“No, maybe that wasn’t it. Words precede and surpass me, they tempt and alter me, and if I am not careful it will be too late: things will be said without my having said them. Or, at the very least, that wasn’t the only thing. My entanglement comes from how a carpet is made of so many threads that I can’t resign myself to following just one; my ensnarement comes from how one story is made of many stories. And I can’t even tell them all— a more truthful word could from echo to echo cause my highest glaciers to crumble down the precipice.” - Clarice Lispector
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2·20 hours agoYes they absolutely can, but the production line is gone and isn’t coming back.
4·20 hours agoMy Rumbetrothed beats your Bourbonspouse.
3·1 day agoA cylinder or triangle elongated semi-soft object you can lay lengthwise on your torso and balance the steamdeck at a pivot point on. Think foam yoga roller, stiff bolster pillow or headboard wedge pillow or something where you can rest but still pivot the steam deck around a central point. A large hardcover book or two with something on top also works. Just make sure it narrows near the pivot point/top so you can lay your arms comfortably on either side.
A basic clamshell camping chair if it is stiff enough works as a decent platform to use the steam deck “laptop style” with a bluetooth keyboard especially if you lay a thin wide book behind the steam deck as a backing to prop it up.
Just like a squirrel on a spinney bird feeder…
They lost engine and chasis production for the T-80, the T-80 lineage is extinct in terms of reproductive capacity, these are just junkyard frankenstein tanks.
You have to zoom out, this isn’t a tactical discussion about whether high ammunition short range air defense and EW jamming is necessary, it is about what the current vulnerability in the russian navy proves about its impotence and inability to project power.
Solar is not heat sensitive, for many reasons but ultimately it comes back to two major ones 1. Solar is efficient at any scale so infrastructure bottlenecks and vulnerabilities are a non-issue and 2. There are no “moving parts” in solar, so heat extremes have less mechanical impact. No steam is being generated in traditional solar.
The funny part is in my opinion the best way to conceptualize a navy is to consider it an instrument of force projection through the medium of an ocean. A navy isn’t really meant for projecting force locally, it is for collecting material and power from big expanses and concentrating it at some distant point in order to disturb the logistics and economy of an enemy while remaining elusive and difficult to strike back at.
The fact that these ships “need” these jammers means that russians don’t believe their ships project power any more than ~300 meters from their ship otherwise why would they need a system for jamming drone swarms at extreme tactical close ranges? Which isn’t to say short range mass swarm air defense isn’t a critical part of air defense, but you get my point.
A destroyer integrated into a modern combined arms military can project power for 10s of kms to 100s of kms… I don’t know what these russian ships are but they are clearly NOT doing that.
To put it another way, if you are investing heavily in “tactical” solutions for your ships like this, you have clearly already strategically lost.
3·2 days agoExplain that reddit (or you can use twitter–>mastodon) is three things, it is
- a company
- a software
- a social network.
Explain that the fediverse is the 2nd thing, and that because it is open source and community maintained you don’t need the 1st thing i.e. the company which makes the 3rd thing, the actual community and social network, able to be semi-decentralized and not controlled by one corporation and/or government.
The way this is accomplished is there are lots of individual communities/social networks that all “federate” together based upon a common protocol (called ActivityPub) so that interaction can happen between users from different communities without it being an issue.
Explain that lemmy and piefed are “reddit-likes”, mastodon is a “twitter-like” and pixelfed is a “instagram-like” as examples of what the fediverse version of common corporate social networks look like.
Most importantly, emphasize over and over again that nobody cares if you walk away from your fediverse account and don’t engage for months, nobody is trying to shove ads down your throat or pay off a massive Venture Capital investment, while people do often contribute to support their community after they decide they really like it, there is no monetization driving the whole network, people show up because they want to be here, that is it. Further if you don’t like the way a community is run there are real actual alternatives, it isn’t a binary thing like corporate social media.
5·2 days agoAs another American I second this.
4·2 days agoIf you follow the logic it makes a perpetual motion loop!
It makes the opposite point as the headline.
The additional factor here are long range strike drones that can hit russian airbases at vulnerable periods.
Russia doesn’t have the AWACS aircraft to cover the vast distances.
Yes my bad I forgot link.
that is precisely what a mole would say…
Absurd numbers, think about the bulk tonnage per day lost for russian logistics from this.
The mind of Asmongold is nothing more than a race between his stupidity and bigotry to respond to outside stimulus.