, knee, upper leg, all individual), and then inflate them one by one as they go along. Just use of the shelf laptop Hard Disk Drive magnets sewn to the bladders, to attach them to the steel frame.
If a bladder cracks and leaks, easy to replace by deflating the others, which can be left in situ, then replace the bad one! ๐
That green and black looks killer though! Looks better than orange... although, I get why, for rescue purposes. Also a shame that white is so important for keeping them cool (for the EVA variant suits, that is), as this would be a great Space Marine color โ that'll be a legitimate thing one day, there's no escaping the inevitable! lol
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Thank you, Adam. Sincerely :)
It has taken me until this video -- mind you, this was never something on my mind except during the MB episode, and now while watching this -- to understand why the conveyor belt is COMPLETELY MOOT for impacting a plane's ability to flat out move, nevermind generate enough momentum to generate lift and take off!!
[ TL; DR - It all comes down to the fact the plane has un-powered wheels that can spin at whatever speed the ground (conveyor) is moving. That, alone, negates whatever speed the conveyor belt might travel at, and from there it's the fact the plane moves due to its propeller as the reason why it'll be able to take off 99.999% of the time! ]
Even in your explanation here, I was still in the "it's impossible" mindset, adamantly so, up till halfway through the video when... *CLICK* it hit me...
It doesn't matter that the ground is moving. Even if it were moving at twice the speed the plane was traveling! The wheels on the plane are FREE SPINNING, and as such, the plane gives zero sh...irts... about what the ground is doing.
Why?
Because it comes back to what you said about what makes the CAR move... Friction!
There is not enough friction generated between the moving ground (conveyor belt) to impart any meaningful backwards force on the airplane, to negate it's forward momentum. The analog here for that to work would be to replace the conveyor belt with wind speed, and to impart the same amount of forward momentum as tail-wind.
BUT EVEN THEN, it's a word-game, just as you said!!!
Because now it comes down to: "Are you talking about forward speed (momentum), or are you talking about air speed traveling under the wings?" in the context of determining how much tail-wind to generate. Since the propeller is also adding a bit of lift (at least depending on the type of plane. Some have the propellers or even turbine engines, positioned almost entirely above the wing in order to assist in shorter takeoff distances.
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Anyways, that's the end of my explanation from why it FINALLY makes sense for me :)
That being said, in true Mythbusters fashion, now it's time to REPLICATE THE EXPECTED RESULTS!
I can indeed think of at least one way in which the plane would not be able to "take off" if the surface it was on, was moving.... and that relies on the condition of it being the ENTIRE RUNWAY that's moving -- in other words, an aircraft carrier.
Granted, in this case, if keeping the same Ultralight Aircraft... it'd be more of a Dinghy in size.
Still, if on an average temperature and zero-wind day, that plane needs [Arbitrary Number Alert] 50ft of runway to gain the needed 25mph for take off... and you replaced it with a 50ft long falt-decked-boat that has enough horsepower to accelerate at a significant speed... THEN the runway would run out and that plane would plummet a couple feet down into the water! :)
In the Myth's case, it's the fact the conveyor belt is basically infinitely long in which the plane has no issue taking off. Only until you limit it to being "the same distance that it would usually take off in", does the plane fail.
Another way might be to have replaced the wheels, with skis/pontoons, and tried taking off under the same conditions. Were those apparatus would've, due to being stationary, given the conveyor significant enough friction to pull the plane backwards. But again, word play, and that wasn't how the myth was worded, and the majority of planes on Earth use wheels for that exact reason: lower coefficient of friction! :D
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ย @tracruzย Ah, but you see, here's the fundamental component you have overlooked - THE WHEELS ARE IRRELEVANT!
Seriously. This could be performed with skis and now you have nothing that rotates! There no circumference to apply, hell, there's no rotation going on now...
It's physics, as you said. The conveyor belt and the wheels are a mental "red herring" in a sense, because we humans are land travelers by nature and our feet are like a vehicle wheels, our leg muscles like an engine. So as we walk, it's like a car engine turning wheels and we move.
A plane, it's the PROPELLER that is akin to our feet, the wheels are only they're to help counteract gravity by providing a lower friction against the ground, so that the engines need less initial power to brute force the plane across the ground. ๐
Also, an "infinitely powerful vehicle pulling the plane", as long as:
1] the vehicle was not also on the conveyor belt
2] the conveyor speed matched the plane's
Then, the plane wouldn't even NEED its engine to take off.
However, if you are implying that the tow vehicle would be on the belt, too, then we'd cause a crash... lol Because the plane is going to pull itself through the air with its propeller, gain speed, and crash into the tire vehicle which would be sitting still (provided belt speed matches vehicle's wheel speed).
It's a good counter argument, and I appreciated the thought put in, as it in turn required me to think on order to debunk it. But yea, low-friction skis in place of wheels is crux to your argument ๐ฅด๐
Just as a bonus thought for you, consider this: planes can even take off from a steep incline, as their engines are able to fight gravity and allow them to gain enough speed, permitting their wings to generate the necessary lift for them to then... takeoff! ๐ค
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I'm not 100% on this, but my understanding is that our ICBMs are all ancient currently, nothing brand new.
We have plans for new, modern ones, but nothing that's been signed off on yet as far as I'm aware. These SRB โ solid rocket boosters โ are used on rockets to get to space, the biggest client being the SLS which uses 2 of the same ones the Shuttle used, but with an extra segment (taller and thereby burn longer; "same" because the first launch used ones with reused casings from a Shuttle launch).
It's possible they make the rocket motors for smaller munitions, but yea... reporting that it was a plant behind cruise missiles and then ICBMs is not very good reporting. ๐
When there's massively conflicting news like this Matt, you CANNOT commit factually to the reporting! Ya gotta speak in uncertainties when the legwork to confirm the truth isn't being done. So in this case, using "supposedly" and "apparently" conveys that you are just the messenger and cannot confirm the details you're relaying. You need to maintain your own credibility, after all! Half-truths and untruths are not what you want to be reporting in a "matter of fact" sort of way like what happened today.
Sorry to rag and be so critical, but I don't want to see you guys lose credibility as a new source. ๐
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I'm onboard with the standardizing of terms for differentiating them.
However, I do have to ask: wouldn't this technically be called AK-12 Gen 2 Version 1, with the updated one you mentioned being AK-12 Gen 2 Version 2
Why?
Well, "AK-12", for obvious reasons
But "Gen 2" because technically there WAS an earlier (pre-2015?) AK-12 that had been fully developed but a combination of military dislike of certain aspects (cost being one of them, but apparently the more M4-like thumb safety/fire-select as well), and failing acceptance trials, it was mostly scraped.
They then decided to keep certain aspects about it, such as the 2-shot burst, electronic optics and night vision attachment (which Brandon lacks), floating barrel, and new gas block/port (apparently 'adjustable').
Then "Ver 1" (version) for being the first released variant, where subsequent variants can step up another number, or minor differences can even step by a smaller decimal of one wants (but that's asking for confusion).
The question would then become, whether or not including the caliber is necessary? It comes in both 5.45mm or 7.62mm, with only the barrel needing to be swapped. It seems unnecessary to bother indicating that, though, since everything about the gun (apparently) is identical parts.
But yea, I don't know how many of the prior "generation" were made, or whether they were provided to any infantry in limited numbers, and if so whether any still survived after it was canceled... If the answer is anything like "less than five exist", I doubt it's worth the trouble to differentiate, and if anything they can be dubbed "prototype".
So that's my non-expert 2 cents on the matter! โบ๏ธ๐ฅด
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Please, Biden, I beg of you as one of your people... stop letting Russia dictate the terms, and SEND IN OUR TROOPS!
Voldemort Puddin has threatened using neighborhood buster tactical nukes, but there's so many factors that make even that so unlikely... even with how unhinged he is!!
For starters, "war" has not been declared, so it's not within his power to issue the use of them (not that "what's in writing" means anything to them; see "Budapest Memorandum" where they, along with the US and UK, agreed to PROTECT Ukraine from invasions). So he'd be liable to get ousted of he did...
Then there's the BIGGER fact that Puddin wants the land, for his people to live on and farm... Irradiating even pockets of land serves no purpose, and arguably pockets would be worse since you'd still be effectively making large areas needing to be No Man's Land. I think the cockup with their soldiers entrenching into the land around Chornobyl, had taught them a valuable lesson about what sort of ramifications they're are when it comes to radiation! There's also the issue of wind and that it could blow radiation back across the border into Russia.
Then, going so far as to think he'd try strategic nukes... Yea, he might be paranoid, but being paranoid is also a good sign, because it means he wants to stay alive! Using strategic nukes would certify his death. If not through a retaliatory nuke, then through someone in his own government, because we know they would want to stay living, and he'll have shown to no longer be trustworthy.
While important, I personally believe that the use of a tactical size nuke in this situation, when all the US is doing would be providing manpower for driving back Russia, that it would be a show of weakness as opposed to strength.
"We stand no chance holding back the US infantry, our military would be cut to shreds, so we have to ruin the land in order to defeat them."
Yes, so stronk... That's like picking a fight, and the person's bigger brother turns up, and suddenly you're not as much of a badass like you've bragged about... so you decide to run the bigger brother over with your car. ๐
But I digress, we can once again sit back, sending only hardware for their dwindling and tired forces to utilize, hoping they can at least stop Russia from taking anyMORE ground... and then pray Russia doesn't do this again in another 5-10 years.... SPOILER: THEY ABSOLUTELY WILL! If not with Ukraine, it'll be against some other neighbor. Because we'll have shown to be complacent by that point! (unless we have some black ops shit going down right now, I do feel we're being complacent even with everything we're supplying -- which is all that's keeping Ukr's head above water right now, but isn't nearly enough, unfortunately).
In the end, I think it's worth the risk by sending troops. They are not to cross into Russia (that would be war), and to play it safe, can't come within 2.5mi of it.
But if we let this continue, this are only going to get a lot worse, and the "bread basket" issue will only be the start! (especially if Russia gains any sort of foothold as a grain source in the world market)
If we end up in the apocalypse, I'll be able to hold my head high by knowing we at least stood up for someone's freedom. O7 ๐บ๐ฒ
Ukrainians:
Stay strong. Stay united. Stay alive. STAY UKRAINIAN!
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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I graduated in 2001, but my suburban highschool had:
- wood working
- metal fab (welding and using the lathes)
- small engines (rebuilding; lawn mower size)
- large engine rebuilding (vehicles)
- auto maintenance (typical vehicle preventative maintenance).
We also had a Draughting class (blueprint work; we designed a house) as well as AutoCAD modeling parts (software) and Image Editing (using photoshop).
I'm sure there was quite a few more, as those were just the "elective" (non-mandatory) classes I personally was in. ๐
The junior-high I went to had a Home Economics, but I didn't take that.
It also had a... class I don't remember the name of... but was sort of engineering related because we built balsa wood towers and had a competition to see whose could hold the most weight. Then after that segment, we built some wood sheds.
I'd be surprised if my highschool didn't offer them, but it's possible a couple were stopped... All those I listed, one teacher did everything except Wood, small engine, large engine, and auto maintenance! So that's a LOT of positions that needed to be filled when he retired... Meaning a lot more money since at best you'd have 2 teachers, 3 most likely though. ๐
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ย @johnathanclayton2887ย I haven't any idea what the OP's comment is about, either. However, I don't make it a point to immediately assume that just because I'm not familiar with someone/something that a comment references, that said comment is automatically computer generated...
However, I'm a normal, well rounded human, and when met with that sort of situation, I do one of two things:
- Copy and paste it into Google to determine if it matches. (spoiler: there are hit that would've filled you in, as I did just that right now!)
- Or, you know, to POLITELY ASK THE PERSON! ๐
You'd be surprised how well people respond to that last one. Much better than they would to accusations of them being flesh and blood. heh
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ย @CptJistuceย Yea, it's unfortunate. I'm on the autoKaren shitlist as well, although I recently got them to relax her grip on me after I went absolutely ballistic in a feedback. The system removed my 2 sentence comment on Alex's video that went live on Veteran's Day, where all I did was thank him, along with all the other men and women in the comments, for their service... (I dropped so many f-bombs in that feedback lol I was genuinely pissed)
It'd be one thing if they INFORMED us about our comment being moderated, whether it by the automoderation system or a channel's human moderator/owner... but they don't. The only way we find out is either being summoned back through a notification and seeing it's gone, or to wait the 45s it takes and refresh (on mobile, you just need to leave that thread and come back, as that 'refreshes' the comments in it).
As much as I hate being on this side of it... I still can't say that it's not necessary. There's are definitely times where people deserve to have their comment(s) removed, or even their account jailed. Problem is, the majority of us are on said shitlist for illegitimate reasons. Myself, for example, I'm on it because Russians dislike my pro-Ukr sentiments and report me (us) for them. In this instance, the automoderation system has been literally weaponized against innocent people. That's not how YT intended the system to be used! Which when the Dislike video count was abused, they disabled it... Kinda sounds like they need to address this, too. ๐
Anyways, happy Thanksgiving, to you and everyone else here. ๐ป
[/Thanksgiving Ramble]
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ย @DazHotep6EQUJ5ย ....You don't even stop to think about the stuff you're parroting, do you....? ๐
TL;DR - Think of it this way, instead:
Swearing == Same-Sex Marriage
LEFT? Go for it! Whatever makes you happy!
RIGHT? UNACCEPTABLE! You filthy heathen!
Not that you'll read this, but I'll make the effort and hope you do, so allow me to break it down with definitions of the words...
Left = Liberal
ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย Liberal =
ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย 1. willing to respect or accept behavior or opinions
ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย different from one's own; open to new ideas.
ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย 2. relating to or denoting a political and social philosophy
ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย that promotes individual rights, civil liberties,
democracy, and free enterprise.
ย ย ย ย Similar: "tolerant", "unprejudiced", "unbigoted"
Right = Conservative
ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย Conservative =
ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย 1. averseย to change or innovation and holding
traditional values.
ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย 2. (in a political context)ย favoringย free enterprise, private
ownership, andย sociallyย traditional ideas.
Similar: "unchanging", "traditionalist"
IN THIS context...
"The Left" โor 'rabid left' as you put itโ would have ABSOLUTELY NO ISSUES with swearing, because they realize that censoring swear words isn't keeping with modern times (it's not progressive thinking).
Whereas "The Right" would be HIGHLY OFFENDED by such language, as traditionally those things were never spoken except by lower class people.
Or to dumb it down for you even further...
Swearing == Same-Sex Marriage
LEFT? Go for it! Whatever makes you happy!
RIGHT? UNACCEPTABLE! You filthy heathen!
edit: fixed formatting errors
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I feel like "The Doctor Is In" needs to be EXTERNAL, maybe mounted on or above the door... WITH A CONTACT SWITCH in the door jam! That way, anytime someone's using the bathroom, the globe illuminates ๐
Also Adam (or Tested employee, if you could ask him)... Bit of an odd question but: you have any interest in a new Northwest Airlines coverall, circa late-00s (just before Delta bought them)? If so, let me know!
My dad worked there for >30yrs and used up all his clothing credits before accepting Delta buyout's early-retirement offer... ๐ Sadly, I'm a bigger build than my dad and so they're a little snug, as such I would be happy to part with one of them if you'd like it. They're dark gray with red trim and embedded retroreflective stitching. Has a double ended zipper (๐คทโโ๏ธ heh), chest pocket, side pockets plus pass-through pockets to access your pants, and then back pockets. Likely has the IAM union patch still, and then a Northwest patch.
(if a 80s/90s is more appealing, there might be one at our cabin I could nab... albeit not new, obviously lol)
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My solution is to have two miniature "CanadArms" in the trunk, which exit out from side doors between the fins on the one side (side the other side is solar panels).
One would be used to grab onto Hubble; ie a docking arm.
The other, would be for the astronaut to strap on to and affix themselves for work, just as the original CanadArm on the Shuttle (and now ISS), as outlined in the video.
They would need to be equipped with many more joints (elbows) though, in order to pack away into the trunk. In not sure if this would be though if as a drawback, or even a non-starter due to so many potential failures points... (anyone know if the CanadArm ever had any on-orbit failures?)
It would allow the same sort of 90sec-to-Hubble orientation, which would put the side-hatch closer.
Additionally, the arm(s) would be much more central, allowing it to be right at the hatch, to strap on to, so no handrails needed.
Furthermore, there would still be trunk space, and a couple upgrades could technically go up on the same boosting mission. Once the arms are extended, access to that storage space would be open, and from two different doors. Making a second astronaut could theoretically assist. ๐
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ย @sweetvictory5643ย I think I heard of that, yea.
Which indeed, none of them seem to have, or show, any remorse for what they've done to Ukraine and her people. Only that they're unhappy with the situation their government has created, due to how shitty it's been them!
At the end of the day, they still consider Ukrainians as lessers, giving zero shits about what happens to them. ๐
If Russians only knew the reality of it all, where they're not staring out a window at their dysfunctional neighbors always causing problems........ but are actually looking in a mirror at themselves! That it's not neighbors, but their own family who are the dysfunctional troublemakers... ๐
If only...
Sสแดแด แด Uแดสแดษชษดษช, Hแดสแดสแดแด Sสแดแด แด! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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Oh my poor, dear Scott... Have you not heard of the Butterfly Effect? The Meteorite clearly entered the atmosphere, yadda yadda, scared a squirrel, which fell out of the tree and landed on a horse, startled the horse with a cattle rancher atop, who was taking a shot at coyote, which ended up firing at a 45ยฐ angle, striking a distant light aircraft, that had to divert for an emergency landing due to mechanical issues, and clipped a large migrating bird, that collided with a power line, causing a power surge, that made the lights dim, spooking the owner's dog, that ran into a coffee table, knocking over a lit candle...... CAUSING THE HOUSE FIRE!
So you see? The meteorite DID cause the house to burn down! ๐
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ย @babadook-qr6pvย Whatever helps you to cope, man.
After seeing what's played out in Ukraine, I'm not even certain Russia is in the top 5 strongest, militarily! Even if they are, they're DEFINITELY not in possession of a military with intellectual leaders of strategists. Or, if they do, they are certainly not listening to what they're saying! ๐
If the impression we in ""the West"" has of Russia's military power, had been accurate... Ukraine wouldn't have lasted as long as they did.
Even with outside help like they have gotten, Ukraine should not have made it beyond a year... And yet, here we are...
Russia is NOT winning this war. Not by any means. Right now, it's at a bit of a stalemate, BUT, one that is favoring Ukraine, not Russia!
But listen, if telling yourself Russia is somehow still a military superpower or that they are winning this war, helps you cope with how things really are... I'm ok with that. Whatever helps you sleep better at night. ๐ But please, do yourself a favor and don't say those things in public or online, because it just isn not true and it makes you look foolish. ๐
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ย @austinsloop9774ย It's wild all the things EVs can do, compared to the "electric motor, battery, and throttle" that they used to be! (hybrids included)
It's also funny how we've come full circle... The first, or one of the first motorized vehicles, we're actually electric.
The batteries of the time obviously lacked the energy density needed to make them practical, which is basically what always held us back. It's too bad that they never utilized turbines as the powerplant in a hybrid. Granted, there's the issue of noise, which was one of the issues in the 50s/60s that those endeavors back (I don't think any were turbine/electric hybrids though).
While I'm rambling, might as well mention the craziness that is the Cadillac W.T.F. - "World Thorium Fuel" hybrid concept car...
That used thorium as a โข๏ธ powerplant! Straight out of the Fallout universe! Save for the fact that I'm pretty sure those were steam driven and not electric... And also the fact that Cadillac would have been working on it LONG before Fallout 3 came out.
(FO3 because my research shows that the vehicles in the original 2 games from the 90s, were battery powered instead of nuclear powered)
[/ramble] ๐
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ย @markbirmingham6011ย A fair and arguably accurate assessment, yes.
In a reply to someone I'd made a few days back, who deemed abortions as "murder", the initial way I had classified an abortion (and fetus, by association; pre said 'viable' point), was that of being an "abdominal growth removal".
An admittedly much less crass way to refer to it than my boiling it down so far as to say "parasitic".
That's all said is to mean: yes, autonomy over one's body is basic human right that's been taken away.
Which, yea yea, the knee-jerk counter to that would obviously be "isn't that the same thing happening when an abortion is performed?"
To which I'd say: not until the fetus has reached the aforementioned viable gestational period.
The whole issue is that it's long been framed that having a child with someone is "bringing a life into this world". I think that's the best mindset to be in when thinking about this.
Back in the day (mmm pre-1800s?), before the world's population kept growing exponentially, the thought of terminating any life was -- at least to me -- justified just by the fact that it was so easy for a life to be lost due to what we now think of as 'trivial ailments'.
Hopefully this .gov link doesn't flag my post, but it really illustrates what I mean (which they seem to agree with my 1800s date):
https://info.nicic.gov/ces/2020/global/population-demographics/worldometers-world-population-clock
Switch to present day, and there's 8-friggen-billion of us. An upset in just I've country (Ukraine) ends up throwing the worldwide food supply out of balance.
We already have enough issues with poverty, mouths to feed, and people who are in both situations but still don't care enough to use protection, ending up bringing another 1, 2, 3 lives into the world.
Then, done of those who aren't able to cope with getting an abortion (which I can emphasize with, despite the impression I may have given), put their child up for adoption... Either because they flat out didn't want a child, weren't ready to be a parent, or didn't feel they could give them the life they feel they deserved.
And frankly, that's their right to have the child and put it into the system. There are plenty of people who are unable to have children, but would like one. However, even if that number is far greater than the number of children in our system... THERE'S FAR MORE available in the worldwide adoption system!
That's not the only takeaway... The more relevant one is its "their right" to make that choice.
So where's the logic in taking away someone else's right to have an abortion? Where's the fairness in it...
In a FREE COUNTRY, like the US was up until overturning RvW, you should have the freedom to choose.
- Do not agree with abortions, for whatever reason (be it religious or otherwise)? You are not required, nor obligated, to ever have one! You are even free to not associate with anyone who has had one, or supports them, if you feel that strongly.
- Are ambivalent on the matter? You are free to have the child and give it up for adoption! You are also free to include yourself as the birth parent, should that person want to seek you out when they are older... Or not, as you're free to leave yourself off the form.
- Are someone that has no qualms with it, or perhaps isn't thrilled by it yet recognizes it's in your best interests to not have the child? You are free to have the abortion, if that's the case! THE STATE YOU JUST MOVED TO/HAVE LIVED IN NO LONGER ALLOWS THEM. SORRY, NOT SORRY.
- Have been the victim of an unspeakable atrocity, and the fact you cannot live with the idea of bringing a life into the world that shares DNA with that despicable criminal, regardless of your conventional opinion about abortions? You are still free to have one, for your own mental health's sake! SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE, BUT YOUR STATE NO LONGER ALLOWS THEM, OR FOR YOU TO LEAVE TO HAVE ONE, BUT YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY SEE A PSYCHOLOGIST AND/OR COUNSELOR SINCE YOU SEEM LIKE YOU MIGHT NEED IT...
And I haven't even gotten into my points about the numerous personal financial ramifications of this, or that a person's mental health might be completely wrecked for the bodily changes that occur for a lot of folks, as not everyone returns to their pre-pregnancy appearance (and not everything can, either; scars, torn skin, ruptures, and other things that happen just from/during giving birth).
That can be saved for a later time... This content is long enough!
(see why I gave myself the title: "Duke of Ramble"? ๐)
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ย @markbirmingham6011ย [I feel your pain with being locked into a reply and unable to re-read what you're responding to! My crude trick is to press-and-hold on your text and press "Select All", then repeat but press "Copy". Now you can discard the message, read whatever is needed, then simply hit Reply, press-and-hold in the text box, and select "Paste". Note: if you're directly replying to someone, the Select All step will include their name, so after Pasting your text, run to the top and delete the second instance of the person's name (it'll be normal looking text). Admittedly not ideal, but it's better than our current option of 'discarding'! ๐]
I can't discount the fact that you make valid points or that I'd learned something. Granted, if never really thought about it since I had no reason/need to, but I always figured that with drugs, the legality came down to possession and not one's choice to use it. I was just about to respond with saying "I don't think you are being kept from using illegal substances, only the purchase, possession, or production of them."
Alas, being as I'm not one who likes misinformation, particularly coming from me but also by others, so I quickly checked... and sure enough, some are illegal to even take/use, so you were right. ๐๐
I'm certainly not above admitting when I'm wrong!
So on that note, I could hypothetically be wrong about every reason I have for why I think abortion needs to be legal, but I guess at the end of the day, the comical reality is that I'm no different from the religious pro-lifers because deep-down I just feel that it should always be a choice, and that taking it away is wrong. Simply because there are no tangible ramifications for our species and society with abortions continuing to be legal, whereas making them illegal could -- and I'd argue it ultimately would -- lead to overpopulation and in turn the passing of laws like China had that limited family size.
But I cannot see the tangible ramifications for why they should be illegal, as it only seems to boil down to spiritual or philosophical. The former of which is.... well, I'm not going to go there... lol I attended catholic school for the first 10 years of school (preschool through 8th) and so my disbelief in all religions was solidified long ago!
The latter, though, it at least bases itself in reality; however, I still don't find those points valid.
Murder of a person, is a wrong act. You are taking away an established life*, someone's family member; a parent, child, sibling, etc. A life that was offering a positive contribution to others in some way, be it joy, labor, or by passing along knowledge. (granted, that all is applicable to even the "bad apples" in our societies)
[" established life, as in anyone who was 'born']
An accidental pregnancy (or worse, in the case of rape), none of that is being taken away. The POTENTIAL for that is taken away by an abortion, but off hand I can't think of much where "alternate realities" become a valid basis for a court case.
"Well your honor, by then having an abortion, we MIGHT
have lost out on someone who could've cured X, Y, Z;
however, we will never know on account of the parent's
decision to terminate the pregnancy! I hereby call for
they be sentenced to 5 million years in prison!"
Either way, I've concluded that my involvement in this issue is irrelevant. Whatever my or your opinions are on the matter, they're unfortunately moot and irrelevant, as SCotUS does not answer to The People. Politicians are not held accountable for never making good on things they promised which got them elected. So it's in my best interest to not even bother debating it, since I'm firm in my view and I highly doubt anything I saw will manage to sway the opinion of anyone else. Therefore, why stress over sharing my opinion on the first place. ๐
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ย @TheZachary86ย re: Iranian drones, attaching energy infrastructure, and ever-changing battlefield.
Ugh dude, you're making yourself look stupid, now...
Attacking the energy infrastructure really only impacts the civilians in this war! Therefore, it's still very much akin to wasting a Khalibir on a Swingset, as the end result is the same.
Attacking the infrastructure is a good plan.... in WWII lol
Today, we have efficient backup generators. The ability to recharge communication devices by solar power. Lightweight, high-capacity battery packs. The ability to transport objects and resources faster and in less time.
FURTHERMORE, Ukraine isn't manufacturing (the majority of) their equipment and munitions in-country, where disruption to the electrical grid would in turn shut down critical machinery needed to accomplish those tasks. Creation of their ever-importsnt drone squadrons can be โand IS being, at timesโ done with little more than unpowered hand tools, some candles (but ideally, flashlights), and a battery powered laptop!
So at the end of the day, it's actually Ukraine who has been constantly changing the battlefield, and at every step Russia has been failing to adapt... continually throwing everything but the kitchen sink at Ukraine, both old and new, their own and other's, conventional and banned (dumb-cluster munitions, flechettes, white phosphorus rockets/bombs, non-self detonating anti-personnel mines, and probably more I've forgotten or not seen). Yet, Ukrainians weather their storms, brush the dust off each time, and push back even harder.
Russia is doomed, both in terms of winning this war, and arguably as a country, after Putin has been removed from power. It'd just be nice if they would recognize this sooner, rather than later...
RUSKIES: ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ ะ ะพััะธะธ ััะปะฐ. ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ ะณะตัะพัะผ ะฃะบัะฐะธะฝั! ๐ค๐ท๐บ๐ฅ
BELAWANNABES: ะกะปะฐะฒa ะฝะตะปัะณะฐ ะฝั ัะบัะฐััั, ะฝั ัะทััั! ๐ซ ๐ง๐พ๐๏ธ
BROTHERS: ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ ะฃะบัะฐัะฝั, ะะตัะพัะผ ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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I'm nowhere near that, but have routinely been on the computer since ~98. I actually learned to type "properly" in school in the early/mid 90s, but that never really took and I was a hunt-n-peck typer for quite awhile. However, since I was online for so much of the day when home, after school, work, or with friends, I ended up developing my own method of typing.
I stemmed from gaming, where left hand was on WASD, pinky on Shift; right hand was on mouse but often had to hit enter so my R-pinky was there and the rest were around the J, K, L keys. Thankfully I have looking fingers, so what keys were in "no man's land" could still be easily reached
DESPITE THAT, I still managed to be able to be in am online game as needed and without looking, type messages, with perfect grammar and spelling (most typos caught since I was looking at the screen).
All this is to say: there were indeed occasions where my mom would step into my room, and my TV (computer screen) was only a few degrees head turn from the door. So she would be talking to me as I was watching her, and finishing a thought in my head in chat. A couple times over the years she had asked "what are you doing?" due to the fact I was typing and looking at her whilst she talked to me ๐คฃ
"Typing a message to <person's name>" was always the response (as she knew the names of some of my online friends).
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A lot of us think they should just let it go, for exactly everything that's been happening the last 5 years... or however many since the first time it was delayed.
Because all this giant pork sausage does is cost multiple times more than what the soon-to-be-ready-yet-more-capable competition will, all whilst not being the Upgoer is supposed to be. If it's not one thing, it's another, or another...... or another... So might as well let it fly and show why it needs to be canceled! Everyone will get a spectacular show, either way, but at least a small bit of the absurd funding it consumes can be put towards meaningful projects!
After all, every. single. SLS. is going to cost around $2bn to make (again, NASA won't get access to that, but taxpayers won't have to keep paying for it), so why continue to pursue it when there will be cheaper and better alternatives - of which the program's end-goal still requires in order for they're to be boots back on the Moon?
If those senators refuse to let it die, then THEY can be the first passengers on their beloved Senator Lunch System ๐ (not like they're doing our country any good either way!)
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Mr. President Zelenskyy,
On behalf of the world โthe sane, humane citizens of it, at leastโ I must humbly disagree, BUT not in a negative way; nay, it's because our collective appreciation extends beyond your amazing Ukrainian Armed Forces... It most definitely extends to both you, Mr. Zelenskyy, AND every Ukrainian โ every new born baby, every child, young adult, and especially the elderly because so many of them refused to leave their home which sat on the land that is rightfully there's ! (who instead raised one, very important finger... ok and bag of sunflower seeds... at every Russian soldier that passed by! ๐๐๐ป)
The world is grateful to you ALL, for your steadfast resolve, courage, resilience, but most importantly: your humanity! Without that humanity, all you are doing is fighting. Even if the fight is over land that is rightfully that of the defenders, if one does so only with passion but not COMPASSION, then that fight is for selfish reasons (*coughPutin*).
Ukraine shows that humanity, that compassion! Most importantly is it being shown towards those despite having invaded her land, killed her soldiers, ravaged her towns, and committed countless war crimes against her people... Yet you still do it, because it is the RIGHT thing to do. _(also, let's be honest, because many of those soldiers, particularly since mobilization, have not been given a choice since either they go to be pointlessly killed, or they are pointlessly sent to prison for a good portion of their life; thus, one really can't help but feel a little sorry for them.)
You, your people, your country... For me, and I am ashamed to say it, Ukraine was almost completely an unknown to me. With the exception of knowing a tiny bit about your rocket industry, which after this is over I hope is able to return to doing the great things it had been, before this nonsense (and.... I also know of the embarrassing and unprofessional conduct of my [USA's] former-president, holding relief aid hostage in exchange for information regarding a personal vendetta of his ๐)
But I digress... Before, I knew little, and in turn I had "minded my own business" on the goings-on back then. As such, I had no opinion on those matters and thereby made no fuss about it. However, now I realize that you, along with everyone and everything that makes up Ukraine, deserved better. From me, but also my country, and I suspect many others, and their countries, now feel similarly...
For all of that, I HUMBLY APOLOGIZE... to you, your people, your country.
We've been trying to make good on our past failures, but I STILL wish we would do more, namely by officially sending in soldiers โ or at least offer incentives and support to our soldiers, to voluntarily fight as part of Ukraine's Foreign Legion, and not on behalf of the US or by any government order!
Instead, we cower, afraid of a madman resorting to nuclear use; either the small yield Tactical nukes (ie artillery), or the much bigger Strategic nukes (ie multi-warhead ICBMs). Which, personally, I feel those are all hollow threats and do not think he would ever go through with that, since it would certainly mean his demise, and the impression I've gotten is he likes where he is in life and does not want to lose it. So unleashing such, would either result in: him being internally dealt with by fellow members of his government and/or military, or his country overthrowing him by revolting, or a joint black ops mission by multiple countries to take him out. (Mind you, I can appreciate such restraint, if we were talking about North Korea... If fully expect THAT nutjob to launch everything he has, just to watch the world burn!)
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
(I know Zelenskyy will never read this even though I've addressed it to him, but, it's similarly addressed to everyone if Ukraine ๐๐)
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Yep, I said similar in another video.
I said that Putin needs to remain alive, locked away, and specifically in a hot and humid area (like 95F/35C, 90%+ & low dew-point).
Because a cold region, sure you suffer, but if too cold then your extremities become numb, and can at least exercise to help stay warm. However, hot and sweltering?? Even sitting still is miserable because you have sweat saturating all your clothes, and sleeping in that is just as miserable! ๐ So that humidity is key, as a dry heat is far more tolerable since at least then your sweat is able to do what it was designed to do: evaporative cooling.
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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HAHA Yes, Russia! DO THIS please, you absolute idiots!! ๐คฃ๐คฃ
This is like if people were going to hunt an animal. EXCEPT, instead of having to go out and find the animal, then wait patiently for it to come close...... You just walk out your front door and the animal comes right to you!! ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
Russia lacks the necessary competence in their military needed to pull this off successfully. So ALL this will do, is allow Ukraine to use decoys like they have been, and draw out these money hungry soldiers. Then? Ambush!
Poor, stupid Russia lol
It only you had watched STAR WARS you would already know:
"IT'S A TRAP!"
โGeneral Ackbar
RUSKIES:ย ย ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ ะ ะพััะธะธ ััะปะฐ. ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ ะณะตัะพัะผ ะฃะบัะฐะธะฝั! [The glory of Russia is gone. Glory to the heroes of Ukraine!] ๐ค๐ท๐บ๐ฅ
BELAWANNABES:ย ย ะกะปะฐะฒa ะฝะตะปัะณะฐ ะฝั ัะบัะฐััั, ะฝั ัะทััั! [Glory cannot be stolen, nor taken!] ๐ซ ๐ง๐พ๐๏ธ
UKR FRIENDS:ย ย ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ ะฃะบัะฐัะฝั, ะะตัะพัะผ ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ! [Glory to Ukraine, Glory to the Heroes!] โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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๐ฒ Ukraine, what have you done?! That's not liberating your territory... that's invading RUSSIA'S now-sovereign territory!! Don't you even know how annexations work? ยซchucklesยป It's serious business, which takes months of work and organizing, to come up with a referendum and then vote on it... Good god, man... are... are you trying to start a WAR?! ๐
lol It's so easy, that a just last week, I annexed Russia, in its entirety, as being part of the property my cabin is on up in Alaska! ๐๐
But yea, ๐๐๐ Putin and his ๐๐ฉ
Stay strong. Stay united. Stay alive. STAY UKRAINIAN!
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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ย @jamesstreet228ย ๐ค๐ค๐ค Or so we're meant to think that's what's going on........
The reality being that Puddin is a huge fan of the mature-audience cartoon "Archer" and has taken inspiration for creating a clone army of Cyber Barrys. The problem was that they needed even more electricity than initially projected...
This is obviously why they made a point to capture the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which is the largest Nuclear Power Facility in Europe, and coincidentally built by the Soviet Ruskies. Also I suspect why they went after Chernobyl, to keep it as an insane "try to get operational should Zapor's 5700 MW still not be enough" backup plan.
Which Zapor ended up being sufficient and is why they pulled out of Chernobyl... aside from their personnel getting sick, but that was no doubt due to Chernobyl's workers -- because you know Ukrainians are like, evil and stuff -- who managed to vent radioactive particles from the protective covering into all the nearby air!
But I digress...
The plan to make a cyberized super-soldier army ended up getting thwarted (temporarily at least) due to all the sanctions, preventing them from receiving the needed components.
HOWEVER, they were still able to field test a small batch of the cyber-soldiers! Did no one find it odd that the entire southern region was controlled by Russia except for a small "Ukrainian unit", the Azov Battalion, holed up in Mariupol's Azovstal Steel Facility?? THAT'S BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT AZOV BATTALION! Nay, these were the field test units... The soldiers weren't told they were fighting home grown cyber soldiers, so everyone thought they were part of Azov Battalion!
This was why all the soldiers were, after ""surrendering"" (aka receiving the secret 'Shut Down' protocol), taken into custody by Russia. They're not in any sort of 'filtration camp', but instead simply had gotten shipped back to various Russian research facilities for assessment and data dump!
So the key to stopping Russia is to persist with our sanctions, or else they'll eventually end up being able to continue with manufacturing them, and the whole world will be doomed! ๐๐๐ฑ
[THIS IS COMPLETELY SATIRICAL FICTION, don't worry,
I'm not some crackpot, nor am I a Russian troll! lmao]
Slava Ukraini! โ๐บ๐ฆ๐ป
...... I'll be BACK! ๐ค
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Scuttlebutt is, that the cluster munitions are more for their bomblettes, than as a delivery method... That they want to replace the RPG warheads on drones with these, which would be smart. (apparently these bomblettes have more penetration power)
Even if they didn't want to do that, they don't have to worry about repercussions about using the cluster munitions, based on what I've read regarding banned weapons (the Wiki pages on the treaties).
Because what's stated is that if any participant in a skirmish decides to use banned munitions, that immediately unlocks the other party/ies ability to use them in kind.
As such, Russia has already unlocked the use of cluster munitions, white phosphorous, flechettes and chemical (gas) if early rumors of their use are true. (and I'm sure they are, since interviewed civilians had stated troubles breathing)
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ย @gingerlicious3500ย that's not a Power being lazy...
That's a Power being corrupt.
Every stage of the Russian government has individuals who are there only because they are the best of the liars. They've used their craft (lying) to get where they are, move up the good chain, cover their asses, and continue to fabricate BS as new situations arise.
Person A is passing on partial truths to Person B, to make themselves seem a worthwhile asset.
Person B manipulated it further so that it seemed more juicy of intelligence than it really is, before paying it on to Person C.
Same happens over and over until it is finally passed along to Person V...
But that point, the original "Full Truth" before it was picked up by Person A, was to the affect of "There's are no Nazis here and most of the population does not want to be under Russian control".
Manipulated to being: "some small Nazi groups, with a portion of the citizens wanting Russia's help" as it was passed on to Per.B
.... etc etc .....
Until Vlad gets the memo, which reads something like: "heavy Nazi presence, entire population pleading for liberation; foreign government tampering and presence, with illegal manufacturing of banned weapons of war, etc etc".
All in an effort for that person to appear as though THEY can deliver the best of knowledge, all in am effort to fit their mob boss' grand scheme leader's delusions of what's happening in Ukraine.
That way, this person will receive funding to continue their operations (ie: manufacturing of bullshit), which they'll pocket 90% of.... but will, of course, CLAIM the funds all were well spent and distributed. (totally not being used for kickbacks, nope nope nope!)
So yea, I suppose it could be argued that those people are getting lazy and would rather fabricate lies instead of doing actual intelligence work... But I stand by the fact that it's corruption that motivates them to lie, and it takes effort to make them so elaborate.
(lies which are, to my fellow Americans/western nations, so absurd that when we read the things Russia claims, we're utterly baffled by how anyone over the age of 8 could believe it!)
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โย @michaelweems679ย I just recently learned that when using flux-wire (aka gasless) in a MIG, you have to reverse the polarity; swapping the ground to the trigger and making the ground clamp 'hot'.
When I saw folks mention that in comments, I thoughts they were pulling a prank, as that's seriously how it sounded... (it was on a welding channel after all, so I figured it was like playing a joke on the apprentice)
Turns out, that it's TRUE, and that's how you prevent the horrible splattering and popcorn weld on gasless wire! ๐คฏ๐คฏ
I haven't had a need to weld anything yet, so I haven't bothered swapping my welder's polarity (even though it's easy), but I definitely will next time I have to weld anything, since that the sort of wire I have!
(I know this is an old thread, but hey... I'm here, so someone else might see this and learn something ๐)
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And here I am, more intrigued by the fact some of the LN2 droplets are EVIDENTLY spinning as they move across the liquid (even at 360potato res, because, TN rural life sucks). I think the better example of this was the Vodka test.
Which, my conclusion -- having no scientific background whatsoever, and not bothering to Google this -- was it basically being a miniature meteorological-type-event (told ya lol). Where the LN2 was causing a low pressure area in its immediate vicinity, that displaces the comparatively high pressure air below it (Leidenfrost buffer); thus, the micro tornado.
However, I'm not sure if the actually LN2 droplets are also spinning, due to the friction between the swirling air and the LN2's surface... Though it's plausible, given some droplets that weren't spinning DID exhibit defined flow patterns in their wispy trails, that the spinning is caused by "jets" of evaporating nitrogen at specific points where warmer air reaches. Making the tornado effect secondary, instead of primary... ๐ค๐ค๐ค
Either way, t'was indeed a very cool video (no pun intended, but I still hate myself for it!)
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We.... may need to contact a museum, to see if they can make Scott a casting of a T-Rex skull... Then contact Ballistic Labs to see if they'll encase it in gel. Because short of whales, I'm not sure any land animal will pose much 'threat' of stopping what's in his arsenal! ๐๐คฃ
(after all, he does still have the Punter, as an end-game wild card, just in case lol)
But on a more realistic note, if would be interesting to find an analog to some of the bigger game... be it land, sea, OR extinct.
Even if it's just a crude (angular) sheet metal replica whose thickness would approximately replicate what actual bone would pose, in terms of resistance. (throw some leather over it if he wants, not that it'll really matter lol)
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ย @USB740ย Again, I definitely don't disagree that it is confusing when a river flows predominantly in one direction!
My point was simply: in this case, they've correctly referred to it, in respect to the fact that Ukraine refers to it as East/West; therefore, no matter how illogical it may be (unfortunately), you making fun of him for it only makes you look silly. ๐
Informally, you're free to call it North and South, that's fine as far as I'm concerned and I honestly would be doing the same. Hell, for that matter, how I'd call it would most likely come down to the river's predominant flow for a large section! So using the Dnipro, if I was near where it starts then I'd use E/W banks, but if I were in Kherson I'd switch to N/S banks. ๐
*Formally*, though, like a news broadcast, I'd be using whatever Ukraine uses. SIMPLY because the viewers have been hearing it referred to as E/W banks by international news outlets (or even Ukrainian's reporting news on their personal YT channels, like Denys Davydof or Operator Starsky). So keeping with the norm will avoid confusion, and those uninformed of said norm will probably catch on fast (at least I did lol), so thei4 confusion should be short lived. ๐
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On the plus side.... You'll be able to cook a pan of eggs by holding it out the kitchen window, or any cows that stray into the beam path will instantly become jerky!
Alright , thankfully that's not even close to reality! ๐คฃ
Though, I am a little curious what it'd mean for clouds... And I don't mean "will there be rain-fade?" like with satellite communication... I mean, would the cloud's water particles get excited and cause weird weather events due to, say, moisture evaporating at an elevation it shouldn't (which would also be warming up the surrounding air). ๐ค
Last thing we'd need is these receiver stations to have permanent tornados circling them... ๐ฅด
On a fully serious note, I thought these were going to work on the Macro level, not Micro, due to being able to transmit at higher efficiency? (see: mmWave 5G's inability to penetrate tree foliage, or even some windows)
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ย @marioceva7163ย I was initially of that same mindset; however, that was before I realized he's just an adrenaline junkie trying to get his next fix (back when I thought he was terminally ill and wanted to leave a legacy). Mind you, he's also a megalomaniac, so he wants to remain in power...
This means, he won't resort to using nukes, because that's a sure fire way to get himself either ousted from power, or killed, and BOTH are the furthest things from what he wants!
He's bored, but I very much think he's happy with where he's at in life.... well, other than wanting more, more, more. After all, he has a giant palace nearing completion, so surely he wants to live a long time, otherwise why spend the money on it? (and I also figure that's a sign that he plans to stay in power, longer than he's legally allowed).
Although, I can't say for certain whether he cares about his children, or if he does, then how much. My guess is he cares enough to not want harm to come to them. Which kicking off the apocalypse would not ensure their safety.
Granted, this is all armchair speculation, but I'm confident enough about all of it to be willing to wager money on it...
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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ย @nobodyknows3180ย If you start getting cold, there's a camera, just wave and hug yourself to show you're cold and I will make the adjustments from here. Also, please, be sure to leave a glowing review of our hospital hospitality on AirB&B, and to have all your fellow soldiers come stay when they stroll through!!
But srsly, is even the history of Chernobyl been kept hush-hush in Russia, that the everyday people conscripted into service, do not know any better than to not disturb the soil?
Or, for that matter, that it'll still be (ideally) uninhabitable for quite awhile, regardless of what their superiors have suggested? (as we no doubt the case)
I do feel for these soldiers, since you know they've been stuck there, so wouldn't have been part of the War Crimes Battalion ๐
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Yes, the jaws on cheap alligator clips are frustrating, for exactly what you displayed: misaligned due to sloppy fitment!
BUT, if you take a few moments, they're easy to "fix"...
I have found that using a needlenose to crush/mash the pin sides more, AND then also to crush the overlapping-jaw's sides around the pin... Now the fitment is no longer sloppy, and the jaws properly align when closed! ๐
[While we're on the subject of ranting about things: I hate that my SwiftKey keyboard INSISTS on treating jaws... OH SURE, this time it did not... but usually it will capitalize it because of the movie.
I use the swipe method to type, so on numerous occasions I've deleted the capitalized prediction in my keyboard's dictionary, after it inserted the capitalized word (on Android, in the predicted words bar, tap-and-hold the word in the prediction bar to delete it from the dictionary). Even then, it still insists on capitalizing it... except THIS time! Iol
Same goes for Intel, because of the company; however, it's also short for "intelligence", as a military term. But try as I might to make it forget, or teach it the lowercase word, it always reverts back to capitalizing it... ๐ฎโ๐จ๐
(to add words, aka "teach", to your phone's keyboard dictionary, you type the word manually and hit spacebar)
End-Rant]
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Small correction, regarding satellites being useless once they run out of fuel:
While technically correct, there are "space tug" satellites now, that can dock with 'dead' satellites (due to an empty gas tank) and revive them by performing their station keeping duties! (or, to ferry them into the graveyard orbit)
They are a proven technology now, not an "idea on paper". ๐ค
There's also work on being able to refuel satellites, but it's pretty unlikely they'll be able to service any currently up there. Future ones would be (plausibly) given that ability, though.
However, there's an idea that they MAY be able to, for some satellites, by perhaps being able to refuel them directly through their thruster port... a colonic, of sorts... lol
(currently, most of the tugs dock through a similar means, with an expansion-clamp pushed into the thruster nozzle opening)
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Yyyyeeaa... There's absolutely no way this was an accident, on Russia's part. This was clearly a strategic move, plain and simple.
Either because they saw an opportunity to obtain a high end American military asset, to try and capture for analysis โ the fact it was (likely) wing-slapped to cause as minute of damage to both aircraft, as well as provide "proof" that it was a collision and not firing of weapons.
OR because Putin wants to use this to further his own agenda, by spinning it as though we "attacked" their aircraft, or that we invade their airspace (the more obvious lie) and they โfor whatever reasonโ decided to remove the threat in this less-hostile manner. Therefore, allowing Russia to gather more support internally, likely by their people (since it's waning), to show that "look, the US is bullying us, we need to rise against them!", or even "we easily took out this mighty American drone, we are stronk!"
Either way, this was probably Russia's most boneheaded move YET!
๐ค๐๐ค That it leads to us finally sending troops to Ukraine...
Sสแดแด แด Uแดสแดษชษดษช, Hแดสแดสแดแด Sสแดแด แด! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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Worth mentioning is that TACTICAL nukes are low-yield, useful for leveling towns /neighborhoods at its largest, not an entire large-city.
So yea, it's certainly only symbolic.
Also, 'dumb' cluster munitions, from what I've read, are NOT banned by any nation UNLESS they are being used in civilian populated areas.
Ideally, cluster munitions would be filled with lots of small Smart munitions, which can be instructed to hit precise locations.
RUSSIA does not use such munitions, and that's what makes their usage of them, a war-crime, due to using them in areas that are still populated by civilians. (of course, Ruskie logic seems to be: anyone still residing within the country they're attacking, is thereby considered a hostile, and fair game ๐)
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My hope is that the crazy warm weather we are seeing in the US, happens in Ukraine! It will decimate the poorly equipped (clothing) Russian soldiers!
Where I live in Tennessee (Eastern US but is halfway between the Northern and Southern halves), in early December all was normal. Cool temperatures (8-10C), but it still warm enough to rain, and rain it did... poured down for a couple days straight... Then? Everything went completely sideways!
The wind kicked up really strong for a couple days, and then overnight, temperatures shifted WAY down! With the windchill it was -23C... The ground that was soaking wet was now freezing, and by the next day it was all like cement. (I'm originally from a state that borders Canada, and on the winter, -23C WITHOUT the wind, was normal... but down here that's not typical; they don't even have snow plows down here)
If Ukraine, which is already cold , saw a warm blast which was enough to cause rain? Those ill equipped Russians would turn into fascist icicles! ๐ ๐ฅถ๐ณ๏ธ
So UATV, be sure to keep your soldiers well-informed about the weather, so they know if they will need to have rain coats (or garbage bags lol) ready, so their gear doesn't get wet and freeze! ... Or so they can relocate equipment, so that tank tracks and vehicle wheels aren't at risk of freezing inside the mud overnight!
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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My new interpretation on the timeframe on F-16s, is not that the pilots need to undergo English lessons, but probably the ground crew who will...
The amount of English inside the cockpit is probably minimal and well-understood already; HOWEVER, the amount of English inside the repair manuals is probably extensive!
I suspect there's validity to the holdup, but that the reports on said holdup is focused too heavily on minor details, overplaying their significance, thereby clouding the true reasoning.
Now, whether that's an OpSec play, or, the media being the media...... ๐คทโโ๏ธ๐คทโโ๏ธ๐คทโโ๏ธ
I feel the odds there are firmly 50|50, and it could be either.
Slava Ukraini! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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I agree with Jacek... It should've been removed from their skies. It's NOT escalating anything by doing so. It was in violation and as such, would be removed. Yes, it's obvious where it was going, BUT, they can't say with 100% certainty it was actually headed to UKR...
Had it veered off course and taken out a border checkpoint, would they still not do anything in order to, once again, not escalate things?? Where do they draw the line?? ๐ฎโ๐จ
Next week it might be 3 CM... well they also be ignored and allowed to continue on through? This very sort of continual inaction is what makes Puddin Pants feel like he can do whatever he wants, whenever, wherever... ๐
Rest assured, if any Western country did that over you-know-where's skies, THEY would've taken that very same thing as an act of aggression, and the gloves would've been off at that point!
(apologies for the vaguely worded maybe, but hopefully in doing so the automoderation system won't remove this comment, as it is want to do lately...)
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Dutch I find to be the most confusing sounding of all the foreign languages I've heard, with Welsh coming in closely behind.
Comically, to these American ears, Dutch sounds almost indistinguishable from the spoken languages in the games Spore and The Sims (same company) ๐
Some YouTube channels utilize the AI translation feature (using machine learning to fake it), which is the easiest way to hear something spoken in various languages. However, the only one I've come across that utilizes it is GrayStillPlays.
They're accessed through Gear icon, then... I can't remember if it's labeled as "Audio Tracks" or "Additional Languages", but I think the former.
It's quite comical hearing the person speaking another language, as it's such a good job at deepfaking their voice! (I presume the more content a channel has for YouTube to train it on, the more accurate, of which Gray has made a shitload of videos over the years!)
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ย @GWNorth-db8vnย Well, I decided to do dog into this a bit, and it seems that some cruise missiles are able to be retasked after launch, and, even be remotely controlled.
Google using as easy to search as it was decades ago, so finding what I want is harder, as it wants to hold my hand and return what if THINKS I want. (eg, I searched "cruise missile" and it returns results about Patriot air defense... ๐)
That being said: Here's one example...
The US AGM-84 SLAM-ER [Wiki]
"The SLAM-ER can be remotely controlled while in flight, and it can be redirected to another target after launch if the original target has already been destroyed, or is no longer considered to be dangerous."
And the Shahed-136... [Forbes, via Defense Express]
Apparently it's also capable of being reprogrammed in-flight; however, cannot be remotely controlled. But it is very much a pre-programmed flight path and therefore can only target static targets. ("pre-programmed" in that it cannot make dynamic changes to its own flight path; not that programming is only possible prior-to the launch)
(but yes, I'm familiar with drones previously being in reference to remote targeting drones, which are usually just inexpensive purpose made aircraft, but then eventually also included re-purposed jets; the F-4 Phantom II were turned into targeting drones, for example)
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Firstly: I was surprised to not have heard you refer to them as dykes/dikes, which is what I was taught their name was in highschool (only graduated 2001), even though I admit that I've probably only referred to them as such a couple dozen times since then... lol
Missed: I have a small set of... well I don't know their official tool name! lol Search Google Images for this, as it's what I have (the single character 1/2 included): Utica 65-4ยฝ
They look like a miniature farmer's fencing cutters, with front facing jaws (although not the wild looking crescent shaped hammering, prybar, pliers for [apparently] doing barbbedwire fence work).
Also aren't flush cutters, having the same small bevel. Though, are still handy in their own unique way, due to their mode of operation.
For those not familiar with them, they work like a fingernail clippers, opening and closing that way, with the cutting surface in the same placement. However, they're on handles like a pliers, meaning you can open them WIDE, to take a huge bite out of whatever. Due to that fact, they also close down on said 'whatever' all at once, not progressively like a side cutters.
Yet, therein lies one of the 2 flaws...
1) it's all-at-once clamping means all force gets applied across the entire surface of the material, requiring even more grip force than a side cutters could.
2) the front facing jaws mean you are limited in how much you can "bite off", since the levering point of the handle eventually gets in the way -- about an 1/8th inch on my small ones and a full inch on my larger "farmer's sized" (hand-and-a-half sized grip, to borrow from sword terms)
The Pro... I guess all I can really think of is that the different clamping mode means you aren't limited in certain circumstances by your hands getting too close to something which prevents ideal griping posture.
Also, though not much of a pro, is if twisting wire, the same clamping mode gives you the ease of spinning the pliers along the same axis as the twist.
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ย @dianapennepacker6854ย [note: I'm also a lay-person, I just have enjoyed computers long enough to have picked up rudimentary knowledge; however, this means there could be glaring errors here]
AMD only designs their hardware โactually, this is complicated, I'll touch on it laterโ and then "foundries" like TSMC, Samsung, or Global Foundries apply that design to a large Silicon wafer (on AMD processors, this is where it was "Diffused"; ie "Diffused in Taiwan" if TSMC). Dozens to hundreds get patterned out per wafer, depending the size of the "die" (the entire CPU, GPU, or whatever designed logic is being made). But then, once they are... we'll say 'etched' to simplify the process... once etched the big wafer disc (which look beautiful once etched; https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/ICC_2008_Poland_Silicon_Wafer_1_edit.png ), the dies get individually cut out, then tested quite extensively with today's capabilities, whereby its determined what sort of defects they have โ if any.
Which today's designs are modular enough that a defect doesn't always mean it goes in the garbage. If say the defective portion is for example, one of a CPU's multiple processor cores, they can "laser cut" parts of that circuit to disable it. So instead of being an 8-core CPU, it gets turned into a 6-core (they disable them in pairs usually, for various reasons). Then all these dies get sent someplace else, one of multiple places AMD uses, although I think these days it's Malaysia (on the CPU, this is the "Made in" portion). This is where they get packaged and become the product we are familiar with seeing.
[Note: actually, I might be wrong, and the assembly plant might get sent the entire, intact wafer. Heck, anything from that testing to defect laser cutting process, may all occur here ๐คทโโ๏ธ heh]
As for the "this is complicated" part I mentioned...
AMD, for a long long time, always played second fiddle to Intel. Then the fates shined on AMD at the end of the 90s, when their new CPU architecture outperformed Intel's (significantly, at times) and they maintained this lead until ~2005-06. Then Intel started to claw its lead back, but they had also started to do some shady (to later determined to be illegal) business deals with all the major computer manufacturers, so that they would not sell as much AMD-ewuipped systems or to only put them in less-favorable computers people wouldn't really want (I only mention this because it indeed hurt AMD's bottomline, which is directly relevant because...)
Then in 2008, AMD spun-off their chip foundry and manufacturing side, which became its own entity called Global Foundries. They, through agreements, are who AMD would use exclusively (or nearly) for almost 20yrs. More recently "GloFo" has trouble getting below 12nm and AMD now uses TSMC almost exclusively. heh
There's less to say about Intel, as they do it all in-house.
I don't know if AMD fabricated chips for others during the time they were still a foundry, but I think so... GloFo, of course, did take outside work for whomever needed it. Whereas Intel did not take any, always having enough in-house volume to take it up. Although after AMD once again took the performance crown back, I think Intel decided to open its doors to others... Not because they had less demand (their own nearly decade-long 10nm woes meant they had TOO MUCH fabrication work), but because they needed extra income.
As for who makes the machines.... I'll just quote CNBC:
โASML is the only company making the $200 million machines needed to print every advanced microchip. In the southern Dutch town of Veldhoven, near the border with Belgium, sits the only factory capable of assembling a revolutionary machine that's relied upon by the world's biggest chipmakers.โ
Which is nuts. I don't know why that is though, as I've never been compelled enough to find out why... Though that article might actually say it, if you felt so inclined. Just Google search that first sentence and it'll come up.
_[apologies for any condescension that this post may convey; I've always made it a point to over-explain anything that's public (these comments), both because I don't know your level of understanding but ALSO just incase anyone else reading it who isn't in the know, they can then have a chance following along. ๐ฅด] _
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Now I can't help but wonder if animals were given mild sedatives, to make sure they didn't freak out...
Which then made me wonder what the term is for animals that have gone to space! Unfortunately, all am I could come up with was "space animals" and "test subjects" ๐
A wiki page mentioned that "Bioastronautics" is the field that deals with the study and support of life in space... so I formerly propose calling animals and plants as "bionauts"
On that same page, I did find out that Russia sent two Tortoises (and plants) around the moon.
Also, that the US, on Apollo 17, sent 5 mice which were named: Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, and... Phooey.
(which, I also assume, is how "Pfui" is pronunced? lol)
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WHERE DO I SEND MY MONEY to get a one-off Mythbusters special EP get made with You, Jamie, Kari, and Tory, to test Jamie's "wet noodle" question?!?
And if course, to make it an hour in length and be in typical Mythbusters fashion, can then test things like:
- How about a dry noodle? (technically, a wet noodles has more mass, after all... whether it'd still be wet when it reaches the target is another matter entirely)
- What's the max penetration depth you could pull off with the hardware (air cannon) for wet or dry?
- Or, what's the max speed you can achieve with a wet or dry noodle?
- BONUS: single-take attempt at "threading the literal, not metaphorical, needle at Mach 15" (I figure there'd be minimal time left for more than one take, given setup and cannon recharging times)
Just because, it takes the metaphor that we use to explain how complicated something is due to little ruin for maneuvering, rate of speed, but often then gets applied to human tasks which factors in reaction time... Takes all of that and then flips it all over onto its head by making it actually about threading a needle! โบ๏ธ (Also, it's be acceptable to me even if the largest, commonly sold needle was used, along with the thread to match -- such as leather working -- just to make it easier to accelerate and film whilst still technically being true to the word!)
As an aside... Thank you, Adam, Jamie, Karri, Tory, Grant (๐ญ), Jessi (๐ญ), and also Scottie, for giving us the amazing gift of Mythbusters for all those years!!
Alright, and that's extended to all the various Buster dummies, as it truly wouldn't be the same without him, either ๐
(but srsly, please consider that, maybe for some sort of reunion special!)
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To summarize: The universe is dynamic and literally any question asked of any person, can only be really properly answered, when we've been also provided enough context about the situation the question is being asked from. :)
I am a lay person, and yet still, I encounter this problem all the time, JUST WITH MY MOTHER! lol
A poor example overall, but still properly conveying the point trying to be expressed:
Today she asked what she should do about an email she had gotten from Amazon saying her account had been locked due to a change in her purchasing information (or something similar to that). Which she proceeds to tell me that she doesn't know why that was sent to her as nothing has change. She then tells me that she had was just able to log in with no troubles, so how can it be locked.
I asked her how it is she knows that the email actually is from Amazon, if what it says conflicts with what she's experiencing?
Correlation to the video:
If we don't know something like the temperature of an environment during manufacture of something (the origin of the email), then how can we know if what has been made is in fact to the specification in which we need it to be during assembly in a completely different environment (that the email contents is legitimate) -- or vice versa, that we know it has to be to that specification in the first place? :)
Thankfully, most people's daily life doesn't revolve around such intricacies, but for those of us who tend to think about all those things, the end result is... godDAMN is everything REALLY complex!! hahah
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"and it is obviously not good for peace"
No, Putin is not good for peace...
This, I think, is a rare occasion where sending a superior force in, WOULD BE good for peace! As doing so would put an end to Russia's tirade, since it seems like the majority of Russian soldiers (based on intercepted phonecalls) are motivated because of their hatred of Ukrainians, but already feel overwhelmed...
So, if NATO โ or the UN, but we know they won't do shit โ were to enter the fray, I'm quite convinced that it would be enough to hastily defeat and push out Russian troops from Ukraine and Crimea in about a month's time. Even if it takes 2, it's far and away quicker than this war would be resolved if left to only Ukraine fighting.
Russia has_ALREADY_ made this a war that's effecting the whole world, so it's a bit silly to keep on like we are. Russia isn't impacting the grain export to hurt Ukraine, because we're still going to send the needed supplies (since Ukraine isn't paying for it 'on delivery'), and reparations will make Ukraine whole after this is all said and done.
I dunno... My two cents...
Slava Ukraini! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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It'd be funny (and fitting) if all of the armor on trains we've seen, are ones that had been too many parts stolen from them or deteriorated from maintenance neglect, so they are nonfunctional.... only being shipped around entirely for show! (in other words, a complete bluff)
"OK, we've seen people filming us, so where next are we
taking this fake parade of military might?"
โTrain Conductor, probably, I don't know
Keep up your freedom of information efforts, Russian Dude! ๐ค๐ค I hope your fellow Russians believe what you say, and that you're able to change some of their minds! ๐ค๐ค
I hate that YouTube is hampering all of you independent news sources like you, Suchomimus, The Enforcer, and SO MANY others. You're all doing work that our (American) major media outlets are unable, or unwilling, to share with us ๐ (admittedly, we do have issues here at home that are news worthy and which they're covering... but, these media networks run _24/7, so there's really no excuse for them to not provide these interesting tidbits!}
Stay safe, keep spreading facts, and Viva la Russoluciรณn! โ๐โ๏ธ
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I've got a new nickname for Putin! ๐
Fuhrer-Tsar Voldemort Puddin
Title, is inspired by what Zelenskey said (although, he was listing them lol)
Voldemort needs no explanation... "Yer a gizzard, Larry!" - Hagrid, probably
Puddin I can't take credit for. It was an autocorrect-typo someone made in a video comment that I feel in love with; such a non-threatening and emasculating nickname that I figure would surely infuriate the man! ๐
Anyways, another great propaganda video, Zelenskey! Well done, and again, well spoken. I stand by my suggestion that/nomination of YOU being also awarded the "Hero of Ukraine" medal, as you are very deserving of it, no matter what!
Anyways, since "annexing" seems like such a foolish thing Russia likes to do... I say you annex-back (de-annex? lol) Crimea!
But don't stop there, either... Be a total dick like Putin, and annex the entirty of Russia!! ๐๐
Granted, not a great idea, but it'd sure be a great insult! ๐ค
Slava Ukraini! โ๐บ๐ฆ๐ป
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Here's what I said two weeks ago:
If you want to buy a semi-auto with a removable magazine, then if you're not old enough to rent a car then you're not allowed to buy one if those (which is age 25, unless that's changed).
And to explain my exemption for "removable magazine", I'm only including it for 5-round internal magazine semi-auto hunting rifles. Emphasis on 5-round, because if you can't put down the animal you're shooting at with 5, you should reconsider hunting ๐๐
At any rate, seems like silencers/suppressors need to have the special license done away with, and have that actually be applied to "assault rifles" instead. Wanting to use a silencer seems less nefarious these days than the needless desire for owning an AR-15 type of weapon!
[DISCLAIMER: I'm a multiple-gun owning *Democrat*, whose father owned all flavor of guns, so I grew up shooting alot as a child and really enjoy it. I'd love a suppressor, simply because guns are loud and disruptive, making it annoying for anyone within earshot... which I attest to by having neighbors who like to shoot! (which is why I choose not to, despite living in a rural area)]
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ย @1NeoCross1ย Ah, good to know, thanks!
Either way, 25 still sounds like a reasonable age to me, for buying/owning something like that. ๐
Hell! Let's tack on a cosigner to it as well. That way someone isn't just able to secretly buy one. That way, if that itself, is a red flag, someone will already know. AND FOR THAT MATTER, let's make the cosigner become legally attached to any consequences. That way, people won't just be a "Yes Man" when asked!! ๐
Make people pause a moment before agreeing to becoming a legally binding accomplice to future mass shootings. In all honesty, I think the cosigner thing should be the only way ANY gun can be purchased from now on, period! ๐ค
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Let's assume for a moment that Russia hasn't already used Chemical Weapons against Ukraine during this war....
The ENTIRE REASON to now claim Ukraine has, is because that would allow Russia to "fairly" use them. ๐
So, that likely means they WANT to utilize them, but want to save-face in the world's eye by not being first one, so that Russia can play the victim card. (or at least with their own people, given how many of their own would no doubt be collaterally damaged; they can tell these families "we only used it defensively, only after Ukraine did"... assuming they don't just say "it was Ukrainian's gas attack which made your husband/son drown!")
Either way... Not like Russia abides by the current Rules of War or even recognized the world court's authority... Having already used other multiple banned munitions already โ White Phosphorus, Indiscriminate Cluster Munitions, and Flechettes projectiles (all in civilian-occupied areas). And you know they used them with the intent to rack up civilian collateral damage.
[in fairness, the US also does not officially participate in the convention of banned munitions, and thereby similarly cannot be held accountable by the UN; however, that's only because we did not want to give up the use of White Phosphorus TRACER ammo in order to meet the guidelines, but adhere to the rest.]
...Either that, or Russia is just doing their usual lying.
However, I'm confident that they're doing this solely for what I mentored above. They're even more desperate right now, and chemical weapons are super effective (hence why they're banned/a cause for concern when mentioned).
Either way, Russia mentioning it has nefarious motives attached, and is a lie, with 99% certainty.
RUSKIES:ย ย ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ ะ ะพััะธะธ ััะปะฐ. ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ ะณะตัะพัะผ ะฃะบัะฐะธะฝั! [The glory of Russia is gone. Glory to the heroes of Ukraine!] ๐ค๐ท๐บ๐ฅ
BELAWANNABES:ย ย ะกะปะฐะฒa ะฝะตะปัะณะฐ ะฝั ัะบัะฐััั, ะฝั ัะทััั! [Glory cannot be stolen, nor taken!] ๐ซ ๐ง๐พ๐๏ธ
UKR FAMILY:ย ย ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ ะฃะบัะฐัะฝั, ะะตัะพัะผ ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ! [Glory to Ukraine, Glory to the Heroes!] โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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ย @assertivekarma1909ย Thanks. ๐ I do indeed consider myself open minded and to be an outside-the-box thinker. And I totally agree, it's a shame we have created societies that only/primarily foster dominating others, instead of cooperation. Where one who creates a successful company will muscle out everyone, or, outright purchase them so to remove them as competition...
Even when that doesn't result in monopolies, I still find it likely will often lead to more bad, than good. Chiefly, when these amalgams decide to sit on the tech they now own, instead of making use of it (this has happened a few times over the decades just in consumer computer hardware!), sometimes out of corporate spite and others likely due to an unwillingness to bother incorporating or integrating it into their product stack. That alone robs everyone from this that "could have been" but now never will... After all, if it was something that wasn't in some way novel then A) the startup wouldn't have existed, B) they wouldn't have gotten far enough to have garnered public or private interest, and most importantly C) you [said purchasing company] wouldn't have felt threatened enough to purchase them to begin with! So why squirrel it away afterwards... ๐
Even the times when the acquisition IS to utilize whatever-it-is, sometimes it could be for the better such as by now giving the team not just a larger budget, but also access to a wide range of other information/patented goodies; whereas other times it could end up harming the team on account of their need to adhere to a new management system. Therefore, acquiring other companies, frivolously OR sincerely, could actually hinder progress and prevent the team from achieving the greatness they could have, had they remained independent....
Anyways, my point here is that everything sadly revolves around money, and we have become a greedy species, too willing to put principles or morals aside in order to make a buck... Which I feel this, often cutthroat, society we live in has and will cause a great many to take up the mindset of: _"Why should I even bother?"
In turn, some people who could lend a genuine hand in improving something or offering ideas to make everything better, won't bother to. Others who want to, will not be able, due to there being no open-mindedness by governments, companies, whatever, to allow people to submit their ideas (and then if it bears fruit, in any way, they see some return for it if desired).
In the immortal words of the Looney Toons "French Skunk" character Pepe le Pew_: _"*Le SIGH*" ๐
(In fairness where it's due, I think the Ukraine gov't has indeed been leveraging their people as a "think tank", and that's likely to thanks for why they've done so well with their drone initiatives and designs. Hopefully that can continue, even after they've won!)
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Unfortunately, they still feel like they're winning, because on paper (maps only) it could be argued they are, and will come to the table thinking they're in a position of power...
Reality is, they're not, and the war of attrition is not currently in their favor.
Problem is that Donny feels the need to flex and be a negotiator, a role he's I'll equipped for in too many ways... Which as we saw last time he was in office, if he doesn't get his way he'll throw a literal tantrum! (see: him wanting dirt on Hunter)
Problem is, I don't see Puddin respecting any other country as a mediator. I doubt France anymore, given their willingness to help out with boots on the ground now. So it's pretty much a situation where neither side will agree to anything (not that Ukr should), and I feel like the only way this stops is through someone's surrender/withdrawl... ๐
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โโย @LieseFuryย Yes, you can DEFINITELY bring food on planes, even for from outside the security checkpoint; NOT drinks, though, those must be bought inside the airport.
My cabin is in Alaska and we live in Tennessee, but have to go through Atlanta. It's a full day of travel and from Atlanta to Anchorage it's a 7+ hr flight. All that is to say, we bring snacks.
On the way up I've been making it a point to make Rice Krispy Treats (we use the original recipe with peanut butter, which is 100x better than just marshmallows), and it's a big batch which yields a good 20+ of the individually wrapped bought size, or ~12 "king size".
On the way home, I may have some Reindeer Sausage Sticks.
In both cases, it's always in my carry-on.
But in both directions I'll try to stop at the Chipotle in the Atlanta airport, but specifically in the way up, so that I have a nice meal on the plane.
HERE'S THE REAL TIP...
If the food you brought needs, or you'd like it to be, warmed up, ask a flight attendant if they'll toss it in their convection oven for a bit. (like any oven, so have an idea; if no idea, defer to their suggestion on time & temp). Preferably do this when they aren't running drink/food service, so that they aren't busy.
Once upon a time you could even call ahead to have a certain in-airport fast food meal added to the food cart for you. I never did that though. My dad works for Northwest for >30 years, and we flew all the time, so I just know about certain things that at least had been available... I'm sys it still is, though... albeit likely at an additional fee. (but it beats the modern in flight good, boy those have gone way downhill in quality)
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Here's my armchair thought: regardless of whether or not the situation at the beginning of the video took place โ that is, whether a simulation occurred, or if it was only a hypothetical thought experiment โ I have a hard time believing that such a scenario would play out that way...
My reason is that the ""AI"" is setup to seek authorization, and is rewarded for eliminating targets (SAM sites).
Now, even if it decided that the human operator was a barrier to achieving it's goal of eliminating targets....... it would also need to know that a) the operator has a kill-switch and can terminate the ""AI"", in addition to b) there is a communications infrastructure that allows the operator to talk to the ""AI""...
I fail to come up with any plausible reason that a system like this would ever need to even know about such kill-switch. I'm also not sure why it might need to know about it's own communications networks...
Therefore, as I see it playing out, the ""AI"" wouldn't even bother with taking out either of the two. If it really did reach the conclusion that the operator was the bottleneck, it would just jump right to taking out SAM sites, without ever bothering to get consult it's operator.
(Plus, the solution to such a scenario is less complicated than they went about: just set it up where seeking authorization [and obeying what it's told] is just as much of a reward as destroying SAM sites.)
That's just my ignorant 2ยข worth.. ๐
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ย @surpriseitsus9622ย Thanks! I've found a few checks I can perform to tell if my comments removed... Although, technically, they are only 'hidden', as they still are in our comment history.
I'll share them here for you and anyone else to utilize if needed:
When making a COMMENT (not a reply), you can click on it to go into the "comment thread" (even if no one has replied... If it's been removed, you'll get an "Error" and the "Retry" button. The automated system (algorithm based) usually removes them within 30-45 seconds after submitting it.
If you're REPLYING to someone, that method isn't possible... BUT, if you wait a minute or so and then Edit your reply (clicking the three-dots to the right), make a change, and then try to save it... If it fails to save then that again means it's been removed.
(this also works with commenting, but it's just easier to click your comment to check)
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As much as I would love to think that... Sadly I doubt it'll be the case, and here's why:
- First and foremost, anyone considering buying from Russia will be drinking their kool-aid, and will believe anything they are told. Therefore, is Russia says these systems are infallible, with a perfect record... the buying country will believe it! Furthermore, If they are willing to go with Russia, they've clearly not been paying too close of attention to the war, which is also why they'd but into whatever they get told...
- Second, if they are willing to buy from Russia, that pretty much means they're shunned from buying elsewhere, leaving them no choice BUT to buy from Russia (or Iran, but they have their hands full and likely won't want to export anything currently). OR, they are already under sanctions and that's why.
- Lastly... Price... There's probably going to be a fire sale soon! But even if there isn't, their prices will likely be low because RU needs to make a buck, which we all know they will be desperate to do, if they are still a nation in the coming years! (my prediction has been that things snowball in 2025, and split up in 2027)
[cue the YT automoderation algorithm removing this comment, because I've said not-nice things about the invading nation...]
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ย @spammus1ย I mean, you're forgiven for not knowing what the term means. ๐ When you go get a fishing license (at least in Alaska), you're either getting: a Subsistence Fishing license (aka purely for food), or, a Sport Fishing license. ๐
(bold/italics for emphasis)
โ Sportย pertains to any form of competitive physical
activityย orย gameย that aims to use, maintain, or
improve physical ability andย skills while providing
enjoyment to participants and, in some cases,
entertainmentย to spectators. โ
[via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport]
To continue with my smartassery-whilst-still-being-factual tone...
Even "sports", like you were implying, has lost its meaning these days! Because playing video games is now legitimately recognized and you can even get a college scholarship centered around it. ๐คช
(although, even I'll agree, they might have gone overboard by going there... lol)
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ย @spammus1ย You got half right... I am an American! I'm not even 40 though, so I'm not a boomer ๐
Your impression of me is still incorrect either way. I'm not that kind of American. I don't kill things for enjoyment (didn't even go deer hunting this year, OR last year). I don't walk around with a gun, or keep one in my vehicle.
My guess, based on your inaccurate assumptions, hatred of Americans, and cliche "cope more" response... means you're a poorly trained and under-paid troll that's either from Russia or is pro-Russian. ๐๐
To which I say:
RUS:ย ย ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ ะ ะพััะธะธ ััะปะฐ. ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ ะณะตัะพัะผ ะฃะบัะฐะธะฝั! [The glory of Russia is gone. Glory to the heroes of Ukraine!] ๐ค๐ท๐บ๐ฅ
BELARUS:ย ย ะกะปะฐะฒa ะฝะตะปัะณะฐ ะฝั ัะบัะฐััั, ะฝั ัะทััั! [Glory cannot be stolen, nor taken!] ๐ซ ๐ง๐พ๐๏ธ
ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ ะฃะบัะฐัะฝั, ะะตัะพัะผ ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ! [Glory to Ukraine, Glory to the Heroes!] โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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ย @spammus1ย No, thankfully we can't take the crown for greatest mistake. Don't get me wrong, we WERE headed there! That train just about reached its destination... Thankfully the conductor wasn't re-elected, because otherwise, Russia WOULD have pulled off their goal of taking over Ukraine.
So yea, sorry to rain on your parade, but Russia is who walks away with that honor...
From their genocidal mob-boss president who wants Ukraine, but not the people living there...
To the Yes-Men scum he has surrounded himself with and placed in every facet of their government, willing to do his absurd bidding, so long as they benefit our profit from it...
Right down to the many citizens who haven't been brainwashed by the lies they get fed (unlike you), who see the wrong being committed, yet do nothing to stop it...
[HONORABLE MENTION goes out to the Russian soldiers: initially they believed the lies their government told them; yet even after being on the frontlines, seeing that it was all lies, verbally admitting to their family and friends that it's all lies, condemn their leaders for it, but then continue to do nothing about it AND YET STILL have a deep hatred towards Ukrainians... and for who even knows why! lol ๐คทโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
"My leader and commanders are getting us killed over total lies, but hey, death to our peaceful neighbors, AMIRITE?! Man though, let me tell ya! It sure does suck being here, and our military will shoot us if we try to leave, but oh well, it is what it is. Hopefully they send us food and water soon, because the insects are gone and my puddle is now frozen..." lol
Russia: A once-mighty society that has bred itself to become complacent and lacking any ability to think for themselves... Sounds more like prison, if you ask me! Or a herd of sheep... same-same. ๐]
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ย @spammus1ย Don't mistake my rambling for being triggered. I'd be insulting YOU, if that were the case!
No, I'm just wordily illustrating how, despite my country being a shitshow lately, is still far from being the worst country. ๐
You're welcome to continue tossing out baseless accusations in an attempt to insult me, as you have been. Delusions can only carry you for so long, before reality catches up and comes crashing down around you. If taking out your poor-life-choices induced anger out on me makes you feel better, then sincerely, let loose dude! As I said, nothing you've said (or can say) bothers me. ๐
At the end of the day, I've been speaking facts and backing them up with examples.
You on the other hand, have only been sharing your opinions.
But sure, I'M the one that's triggered... even though it was you who initiated this... So in point it fact, that means you were triggered by me (correctly) calling hunting and fishing as 'sports'. ๐คฃ
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"I'd be happy if they just fixed the core of Kerbal"
Yea, but........ Wouldn't that mean ditching Unity, since the whole reason it's janky is โas I, not being a coder, understand itโ comes down to Unity also continuously being modifications on its own ancient "core"... A core that is serial, not multithreaded, and is the unending bottleneck of every past, present, and future games that uses the Unity engine... ๐
Yes... The engine has aspects and tacked-on modules that are parallel threaded, but they all still feed through this serial core. It's that core which handles loading/shuffling data and a few key graphics tasks, which in turn is why, for example, KSP takes eons to load mega-builds and then proceeds to run at 1/64th a FPS until you've made it through enough of the staging.
Stratoblitz, as another example, found the primary cause of what exacerbated this: fuel transfer lines! He has a great video on it, but it culminates in being something like: that the serialized core thread has to calculate every tank's fuel level, for every single fuel unit transferred, which gets triggered once for every single connected tank, which gets recalculated regardless of whether it ALREADY knows the answers!! So basically onion-staging increases calculations and processing time by orders of magnitude, unrelated to parts count! Meaning that you actually get a better performance simply by DITCHING the use of fuel transferring, and instead, ADDING more parts and the staging needed to jettison them... ๐๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฃ
Archaic code causing archaic problems deserves an archaic meme... lol
Players: "This is madness!"
KSP: "Madness? No... This. Is. UNITY! ๐ค"
<kicks your CPU into a pit>
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This video was better watched at a playback speed of 137%... of course, I want actually able to watch it at that speed. However, 125% [1.25] was still too slow (I was losing interest, and I don't even have ADD/ADHD), but 150% [1.5x] being a bit too fast at times; therefore, 137% [1.37x] surely must be the ideal playback speed! ๐
Get to offering it, YouTube!
[I'm quite certain that rather recently, like within the last 6 months, you COULD enter in your own playback speed (at least in the app)... Would've come in handy here! Shame they removed it, as I love listening to music at different playback speeds, often to great effect. Granted, listening to electronic and metal genres inherently lends itself to speed adjustments having favorable results!]
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Are you delusional? Do you honestly think there's only ONE bully in a school?? Sure, maybe a small rural school, but suburban schools have a LOT of students. My graduating class in highschool was 200! That's JUST the senior grade, and this school was at the outer edge of the Minneapolis-St. Paul suburban zone, a full 30 minute drive down the highway from the cities.
My point: there is more than enough room for the to be multiple bullies in the world.
Back in WWII there was at least 4: US, UK, Germany, Russia.
Now, *not* counting nukes, at least 3: US, Russia, China
(not saying UK isn't a threat, only that they have no reason to assert their power anymore by starting a fight)
So yea, you're absolutely free to pick on America, I have no issue with that as an American, but don't be arrogant whilst saying stupid shit! lol
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I apologize if I've misunderstood, as I'm not into 3D printing... however, what you said makes me immediately think of a new feature Adam has talked about at least once in the last few months. On his Bambu Labs unit(s), they can now do a smoothing pass, that uses the hot head to go back over the print and give it a nice surface that doesn't look printed.
He has said that, with that being available, he feels the prints are now at a quality level to be used for prop work directly off the printer. Whereas before you would have to spend time doing hand finishing work to take down all the visual-roughness. (which he had shown us an example and, indeed, no longer looks like a 3D printed part, but closer to the quality of injection molded)
Again, if my ignorance make I've misunderstood you, my apologies! ๐
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ย @skateboardingjesus4006ย Then what causes them to eventually crack and/or crumble (when put under load)?
[sincere question, not being a smartass]
My window blinds eventually had an internal (but not sealed away from light) component fail, where the plastic pieces fractured. Some of them, the plastic was degraded so bad that if I squeezed and rolled them in my fingers they kinda turned into a coarse powder...
But that's not my only example... Leave a 5 gal bucket outside and it, too, becomes extremely brittle, where the plastic breaks under stress. Sometimes it'll break just from picking up the empty bucket quote grabbing the rim.
In the one case, the plastic is climate controled.
In the other case, it's under the heat and humidity of Tennessee.
The only commonality is sun exposure, which is why I figured it's UV damage.
(I've also heard, whether it's true I don't know, what having plastic in the sun can cause them to leech out some of their chemicals into whatever liquid they contain. [eg using buckets with water outside for pets to drink out of] But that's to be taken with a grain of salt...)
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ย @ashkondadban5938ย It is certainly not embarrassing to be uninformed... I can't pretend to know everything, and as such, I look to others who ARE in the know. However, my ignorance on a subject being discussed would likely result in many things seeming trivial, when they in fact are not. When Adam becomes impressed by something, it makes me think about it, and in turn have my own realizations for why it is indeed impressive.
Adam's excitement often drives the discussion and spawns further questions, yielding more and more interesting things which I notice many other interviewers would probably not even consider to ask.
But, my overall point about what I said in my original comment is this: Adam's infectious excitement for a topic makes for entertaining content, but more importantly, makes it so I want to watch a video about something I otherwise would pass up watching had it been by anyone else. Which at the end of the video, I've learned things, and ultimately that is why I could never be embarrassed by not knowing. ๐
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So today I am pretty sure I figured out the reason or motivating behind why Putin does what he does.... Simply, it's because he's fucking bored! ๐
Seriously, think about it. When a dog is bored, often times that's when they become destructive. How about extreme sports people? They didn't start there, they worked up to it...
Welp, that's Putin. He was a spy once upon a time, thrilling work I could imagine, even for the ones that were data analysts (not saying he was) since you'd always have your brain firing on all cylinders. Which on top of that, for an in-the-field spy, there'd be adrenaline rushes.
Now as time marched on after he became a politician, and the world climate stabilizes, what's there for him to do? For a guy like that I can't imagine running a country is all that fun. He had reached the top. He has the ability to do whatever he wants and likely has done most of it early on....
So when he gets bored? What, you expect him to play video games or read a good book?
Fuuuuck no! He's like a dog and wants destruction. He rigs an election (or, fixes it after losing), or starts shit by invading a country, or ways to screw with economy or supply chains, or have his critics killed!
Thing is, I don't know if this is better or worse than my initial thinking, where he was terminally ill (but has some years left) and is trying to leave some kind of "legacy" by increasing Russia's borders in a meaningful way.... Meaning he isn't wanting Russia to be in a bad state when he finally kicks the bucket, so he'd be conducting major actions BUT would only be bluffing when it came to using nukes...
Because now, if the last 15 years have been boredom-fueled, I'm worried that means he might go nuclear ๐ Right now, his carelessness seems to be very much like a man who's playing the boardgame RISK. His army, to him, are nothing more than plastic pieces on a map, not humans going to slaughter ๐
Thoughts?? ๐
Am I onto something, or just on something? ๐คช
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I totally agree with the sentiments about astronaut or not, that who cares if it inspires... But then it dawned on me, that we're going to have to redefine it sooner or later, otherwise every person that flies once we've gotten it routine, will be an astronaut. At some point we'll have to make that changeover to "passenger".
Although... ๐ค In all honesty, it seems only accurate that all NS occupants, conducting science or not, should be defined solely as "passengers". Strictly because they have no way to control the rocket, whereas Dragon occupants arguably do. We're not Tram Operators on the fully automated ones (like at airports), nor are we Pilots on airplanes, or Submariners on tourism adventures. So yea, this is not a bias-based opinion or to jab at BO, just fact based opinion.
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Unfortunately, Putin comes from a time where "The West" and "Westernization" was... well, evil. To have anything to do with the west, was a massive insult to your country.
However, times have changed, and those things have lost their meaning! I use quotations around those words, because I don't refer to them that way, I don't divide the globe like that. So Russian citizens wanting to become part of the world, is really just them wanting to move away from that outdated ideology.
To become a cooperative part of world, to "become westernized", does NOT mean you loose any sense of what makes you Russian!
The ONLY way for it to, is if hatred is considered to be a core part of what it is to 'be Russian'... and I very much doubt that's how Russians feel or think...
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
Viva la Russoluciรณn! ๐ท๐บโ๐ตโช๐ต
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ย @Housecat333ย Alright, it's definitely "Berryman's Chem-Dip" product, no doubt about it! (their Chem Tool fuel system cleaner is the best for 80s/90s vehicles!!)
Whether or not it's the same formula as today's, is up for debate, but that's what this Safety Data Sheet info applies to (I genuinely feel like it'll be less potent now), and here's the relevant details:
HEALTH HAZARDS:
Skin Irritant โ Category 2 [2 = "Moderate" severity]
Eye Irritant โ Category 2A
Component Weight
Water 40-55%
Heterocyclic Amine Derivatives 15-20%
2-(Butoxyethoxy)ethanol 8-15%
2-Butoxyethanol 8-10%
Ethoxylated Alkyl Amine 1-5%
And the warning about prolonged skin contact, specifically, as it's exactly what I described!
SHORT-TERM EXPOSURE
. . .<snip> . . .
Skin Contact
defatting of the skin, drying and cracking of the skin,
and aggravation of pre-existing skin conditions
The "defatting" is the removal of fats and oils, which is what I was describing by my "hands looking like the longest bath ever, x2" heh
For a good visual analog: the giant Japanese water salamanders... lol (except their skin is loose and floppy to increase surface area, allowing them to breathe underwater w/o gills; there more to it but that's the gist)
Anyways, my suspicion is it's potentially basic (to solve degree), due to that last chemical mentioning "Alkyl"... but in the end... ๐คทโโ๏ธ heh
My motivation for Googling this extended as far as to me providing the info that only I knew, which was knowing what the product looked like... โบ๏ธ๐ฅด
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ย @shah-zj1ttย Well said: don't speak on the subject if you lack knowledge on it.
So, why did you speak?
You can have warehouses full of munitions and fighting vehicles, but what good are they if all you can give them to are people with a month of training?
Is not like they have a Javelin-grade weapon to equipe them with, or they would have done so already, and not be in the situation they're in.
Furthermore, they're such a corrupt government that everybody in the supply chain has dipped their hand in the pie to take their share. What's left is a few scraps of fruit and the bottom crust. You can't serve that and claim it's dessert! Same goes for your reserve combat vehicles. They can't just sit for years and years, without proper maintenance, then get thrust into service and expect to be reliable (or even function). Oil stations from the galleries and bearing surfaces, seals crack thereby no longer keeping liquids in or out, rust forms where it shouldn't, things corrode that otherwise wouldn't have, etc.
TL;DR - Warehouses full of stuff is great, so long as your system isn't a corrupt money siphon that ultimately will take its toll on the infrastructure needed to maintain all those assets to keep them viable for when you need them. ๐
All praise the Russian Kleptocracy!
Slava Ukraini! โ๐บ๐ฆ๐ป
[edit: typo]
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On the off-chance Gav or Dan sees this... If you DO go larger, you can kind of skip doing them by over-voltage. I caused many to pop when I had no clue what I was doing any tried to fix my computer's power supply almost 15 years ago. I didn't know there were polarities on most capacitors (the light strip on them is negative)... So when I soldered in the replacements, some went in reverse polarity ๐ฅด
Despite having the vent provisions, a couple promptly exploded when I finally powered up the PSU, just like that tiny one (16v 1000uf minimum, might've been upwards of 2200uf)
Needles to say, it scared the bejesus out of me since I was inside my bedroom lol I had very quickly unplugged it, but then moved outside since I didn't know why. When I powered it up again, more popped, launching their roles of paper across the patio.
Needles to say I learned A LOT that day, as I found out why... My stripe did not line up with the black silkscreen mark on the PCB. That mistake was never made again!! ๐
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โย @flouisbaileyย Unfortunately, the last one we had, allowed way too much to go on, withholding aid over a personal vendetta (aka childish reasons). I'm just glad he wasn't around for this invasion, otherwise Ukraine would've been steamrolled ๐ (hell, he probably would've tried to ASSIST in said steamrolling)
I'm just glad this administration had enough foresight to sign us up for 8 years of guaranteed aid to Ukraine, just incase Mr. ๐๐๐ did end up being reelected.
But you're not wrong... FAR too little has been done! We should've had troops helping with frontline defense since June of 2022, as it's the least we could do to make up for letting Puddin Pants get away with the various shit he's started over the last two decades... all of which inflated his ego and made him feel like he could do WHATEVER he wanted (because let's face it, we let him).
But more specifically, for us pledging our support to help protect their sovereignty in exchange for giving up their nukes (Budapest Memorandum), and then letting all the crap happen over there! Which you know the only reason the US and UK were signers of it was solely as an assurance that the other signer, Russia, would keep to THEIR word... because oh look, they didn't!
Still... Even IF most of what's gone on in Ukraine since becoming a sovereign country was related to internal corruption and thereby nothing we could get involved with (as per the Memorandum), Crimea should NEVER have gotten to the point of annexation. ๐
Our complacency was, and continues to be, completely inexcusable... ๐ฎโ๐จ
(I'm almost positive the automoderation system will strike this comment down, since I've used trigger words AND it's "strongly worded"... but maybe not ๐คทโโ๏ธ๐ค)
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Congrats on making the dumbest post of the video!
I'd give you a prize but... you'll probably earn a better one, through something equally brainless. ๐
Seriously though... One of them, our society has proven it can buy and use in a civilized manner. The other, our society has proven it cannot.
One has been proven helpful and not a gateway to a life of degeneracy. The other has been proven nothing but UNhelpful and owning one (an assault rifle) has begun to be a sign of a degenerate.
One has a side affect of making you look like an idiot temporarily. The other makes you look like an asshole as long as you own it.
One if abused, will only detail your life, and likely only temporarily. The other if abused, will ruin countless lives, permanently.
This has been your brain on pot. Whereas this has been your brain with an AR.
ANY QUESTIONS?
I am a multiple gun owner, and I APPROVE this message.
(I even own an SKS, and if I have to give it up, then so be it.)
EDIT: typo
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ย @smizmar8ย Honestly, I've concluded that it's their creation of Search Engine Optimizations (aka SEO) that has ruined everything. Because now you're relying on the website to have put in the legitimate keyword(s) that match what content is on that page... So what I'm figuring is that now everyone is basically cheating, gaming the system, in order to get THEIR result at the top, regardless of its actual relevance.
But yea, also because the algorithm likely broken as well.
Here's an example that I suspect applies, since Google owns YouTube and I figure the YT search uses much of the same code:
I like to watch certain videos in Incognito Mode, so that watching it doesn't make Google think I'm interested, thereby tainting my Recommendations.
To do this...
First, I copy the link to the video (via Share, as I'm using the YT app).
Next, I go into Incognito.
Then I paste the link into search.
OH, but you can't just click search like you used to, because they've appended a unique identifier to the link, to track sharing and boat a video's reach...
So now I have to delete all that tracking code!
Now one of 4 things happens... Either:
1) it returns the exact video in question (85% success rate)
2) it fails, either by returning nothing OR by returning some random video, and so I have to delete all of the address code, leaving just the unique video ID (happens 10% of the time)
3) it finally returns the correct result
4) or it again fails, and I have to dick around further and get the video title, then search that way... ๐ฎโ๐จ
I've determined that this happens because of underscores in the link, which the YT search engine seems to be ignoring, thereby producing said random results. ๐
Anyways, yea, things are just getting worse, as you've said. They probably won't get better, either. And it's not like another search engine can turn up, because Google reigns supreme. ๐
[/pre-coffee rant]
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re: Cartridge extraction port
If you look closely, while the An-47 (๐คทโโ๏ธ Andor 47) DOES have an AK charging handle, there is NOT an extraction port there!
Is simply a slot for the handle to slide through, showing the metal underneath.
So I believe you're correct in that top shiny section intending to be the extraction port........ Wwwwhich, is a bit awkward if this is meant to be using the magazine as the projectile storage... which is also assuming it's firing solid ballistic projectiles, as opposed to a traditional SW "blaster bolt" projectile; aka the... fuck, I dunno, encapsulated-laser-beam (see, their term of blaster bolt really is perfect to describe what's shot out... lol).
All in all, I PARTIALLY agree with the fanbase sentiment. Although probably for a main-reason that differs from most's, with a similar second-reason to yours:
1) The "Rebels" are the good guys. So while yes, Ukraine ate also the good guys and they use AKs, it's still a Ruskie design and no matter who uses, or even manufactures the thing, it's synonymous with Russia. Which for the last... Well, since roughly the dawn of time 2008, they've been jockeying for position as Publik Enyemy Nyumber Wun.
Point is: of all the weapons made, there was way better options they could've started with, thereby avoiding all of this.
2) If they would've done something, anything, different for the gas block, they probably could've avoided this as well. Maybe the foregrip furniture, would've certainly made things even less obvious. Even if the went so far as to simply rotate the entire fucking barrel-forward section upside down... it would've make things a little more. And frankly, the gas block being underneath would've made it look better here.
They removed the rear sight, so the front's being on the underside would matter precisely zero. Alas, they didn't want to be TOO creative, I guess. ๐
Oh well. It's good to have something to rant about, right? ๐
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ย @3strikesyouout643ย Seems to work well for Russia... They've claimed to have shot down like a hundred Byraktars, even though Ukraine only has a handful of them... ๐
Or how about HIMARS, which Russia has claimed to have destroyed something like 50 a couple months back, yet Ukraine only had around 8 deployed (14, with the ones en route).
So yea... even IF we pretend that Ukraine did inflate the numbers, you pro-Russia trolls still have NO room to try and shame Ukraine for doing that! Because Russia has been lying since before the war even started, by claiming "is just a military exercise, we will not invade, promise..." ๐๐
RUSKIES: ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ ะ ะพััะธะธ ััะปะฐ. ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ ะณะตัะพัะผ ะฃะบัะฐะธะฝั! ๐ค๐ท๐บ๐ฅ
BELAWANNABES: ะกะปะฐะฒa ะฝะตะปัะณะฐ ะฝั ัะบัะฐััั, ะฝั ัะทััั! ๐ซ ๐ง๐พ๐๏ธ
BROTHERS: ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ ะฃะบัะฐัะฝั, ะะตัะพัะผ ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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ย @barrydunn682ย Of course, you're correct that no one being hurt was and always is a priority. I admittedly forget that some people unfortunately don't think that way and will want this done regardless of the costs. (even in my original comment on another video, about using an insert missile, I had wanted to specify that there would be a kill-switch on said missile, in order to destroy it after it popped the balloon and that way it couldn't itself be debris; I left it out simply due to post length)
Which I had just watched Ward Carrol's summary video on the balloon, seeing that it passed over mainland Alaska. I had assumed it only crossed the Aleutian Islands and first made landfall around Juneau, AK/Vancouver, BC.
If it really did drift across the entirety of Alaska and Canada, then there really was more than enough opportunity to observe, conclude the nature of the hardware, and remove it from the skies... All without putting anyone at risk.
Although, what's more interesting in that vid, was the fact that there had already been a previous balloon during Biden's presidency, and three during Trump's... (albeit, this one spending the most time over land)
And I'll gladly admit, I never heard about any of those, so I certainly have to temper some of my frustration over this one. ๐ฅด
Anyways, yes I also agree that the Republicans are certainly going to paint Biden as "an inept moron" (creating a 'straw man'), just so they can further their tit-for-tat revenge campaign over J6C. Same way they're wanting to make a huge fuss over weapon braces... As if these braces requiring a license is somehow going to impact people's livelihood! ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฃ
Anything they can find to finger point, they'll gladly use. Because indeed, we've got nothing better to debate about. ๐คทโโ๏ธ ๐ [edit: to clarify, I'm agreeing with you, both of these things are trivial in the grand scheme of it all]
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Frankly, I would not be surprised, at all, if they weren't targeting anything specific, but are simply committing random acts of terrorism...
I've genuinely felt this had been how their shell/rocket artillery were operating: fire wherever you want, so long as it destroys homes, or litters every inch (cm) of farmer's fields with shrapnel, or ignites their crops then it's deemed a worthwhile use of the ordinance.
I could be wrong, but it... I dunno... it just seems odd that quickly trained Russians can't hit the broadside of a barn with an HE shell, but quickly trained Ukrainians (on new-to-them NATO howitzers) are easily able to drop the first round within 50yds/meters of the reported target โ then, being given corrections via drone, whereby they manage a direct-hit after only one to three followup shots!
Is been a "weird" war, that's for sure! In a sort of positive way, though... because if it had played out more "traditionally", Russia would have managed to occupy a sizable amount of Ukraine. Instead, they've had immense trouble every step of the way, and now are handedly getting push out! ๐ค
๐คทโโ๏ธ "In mother-Russia, those you invaded, soon occupy you!" ...I guess?? ๐คทโโ๏ธ ๐คฃ
Stay strong. Stay united. Stay alive. STAY UKRAINIAN!
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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โย @EsotericArctosย The channel's have no control over our comments removed by the automoderation system.
If you can't see your reply to copy the text, go to Settings>Your data in YouTube, expand the "v More", click Comments, and navigate to the one that was removed. Go to the link, and that will take you to the comment. (they're only "hidden" from public view, not actually deleted)
Then copy your reply, come back and post it one paragraph at a time (each to is own reply). Wait ~45s after submitting, leave the thread, and come back. If the reply is still there, proceed to posting the next paragraph. Rinse, repeat, until your entire message goes through.
If any get removed, then try again after making small modifications to any part that might trigger someone... Tiptoe around them...
TIPS: abbreviate certain words, replace others by saying it in a more elaborate way, or use different letters to shortly misspell it. (a great way is to use a "capital i" in place of "lowercase L", I l I l as you can see they look the same; or "rn" [RN] in place of "m", "vv" for "w")
I've done up with lots of ways to mitigate this issue, as the Russian war trolls reported me so much that I can barely talk without mine getting removed by the system. It's frustrating at times, particularly when the removed comment has no relevance to any world event (eg satire comments), but these are all things that work around it, albeit at the cost of time...
Now I just have to hope THIS makes it through! ๐
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Dude.... I was literally coming down here to say "Whomever edited this and decided to add in that typewriter bit, is a genius", only to be greeted by your nearly identical sentiments! ๐ป
And I concur with the dialup suggestion, and will even expand on it: needs to be just the initial few seconds of the Modem Hail, and then cut to: "Welcome... You've Got Mail!" ๐
I was 12 in 95 when I convinced my folks to get the internet, which I think was after my school had decided to hire and build a Mac Lab (crazy, given it was a catholic school) and our college graduate teacher took us on a field trip to the University of Minnesota for a day on the internet! (I had bought a 10 or 20 pack of floppies to download cool images and what not on)
Anyways, sorry, went off on an Adam Tangentโข... We naturally had AOL, and I can still hear the modem handshaking and that greeting in my head! ๐
Hell, I still remember how to force people's computers to play sounds, by typing {S <sound name> lol Not just any of the sounds built into AOL, but could play any assigned to your desktop theme's sound by calling up the name, where SYS_START would play whatever your startup sounds was ๐
Good times.... I sure miss the 90s ๐ญ
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<replying to dude above me> First off... I am most displeased with you due to your username, or rather, lack thereof ๐
I've been helping YT fight the issue with replying to comment relying being broken (mostly fixed for mobile, still an issue for browser users), and when trying to reply to you I thought the input box coming up blank was due to a brand new bug, given I had updated them on the progress just two nights ago and figured this may be related... Nope, it's blank because there's no name to reply to! ๐๐
Secondly... Personally, I have no idea when or where I picked up the word ๐คทโโ๏ธ
I'm sure it was some show or movie where a doctor used it. Problem is, that's not really my genre, with the exception of House M.D. And yet I can't really see it being used there. So I'm right back at ๐คทโโ๏ธ lol
(I've never seen Titanic, so I can rule that out ๐)
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ย @KabonkNo1ย To be clear, when I used "Troll", it was only to illustrate that I'm not doing that here, insofar as to say I don't just go around to the news outlets and nitpick something otherwise-trivial solely for the sake of cluttering the comments section. Want trying to insinuate you were trolling.
Also don't get me wrong, I do think they tend to bloat segments, inflating them beyond the usual ~3mins needed to report the news, and instead they release a 6-10min video. But that seems to be a result of their choice to always include an ""expert"" โ I refrain from calling them a "guest" since usually the person at least has experience relevant to the video's topic, which is better than if it was being inflated by including opinion-based rants by the reporters. (granted, it could certainly be said that they are still doing that, in a sense, by having a guest... but ๐คทโโ๏ธ)
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Small correction Alex, in regards to on-orbital satellite refueling (emphasis, my own):
"The first refueling tests between two satellites began in March 2007. At the time, DARPA launched and deployed its Orbital Express satellite. The satellite consisted of two satellites DARPA used to test docking, undocking, repair, and refueling procedures. The mission was successful."
The article is behind a paywall I think (at the very least, requires an account to login with), so I can't quote more than what Google provided.
Which on that note... Google AI Overview of that very same article, claims the first successful instance was actually in 2003... I'm more apt to trust their conventional result's snippets though.
Those are just TESTS though, which I'm pretty sure there's also been fast more recent ones by commercial companies... But outside of that, you're not wrong, as we've not had any accomplished via an offered service, neither private nor commercial.
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2:35 That swarm scene makes me wonder if such a thing could be used as a dynamic "netting" to take down incoming cruise missiles, one-way drones, or glide bombs? Basically like the scene in Guardians of the Galaxy where all the fighter crafts link up to hold back the giant battle cruiser spaceship.
The general cruising altitude if the former us kinda well known, so it's not like they would have to make a "shield of drones" that extends to really high in the air. And despite strategically being a "bad idea", it wouldn't surprise me if Ruz used certain flight corridors for their munitions to travel, which if true would mean you wouldn't need wide "shields", either.
The question would really be whether impact with a hovering drone woke be sufficient to down any of said munitions, or if they'd need payloads of their own. My hope would be the former being the case, as having thousands of payloads hovering is asking for trouble, given that even one falling due to unexpected battery failure could result in collateral damage of friendly non-combatants. So even if equipping them with a chunk of tungsten (equal to said payload's mass) is enough to make it kinetically sufficient, that's a better play in my eyes.
edit: After thinking about it, I removed "cruise missiles" since I have a feeling that MOST would have hardened nose sections so that they can easily penetrate any number of objects; therefore, would easily breeze through a drone, potentially even with a small payload. The other ones shown, which I can't name due to the automoderation system unfairly targeting me [thanks Ruz war trolls!], that Alex said would technically be classifiable as a cruise missile, are what I meant by "one-way drones".
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Yep, Putin hasn't thought ANY of this through, and that's evident to even NON-experts such as myself!
He legitimately has his blinders on (tunnel vision, to put it another way), because he had been told all these lies by subordinates, that they were going to be able to take all of Ukraine in a matter of days...
So, now that it didn't work out anywhere close to that way, his only goal now is: win... win no matter what, because anything but, is a sign of weakness.
Which, while no country (or person) wants to appear weak or incapable, but it is an even greater insult to Russians... Probably why many of them are so unwilling to accept that they've already shown considerable weakness, and it's only getting worse in the eyes of the world the longer this continues. Unfortunately for Russians, it WILL continue, and it's going to impact them for a long long time... but not the ones in power, just the everyday people, the ones who don't deserve to. ๐
๐ค๐๐ค Hopefully Russia's people will realize this, and so something about Putin being their president! ๐
Stay strong. Stay united. Stay alive. STAY UKRAINIAN!
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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It's not so much that we forgot... It's that this is the first launch of a new rocket. I think Nelson just did a poor job conveying what and why. So they're not sending dummies due to having to reinvent, they're doing it because they're trying to get the absolute most out of this test-launch as they possibly can.
There wouldn't be humans on it either way. Evening gets a "dry run" of sorts, to make sure everything works exactly as it was designed to. Take Boeing's other endeavor (they're the main contractor in SLS), their Starliner capsule... Shouldn't have been any reason that it couldn't perform its intended test mission of going up and clicking with the ISS. Except, shortcuts were taken and a litany of issues occurred at almost every phase. The capsule made it back safely, but, it wasn't able to make it to the ISS, and it almost DIDN'T make it back. A last minute software programming error was found (only because of many other programming errors occurred hours prior), which would have caused a premature separation of its... I forget the name, but a large module connected to the back of the capsule. Anyways, had a programming fix not been transmitted, that module would've crashed back into the capsule during reentry. ๐ฃ
I completely agree with your take, though. How it was explained, very much made it sound like we had to figure this stuff out all over again. When in reality, we're just making damn sure everything was manufactured and assembled correctly, so that everything does the job how its supposed to. ๐ฅด
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ย @petermichaelgreenย After a sleep, I think whatever it was I had recalled last night about suits using mixed, might've been backwards... I'll have to try and see what I can find on Google.
Because now I have a strange feeling there was something mentioned about concern about potential "The Bends" situations... That ring any bells for anyone? ๐ค
"The Bends" being an issue for scuba drivers where,, IIRC, nitrogen bubbles build up in the joints due to huge change in environmental pressure when diving deep; surfacing too quickly [aka decompressing too quick] can result in serious injury/death. If quick surfacing is needed [emergency] then moving directly into a pressurized vessel [a "decompression chamber"], which then slowly decompresses, prevents that.
That's where my uncertainty in space is, and thinking you might be right about suits still being 100% O2....And more details are coming back to me as I type! (but still could be reversed from reality... lol)
I believe that NASA uses pure, but SpaceX has opted not to, as doing so means.... <memory becomes hazy>
Time to Google! ๐
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ย @petermichaelgreenย PART 2...
So after ~30 minutes of fruitless effort in trying to track down details on what SpaceX plans to use for their EVA-capable spacesuit's air composition, OR FOR THAT MATTER, the article I'd read that would've discussed that.... I'm left do assume it's going to be, for now, the same as Crew Dragon's life support: 23% Oxygen / 77% Nitrogen.
That being said...
- We're correct on the abandonment of pure O2 use inside of ships and stations.
- You're correct that NASA's suits ARE still 100% O2.
- As such, before an EVA, an astronaut must first hand out in the airlock breathing the 100% O2 in order to purge the nitrogen from their bodies, to prevent "The Bends". (but I don't know if the airlock is filled and they breathe it as they suit-up, or if they have to wait an additional ~hour in the closed-but-unpressurized suit before they can pressurize it...)
My thoughts are that where I'd originally read this was probably the ArsTechnica article about the upcoming SpaceX EVA by Issacman (?), which will be an umbilical suit tethered to Crew Dragon 2.
I reread that article and there was no mention of what I'm recalling; however, I frequently read the comments for further insights, so it's probably_there_ that someone no doubt brought up the fact that CD2 lacks an airlock, and that it'll be interesting to find out if ALL the occupants will undergo the pure-O2 breathing, or if the EVA will be executed using the standard air composition... ๐คทโโ๏ธ
This concludes my lesson in: If I'm unsure... _then SHAAADDAAAAPPP!!_๐ฅด๐
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ย @Vinemapleย Indeed, it wouldn't need to be "full size" anymore (ie, big enough to mount one/multiple powerful fuel combusting engines), and could be shrunk down to a fraction of its size that even my ideas was envisioning. Only possible (see: practical) these days thanks to Lithium battery energy densities and the immense powers that tiny electric motors can produce!
Unfortunately, the single duct really does complicate a lot of things, making it a little less practical for certain things, such as cargo storage or cargo lifting (as we've both pointed out).
It's be interesting to see whether an RC-sized would be highly agile/stable, able to make quick maneuvers at reasonable speeds. If so, it could at least start out as a competitor to the quad drones they use for "drone racing".
Getting its proverbial foot in the door into some scene, would allow its shortcomings worked on, the entire platform refined, and just more eyes on the design which would undoubtedly result in additional "Eureka!" moments that are through people only wanting to tinker with it... ๐
Shame I lack a 3D printer, RC knowledge, money, etc etc, or if be all over experimenting! lmao
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This was a cool and, curiously liberating, story for me! Around that same timeframe of late-90s/early-00s, in a Windows 2000 Beta Test channel on IRC (a chat network, very similar to Discord), I frequently talked to a guy who was the Networking Engineer at one of the Los Alamos Labs. He didn't have any sort of meaningful clearance, but people he became buddies with did.
<tinfoil hat time>
One of the things he had mentioned wa that one of those guys had said they were dabbling in..... anti-grav!
However, as he told it, they had found a rock that exhibited those characteristics.
</tinfoil hat time>
Even as a large-teen then, I still chalked it up as BS, albeit interesting and technical BS. ๐
Fast forward to now, and things start seeming less crazy!
Even moreso now that I googled "superconductive rock" and find a 2020 article in Popular Mechanics (website) titled:
"What These Superconducting Space Rocks Tell Us About the Galaxy"
Well, as shown in this video multiple times, are levitating superconductors.
And if you ask me, if someone found one such rock and toyed with it in the same way, and IT levitated... That matches the story he told me! ๐
EDIT: And after finishing the video... well, this is why I subscribe! Very sad end, but I loved seeing you stick up for her Alex! ๐ค
You're a damn good journalist, but am even better human! โฅ๏ธ
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Those are Flares, which burn hot and bright, and are one of two common countermeasures that military aircraft use in order to try and confuse missiles. The other being "chaff", which is a dispersal of lots and lots of small reflective pieces of metal (I believe it's simply aluminum foil, cut into various geometric shapes); not sure if chaff is still used.
In both cases, it boils down them being attempts to overwhelm or confuse the missiles taking sensors.
The flares are for thermal and infrared (IR), intended to make for a "hotter" source, which hopefully the missile targeting system will target one of them instead of the helicopter's exhaust (or the exhaust of whatever aircraft is deploying them).
Whereas chaff is meant to provide a large radar signature, since all the tiny metal pieces disperse into a "cloud" of sorts, which radar isn't able to distinguish every individual piece and just sees one large object. Which again, meant to cause the targeting system to pick that radar signature instead of the aircraft's.
If you're further interested, I'm SURE there's a Wiki page on all the various countermeasures that are in use (I think lasers are somehow used now, too), and will also give more accurate explanations on the two I touched on. ๐ฅด
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ย @Mr.Beauregardeย Honestly, your thinking has just as much a cursive of being right as mine. After all, I too am only speculating... heh
I know they DO have automated moderation, as the easiest way to trigger it is by trying to post a link to almost any website. There ARE whitelisted sites though, but I don't know if there's documentation on which is are permitted; however, two I do know to be permitted are YouTube and Wikipedia (I believe some .gov sites are but I don't remember what it was that I had posted... CDC maybe).
I just assumed that anything reported just ended up going to a human. Otherwise people could just be dicks by reporting in the effort to let an automated system eventually ban whomever.... and since they took away the Dislikes count because some videos were Dislike-bombed, I just can't see Reports being left to an 'AI' ๐ฅด
Here's some additional info, whether or not it's relevant...
[FYI, all of this is in the context of using the YT app]
- I think channels are allowed to moderate their comments
- When you report a comment and it disappears, it's not actually gone for EVERYONE, it's only hidden for you... and often times even that is only temporary (like I've had them visible again just by navigating away from that video, and then going back to it; or returning via the notifications)
- For these Telegram Scams, I only report them under the "Impersonation" reason, not the "Scams or Spam". That's a new choice as of the last 6mo or so, and pretty certain it was added once these sort of this started cropping up. (although the first impersonations I reported were actually just spam and unrelated to this stuff, and they were before this choice was added)
- The "Fuk what you saying it here" spammers on the CNN and MSNBC comments sections seem to be of no concern to YT moderators... I've reported the same channel multiple times over the span of many months. Coincidentally, one such example is also one of the first impersonators I came across, which was a profile named "NBA1" and used the NBA channel's image. (these particular scam/spam profiles use really old accounts, hacked probably, which have upload tons of random and probably stolen videos, no doubt only to try to give some semblance of legitimacy, aka "reasonable doubt"... which seems to be working I guess? heh)
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I agree, as I noticed he pronounced it the different ways back to back. ๐
But in his defense, most of his life was spent pronouncing Ukrainian cities using the English pronunciations of the Russian versions.
ie: Kyiv (Keev) / Kiev (Key-ehv)
As a major news outlet, though, I do fully agree they need to be on their game, as even I see it (as an American) to be insulting to Ukrainians.
_(I won't pretend that I know how to say any of them besides Lviv, Kyiv, Kharkov, Mariupol, Odesa, and maybe a few others; however, I do try to learn and understand the difference. Knowing it has helped me suss-out imposters, who use the Russian spellings in their anti-Ukraine comments, portraying to be American.)
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I was on a kick a couple years back, looking up old, zany airplane designs. Started with trying to find precursors to jet engines.
First stop was the "Motor-Jet", like Caproni-Campini N.1 from the early-30s, which was a conventional ICE powered plane but it drove a compressor turbine, as well as the exhaust gasses helping scavenge some extra efficiency. (IIRC it even had a crude afterburner!)
However, the EARLIEST predecessor I could find was the Coandฤ-1910 by, you guessed it, Henri Coandฤ! The very man who came up with the "Coanda Effect".
His was more of a... "Motor-Fan" I guess you could say? It was still piston motor driven, but used a ducted turbine fan for its propulsion, instead of propellers; an early turbo-fan basically. (Stipa-Caproni did similar, but it was a giant ducted-propeller, which was also in the 30s)
All this is to say: Coanda was inspired by the steam turbine used for electric generators... which gave me pause, as I had no idea they were that old! That's when I found out, just as you [Scott] had, that steam turbines were a late-1800s invention... ๐คฏ
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Small additional point on Cluster Munitions:
The big dislike is against DUMB Cluster Munitions! They are fired and dispersed, with zero targeting abilities, so the bomblettes will strike and explode any target in range (note: they typically disperse in-air to widen the impact area).
The use of Smart Cluster Munitions, are not frowned upon, stove each bomblette then can target something of its own (example: the "BONUS" artillery round that can drop multiple parachute munitions behind the primary round, each parachute device can track and streer to its target).
Another big difference, it's the Smart munitions have self destruct timers, in the same way that all modern infantry landmines are supposed to have self-disposal timed detonators (ahem, Russia.... you've already been caught not using them, after running out of the smart variants!)
So the US is free to send cluster munitions, and Ukraine free to use them, SO LONG AS neither their self-disposal, nor their smart targeting features, are tampered with.
BUT... And this is the interesting part... The treaties state that (closely paraphrased) "once a banned munition is utilized, it 'unlocks' then for the other side to utilize, without fear of legal repercussions".
In other words... Due to Russia having used many of the various types of banned munitions โ chemical (speculated), flechettes (unconfirmed but photographed), white phosphorus (undeniably used), dumb-cluster bombs (early days; undeniable) โ IF Ukraine wanted to, they could.
However, Ukraine is playing this war very very smart, doing everything as by-the-book as possible. They DO NOT want to be looked at in the same way we all look at Russia, as that would risk their much-needed support.... a very commendable stance to take, since it only makes their tall that much harder. ๐ข๐ซก
( P.S. - the "shotgun" analogy isn't great, since they use a HIMARS round that is literally just that, containing something like 160,000 tungsten rounds, to shred any light-armor/soft-body targets below its airburst detonation point. )
[source: one of the many banned munitions treaties; I went down a Wiki rabbit hole last year, so I'm not sure which specific one I read, but I think it was the same the detailed flechette rounds being banned (looking at you, AGAIN, Russia! ๐)]_
That being said: Are smart cluster munitions still a problem for civilians, despite these safeguards? Certainly. Other than for the obvious fact they're still explosives, their safeguards undoubtedly have an "acceptable failure rate", causing them to fail to self-dispose, or for their targeting to fail and hit civilian inhabited buildings.
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I guess if it were me, I would've done the opposite. Same as here, but then put them back on the loathe and removed a fair bit everywhere EXCEPT where the piston rings would've been.
Why? Because you've drastically increased the friction by doing it the way it was, and without oil getting up there,... well, it's like trying to put it in the old lady's back for without using oil ๐
So this would, at the very least, remove 90%of the contact surface but still have completely sealed cylinders.
Heck if you can somehow KEEP the oil ring, or drill oil galleys between the "solid rings" (since that area was removed on the latge remember), that'd help even more!
I still think it'll seize and grenade before long, but it'll last a lot longer than this poor engine did! lol
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Sorta related, but my first time seeing Interstellar was long after it was in theaters (thankfully on BR), and I had already seen some Science Channel shows about the literal science behind "Gargantua" (data work and simulations; scientific papers were written because of the work)... so going into it, I already knew that Gargantua was not movie magic, but hard science. (what a validating moment, when our first imaging of a black hole came out so similar)
So when we first see it in the movie, that genuinely broke me... ๐ฅบ๐ฅน
I was 36 or so then, but that was the first time a VIEW brought me to tears, and this fact really caught me off guard.
But indeed, moments like this, seeing real stuff like what Jared saw... it's good to be an empath. ๐
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ย @EL_DUDERIN0ย And now that you mention it, now I'm curious whether it will apply some 'tricks' it learns on other airframes, to the others it pilots...
On the one hand, it could lead to a disaster (a crash, and loss of test hardware), so I can appreciate wanting to limit that behavior, as it might only have been capable of such maneuvers due to say, thrust vectoring...
On the other hand, we all know what amazing things Fly-by-Wire has afforded us, so... maaybe machine learning will find ways to do more with it?
I'm not a pilot, and this might already be a feature in certain FbW aircraft, but perhaps it could offer automatic flat-spin recovery... perhaps even preventing it in the first place.
Or, better yet, if the pilot gets severely injured, it can take over completely and return to base (or nearby friendly airstrips). ๐ค
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โย @ssaunders1122ย re:"stop crying, you have 10 already, and the s22 came with a 45W"
All week and good, for those who upgraded from a phone within the last 2 years...
Me, I upgraded from an S8. My last charger is therefore only 15W.
So yea, it not coming with a charger that allows me the ability to sufficiently use Fast Charge, sucks.
Although, ask things considered, I would've gladly given up the charger for SD Card support. Or better yet, given up both, for a headphone jack!
Unfortunately, I'm left with NONE of the three... ๐ฎโ๐จ
So I will indeed be "crying more" over the top flagship model lacking in things it very much should've came with for the price paid!
And no, "not enough room" is NOT a sufficient excuse, given the SIM slot has provisions for DUAL SIM! Yes, the non-International model, still physically has the pins. So doing what they did on my International S8, would've been easy: dual SIM+SD, but one SIM shares the SD slot, so you get either SIM+SIM or SIM+SD.
TL;DR - Just because YOU don't need or want things, doesn't mean you should be a dick about it towards those of us who DO. Your situation does not reflect everyone else's. Nor does mine for that matter, but, you also won't see me being an ass towards others about it. ๐
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ย @pulaski1ย True, but he also says things in ways he doesn't quite mean. The fact he wouldn't clarify when asked gave me the impression he likely didn't mean directly after being voted in, but once in office.
For two reasons:
- First, to admit he misspoke would admit to mental issues. That's not his style.
- Second, though unlikely, it would make him look petty and vain to hold that that way, because it would mean he could do it even before being elected. That's a very bad look if he meant it that way... (albeit, is indeed his brand)
So to me out would imply he meant it when he could legally do so, as I feel like it would've been a big no-no for him to call Puddin while he's still a citizen (even as former president). Therefore, at least to me, seems more likely be would've meant that he could when he officially had access to those communication channels, where everything is on record. (plus, he could then take factual credit for it, which is also what he likes above all)
... Hopefully the automoderation system allows this post to go through.
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ย @raftguy1376ย I myself, have seen the writing on the wall for China "annexing" some of Russia (to use Russia's favorite term), if there's ever a desire โ be it Russia gets in debt, looks weak(er than already), or just pisses China off somehow.
When it comes to dictator nations aligning, they really can't throw stones at any other alliance, be they're legitimate holes or not (case in point: Russia also signed the Budapest Memorandum, yet are the aggressor against Ukraine). As their partnerships โnote I'm steering clear of 'alliance'โ are no different than their leadership: they do it only for their own benefit and for their own power. Their gain comes first, their county's gain, if any, is only a bonus.
They primarily have only their own interests in mind. Short term, I assume China may get licenses to build military assets that Russia has developed, and undoubtedly their political support for when China makes their play for Taiwan. Russia gets... well, that's a long long list of things they're in dire need of, and I don't have all day! lol
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. "The Whitehouse has pledged a swift and severe
response to the annexation..."
Were going in now?!?! ๐ฎ
๐ค๐ซ๐ค FINA-...
"... and that is exactly what we're seeing now, by the
US rejecting this annexation move by the Russian
president, and issuing a series of severe sanctions
against Russian politicians and their families..."
Oh... OK ๐
So, we're just going to do nothing, again. Gotcha! ๐๐
No no, it's cool. I'm SURE these new line of sanctions will TOTALLY stop the senseless loss of lives from continuing, and will certainly give Putin pause before starting shit against some other country in a few years.
Also, NATO and the UN? Bang up job on your part, too!!
REALLY showing him that you will stand firm and never budge! Because, you know, you literally aren't moving... ๐
๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
However, to end on an actually positive note... I'm genuinely proud that Ukraine has managed to shove their boots as far up Russia's ass as they've managed to. It certainly shows that when equally equipped, Ukrainian soldiers are FAR SUPERIOR than their former-brethren! You undoubtedly do not need anyone else's troops to lend any assistance, but I still wish we would, just to get this crap over with sooner! (Or if it isn't an unwillingness on our end, but a request by Zelenskyy to let them handle it... then if that's the case, I wish we could know! But I get that he doesn't want to get himself into a "Putin Dilemma" where he's talked big and now can't back down without looking weak or foolish.)
I may not be able to have pride in my country lately... But I can at least be proud of everything Ukraine has managed! ๐๐
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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This was a good video, and was NOT click bait... so please, pretty please, don't stoop down to their level by using the same sort of bullshit thumbnails like you did in this vid!
When paired together with a non-revealing video title -- like you also used here -- it conveys a false impression about what the video will be about. Displaying the same rectangular battery image that you used in the video would still invoke or (at least, my) curiosity and gain a click...
Again, the content of the video was great and I learned of something new, which I appreciate! However, that's the entire drive behind this message, because typically I will avoid these types of vids solely based on their most-likely-unrelated (ie 'clickbait') or completely fictitious thumbnails. (caveat: as mentioned, if the title states what it's about, like if you had included "rechargeable lithium cell", it would've at least put the thumb into perspective and been a hint that the image is fake but used instead as to not give away the entire content)
There, I've said my part, and will mosey along! ๐๐ฅด
Thanks for the vid!
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Just another person here, wanting to express his gratitude for what you've done with these Summary Videos. Unfortunately, I live in a 'rural' part of podunk Tennessee and as such I'm not blessed with access to any semblance of modern internet, so I don't have the luxury of watching (long) live streams thanks to monthly bandwidth allowances.
Sadly, I only stumbled onto you just around the time you had started to get burned out... ๐ฅด
Anyways, thanks for enduring all that you have (and still do) in order to make those summaries! I had always assumed they were just cut-together segments from your live stream... As a thought, maybe that's still possible, to spare having to re-watch things, particularly uncensored things? Then, instead of including new voiceover, it could instead be captions (as I'm assuming that often, the live stream commentary would not be suitable/succinct to use)?
But I digress... What you've provided, it was invaluable on account of our American news having (understandably) shifted focus to covering our own unending nonsense; therefore, thank you for filling in that gap! ๐ค
Slava The Enforcer ๐ญ ๐น
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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ย @user-McGiverย Alec explains who he is. He's a South African (but moved to the US long ago) and is the founder of SpaceX, the go-to rocket company and service, which pioneered reusable first stage boosters that land themselves after launch. They're also working on the largest rocket in history (to successfully launch), which will also be reused, but this time the ENTIRE rocket gets reused, not just the main Booster.
He also founded Tesla, an electric car company, which has also branched out in making stylish solar panel kits for homes, and large battery power power banks for the energy grid. And also they're working on bipedal humanoid robots, similar to what Boston Dynamics have been working on for years, but far far more human in size/appearance. (they're called Tesla Optimus)
And if course the Starlink satellite internet company, which has been a serious game changer! It allows really fast internet anywhere in the world, and WAY lower latency versus previous satellite internet offerings. (30ms round trip, vs 750ms, which 1000ms is 1 second; it's hard to purposely convey how important and impressive that is)
I have Starlink for my home internet.
And of course let's not forget that he bought Twitter a couple years ago, and is why it was renamed to X ๐
He has also started other companies, but which are less popular. One is a large tunnel boring company to create the Hyperloop underground train network, which will operate in a near-vacuum (no air in the tube), which will allow them to travel insanely fast. Said company is intentionally silly in its name: "Boring Company".
The other is the "Neuralink", which is developing brain implantable chips to allow us to directly communicate with computers. That's still very early in development and only has two test subjects currently, but the most recent one has shown promise by apparently being able to play some games solely through "mind control".
Lastly, he's the literal richest person in the world.
Jeff Bezos, who founded Amazon, is #3 (according to Forbes).
So all in all, it's surprising you've not heard of him
He's a smart dude, but has a bit of an ego, and he "runs his mouth" a lot, saying things he probably shouldn't... which has actually caused quite a bit of problems for him. Unfortunately, for all his good qualities, he has equally bad flaws.
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"... but holy shit. You're Mexican??"
lmfao
I am SO glad I get to admit that your race never fucking once crossed my mind!! As that means now I can laugh at that line, not because I'm racist, but because it's absurd that something like that NOT ONLY was a thought by another viewer, but was so "shocking" for them that they felt compelled to fucking comment about it!
Face. Fucking. Palm.
I love laughing at idiots and making fun of them, so with that: sincerely, hats off to him on the delivery of it, particularly on the followup as you walked away. Absolutely golden. A testament to people who'd ask that, not being able to let it go and having the stones to ask again! ๐คฃ
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Anyways, sad-excusses-of-humans aside...
What an amazing test! ๐ฒ๐ฌ
I was too impatient to stop to comment my prediction, but it was going to be only that the blow back and carrier/slide would be irreparably damaged, likely with the carrier hanging out the side due to getting sent backwards so fast.
Never would I have thought the entire gun would grenade! Not to THAT degree, at least.......
And if I might but pick... I would like to say that I feel as though you using "catastrophic failure" in this scenario, really isn't accurate or doing justification to what resulted.
It just doesn't carry with it the same weight, because -- although I admit it might just be me -- when I think of a catastrophic gun failure, it's usually envisioning breakages BUT containment, with plausibly only minor bodily injury.
This would've been outright lethal, with the speed and trajectory that dust cover exited at, nevermind the force of the stock. Which is why I feel any future reference to it ought to be said as either "lethaly catastrophic", or as I said above that "it grenaded".
As you guys arguably did this proper with no half-assing, means NO ONE should attempt to jury rig together a shotty chambered in .50 BMG (even like you guys did), as you've so well illustrated the consequences of doing it. โ ๏ธโ ๏ธโ ๏ธ
And for that, I subscribe. ๐
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My heart sank, because I'm still a bit ignorant on group names for ground forces, and I had thought Wagner would be a Ukrainian group; however, I'm very glad I was wrong!!!
Though, UATV, there's one important aspect of this news that needs correcting....
**_โwaves๐hand๐๏ธ _** There were NO survivors.
"There w... were no survivors...."
Wagner Group was completely wiped out.
"as... the entire Wagner Group was eliminated..."
These aren't the droids you're looking for. err...
This was a simple clerical error.
"Someone must... have pressed 1 in..stead of 0..."
You may continue with your reporting duties...
_"I'll... get back to my reports now..."
Have a good day.
"Move along. Move along."
๐
But seriously, this lone survivor now becomes a "hero" to Russia/Russia Propaganda, as he'll no doubt be turned into the "strongest of the bunch, withstanding everything Ukraine could throw at him." Which I could further see them justify it by saying something like "He never gave up, fighting to the end, when artillery for wounded him/knocked him unconscious and he woke up having been captured by Ukraine."
They could even use him as a rally-cry, to motivate others to join the fight, to help rescue him... blah blah blah.
However, his death would mainly be a further morale loss, since now it would read as the entire group getting taken out. ๐
Just sayin... Maybe he's wounded and succumbs to internal bleeding... ๐คทโโ๏ธ๐คทโโ๏ธ๐
[Yes, it could be argued that I'm a horrible person; however, I never said he actually needs to die... only to REPORT _that the entire group had been killed. I don't think anyone would fault you for such a trivial bending if the truth, considering the kind of ๐ฎ๐ฉ Russia's state media reports every hour. Again... Jjjjuuuuust sayin... ๐] _
Stay strong. Stay united. Stay alive. STAY UKRAINIAN!
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! ๐๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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ย @Ithirahadย Sorry, I didn't mean my reply to come across that way. That was just me expressing my inner monolog in response to your joke (was laughing at myself for having missed that opening, which you thankfully didn't miss a beat!) ๐
Similarly, I completely agree with your sentiment! My suggestion it be changed to Ouranos was more or less for the same reasoning. Alas, further reflection only leaves me to conclude that in addition to what is mention about "sticklers for change", that even Ouranos would fall victim to mispronunciation -- then again ๐ค being in the information age may spare it that fate, as no doubt a large part to the current dilemma stems from what equates to the game is telephone, with word of mouth and written conveyance of the word failing to maintain the correct pronunciation (a case similar to... ugh, the word escapes me, not "dialect" per se, but regional differences in words; pecans - pee-kawnz vs pee-canz vs puh- and peh- etc). Same can probably be said for Caelus ๐ฅด
Either way, if the IAU decides to pursue a name change, at least we've already had a good discussion on the matter and can offer this up info as a starting point/heads up! ๐ค๐
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To put your thoughts into a coherent, conveyable way:
Some people are MAKERS, and some people are FIXERS, but if you're one, then you're probably not nearly as good at the other.
Which to break that down:
It's not that I'm [you're] not handy, but just because you have the ability to take random pieces of scrap, combine it with things that may โor may notโ have been made for a totally unrelated purpose, which then end up as a beautiful and functional object.... IS BY NO MEANS the same as being someone who can take complex things apart to fix it, and then easily put it back together! (having it still work as designed, once you have lol)
It's obviously Apples and Orange to those if us who happen to be one of those two types of people....
But, to everyone who isn't, they assume we are easily able to do both.
Which.... I suppose, more of less, sums up humans today!
Your either:
a Maker
a Breaker
or a Fixer
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I wish Republicans knew the difference between "Socialism" (full stop) and "DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM", because the first one is BAD for everyone, and the second one is HELPFUL to everyone...
This idiot talks about it as an umbrella term... So by his accounts, Canada is pure evil! *le gasp*
Also, what a goddamn moron, bringing up hypersonic weapons! Sure, we're developing (newer) hypersonic stuff, but we've also had the basics mastered since the 60s lol Just about every rocket-powered weapon [missiles included] we have currently travels at "hypersonic velocity". The other countries are playing catchup, and that's why they're in the news. It's an old hat to us, so why bother reporting on it when there's much bigger issues to discuss??
When the defense sec. starts to quip back that he's will aware of what the press briefings talk about in regards to hypersonics, that alone puts Gaetz in his place, but the idiot has to much tunnel vision and unmerited bravado that it went unheard. (And I'm sure most everybody there and watching didn't catch it!)
To expound on what he was trying to say was: "Yes, I'm well aware of the information you have been told, but I also know a vast amount of more information that happens to be above your pay grade, so don't even try to lecture me on the subject!"
"I control the floor right now!"
aka
"You're starting to make to much sense, so shut your mouth and let me spew some more distracting bullshit... blah blah blah hear me, my sheeple blah blah..."
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I really like that droid design. Primarily because it shares design elements with some other droids in SW, which really makes it seem that much more plausible to exist!
- The wheel with dome 'hubcaps' reminds me of the Buzz Droids when they open up and have the two hemispheres held up at an angle.
- The angled wheels also remind me of the two wheeled droid rocket system (IG-227 "Hailfire").
- The main body's shape looks just like the head from Bounty Hunter Cad Bane's little sidekick droid (Todo 360).
With the size of Adam's, it easily could be something every person can have in their utility belt, taking up very little room, but proving indispensable when you're in trouble and need a helper! ๐
I'll admit though, given Adam's love for Unicycle and the One Wheel... I'm surprised this little guy has TWO wheels! lol
Which a thought immediately came to mind on how he could have done that... Have it so it looks like one wheel, but it's really two thin wheels mated together. Reasoning is that with two, they can be driven in opposite directions, allowing the droid to still do zero-point turns! ๐
[NOTE: I'm by no means insinuating Adam was in any way conscious of his designs being similar to those I mentioned. Sincerely! Wise words I'd once read, which I can't find who saif it, goes something like: "any idea you have, no matter how novel you think it is, has most likely already been thought up by someone else". A fact I've ran into myself I don't know how many times... Spitballing ideas with a friend and we come up with something cool, only for a week to pass and we hear something similar being announced! Happened so often that our running joke was our online chats were being monitored and ideas stolen! lmao]
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At my cabin in Alaska, on the Kenai Peninsula so not in the remote areas, our community has a half-way dumpster site so that everyone doesn't have to drive all the way to the local refuse facility . Anyways, there's multiple large dumpsters, each with multiple doors for bear proofing. Everyone leaves "still good" stuff outside the dumpster, to the point that my dad and his brothers/friends started calling it "The <our community's name> Swap Meet" ๐
Usually it's nothing super great, but I did find a brand new waterproof fish hat, with fold-up side brim that stays up with magnets (neodymium, based on their hold strength).
Early on, Dad found a giant 70s-era (I figure) Circ Saw (Skilsaw, but not that brand) for logs that took at least an 18 or 20 inch blade! ๐
Pretty sure it just needs brushes. Still have it in the shed.
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ย @rtyuik7ย Yea, ours is primarily classroom time, unfortunately. ๐ฎโ๐จ
I can't say I recall my instructor taking me out on energy a RAINY day, much less a snowy one (I grew up in a state with a very healthy winter). We did go on the highway, and into the big city to get in some heavy traffic and one-way time... but I think that was only one day? Hard to recall as it would've been ~1999 heh
THANKFULLY, my dad grew up in the country and still had extended family there, which we would visit almost every weekend. So when I was 10, he started my driving lessons on his lap, steering only. When I could reach the pedals around 12, maybe 13, he started to let me operate them (still on his lap). Then about a year later he was in the passenger seat. This was ALL in a giant 1990 Chevrolet Suburban 4x4! Mind you, it was only on back roads, many of which were gravel, occasionally we'd go into the rural town.
So by the time I was 16 and ready to get my license, I was WAY ahead of the curve! As we're my friends, who would occasionally go up with us, and dad did the same with them.
(wish he was still with us, to thank for that... ๐)
But yea, our system is just flawed. If you fail your driver's test, you can just about immediately retake it. You don't even have to re-take the classroom portion, EVEN IF YOU FAIL IT MULTIPLE TIMES! ๐ฎโ๐จ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
So yea... flawed. ๐
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ย @C_Engineerย My understanding was that Ukraine, before the war, had created a centralized app that handled a large number of things in the country, such as paying for train or bus travel, paying your bills (electricity or cellular), taxes, etc.
Therefore, ALL the citizens were required to have it, and, Ukraine could verify the user's legitimacy as a civilian.
(again, I'm sort of paraphrasing, based on details from various videos, so please don't take this as 100% accurate)
As such, only verified civilians have access to this ""civilian radar"" (whatever it's called).
Could a pro-Russian citizen have access to it?
Seems plausible, sure.
Could it be used to misdirect?
Yea, they could TRY to misdirect... However, I don't think it would do too much, in the grand scheme of things...
It's not like one report = launching intercept missiles. ๐
All is doing is ALERTING the defense teams of a possible detection, and to be on the lookout for a possible threat. Maybe to tune the radar frequency/focus in on that zone, too try and pick it up.
Or, competent rule it out, based on tracking their own assets in the sky, which a civilian likely wouldn't be able to discern as friendly in that brief moment.
However I also suspect they might rely on multiple witness accounts before they really take it seriously.
1 witness, low priority...
2-3, more priority
6+, drop everything and scan for it!
But as we know, EVEN IF Russians could use this for what you've suggested... They aren't the most coordinated bunch. lol
There would no doubt be a miscommunication, causing everyone to input something different and completely ruining what they set out to do! ๐คฃ
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ย @cybyrd9615ย No, you're right, it cannot match the bandwidth of light. However, they aren't using 8K cameras at 240FPS, either. ๐
Which based on what I quickly turned up in 10sec of looking, real-world results of bandwidth for "Ethernet over Power" is 50mbit WORST CASE:
"- On the same breaker: 500mbps
- On the same leg, different breaker: 250mbps
- Different leg/breaker: 90mbps.
- House to detached garage (longer distance, same leg, different breaker): 50mbps"
His post is dated 5yrs ago, so technology will likely have improved slightly, albeit probably negligibly. In his same post he mentions switching to a "MoCA 2.5" adapter and getting 900mbit. A reply looking at the specs for that standard indicate the 2.5 is the theoretical max of 2.5GIGAbit. Of course, theory and real world are never anywhere close, so I only mention it because in a best case scenario, even half that is a LOT of speed.
Since we're not having to deal with noisy home appliances on the same power grid, or breakers, nevermind screw terminal interfacing... I'd guess that EoP is more than capable of sending even a 1080p feed and control inputs. (latency over coax won't be an issue at that range)
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ย @mattdonna9677ย I dunno... If the reports of him locking up 150 government people, more than half of which were working for the same organization that Putin was part of (during his KGB days), then he has gotten extremely paranoid... Insanity is only a stones throw away at that point, as you start to question everyone's loyalty, their information, and before long, reality itself.
The other rumor is that he has thyroid cancer, based on a specialist doctor that deals in that area (oncologist basically) having basically been following Putin around the last few months. If that's the case, and he sees his days are numbered, this desire for recreating the USSR (or at least, reabsorb the territories) may be a final play to him, to solidify getting into the history books. If that's the case, I again see tactical nukes as a 'fair play' in his eyes. Which, frankly, this entire ordeal ALREADY has an "at all costs" feel to it, but has other less destructive, less radioactive means he can still exhaust -- remember, he wants the territory due to the wealth of the land, so irradiating even small areas would be certifiably stupid to do....... but, still would be a valid play from the "at all costs" playbook... ๐๐
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@Suvi Eskelinen "Are we [regressing] back to middle ages with our civilization?!"
In some of the aspects that matter most... unfortunately, I feel the answer is "Yes" ๐
Just look at my country, the USA, these last 6 years... And I'm not even targeting the president we elected!
No, I'm talking about a vast amount of people in the US and their willingness to believe LITERAL ABSURDITIES (QAnon conspiracy garbage) that's being said about fellow citizens, some of which are neighbors and even family; parents, siblings!
Or that they'd collectively band together to not only demand the removal of a requirement to protect lives of themselves and their loved ones, but also refuse to stand up against a leader who is actively doing nothing and causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of the very people they swore an oath to protect.
Meanwhile, both the leader and those people are blatantly ignoring facts and commonsense, mostly out of sheer spite for those that oppose their views...
It's indeed VERY reminiscent of the middle ages, except back then, there wasn't the marvel we have today of direct and instant communicating to anyone, in any nation across the entire planet! We do, and many many other amazing things, knowing vastly more now than we did then, yet still do many of us are willing to act JUST as we did back in those days, when we were still uninformed and ignorant. ๐
(Personally, I blame the fact we've become such a nanny-society, which has fostered and/or protected those that hold us back in ways, preventing 'Survival of the Fittest' from doing what it does best...)
And that's not even touching on wars, or standing by while it happens, knowing it's happening, seeing it happen on real time.....
We don't need to worry about global warming when we'll probably screw our species long before that issue starts to have impact on our lives! (but ugh, yea, that also lingering in our future but not unanimously banding together as a planet on the known measures needed, is another facepalm moment!)
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ย @theamazingmarlbito6293ย That is true, there aren't as many as one upon a time, but of those remaining, a good majority have something in the works. So there are "a lot" of prototypes in today's context.
Also, as far as Ruz goes, they're only ""winning"" in the strictest definition of the word... Since you want to talk reality, the reality is it's what they call a "hollow victory". Any gains they make come at a great cost to themselves, and only because Ukr is ceding to their pushes in certain areas. It's a war of attrition, one in which they are most definitely not winning. One side is unwilling to accept massive manpower loses, whereas the other side doesn't.
That's why the reality of the situation is they're not winning, and if you can't see it then you just don't want to. โบ๏ธ
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I'm calling it now: airlines won't implement this simply because passenger test simulations will show people ffffreaking out due to the much increased, visual flexture (?; flexing) of the wings, causing people to have less confidence, thereby taking profits.
I'm not poo-pooing the tech or legitimacy of the improvements. Me, you... we understand the physics. Our folks, family, neighbors, everyone else though, they don't.
We are skeptical of things we don't understand, and they're are still plenty of people who don't and won't fly. We're so accustomed to seeing the wings flex only slightly โ I say this, assuming most people aren't seeing the amount they move during heavy turbulence โ and I just feel like this will rip too many people out of an established comfort zone.
(Plus... I'm not sure that Boeing was the best choice of partner here, given their recent track record with civilian and military aircraft, as well as rocketry! So on that note I'm also In Before the 737 gets High Aspect Wings and Boeing claims "only minor modifications made; no additional pilot training is necessary! ๐" since, as even Scott points out: it's the bean-counters that run things over there now ๐)
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[disclaimer: I own multiple guns, >5 but <20, so I'm not saying this due to being against owning guns... I'm anti-idiots, not anti-guns! โค๏ธ]
After those two range clips... I really do think a new policy needs to be in place. Where any time a range, or bystander at a range, captures footage of a future Darwin Award recipient doing something ABSOLUTELY NO BUENO... that either:
A) If there's an RSO there, or anyone behind the scenes that works there and sees it occur, then any and all firearms currently with them in the lane (in the possession of the idiot offending person) are temporarily seized. Immediately, without hate, the RSO/Employee contacts the police (ATF?? or whomever) and the responding unit is to review the footage.
B) If there is no aforementioned RSO/employee at hand, and no other third-party witness, then the modem the footage is seen, the police are immediately contacted (or whichever authority deemed better-suited) and the incident followed up on.
AT WHICH POINT...
In the case of the first colossal fucking moron offender, it's only fair that a fine is paid ($1000min; I'm on with $3k, or even more). This covers the time whichever authority figure had to spend while following up on this nonsense, but also to (hopefully) help cement into the person's brain that what they did wasn't acceptable. ALSO, mandatory completion of Firearm Safety Training; regardless of if they are the gun owner, own any guns, or have previously completed it โ meaning fucksticks who don't learn repeat offenders would have to sit through FST again, each time.
The guns are confiscated by said authority, until completion of FST. Certificate being shown = their guns being returned. If held longer than 1 year, their guns are auctioned off, and the individual cannot legally buy or own one until being FST certified.
IF they are not the owner, that individual simply needs to provide proof of ownership to get it/them back. (hey, it sucks, but it's a lesson for everyone!)
For the second offender... The offense isn't nearly what the first one was. Could still result in harm to someone else, sure, but it was a legitimate knee-jerk reaction: loud noises triggers covering ears (no pun intended). However, it still could have been avoided! Not just in the obvious to prevent the situation, but should it somehow happen even when knowing better. For instance, covering one ear and pressing the other into your shoulder, maintaining the barrel pointed down-range until the others stop shooting or someone can come help.
As such, there may not be a fine, but they still will have to maintain FST.
All the same as above in terms of getting the gun back, for whoever owns it.
I doubt anyone will read all of this though, but I tried to make it fair, and still serve to both act as a deterrent AND drill safety into people's heads to make it second nature.
โ๏ธ๐
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My condolences to your hearing sanity.
I, too, have... well, borderline-crippling tinnitus; however, thankfully mine has had no effect on my actual hearing. A few years back at the doctor's office, he ran me through a hearing test, and despite what is "loud AF" tinnitus, I still have 20/20 earballs! But srsly, I had no issues hearing all the tones. ๐ค
(so pistols still merit earpro)
It IS a fucking bitch when it's quiet, though! Which makes it a literal waking-nightmare to focus on hearing super quiet noise... You know, the story of thing that can be a real problem trying to deer hunt in a forest!
๐ Squirrel foraging? ๐ฟ๏ธ๐
๐ Deer walking?! ๐ฆ๐
๐ Nope... just tinnitus-induced
auditory hallucinations! ๐ซ๐
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A good comparison is to space rockets... For example the recent SLS that flew for the first time last year, which had been delayed, and delayed more, and more... AFTER it had been slated to launch, where the Solid Rocket boosters had been poured years prior. They watched as the time span for their shelf "Best Used By" date elapsed, and NASA had to assess and recertify that they'd be OK... three times! (or was it more; hard to keep track)
THEN after it finally got stacked, they're were more delays, totaling WELL over a month... It had a dozen+ payloads which had batteries, none of which had any way to recharge them without de-stacking the thing. Some were just NASA payloads (the Artemis module), but others were this party customers.
It finally launched and while the solid rocket boosters did just fine, and Artemis did its thing... half of more of those other payloads either failed completely, or partially, due to batteries. And these weren't sitting on shelfs for a decade! Only that time since it was stacked!
But yea, batteries are the easy things to replace. Solid rocket motors might be as well, but, they're much more expensive...
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UKRAINE NEEDS OUR COLLECTIVE TROOPS, not simply more advanced hardware...
Putin is committing mass murders by his actions, to a degree that would make even your typical Warlords to say "You're going it little too far, dude..."
The ONLY reason he's at war right now is because he's bored. His adrenaline filled life stopped when he became Russia's president, and that meant 'I now have the ability to enjoy all the finest things' except... those things were no longer exciting once he experienced them! So he had to step things up, going back to his old ways of excitement: being a torn in the world's side!
He's been channeling Hitler, except worse... Because at least Hitler thought he was doing that for the good of his people and race...
Putin, it's just for kicks. The thrills of seeing just. how. far. he can push the world before we retaliate.
So yea, we have to retaliate, or he's just going to keep doing this shit forever, but a little worse each time!
He won't go nuclear though, because while he might be bored, he doesn't want to actually die... He knows that in terms of criminal actions, we can't touch him. So as long as we send troops who only push Russia OUT of Ukraine, and don't actually attack Russia on their soil, he has no more justification to use nuclear arms than he does right now. (Plus, if we all take action under the guise of NATO, then we are not breaking any treaties; to the contrary, we would be upholding the agreement made in the Budapest Memorandum!)
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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๐ด โช ๐ต LYDIC / KLEPPER 2 0 2 4 ๐ต โช ๐ด
SHE is smart, articulate, has her head screwed on... full stop! lol The fact it's even screwed on at all is a huge improvement over most republican candidates these days! But to finish: screwed on correctly and securely. She'd cut through all the BS, not tiptoe around or roll over on things, like our party has been known to do...
HE is a speaking genius and an incredible people person! The insane things he has gotten people to both openly admit to AND agree to, is astounding. Not because he's manipulated anyone, he just phrases it in a way that makes those he's interviewing answer truthfully and logically! The people respond quicker than the brainwashed side of their subconscious can process what Klepper had said and say "Wait, that goes against our MAQA prime directive, don't agree with him.... [Dammit! I've already agreed with him ๐คฆโโ๏ธ]"
We'd get, not only our first female president (I've already explained why she deserves it, so don't twist my words lol), but a man who I'd wager could genuinely get all the leaders around the globe to agree to world peace! ๐
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So now I gotta ask, because that first part with not wanting to be stuck in that rut of being "that guy from Mythbusters", hearing that REALLY clashes with the impression Adam has given and even stated... Which is that he still holds the show near and dear, loves to talk/reminisce about it, and seems to enjoy being "that guy from Mythbusters"...
Granted, usually if I'm bringing him up it'll be to tell someone about something non-Mythbusters related and to talk about his other talents, but yea... it gets prefaced with mentioning Mythbusters in order to set the stage.
So I guess for my own sanity, as well as out of respect for Adam, is that truly NOT the case??
Because if I'm taking to 95% of people and Adam was to be brought up, you pretty much HAVE to add the suffix "(of Mythbusters)" to the end just to ensure you're all on the same page.
(not that I know of any other Adam Savage; Randy Savage and Fred Savage, and I grew up in the town of Savage, MN but that's it lol)
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A) The US had TRIED to contact Russia for a long time, but quite literally, they never answered the phone. (there's a special direct line that had been established after the collapse of the USSR, for these exact situations)
So Putin has expressed he has no interest in what we have to say, he wants to dictate (voice out loud) what he wants us to do, and hear our answer through our action...
Bending a knee to him now, specifically, is THE WORST THING POSSIBLE that any nation could do right now! We've already screwed up enough by ignoring the horrible shit he's done during his reign, which has gotten us in this mess we're in now. So to cave, when they are losing is only going to fuel his ego and make him think he can do WHATEVER he wants.
B) Whatever happened to our stance of "We don't negotiate with terrorists"?
This isn't me just repeating Zelenskyy's claims either... Threatening to destroy the dam they already tried destroying early last month, is straight from the Terrorist Handbook. So is repeatedly attacking citizens, making them fearful that no place is safe in their country... Why do you think he has sent missiles to the far reaches of Ukraine; Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa? To send the message of "no matter where you are in Ukraine, I can attack you" (with the subliminal message of: "I also don't care if it's a civilian structure that is hit").
So yes... Terrorists.
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Point for 1nfamy: using a substantially smaller, lighter, and slower round is not a great way to hone a long time shooter's skills, in my opinion.
Point for D Walter: training a firearm novice or total newcomer to a platform, with the gun chambered in the varmint round, gets the person familiar with said platform and develops basic muscle memory. Similarly, a pure firearms novice can be taught the basics of guns and ballistic trajectory this way.
Point for 1nfamy: having more experience with the gun with a round it wasn't intended to fire vs what is chambered in, when it has such major differences, will not allow you to develop the necessary muscle memory needed in order to operate the gun adequately when the time comes. Particularly, I think, if it's a semi-auto, since you've become so accustomed to nigh zero barrel rise between shots, that in the moment you'll end up defaulting to that experience and be all over the place in terms of accuracy...
There's surely valid points on both sides, but once you've reached a certain point (experience level) with shooting firearms, you just have to admit that shooting with the .22 rounds is for nothing other than your own enjoyment. ๐
And hell, maybe there's something marketable here... like a small electronic device that you mount behind the trigger, which plays <insert gunshot sound of your choice> on each pull... that way you can just use an AIR RIFLE (generalized term) instead of bothering with any live ammo. Then you can fire it in the backyard (if city ordinance allows) or even inside the house!
(As a kid [90s] I was allowed to shoot my bb or pellet guns in the basement, from the fireplace down the hallway and into the unfinished portion [laundry, utility, dad's work area], which was a good 15ft of more. Obviously no windows in LoS from the target, but even as we started shooting my plastic toys in a cardboard box, the occasional ricochet bb didn't have enough speed to do damage to walls or even us lol This was a Daisy 10-pump and a Marksman break-barrel pellet with removable peep-sight, for context)
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I share both of your sentiments.
I had an internal debate with myself yesterday over the discussions of Russia being a nuclear power, which I concluded as you have... Anyone who would want to decimate a country to later control it, simply would not resort to nuclear weapons. Even if it's mining resources, the cost of rad-hardening everything needed, and equipping all the scrubbing needed to keep people alive, it's ludicrously prohibitive.
So in the same sense, leveling Ukraine is simply not in Russia's best interests, when rebuilding everything to make it a useful, functional, and habitable region would be outside of NOT ONLY Russia's financial means, but industrial means -- lacking what's necessary to create the components for repairing certain critical pieces of infrastructure. It's not like after they've taken Over Ukraine, everyone is going to forget about it and go back to "business as usual" by exporting these things to Russia! lol
(Frankly, I'm not sure what the fuck Putin thought would happen, even by invading, regardless of whether they manage to capture any meaningful real estate... Unless he's hoping/expecting to be assassinated, and this is just the last part hurrah of a madman??)
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ย @MikeJones-mf2fwย Well, the removals clearly aren't by a human, as no one can read them that fast (they are gone in under 30sec). I also am quite certain they aren't reviewed by one, either, as there have been removed comments which were not related to anything going on in the world...
Granted, most that get removed HAVE indeed been in relation to the war that started in February, two years ago. (which I'm pretty sure a certain country's troll farm workers are who flagged me in the first place, as I didn't have this issue until more recently)
But yea, it's infuriating, to put it mildly.
Politically, I'm aligned with the opposite party than what I'm sure 90% here are aligned with... heh I only mention that so that you can tell others that the Elephants aren't the only ones this happens to. ๐ฅด
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ย @teddy.d174ย Yea, there's loads of us, which is how I know that for many of us it's due to being likely reported by said trolls, as everyone I've encountered with this issue have been people commenting on various independent news channels (giving daily/weekly updates on the conflict) and we all show/express support for ๐๐.
My suspicion is that they flag our comments, but that they don't get reviewed by humans due to the sheer volume. That is left to their automated system to deal with. We don't get put in actual "YT jail" (which one person said she has been a few times now), but it can't just "do nothing" and so it takes action by simply hiding our comments (they're technically not deleted, they're still in our comment history; accessible via Settings > Your Data in YouTube > Comments}.
This is what some people call being "Shadow ๐ฉน" โ that's a ....-aid ๐ as to invoke what I'm talking about lol
But yea, further proof that they're only hidden is that you still get reply alerts to the comment threads where yours was removed, because it's not really gone, just invisible to everyone. It's also why you can still navigate to the specific comment through the aforementioned comment history, as that gives your a direct link to that comment.
Basically it's set to "not public", in the same way a video can be set to not be public, but you can still share the link to it and people can watch it that way.
Wouldn't surprise me if there's even a Reddit support group for all of us... ๐ฅด
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<shakes head> Shameful acts, committed by those without shame ๐
As I've been saying, Putin meant it when he said "Russia will liberate Ukraine", but all of us didn't know he meant it LITERALLY, that they would be 'liberating' the country from its people!! ๐
Same as Syria... zero interest in the people, just in the land (or 'territory' as he likely thinks of it) that they lived on.
So I'm sure with Ukraine, it was a matter of:
GOAL A: roll in and take control of the country with minimal effort and destruction, but failing that...
GOAL B: take control of whatever land we can, and if necessary, lay waste to anything and anyone still on it.
I won't share what I suspect are his "Goal C" and "D", since that's where we're heading with his badly this is turning out for him.... and not of us want that.
๐ค๐ค๐ค that Putin has at least some semblance of sanity left!
Stay strong. Stay united. Stay alive. STAY UKRAINIAN!
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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ย @jessehunter362ย heh Yea, I know. Honestly, I was just ribbing them by turning around what they'd said ๐
<I'll spare folks & hide fluid talk behind "Read More">
But yea, I was indeed aware that the cells behind snot, saliva, seminal and vaginal fluid production all being more of less the same.
Although I can't remember where I had seen it, nor am I able to turn up anything searching Google... but there was a news article recently that had mentioned something to the effect of how the cells which form lining of the mouth and vaginal cavity were found to be identical (unrelated to mucus production, that is). Which at first blush might seem weird, but... makes sense, really... After all, both have to deal with being moist for the person's entire life, in addition to the environment having a fluctuating pH.
So, to bring this full circle and on topic......
Life, in all its many forms.... sure can be freaking strange and surprising! ๐
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Steve, you're getting a bit too emotionally invested which is clouding your thinking. (In my opinion.)
There IS logic to the statement.
You can know the issue is there, and begin to redesign the PCB.
Then you can also, still, plan to go with the Nylon screws to resolve the issue, AND feel it's a long-term solution. (Note: I'm using the term "resolve" and "solution" instead of Fix, because it's more accurate, implying it side-steps the issue.)
To ME it indicates they are planning for the revised PCB to have gone out to all new systems, and that the Nylon screws were to qualify as a fix, long term.
*HOWEVER*, as you point out, that sure the Nylon screws are a long-term solution.... FOR THE CURRENT OWNER... but they weren't taking into account that it does not carry over to future owners of that case/riser. So I fully agree with your underlying point, and issue with their wording.
But yea, there was some ball dropping with the editing on that NZXT press release, but it could easily be a case (ha) of there being some pre-release revision, where Johnny/an Editor didn't go through the effort to make everything in the PR had made sense and didn't sound contradictory.
I'm not trying to defend NZXT here at all, I'm just thinking that maybe you were overlooking or getting a little too emotional over their choice of words. [/my two cents]
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COME ON, CNN... What the hell?? Why have you falsely titled the video?!? ๐ฉ (doing so has given the trolls a legitimate claim that you aren't credible...)
NO ONE in your video says: "Missile that hit Poland was FIRED BY _Ukraine."
[EDIT: Had to do my own legwork. Since there are multiple
articles and due to YT doesn't allow links to many
websites, I'm glad another channel I trust has
provided a video which properly reported on this
AND included source snippets!
https://youtu.be/YgObpujYHFQ ]
What HAD been said in the video by either the US officials, your correspondent, or the retired US official was that the missile: "originated from within Ukraine", "potentially launched by Ukraine", or that it was debris from the Air-Defense interceptors!
I come to you for actual news... Not propaganda, not "entertainment opinion pieces", and certainly not for misinformation! You're better than that, so BE better than this. So unless you have a source that's saying otherwise, you ought to either put out: a retraction and apology video, or, a followup video that states where the info was from in order to back the claim up...
(note: it's not just the video title, since the in-video banner makes the same statement of Ukraine having fired it.)
[edit: fat-fingered the Submit button before I had finished the last sentence]
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That young guy at around the 4 minute mark, has a prominent future in Putin's neo-Soviet regime. He is smart and quick to spin reality into being excused by lies. His father brainwashed him well...
Seriously though, he seems very intelligent so it's a genuine shame his programming is so well ingrained into his thinking that he can't see the truth when he's looking at it. ๐
Or as the old saying goes: "cannot see the forest for the trees"
The second guy, who "doesn't pay attention to the war"...
My immediate response was: "don't worry, you'll quickly be brought up to speed after you arrive there next month! ๐"
But that thought took a backseat once he mentioned the "russophobia", that has "gone on for 20 years now."
I wonder if there's a connection to that... ๐ค๐ค๐ค
Perhaps it is because that was around the time Chechnya was sized? Then, every few years, Russia would pick a new fight with someone, somewhere?
OR, maybe it has to do with a certain man who was elected president of Russia roughly 22 years ago (so... "about 20" lol), and foreign countries started to dislike how he was conducting himself? ...And considering how he has conducted himself ever since, it has not given people a reason to change their mind? Which leaves these "russophobes" having a blanketing dislike for any Russian, due them feeling that Russians should have put a stop to Putin. ๐
THAT being said, I'm not saying those are MY opinions. I'm just passing devils advocate. ๐
My opinion is that there are lots of good, sensible people in Russia still. Those who did not stand for Putin's invasion and could leave, did so as soon as possible. Those who felt that way but could manage to uproot their life, stayed... up until mobilization, which made it a life or death situation.
HOWEVER some still remained. I don't fault them, either. It's hard.
But then there are "those" Russians... The ones that think like Putin, hate Ukraine, the "West", etc... They have bought into the propaganda and are set in their ways, believing the nonsense they are told, no matter how absurd it is.
These Russians are the ones who are maintaining Russia's bad name, and have caused the current wave of "russophobia" in Europe. Going on vacations with 'Z' stickers on their car, then getting mad when that country's locals or police ask them to either remove the sticker it, or leave.
That's what the guy with dual citizenship doesn't understand.
... At least in my opinion. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
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Uuuuhhh.. Staff-dude.... Why are you pushing "this is her personal Twitter account" so hard, as if that somehow makes any difference?? ๐๐
Seriously, I'd LOVE to know what the logic behind that is! Because TV shows have been canceled, people fired from high ranking positions, lawsuits based on things people have said using their PERSONAL Twitter account (also, job interviews that involve looking at your social media content...)
So, if it being a person's "personal" account didn't save them from occurring people's stay, I ask again....
How.
Is that.
Relevant?!
Has her personal account been private for a long time, specifically when the tweet in question was posted, and so only her followers could see it; thus, could qualify as "something said in private" and also means someone leaked the comment? (not that it excuses her, but would sort of fall under hearsay)
No?
Then she's guilty of being a POS and is liable for whatever comes her way as a result!
The MINIMUM consequence I'll accept is she be locked in the stockade for 5 hrs in front of city hall, while anyone can come up and allowed to throw one tomato supplies by the city, or, if the thrower brings an egg they are allowed to hurl up to three. ๐
I'd prefer she suffer a more severe punishment, but, I also know that in reality she is going to walk away without even so much as a finger-wag at her ๐
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ย @GWNorth-db8vnย I know. I've been dealing with it for months now. It's because they've reported our comments as Misinformation ("our" as in those I've talked to experiencing the exact same thing). They aren't deleted in the strictest sense, but are "hidden". They still show up in the "Your Data On YouTube" comments page, and I can navigate to them that way, but they are publicly hidden.
Over these months I've figured out a lot of the boundaries to be able to, most times, tiptoe around it. Even by posting the same content with a few choice words removed. (edit: posting the same, unedited comment, has only led to it being removed as well)
It's definitely intentional by YT's automoderation algorithm, but they have the sensitivity dialed WAY up, and it removes stuff that it shouldn't. (I've had jokes removed, although I totally get why it would, as I'm sure a trained algo has just as much difficulty discerning sarcasm online as we do lol)
Trust me, I do not throw around a term like "blacklist" without confidence. I've not changed how I've talked since Feb 2022, and never had a comment vanish up until 6-8mo ago! I've contacted YT about it over half a dozen times, to no avail. Even providing them with my exact comment that was removed.
(I'll be surprised if this is doesn't vanish heh)
(edit: color me surprised, it survived! [if it stays up after 45sec, it hasn't been removed])
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Soooo... He's trying to say that he had been doing America a service by spewing lies for all these years???
Since, as he said, "truth will prevail" โitself, technically, an untrue statement lolโ is apparently absolving himself of everything he's said over the years... All because lies fall apart, apparently!
Which yes, in a perfect universe (see: society) that IS how things work...
We unfortunately do NOT live in a perfect universe (again, society) and so people will believe these lies, and that can and ultimately will causes harm; harm to the city/state/country they live and the family/friends/strangers around them!
Unfortunately again, the law of statistics in our flawed world, basically boils down to where it you spew enough lies, for long enough, EVENTUALLY one of them will gain traction... Which is where poor Tucker's claim of "that's just how the universe works, truth always prevails" [paraphrased] falls apart on him.
It's his own very lies, or at least the lies he's repeated so damn willingly, that are what makes him such an enormous piece of ๐ฉ!
Because they did get taken as truths, and now are programed into some of those individuals forever AS "truths". No amount of evidence to the contrary will change their mind, either. Just watch any interview that Jordan Kleper has conducted at GOP rallies, where he presents the lies they preach, clearly explains the truth of the matter to the person, and they try to explain it away. Or he'll help them explain it away by actually repeating their lie, mixing it with the truth, and getting them to temporarily see that said lie is absurd. (of course, they often will realize they were duped into accepting the truth, and try to double-back ๐)
Point is, Tucker need not look any further than Putin, to see how his "truths prevail" speech falls apart โ not that I actually expect him to recognize this ACTUAL truth! lol ๐
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ย @BIG_CHEVY_BOWSKIE_MIKEย Ah yes, I see my recently made public playlist is getting use ๐
Yea, I also came across it in the late 80s, 88 or 89 I figure... MAYBE 90, so I would've been only 5 or 6 (or 7). Was in my catholic school's library, randomly paging through the S book of their Encyclopedia Britannica and saw a photo of that glorious plane flying, with a backdrop of snowcapped mountains. Any day we had library time, I'd be there flipping through it trying to find that section (I wasn't book smart, so I didn't actually read the category of entry lmao)
My only "model" is one of those metal model/puzzles. Even then, it's barely even good ornament sized. I HAVE considered painting it matte black and giving it the red panel lines... never have, though.
But yea, I've come across plenty of good videos on it over the years, but that one was one of the better ones and deserved its very own playlist! ๐
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Dear Current Public-facing Putin Mouthpiece (aka the Foreign Minister)
It was your coworker/predecessors who already confirmed for us that the use of Tactical Nukes -- which, granted, are not city-erasing in their yield, are still a nuclear weapon -- are very much on the table and fair-game to use, as far as Russia is concerned. So take that claim up with him, not Zelenskey!
Zelenskey may have brought it up first, but it was a reporter who asked that Mustachioed Mouthpiece about nukes, so it's that guy's fault for confirming they'd use them which is where we're getting our info from... not Zelenskey! ๐
At any rate... Has anyone seen that mustached-guy since the video where he admitted that Russia had "suffered considerable troop losses, which is unfortunate" (paraphrased, but close to verbatim)?
We all joked about how he'd totally be given a nice cup of polonium tea.... But coincidentally, I can't say I've seen him in any videos since then... ๐
Soooooo... โข๏ธ โ?? lol
Slava Ukraini! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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ย @The_ZeroLineย Yea, I think part of that is true, although I genuinely think that the mob-like operation he created for their government has vitally come back to bite him (yay karma!)
For starters, that his intelligence being so horribly far off, coming down to the fact that no one in the information chain wanted to deliver the news that "No, they will put up a fight this time.", because as you said, it was known that he wanted Ukraine and such news would've probably been someone's head; lies breeding lies. (I believe grew up there as a kid, and later even had a cabin there, but someone set fire to it [while he was in it])
Then to compound matters, his mob governance bites him again, through his "everyone can take a cut, but you make sure I always get mine, too". Where now problems manifest all over the place!
Vehicle maintenance? "Da, da. I have thousands of mechanics on the books, all is well!" - Yea, no. All was definitely not well.
Military rations? "Da! Stockpiles are good, and I have orders in place to cycle the outdated MREs." - Mmm..yea, no they weren't, and no you didn't.
I could go on, but same story for: tanks and other armor modernization efforts, ordinance warehouse conditions, fuel depot supply, etc etc etc.
...The left hand not knowing what the right hand's doing. Money was earmarked for it all, but half of it (or more) was being pocketed, and the other half paying for a company to do the work......... but that company also had to take half of that, leaving only a 1/4 of the funds to try and do the work! ๐คฃ
A complete shit-show all the way down! ๐
Which is also why I'm wondering how many of the nuclear warheads actually have cores in them...?
Or how many of those that DO will have well-maintained and still functional detonators?
How many of those will be attached to missiles with functioning guidance systems?
And of those, how many of their engines will ignite?
Seriously, too! Given how badly our own (the US) kind of similar boondoggle has gone, in terms of the SLS rocket and its delays on top of delays, then pre-launch test issue after issue, now launch attempt after launch attempt getting scrubbed... I don't think my skepticism is ill placed, for Russia's hardware for systems that have only had to be assumed to work in order to be a deterrent/threat! ๐
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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ย @The_ZeroLineย Yep, and thanks to their culture, he can't withdraw, as that would imply weakness!
Which, while parallels can definitely be drawn to the US' Vietnam War, in multiple ways (atrocities included, unfortunately ๐), but specifically here would be our ultimate exfiltration with tail between legs.
Except, at least as I see it, that excessive pride, almost reliance, they hold that a leader may/should never look weak... but especially should not make the entire country look weak! Because doing so could very quickly result in a regime change, and in this case, would probably result in Putin's life being extinguished, or locked up somewhere uncomfortable (which is my preference).
(don't get me wrong, in the US it could mean an elected official or officials being removed, BUT not the almost-complete top to bottom replacement of gov't officials and top-ranking military personnel like this would cause over there.)
The irony is, he's done ALL of that already... It's called his ability to lead into question. Questions his ability to either gain correct information about situations, or, make solid decisions based-on correct information. It's make Russia look i-n-c-r-e-d-i-b-l-y weak, militarily. Has made them into a social pariah, both in terms of government, but now even their citizens. Lastly, has tanked their economy. ALL OF THAT is thanks to that pride in appearing powerful, because had they withdrew after Ukraine bared their teeth and pushed them back initially... Russia and her people would not be in this position!
Man, I meant and wanted to keep it short this time... but I can't help but share that the fact the Russian people have a black mark against them is what I think will make life so difficult for them. Yes, there are many MANY Russians who do not agree with any of this, but their reluctance and fear to speak out has made for a visually-disproportionate amount of people appear to be in favor of it. As such, when they try to leave, to start a better life elsewhere, they probably are not going to get the same welcome they once would have. ๐
Which is unfortunate, since I can see that ultimately breeding major disdain towards "the west" all over again, kicking off another soviet-era mentality. Then a prominent figure will rise to power by promising to punish the west for their treatment of Russia, and the cycle will repeat..... ๐
Yep... ๐ So, to borrow a phrase:
"WINTER IS COMING..."
I sincerely do not hope that a new Cold War occurs as a direct result of this... only that I won't be at all surprised if one begins after about a decade passes.*sigh*
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First off, the cement truck blowing up is my all time fave sound from the show! (as is it for others I see) Followed closely by the cackling of the cast after a result surprised them.... Individually, their laughs all tie for second, as it's hard to not love such elation!
HOWEVER... the question that has lived in my head ever since that episode aired, is:
Is the sound that was recorded and WE heard, accurate to what THEY heard in person?
My gut feeling is that the sound is slightly different. Specifically that low tone, high-frequency oscillating "BBBvvfvfvfvfv" like noise.
I feel as though, despite their equipment being high end stuff (particularly at that stage in the show), there likely was SOMETHING that could've caused it to sound different recorded.
Not clipping of the mic, but perhaps the mic housing vibrated, or a result of the opening size/shape, or that the fuzzy wind sleeve (if used) might've cause buffeting as the sound got slowed down by all the 'hairs'. ๐คทโโ๏ธ๐
So yea, I've always questioned whether what we heard was an accurate representation of what they had...
If any of the knowledgeable viewer community may knows, or even one of the Tested crew that reads the comments by chance does, it'd be appreciated! ๐
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One can't ignore the fact that we now have the internet. Before, you relied on magazines, or the news for even bigger things, and Encyclopedias.
Those medias had such a limited space to pack things into, so they could only include cherry picked things out of an undoubtedly sizeable number of discoveries...
Whereas now, not only is there the internet which has given us all access to ensuing, but also that we have vastly more people who can curate that into their niche topics. The pool they can pull from has also gotten easier, as access to publications are easier, but more than that, there are free and pre-print sources which remove the pay-wall that would've kept many people from seeing then. (arXiv, bioarXiv, etc)
Finally, the fact is all presented to us in video (or audio) instead of print, let's is consume it more easily, because we don't have to dedicate ourselves to reading, which ties up or eyes and hands. So now we're able to multitask, cooking meals, driving, or even showering, all whilst consuming this data! In other words, or opportunity for ourselves to stumble across newly made discoveries, has also increases significantly.
All of that is to say: there is no doubt a large uptick in discoveries for all the reasons others have mentioned, but also a perceived increase simply due to the ease in which we can find and consume it now. ๐
There's no mistaking one thing, though... for those of us interested in such things, it's a damn good time to be alive! ๐ค
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ย @Ram-1231ย [quoting the troll's removed msg for context]
"Really. Cuz I think it's more supporting the Ukrainian propaganda machine.
I don't believe hardly anything Ukraine reports."
Well, the irony of your comment being that CRUX is NOT associated with Ukraine, so this reporting isn't biased towards them.
If CRUX were to have any bias, my suspicion would be that they might show the show a tiny bit towards Russia, given India's military ties with RU.
But, you already know that, since you're well informed and undoubtedly had read my first comment in this very thread where I'd already pointed out all of this... ๐
Personally, I watch the news on Ukraine events from multiple sources: MSNBC, CNN, BBC, SKY, DW, France24, CRUX on occasion, and yes also UATV.
As such, it's easily evident which specific parts of their videos fall under the category of "news", versus parts that are "propaganda".
When they report on areas shelled or hit by ship-launched missiles, showing video of the damage... That's news.
When they follow it up by saying how many civilians were killed or injured due to the attacked building clearly being a civilian structure.... That's also news.
HOWEVER, when they do not mention it any UkrA troops were killed/wounded in that same attack.... THAT'S the propaganda!
Whereas Russian news outlets?
It's content is:
- People sitting or standing around debating Russia's faux strength and superiority
- Those same people discussing how Russia should nuke other nations
- Maybe showing some combat footage that's clearly STAGED due to a curious lack of those telltale sounds of war (at least 90% of the time since alot was filmed before the invasion, or, is filmed way behind the frontlines)
- Topped off with blatant lies about... well, just about anything you can think of!
- Bayraktar's shot down? "Over 1000" (her words!)... Even though Ukraine only has had like a dozen, since the start.
- Russian soldier loses? Last I heard, back around month 2, it was only ~1,200 dead, when in actuality it was more like 10,000!
I could easily go on, listing more, but I've said plenty already. ๐
Time to start my day! ๐๐ป๐
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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"I didn't have friends"
I hope that wasn't quite as literal as it sounded! As many of us seem to maintain our same personality throughout our lives (baring accidents/traumas)...
And Adam is so personable! So if truely the case, it genuinely breaks my heart to think kids had passed on being young Adam's friend... ๐ข๐
Anyways, that aside... I was born in 83, and was an only child... but SOMEWHERE I think I've played this, but I can't think of who would've had it?!
The ONLY thing I can think is that either:
A) I'm mistaking the tiny steering wheel game mechanic for some other, similar game, or
B) I've played it, BUT, a computer emulation of it, OR, (because I really remember steering a tiny PHYSICAL wheel)
C) Some combination of playing with a different-but-similar toy, and having played a "digitized" (emulated) version of it...
Ooh! ๐ค [warning: you've ented... The Rambling Zone]
Was about to hit submit and had a possible avenue of interaction: my aunt and uncle are antique thrifters (buy to resell, or also fix and resell), and might've been at their place where I had come across that racecar game... They didn't really dabble in game (they didn't have kids), but I did play an old... early 80s?... digital handheld football game. Actually digital this time, as it had that bit-crunched audio tones, and the field was a dark dark red plastic with the football field demarcation silkscreened on it. Which underneath it were rows and rows of, I think, LEDs (lacked the glow of a bulb, but I think we 9V powered so maybe).
I also feel like the racing game I played, had a rather vibrant red plastic?? ๐ค๐คทโโ๏ธ
I dunno ๐
I'll shut up now... lol
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Criminals, made into 'soldiers' and sent to Ukraine, for the obvious intention/hope that they will A) be ruthless, doing better than the civilian soldiers, but more importantly B) go and commit atrocious acts against everyone in Ukraine in order to lower morale [PRO-TIP: it will only infuriate Ukrainians, making them fight even harder!,] all so they can then return home with the new title of war criminals heroes and welcomed back into society with open arms!!
Oh, what? They're NOT getting a warm welcome with hugs, parades, and being showered with gold money??
And they aren't being incorrectly considered "heroes" for their actions in Ukraine, but are actually being correctly labeled for what they are: rapists ?!?!
๐ฎ Gee.... how incredibly unexpected and utterly surprising.... ๐
So as a twist on the "stupid games/stupid prizes" meme:
Employ horrible strategies...
...Get horrible reactions!
You're doing great Putin...
Please, KEEP MAKING THESE AMAZING DECISIONS! ๐คฃ๐
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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[NOTE: YT's automoderation system has removed my first attempt, because it thinks I'm a shill or something. I've tried to mitigate it, and so the "Ch" in their name needs "annel" added. Also the "-C" needs to be replaced by "sy".]
You can buy battery adapters these days. TorqueTestCh has shown off some, made by someone on Et-C, and they include the necessary resistance (resistor) on the specific pin(s) to "trick" the tool into running full speed (it thinks it has a genuine battery).
TTC is a great resource, literally making the big name tool companies become more honest with their labeled specs.
Or in the cases where they won't give a crap (like Chinese knockoff things; flashlights, etc), they at least allow us to make an informed decision when buying!
They occasionally test more than just power/hand tools, too.
What's great is they then send those tools out to people who subscribe to their taking tables (note: they do tell us the same info each episode), and then if the tool breaks they let us know!
To come back to the adapters, it's let them test certain power tools with the better batteries from other companies, to see if the tool has anything more to give. In other words, test the tool to it's full potential and determine if the power quality battery is holding it back.
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Car window have little roller wheels that allow them to ride up and down the tracks (or "tacos", as my keyboard thought I swiped).
If this happens to you, have someone help guide it to where it SHOULD roll up, while you run the switch. Then, don't touch it and go take it in to get fixed! Screw around too much and you risk wrecking more inside it, or worse, shattering it. Cheaper to replace a little roller than the entire window!
Oh, also, if it is a door style that the window doesn't roll up inside the door frame, but rests against the outer edge of the roof (many are like this), then ALSO be very gentle when closing that door!!
Tempered glass is really strong, but only when well supported around the edges ๐
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Scott, thank you for both being a good human being and not sharing the footage, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, for being a hero in a time of need... โฅ๏ธ
I said this in a reply as well, but yea, in my eyes *you're a de facto hero. ๐ซก
Doesn't matter what the outcome was, you still ran TOWARDS the raging inferno, putting your life second to that of those in need.
We're all proud of you for that.
I'm also glad to see the many comments by individuals in the know; a therapist, a war vet, a firefighter; all commending you on how you're dealing with this. I feel better not having to be worried that this will be eating you up inside, as their right... you did what you could, and you would have to have literal super powers to have done anything more. So I'm happy you're not second guessing yourself, AND that you've made this video so that it wasn't weighing on your mind.
Now you please FLY SAFE! ๐
(speaking of which, maybe make it a point tell those you're giving a ride, to keep their feet off your pedals at all times; accident aside, this was a good indication that occupants need to be aware of that! ๐ฅด)
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ย @MiClLCย We get it guy....anytime someone mentions the "G" word doesn't actually exist, you bible thumpers always have to announce how your mass delusion seemingly knows everything and this is all going to plan, because innocent people dying is acceptable when they're pagan/agnostic/athiest.
My entire family and extended family are god fearing people of some denomination, and I attended catholic school Pre-K through 8th grade. Thankfully, my school taught legitimate science and 6th grade is when I saw the light: every offshoot of Christianity is just hogwash.
The bible may be an OK "how-to" guide to be a good person, so long as you are able to see the "acts of god" for what they are... A means for people to either justify horrible actions committed against other humans, or, as justification for ignoring the horrible things others were doing, or, that they are just in considering themselves a 'good person' because they've prayed for those who atrocities are being committed against as though it has any meaningful impact on reality - particularly if what you've said is never even seen by those people in question (ie, can't even serve the purpose of emotional support)
Myself, I'm agnostic, as I'm not closed off to the possibility that there could be a ""higher power"", even such an absurdity like we are just individual nodes making up a much larger simulation...
However, even if there is one or more higher beings capable of manipulating our existence, the scientist in me feels that they WOULDN'T because either: their interaction would taint the results of their experiment... or... we're little more than a form of entertainment (interactive book, a game, or movie), in which case, highly unlikely your "prayers" would even fit into their narrative.
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And no, I'm not salty because I had any bad or traumatic experience while attending catholic school. Nay, it's due to the fact that the comments on the videos documenting this conflict fall into basically 4 categories:
- words offering emotional support and sympathy
- offers of prayers and blessings, or 'sympathy' because it's god's will and he will look out for you
- misinformation spreaders (participants coming from both sides, "east" and "west")
- speculators and analysts who offer thoughts and additional info, based on other news sources (to combat the misinformed and the misinfo-spreaders)
It's the second category that has prompted this 'salt'. If you want to offer words of encouragement or emotional support, I have no issue with "thoughts and prayers", "praying for your safety/this being over", as that is evidently from *you*. It's bringing god into it that, to me (based on reading so many), carries with it this heavy sense that you're offering real assistance to the cause and that everything will be A-Ok because god is on the scene!
If the last 5 weeks of everyone around the world invoking his name hasn't instantly stopped things, why will continuing to do so make any impact?
"But things have been getting better! Ukraine has been winning!" Yea? Yet it is still is going on each day, isn't it... So what about that, to you, portrays him (or her!) as being a kind and loving deity?? (I don't even have to bring up the un-related starvation in the world, or the far worse unspeakable acts committed under his watch!)
I don't have an issue with people getting together with like minded individuals to attend meetings to convey thoughts and teach to be kind to each other (see: attending church), I just ask for people to finally wake up and smell the folgers, as being overly devout in a religion does nothing but act as blinders, preventing people from seeing the whole picture, simply because so much that goes on just doesn't fit within the narrative of <insert-religion>. If your god(s) were as loving and forgiving as you claim, then it seems that those same god(s) would embrace humans letting go of these ancient coping mechanism we invented to explain the then-unexplainable things in life their religions! Just sayin'... โค๏ธ
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My initial expectation was that it'd be due to the resin breaking down over time due to exposure to oil and exacerbated by the heat and heat cycling (ignorance warning: I assume things that breakdown from petroleum-based oil, would do so with synthetics, too...)
Hah... And he just covered the resin issue while typing!
Followed by the assumption that CF wouldn't be as good at sudden, massive compression loads like a conn rod would see.
So to hear its fiction wear being the issue, is surprising, as if have envisioned most CF parts to incorporate metal bearings or surfaces at those junctions. After all, our conn rods have bearings, they're not directly contacting the crank since even with lube there's wearing going on. (and the bearing being easier/cheaper to replace than an entire rod)
As an example, an intake valve being CF, would be given a steel interface at the rocker arm. Whether that's an insert added before resin is applied (therefore being anchored), or something more simple like a cap, might come down to the specific part getting remade in CF.
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Ok let's get this straight here, since the media isn't catching this, or, are wanting to stick something to Trump that isn't true (just like the Republicans like to try doing)...
"Civil War" was clearly a response to "MAGA King Thanos"
IT WAS AN 'AVENGERS' MOVIE REFERENCE! ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
THAT being said...
He would do exactly that, say A, claim B, but mean C.
So in this case, I'm sure A & C are indeed one in the same... But those of us who lean left need to also still try to be above misinformation like what's being presented here.
Lastly, and most comically, this CLEARLY illustrated that Trump isn't even running his own Truthiness platform account! Because there is no way in hell he follows the Marvel movies......... This was either one of his kids, or justsome hired schmuck that's been tasked with making quips every here and there to simulate Trump being active on his own network (because previously he'd only made one post after all these months).
Although, huge bonus points of it was made by his youngest kid, Baron, after getting ahold of daddy's phone! ๐ฌ๐คฃ
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ย @patrickkelly6691ย Apologies, I didn't mean to give off vibes that Archer did it first, as I was aware that wasn't the case. The entire season that episode was part of, "Archer - 1999" as I mentioned (and 2 other seasons), consisted entirely of episodes that paid homage to pop culture (and cult classic) movies, and also books I think (I'm not a book reader, myself). It also included internal throwbacks/inside jokes to the series, itself, despite being what one could deem "standalone" in both season and episodes (the episodes might even fit the definition of "anthology").
The season's teaser (played at the end of the previous season), and the immediate first moments of the season's first episode, are right out of Alien, as another pop culture example.
I won't give away the why on the reasoning for why it, and a few seasons prior, deviated so drastically far from the series' original story and plot, as doing so would be a massive spoiler...
However, 1999 and the previous season called Danger Island are some of my fav episodes! Right up there with Archer Vice, which... well, I'm not sure calling that season an homage OR spinoff for Miami Vice would be correct, as it's more the opposite of that show... but the season title certainly is! ๐
Hopefully the show can get itself back into the groove it originally had, as in my opinion, it has kinda sucked since 1999 ended. Still though, that's 10 seasons of pure greatness, which I frequently re-watch! โค๏ธ โบ๏ธ
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@Suvi Eskelinen Just as in America once upon a Cold War time, when most newly planned buildings incorporated a bunker, I agree that would be a smart move...!
What better time than when (sadly) anywhere the Russians have marched through, they've razed to the ground. So given the vast rebuilding that has to take place, and considering that that part of the world sees conflict what feels like every decade or two... Yea, it'd be worth the effort.
Just need to make sure than places like apartment buildings, have a tunnel exit from the bunker, in case of building collapse, so that they can still exit if needed. (for all I know that might be bunker building 101 heh)
Or maybe have apartment buildings that ring a courtyard, where underneath is a single large bunker for each "ring", with tunnels from each building. Then you'd have lots of options! ๐
Now... Before I live up to my self appointed title even further... ๐ค โบ๏ธ
Slava Ukraini! โ๐บ๐ฆ๐ป
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Because they're trying to keep enough modern tanks around to protect themselves from their inevitable invasion by a very eastern neighbor.
Also, because they're sick of handing over all their good modern tanks to Ukraine, who only fix and use them against the invaders.
Lastly, when you only have crude home grown or Chinese knockoff electronics to upgrade them with, which suck by comparison and will hamper the crew's ability further than it already is (get ready to see a whole new level of "low" lol), ultimately leading to more lost tanks.... YOU, TOO, would be calling up the old-timers!
Plus it's not like they're really "modernizing" them... They're just slapping rectangular green clay bricks to the outside and calling it ERA, adding some flashlights/lasers, and a body bag dispenser, then calling it good! ๐
Speaking of old-timers! Many of their recently mobilized might have some experience with these! lol
Oh, also, sanctions... but that's obvious (and kind of implied by "home grown electronics")
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Those brass-lined pliers, I feel like there could be a market for this idea I just had โ which wouldn't surprise me if it's already a thing, since they say any good idea you've had has likely already been had by someone else, but I digress: swappable liners.
Give the inside of the pliers jaws a dovetail groove, and then you can have all sorts of liners to easily put in!
Super soft silicone lined, or balsa wood.
Pine wood for soft but still firm, or hardwoods for hard but slightly deformable.
Various plastics.
Different metal types: brass, copper, aluminum, hardened steel, whatever the situation calls for...
Smooth surface.
Or grooved/textured (to promote gripping when needed).
But best of all, since they're replaceable, it's now a consumable and you don't have to buy the whole pliers if you screw up the surface! Better yet, you can INTENTIONALLY screw up the surface if needed, maybe filing in a specific groove at a precise depth, to grip something unique!
Yes, admittedly, that dovetail channel means it's able to slide out if pulled from the front while in use, so... add in something to prevent that! A grub screw, or maybe some flip lock mechanism. ๐
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I found one of the shells, on the side of that rock.
Right next to where you stood, while holding your "๐".
As I stand in that exact spot, I felt I had to pee, too,
But only now do I realize, I've peed on my "๐"!
I've not been there nor taken it, only writing this for fame,
So if you go and it's missing, please know I'm not to blame!
[NOTE: To be perfectly clear, nothing I just wrote is true and I do NOT have the cliff location shell, I just felt inspired to write my own silly poem.]
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ย @EstorilEmย You saw the word "space", stopped reading and immediately started typing that message shoving your foot into your mouth as possible, didn't'cha? lol!
But seriously, if you had indeed watched the entire video (paying attention, as well) and read the entire comment, you'd understand that what they said was very logical and reasonable -- at least insofar as to what you thought makes it a nonstarter. Because no shit that it's an air breathing engine, but having it (or multiple) stored on an orbital platform, waiting for commands to deploy one (or multiple) which would likely have a small booster to get it on its way... it would now have the initial kickstart velocity, as well as gravity, to drive it into that much needed atmosphere, at the equally much needed extreme speeds required for the SCRAM Jet to function. (Something that would undoubtedly be done at high altitude anyhow, given there's less atmospheric drag but still sufficient oxygen.)
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I am in no way saying this as a means of weighing in on the situation that took place, and whether what was reported to have occurred, really went down that way.
THAT BEING SAID...
My family has a .410 that had been used quite a lot by my dad and his brothers, and perhaps may be older than them, I don't recall. However, it became mine when I was a smol boy, which I would use when dad and I went ""pigeon hunting"" (aka, going to farms and asking if they'd let us shoot pigeons flying around their silos; target practice and pest eradication: win-win!).
One day on a Pheasant hunt with my dad, I was walking and we were getting to the point where there were going to be pheasants jumping up any moment, so I went to cock the shotgun when...
*KER-BLAMMY!*
My wee-thumb didn't get enough purchase on the hammer, it slipped off, and the hammer slammed back down, very much resulting in the discharge of that round! (no worries, the gun was pointed at the ground!)
No cloudy memory about it, as "oh shit" moments are meant to imprint upon our brains in this scenario, I can attest to having NOT had my finger on the trigger. I know this because I was using my index in order to have a firm grip on the gun stock! After all, I was only about 8. :P
That being said, I don't know if that gun has a wobbly firing pin. Or if the pin is similarly affixed to the hammer, and isn't a 'remote' pin that is struck by the hammer. As I still have that gun, I can dig it out if anyone happens to be curious of those facts.
Similarly, I'm only 38, so while this was 30yrs ago, it wasn't during a time that I suspect ammo was too much different than today in terms of primers. Though, a shotgun primer may not be as resillient as a pistol cartridge primer, so it could be more likely just for that reason and is why the attempts in this vid didn't yield a discharge.
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Also, props for managing to work in a FO:NV clip! haha
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I feel like a adjustable Hakko soldering iron pen with a flat disc end and treating it like a TIG welder, where your other hand is holding the filament, might be a better option? (which that tip style isn't for soldering but maybe foam sculpting or wood burning?)
I feel like it would allow you to mash the new filament in, OR EVEN not use any additional in certain cases (like here), where you just were wanting to smooth out a rough surface. Basically, using the traditional "plastic welding" techniques...
I bought one of these Hakko models, but the Japanese version since it was like $20 cheaper on Amazon โ both countries are 110V, but 50hz vs 60hz, IIRC; results in the JAP model being just slightly hotter and therefore the preconfigured temps are off.
BUT! There's a "Configuration" mode you can access!
That last part is key I think... Because my thought is... Perhaps with that ability, a person can DRASTICALLY de-tune it, to be in line with that significantly lower temps needed for filament??
By default, it's lowest temp option is twice what Adam was using here.
However, maybe their better "Solder Station" with digital temp readout, would allow for much lower choices without having to even dick around with de-tuning...? ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Juuuust a thought! Figured I'd at lest put it out there. โค
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I feel like they could've done well, by just scaling it back by half, or even 2/3... ๐ค
Double-decker still, but only 2x (@1/2) or 1x (@2/3) cargo containers wide, instead of the... what did it depict, five wide?
Which on that point, I beg to differ on your stance that it would've taken forever to unload the containers. Actually, I'm almost positive it would be substantially FASTER, because they would no doubt have either wheeled dollies on each container, or, built-in roller wheels that the containers would glide over. All the airports would have to do then, is roll the containers off with tugs. (I think the containers would need the wheels, here, in order to negate a cargo lifter [crane] โ which would be slow)
Hell, they could even have a short rail system next to these Heavy gates, where the trails run under the plane's parking zone and with the ramp down, the container gets automatically pushed up half way before some other system takes over. ๐
Plus, being smaller, yet still arguably a Big Boy, means:
- wouldn't need as massive of engines; therefore...
- less noise
- improved fuel Encinitas
- probably increased range (key for certain airlines;
smaller plane = less drag = further fuel efficiency)
- wouldn't be as heavy, not requiring runways to be beefed up/lengthened; therefore, more airports can be down into and out of.
- might not need as extreme of gate modifications (for non people+cargo variants); therefore, increasing even further the locations they can operate from.
- more importantly, less issues with emergency situations
- lastly, it would be a suitable size for military operation, giving them the ability to either bring a shitload of soldiers, or a shitload of equipment*, or 100+ soldiers *and equipment!
Awesome looking plane though! And kudos to whoever does your digital stuff!!
(also, was a bummer that Mcdonald-Douglas didn't get mentioned; either for the DC-10, or even the proposed MD-12 that was also a big ass plane, albeit probably not this big lol)
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Since I notice a few Swingline stapler comments, I figure I'd share this Fun Fact...
[I've heard this elsewhere, but this quote is from am UpRoxx article]
โMost interesting, perhaps, was the origin of that red Swingline stapler that we see in the film.
That stapler didnโt actually exist at the time. In fact, Mike Judge asked the Boston Stapler company if he could use one of their staplers in the movie, and they said no. So Judge went to Swingline staplers and asked if he could use theirs. They agreed (but didnโt pay the movie anything for the product placement), but there was one catch: Swingline didnโt have a red stapler, and Judge wanted a bright-colored stapler that could better be seen on film. So, Judge took the Swingline staplers to an autobody shop and had them painted bright red.
A couple of years after the film was released and became a huge cult hit, viewers actually began seeking that stapler out. Swingline, however, didnโt have such a stapler, so a market for replicas grew on Ebay. Seeing that such a huge market for the stapler existed, Swingline decided to produce one themselves.
It would become the companyโs biggest selling stapler and, as the Wall Street Journal wrote in 2002, completely transformed the image of the company.
All because of some free product placement โ for a product that didnโt even exist.
In fact, if you go to the Swingline website today, that stapler is still their most prominently featured product, and as Mike Judge said in the podcast, itโs still their biggest-selling product.โ
(NOTE: I could be wrong, but I think they meant Bostitch when they said "Boston Stapler company", as Google is failing to turn up any by that name.)
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Aside from what Vitor said, I'm convinced that A) it's not a bolt action, B) it probably didn't work or wasn't even bothered to be tested, and probably wasn't intended to be tested because who is that crazy.... well, ok, drugged-up people are... But still! lol
Reason I say this is an auto only because of the length of the rear being twice that of the other one, which IS a bolt action... sort of a requirement if you would start out making it with an intention of working! (there's also no room on the other side for a decent bolt homemade, IMO, based on how it's laying on the table; just look at how massive the other handle is).
One thing I considered, to help with the needed receiver mass, was to make it like the Ma Deuce and have the barrel move with it. Still not implying this would it could work, even then... lol
Either way, reminds me of a fence post driver, which is a thick metal pipe, capped, with two handles. ๐
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ย @cyberGEKย I'd be understanding of it, if it was SOLELY on these sort of channels, but... it's happening to me all over YT.
Actually, oddly enough, the one place it WASN'T happening, was on Operator Starsky's channel... go figure.
But as my name implies, I'm long winded in my commenting, and having comments I've put many minutes into, end up getting removed for god knows what reason... that was what broke me. No rhyme or reason, and gone within 30sec of me hitting submit (which is how I know it's the algo and not a human) ๐ฎโ๐จ
I'd like to say I'm glad I'm in good company, but it's not right that we're becoming 'collateral damage', and it just makes it that much more frustrating. ๐ช
It is kinda good to know I'm not alone, so thank you! ๐ป
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I've said it in a prior video, but yea, Adam's stories are a big part of why many of us come to these. For me it's a 50|50 split of being really interested in his answer to the question and the story/ies told in the process of answering it! โบ๏ธ
Some people are are amazing storytellers who will get you wrapped up in them, and tell them in ways that you're visualizing it in your head, where before you know it... a few hours hand passed!
Adam is one of those people.
This is why I've really really hoped that he could do a once a month get together with old ILM/LucasFilm folks, to sit down with some snacks and drinks (boths kinds), to do nothing but share war stories! Those 32Ten videos were so fun to watch, because Adam has that institutional knowledge thanks to being in that scene, to both know what to ask and then his reactions convey to us just how amazing/cool/shocking/impressive the thing that person has said, really is!
As I've also said before: I'd GLADLY chip in $20 for refreshments every so often, to get 2hrs of story time from folks like that! ๐ฅน
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It's the fact this is a shared "hallucination" (for lack of evidence to the contrary) that make things like this interesting, because SOLO hallucinations can be easily be explained away in a plausible way.
For example, I often (jokingly) will say that I've "jumped universes" to explain why something is suddenly subtly different from how I had been experiencing it, or how I remembered. My earliest case of it is from when I was VERY young, anywhere from 3 to 7.
In my room on my bedroom closet I had a Growth Chat that was from the 80s kid's show Zoobilee Zoo. on the bottom was one of the characters, a painter, and on his canvas was what they were painting. It is what was painted that suddenly changed one day... This is now ~40yrs ago and I sadly don't recall if what I recall being on it is what it had been originally, or what it became after the event. Either way, I just recall there being a cake and candles on it which was quite different from whatever was/is on it. It was significant enough of a difference that young me noticed it, found it very weird, and was even creeped out by it!
Worth noting that my bedroom was arranged where my bed was in the corner of my room and my closet at the foot of my bed. So this growth chat was something I saw every day when I went to bed and then when I woke up, as well as all the time I was playing in my room. That's why it bothered me so much that suddenly I was seeing something different from what I had always known it to be.
As a Minnesotan, I also grew up with the Berenstain Bears, so on a Good Mythical Morning episode where they were discussing Mandela Effect instances, it blew my mind to find out it was NOT spelled BerenSTEIN, but BerenSTAIN. We'd always pronounced it -steen, pretty sure there was a cartoon of it which reinforced that, and at our local Amusement Park (Valleyfair) it eventually had a Berenstain Bears Country zone for the kids in the mid-90s.
Been to Valleyfair many times and while I was too old for that area at the time, it was at a party of the park that you always walked by it. Being it was the mid-90s, I was in my early teens, so my memory would be far better than my early childhood, and yet I would still swear in a court of law that it had always been "-stein"! ๐
At least with that one I don't feel bad, since so damn many of us all remember it spelled that way. ๐ Unfortunately, I was the only one (if my fridge) who had anything Zoobilee Zoo related, so THAT situation is a me-only one.
But yea, when a core memory gets rocked like that, I joke that I've jumped to a parallel universe just to make myself feel better. (and also because I'm science minded and like to believe alternate realities could plausibly exist)
Thank you for attending my TED Ramble. ๐ซก
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It's unfortunate that people, specifically (but not exclusively) those with lots of money, are so infatuated with going places in person... especially when we now have super high resolution VR headsets. You could do have a submersible, but inside its occupied by 8K cameras on robotic arms, and your position on a chair on a ship, gets translated to that camera in the submersible. The full sense of being there, without the risk of being there!
Which, I get it, that risk is thrilling in and of itself. I like cars, going fast and feeling those g-forces pushing me in different directions... and yet, one of those (non-VR) 4-axis simulators is perfectly acceptable I think, DESPITE the fact you don't experience those g-forces! (there is/was a NASCAR one in the Mall of America with a dozen of those, and you competed in a multi-lap race against the others)
The only true exception where I will not pretend there's an analog, is space and weightlessness. Yes, there's the parabolic flights which lets your experience it, but it's only for ~20 seconds at a time, AND you lack the view.
Which you already have a high chance of vomiting on that, so wearing a VR headset just to include the view, noooot sure that would be a good idea... ๐
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re: Adam (and Jamie) not wanting to have their voice associated with that "bad science writing"...
Makes me wonder how Adam feels about AI Trained voices, and if he would (after he passes) give his blessing to have him still "voice" things beyond the grave?
There's a Twitch streamer who created an "AI" (LLM specifically) to be a comedy VTuber โ a VTuber being a 3D modeled character that's directly controlled by our body through inexpensive mocap, like a smartphones ToF sensor or a VR setup.
Anyways, it's a glorified chatbot but it's much like the South Park episode of a comedy robot, except that Neuro-sama (as is her name) is REALLY good at roasting whomever they're talking to, be it her creator (Vedal) or fellow VTuber friends of his. (the LLM feeds it's Text output to a TTS processor, as well as some model cues to crudely animate the 3D model)
All that is to say, he's done some collaborations where he has trained his setup on the voice of the person they're collaborating with, and then Neuro uses their 3D model and voice whilst they converse.
The ACCURACY of the voice reproduction and vocal mannerism blew me away! It's WAY better than the David Attenborough voice you hear used, which you can definitely tell is David but can also tell it's full of hitches.
Anyways... I think it would be amazing to have Adam immortalized in this way. Either just through the voice reproduction, to narrate videos, OR as a 3D VTuber model that people can come and converse with. ๐
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Just a thought...
I think Adam should definitely check out Neuro, or her "twin" Evil Neuro (slightly better TTS on her), as they're a riot to watch!
As a 41yo... me enjoying VTuber content was NOT on my bingo card this year. ๐คฃ
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โย @major__kongย This auroras me to hear, based on the fact that pagers have always run on the cellular networks here in the US, so I did some digging...
"In the United States, pagers typically receive signals using the FLEX protocol in the 900 MHz band."
That's far more likely, as 900MHz was one of the older cellular bands. (which I think uses 850MHz to 900MHz)
These days, there's even lower bands in use that would provide better penetration, albeit, are LTE networks now, but I don't think that'll matter.
Verizon's band 13: 700MHz (746-787MHz)
TMobile's band 71: 600MHz (663-698MHz)
So TMaybe's would penetrate best, but reliably, due to network coverage?? ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Verizon would do damn near just as well, and would have significantly better coverage.
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First: I have >dozen firearms, so know that I'm not a tree hugger or hippy ๐ That being said...
Second: Is the polymer biodegradable? Otherwise, I'm not sure I'm thrilled about the poly casing for military application, solely for the reason that it's useless debris being discarded. At least conventional ammo's bread or steel casings can be collected by locals and melted down into useful metal for projects, or reloaded in the case of brass.
That's my opinion, after watching the vid and weighing it all. We've already fist-fucked the planet, The Great Atlantic Garbage Patch floating about is something that can't be disputed, as it's a real, tangible thing. Poly for sportsmen, on the other hand, wouldn't be as bad, since they're wouldn't be hundreds or thousands of people mag-dumping en masse.
I understand that this isn't likely an opinion that'll go over well, given the group I'm presenting it to... lol
I can empathize with you, hence my first point. Either way, I accept any and all downvotes. Though, I hope that if you do, you'll at least further the discussion by replying with a good counter argument ๐ฅด
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My April Fools story...
Almost a decade ago, I played on a Minecraft server enough to become staff, mostly because it was a server that my crappy cellular home-internet connection had a low enough latency on... not because I was into the theme of that server, as it was Percy Jackson related (and I was in my early 30s). But, as I was playing with a younger friend who WAS into PJ, I tolerate it ๐
Nevertheless, I spent a lot of time there, getting to know many players very well, despite the fact that they were all roughly 13 years old. However, the owner was a highschooler and a complete asshat... Eventually he was ruining the server, and I was going to leave, but made an offer to buy the server from him for a couple grand (we ran off donations, so I knew I could make it back).
Sale took place mid March... Then April 1st rolls around and I decided to prank everyone. I created a news post on our website which said that the old owner had contacted me and wanted to buy the server back, and... I decided to go through with it...
Yea, in hindsight, NOT my finest moment lol
What resulted was lots of the players ACTUALLY crying because of that news! ๐ฅบ Those kids meant a lot to be, obviously, since I was willing to spend that much on a game server.
But yea, as successful a prank as it was, it was a hollow success on account of making good kiddos legitimately sad.
The next year I did it much better, but modifying a commonly played sound file in our server texture/sound pack. Which meant that anyone who connected, automatically had that sounds pack applied ๐
It was harmless though, as it was just an Air Horn sound that played after you ate food โ which was done often, by everyone! ๐คฃ
[/story time]
Anyways, I agree with Alex. It should be required that any April Fools articles immediately have [APRIL FOOLS] appended to the beginning of the article title, come April 2nd (or no later than April 7th). That way, in the future, even in search results it will be plainly obvious it's an April Fools article! That way you don't have to even waste your time by clicking through.
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I'm onboard with the UN request, but your ISS request is ill conceived unfortunately.
The Russian modules are sovereign Russia territory, so there's nothing to expel them from in the first place! Doing so would basically be an act of war, since we be taking their territory ๐ฅด
TL;DR - aside from that territorial reason, there's a number of severe technical reasons, too.
"Fine, separate the halves!" I assume would be the followup, to which sure, we could... But the Russian modules are the ones tasked with station-keeping (aka maintaining orbit and orientation), as well as providing considerable station power - even though I think most of the solar panels on their side were supplied by the US.
Our side lacks the station keeping thrusters needed for that, and none of our crew or cargo capsules were designed for that task, although, I think Northrup has said theirs should be able to in a pinch (but would take time to get that figured out; SpaceX's Dragons probably could, but similarly, would have to be updated and configured).
The reaction wheels the US side does have would afford it some control, but nothing meaningful. So in addition to losing altitude over time from atmospheric drag (yes, atmospheric, ISS orbit is only 400-some kilometers [space is overwhelmingly metric]; geostationary satellite are ~35,000 km for comparison), we wouldn't be able to keep the station oriented towards the Sun like it currently does.
And, even if we DID oudt them and take the entire station, Russia recently did a military flex, a very poorly thought out one at that, demonstrating their anti-sat missile, which resulted in tons of unnecessary debris, putting the ISS on alert and prompted a maneuver. (disclosure: yes, US has done so as well, and has China; China's was even more boneheaded though, striking their say in a higher orbit than Russia's test, which leaves more debris up their for decades, instead of 8-10 years)
So, unfortunately, after such an act of aggression, they technically could launch one at the ISS... And while that would be *MONUMENTALLY STUPID*, purely from a space exploration/safety standpoint, Putin et.al do not seem to be using much sound reasoning lately, so I wouldn't put it passed them to do something as foolish for humanity. ๐๐
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ย @TheManinBlack9054ย Google the Ukrainian motto to determine its origins?
Can do....... and done!
"The modern response "Heroiam slava!" (Glory to the heroes!) appeared in the 1930s among members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) who started using this slogan to commemorate veterans of 1918 to 1921 Ukrainian-Soviet War and the wider Ukrainian War of Independence."
Your right, it DOES fit our new situation perfectly, which in turn perfectly conveys sentiments of support for the continued freedom and independence of Ukraine. To not succumb to the pointless, mindless invasion by the delusions of Putin, with his neo-Soviet aspirations to remake Russia back into the former USSR... "Fuhrer-Tsar Putin" may aptly for him right now based on his actions, but said across do not sit well with me, sorry. Nor will I put up with any fools who do! ๐
I'm sure in Russia, such research right now would yield far different, historically inaccurate results. Thankfully I don't have access to such BS.
But hey, since you think I'm some sort of monster for supporting Ukraine's independence โ which, BTW, Russia pledged to HELP MAINTAIN, along with the US and UK, in the Budapest Memorandum (something you should read up on ๐) โ then here, enjoy my other signoff:
RUSKIES:ย ย ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ ะ ะพััะธะธ ััะปะฐ. ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ ะณะตัะพัะผ ะฃะบัะฐะธะฝั! [The glory of Russia is gone. Glory to the heroes of Ukraine!] ๐ค๐ท๐บ๐ฅ
BELAWANNABES:ย ย ะกะปะฐะฒa ะฝะตะปัะณะฐ ะฝั ัะบัะฐััั, ะฝั ัะทััั! [Glory cannot be stolen, nor taken!] ๐ซ ๐ง๐พ๐๏ธ
MY NEW FAMILY:ย ย ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ ะฃะบัะฐัะฝั, ะะตัะพัะผ ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ! [Glory to Ukraine, Glory to the Heroes!] โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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My view....
IF it was Ukraine, blaming it on Russia: Then good! Play by Russia's rules, since they do the same BS. In fine with this, because I know that if Ukraine WAS to do this, it would be accurate strikes on non-important targets around the plant (ie maintenance or grounds-keeper storage shed, guard post, etc; nothing that would cause a reactor failure)
Whereas if it were Russia attacking (let's be real, it almost assuredly was!): They may aim for such targets, but they have a track record demonstrating HORRIBLE accuracy, with various forms of ordinance. Whether it's because of poor training or soldiers or simply not caring about accuracy in the first place, is frankly irrelevant... fact remains that is a seriously scary situation! It's only made worse if it really is due to commanders "not caring" whether their artillery crews may or may not cause a literal f#ยข%ing nuclear meltdown!
I genuinely feel that it's intentional though, and exactly as Zelensky has defined it: acts whose sole purpose is to induce fear or terror in the people of not just Ukraine, not just Europe, but the whole world...
I have no doubt that the sinister cogs in Putin's head are churning out thoughts like:
"๐ค Using nukes will not end well for me... ๐ก but, there's no rule against causing a nuclear power plant to explode! ๐" -- Putin, probably
Time to step in, NATO.... (but that's been overdue for months now ๐}
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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re: Turning down a job because you don't like the company...
Not quite that, but similar: I REFUSE to purchase any Intel or nVidia products due to how those companies have behaved in the past (and still do).
Intel: They did some INCREDIBLY shady and underhanded things in around the mid-2000s, because they were continually being outclassed by AMD. So, they went to manufacturers if systems and offered them monetary and ordering incentives if they would hobble, or make their products less appealing, that used AMD CPUs. (eg: use lower resolution screens, not as fast components, smaller batteries, etc etc)
"Some of the manufacturers involved in the case were Dell, HP, Gateway, Acer, Fujitsu, Sony, Toshiba, and Hitachi. In May 2009, the European Commissioner for Competition, Neelie Kroes, fined Intel a record $1.45 billion and ordered it to end its customer rebate program."
Their actions cost AMD a lot of money and their products suffered as a result of limited R&D funds (which was obviously Intel's intentions, so that their CPUs would be top dog once again). And last I checked (a couple years ago), they've STILL not paid that to AMD...
What's worse though, is ~6 years ago, AMD came back and has products that once again rival Intel's, and AMD started eating Intel's lunch... and Intel decided they'd fire up those anticompetitive practices again, albeit not dialed up to the same degree as before. ๐ฎโ๐จ Thankfully it didn't really work, but they've shown they are morally corrupt, and for that have been forever blacklisted in my book!
nVidia: It's a laundry list of literally childish temper-tantrum like things, but here's an sample... Context: they bought a company who created an add-in card which did Physics for games, ceased making them, and integrated the tech into their graphics chips (GPUs). So only their graphics cards had "PhysX" support. (which is fine, I'm not bothered by that)
So then Windows Vista gets released and it was a massive change to the way the operating system does stuff, and someone found out that it was trouble-free to now run two graphics cards from different GPU makers in your computer (possible before, but problematic)!
Thing is, at this time, ATi's graphics cards were the performance leader, and people wanted their cards. However, PhysX was still kind of cool... and Windows Vista now allowed you to easily run a high-end ATi card to play games, ALONG WITH a lower-end nVidia card to give you PhysX support!
That didn't sit well with nVidia, so they "took their ball and went home", you could say.
What they did was wrote a simple check into their graphics drivers where any ATi graphics card (and later AMD, after they bought ATi) was detected in the system... PhysX support was DISABLED! ๐
(note: it didn't disable PhysX on the computer completely, as it could still run in "software" mode, which meant the CPU had to basically emulate the PhysX hardware capabilities, but that means it was a lot slower, AND lacked some of the fancier visual capabilities)
So yea, I don't like it when a company conducts themselves in these ways, and I want nothing to do with them or their products. I don't care if at any moment they may offer a superior CPU or GPU, I will sacrifice my own gameplay experience before buying from them.
I DO still recognize their superiority, and so if someone wants my opinion/help, I'll tell them the truth of which product is better at the time... But none of my money will go towards them due to their past underhanded practices. ๐
[/rambling rant]
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Brandon, when are you going to make the cursed design that just popped into my head whilst point at your gun wall...? ๐
So, you know how you hate Bullpups?
Nononono wait wait wait, don't go! It gets worse, I promise!
And you know what looks like it would be perfect for a bullpup and is ALSO Russian?
That's right. I say take the RPG launcher, and convert it into a bastardized shoulder-fired (instead of shouldered..?), small caliber version of that 50 cap prototype you bought! ๐ค (not your AK-50, just to be clear)
โบ๏ธ
It's so many shades of awful, it's gotta happen!
... And may already have, somewhere, I dunno... (Hey I might be coming up with it right now, but I never claimed it would be original lol)
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ย @katpage9378ย Hmm... either you deleted your last comment sometime after making it, which I take no issue with ("mentions" can still be read, as you probably know)...
Or, someone flagged it for removal, which I'm not sure what the logic was by the YT moderators to have granted its removal... ๐คจ
If the latter, I'm sure it was a Karen lol Personally, while I may think the concept of Furries is weird but funny (not demeaningly so; not my intention at least), I accept their/your choice and personally don't see why anyone should have a problem with it... although I understand why people unfortunately do find issue with it (clashes with their reality, and that's ""unacceptable"" to them) ๐
Either way, thanks for that info, cleared things up for me! ๐ค
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Skipping projectiles is quite an interesting phenomena!
I have a .177 cal Gamo pellet rifle, rated at 1000 ft/sec with standard lead rounds. I've managed to so-accurately skip them off the Kenai River (which is massive and wide), that after a number of tries, I managed to HIT the No Trespassing sign posted on a tree on the other side (at roughly the same height above the water as I was shooting).
The most interesting thing, was I was aiming above the target by the amount I thought would be needed to directly hit it, only to fall well short of it, but still end up hitting it thanks to skipping off the water! ๐คฏ
Also despite the river being noisy due to a submerged rock causing turbulence, I could still hear the impact on the water (a soft 'slap'), and then a split-second later the thwack against the wood sign.
I don't really have an estimate of distance, as I was shooting diagonally down river, but I figure to the sign it had to be about 175ft. Based on the significantly smaller splash, my pellet must have been falling short roughly 1/3rd the way.
[disclaimer: I'm firearms safety trained and am in no way putting anyone in danger โ one of the golden rules is "Know what you're shooting at and what is behind it". The property is not fished by the owner as the bank is too steep, it's also covered by a dense forest, and is immediately backed by a huge hill; therefore, even shooting 100ft too high would not pose a risk of hitting anyone or anything... besides trees... and maybe a squirrel lol]
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Wait LimeWire was 90s?! I thought it came AFTER Napster... (I'm I couldn't pay this without looking lol Napster 1999, LimeWire 2000)
I totally know what you mean though ๐คฃ Same issue with Nap and KaZaA! However, even still, found lots of great remixes and nobody-made tracks. I STILL have my folders from back then, backing them up each time I got newer HDDs.
There's another super obscure software that was predominantly used by Mac owners but DID have a PC port... No idea the name, couldn't even describe it now if I needed to, but it was almost like an obscure FTP program, but which had it's own directory of servers (people's home compete obviously lol). Same deal though, not knowing if what you're get was as it was labeled! ๐
I remember queuing stuff up before going to school, hoping it finished our that the server didn't drop me...
[Fun Fact: AOL even had channels dedicated to this scene as well, and had channel bots that you'd query and have small chunks emailed to you, literally the first multi-part ZIP like system but it was done via an command prompt EXE included as part 1 (but not WinZIP because it has awesome ASCII art so you know it was part of the scene). That's where I got the leaked Quake 3 Internal Hardware Vendors demo from lol Also, Rammstein's "Du Hast" but it was an MP2! My 486DX2 66MHz couldn't play it back without stuttering though.]
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"... if we let Putin win, we will pay the price for many years to come..."
And if we CONTINUE TO DO JACK SHIT, like we have been with every war and conflict since Putin took office in 2000, then we solidify the mentality of Putin, and all those who will rule after he's gone: "we can do WHATEVER WE WANT and ATTACK WHOMEVER WE WANT... and worst case, 'the west' only supplies our enemy with weapons."
So yea ๐
You either send in boots, and finally put an end to Russia's occupation in Ukraine/Crimea, to finally shut them up...
Or, you keep doing what you're doing, Russia might stop at some point, but you can be damn site that in another 4-6yrs, they'll be right at our again. And probably against Ukraine again, since they'll feel spited over not being able to sweep across the country like originally thought.
So the right thing NATO/UN...
RUSKIES: ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ ะ ะพััะธะธ ััะปะฐ. ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ ะณะตัะพัะผ ะฃะบัะฐะธะฝั! [The glory of Russia is gone. Glory to the heroes of Ukraine!] ๐ค๐ท๐บ๐ฅ
BELAWANNABES: ะกะปะฐะฒa ะฝะตะปัะณะฐ ะฝั ัะบัะฐััั, ะฝั ัะทััั! [Glory cannot be stolen, nor taken!] ๐ซ ๐ง๐พ๐๏ธ
BROTHERS: ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ ะฃะบัะฐัะฝั, ะะตัะพัะผ ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ! [Glory to Ukraine, Glory to the Heroes!] โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
Stay strong. Stay united. Stay alive. STAY UKRAINIAN!
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ย @alanwakefield2453ย Nowhere near the same intelligence as your story, but I do have a "Well..... THAT didn't go the way I expected!" story!
I had to be only 10 or so. Dad and I had gone to Wisconsin to grab some fireworks (aren't/weren't legal in Minnesota). I was setting off a couple bottles rockets and one had a structural failure after the fuse ignited some of the propellant.
It hadn't launched, nor did it explode, but a crack had opened up the entire length of the rocket body, visually exposing said propellant...
Now, I had enough intelligence to deduce that the fuse triggers "whatever this gray powdery stuff is" and makes it go zoom! What I lacked was life experience, to safely guide my curiosity...
So... ๐คทโโ๏ธ๐คทโโ๏ธ
I held the lighter next to the crack and ignited it!! ๐ฅด ... ๐ฌ
Now I know I said "didn't go the way I expected" but, frankly? At that age, I didn't have the foresight of "expectations" ๐
I don't know if I was thinking it would somehow still work and zoom off, or act like a fuse and give me time to move away... ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Either way, mistakes were made! haha
If I recall correctly (30yrs ago), it all flashed off, instantly, since they're was no containment to slow the burn rate โ being it had a cracked housing and all.
No eyes put out, no fingers lost, no fires started. ๐
However, I did not come away entirely unscathed!
Due to my position over it while lighting, the flame from the instant cook off, had managed to burn away all the 'quick'(?) under my middle finger's nail! ๐ฃ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
(the rocket was laying on the driveway, I think with the cack being parallel to the asphalt; the flame getting deflected and channeled between the asphalt and lighter, into my poor middle finger)
I don't actually recall it hurting too badly, overall. In the moment I think it had, as I believe I ran inside and held it under water for a few minutes... But the weeks after, all I remember is the void that was left under that nail, and the ability to put a paperclip in there... lol
Took a few months to heal, but heal it did and thankfully with no permanent damage! See, both are fine... ๐๐๐
[/long AND stupid story]
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ย @Alfonso162008ย @Mythbustertvshow is the channel I'm referring to, which I just refuse to believe is an official channel ๐
Mainly for the reason that I mentioned, which is it states on their channel info page that they have a license for the content, which is a detail I've never seen an official channel ever mention... But admittedly, I could be wrong!
Also, fair warning... The algorithm is super sensitive these days, where watching something, even ONE video or Short, will signal to it "This person loved it, time to inundate them with more in every Recommended feed!" ๐
This happens to me all the time, too the point where it I'm indifferent about what I watched immediately rush to my Watch History and remove it (even then it's "too late" lol).
As such, my warning is that since we both watch Tested, you may end up like me... Where I've had 2 other episodes in my Watch Later, and every day for over a week (when I watched the one episode), my Home Feed is packed with at least a dozen recommendations of episodes from the same channel, on just about every refresh. ๐
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โโโย @Alfonso162008ย Seems YT didn't like me mentioning the Ch. I'm referring to and removed my comment from a couple hours ago... so let's try again without the (AT)... ๐
[edit: that did the trick!]
"Mythbustertvshow" is the channel I'm referring to, which I just refuse to believe is an official channel ๐
Mainly for the reason that I mentioned, which is it states on their channel info page that they have a license for the content, which is a detail I've never seen an official channel ever mention... But admittedly, I could be wrong!
Also, fair warning... The algorithm is super sensitive these days, where watching something, even ONE video or Short, will signal to it "This person loved it, time to inundate them with more in every Recommended feed!" ๐
This happens to me all the time, to the point where if I'm indifferent about what I watched, I'll immediately rush to my Watch History and remove it (even then it's "too late" lol).
As such, my warning is that since we both watch Tested, you may end up like me... Where I've had 2 other episodes in my Watch Later, and every day for over a week (when I watched the one episode), my Home Feed is packed with at least a dozen recommendations of episodes from the same channel, on just about every refresh. ๐
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@1:24 As an American, allow me to explain how one could not love where they were born and raised...
The land, the animals, my relatives and friends? Sure, I love them. Yes, these are all things which are "American", but only they only make up a PART OF everything needed to call it The United States...
That other part consists of our way of life, our government (and laws), our cities & states, our corporations, etc. It is all of THOSE things which, recently, have "failed" my country and her people.
- Our "way of life" is to blame because it fostered all the crap going on in my country. (allowed it to happen)
- Or "government (and laws)" are to blame because they have lost focus of what is best for the people, and instead are making things better only for.... well, I'm not really sure, because everyone gets screwed! The politicians don't feel/experience the effects of their actions simply because their job entitles them to benefits that shield them from those effects.
- Or "cities/states" are allowed their own control over certain things, which makes it so they are able to SUBSTANTIALLY change how life is for people that live there. In other words, every state is quite similar to a country. THEN on top of this, each city and town are able to further enforce certain things differently, making life rather different even between people who only live across the street!
- Or "corporations" are to blame, and this goes back to our "way of life", because they have all become only about 'money' instead of the product they make, or the service they provide. They no longer care about their customer's thoughts or opinions, and whether they are happy or not. The companies have gotten to be so big, and that their product or service is so necessary, that we have no choice to use their service or buy their products. There is little we (people) can do about it, because our government doesn't care enough, because our politicians are funded by these companies. ๐
As a result of all of that...
I might be an American...
But I DO NOT love my country!!
All because most of "my country" doesn't give a shit about me, my needs, or my quality of life.
It is no different for me, than it is for a child whose mother does not care for them. Just because the mother gave birth to that child, why should that child have to love them if they are not treated well?
THAT is how you can not love, but can even hate, your motherland!
HOWEVER!! At the end of the day, how my country treats me (her people) and her neighbors... IS FAR BETTER than how_Russia_ treats you (her people) and her neighbors!
(I am not saying we treat Mexico very well, but, we've acted far better towards them, than Russia has towards MANY of her neighbors within the last 20 years!)
So you should not love your country. Russia takes your family/friends and makes them fight a war that your own people do not want. Russia makes you afraid to say what you feel or think. Russia throws you in prison if anything you DO say happens to go against what they think. Russia feeds you nothing but lies about what actually goes on in the world, about what they are doing, about why they are doing it, and even about the results of what happened. Russia makes you pay for things, then says they are using it to improve X, Y, or Z, but allows every person responsible to steal some of the money for themself. Instead of maintaining your military and its hardware, its supplies, its machines... the money is spent on MULTIPLE yachts that cost 680,000,000,000 rubel EACH! (or more! and that is the correct amount of zeros!)
I say all of this, NOT because I hate Russians. Even with this war and the horrible things that have happened... I DO NOT hate the people of Russia!
I know that this war is "Vladimir Vladimirovich's War" and does not reflect how _all of_Russia's people think โ although, clearly the man at 1:24 does think that way, but, there are racist Americans as well, so I won't hold that against everyone! I know the lies he's told your people, and even those who believe them... I do not hate them, either. It is not their fault for being so compelled to believe what their own government has said.
But, the world needs Russians to recognize what is actually going on in the world, by believing what your fellow people are telling you in private. And that despite what President Putin says, "the west" does not hate the people of Russia, nor is our reason for uniting with Ukraine because of a silly desire to want Russia to collapse (Putin is doing a better job at that, than we ever could, and all by himself).
โ๏ธ
(sorry for any typos that I missed)
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ย @MrKotBonifacyย
Will the issue with that is that to have a business today, requires an internet connection, and one that isn't slower than molasses, with tiny data caps or is a faux-unlimited cellular plan. Without that, you really can't do shit...
THAT has been the issue here.
I can't have Windows 10 update, since it'll consume the data allowance, or slow the connectinon to a crawl (which at 4mbit/s max, would probably take the entire month for the big feature updates).
I can't download software to do things, nevermind keep that up to date.
Can't do any video calling, not reliably at least.
And I could go on, but as you pointed out, if I don't stop myself, I could go on forever! lol
Point is, I could (potentially) do plenty for my country, but my country has made it so that the corporations we rely on can do WHATEVER the frack they want. Since internet is not a "Utility", they don't have to offer service, nor adequate signal coverage, or sane pricing (other countries' citizens all pay a fraction per-month of what we do, for their far superior internet connections!)
It's no longer a technological limitation as to why rural America can't have internet (which has been the reason for a long time)... It's greed. ๐
(yea, I know, I said I'd stop, but it takes a good length of track to get this train to come to a complete stop! ๐คฃ)
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ย @MrKotBonifacyย I wish the greasing of wheels worked like that here in the US. Good god do we ever have our priorities screwed up, when even if the "little guy" DOES have funds and/or knows the right people.... Your money's no good.
Actually, I guess I've slightly misspoke. Not really greasing of wheels I guess, but a "willing to pay what's needed, to get shit done", in a legitimate way.
Like, if I wanted to procure (again, legally) the needed hardware and supplies to extended internet service, or upgrade the hardware in a box so that we could be served..... AT&T isn't interested. lol ๐คจ
If, say, you got it anyways and wanted to just "do it all without their blessing" โignoring the fact it would require various construction permitsโ well, now AT&T is interested.... Or rather "interested", because they now have an interest in taking you to court lol
OR, like here in Tennessee just a few years back... The Electric Company in the Chattanooga area (which I'm ~15mi outside of their service area), decided they'd put their foot in the ISP arena, given they have all the needed infrastructure to run and install the cabling. They offered the first consumer Gigabit fiber in the US (around 2010 I believe), and arguably affordable at like ~$350/mo.
Anyways, "Big Internet" corporations were NONE too pleased that they just had their lunch stolen... Not that the big providers were making ANY effort to service locations, but blah-blah, mafia mentality. "This is my turf, seeeee!"
Which this note kicked off more interest by other towns and Electric Co-Ops, they all wanted to do similar for their citizens and consumers! Oooh no. Big Internet wouldn't have it. So they got their lobbiests out in full force, greased wheels and lined pockets. Soon enough, a law was passed to forbid new co-op internet servicing! Mind you, Big Internet still want going to do anything, and this ensured they didn't need to, either.
Thankfully that didn't last but ~5yrs before being repealed, and fiber IS rolling out in places it otherwise never would have, in completely unserved areas. Unfortunately even then, it's slow. Been waiting 3 or 4 years now since our Electric Co-Op announced it'd be providing fiber. Don't get me wrong, they ARE serving, but where and when seems to literally be them throwing darts to determine it... ๐
Alas, in Russia, I can see this going two ways.
First, I imagine that no one would give a crap if you went about buying, installing, and serving internet.... RIGHT up until its seen you're making a buck. At which point I imagine that someone will move their foot in the way, to ensure your endeavors are stepping on their toes...
Then ๐ข๐ ยซsnapยป (no finger-snap emote; so pretend!)
What's yours, ends up being theirs, and on top of it being taken from you, now you'd be paying them for service. lol
So I guess in that sense, I'm... glad??... that I can't just go and do what's needed, as I don't have to worry about it being so easily stolen from me. ๐ฅด๐
I do feel that the 'state of mind' part, definitely also applies to certain elements of American life, insofar as some things you just have to accept โchange your state of mindโ will forever be outside of your control (or seemingly at least).
๐ค for certain ways changing, in America and Russia...
As we both have 'oligarchs', which in both cases they have far too much sway over how things are done and what they can get away with. In the end, the people are who get the raw end of it.
(although I fully recognize that Russians are in a far worse way at the moment, and lack of internet pales in comparison to being mobilized ๐)
I'll be sure to check out your recommendations ๐๐ Thanks.
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I think it ought to be a series โ "Calling You Out"
Just like this, where YOU GUYS find someone in the comments. Not enough to cause people to "start talking shit in hopes of a trip to GT's farm", but maybe one of two EPs a year. Could even be within the same month, if The Fates deem it so.
But yea... In this case I feel like there are two genuine truths we can obtain from this:
#1 What he said about not being in his element, was true. You can dial yourself in when you shoot at the same target at the same location. I can skip a .177 pellet out of my 1000fps Gammo off the river our cabin is on and hit the No Trespassing sign on the other side ~100yrd away... BUT IN NO WAY do I think I could do that in any other situation, location, or conditions! (so I pick the "Shut Up" card lol)
#2 I suspect the tractor was either 710ft, OR, the range finder was misreading. There's a tolerance once you get out further and further, also I think a humidity factor as well. I'm by no means calling .22 Man a liar, though! I would be saying the same thing, in his shoes. But until you've walked it out, it's simply a situation of "I caught a fish [----THIS----] big!" ๐ฅด
Sometimes we embellish, even unconsciously. Nothing wrong with it! He took up the challenge, so my hat's off to you! ๐๐ป๐
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We were smart enough and felt it important enough to sort out religion in schools, because it's problematic and unfair to push it on those who are either of no faith or are of a different faith... Given that we are a "melting pot" of so many cultures.
However, when it comes to our government which deals with everyone in our country, a substantially larger number compared to school attendees, and a far more important group of people as well (politicians that is; no offense, kiddos)... Nope! They can do whatever they want and push whatever shit they feel like!
And because actual number of votes doesn't mean squat in terms of who gets elected^, that means they don't actually represent a good majority of people's interests while they hold office (^at least for president; eg 2016 where Hillary won the total vote count). As such, we the people can end up in this downward spiral of our rights, when the planets align and there's enough of like-minded fanatics in power (of either party) decide to be vindictive/offensive -- in both definitions of the latter -- with their position and the power that comes with it...
Such as it is now regarding Roe v Wade, where a decision that seems to be based solely on two things: 1} sticking it to the Dems for having lost the case ~50yrs ago, 2) a religious belief/opinion...
Nothing about it is based on facts. No one is forcing Pro-Life people to have abortions. It's completely their choice to not utilize that because their faith doesn't agree with it. Which is ABSOLUTELY their right to do, or not do, because that's the respectful option (this isn't China done years back, after all, when family size was mandated at 1 child).
Yet, they are not content, oh no! Their preached philosophy of "turn the other cheek" doesn't apply... Nay, they feel they have to go all old testament on us sinners! ๐
Ugh. I'm shutting up now. ๐
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Reminds me of a tale Adam Savage (Mythbusters) had shared in a video on how channel (@Tested), about a guy who came up to him at an autograph signing, I want to say at A Smithsonian event, to have him sign something.
I unfortunately don't remember the finer details, but, it was a lead container that he said had something (I don't recall) radioactive in it, but not to worry because it's safely contained. Either way, understandably, Adam was a bit unnerved by it and said (with a chuckle) that had he known that up front, he wouldn't have signed it.
I've tried to find it through Google, but nothing turns up.
For anyone curious though, it would've:
A) been a video on how channel related to Mythbusters, as it came from a Q&A stream.
B) would've been sometime in the last year, to year and a half.
C) and a shorter video that I had specifically watched, as it was before I had Starlink, so bandwidth was at a premium and I wouldn't have watched an entire live stream recording. (so an 8-15 min video)
[Addendum: frankly, given my poor recollection, it could have also been that the container DIDN'T have anything radioactive in it at the time he was signing it, but at the same time I feel like he said there was, so... ๐คทโโ๏ธ๐คทโโ๏ธ๐คทโโ๏ธ heh]_
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Finished the video and I'll keep my opinion inside this thread...
Another great contribution to your HLH series.
As far as harmless or not.... I think it is harmless....... but unfortunately, could definitely be used nefariously... ๐ซค
It was almost taken to that extreme here, with the new person using the videos and further contributing a photo and story to it. Had the news picked up on this, or even just the legitimate form you had shown for reporting incidents been used by a number of people genuinely concerned... Well, that could've been the removal of the training wheels and made it a "harmful". Simply because it would've meant agency resources getting diverted to ensure it was not credible, and... butterfly effect... it results in a REAL instance getting put on hold, resulting in a genuine small catastrophy... ๐ซค
In other words, almost everything is harmless, right up until someone accidentally takes it too far, OR, intentionally does and plans out further stages to fuel any panic.
Such is the age we live in now, sadly.... [see: SWATing; albeit, that was with nefarious intent from inception]
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DUDE.... I... had this exact thought a couple days ago! Wild...
(granted I know you had it much earlier, given time to create, film, edit)
Of course, like you did in this video, I had a different name for mine:
Very High Bypass Aero Spike
My only thought that seems different to yours (sorry, I'm not a modeler, or blessed with an internet connection with sufficient monthly bandwidth to download software):
In my head, my design would've had the airflow travel from the fan outwards like yours, into a hemisphere channel, which then connected to the start of the aerospike. (albeit, mine was based around a jet engine, but that should be irrelevant heh)
So the air will come in and flow through the ducting in an S trajectory, rather than a corkscrew. In other words, my fan would be more... fan like, and less centrifugal-fan (compressor) like.
I think for propulsion, you want to move as much air as possible. The duct is a Venturi in an EDF so it improved efficiency, but it's moving lots of air at "zero" pressure.
Which is, as I understand it, how a Turbo Fan engine is working. The "Fan" isn't doing any (or much) competing, as that would be "work" and lowering efficiency. The only compressor turbines are being used for the combustion side (vs a key engine where all airflow gets used for combustion).
I guess where I'm going with this is that I suspect you've got too much back-pressure? Which is because you're wanting to compress, when you should be (I assume) wanting to REDUCE restriction and use more blades to increase airflow. Letting the aerospike do the work of "compressing" the air and produce additional thrust...
But I have no education in any of this so I'm guessing, just as you! ๐คทโโ๏ธ๐ฅด
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Putting in my hypothesis right after the intro (defining "Bifacial vertical", and that text just displayed)...
BENEFIT #1: Being out of full-on direct sunlight results in significantly less heat, which is improving efficiencies. (due to lower resistance?) [Nnnailed it!]
BENEFIT #2: Being completely vertical inhibits dust/other participate buildup, meaning that even if they aren't cleaned often, they still generate more electricity since the typical homeowner likely doesn't clean theirs often (if ever). [I missed it if this was mentioned; maybe as I was typing my reply...]
SIDE BENEFIT: Light reflected off the ground/roof further increased the output versus what was expected. (not really 'benefit' so much as an overlooked factor in their prediction) [That didn't take long to confirm this was right! ๐ค]
[edit: Including this, now that you've said "last chance"... The additional panel on the back is taking advantage of those mentioned electrons being knocked off, causing it to create electricity even when there's no direct OR indirect (reflected) light hitting it (scavenging "waste" energy, in a sense) . OR, possibly it's "charging" the 'evening' panel so that once the sun does swing around to it, it experiences increased efficiency temporarily; during that time, it's doing the same now for the 'morning' panel.] [Well, this definitely wasn't mentioned, but if it's possible to create a photovoltaic-substrate-photovoltaic panel that's literally double-sided (instead of two physical panels mounted back to back), this could be something to test out! A joule theif springs to mind, but that likely isn't a good analogy...]
And with that... back to the video!
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ย @Sin3xtremeย No, but you're getting closer! (not really heh)
The primary reason why Russia is a terrorist in this war comes down to their CHOICE OF TARGETS...
When the majority of the targets are infrastructure integral to civilian life yet have minimal impact on a military: you're a terrorist! ๐
Target the power grid?
- military: switches over to generator backup
- civilians: pretty much screwed, as few will have gens
Target the water supply?
- military: falls back on stockpiles or purification methods
- civilians: collecting rain, snow, limited well supply
Targeting residential apartments?
- military: unaffected...
- civilians: have to find new shelter
Targeting hospitals not near non-frontline areas?
- military: somewhat affected, hospital type depending
- civilians: extremely affected, especially if it's a maternity clinic
Targeting schools?
- military: minimally affected if on frontlines
- civilians: highly affected, particularly if school is in session
River dams? (the actual structure, not the road)
- military: minimal?
- civilians: extreme
I could go on, but why bother when it's already perfectly evident that Russia targets things that are primarily civilian, solely in an effort to terrify the people of Ukraine.
Key word there is terrify, in other words to invoke terror. One whose actions are carried out with the sole intent of terrorizing a people is basically the definition of a "terrorist".
Which seeing as you've obviously never bothered to look it up, here you are:
terยทrorยทist /หterษrษst/
noun
a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation,
especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.
Again though, you were _close_. Just replace "religious" with "political". ๐
(and if you don't think wars are politically driven, then you have a really skewed perspective on how this world works! [or the definition of words?] lol)
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ย @jamesmiller3098ย I can't tell if you intend for your message to be directed at skyman, or if you meant it for Ivan...?
NOTE: I am not taking either person's side, just explaining the process.
[ TL;DR - Everyone has to "show their work" so that we can tell who is copying, and who actually knows the answer. And the opposite, if you're asked to "show your work", then you need to show how you came up with the answer, to prove you aren't just repeating/parroting what someone else said! ]
Because everything you said is valid, BUT ONLY if it's in regards to Ivan's original comment. He is the one saying he has proof and evidence, after all.
9skyman9 is only saying he wants to see Ivan's proof/evidence for himself, which is a very fair and civil request, to be honest.
Therefore, it's on IVAN to back up his original claims by citing his source(s) that it was:
- from Ukrainian missile stockpile
- originating from Ukrainian-controlled territory
- fired by Ukrainians
It is not on skyman to debunk the claim by trying to figure out whatever intricate way Ivan may have came to his conclusion. Telling skyman that "you just have to figure it out the same way Ivan managed to" is an impossible task unless Ivan provides the raw data, first! Otherwise, the information skyman digs up might completely contradict Ivan. If neither of them provide their data, a third person could just as easily claim that maybe it came from... Belarus, or maybe outer space!
Maybe Ivan simply made a mathematical error, or didn't account for the wind that day, but that his data was otherwise trustworthy? The world isn't going to pause while everyone independently fact checks. This is war and time wasted can mean lives lost, so more eyes on the data only helps everyone. Then, anything that is deemed flawed or untrustworthy, can be supplanted by data from another source. Maybe the same verdict gets reached? But we'll never know if no one "shows their work" (as our math teachers always demanded), as otherwise they (Ivan) may simply be repeating what someone else had already claimed (ie copying someone else's test answer).
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ย @eisbombenterrorย Good information to help everyone.
For that matter, we also have no idea if the Russian soldiers could have captured even a single Ukrainian mobile launch platform, launching this themselves, to create this exact sort of doubt.
Thankfully, this conflict has been documented on an unprecedented level, so between all the drone footage and satellite images, we'll undoubtedly know soon enough where this had launched from. Then, hopefully, can also conclude "who" likely launched it at that time.
(personally I have a hard time believing the Ukrainians would do it against themselves, but I admit that I have no evidence to conclude that they hadn't, to garner sympathy... that's still a hard thought to try and process, especially when they're winning so far!)
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ย @jamesmiller3098ย Alright, so as you've stated, the burden of proof is on the person calling out the claims of another.
So by those rules, 9skyman9 has to in turn produce credible information, since he doesn't believe Ivan.
And since Ivan doesn't believe Zelenskey, it is Ivan who needs to produce credible information to back up his disbelief.
Gotcha!
Since the only way to conclusively determine the truth is to hear what both sides of any issue have to say on a matter, I await to see what they both manage to provide us so I can make a more informed decision!
That's why I'm here, after all. Gather every side of the argument. See who puts out certain info (then retracts it), and who fights tooth and nail to keep important info hidden even when they claim there's nothing to hide (but still refuses to provide access to what's necessary in order to confirm their claim.)
Retracting or changing of details, is also why I hadn't on to even old copies of files and software/game versions before updating. Hard drive space is cheap, holding on to now unobtainable/lost information (or evidence) and software features are priceless! ๐
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โย @johnderoy916ย Your answer reminds me of the Minecraft server I ran for many years... We had a world that was specifically just for staff to build structures for events, or as a temporary building zone for stuff that would be moved later on...
As such, it was strewn with lots of things.
In the game is a block called a "command block", which you could input a command and then when a button/pressure plate/lever was actuated, it would execute...
Well, sometimes a player would manage to escape the confines of an event and wander around, coming across such blocks. Often these would be setup to gift an item, so it became problematic lol
So, knowing that players (even staff) aren't capable of leaving well enough alone... I reprogrammed many of them to teleport the player beneath the map, into the dark abyss, which would end up killing them. ๐
THAT was my version of a "(no so) portable enticement snare" ๐
And, you always knew when someone activated it, because there was no other way to "fall out of the world" unless you were teleported there! ๐
(later on, I would add a second command block, which would "tattle" on the player, by sending me an in-game message, just in case I wasn't online when it occurred lol)
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Dad had an FN-FAL, although his had the integrated folding carry handle. That was his baby. heh
Don't remember why he got rid of it, but I think mom gave him some sort of ultimatum, as he had too many guns... lol I just remember he prized its commanding price of like $1500, in the late 90s.
๐ค Maybe that was the ultimatum... to sell some, in order to buy that one? ๐คทโโ๏ธ haha I dunno
All I know is he got rid of it at some point, as I don't have it. (he passed away, so I inherited them all)
Lastly... F. A. L. here, as that's how dad always said it.
Not FAL.
But it doesn't bother me, either way. I just think it sounds idiotic to say it as a word. It'd be like calling the CIA, by Sia... ๐
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ย @44R0Ndinย ๐ค I can't deny, your points are valid, your logic sound... but it's not super flattering/catchy/prestigious ๐ lmao
I know, most scientists aren't that vain, but I think they're all for cool titles, when able to have one!
I can't remember which space company it was (90s or newer), but Scott had covered it, and in one of the papers he showed an image of -I think it was a science paper, but might've been a government form - two of the people in it had the silliest yet still fitting titles for their roll in the project...
I wish I could remember, but yea they were amazing, and by 'silly' I mean on the level of calling a rocket an "Up Goer" ๐
But I digress... Where I'm going with that is maybe another thing you mentioned might offer that coolness factor: "Over-Scanners" ?
Or a middleground: "Data Upcycler" ? ๐ฅด
Either way, as I said you have valid points, so at the end of the day if "Data Recycler" turns out to be what everyone agrees is best, I'm content! lol
(I was about to suggest Data Engineer, but unsurprisingly that was already a real profession.)
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ย @ThZuaoย Love me some Uncle Bumblef...ork. (I'll keep it PG for the sake of it being Scott's channel lol)
Which, since I have fellow AvE lovers in company here, I'd like to float an idea I had in reference to his terminology...
While most have probably heard him say these, as a reminder, he's referred to electricity as both Angry Pixies, as well as Dancing Pixies.
However, he's used them completely interchangeably and without inference as to the 'type' of electricty he's using it for.
My thought was that perhaps he originally did mean for them to and forgotten over time (has happened to me), or perhaps whomever he heard it from originally meant them to be; however, if that isn't the case, then I propose that:
- *A*ngry Pixies | AP == Alternating Current | AC
- *D*ancing Pixies | DP == Direct Current | DC
What do we think about that? :)
For me, that just seems like the obvious pairing of the terms, or at least how it ought to be, going forward!
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Gav... Can we get a SPEED estimate on those crucible chunks that were flying left and right, on ""Day 2""? (obviously the one coming towards the camera wouldn't be possible [presumably])
Those were both crazy!
I'm with Dan as well... Molten salt, which is -800- 801 C, and is clear... very weird! My brain wants to interpret it as being metallic (like Gallium, even) since Sodium IS a metal. Also makes me wonder what the stuff in it is, which was glowing red hot... some sort of slag?? ๐ค๐คทโโ๏ธ
[ BONUS QUESTION: Google has failed me (no surprise these days), so maybe someone here knows... What does molten table salt become, once it cools down and solidifies??
I presume that during heating, the Sodium-Chloride bond breaks, and since there isn't any chlorine gas around for it to absorb, it wouldn't return to being NaCl once it cooled? But considering molten elemental sodium, from what I can find, indeed retains its metallic appearance, I presume that molten NaCl would not magically cool down to become pure elemental sodium... ๐ค๐คทโโ๏ธ
Thus, my curiosity! ๐โฅ๏ธ ]
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ย @MichaelWinter-ss6lxย I think that's because their "Custom" notifications setting, the one that tailors them to you, had not worked for who knows how long, and they finally "fixed" it earlier in the year... But now it sends them out, as you've pointed out, multiple days after the fact.
I suspect this is because that tailoring is based on a video's popularity, so if it's become popular suddenly, they send one out.
Because for the rare channel that I DO have the notification set to Always (or whatever), those ones do come to me immediately!
So if that's true and yours aren't set that way, my suggestion is to go to the certain channels you do want to be notified immediately of new vids, to set it to that notifying level. (the default notifying setting is the tailored one)
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What catches me by surprise is that they would give a subsonic recon UAV, two engines... Simply because up until now, all of such birds have been single engine, since that's more efficient, weighs less, and is all that's needed for the task. Yet, the photos show, at least to my eyes, two converging contrails.
Or, and equally plausible, my understanding of how the contrail forms from a single engine outlet is incorrect, and the 'cloud' would indeed start forming to the left and right of the hot exhaust stream... Which would thereby give it the illusion of two converging contrails, when in reality it's just one that starts from these two 'fork tines'. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
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"Face down, Aft up, that's the way Starship likes to bust!"
๐
That was what came to me when seeing reenter with the nose curiously pointed towards Earth.
Also I knew as soon as I saw broken tile chunks suddenly drift by the camera a few minutes before it was slated to hit the atmosphere (at least the denser upper atmo to cause visible heating).
I suspect that due to the engine bay being forward during the beginning of reentry, it started to catch the beginnings of the atmosphere, possibly ripping the tile free?
But the tumbling was what told me it was doomed.
[this is my assessment watching the launch live, and typing this during watching Scott's summary]
_edit: Now that I'm watching it again, I might've misjudged where the camera was mounted... I thought we were watching it from the tail fin, meaning nose was pointed down. But now as I see it again in not sure, because I see a slight bit of text... the only text being "S28" at the TOP of Starship, near the "Elonerons" on the nose...
Meaning that the HUD DEPICTION of Starship's attitude would've been incorrect (inverted)_ ๐คจ I dunno, very weird. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
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Chances are, there was an assumption. Everyone's paperwork was in order and valid, so because this is all on the up and up, they undoubtedly assume there's no reason why base and other branche commanders wouldn't know what NASA was doing.
We hear about this stuff happening all the time. It's literally what everyone has said: left hand not knowing what the right is doing.
It's nothing shady, it's just assumptions based on sound logic. Problem is, no one likely bothers to look at the paperwork, or look FOR paperwork explaining things. (further likely that they do not poses a cross-agency search function like we have with our home computer or the internet)
Going forward, it would sure be prudent to mandate that when filling the paperwork, a phonecall must be placed to the major government parties.
Will it solve things? Likely not. But at least once this happens next time and it starts making its rounds in the news, a handful of people would say "oooh yea, that thing I got a call about, I can clear this up!" ๐
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ย @AxisOFZย Such a well worded and insightful comment!
Here's to hoping your battlefield awareness is better than your conversational awareness... As I'm only left to presume that you've not caught on to the fact that I do not sincerely think that 2400 US soldiers would decimate every Russian/pro-Russian combatant in Ukraine.
I'm also REALLY hoping you've not mistaken my satirical conversation to imply that I think something like that is all the justification Russia would need to order a strike on a likely-civilian target... Because even a well-spiken ignoramus such as yourself will know that Russia doesn't need any justification to launch such attacks! If there's any sort of building, house, bridge, street, farmer's field, tree, or even a child's swingset, rest assured they'll target it for being "militarily significant". ๐
Or alternatively, you could just as well be another Russian troll, operating some fake user account like a sock puppet.
Either way, your comment is too juvenile to truly get a rise out of anyone! ๐คฃ
(Hell, only reason I'm bothering to make fun of you this much, is because it's so easy and I'm bored ๐)
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Did you happen to speak it's name out loud when you saw it?
I ask because, unfortunately, or phone salt DO mine what we say ๐ That's why I've kept Google Assistant and Bixby disabled.
AvE (ArduinoVsEverything), who Adam sort of worked with many years back to built a replica NASA object (capsul door i think?), once told a story of him and his buddy talking in his truck about a very obscure topic, and then within 30 minutes while he was on his phone, got an ad for it....
That was like 8 years ago and I've heard similar accounts since.
However, my disturbing personal account was worse (in my opinion). I had searched for a warm Dog Coat (like a horse blanket), as he's >14 and gets cold in the winer. I only went to ONE listing (a similarly obscure company) because it had clearance items for $5.
THE NEXT DAY while playing Angry Birds, it gave me ads for that exact site, showing those exact products. Note: that site was primarily for horses and livestock with only a very very small section of dog items.
WORSE YET is that my Google settings have all tracking and similar stuff disabled. Come to find out that Android now has a baked in setting that ALSO does similar data collection, but it, too, was disabled....
So I clicked the option that resets the "key" associated with my device and haven't had it happen again... but I hate that it happened AT ALL. ๐
I also appreciate that I sound like a nut job... lol I won't blame you or anyone for thinking that, as I would too! I can only assure you that as a tech enthusiast, I am being honest. Otherwise I wouldn't bother going to these lengths to share this. ๐
(sorry that I had to live up to my name and type a wall of words...)
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ย @muhammadbabayi1260ย True, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was Putin's intent to try and goad (entice) the US into doing just that: first, through getting Iran to send the kamikaze drones, and second, by (I assume) trading these drones for some of Russia's (well, USSR's) old missile tech.
"Comrade, just tell world you have Hypersonic capabilities,
they will believe you. I do this all the time. The West
consume my lies, I MEAN my_ threats like they do
their MahkDonald's Bihk Mahk... Trust what I say!" ๐"
<meanwhile, in "The West"...>
"Yesterday, Russia's President Putin spoke to his people
about the ongoing war in Ukraine, in which he made
his 32nd threat to use nuclear weapons, should the US
continue supplying arms to the Ukrainian military. We will
be treating this with as much credibility as the 31 he
made before it, and have decided to offer Ukraine
even more capable weaponry."
lol
But yea, if that really was their plan, it's not going to work. I suspect what would get us to move in would be to give Iran blueprints and material to make nuclear missiles (even if all they are, are long-range, not intercontinental). However, I think Putin knows that having a loose cannon like North Korea in his backyard, who DO have nukes, is a big enough liability. So I really doubt he'll go as far as to provide Iran with that.
Putin may be acting unhinged. He may be making stupid decisions. However, at the end of the day, he does not want to die... particularly due to some other fool starting a nuclear war!
(personally, I think his desire to stay alive is what keeps HIM from starting a nuclear war, which is why all his "threats" are completely hollow)
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The issue with Republicans on this situation is that they โbe it consciously (intentionally) or unconsciously (a mental block)โ will not recognize, therefore will not differentiate, the difference between what transpired and WHY it happened...
FACT: An overwhelming number of Republicans (avg people or politicians) ended up being """shadow banned"""; aka their tweets were basically swept under the rug... not deleted, but not visible in the usual ways.
ALSO FACT: These same people were posting tweets that were either blatant lies, partially-incorrect-but-still-harmful or misleading info (see: "misinformation"), or hate speech, and potentially worse.
Republicans will therefore see Fact #1 and say:
"HA, I da'gum told ya so! Them deep wing, left state
mediums had shade band me!"
(forgive me, but I do live in TN)
Democrats, after reading Facts #1 and #2, will retort:
"Yes, but that's because you had bee..."
To only be not allowed to finish by said Republicans:
"SEE, EVEN YOU CAN'T DENY IT! All thanks to that
space guy... Ellen Degeneres, who exposed what
was really happening in our country's internets!"
Where we'll say:
"EE-lawn... MuhsK... you rube. ๐คฆโโ๏ธ"
Them:
"Yea, him. And my name's ROB, not 'roob'! ๐"
Me:
"Ugh, just kill me now... ๐ฆ๐ต๐ซ"
"NO! Jesus, put your gun away! It's a damn figure of speech!"
(again, sorry; TN is a doesn't-need-to-be-concealed & carry state)
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Here's one you won't expect to have invoked an emotional (ie brought to tears) impact on the viewer -- as it sure caught ME off guard -- was seeing "Gargantua" ........
Yes lol
The Black Hole, in Interstellar!
I don't know if it was due to the fact I had, before actually seeing the movie, seen one of the Science Channel space shows that dealt with the legitimate scientific research and modeling the Interstellar movie makers (collectively) commissioned/funded. That me, going into the movie, already knew that the scene was as scientifically realistic as we had ever produced -- not just in terms of film, but as far as academia was concerned as well -- that perhaps the visual and 'fact' literally blew me away.
Or, if it happened to be the visuals that paired with the score, did it. Because I do genuinely feel that to be the best musical score created for a film. Which I am a person who pretty much never will label something as "the best" or "my definitive-favorite", always rattling off a list instead... so for me to consider it to be thus, is itself quite a powerful revelation! lol
Either way, yup.
It wasn't anyone's, or any thing's (ie pet) death that I rank as having the biggest emotional impact. Nor was it someone being saved. Nor someone's triumph. Nope...
It was seeing a black hole!! The literal beauty is what brought me to tears.... haha
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Ooh!! Though, I'd feel horrible if I did not mention the scene that also, DOES indeed always get me, and would've been what I mentioned, had Interstellar not come around...
The end of "Lord of the Rings - Return of the King", where they're all honoring the Hobbitses. Then, as Aragorn approaches Frodo, with everyone in the crowd bowing/kneeling and Frodo kneels... but Aragorn stops him and says "No... you bow to NO one...", at which point Aragorn kneels to him?!
Twas epicly written/directed/acted , and slays me deader than a Ring Wraith, every. single. time! :}
I even say to myself "You won't this time, cuz you already know it so damn well!"
Pfft... LotR-RotK: 20, Me: 0
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ย @dakotahrickardย Yea, not many know that there are a number of animals that are like... well, like we try to be, have only one mate for life. So when they lose that mate, they are just as emotionally distraught/heartbroken as we would be!
Crows, they even have, what you could call, a funeral. Flocking around a dead member of their murder (? I guess it's called that, given a group of crows is a "murder of crows").
It's quite amazing that something so complex like emotion and love, are actually things we have in common with animals!
And yea, but technically a Merlin powers the Falcon.
However, you could still say that horsepower, powers horses! ๐๐ฅด
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5:50 That thing looks awfully close to, but still rather far from, a Die Cast toy I had as a kid in the late 80s...๐ค
My toy was... what I can only describe as a cross between a spade โ ๏ธ and a droplet ๐ง, which is basically very close to what's depicted on screen at that timestamp.
It had the dream out length like a droplet, but the curvature resembled a spade. The difference with what's on screen, was that the rear section was slightly elongated, like the bottom of the droplet (albeit, coming to a point), not (mostly) flat-across like the craft in the diagram. IT DID have those same twin, inward facing tails, though.
From what I can recall if my toy, though, is that it had a cockpit. Whereas this one seems to indicate that there wouldn't be a conventional glad canopy, but would be flown by camera (I'm assuming that's what "T.V. Flight Monitor" implies?).
Either way, said toy was all black, and naturally had USAF stenciled on one wing, with the Air Force logo on the other.
The last detail, which as a young kid it never occurred to me, is there was no engine depicted. I can't recall any inlet, nor can I say for sure that there was any exhaust... But! It may have had a "2-D nozzle" just as this one does, which is a detail that could've easily been lost on me, as a 7yr old at oldest. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Makes me wonder if that toy was that toymaker's artistic impression of the TR3b! TR3a!
If anyone happens to be familiar with what I've described, I'd love to know your take! ๐
EDIT: After watching the rest of the video and seeing more artists renders/impressions, I'm almost certain that toy did represent the TR3a. I might still have it, too! But, I won't hold my breath... heh
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ย @cpnscarletย Yea, but "Space Spy"/"Space Spook" not only sounds far more prestigious than "YT Creator", but the work done actually was more prestigious, too!
Having the internet at your disposal, with its wealth of shared info (if you're in a country that accommodates such things), and compiling a video about a subject, pales in comparison to reverse engineering stuff from captured hardware... or better yet, just photos of the hardware! (note: I am by no means implying Scott is the avg Creator that churns out content. heh)
So while there may be a legitimate comparison to the end result, the gathering and parsing down of info about something, the work involved in doing what YOU did... well, simply doesn't compare! Don't sell yourself short! ๐
Which, I pay the compliment regardless of 'which side' you were working for, as the talent and skills are present either way! ๐
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ย @ะฏะฝะฐะ -ั1ัย ย @ะฏะฝะฐ ะ ย The ONLY reason I "continued to disperse the topic" was to serve ss a precedent, and in turn, allowed me to convey my confidence for why I feel the Sarmat missile will be just as inept in its claimed capabilities.
In other words, if a flagship vessel failed to do what it was designed to do, being backed up by all the reported reasons behind your troops having to abandon their broken-down light and heavy tanks.... Then why should I think the Sarmat is going to be capable of what you or Putin says??
EVEN IF we pretend (believe the Kremlin) that the Muskova sank only because of a fire in/near the ship's magazine, that unfortunately still does not bode well. That means either, A] it was poorly designed and it's fire suppression system wasn't adequate to contain the fire, B] the crew was improperly trained and unable to contain the fire, C] the fire suppression system malfunctioned and still the same outcome.
When added to the growing list of mishaps for the Kremlin that shouldn't have happened, yet have... Puts into question every other project by then. I only used a war-related mishap due to being the most recent. However, I could just easily used the recent "hole drilled in the side of the a Soyuz capsule" as another. That alone is sufficient, but I would be remiss not to include the fact that their pre-lsunch repair job used materials that immediately failed once it got to space because the epoxy from the Roscosmos trusted supplier, delivered a flawed product!
In not here to spew lies, only the truth and my conclusion (and opinion) on why I think Russia is not nearly as strong as they think, leaving me to not feel a need to worry about Ssrmat. ๐
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Am I a horrible person for thinking "why bother hauling an asteroid in, to drop on Mars, when there's two perfectly good ones already captured and orbiting the planet!"...? ๐ฅด
(that's basically my question, as what follows below is just me playing devil's advocate... with... myself haha)
I mean, I admit, I've never really read up on them. So I don't know their mass relative to Mars, and whether they would be a suitable size for this. Nor whether they're even the right type, assuming that's important (ie 'soft' rocky body vs solid metal).
They aren't like our moon, though, which serves a function to how we live, through total manipulation. So in that sense there's not a functional tie to Mars, right?
I do see an issue though, which this comes thanks to another video by Scott (๐คI learned something!), about it being easier to redirect an asteroid at a certain point further away during its encounter than it would be if trying once it's playing through the keyhole zone... point... corridor... spot (derp). So I can imagine that trying to shove Phobos or Deimos out of their orbit and into Mars might take considerably more propulsion compared to a redirect of some other asteroid that passes ""nearby"".
Also, that either one can serve as an off planet base. But whether BOTH would be more useful than an atmosphere, is what I'd wonder.
edit: proof read it and yet I still had a glaring typo in the first sentence! lol
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Yyyyyea.... Sounds like it's time to (somehow) figure out ALL of the people who visited Mar-a between the time of the oldest dated document, right up to the raid happened!
For two reasons:
1ST - How do we know that no other foreign intelligence agent(s) hasn't paid a visit (literally and monetarily) during that time, to see what said documents contained??
2ND - (less likely, due to paper chain of custody) Sure, he had 11 sets of documents RIGHT NOW but are we certain that it hadn't been more at some time prior? Where his "logic" undoubtedly will be that "they're declassified now, so... doesn't matter who I give these to, because I've made it legal, SO legal, for me to do this kind of thing!" ๐๐๐
And for some real tinfoil hat, Hollywood level stuff....
Maybe all those clogged toilet situations were similar classified materials and the maintenance staff worker (plumber) who had to deal with it, was the middle-man? ๐ฅด
(listen, the Republicans don't hold exclusive rights to crackpot theories.... in allowed to have fun, too! lol)
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ย @takanara7ย I do the SAME THING! ๐
Only because I've noticed the algorithm seems to be dialed up a bit too high in regards to how it's been recommending stuff... You watch one video or short and it immediately thinks you're interested in that, bombarding you with more.
Which I understand it, to a degree. It has to, in order to know if you ARE interested in similar... But for me, I'm usually only watching it because I'm bored and figure "what the hell, it seems intriguing enough". So I'll copy a few links to various videos like that, load into Incognito, and watch them all ๐
[TIP: The search function doesn't like the Share links due to the tracking code they tack on the end. So you have to delete the "?si=<code>" at the end before you search. HOWEVER, if the Video's unique code has had any underscores, that will break the search, but I've found it you remove the rest of the link before said unique code โ everything before, and including, the backslash. Then search with just that, and 9 times out of 10 it'll correctly find the video. Cumbersome, but it's better than having to Google it just to get the video title (which, ironically, THAT has no problem finding it).]
</can't-sleep-ramble>
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As a followup... I think it would've been AWESOME to have a no-holds-barred Mythbusters side quest of episodes (maybe a web series) where they tested products, but where the companies understand: you WILL NOT cater to their whims, and you WILL be giving us the results as they occurred, even if it isn't what said company expected!
Torque Test Channel is basically just that, and I'm so glad to have stumbled across them!
They accept no products from companies, buying everything. They turn down many many offers, though, a recent company asked if they would and TTC were interested in it... So they asked the company if they could buy it before it was released and they agreed! (was a universal power tool battery pack)
They buy products and have cobbled together various testing apparatus and routines for the various types of tools, which now that I think about it... it really feels like Mythbusters!
[I know this is a bit of a shameless plug, but I have zero affiliation, I just love their work and know Tested viewers/Mythbusters fans would similarly appreciate their content ๐]
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That bookshelf nook (?) is awesome, specially for giving an old phone with a great display, a new life. However, the fact the phone is running the animation means you can do ANYTHING...
For example, you could have it running a Unity Engine demo that is running a couple scripts that randomizes a characters walking to the front bookshelf and grabbing a book.
(I wanted to say, have it walk around, but then I realized that wouldn't work since once they got towards the middle, they'd be duplicated down the entire hallway... bummer heh)
[EDIT: As a PC gamer, I hate Unity because it was made for cellphones fitting a time when they were single core powered. So for PC games you take such a preformation hit because they steering multithreaded (they have kludged the engine to sort of be, but it's not native).
THAT BEING SAID... I noticed that the mobile game The Elder Scrolls: Blades, which runs on Unity, used VASTLY less battery power than anything else I run! 1hr in Blades maybe drops me from 80% to 70%, whereas an hour watching YouTube is like 15-20%...or MORE if it's a 60FPS video... and I'm only watching stuff at 720p!!! 45mins at 1080p24 in Amazon Prime, is 8%.(granted, some of the streaming consumption is also WiFi). Though I'm sure they don't use the battery anyways... ๐
]
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ย @dorisallen1732ย I agree, alas, I think it's all because it IS double-speak. He's technically innocent at the moment.
HOWEVER... I suspect that once he's found guilty of the base accusations, that then things can snowball. Whereby, things like this he's said after-the-fact (ie, during this whole evidence gathering process, or "witch hunt" as he and his like to call it), THEN there's context.
As up until now, it's innocent rambling, but with established context it suddenly shines new light on it all. It proves that he has motive, which in turn indicates that those ramblings are no longer innocent but become clear threats, or witness tampering, or calls to arms...
I think in this instance... "patience is a virtue" really rings true for those of us on this side of the line ...*coughTheCorrectSide*...
It's annoying (understatement) that he is "getting away with the obvious" when he says crap like this, but in the end he's just digging himself an ever-deeper grave hole! (just a figure of speech, Mr Secret Service man!! ๐)
๐ค๐๐ค that justice will prevail here.... ๐๐
....because the alternative is.... yea... there is no alternative... ๐๐ช
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8:50 Congrats!
In many professions, we joke that if you've not bled during assembly/reassembly, it won't work/be reliable. ๐
Specifically those I'm knowledgeable it being used by, is.... auto mechanics!
So, with it properly christened, your end-goal should be achievable and we will have a bit of a grace period, instead of a grave period! (dad joke brought to you by: swipe typing prediction, as it gave me 'grave' initially)
But genuinely, I don't see why this couldn't be possible as a fuel additive, given that Pb was/is used (some Aviation Gas is still leaded) in fuel for a long time. Which as we know, Lead is similarly a soft metal! ๐
I had came here simply because I was intrigued by the fact of somehow running Sodium through a fuel injector, as it tickles my interest in cars and MacGuyvering things (aka outside the box thinking).
I also love science, though, so what a surprise when you outlined your goal and that it's the reasoning, not your usual YT tomfoolery! (as I was expecting haha) ๐ค
<clicks โถ๏ธ and resumes watching>
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P.S. - After getting to the cleanup... a bit of a Fun Fact is that Toluene is used as an additive in Fuel Injector and Fuel System Cleaners (at least here in the US; Berryman's Chemtool Fuel System Cleaner, which I swear by).
Also, you're probably WAY overdriving the Injector, now that I've done the conversion...
25 PSI (aka 25#) is common low end Injector rating
40 PSI (40#) is middle, 60# being much higher performance and ethanol application.
25# = 1.7x Bar
40# = 2.5x Bar
Whereas you were pumping 5 Bar through the Injector.
Depending on that Injector, it's possible you were leaking because your pressure was way too much. Similarly, the poor atomization probably was because a combination of that and forcing too much fuel through.
On the flip side, you'll want a 60# I think, which is 4.13 Bar (!) and I think that's helpful for defeating the surface tension. Which you mentioned ethanol having a high tension.
I'm pretty sure that the extreme performance vehicles run upwards of 180# (supercharged, turbocharged applications), but are NOT the High Pressure system you mentioned early in the video (these aren't direct injection).
Search for injectors by Accell (sic) or Holley, for said extreme performance injectors.
In sure others have mentioned this info, but figured I'd live up to my name and mention it just in case. ๐ Hope it helps if anything lol
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ย @simongeard4824ย That's a good point!
So I looked into it and it appears that even when undamaged, the Mtip speed is only "0.62 Mach" @ 2600RPM, according to NASA Ames Research Center PDF on Ingenuity.
I'm assuming that is in reference to Mars' atmospheric density, not Earth's, since this was testing the lift capability of the rotor design, and they even went so far as to remove components in order to simulate the weight difference of ingenuity on Mars. (so it seems logical to assume they would be similarly stimulating it's atmosphere to determine lift characteristics)
Since I've seen that Ginny's specs are actually 2700RPM, I'm going to assume the other number I came across of "<0.7 Mach", is probably closer to reality. (the Source link on wiki for that number unfortunately seems to be incorrectly entered)
As such, given Ginny is missing upwards of 25% of her blades, that tip speed is going to be significantly lower. (I lack the math skills to calculate it; undamaged length is 1.21m, Mars speed of sound is 240m/s)
Similarly, it's rotor weight will be less, so the motor should, technically, be able to spin them faster.
But yes, catastrophic failure of them is expected, whether it'd occur at first or fifth attempt, it's unavoidable.
So unless there are plans for it to sit there until humans can recover it for inclusion into a museum, which I'm completely onboard with if that's the case, but if not then I say go for broke and gain a final bit of meaningful science. Even if it's able to achieve just a few inches of altitude, that's very useful data to have if you ask me! (not that I'm qualified to make such a claim lol)
And it's not like Ginny can sit there, doing science whilst Percy continues it's mission, given that Ginny is reliant on Percy's uplink connection. So in order for her to do stationary observations, Percy would have to put off it's own mission in order to remain in close proximity...
That's my just 2ยข.
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ย @RogerM88ย Yes, that's indeed the reasoning the pro-SLS camp has given all this time.... It's just not based on reality, unfortunately. (sincerely, that's not a dig at you, or anyone)
EDIT: My bad, I mixed up Orion and Starliner. So this part isn't completely accurate. Credit to Steve's comment above, for jogging my memory!
It's our senate that dictated all of these things. That Artemis/Lunar Gateway had to ride on SLS, and I think originally it was that Starliner capsule also was required to... though I think that had gotten changed for OFT after the umpteenth SLS delay, so that it could move forward? ๐ค
(admittedly my attention to SLS has greatly waned over the last 12mos)
Alas, that was only because they wanted this grand rocket to loft it all in one go, a prestige symbol for America, despite the fact everything COULD have been divided and sent up across multiple smaller rockets (and competitors, if necessary). All despite there becoming more and cheaper alternatives as the years went on, but by then it fell under the sunk-cost-fallacy where congress didn't want to abandon it and would rather see it through....... even though doing so would mean multiple OTHER SLS-based programs, costing us the absurd $2 BILLION minimum each! Which let's not forget that Block 2 SLS, a taller variant that would enter service after only 2 or 3 launches, would REQUIRE the launch tower see yet another multi-million dollar upgrade.... after having just had a multi-million dollar refurbishment/upgrade so that it could accommodate SLS to begin with... ๐ฃ
But you're not wrong. In the beginning there would've been no mom mission without SLS. However, that was back when there hadn't been over a decade of delays, and billions in cost overruns, nor anywhere near the competition the rocket industry has today. Which while, granted, that competition still isn't ready yet, neither is SLS technically, but they'll be cheaper and more capable when (not if) they DO become ready.
Remember, Starship is now tied to the moon mission as well, and realistically, Dragon+FHeavy could replace Starliner, negating SLS for that element.
(I'll still concede that without SLS, we probably wouldn't have quite the same competition as we do, or at least in terms of the huge contrast in prices. So we owe thanks to that much!)
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ย @steveaustin2686ย You make good points.
I suppose my question then becomes, with SLS currently planning to be a long-term workhorse whose price for various components has already been agreed upon... does everything you've mentioned actually matter enough to make up the difference in what everything will actually cost?
To put it another way, if SLS had at least gone about things like Falcon 9, with reusability of some major components being a goal they're at least aiming to accomplish, would that once-or-twice a year cadence still be as much of an issue?
Sure, we have some hindsight on our side now, and that certainly helps. Also, yes, at the time of SLS inception, reusability was still considered ""impossible"" by the Old Space players... But with what we have seen be possible, and now know to be at least viable solutions, it just feels wasteful and/or ignorant (naive?) to still want to commit to SLS for so long into the foreseeable future (if I'm remembering correctly, based on the contract for SRBs, it indicates a commitment to something like 18 or more SLS launches; roughly 20 years, at the 1/yr cadence!)
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โย @fuzzydunlop7928ย l don't think you are, but just in case you're urban legend comment was about thinking the Mythbusters story was not true: Adam Savage does live streams on his Tested chan, and many are dedicated to Mythbusters Q&A. He has indeed confirmed their episode plan, and subsequent decision not to after their first tests to determine if the story had viability (I guess "volatility" in this case? heh). Say it did, the results were shocking, and they did not want to make it anymore public knowledge than it already was (they had to do the research, after all).
Story confirmation aside, for anyone who loved Mythbusters, I highly recommend Adam's stuff! The man has AMAZING recollection, even back to the 2002 pilot episodes, and has been doing these Q&As for years now! So there's hours of content...
(anyone can attend the live streams, only members can ask Qs during BUT they gift 20-50 memberships every time so that's awesome; uncut stream recordings are only for Members afterwards, but they upload edited clips from them so no one misses out on the answers)
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A step in the right direction! Seems to be better than โ yep the video just confirmed it as I was typing lol โ the Budapest Memorandum...
Which I think the costly oversight in that agreement was it lacked any kind of clause which would have immediately dragged all of the signatories to Ukraine's assistance, had any of the signing parties directly or indirectly became the aggressor (ie: of Russia used Belarus to invade, or if they sent their weapons to a country which then invaded it still would have triggered the clause; that later of which was basically already in the agreement, and Russia is currently guilty of first-hand by using their own weapons against Ukraine.)
In this case, it would've meant the UK and US helping Ukraine fight since Russia, as one of the signatories, is the aggressor. (but RU and UK would've, had it been the US invading, etc)
But anyways, as the meme goes...
".... mistakes were made... ๐"
RUSKIES: ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ ะ ะพััะธะธ ััะปะฐ. ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ ะณะตัะพัะผ ะฃะบัะฐะธะฝั! ๐ค๐ท๐บ๐ฅ
BELAWANNABES: ะกะปะฐะฒa ะฝะตะปัะณะฐ ะฝั ัะบัะฐััั, ะฝั ัะทััั! ๐ซ ๐ง๐พ๐๏ธ
BROTHERS: ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ ะฃะบัะฐัะฝั, ะะตัะพัะผ ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
Stay strong. Stay united. Stay alive. STAY UKRAINIAN!
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โโย @ะะผะธััะธะนะะฝะดัะธะฐะฝะพะฒ-ะน4ัย NATO invoking A.5 would be a GOOD thing, in my eyes...
Russia currently cannot even handle UKRAINE on its own (albeit, with supplies from others), so NATO doing so would effectively end the war, as Russia would be completely overwhelmed.
Now, I'm not saying they ought to attack Russia/Belarus, but to go in and help to remove their presence from Ukraine (and Crimea)!
And no, I do not think Putin is stupid enough to use nukes, even if NATO (or the UN) was to get involved in the capacity I've mentioned above...
However, if they pushed across their borders... THEN I would start to be concerned, but only then. Putin authorizing the use of even the small Tactical nuke, would spell his own death, by one means or another! He has shown he enjoys his life, and his power... So I do not see him doing anything brazen like that, as it would immediately threaten his own safety!
He's an asshole....
He's pretty stupid.....
But, his self-preservation is still fully functional.
Slava Ukraini! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
[edit: typo]
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Adam is "New Space" (eg SpaceX), with iterative design, test to fail and learn from said failures.
Jamie is "Old Space" (eg Boeing, even Blue Origin [counter intuitively]), with slow and methodical, simulate to determine weaknesses and design them out for the first build to be a success.
Also, that pingpong delivery test disagreement IS a very very solid case where Adam is indeed right...
I just watched a video where it detailed the cascading failure at the Japanese neutrino detector. They use massive vacuum tube photo-multipliers (like 26in TV sized), and THOUSANDS of them in the test chamber. They needed to make sure if one failed, others wouldn't.... So they built a mini chamber and broke one โ no other failures. TEST COMPLETE, the design is sound!
Except, the full scale chamber is thousands and thousands of gallons of water, under like 30 stories of depth...
One at the bottom failed, and it's collapsing shockwave caused it's neighbors to collapse, which caused their neighbors to collapse... Yea, cascading failure that resulted in nearly 70 million bucks in replacements, as 3/4 of the tubes broke, just about every one that was underwater except for maybe a few rows from the surface where the pressure want high enough! ๐ฎโ๐จ
So yea, the moral of the story is pretty much engineering 101:
TEST IN OR UNDER THE CONDITIONS YOU'LL BE OPERATING!
๐
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ย @coshynoย Which is why Ukraine continually, and regularly sinks or heavily damages Russian military vessels. In total, they have destroyed around 20 ships, including a submarine! (granted, it was in dry dock lol)
Ukraine: a country without a navy, is decimating Russia's! ๐คฃ
However, their destruction is more symbolic, if anything. These acts prove to Russia's people that get military is weak and incapable of fighting a modern war! Even ships that are only damaged, are a huge embarrassment for Russia, as it shows they can't protect themselves, despite all their claims of having the best hardware! ๐
You being a Russian puppet doesn't win wars, either... Just sayin'! โ๏ธ๐
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I am all for women's rights, both here (US) and abroad. I am also all about fighting misinformation or coming to conclusions too quickly.
My father, at 58, who was an avid outdoorsman, passed away from a heart attack. He was out hunting, sat down to eat lunch, and that was it. He, too, had zero pre-existing conditions and always had a clean bill of health.
She was locked up and undoubtedly under immense stress, so it's more-than plausible for her to have suffered a legitimate heart attack....
If this was almost any another country, I would likely assume it was an accident; HOWEVER, being that this was a woman in a country that oppresses women, picked up for breaking an oppressive law ("custom")... Yea, there may be no evidence of foul play currently, but my gut indeed thinks that's the case here. (even if there isn't, there have been women in custody since then, that have perished, which brings everything into question!)
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I agree, there are indeed 3 ways!
1) Putin's government, wanting to save their own asses, start a coup and oust him...
2) Russians, who know by now that the entire war is compete bullshโ, and start a revoltion (#Russolucion as I've been calling it since April), similarly ousting him...
3) Putin stands firm, completely blinded by the web of lies he himself has started, and Ukraine manages to completely push the Russian Army out of every square inch of sovereign Ukraine;
3a] They push into Moscow and take over the entire western portion of Russia, creating a new state, but Ukraine gives it to the native Rus citizens to run democratically. (Eastern Russia? ๐คทโโ๏ธ Something-something involving China, probably)
3b] Not wanting anything to do with Russia, the return home. Putin looks like a weak fool, prompting some new thug to cancel him and assume his power... Eventually the pattern repeats and in another 3 decades, we're right back where we started.
I prefer option 2, as that's where things have been heading all along. Whether or not it's the best, I don't know... but it gives the PEOPLE a real chance at making Russia part of the civilized world. They deserve that much, I feel. (not all of them are evil or brainwashed)
Viva la Russoluciรณn! โ โช๐ตโช
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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[disclaimer: I have zero education to qualify me to speculate on these matters]
Regarding the ejecta lines that were briefly mentioned at the end... From what it looks like, to me, is as though there is an effect from the Sun's energy possibly being imparted on the ejected debris...?
Where the lighter weight material is blasted out far and fast, but then the Sun starts "pushing" on it, causing it to curve.
The heavier stuff is shrouded partially by Didymoon, then it also starts to curve due to the Sun; however, its curvature is much less on account of this material being heavier.
Similarly, the heaviest particulate moving away slowest, and again curving eventually, but to an even less degree.
My thinking is it's that, all combined, which is resulting in that "wave" pattern as seen in the later few fly-by cubesat images (before it passes by Didymoon).
Plausible?
Or is just my ignorance shinning brightly? lol
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Thought on "Storing the Ark of the Covenant":
If the "fencing" around the outside she can be removable (like, pressed in, held by fiction fit), then you can remove those, put them inside the ark, and TURN THE WHOLE LID UPSIDE DOWN!
Now, all the cherub is protected by being upside down inside the ark, along with the delicate edge trimming/fencing pieces!
But what's more, is the underside of the lid will be flat and thereby allow you to set stuff on top! ๐๐
_EDIT: After reading other's comments... I'm now in agreement that simply building the movie prop container box for it, would certainly solve this issue of storage AND be movie accurate... Both in that it's in storage, as well as that anyone coming across it wouldn't really know what's in said container, making the reveal all the more cool!_๐
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I've strongly said said the very first nuclear weapon that, that Russia will not go the nuclear route... It would be literal suicide for Putin. It would undoubtedly spur a joint black ops mission by many countries, to go in and take him out!
That's assuming the command actually gets carried out! Because I'm a bit torn on whether such command would be, since those subordinates would all know it would lead to Russia's demise, whereas disobeying it would only be the likely demise of that individual... but family and friends would probably survive. A worthy self sacrifice, in my opinion.
But yea, Russia's that's have ALWAYS been hollow, in my eyes.
Not just for the above reasoning either!
But because Putin wants Ukraine, and having irradiated pockets of land does you NO good!
Which one might say: "but, their plans for the dirty bombs with the power plant(s)"...
To which I say: Russians CLEARLY have no idea just how bad that would be, since they AREN'T TAUGHT ABOUT SUCH INCIDENTS!
Chornobyl (Ukrainian spelling), swept under the rug, and we already know Russia has no qualms about erasing history from their textbooks soccer it's happened already during this war... All one had to do is look towards their occupation of Chornobyl at the beginning of the war, and all the STUPID shit they were doing in the red zone. So soldiers and likely even those in command, probably thinks that turning a nuclear power plant into a dirty bomb would only be bad for a couple years, in the surrounding area. The concept of wine blowing irradiated dust into Russia is probably a foreign concept to them! ๐๐
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โย @MotoGearSolidย Your right, there is a powerful being in control. They created the simulation that we live in.
You, call them "god", but in reality they are morning more than a software developer.
If you've made it this far, no I don't actually believe that, pretty ๐คช sounding though, isn't it?
That, is truly how you sound to the rest of us. Religion does no good in the world, only divides, makes people hate each other for their different beliefs, be it a different religion or for believing in science (don't forget that scientists were prosecuted by the church once upon a time).
For humanity to see peace and prosper, religion has to be dropped. Not put aside, but forgotten entirely.
Unfortunately that will never happen, so we are doomed to endure this over and over and over, or until we wipe ourselves out entirely.
Even then you'd probably just call it the rapture... ๐ฎโ๐จ๐
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ย @cooljosh2307ย I can see them training young people yes, though I never alluded to my thoughts on their age, only was pointing out that the footage used wasn't trying to be passed off as evidence of Russian youth!
But you, also, have no evidence that these Ukrainians are truly "children" age, yet you call them such.
I only came to point out the footage to sort out an apparent misconception you had, and also to answer your question to the flag on their uniform. I wasn't trying to dispute the claim being reported on... ๐
For the record, I am pro-Ukraine on this whole conflict, but I won't blindly accept any and every claim Ukraine makes against Russia, particularly on one like this which is quite hard to confirm even if there were multiple bodies to examine. That said, I'm sure Ukraine has sources inside Russia (maybe even the Kremlin) and doesn't make these claims just on a whim. After all, their reputation is on the line and making bold, baseless claims (aka lying) is only going to hurt their effort! Namely that of joining NATO, but also in maintaining military aid/support from everyone.
MY ULTIMATE POINT BEING... You wouldn't have made your initial comment if this video hadn't used footage of soldiers (period), as insignia wouldn't have been brought into question.
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This was originally a reply to someone's comment on a CNN video but I felt deserved a wider audience; modified to fit this context...
I hadn't known of this specific agreement until just now, but yea... Seems like it's been completely forgotten about by the signing parties. ๐ We've definitely dropped the ball over the years, in providing the promised protection and defense of Ukraine...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction#Budapest_Memorandum
To anyone reading who is Ukrainian, or has Ukrainian family... I know this won't really mean much given I'm just a helpless citizen with no political influence.... But nevertheless, I deeply apologize for my country [๐บ๐ธ] not acting sooner, like Crimea annexation-sooner and preventing it. ๐
Russia has violated that agreement multiple times now, and worse yet in my opinion, is that the other signatories have also violated it by failing to defend Ukraine in any truly meaningful way (up until 2022 at least) ... Offering money and monetary support is good, but defending... at least to me... implies every means possible!
It's that kind of help which we're not providing, which is allowing this to go on longer than it should have...
Every day Russia targets some other large building because... "Our intelligence claims it was housing military assets..." ๐๐ (or at least if asked, that'd be their excuse in order to justify it)
So again I say... I'm sorry for America failing Ukraine. ๐
(I can't speak to the the UK, but I imagine anyone there would feel similarly after reading that link)
Stay strong. Stay united. Stay alive. STAY UKRAINIAN!
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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The total eclipse was wild... I was lucky to live under it in Eastern Tennessee. We're in the rural area between Knoxville and Chattanooga, and the WILD LIFE AND FARM ANIMALS ALL FREAKED OUT! lol
So that's my recommendation... Don't experience it in a city! The birds, the insects, the 4 legged animals, I can't really even recall details of it because it was such a unique experience... An experience backwards, yet, alternate, to what you are familiar with hearing every single day. My brain doesn't know how to store the fine details due to that lol (I'm certain there are videos that have captured it from various past eclipses, if anyone is curious to experience it)
While the experience of the eclipse is, itself, epic on account of how the world is changed due to the different lighting -- which I'm not sure if anyone has bothered to film -- it's experiencing the wildlife that really made it unique!
Short Side Story:
I had gotten a flat tire that sameday, like an hour and a half before the eclipse. The towing place that AAA was going to have tow it to the tire shop, was literally a mile down the road from me. However, they refused to tow it until after the eclipse occurred, so my mom had to come pick me up, else I'd have had to both sit in the car forever and myself experience it from the side of the road... lol
(they didn't want to miss it, which, I can't blame them! ๐ฅด)
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Adam's sentiments about Chinese stuff is not wrong. I've stumbled onto their Hi-Fi in-ear monitors (IEMs, which are glorified earbuds), lovingly referred to as Chi-Fi. My first were KZ's "ZSN" model. Just a 2 driver unit (1 dynamic, 1 balanced armature; aka speakers), per ear.
FIFTEEN DOLLARS!! Look beautiful. Fit comfortably. Sound AMAZING! Superb build quality.
Another company, TRN, just got their "Kirin" models... ALL MAGNESIUM body! Even their carry tin is magnesium! They are a "Planar magnetic" style of speaker, something that super expensive over-ear headphones utilize. These, I splurged for, $100... SO worth it! ๐๐
Comparable items would be $300+ (over-ear models, like $2500+!)
These aren't "knock off" products, either. There's this small area of multiple companies, probably sharing some knowledge, but all churning out these crazy, but affordable headphones (some have up to 15 drivers per ear!)
However, the problem is KNOWING if the product you're looking at, whether it's quality or junk... That's the issue (stigma) with buying Chinese-designed items... We've encountered so much of the literal garbage, that we associate it with everything Chinese.
I think that's what Adam is trying to convey.
That they're are some really good gems to be had, and that sometimes it requires taking a chance.
It's not ALL crap. They like quality stuff, too. ๐
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ย @sweetvictory5643ย I haven't forgotten, but I think Puddin Pop definitely has! lol
Having even referred to it as a "war" within the last month or so. Alas, as we've seen, the definitions of words are meaningless to him, as well as quite a number of Russians (unfortunately) based on intercepted calls and interviews conducted by the 1420 channel.
I'm sure this guy thinks he's a smooth talker, and that he has the people he surrendered to convinced of his story... ๐ lol
Basing this on just the surprising crap trolls have said over the months... Like genuinely, I don't mean to talk bad about an entire country of people (and obviously this doesn't apply to them all), but they truly are on a whole different level than the rest of the world when it comes to BS and lying! ๐ (and I mean that in the sense of they're like 8yr old who are talking to us, who are 18; vastly inferior logic and common sense)
Which might be due to their culture of corruption? Where they have relied on social status/rank to get what's wanted/weasel out of a situation, where the accompanying lie for any given situation is simply an "unnecessary courtesy", or perhaps a "flex" โ ie "nope it wasn't me, he fell out of the window" and because the person saying it is a known figure, it's as good as the truth... ๐คทโโ๏ธ
But I digress. If that's the case and he's indeed lying, then I'd love to be a fly on that wall when he finds out that it wasn't him playing those he surrendered to, but they who were playing him! ๐๐คฃ
Like someone else said upthread: get what info he has and ship him back to Russia, to see his smug face drop all of its color as he realizes what just happened. heh
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I knew someone else caught it as well!
This also happened in a previous video, sometime within the last 2 weeks!! And similarly, we had NO. FRIGGEN. IDEA. what caused it!!
All of us who commented basically had our own speculation, and different answers...
In that one it sounded almost like a fart, occurring just as Adam was sitting down. To which, after analyzing it at 0.25x playback speed, I thought โ because he uses an old doctors stool with caster wheels โ it was a piece of debris getting stuck in the wheel and vibrating at it moved across the ground when he scooted. Or, that it perhaps was air escaping through the leather.
Someone else, I recall, thought it was his mic rubbing up against fabric (denim I think they said), like if you run your fingernail against a nylon jacket.
Now I'm thinking one of two things here.
Either it's INTENTIONAL, by one of the editors, hiding something just for the heck of it...
Or, it's a glitch in the microphone in stone way. Either during the transmission of data, or during the saving of the data, causing way more samples to get packed into a timeframe than ordinarily possible.
However, playing this one back, also at 0.25x, I feel like it is just a very weird vocal chords fluttering...
Given where he wears his mic I suppose it's possible it's that? Which I suppose would/could explain a farting like noise in the previous instance in that other video.
I think Tested needs to have Adam listen to these, and weigh in ๐
(wish I knew exactly what the other video was, to list it for everyone)
EDIT: KIND OF happened again at 11:43 ish, but that one you can definitely tell it was vocal chords related, since he was chortling ๐
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That's so cute. "Nuh-uh Ukraine... I'm not the meanie, YOU'RE the meanie!!"
Difference is, when Ukraine claims it, it's only AFTER videos of the crimes have aired on YT elsewhere. All Ukrainian parliament does is now put words to the actions being displayed by Russia.
So Putin, d... so ya SEE the issue here? You whine, then flex, when) whine some more, all whilst showing no video evidence (that was actually filmed in Ukraine, not using captured UkrA soldiers, and not an attempt to recreate it after the fact.
Because that's been the crux of your propaganda Campagnolo) campaign:all talk, no visual evidence to corroborate.
At least you have some of the easily convinced people in Russia who WILL buy into your horribly fake looking and sounding propaganda pieces.
However, anyone in the west can easily shrug it off, due to having a 97% chance being pure BS...... But some Keen eye might catch a background documents rhesus at a high enough resolution. So it's worth the effort on our end, to "zoom and enhance" the purely) piddely stuff. ๐
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As soon as I saw that orange haze on liftoff I said to myself "That can't be good. " and then noticed an engine was out, and 8 actually felt a bit relieved... lol
I knew the Booster had plenty of leeway and one out wouldn't matter. So I knew the abnormal has was likely from that, and not something worse.
Then I watched reentry with my mom and as soon as a whisp of plasma shown through the flap hinge, I said "uh oh, that's not good..."
BUT GOD DAMN, Starship...
You did not let that stop you from succeeding!!! ๐ค๐ซ๐ค
Seriously though, I could not believe that it didn't burn up after so much of that flap had burned away... But, it didn't, and managed to make it beyond Max-Q, not ripping off!!
Still, I figured it wouldn't be able to right itself for the flip maneuver, given we didn't know the fate of all the other flaps.
(or was this camera there BY DESIGN and this was one place they intentionally compromised the heatshield?)
AND THEN, we see... that it could still accurate, despite that massive damage! ๐ฎ
Unfortunately with the camera's protective glass shattering, was hard to tell what was happening... but just enough glass had been removed to allow a sliver of clear footage.
And when it manager to do its flip, despite there being no engine relight indicators on the HUD, I could see enough engine fire and plume to know... they lit!!
And with telemetry, could see that it managed to still succeed, despite all that it went through...
๐คฏ ๐คฏ ๐คฏ
What an amazing rollercoaster of emotions.... Loved every second of it โฅ๏ธ
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I can appreciate his standpoint.
Just, that once one comes into the position as a SUPREME COURT JUSTICE you basically don't "let things slide" like this. Where if it's as said, and all is of the up and up, then there's nothing to hide, right? So just report it out of an abundance of caution.
You're in an important position now, one which you strove to attain. As such, you get held to a higher standard, AND at the same time, lose certain freedoms.
Almost as though it's based around a system of.... Checks and Balances.... ๐
In all honesty, over the months with all the crap surrounding him, I get the impression that it's his wife who is behind a lot of the nonsense he's been part of. After those texts of her's to Meadows, about him "having to do something about this situation [of Trump not being reelected]", I just feel like she's a gal that feels entitled, is high maintenance, and rather pushy.
The fact Thomas reached out to colleagues for their opinion, I think shows that he had an inkling of what he should've done.
Just my 2ยข.
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Listen... This is for a good purpose and is saving innocent lives. So EVEN IF this wasn't a Lend-Lease agreement, and we were eating the cost completely, I'm OK with it...
Why? Because we've spent more than $30 BILLION on Boeing's (et.al) boondoggle of a rocket called Space Launch System (SLS). WHICH RECYCLED TONS OF SHUTTLE SPARE PARTS AND TECHNOLOGY, managed to miss the intended rollout date by a DECADE, still receive bonuses for "meeting milestone goals", yet still somehow managed to fail all its tests...
(I'm not even going to get into Boeing's Starliner capsule program, which has been just as much of a shitshow, costing North of $10bn...)
Don't get me wrong though, this is NOT at all NASA's fault, since their hands were forced by the senate in order to line pockets (this dubbed, the Senate Lunch System), thanks to republican politicians ... nope, I'm not going to name names... the "you-know-who party" lol ๐
Slava Ukraini! โ๐บ๐ฆ๐ป
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ย @julianp1719ย I lumped in my reply to you, along with my reply to Mark.
I just wanted to highlight that I never claimed my "parasite" comment to be reasonable. It is certainly a ridiculous thing to say, but I figured if Republicans and pro-lifers (in general) are able to make absurd claims, so can I... lol
You're right though and I accept fault, I should have said "parasite-like", to imply that it isn't meeting every qualifications.
However, if I understand your main point about #1, not all parasitic relationships are a one way street. There's a few I've read about where the parasite does contribute substantially (symbiotic). I wish I could recall the exact situation, but sometime within the last 2 years I'd read an article on ScienceAlert of a finding where (I'm pretty sure) it was a tree that wouldn't be able to exist either where it does or maybe at all, if it wasn't for a fungus that grows on it, which in turn wouldn't survive if it weren't for the tree. Granted not quite the mother-fetus relationship, but similar in how you mention a fetus transfers stern cells to the mother. (another fact I didn't know and was interesting, thanks!)
#2 seemed ๐คช and just lost me on your point, sorry.
#3 is what I had lumped into my response to Mark. (philosophy of it all)
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ย @julianp1719ย Thank you. ๐
Yes, being able to recognize one's own failures and faults first, then being able to shelve one's pride so to openly admit them, is the only way anyone can hope to not just gain the respect of your opponents, but more importantly have any chance at making forward progress; in problem solving and societaly (๐ค that's a word, right?? lol)
Without respect for the others you're debating with, well... there's basically zero chance at making any progress and thereby being able to come to even a middle ground agreement that both sides are content with. Content enough, in that each side will not feel any need to bring the issue back up at a future date.
In other words... Without, at the *very least*, that mutual respect of those with differing opinions, then we're always going to feel as though what they say is "nonsense" simply because of mental 'tunnel vision', and at that point we're doomed to endless failure as nothing will get truly resolved. (it'll forever be like it has been, but the last ~15 years as an example: party A starts something to genuinely help people, party B dislikes it but instead of improving it they just dismantle it, which they've done primarily out of their spite of party A.)
However, this issue (abortion) is quite a divisive one. Personally, I would've thought that the way it had been of:
"no one is being FORCED to have an abortion, so those who are against it are free to never utilize it; for those on the other side, if a situation arises and they feel the need to utilize it, then it's available."
I would've thought that to have been the fair-to-both-side's-view middle ground! ๐
The only new middle ground I can think of would then be for there to again be a nation-wide legality of it, but for there to be imposed limits and "fines" imposed -- fees, but which are above procedure costs, and 'profits' go towards funding foster care and the adoption system (since there will end up being more kids there), in the same way traffic fines go towards improving county assets.
Because we humans, as we established, are fallible where things can break (or be improperly used), pill doses missed, or IUDs (and sub-dermal equivalents) have something not go according to plan... So sometimes, despite those efforts, a pregnancy can still happen; this being my reply to: "you'll still have contraception". Where the ability to still have an abortion in your state (and not be forced to travel, at your expense) would be used, count towards the person's "allowed lifetime limit", but also acts as a learning experience to rectify your mistakes so the expensive accident doesn't occur. Again, kinda like driving accidents... sometimes it's negligence and a lapse of attention, sometimes there's a bad pothole which breaks your tierod (steering component) and you lose control.
(๐ค for that matter, I guess this would be an opportunity, to offer 'abortion insurance'? could even replace the 'lifetime limit', whereby only those with abortion insurance are allowed to have one... but, then that's a slippery slope due to only privileged people with enough income being able to afford it...)
Cases where it's a pregnancy that's the result of a crime would not count towards said limit OR cost the victim said "fine"/fee; rather, the criminal would be charged to cover that cost.
Don't get me wrong, I've not ignored your point of fairness, in this situation. My counter argument (not sure if I mentioned it in this comment thread or some other), is that of the victim's mental health. They've already endured the trauma of the crime, and while I agree that the fetus is not at fault, the fact remains that the victim having to carry it is a genuinely unfair mental health burden. I can only imagine how hard it is to forget about things like that and not be reminded of it by the most random of things (only having spoken to people who have experienced it or similar), but to be stuck with the byproduct of that event for 9 months as an unending, relentless reminder... I can only figure it would result in far more suicides without the option of abortion, which now the argument becomes not only null, but reversed, because now there would be two lives lost due to being forced to carry the child to term. (and that mental health argument, that's without factoring in any of the normal stress, emotions/frustrations, and mood swings a pregnant person can go through/experience; reinforces my suicide concern -- speaking as a person who suffers from major depression and "teeters on the edge" as it is, sans any severe trauma!)
To bring this to a close...
I should also extend my own gratitude towards You and Mark, for you both being civil/respectful (also for sharing points that were not religious in nature, as silly as that may sound).
It's that fact which was motivation for me to "ramble" after saying I'd abstain, and to then consider ways that might be (albeit slim) an achievable middle ground, or if not, then perhaps at least as a basis! ๐๐ค
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Because that's a ubiquitous car, easily and cheaply available in their country... Which, given the fact they do highly destructive things TO and WITH these cars, it would quickly become unsustainable to constantly import cars there!
Mind you, not that any vehicles could be exported to them, you know, WITH SANCTIONS IN PLACE! ๐
Furthermore, this type of content wouldn't be easy to pull off even in the US, as we don't have easy access to one modern of vehicle this small, cheap, and easy to work on. The Ford Crown Vic being the closest, but they're fuel injected, which makes a lot of their shenanigans difficult to do!
Quit being so ignorant!
Also, don't pretend like you speak for 100K others, the last of which you have never even talked to!
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I feel like we, as a nation, are crossing a line. A line that may not currently be drawn, but is clearly becoming evident that it NEEDS TO BE... A line which states:
[ TL;DR - You are free to believe what you want, but once you become a politician, you agree to check them at the door and do your job based on facts and what's in the best interest of everyone. Not based on what's in your personal best interest or aligns with your religious doctrine, as that does not represent our nation's needs as a whole.]
"You are free to practice any religion, to worship any god(s) or deity.
You are free to have wild beliefs and/or opinions that have no basis on, or in, our reality.
You are free to run for and be appointed/elected to a position in our political government, from state level to federal level and even as President of the United States.
HOWEVER, AT NO POINT _may your religious beliefs, god(s)/deity, outlandish personal belief or opinions, EVER influence your decision making while holding any level of political office!
_We are a nation which consists of many people, made up of many races, many beliefs, many opinions, many needs, desires, and wishes. We are all free.
This is why your decisions must always be based in reality, on facts, using sound reasoning, and with everyone's best interests; to not base these decisions on only things important to you and which alienates any of the groups of people that make up the country you serve. "By the people, FOR the people!"
That's just my 2ยข worth.
But ๐คทโโ๏ธ .... what would I know. I'm apparently just a blasphemous heathen Satan worshiper, or whatever ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐คช label she'd slap on my non-religious pro-choice posterior. ๐๐
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If not, please contact your government to make sure they do get on it... Human existence and our survival in space is at stake!
Hmmm steak... cheese... milk enzymes... We need to make sure, uh, Texas?... is on top of Space Cows.
Or goats, which probably would be a better idea, being they weigh less in terms of milk production.
(and, no, I'm not going to touch the concept of using breast milk as a source, even though I do know it's been done... we're just not there yet as a society, to accept that sort of cheese, nevermind a pizza made with it!! lmao)
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First off, Alex, for the love of dog, please don't say "simp" ever again lol It's a stupid term that gets thrown around way too easily, but more importantly, inaccurately so. Giving small, yet valid compliments are enough to invoke being called such! Just as you being a fan of your own country's military prowess doesn't make you one. ๐
With that out of the way, the "non-combatants" issue presented, I genuinely feel is just not a factor for them REGARDLESS. After seeing what ol Puddin Pants will authorize, I sincerely doubt that China is any different. Not unless it's a battle on their own turf, but even then I'm not certain they'd care much... I mean, look at how many space launches they did where spent stages were coming down in or near villages! I believe that's changed recently, but it might just be a case of no longer using that particular model of rocket. (admittedly I don't pay THAT cost of attention to that situation, I just know those incidents haven't been in the space news roundups by any of the various channels I watch)
[edit: Yea... the next part about "ethics dumping" really just proves my point, I feel ๐ฅด If they're ok with doing those things, they're undoubtedly not going to mind if an AI goes slightly off-script during missions, if the overall effectiveness is high enough.
I also kinda doubt they jailed dude for the years for those CRISPR edits, and even if they did, only had done so for optics reasons, and will want him to continue that research afterwards. I mean come on, genre exciting has "super soldier" written all over it, and if you can have them be super right out of the womb, that seems even better vs hoping those edits will yield the desired changes in adults...]
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There is, actually, but just about every nation has deemed its use "too inhumane and indiscriminate" -- or in other words: die by "drowning" and it couldn't discriminate against civilians (or animals I suppose) where non-lethal exposure can leave permanent neurological damage.
Talking about chemical weapons, but specifically 'gas attacks' like Mustard Gas, Phosgene, Sarin, or VX just to name a few.
(technically, these days Phosgene mass-produced for use in/during the production of many legitimate things, like polymers, so its production isn't unlawful, only its use to intentionally harm people; i.e. a weapon of war.)
Really, we just need a system that all military personnel around the world are required to wear (lol that alone makes this a non-starter!). A small device with dermal patches attached to various points on the body (10? upper/lower of each extremities, torso, head), where some sort of toxin delivery would be triggered.
=== [what's below is just me day dreaming...] ===
Weapons, then, would become non-destructive. They'd emit RF and/or some sort of light (in UV or IR spectrum). Heavy ordinance being capable of higher emmisions, to stimulate a conventional explosion's lethal range through its pressure wave (concussive and ruptures organs), allowing for combatants inside structures to still be affected.
Conventional arms would have their ballistic kinetic projectiles (aka bullets) replaced by... a short laser pulse I guess, but that would probably need to be changed to a highly focused RF pulse for larger calibers, to stimulate their ability to penetrate armor, building walls, etc.
Once one/multiple of the various sensors placed on a constant are triggered by the RF/UV/IR/whatever, the system delivers said toxin in the appropriate area, either simulating a leg, arm, torso wound or a fatal dose for what would otherwise have been something equally lethal by current means.
Civilians? Unharmed, as they would have no reason to be equipped.
Structures? Undamaged, as there would no longer be explosive or kinetic ordinance. (well, maybe the enclosures of the heavy ordinance might result in some kinetic damage, just as "duds" currently do)
Terrain? FAR LESS damage, as there'd be nothing explosive to either set stuff on fire or make craters, with combatants 'digging in' as the only disturbance.
Of course, rules of engagement would be universally adhered to, where today's list of what's considered a warcrime still exists, with the addition of setting fires to anything (plants or structures), use of explosives, bullets (et.al), and of course no tampering with the "Man-Equipped Objectified Warfare System" -- yes, aka M.E.O.W.S. ๐๐
[/END-DAYDREAM-SEQUENCE]
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ย @yvonnetomenga5726ย
Game Show Host: "Show... us... PREDICTION ...?!"
<BZZZT>
PREDICTION
Game Show Host: "Ooohh! So sorry, that one wasn't an option... Our judges were looking for: misinformation, bald-faced lie, or pro-Russian propaganda "
Game Show Host: "But you still get all your other prizes, including the knowledge that you're a good person for giving them the benefit of the doubt, and for not supporting the Russian terrorism towards Ukraine!"
๐
But yea, isn't it amazing how delusional some people have remained to be, despite Ukraine continually sending Russia packing... lol
They did it at the start of the war, pushing them out from the North...
Then Ukraine bid their time by letting Russia take small chunks here and there, all the while amassing troops, weapons, armor, and training them...
Now, in the span of a few days, they've pushed the Russians out of the Kharkiv region; at such a pace that Russians left everything and ran!
Poor "Rick" though, clinging to that pre-war lie that Russia is the second most powerful nation in the world, and that they'll easily be able to take Ukraine... lol
But I get it, if you don't have "hope", then all you have left is to accept the facts of "reality"! ๐
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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ย @usucdikย lol And I could say to you: uh oh, another troll's has gotten internet service installed at their bridgr.
However, I suspect I'd be wrong about you just as you've been about me, since I know you don't live under a bridge.
Seriously though. I don't hide the fact I love AMD, that I even recommend them when I can, but I'm certainly not the extremist-type of fanboy that you think I am.
AMD held the performance crown since the moment the release of the very first Athlon (Slot-A; now dubbed "Athlon Classic"), and reigned from mid-99 to at least 2004 when A64 x2 first debuted, but realistically it extends to 2005. They were well known, though, just not as a contender. That ALL changed with the Athlon, though, and there was enough hype around it before it launched, that even 16yr/o me had caught wind of it and started planning it my aforementioned first build around it (I knew nothing about computers really, at that time). I even remember the rough prices when I called around trying to find a CPU and mobo in stock: CPU was $220ish the the Athlon 500 I wanted, and mobo was $400ish for the MSI model I was after.
Although, Pentium M on desktop wasn't what I'd consider their saving grace, but it wae the BASIS for what would take the lead: Core2. Phenom and PhII still held their own during those days, but Intel's shenanigans [see: link in the OP], which still continued for over a decade after Intel was fined I might add, had taken its intended financial toll on AMD. The PhII slipped further and further behind, particularly once the Core i series debuted... PhII x6 was a valiant last hurrah, but even still it fell short.
Bulldozer? THAT'S when those vendor shenanigans bore true fruit for Intel... Bulldozer was (unfortunately) such a huge failure, so much so that I stuck with the first-gen AMD APU I was reviewing (PhII x6 derived, cut down to a quad-core), simply because it had much better floating point performance, AND far superior memory performance โ based on my personal tests vs the first few revisions of the Dozer uarch.
So yes, Intel once again rose to dominance when they ushered in the Core i, but AMD held their own towards the end of the PhII-era. But yes, that's still admittedly "loser-talk", as they were still being beaten.
Then Intel got cocky, rested on their laurels, and paired with almost a decade of 10nm woes, lost to AMD one again.
Now the only way they've been able to compete with AMD (in most tests) is through sheer clockspeed increases... Of course, that means they consume a massive amount of electricity to do it, and in turn put out an incredible amount of heat! Factor that in, and in the few tests they do still lead, I still qualify that as a loss, due to the poor efficiency. (yes, AMD's new 7000 series is also capable of consuming tons of amperage, but that's by choice whereas Intel's is because of necessity desperation... ๐)
โโโFanboyโโโ, out.
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You two talking about sound quality and wanting to watch a poor visual-good sound movie, over one of the opposite.... WHAT A EUREKA MOMENT! That, right there, explained to me why I like Star Wars so much more than Star Trek! (mind you, I grew up watching TNG and thought it was great, but still, never ever considered myself a Trekie!)
But yes, SW genuinely had a whole separate "audio" movie going on, all while the visual movie was playing. I just never really put that together on how much is happening in Lucas Film movies when it comes to their audio... It really is something special.
I'm an 80s product, so I sadly grew up post-SW... BUT, was so fortunate to have had a mother who at some point in the late-80s, sat down to record the original trilogy AND EDIT OUT THE COMMERCIALS at every break. (so she had to stop, rewind, play to moment before break, stop again, then wait and hit record... for every break! it wasn't perfect, but it was definitely trivial in terms of interruption)
Thanks mom! โฅ๏ธ๐
As such, I grew up watching each of these movies dozens, maybe even a hundred times (similar to Ben, listening to his recordings). So, all this time, I took the amazing soundscape of those films for granted, because I just grew up with it.
I'm glad that now I can finally appreciate what it [the movie's audio track] truly offers, and is! ๐ฅน โฅ๏ธ
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It isn't aliens, or military science experiments on the population, but not everything wild or bizarre has to have some sinister reasoning behind it.
I personally like this idea, as it seems the most logical AND sane!
Which, the military experiment does sound just as plausible, I think by '94, an oversight committees would have put the kibosh on conducting it.
However, there could easily have been one that would have been completely unrelated, where this was an unforseen outcome of it.
This could have been a rain experiment. My initial thinking was perhaps it had been the water absorbent gel like what's in diapers and menstrual pads. I have no idea how fine a particulate those can be turned into, but they are dry and thereby could easily be as 'buoyant' in the airstream as dust is. Which the fact that fish and frog eggs have stayed aloft, lends credence to... well, both a man-made water absorbent material and the 'biomass' hypothesis. Franky, that the eggs even CAN remain in the clouds for any period of time, just blows my mind! ๐คฏ
(makes me curious as to the science behind it and what the maximum mass could reach, while still being suspended and travel any distance before being precipitated; I seem to also recall this occurring with whole fish and/or frogs, not just eggs...)
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ย @killedthecat1034ย Boy have you misconstrued things...
Did I go off on a bit of a tangent? Well, sure, but then I'm not trying to hide that. I tend to ramble on, but I did not stray from my intended point: calling them out on their centuries-unchanged shenanigans of of exactly what transpired here. If you aren't of their faith and make that fact known, who boy are they going to let you know how incorrect you somehow are! Even during times like these, as you have pointed out.
Does me chastising them for it make me a hypocrite? Not exactly sure how it would, honestly...
Was it going a bit far by comparing their pattern of being unaccepting of others choices to Putin not accepting the fact that Ukrainians want to be no part of Russia? Yes, probably.
Do I regret making the comparison? Not really, because it's still historically accurate. Does little good to get angry with me over the shit they've done. We can ignore history, but I'm not sure what good that'll do...
Lastly, was I arguing for you? Yes.
Was I trying, even remotely, to be done White Knight for you? .... lol No. This is YouTube, the absolute last place I'd try to pull that. So, in turn, that's also a "No" to you thinking I mentioned it in order to play a victim card, OR that I was making it "about me". I mean, I'm no psychologist so I can't say what my subconscious' agenda was... lol But, consciously, it was solely about their actions, which the true context of our all is that over the weeks while this conflict has evolved, there's just been a lot of the same: someone somehow hints that they aren't a god-fearing person, and they come out of the woodwork to push their faith in the person's face...
(and no, not a single instance of that has happened to me directly, as I take enough care not to put details like that in my primary comments, choosing only to chime in to an in-progress Crusade like I did here; I let them derail the thread first. ๐)
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UATV has seriously stepped up their video editing these last couple days! (well, technically I guess it started with those two Zelenskey videos 2 or 3 weeks back)
Not that it was needed, I was already coming here for the down to earth news, but definitely an impactful video!
Stay strong. Stay united. Stay alive. *STAY UKRAINIAN! *
Heroyam Slava! ๐๐๏ธ๐
Slava Ukraini! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
REQUEST: I was looking for a hook-and-loop Ukrainian Tryzub (trident) patch that I could buy to stick on my backpack; however, I really wanted my money to go to either a Ukrainian maker/company or even the government as support...
I only found one eBay seller, but the patch was both really tiny and only iron-on, not removable with hook-and-loop (aka velcro).
There are way to many people cashing-in on this war by selling this exact thing, as it's available all over Amazon or similar sites, but even worse, those products are all made in China... (note: I'd feel this way even if they were made here in the USA)
Doesn't seem right, and so I thought this would be a perfect small item to sell. Which if UATV sold it, I would have no issue with them being made in China, since profits would at least be kept in Ukraine!
Size: H=101.5mm, L=67.5mm [4 x 2.66 inches]
Shape: Shield / Coat of Arms
Style: Tryzub, like the one on the plaque on Zelenskey's wall
Color: Blue/Yellow/Black of course!
โค๏ธ Thanks ๐
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Regarding dreams and our psyche... Most of my lucid dreams have always been the typical whacky/nonsensical theme, or the occasional "intimate" one; however, after we lost my dad 16 years ago to a heart attack, a new theme emerged...
The details were always different, but the general theme was that dad was still alive, but had either:
- been lost in the wilderness for many years and suddenly found his way out and back to us
- left my mom and would occasionally come around for whatever reason (that detail escapes me)
- ... I had a rare third one, but a sudden brain fart has taken it from me lmao
Anyways, yea, it's super weird to experience those ones. My mom and dad had a perfect marriage, so for them to be divorced just wouldn't happen in real life. He was also a hunter and so getting lost in the woods just want him, either, (which is actually when he passed away... sat down to eat lunch at his favorite spot on my cousin's property in Montana and that was it; truly no better way to go and that's always heh the silver lining to losing him so young [59])
In the dreams, though, he'd always be trying to catch up with me, and unfortunately I would always be annoyed with him for being absent... even when it was a "he's been lost in the wilderness" dream where logically he wouldn't be at fault for the absence. Despite that, I still liked having them since I got to "see him". Been a few years since I recall having one and yea, wouldn't mind having one again ๐ฅฒ
Dreams sure are a curiosity, aren't they? Only to be made all the more curious given so many other species also dream! ๐คฏ
If you've made it this far:
Thanks for attending my ramble! ๐ป
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ย @MrJdseniorย My sincerest condolences on the loss your pet... ๐ค Having owned multiple dogs over the years, I know that pain, and am not looking forward to whenever that day may come for my 13yr/o Siberian Husky -- who thankfully remains amazingly spry & energetic. (see everyone, I have a Ruskie near and dear to my heart, it's only their gov't I detest! lol)
Yes, I admit that the Ukrainians may not be openly asking for assistance via manpower, and could very well be declining any offers made behind closed doors. I certainly know that they have shown to be a force to be reckoned with, and I can't begin to imagine how badly this would've gone for Russia if Ukraine had a larger military that had ample training! Having so many pro-Russian leaders meant that just wasn't really possible, but thankfully THIS leader... well, any praise I could articulate, I feel would be an understatement! So I'll just say he's been absolutely awesome and a god-send for all of Ukraine, nay, the world! ๐ค
Still, it pains me to see them being displaced, then on top of that, the intentional destruction of everything, so that they have nothing to come back to... (which I feel is Putin's goal, and has always been, not to "liberate the Ukrainian people", but to "liberate Ukraine of her people" ๐ข)
I just feel it's gone on long enough, and the tide have changed in their favor now that they have a fleshed of arsenal, which therefore means it will remain in their favor! Yet, we all know Putin... He won't back down, at least so long as he has the ability and support to dictate what his military does, and THAT is where my main issue lies. That's why I feel physical help need be accepted (or offered, if it hasn't), because Putin is going to drag this out as long as he can, for no other reason than because he can...
So it seems like it'd be in everyone's best interest to go in and at least push his troops out, to show him that the world is not his for the taking whenever he gets the itch. The war is over, but either no one has had the balls to tell HIM that, or he's unwilling to accept that fact, but I see no reason why everyone has to suffer just because he enjoys being an asshole. ๐
Alright, alright, I've ranted long enough... heh
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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ย @agnelomascarenhas8990ย Their Russian propagandist -- some old fool who isn't important enough for me to bother remembering his name -- hadrecently mentioned in a TV broadcast, said they'd be unleashing the, and I quote, "troll farms" on the West (I believe in the same speech where he said they should nuke the UK).
That's probably what Vinod is a part of.
However, I'm like you, and respond to them by countering their drivel, with sound logic. Mainly in the hope of my words maybe having an impact, getting them to "take the red pill" and wakeup to see things for what they are.
If anything, and they opt for the "blue pill", at least I'm keeping them engaged, preventing them from doing their ill-deeds elsewhere! ๐
Vinod, take the red pill, revolt against your oppressor, Fuhrer-Tsar Voldemort V. Puddin!
Viva la Russoluciรณn! โ๐ท๐บ๐
Slava Ukraini! โ๐บ๐ฆ๐ป
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ย @lyns8062ย You might be right, to be honest... ๐
I'm just trying to consider his past atrocities, both outside and INSIDE Russia, prior to Feb 24th. To be rid of that sort of evil would be massive in my opinion, as it would at least open the POSSIBILITY that some of those wrongs could start to be righted... if the right person plugs that vacuum. Which I'll admit, the Wagner Group asshat and the Chechen Warlord I suspect are who'd be the prime candidates.... and neither one would be much of an improvement.
It'd be like freezing feces... Sure, it'd stop smelling for a short moment, but it's only a matter of time before it thaws and you're back to the same problem that you started with. Better to clean it up and scrub the rug, get it out of the way.
(or better yet, just throw the rug away and start anew, which is preferable in reality but would be a bit absurd as far as my analogy goes.......๐ค then again... Putin is rather analogous to diarrhea and a shitstain, in regards to Russian society! ๐ฅด๐คฃ)
I'm just not sure if sticking with the horror we know is the best option anymore, is what I'm getting at.
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I'm starting to wonder, again, if Putin's mental health is compromised........ ๐คจ๐
Like, sincerely.
First, he clearly thinks he is doing well in this war (thinks he's winning, when he's only been fighting Ukraine... it'd be over in a month, if NATO/UN stepped in! lol).
Second, he thinks he has some untapped reservoir if well trained soldiers.
Third, he thinks he has some untapped reservoir of functional equipment.
In terms of conventional warfare, Russia just doesn't pose a threat to anyone, yet he's talking like he could steamroll Europe!
The only credible threat Russia possess to the outside world (they'll always be a threat to themselves) is a nuclear threat!
I've said it from the very beginning, I do not think Russia (Putin) is THAT stupid, to use nukes. He loves the power he has and wants to keep it. Using nukes would end his reign (and his country), and that's assuming his subordinates carry out their command to issue launch orders, or that those turning their launch keys will go through with it.
(granted, Russians have been indoctrinated to not think for themselves, so... maybe they would go through with it?? ๐คทโโ๏ธ๐ค๐)
Either way... Slava Ukraini! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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โย @stupidburpย Agreed. If anything, having them be a Corps, would be a huge 'prestige' bonus, in my opinion. After all, the Navy gets to claim the Marines as being one of their own! the Air Force getting to claim Space Force, now when we're really gearing up to go further into space, would be cool.
Although... I do wonder.... Which branch will Space Marines fall under? ๐
Air Force, because, space flight?
Navy, because you're traveling in a "ship"?
Or, still Navy, because, well... 'Marines'?
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What REALLY grinds my gears, are the people and companies who will put the item in the BOTTOM of the box, and then they'll put air bags or peanuts on top... Usually with the item up against two sides as well. So half of my item is completely unprotected! ๐ฎโ๐จ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐ก
"Hello?! McFly?? Anybody home?!"
Or,... selling stuff and having a "Ship By Weight" calculator that clearly doesn't do what it ought to... lmao
I bought a thermostat housing gasket for my neighbor's tractor engine. It's probably 1/8th inch thick, by 4 inch square.
Gasket: $11.98 (itself, 2x too much)
Shipping: $12.99 ๐
It at least came in a plastic bubble envelope and not a box, but it could've come in a small padded manilla envelope with maybe $3.00 in stamps applied! lol
(My other pet peeve, albeit unrelated, were/are eBay sellers who use low quality cameras/modes, and/or take blurry or poorly lit, and use them in the listing. This was really bad 10 years ago when smartphone cameras are still not the best; less of an issue now.)
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ย @whiteoutgotuย Not sure what issue you are referring to when you said you "noticed it for years now"... Because this is a (relatively) brand new issue, only been around for a few months.
Notifications, on the other hand, work in various ways.
You will be notified anytime someone directly replies (tags) you. However, it does not work like Twitter, so you can't just AT someone and it notify them. Out YT usernames (e.g. DUKE_of_RAMBLE) are only skin deep, and the tagging in replies uses a long alphanumeric UUID that we don't see (like the Video ID, but like 4x longer).
Then there's notification anytime ANYONE replies to a comment thread you've also commented on. However, those usually only notify you for a number of times. If you ignore them by swiping them away on mobile or not visiting them in the Notifications menu, then they'll stop sending them. If it's YOUR comment thread, I believe it'll keep noticing you of replies, but I'm not certain about this. There may be an age cutoff where if your original comment was made many years ago, it's possible it won't notify you unless you're tagged.
You can tag people in Community Posts though, but I don't know how one goes about that. I had recently been tagged by a channel, along with a dozen others, but when I tried to do it just as you had (typing the channel)... it did nothing lol
It might need some sort of markdown code to trigger it. (markdown is the name of the text formatting, like using * to bold text or _ to italicize)
There might be more, as these are just what I've learned through personal experience.
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"It's a self help book from somebody who can't even help himself!"
It's pretty damn hard to help ourselves in those ways... However, that is where, I feel, the old adage comes in (which I'm omitting some):
"Those who can't do, teach."
You may not be able to help yourself (" can't do"), but you have experienced a great many things and thereby have great advice to give ("teach")!
So a book as you said, by someone who can't help himself, is still very possible and useful! Don't sell yourself short!
(I say, as if Mr. Massimino will be reading these! ๐
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[But in the off chance you are reading these....... Could you please borrow one of those Power Tools, to lend to Torque Test Channel for a weekend, for them to dyno and add its power capabilities into their huge database of consumer tools ratings??? ๐ฅน๐โค I had once suggested it to them to try and acquire, and this is the closest I'll ever get to making that a possibility! ๐ฅด haha]
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My Husky girl, Foxy, turned 14 this year. She wandered in from the woods one day, as a puppy, and we couldn't find the owner, so we kept her. We don't know her exact birthday, so, we figured at that time she was probably a few months old and therefore have her the birthdate of Feb 14th.
So this year, on her Golden Birthday โ which for those who don't know, your golden birthday is when you become the same age as the day you were born โ I cooked her, her very own steak for dinner.
I held it for her and let her year into it... and boy, what a feast it was!
I've never had a dog make it to 10, so... I'm really on edge these days, and extremely emotional just looking at her, because I'm preemptively dreading that day that will ultimately come, even though I have no idea when it will be. ๐ข
But yes, anyone who has owned a dog, and has loved them unconditionally, knows that they do have emotions as well. They, too, unconditionally love US. (and yes, also cats; birds as well, no doubt)
Your right though... It's helpful, thinking about how great those years have been that you have with them. And, adopting a pet is the best way to become an owner... nay, a parent. Especially if they have been a mistreated pet, and you give them the exact opposite... They will be the best pet, because they've (unfortunately) experienced the worst of life, but now, thanks to you, get to experience the best that life can offer...
โค ๐ ๐ ๐ฆ โค
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I also like Death Metal. ๐ค๐ซ๐ค
Not sure if they technically classify themselves as that, since they're kind of Orchestral/Symphonic Death Metal, but Septic Flesh as a group I stumbled across recently. I really dig Codex Omega, specifically the Deluxe version since it included the orchestra recordings unmixed from the metal, and hooo-boy is it epic stuff. Mom heard me listening to it once and thought I was watching a movie ๐
If my everyday life had an orchestral score, that WOULD be it, though!
But yea, all the stuff the orchestra plays is composed by their guitarist, as that's the kind of thing he attended higher education for. Pretty cool when classically trained musicians step WAY away from that style of music! ๐คฃ
(another is 'Clown Core', which people have determined who those two are and they're both classically trained on multiple instruments; I recommend the "Van" album, but specifically the one a fan combined into a single video [I think it's about 30min], as that's honestly the best way to experience it.)
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ย @Ieo9017ย Typically, in my experience, they're what we could call "flesh and blood bots" ๐
Real people, but are either too brainwashed to know better, paid too well to care otherwise, or a mix of both!
As such, I like to engage them and poke holes in what they say, as then they (usually) respond, trying harder to make me look to be the idiot.
My take is: I know better, and if they engage me, then I'm effectively wasting their time and keeping them from irritating others, or even potentially convincing them otherwise on >insert topic here< ๐
Otherwise, I try to adhere to the age-old internet adage of: Do Not Feed The Trolls.
(from the mostly comical, but in many cases accurate: "Rules of the Internet" by the oft despised 4Chan community; in this instance _"Rule #14 - Do not argue with trollsโit means they win." ๐)
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I'm noticing something the more I watch these videos... The people holding high ranking positions in the Ukraine government/military, are VERY young compared to elsewhere in the world (US for sure).
I can't help but feel that this is a big reason behind why Ukraine has managed to do so well. ๐ค I hope historians are making note of that as well, and will be able to tell us in time whether that's been a factor!
Personally, I feel it's been very helpful, as they are able to be more creative (resourceful) in their responses to the threats, not being tainted by how past battles have been waged. Having that knowledge is good, don't get me wrong, as it can also provide instant response to a situation. It's just that sort of response may not be best in every case, but also that being 'creative' and making strategies on the spot will have the benefit of the enemy not being able to predict what action you might take. THAT'S what I think could be playing out here, and why they're able to hold off, or even beat back, the Russian's overwhelming force! ๐๐
Slava Ukraini! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
(I just realized your emblem is a trident, and since Poseidon is a bit special to me, I can't help but absolutely love your design!! ๐)
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It IS treason, and that's the entire problem... Because the real question is "Why are any of the people who have been part of a discussion (txt, email, or phone), that we already have evidence of, not in jail already?"
Pretty sure that if this type of shit (ie Jan 6th) had happened back in say 1800, with this same kind of evidence already in hand by the government, these people would have LITERALLY been brought in front of a firing squad...
So I think for us to only want them imprisoned, it's a rather mild request! At least have them all locked up in the interim, so that they aren't running free, able to concoct another cockamamie plan, all whilst their twice-in-one-term impeached leader is once again allowed to run for president! ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
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โย @cutesammieย โ No. At worst (or "best", for you), it makes Evolution seem improbable, due to how complex it is, and the fact that we humans have trouble conceiving times spans beyond even our own written history, much less the HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF YEARS that life has existed on Earth.
But not at all impossible!
What's not improbable, but impossible, is creationism. That only a few thousand years ago, a single deity โ which, kind you, no ancient cultures agree on โ decided to whip us up. That we then never see him, only a select few have 'talked' to, and even less are 'the child of' (which that whole thing with Mary, we'd slap the 4-letter R word on that if it happened today lmao). That 'he' is infinitely wise and powerful, but after the first two screwed up SO BADLY he washed his hands with us... BUT STILL people thinks he "loves them" and will "forgive them", despite murdering his only child... OH YES THAT'S ALL TOTALLY POSSIBLE! ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ
I wish I could be that native and delusional!
(I went to catholic school for K through 8th and had to attend mass every Wednesday during school; I saw the "light" during 6th grade science when they were teaching us about the dinosaurs! The fact 11y/o me could see through the lies and yet some people go their entire lives believing it, blows my mind! lol)
That's not even touching that which other cultures have, or do, believe! The fact so many HAVE came up with something isn't proof of one being real, either.
No. It all comes back to our inability to fathom the timescale of our existence. We don't like the unknown, and death is frightening! So we cling to hope. How there is something grander in the scheme of it all. That they're is light at the end of the tunnel. That we don't blink of of existence, but can be reunited with loved ones... It's all just hope.
If you want to believe, because it makes you feel better... BELIEVE! I'm actually fine with that! Hell, the Bible still has some good takeaways at the end of the day! (far more that are NOT good, but that's a different discussion entirely)
But don't project it onto everyone around you, don't pretend like you'll be forgiven at the end of you give yourself to a deity. Doing that makes you a bad person here, and now. Let everyone live how they want, do what they want with our to their body. Be nice to EVERYONE, regardless of what they do or do not believe in, but especially when they don't! (yes, I'm being harsh right now, but notice I've also said to ultimately believe whatever you want, as long as it makes you feel better)
But at the end of the day... It's far more likely we're living in a computer simulation than what any of past or modern religions claim! ๐
[/epic ramble]
โ๏ธโฅ๏ธ๐ค
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โโย @BalboBiggins-le1nlย Nuclear Weapons use their highly refined [see: "weapons grade"] fissil material to create an explosion of immense size.
Nuclear Power Plants, for starters, do not use weapons grade material.
Therefore, what they said it's 100% correct: a nuclear power plant is NOT a "nuclear weapon", and at worst it's a "dirty bomb".
A "dirty bomb" being any weapon that uses radioactive material, whose explosion is to DISPERSE said material across a very large area, blanketing it in radioactive particles. (ideally, these would be donated high above ground, to facilitate dispersal)
It's perfectly ok to not know about things and ask questions...
It's not ok when you don't know about things, and then say incorrect things with confidence, as though you're right...
โ๏ธ
edit: here's an analogy for you... think of it like alcohol...
Alcohol with a very high 'proof' (the '%', or ABV; 200 proof = 100% alcohol) is very flammable, and can even be used as fuel (ie: Ethanol). High Proof alcohol is therefore like Weapons Grade fissil material.
However, the vast majority of alcohol on the market is NOT high proof. They contain alot of water and sugars in them, and as such, isn't flammable. Most alcohol sold is therefore like Nuclear Fuel Rods and incapable of being used in an engine as an alternative fuel. (trying to run your vehicle on these will 'Hydrolock' your engine; even something quite flammable like Vodka isn't smart).
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ย @professionaleejit5927ย The way I figure it, had Jesus been kickin' it Old School Testament, he likely would've set the occasional asshat on fire, just to drive home a point... ๐
Or at least that's probably how Quentin Tarantino would've scripted it! haha
Naturally, with Sam Jackson playing the roll of Jesus...
"Ya'll think thineself to be righteous muthafuckas??"
*immolates some random dude*
_"Well this punk bitch cut in front of the ffffrraaailest of old ladies at the slave quarters dinner line. HE was given the last morsel, whilst she was given nought but bread crumbs." _
*dude runs around screaming while on fire*
"Humble should thy feel, to know that this man's fate is but a kindness in comparison to the wrath my father would've brought down upon him!"
*the bipedal inferno finally collapses*
"Live a selfish life, die a selfless death! Now the man who suckled the teet dry, will keep you all warm for a night thanks to his fat which burns slowly...."
"Can I get an 'Amen, Jesus'... ?"
*silence*
"... Unless ya'll want to meet a similar end, I said: Can I get. a mothafuckin'. A-MEN, JESUS!?!"
*crowd erupts* " Amen, Jesus!!"
"That's more like it! Now if you'll excuse me, I've gotta go take thee holiest of shits...With that said, go with God, yadda yadda!"
๐ค Hmmm, not to toot my own horn but.. . Maybe I should pitch that to Mr Tarantino...? lol ๐๐
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I know none of the Russian soldiers will see this, but...
PLEASE, SURRENDER! Especially if you have loved ones to go back to! You have been told to defend a line that is on land which was not yours to begin with. You have been told to fight an enemy that never existed. You should not sacrifice yourself for your country, because whatever money they promise to pay your family will never be delivered! I'm an American, and I can promise you this: I value YOUR LIFE more than Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin does... So do not sacrifice yourself for him, please surrender! Now that Russians are seeing this war for what it really is, if you surrender, you will be looked at as a hero, for defying Vladimir Vladimirovich. Then you can return home and fight for a good cause โ the removal of Putin as your leader, as he no longer deserves to hold such a position! But do not kill him, as he should spend the rest of his life in a very uncomfortable, hot, sweaty, lonely prison! Therefore I say again... Please surrender! ๐
Viva la Russoluciรณn โ๐ท๐บ
Slava Ukraini, Heroyam Slava! โ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฑ
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The Magpie relatives that live in Alaska (in the US) are also quite a bunch. They sound quite a bit different than these 'blokes' though.
These last few summers I've been taking a different approach, by trying to lure them in by talking to them... well, Parroting, more accurately. But unsuccessfully, to no surprise :P
They do make other songbird-esque noises (being that they are technically one), though not quite like yours do, but the main call from the ones in Alaska sounds like "Rick-rick-rrriiiiiiick" or "wreck" instead of "rick".
This last summer I had one -- what I can only equate to as having either chastised me, or ridiculed me. lmao I was doing my imitation and then it called back from wherever it was in the trees, this long string of fast, alternating pitch of the "rick" noise. As if to say "Dude, you are absolutely SHIT at that, and I'm trying to have a conversation with mates here, so sssshut the fuck up!"
So after chuckling, I obliged :P
I'm not sure how I'm going to befriend that lot, as even my dead-squirrel offerings I leave them, go unconsumed...
I'll probably have to resort to human-grade noms as, afterall, their nickname in that region IS "The Camprobber"!
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I tuned into the Live Chat on NASA's channel for the Vulcan laundry.... Boy, I don't recommend it. ๐ฎโ๐จ
From people angry at the fact they were watching the launch, when the actual Lunar Landing wasn't going to be for a number of weeks...
To people mad at the fact they switched to a rendering of the rocket once it got to a certain altitude. (see: presumably all spoiled by SpaceX's live feeds)
To people spamming the chat to cheer for their own country's space programs (for example ISRO)...
To the worst one: the Deniers... ๐คฆโโ๏ธ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
"This is all fake, there is no rocket, that's why it's a rendering."
"We never went to the moon, so there's no way this thing can!"
Etc etc etc... I'm sure they're were some Flat Earthers there as well, but thankfully I didn't see their BS diatribe.
Was really sad, really. I'd honestly rather NASA forego the live chat. For one, there's too many people in it anyways, which makes chatting extremely difficult at the speed the chat moves. Secondly, there's too much negativity and nonsense, which just makes matters that much worse. I don't even want to think of what would've been displayed if I had chat set to "Display All" (default being "Top Chat"; not sure how it even computes that, though).
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ย @IAMGiftbearerย Thanks for the reply!
1, 2) I completely forgot about Interpol heh Though, after looking just now, I have a feeling they won't give a hoot, and won't go in to arrest Putin, his cronies, or any soldiers for war crimes ๐:
"... INTERPOL has issued a statement on its position.
In declining to suspend Russia as a member country, INTERPOL
invoked Article 3 of its Constitution, which prohibits INTERPOL's
involvement in political matters. Mar 22, 2022"
So that's a bit disheartening... Pretty sure that war, and anything related to it (eg soldier's actions), squarely fall under the definition of "political". Yay ๐
3, 4, 5) That's my point though, since any NATO involvement will only escalate matters further, thereby undoubtedly prompting an unhinged Putin to indeed start using nukes (tactical, not intercontinental)
I don't know if Russia, currently, is feeling like a Hydra, or a one headed monster... Wherein, if someone were to decide to just drop a bomb (conventional; MoAB) wherever Putin may be, if the remaining command structure would stand down, or decide to retaliate. As I feel like that's a better option than trying to send in a convert group. Anyone in the vicinity of that nut can pretty much be considered complicit/an accomplice, so they're shouldn't be much or any "collateral damage" from a bombing run... ๐คทโโ๏ธ
But yea, that's where I'm coming from, as it seems like in the end, he's still going to end up getting away with all of this ๐๐ซ
As for the Ruskie Trolls in this thread, all I have to say is:
Slava Ukraini! โ๐บ๐ฆ๐ป
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HA! I only now saw this video, posted only 2hrs before I made the same comment on a CNN video about this latest absurdity he spouted!
Great minds think alike... ๐๐
===
That is INDEED a threat... It is the very definition of "Double-speak", that the mob used.
Say something that sounds innocent, seems non-threatening, and wouldn't stand up in court that he was ordering any sort of retaliation, if he were to... but he really means it to be taken as a exactly those things: aggressive, threatening, and as though it was an order!
"What is it you want me to say... Where do you want me to say it?
<looks into the camera>
"Proud Boys... Stand back and stand by."
โ THEN-President Donald J. Trump; 2020 Presidential Debate
Same shit happened there, and in the relayed-message from Trump to a J6 testifier (aka obstruction). He is a pony of few tricks, so there's nothing to be mistaken about here in terms of his intentions
"LOCK. HER, HIM, ME. UP!"
โ 2016 Presidential Candidate Trump; Said in reference to Hillary Clinton's "mishandling" of emails containing 'sensitive information', and modified to reflect present-day events.
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@7:30 [right camera] I haven't seen this occurring in a long time, and even now it's not as prominent as once upon a time, but can anyone explain the ""heartbeat"" of the mylar (?) bag around the Stage 2 engine?
It's very faint nowadays, and I've been wanting to ask this for many many months, but all the footage didn't present it. I can only assume there was some small upgrade to the engine system, which had lessened whatever is occurring...
EDIT: Case in point! The following footage with the Starlink launch, I can't see it beating... ๐ lol
My only thought on what that might be is some sort of pressure release valve. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
If memory serves me correctly, in addition to being more pronounced, the pulsing may have also been slightly slower (longer delay)? It would only be a difference by of maybe 200ms, putting the more noticeable rate at around a 1sec interval, compared to now's ~800ms.
Thanks!
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It's great that the Republicans have everything figured out. That we have enough unfed children, and enough kids in foster care. But thank goose (or geese, I won't judge) that they've got safeguards in place to make sure everything will be just fine! I'm so relieved they're prepared! ๐๐ค
Since they do, I'm sure most women who will now be stuck carrying their unwanted pregnancy to term, and that Republicans are clearly going to make sure they're compensated for the amount of money required to be a pregnant woman (compared to not), and the plausible loss of income for some, who may not have a job that has maternity coverage, and is a job that is physical enough that she can't do her tasks during the last few months.
Yes, thank goose for their having thought of every contingency, for all the situations, for thinking it's FAR BETTER to take away a key freedom of women in America (or any civilized country, even Russia allows it). Don't worry, American women will still be able to vocalize how fucking pissed-off they are, thanks to freedom of speech.... and if they want, can even do whatever they like to their body such as extreme body modifications and augmentations (the specific scene, not cosmetic surgery; I'm not judging BTW)... but nope sorry ladies, you're effectively a slave to our government of this passes, because you won't have FULL freedom and control over your body! ๐๐๐ *sigh*
๐ I've said it before on another vid, if this passes, I will no longer consider myself an American, since the representatives of this country clearly do not give a shit about my (and many other's) views or what is best for us.
[Just to be clear, in case I laid the sarcasm on too thick, I am pro-choice, and anti-religious-views being forced onto citizens. ]
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ย @maguccimotorincorporationย Spamming is the act of repeating something unsolicited, en masse.
Your first reply in this thread was a comment you replied with elsewhere under this same video, and it was WORD FOR WORD.
That, by definition, is spamming, and is frowned upon.
I understand that your intentions are good, you're not trying to be a problem and just want to get your name out there... but at the end of the day it's still a textbook example of spamming and nothing you can say can change that.
You just need to be more careful, is what I'm trying to say, otherwise it can/will result in your comments being reported. Because it's easy to see if a person is spamming, by clicking their image, which opens popup that displays a few of your comments made to the channel. That's how I know that you made the exact same comment multiple times. ๐
And trust me, you do not want the automoderation system to put you on a list, as then EVERY comment you make gets scrutinized and some will be removed for unmerited reasons! (look at my Bio if you want to know how I know this)
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ย @maguccimotorincorporationย And I don't call this to light to make you feel bad, either. If I thought you were actually trying to be a pointless spammer, I wouldn't have taken the time to type what I did. I took that time because I comment A LOT and see how people treat even me, and I don't copy-paste comments! (folks are getting rather cruel online)
But yes, I encourage you to change up the wording so that it doesn't come across as typical spam. Don't get me wrong, I TOTALLY appreciate wanting to save time, I have plenty of things I keep pinned in my android keyboard's clipboard for easier retreival later, but they aren't entire comments. ๐
My tip... Come up with half a dozen that are quite differently worded, and then limit yourself to using them only once every few videos. That way, you won't come across like you're just a script that runs every time a new video gets posted. (or course, responding helps, too!)
[edit: even then, this might end up catching flack if you you do it too frequently asked for too long, as you're bound to run into someone who has seen you make the same comments]
Best of luck on your venture! ๐ป
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ย @tanishgarg4831ย So coincidentally, I was watching an old HowRidiculous vid where they crushed a watermelon that they had stacked on top of a second watermelon... Now granted, the hammer they were cruising it with WAS like 3 tons (metric, so more than 3 of our imperial tons), but I don't that actually matters anyways, and for two reasons:
First, in their highspeed footage (a Phantom), the top watermelon was easily destroyed and left the bottom one unscathed (until the hammer reached it lol), despite the fact the hammer contact area was like 3 ft in diameter lol
Second, and more important, an axe is very sharp and would experience no resistance by comparison.
So if a giant flat surface easily made it through, an axe would as well.
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I have the graphics card(s) from the Army's combat vehicle simulator (circa 2000-03)... I didn't plan on obtaining it, as the card was used for other rendering purposes. It just turned out that one I got, had a special additional card attached, which I found out was used for simulating things like nightvision.
For hardware junkies, it's Quantum3D's AAlchemy 8132 (aka 8164). Which uses 8x 3Dfx VSA100 chips (same as the Voodoo 5 5500) with 32MB per chip.
This effectively makes it DOUBLE what the Voodoo 5 600 would've been, with it only have 4x VSA100 (which was never released). ๐
On top of that, those cards could forget be combined with up to 4 cards per system, and then FURTHER linked together across multiple systems through network cable ๐ฎ (I have 2 of them)
The 8132 model breaks down to: 8 chips, 1 card, 32MB VRAM. There were 64MB versions, which would be 8164. A dual card therefore would be 8232, or quad card config would be 8432.
But what made my second card I acquired special was it's "Sensor Post Processor" card...
It's a glorified Voodoo 3,with DVI monitor support, but it piggybacked onto the AAlchemy and functioned as a "Shader" card, applying this like weather effects of nightvision effects to the graphics the AAlchemy cards rendered.
Sadly, I don't have the whole system, like Gary of The Dodge Garage owns (he has a website dedicated to Q3D and 3Dfx hardware), nor do I even the power supply for them... But, it doesn't need a special computer to use them, and powering them can be satisfied in other ways! I've got the special part, and that's all that matters to me!
They're my pride and joy! ๐โค
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ย @wolfe1970ย I have not used ceramic, no.
Pretty much for the very reason I described, as my expedience just with harder rocks has provided bad results on enough occasions.
Granted, some of the issue is that the harder rocks (quartz) have cracked and it's that new, very sharp piece doing the damage to a number of the rocks and causing a huge setback (bad luck on my part, at it tends to occur in the final tumble). Which, admittedly, the ceramic chunks like what Adam removed from his, probably have far less chance of breaking apart and doing this.
As for steel BALLS, that's different. I'd be fine with that, as they obviously lack the corners that would cause massive damage to the metal you're tumbling. But isn't that for burnishing, not weathering?
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ย @wolfe1970ย I know you meant for Adam, that's why I mentioned "instead of weathering". ๐
I personally wouldn't use it in his case since it'd be strictly polishing (burnishing) it instead of how I define weathering, which is to add character through dirt, light polishing in specific areas, and also light damage (scratches, scuffs). So at least not solely tumbled with them. Maybe add only a few steel balls.
And maybe I just have bad luck... ๐คทโโ๏ธ
I've use the appropriate amounts of everything, and occasionally even the plastic beads (I forget the specific type of plastic they are).
As such, I've just taken to not tumbling, say quartz, with anything but other quartz.
When you're leaving this to a chaotic automated process, especially in one of a kind things (be it rocks or his lighter), that you can't undo what happens. So better to err of the side of caution and go lighter, as apposed to harder because it should be fine. Easier to get it 80% to how you want it and then do the final 20% of weathering by hand โ whatever that may be in this case, as I'm more referring to his usual "weathering" which would be through paints.
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ย @imaginary_friend7300ย "Somewhat", because they wanted to catch it and intentionally took the show and methodical "Old Space" approach in order to ensure it would succeed at every step... However, they didn't succeed at that goal, so yes, I qualify it as somewhat for that reason.
However, as Everyday Astronaut and Scott both commented about... she lumbered off the launch pad, and that's WITHOUT a bulky payload! So then, one has to ask: How much trouble will it have when it does have a full sized payload?
For that reason I feel "somewhat" is also merited.
Did it accomplish milestones? Of course! It still went up, so achieved the required altitudes, stage 2 did what it needed, and much data was undoubtedly collected! (hopefully lots of footage was uplinked but simply not streamed)
As such, for THAT I qualify it a "success".
Thus: "somewhat succeeded" ๐๐
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ย @lisacarver1128ย Yea, I'm in the South now (E.TN), but much to my surprise, the summer temperatures down here vs back home in the MSP suburbs (Burnsville area), are actually not much different.
In actuality, I think the "Feels Like" results in hotter days in MN during the end of July/start of August. We would come home from the cabin and be told how we missed the 110F days...
I often quote the beginning words spoken during the very-regional song "Da Tirdy Point Buck" [The 30 Point Buck by Bananas At Large] and requires the cliche Wisconsin accent when said;
โIt's not so much da heat...
...it's just tha gosh darn humidity!!โ
โบ๏ธ๐ฅต
The duration of hot months down here, though... That's the difference that really sucks, as there are far more days with higher humidity down here. For me, humidity just murders any energy I have!
Granted, MN's winter temps suck just as much; however, the one benefit is that it is easier to cope with wind and cold, as you just have to add more layers! Heat and humidity though, there's nothing humans have to counter that! lol
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ย @GarrisonFallย A more-than fair point, for anyone living in, or around Belarus...
However, the silver lining is, thankfully Belarus doesn't have a completely unhinged leader... Unrightfully appointed, certainly, but he seems to just be a chest thumper, instead of a crazy bastard like his buddy Putin. Which I guess was my point, as he's the one we all have to worry about, and it's frightening that he has so many nukes at his disposal.
I only say it's symbolic because they no doubt were only given to act as a deterrent from anyone trying to invade Belarus, or potentially to deter their people from rising up to overthrow the illegitimate Lukashenko.
(which was much harder for the Belarusians in 2020 due to this war not having consumed all of Russia's resources/manpower to send over to help Lukashenko; now though, would be a more ideal time to attempt it, as I feel more of their military would currently be willing to participate in removing Lukashenko)
EDIT: Unless you're American... In which case, you don't have to worry about Belarus and tactical nukes... as they lack the means to get anywhere close to us in N. America... (Strategic Nukes ride on ICBMs; Tactical are delivered via bombs or artillery shells/rockets [aka short-range munitions])
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A few weeks ago (in the comments of a CNN or MSNBC video) I had pitched that a 1/6 docu-drama movie, with hearing testimony video/audio put in between video segments of what was recorded on 1/6/2021, in a manner that the testimony would be chronologically synced. Thereby both setting the stage, but explaining what was happening behind the scenes. I think it'd do really well! (then again, I'm a """lib-tard""" so, what do I know lol)
But this... Man, it's almost, as-is a perfect trailer for that movie idea! ๐ณ
" Us or Them - The Real Life Story of 1/6 "
I had no title for it until now!
Although.... ๐ค
" 1nsurrect/on & 6reed: DEMOCRACY AUTOCRACY Now! "
... could also work, maybe? lol
(yes, a shout out to Apocalypse Now with that one, to invoke the use of the word "apocalypse" without saying it, since that's likely the state the world would be in now had they been successful!)
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I love my PU. I hunt with her (albeit with a Leupold 3-9x40) , and have only missed once, which was my failure in sighting it in. 6 for 7, I'm happy with that, being I've not been hunting long lol
Yours extracts curiously, though, admittedly I haven't watched mine extract in slow-mo. Yours seems to kick off the stock or bolt, and stay basically static as it travels through the air, not traveling very far. Mine, gets kicked and tumbles through the air, quite far.
Granted, I'm a total pleb and just had a dad who loved guns, but it seems like in yours it acts like the casting isn't making contact (or minimal) with the ""extractor lug""(?) and relies on the sudden stop while traveling backwards, to fling it. Or the extractor claw is a little too snug and holding on too long...
And that end note you made about "typical mosin", regarding your issue with the bolt. I must be really fortunate to have never experienced that lol Though, I've only put a meager ~60 rnds through mine (what remained of dad's surplus ammo stockpile), but everything about mine operates smoothly and I absolutely adore the rifle! So much so, that it's the only rifle I use when playing the "Sniper Elite" games โบ๏ธ
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ย @faikerdogan2802ย Well I'm glad you're not one of them... However, you are mistaking Super Heavy/Starship with SLS, as that's the endeavor that's literally wasting billions.
SLS is over a decade behind schedule, and had had well over ten billion poured into it, with easily that much more slated to still be poured into it! (lowest estimate is $11bn; but I've heard it's closer to 14-18)
More importantly, what SpaceX does with their money is their own prerogative. Granted, they've been alloted funding by NASA, but it's not much in the grand scheme of things (est $3bn spent so far in the SH/SS program).
Whereas SLS is WHOLLY funded by taxpayers, and EACH LAUNCH costs us roughly what the entire Starship program has cost thus far! ๐ฅ (~2.4bn)
So spending money on simulations across years, just to "do it right the first time", or on lots of hardware to do real world tests which provide real world data, what's the difference?
SpaceX is taking the same approach though, because at any point they can see that things could potentially not work and stop the program... Whereas the SLS approach took years and years and years to finally launch, which up until then it was a "Were still working on it, so it's foolish to cancel yet!", and now it's turned into a "Well, we've spent this much already, why stop how??"
RUDs might not look good from the outside looking in, but it is proven to get the job done... After all, that's the approach NASA took back in the day and it got us to the moon! SpaceX is just doing it smarter and faster... and probably cheaper, too!
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I just got my S23U. I could've gotten $200 for my S8 International (Exynos). But decided to keep it, because I'm sorely missing having SD card support and, more importantly, a headphone jack.
I did buy two DACs, first one cabled but I regretted after realizing having it in the same pocket, would damage my screen; it was also really treble-heavy. (iBasso DC06)
Then I got the Fiio BTR7, which is better and BT, so I can keep it in a different pocket (is also had a cable-mode, if the battery ever dies). It's audio is 'warmer' which is more to my taste.
Unfortunately, they both still don't sound as good as the S8's built in audio sounds! ๐๐ฎโ๐จ
Other than that, it is indeed far superior in every way. What I think I enjoy most, is the stereo sound, though! I was sincerely blown away by the sound quality with Dolby Atmos (Movie) enabled... ๐ฎ
Even watching low quality YT videos of someone playing War Thunder, the left and right channel separation and psuedo-surround sound made it very immersive to watch! Hearing fighter aircraft approach from the back left (behind the person playing) and enter the screen on the right, you could hear every bit of its position even though it wasn't on screen!
All from two tiny phone speakers... ๐ฏ๐ณ๐ฅน
And naturally, watching movies with quality audio is a real treat!
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โโย @vonoxidย That will not help your earphones, unfortunately.
[TL;DR - Induction cooking uses electromagnetism, and speakers are electromagnetically driven, so you're likely picking up the high frequency of your stove. These metal fingers only serve to electrically couple two isolated materials, which, isn't occurring in your earphones because the are mostly plastic (non-conductive)]
My gut tells me that ANY earphone you would be wearing, would pickup interference, simply due to how induction heating works:
"Induction cooking is a method of cooking that uses a copper coil underneath the cooking surface to generate electromagnetic energy." [source: Whirlpool]
Almost every speaker, be they small earbuds or big speakers at a concert, all work thanks to electromagnetism. In the case off a speaker, alternating electrical pulses cause the driver to vibrate and produce changes in air pressure, aka "sound".
For an induction stove, it vibrates the metal at a high frequency and that causes heat to be generated. (pretty sure this is why you can't use all-aluminum pans).
The speaker in your earbuds just happens to be sensitive enough, and you are close enough, that they pick up the electromagnetism generated by the stove.
IF wired earbuds don't buzz, then it's just because your earbuds are wireless, and radio waves (as well as even visible light) are...... ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION! ๐
So it's plausible it's picking up interference that way. (but due to being digital, I'm apt to think not, hence me leading with it being the speakers picking it up)
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ย @mrwinston_thepugย Russia doesn't have any allies, because by definition, allies help you out during situations like this... Like the civilized world has been doing with Ukraine by sending food and military hardware.
Yet, Russian soldiers are starving and they still are only using dilapidated and faulty Russian equipment. India and China, for whatever Russian-made hardware they have, would've undoubtedly been well maintained, so that's why I'm confident they haven't sent anything back to help.
Business partners are all Russia has, because everyone knows better. They may buy this from Russia, but that's the extent of it, two "companies" doing business with each other, only as an agreement to allow each other to coexist. Sorry.
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ยซphone ringsยป โHello Mr Modi! We see that you have purchased some of our implements of war! We were wondering if you'd like to purchase an extended warranty. Nope, no fine-print! You sign on a line, and you receive 15 years of parts-and-labor warranty.
The cost? We assure you it is incredibly affordable, sir. It's a payment plan spread out across 12 months, with a per-month agreement to send us 15,000 trained and armed troops, that's all!
So what do you think? Should I start the paโ He...hello? Sir.... Are you still there?โ
"-Fuhrer-Tsar- ... I mean... Supreme-Commander Putin, unfortunately Mr. Modi also appears to not be interested in our Special Warranty Operation... No, he simply hung up. Yes, we tried to call back three times, but no answer each time."
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ย @rrpearsallย ย Conveyance and recognition of facts is the only way to live, not to mention the only way to move forward -- be it as a person, society, country, or the entirety of human civilization on earth.
That being said:
1. I'm not sure what to make of that. The only real comment I have is on your last line... IF that's the case, they clearly underestimated him. Pretty much everyone I've seen comment on him as president from people of North America, the UK, and even a few comments from parts of Asia, all wish he was their country's leader -- some going so far as to say he should be made President of the World heh But he has shown, to be at least, as a very down to earth and competent leader. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
2. That's... Not really true. The actual documents of the agreements state no such promise, and any claim of such a promise were caused by a misunderstanding by Gorbachev. However, I can genuinely appreciate a country/its people feeling betrayed/upset, because of what they had always having been told, when things start to happen in ways that seems to defy what they thought couldn't happen. The reality being... there never was that promise, so they feel further anger because now they are also feeling cheated since if that had been properly understood, it may not have been agreed to. (they at least want to hope their government wouldn't have, but we'll never know and speculating and/or acting based on assumptions will only cause major problems; problems that we're currently living through...)
3. In not sure I follow what you're trying to say there. I might be wrong (I'm not well versed on what the NATO missions defense systems are equipped with), but I don't think any of the missile networks have US-made nuclear warhead equipped systems? I think those systems are in central Europe and don't need to be any closer, so Ukraine joining NATO would not be similar to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Particularly because NATO isn't some US-led or controlled entity, as all parties retain their sovereignty and independence. So the only thing I would see Ukraine gaining in terms of hardware, might be air defense systems being based there.
But based on polling data, Fourier Western Bloc country citizens today, >60% see Russia as the threat, and their reasoning behind joining NATO, so it's purely a defensive reasoning, NOT because the country wants to be "well armed" or "the US in a better position" to attack Russia, which is (unsurprisingly) what Putin thinks the reason is.
4. I'm not sure what you're saying, due to a typo. You put:
"I wish knew NATO was already"
Removing either word significantly changes what's been said... :/
Either way, BioLabs are not where nuclear weapons are designed, or made, or stored. Similarly, there are no US military or defense BioLabs in Ukraine... We don't outsource stuff like that. Even our rocket industry isn't allowed to produce or sell hardware to other countries. (you can look up "ITAR" for more details). All of that stuff is Russian literal "fake news" to try and further justify the invasion, concocted after their "because.... Nazis!!" reasoning had fallen apart. When one excuse fails to convince everyone, they come up with a new one. So yea, no US nukes or Biological weapons in Ukraine. (bio and chemical weapons are almost globally accepted as not permitted for use in war, same with the phosphorus bomb/missiles that Russia has used (short range artillery, and also on the Azov Steel Factory, there's video of both).
However, besides all your points, what about Glasnost?
All of the free-media groups in Russia have been forced into silence, which started with the Space Industry in late-2020 or early-2021. That out a lot if Russian space-industry reporters and journalists out of work, as only the state-sponsored groups (probably only singular) were able to report anything related to Russia's space related tech or endeavors.
But look at the ramifications with the general news, and the only thing that gets reported on by these government-controlled news outlets is only things that fit their narrative, to keep their people thinking what they're doing is only in defense of what the west is doing. Like how they only invaded Ukraine, as a favor to their people, and the world, because they were "stopping neo-Nazis"... Except, if they had re-read the Budapest Memorandum, they agreed NOT to do this sort of thing, as that would be meddling (btw, that's the spelling, not "medalling"; interfering, not awarding medals heh) as was your point with the first part of your Item 1.
And on your ending sentiment as a Democrat, I don't watch the news outlets that air that kind of stuff (Fox News, NewsMax are two of the worst), so I'm not tainted or even exposed to their BS and lies :)
Watch CNN or MSNBC if you want non-propaganda, no BS news. Because I DIDN'T hate Russia, not until this invasion, where I hate Putin, Russian government, and the Russian military. I hold no grudge against her people, as most of them have genuinely been brainwashed by their own media, thanks to glasnost no longer being adhered to and free speech/reporting resulting in jail time for you. ๐
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ย @lonerider5933ย ย Please note that I did not mention anything about them not having a BIAS. They are a liberal-leaning channel, yes. They just aren't at the extreme end.
As such, you won't see propaganda crap like Fox News, NewsMax, another I can't recall off hand, and Russia's state-controlled outlets play. By which I mean, the content they label as "News" but is clearly alternate-reality in nature, where only the events line up with our reality, but none of what's being said is at all factual.
However, yes, you are correct. One should watch the other sides content in order to balance it out and give a middle ground. AlJazerra does seem alright, and appears to be the conservative counterpart of CNN or MSNBC (from what I've seen). However, no, Fox is so extremist that I'm not sure watching CNN & MSNBC would bring you back to the middle! (being completely honest, that isn't meant as a jab). Which I'll also agree with you on WaPost, as I've tried to read their stuff, but can't stomach it... (my complete disgust for Bezos not being factored in)
DW is good though. I catch their ear coverage, too. I wish they'd segment their content a little more/better. Seems often times I'm watching their video and 30-50% of it is either quite unrelated to the title, or related but no substance; then it also seems like alot of the time, that comes before the title-related news is discussed. But that's a small gripe simply because I have limited monthly bandwidth (which also means I have to watch in 360potato quality), so shorter videos appeal to me; <10min, 6 being ideal.
If I want to get my read on, particularly in terms of space, science, or technology -- but political news as well -- then ArsTechnica is my go-to! ๐
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