I think it’s a case of “guaranteed overthrow if we stop” vs “very likely overthrow if we continue”. So they (Putin et. al) continue, hoping for a miraculous reversal of fortune. Which is not impossible, unfortunately.
They’ve cornered themselves, and have no strategy beyond delaying the inevitable.
“If I say they behave like particles I give the wrong impression; also if I say they behave like waves. They behave in their own inimitable way, which technically could be called a quantum mechanical way. They behave in a way that is like nothing that you have seen before. Your experience with things that you have seen before is incomplete. The behavior of things on a very tiny scale is simply different. An atom does not behave like a weight hanging on a spring and oscillating. Nor does it behave like a miniature representation of the solar system with little planets going around in orbits. Nor does it appear to be somewhat like a cloud or fog of some sort surrounding the nucleus. It behaves like nothing you have seen before.”
Also Richard P Feynman.
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Yup, that’s where I saw it first!
Apparently it’s due to the wave nature of light, and proves that photons are not “just” particles. You have three polarizers there: two in your hand and one in the screen.
This link explains it: https://alienryderflex.com/polarizer/
In brief, light oscillates transversally to its motion and a polarizer lets through the component of the oscillation that projects onto the polarizer’s allowed direction. If you have two filters at 90° you get 0% transmission, but if you have an intermediate step, 90° to 45° is 70% transmission, and 45° to 0° is now 50% final transmission. Because light is sometimes analog.
He’s running the US like a business… A racketeering business. And he would like you to cheer and clap.
Have you figured out what all is missing?
A bit off-topic, but is anyone else confused about how this is phrased? That “all” sounds really out of place to me…
It was also used as splinter padding by the Japanese navy, in the form of rolled-up hammocks, shown here at the battle of Tsushima:
They continued using hammocks this way well into WW2, although I don’t understand how the increased risk of fire wasn’t a problem.
Of course, yes. Just the name.
In order of notoriety/importance for me these are the straits I was aware of:
I wasn’t aware of the name of the Strait of Yemen (aka Bab-el-Mandeb) before this war though…
I’m gonna need that expressed in eighteenths of football fields, pardner. 🇱🇷🦅
Whatever book you remember reading first, read it again at the end.
Schwerstgepanzerte Aufstandsbekämpfungs-kindermädchen for short.
That looks indeed awesome. I didn’t know Elite was developed for the BBC Micro… 22 kB for a 3D open-world fighting/trading/mining flight simulator using only 8-bit integer addition operations. I had no idea…
Two? This is getting out of hand!
Ah, no, just giving a glimpse of my own very subjective perspective, based on a relationship where the language of gratitude was decidedly a one-sided affair: neither appreciated nor reciprocated by the other.
I obviously don’t know your situation, knew even less before you mentioned ten years, and know less still about the situation of other people reading this conversation, so this was a general comment. We can sometimes miss the fact that other people have completely different interpretations of things that seem almost axiomatic to us.
Unless they have a matching personality, showing a lot of gratitude can easily turn unattractive to most people, because it often comes from a position of insecurity… Have a sense of measure even for gratitude is what I’m saying (but this is very much like a patient advising the doctor, because I’m very gratitude-heavy myself).
Its kinda crazy that Russia is now essentially out of tanks… The intermittent trickle of them has ceased completely over the past few days.
Translated:
April 30, 2026: Strike on the Y.M. Sverdlov Plant (Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast)
Two AN-196 “Lyutiy” UAVs struck two production facilities manufacturing military explosives.
The Sverdlov Plant is one of the largest enterprises in the Russian defense industry in the industrial and military explosives sector. It produces TNT, hexogen, and octogen, and assembles ammunition for the army’s needs. In fact, it is the primary supplier of explosives for most of the Russian Federation’s artillery systems.
The facility was protected by three Pantsir-S1 air defense systems on embankments. Despite this, both UAVs reached their targets.
Both damaged workshops have massive containment structures—a standard protective measure for explosive production facilities that limits the spread of debris and localizes detonation. Despite this, the strikes on two separate buildings indicate a targeted attack specifically on the production infrastructure.
Workshop 1: 56.266592, 43.358641 Workshop 2: 56.266701, 43.353240
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