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Tar_Alcaran

@ Tar_alcaran @sh.itjust.works

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  • France to build large new nuclear aircraft carrier

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  • This sounds like literally every single time a slightly new weapon is invented or hypothesized. We've seen the death of the tank a dozen times, the end of the surface warship three dozen times and the end of the infantry soldier a thousand times in the writing of armchair warriors across the world.

    And yet, here they all are.

  • No war but class war

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  • Also in the very basic sense that they're defending their homes from an invader.

  • math rule

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  • In LARP, we often joke that everyone has to hand over 20 IQ points in exchange for their character sheet, and you get them back afterwards.

    It's the same for escape rooms.

  • We're switching produce!

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  • That's impressive! I'm happy when my unions are bigger than a plum...

  • Russia preparing to occupy Baltic states by 2027

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  • That seems extremely slow, even for a snail. According to Encyclopedia Britannica it's 8cm per minute, or at least 14 times faster.

    With the same maths, that takes it 3.25 years to cross ukraine by road. Which is in fact less time than the 3.8 years that Russia has been trying to do the same.

  • Russia to End Annual Financial Disclosures for Officials

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  • Exactly. I'd rather see Russia building Dachas than bombs

  • Russia preparing to occupy Baltic states by 2027

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  • The mighty Russian armed forces, who after tens of thousands of casualties and thousands of irreplaceable pieces of equipment and 5 weeks of brutal effort have finally shifted the frontline past Pokrovsk, a town of 6 million people.

    Sorry, I meant 60 thousand. And 5 months.

  • Putin vows no more wars if West treats Russia with respect

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  • Also, Russia technically isn't at war right now either.

  • how was your first quarter of 21st century?

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  • But the other thing....yeah we don't do that shit

    Not exactly the same, but The Troubles were very much going on during the 90s

  • how was your first quarter of 21st century?

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  • Naive young me thought that with facts and education so freely and easily available, surely the internet would benefit everyone hugely!

  • See if I care.

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  • Oh no, the thing that everyone expected turned out to be completely accurate!

    I'm actually a little surprised I haven't heard or seen a single person say that action shouldn't be taken against him

    Edit: wait no, I've seen several posts saying we need to Clinton the same as Trump, which probably comes down to doing nothing, unfortunately.

  • Russia to End Annual Financial Disclosures for Officials

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  • This is great news for Ukraine

  • Late Qing-era Britain was all sorts of fucked up!

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  • Made by legendary craftsmen folding metal once.

  • "YOU VOTED FOR THIS": Ford Shuts Down Kentucky EV Battery Operations, Fires 1,600 Workers Right Before Christmas as Trump Rolls Back Emissions Rules

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  • Similar for the cheaper EV3.

    My only design gripe is that the climate control info is all directly behind the steering wheel, so I need to lean over to see it.

  • surely your hobby can't be that expensive

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  • It depends.

    It isn't that yarn in itself is expesive, but if you're knitting/weaving, you're not doing it to save money on socks, you want to make something cool and unique. If you really get into it, you're going to eventually want that specialist wool/bamboo/elastane blend with a super specific colour grade and maybe a specific manufacturing method too. And that's expensive.

    Similarly, if you're spinning your own yarn, you can get boring old for about half the price of boring old yarn, and even less if you dye big batches yourself. You can get a pretty nice wool for about a quarter of the price of the yarn, so far so good. But of course, if you're spinning your own yarn, you're going not doing that for production purposes, you want to make something cool and unique. So you'll want to blend in specifics, like glitter nylons, or maybe even metalic fibers, and that long-fiber, ultra-fine angora will go great with a slightly thicker cairngorn, etc etc. And before you know it, you're making yarn that costs maybe ten times what they sell at the local hobby shop.

    And spinning wheels aren't exactly cheap either. Mine was something like 800 euros, but you can easily spend four times that on an electric wheel. You can buy a LOT of yarn for that money. And lets not talk about how much wool I've ruined due to lack of skill while learning.

    Or, if you want to do it for historical purposes, you're going to want kinda-shitty, historically accurate materials like hemp or flax or wool from sheep that aren't really all that suited for wool-making, and are probably not even kept anywhere anymore outside of niche hobby flocks. And then you want to process it yourself. And it's surprisingly hard to fine someone who will just sell you flax-the-plant.

  • Tencent ‘Horizon clone’ pulled from stores as Sony settles lawsuit

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  • Yo dawg, I heard you like ads, so I put some ads in your ads so I can sell toys while I sell toys

  • Turn ‘Em On: Modern Nintendo Cartridges May Have A Limited Lifespan

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  • Fair point. I was more concerned about dropping it in, and then catapulting a small metal disc into some very expensive electronics.

  • Turn ‘Em On: Modern Nintendo Cartridges May Have A Limited Lifespan

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  • There's a bit of difference doing it on a gameboy, and doing it in a running PC with spinning fans and such.

  • Russia Has Lost 1.2 Million Troops in Ukraine—More Than Its Entire Pre-War Army

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  • Im pretty sure the 1.2m number just measures casualties, not corpses.

    If someone trips and breaks an ankle, that's a casualty just as much as when someone tries to headbutt an FPV drone.

    Only one of those is unrecoverable though.