People often forget that ICE vehicles suffer from range reduction from the cold as well: ICE vehicles are up to 20% less efficient in the cold.

These people leveled your yard, and now it pools with water? Is that accurate? If so, those hardscapers fucked up bad. They shouldn’t have been aiming for level; they should have been grading it away from your house at 2%. How old is the home? I have pretty good experience with french drains, grading, and water intrusion investigation. DM me and we can have a phone call to go over options.

Be aware: someone in your position is seen as a cash cow for basement dewatering systems and foundation repair. Dont trust any of these people if they haven’t spent an hour looking at your house during a big rain. Only you have the capacity to get to root cause.

Cope. The Koreans were, and are, more formidable than any of the NATO people thought theyd be. Thats a fact.

It seems like your point is that unless you invent an entirely new battlefield tactic, that you’re irrelevant? Again, the idea that the Koreans were, in any way, irrelevant in the Ukraine war is a fringe position that no one in a military position posits. It’s pure cope.

It seems like youre confusing “irrelevant” with “has weaknesses”. You dont have to graduate from West Point to understand the Koreans had weaknesses.

Do you think Korean infantry was irrelevant in Ukraine?

That doesn’t mean the North Korean military is relevant

The Koreans are relevant according to Ukrainian soldiers and Zelenskyy himself.

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/16/g-s1-71531/north-korea-soldiers-russia-ukraine-war-drones

[How North Korea Has Bolstered Russia’s War in Ukraine

North Korean troops and weapons have played an unexpectedly crucial role in sustaining Russia’s grinding military campaign in Ukraine. In exchange, Pyongyang has been able to upgrade its outdated Soviet-era military.](https://www.cfr.org/articles/how-north-korea-has-bolstered-russias-war-ukraine)

Again, the notion that the Koreans played an irrelevant role in the war is an extremely fringe opinion - not even supported by Ukrainians. Do you have a source that shows an officer from either side saying the Koreans were irrelevant? I implore you to leave the fantasy world and join us here.

None of that changes the fact that North Korea infantry, artillery and mechanized elements have no relevance on a modern battlefield

This is a fringe opinion even among NATO people. By all accounts, the Korean infantry quickly adapted to the battlefield and were formidable enemies.

Their kit is junk and they don’t know shit.

Funny, I remember the same type of characterization at the beginning of the Kursk offensive.

“NK soldiers will be cannon fodder”
“Theyre going to surrender”
“They won’t make a difference”
“They have never seen electronics before, let alone a drone”
“Theyre going to end up cannabilizing each other on the battlefield”

Turns out from the time the Korean soldiers arrived in October, it took them a mere 5 months to retake Kursk.

What is it - is the enemy weak or strong? By all accounts, the Koreans exceeded expectations in Ukraine.

History didnt start on Oct 8.

Hezbollah […] started firing rockets on northern Israel

This triggered an absolutely devastating war

Zionist logic. Hezbollah didnt start this war.

Meh. Lot of handwringing for the cops, but where’s the handwringing for the cancer patient? Who’s to say the patient wasn’t immunocompromised, and that going outdoors could be a death sentence?

Laughably unreliable source. First, does the article even link to the report?

The report blatantly states that it only pulls from two sources: defector testimony and “North Korea focused news outlets”

Included in their sources are Radio Free Asia, Freedom Chosun, and Daily NK lol. Propaganda sources.

On top of that, defector testimony is useless when trying to understand the country.

Cash payments in return for interviews with North Korean refugees have been standard practice in the field for years.

Initially, the payment was to cover the cost of meals and local transport, which was approximately $30 in the late 1990s when I first began interviewing in China and South Korea. However, the fees had risen to $200 per hour by the time I attempted to interview people from North Korea in May 2014.

A government official from the South Korean ministry of unification told me the range of fees could vary wildly, from $50-500 per hour, depending on the quality of information.

But this practice raises a difficulty: how does the payment change the relation between a researcher and an interviewee, and what effect will it have on the story itself?

Nor did I claim that.

Oxygen not included, timberborn, anno.

is this person arguing that having a lot of options to choose from is a bad thing?

Probably. In a nation where 56 people are dying from malnutrition every day, having 11 different brands of cheese balls is a disgrace.

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The Finnish Air Force swastika is such an interesting case to me, because the moment you do a google for “Finnish air force swastika”, you are blasted with rationalizations: “predates nazism”, “good luck charm”, “innocent”, “unrelated to Hitler”. You get blasted with rationalizations before you can even see the history: which is that the innocent wholesome chungus dude who brought the swastika was Hermann Göring’s brother in law lol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_von_Rosen

8bitdo lite 2 was my solution for a 4th co op controller.

However it looks like it’s 40% more expensive than when I bought it in 24… maybe scratch that advice.

falling from the the sky and burning is a good thing

Jury is still out on this one.

“We’re really changing the composition of the stratosphere into a state that we’ve never seen before,” said John Dykema, an applied physicist at SEAS, who warns that scientists today poorly understand many of the impacts.

https://salatainstitute.harvard.edu/burning-satellites-in-the-stratosphere-emerging-questions-for-climate/