This also seems a convenient bit of propaganda, of course they would say that to scare the Russians.

If it’s true, it’s a really cool feat of engineering though! Can’t wait for the fog of war to lift and see what cool civilian applications all this drone tech will have.

I have some better quality kitchen knives I like keeping sharp.

I use a two-sided whetstone 400/2000 grit for basic shaping (400 is akin to those rolling sharpeners, to be used only when you fucked up real bad), a leather strop with green sharpening paste (~6000-8000 grit) glued to a piece of wood, a plain leather strop, and a honing steel.

Green sharpening paste is most of what I ever use, a couple of strokes weekly (more realistically about 20 once a month), and maybe polish it up with the plain leather strop. Keeps the knives wicked sharp, and then I just hone them after each use.

Sometimes I do stupid things and get burrs in my edge (like cleaving frozen bone), that’s where the 2000 grit saves me.

400 I guess is for when the apocalypse comes or your kids decided to practice chef’s knife throwing into scrap metal. It’s nice to know I can remake a whole edge, but rarely used.

UwUpeans, so great, and so horrid at the same time.

You sir/madam/gentlebeing, are a most delightfully twisted individual.

You’re right, I’m mixing Russias population with the US.

Worldometer figures put it at 3,8 : 1 though

They’re currently recruiting/pressganging as much, so they’ve clearly chosen war of attrition against Ukraine that just don’t have the population to sustain it. I think the population ratio of Russia : Ukraine is about 4 : 1, and Russia keeps stealing people from allied countries as well.

Edit: corrected ratio to 2024 population

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Yeah, suck it mars, world record planet right here.

Go picket, with enough people showing that justice matters, they’ll have to find a less corrupt judge.

Tl;dr:

Bathtubs started small due to size constraints of rooms, but got smaller because it’s cheaper to manufacture and handle smaller tubs.

#savedyouaclick

We’re learning in real time that the ICC and UN are great tools, until they disagree with you, at which point they can be ignored and even threatened.

I stand corrected

I agree, and that’s why they’re outlawed.

Unfortunately, Russia decided early on that international law and relations are an acceptable price for their war. That means some bad stuff will come their way as well, and very little sympathy will be heard from the rest of the world.

Topic of this thread: 1000 formal complaints against Eileen Cannon, as part of a concerted effort.

News about the right:

Trump blasts his trial judges. Then his fans call for violence.

After Trump’s guilty verdict, threats and attempts to dox Trump jurors proliferate online

Death threats to judge and jury: Inside the Maga meltdown after Trump verdict

And in the other cases:

Georgia steps up investigation into threats against Trump grand jurors

Georgia investigates threats against Trump jury (BBC)

E. Jean Carroll testifies she lives in fear of threats from Trump supporters

They say they’re Christian, they do things in the name of their Christian belief, they act in accordance to a Christian agenda.

Seems like they’re at least as Christian as the next one, if not more.

Written with ChatGPT no doubt

Maybe, it also has symbolic value, and might demoralise the civilian populace, whose support is crucial to the continued state support.

It still seems a weak move as infrastructure should be a more effective target, but who knows how many layers of distractions and attacks of opportunity really happen in the field?

Yes, as the blurb says in the fourth word or so.

Edit: did the math and counted up to the fourth word

Lol, indoctrinated much?

We will still expend energy, thus satisfying the gods of thermodynamics.

My list is quite different than the ones currently in the thread.

The boring ones:

Creating a vaccine or other cloaking to make humans invisible to ticks & mosquitoes. A separate project would be to do the same for parasites.

Enacting strict pollution/carbon limits and mandatory circular economy everywhere in the world.

Researching, trialing and Enacting a sustainable post-capitalist system everywhere in the world.

Developing solar energy until covering global energy demands, including a power network that can transport energy from the sunny side and/or orbit everywhere.

The slightly more ambitious:

Establish self-sustainable colonies living on off-earth resources, most probably also situated off-earth.

Create a Dyson swarm with enough energy output for in-system exploration, mining, colonisation, and terraforming.

Perfect matter replicators.

I have some other ideas as well, but those would be a start.

As with all things Conservatism/Regressivism it’s more about the comfort of doing things the same than it is about adaptation.