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The point is not gain of land for Russia but removing land from another state, as a punitive measure for trying to get away from russian influence. This is also not the first time it is happening. Because of how nationalist Putin’s supporters base has become over time, he chose to use small invasions like 2008 invasion of Georgia as a tool to increase his domestic popularity. This parallels 1999 false flag bombings and response in form of second Chechen war and 2014 invasion of Donbas. In all these cases, as well as for two first weeks of 2022 war, approval rating of Putin’s government soared which was exactly the point the entire time. Because of how much of that comes from nationalists, he can’t back off because he’d come across as weak and lose support, he can’t advance much faster because he’s physically unable to, and his best bet is this kind of slow grind like we see now. Any western military aid will make it harder, so of course russian influence operations are directed against it, and you know that too

Also you will not be scaling up domestic weapon production to any meaningful degree

Speak for yourself. Orbital ATK buys european explosives, we have scaled up weapons manufacture in France, Germany, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Czechia and few others, there are new Rheinmetall plants in Ukraine too.

Ukrainians don’t lack resolve. In 2022, something like 85% (iirc) said that fight should go on if nuclear weapons were used by Russia. Even now 80%-ish don’t think that any territorial concessions should take place in any peace agreement. They have some of their own defense industry, lots of things (other than mostly air defense, and parts of aircraft manufacture) we can do in Europe, even if it requires some scale up, then there’s South Korean deliveries and few other things that still can happen.

Like when the swastikas came out and the genocide in Palestine kicked off, you should have realized we’re the baddies, and baddies lie.

who the fuck “we” is supposed to mean there? in middle east i wish everyone involved regime change, situation is fucked with any of current people in power staying in power. Put Netanyahu, Assad, Erdogan, Khamenei and their cabinets and top people from Hezbollah in Hague then we can talk. but it’s severely off topic so maybe don’t

reproductive habits of some insects are of critical importance in pest control in agriculture

natural product chemists (it’s a subfield of organic chemistry) find and identify new weird shit in obscure organisms (esp marine organisms) all the time. because amounts are tiny, then their work is on synthesis of the same thing. some of these turn out to be useful

taking a crime and moving it somewhere else is also the entire schtick of silicon valley techbros. see, it’s not a pyramid scheme or securities fraud, it’s Future of Finance™. it’s not copyright infringement or criminal conspiracy if it’s done by chatbots, and they’re not liable anyway, why have you trusted the lying boxes

“hey why bother going against a nationalist land grab? i am the real antiimperialist” gee i wonder

most of the rest can be made in europe, even if it would require some scaling up of production

e: i can see you have came here with your instance-issued portable public opinion influence brigade. will you bitch and moan again when you get defederated from another instance?

also, entire military is just under 1tn - all of it, including completely nonmovable things like nuclear silos and submarines. ripping enough copper from the walls to get 2tn would involve massive cuts to social security and healthcare, and maybe education. but nooo heavens forbid that progressive tax on income be introduced

i, for one, would like to see more air defense assets going to Ukraine

“preventing next corn plague” with resources used being a box of soil and bunch of underpaid grads seems pretty efficient to me, but i guess that since the common clay of the new west already voted they can be safely disposed of

at USDA, they’re turning beetles kinky! 😡

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People who boast about their I.Q. are losers. —Stephen Hawking

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Some instances can’t downvote. blahaj, beehaw, hexbear and few others

damn i wonder if he had a PMC

That never happened

look up all the weird shit polish immigrants are up to in Chicago. You’d think they’re living in 20s or at least 70s

That’s Wieliczka salt mine, sounds more like a regular tourism and less like pilgrimage. At least it’s not Licheń, plastic-clad tourist trap monstrosity where you have unique opportunity to get scammed by our only televangelist (whose main medium is radio, and is catholic)

Częstochowa is on a hill, that’s a big centuries old monastery. Frequent pilgrimage target

I’m guessing she’s going to Częstochowa?

If you don’t live in complete wilderness and especially if you are in repeater range then yes, there’s a lot of use of 2m/70cm. There are even commercial duobanders for this, but you can also make your own

Lots of things change between HF and VHF. Matching methods, baluns, and materials are completely different. You can get away with 70cm band antenna made of 8mm aluminum tube, and it’ll get you some reasonable bandwidth just because of how wide it is, but if you want to scale it up to 20m it’s suddenly over 20cm wide. This is not practical anymore, but you also don’t need bandwidth like this. HF antennas (other than masts) are mostly made of wires and rely on things other than thickness to make them wideband enough. If you want to use monopole, on VHF/UHF you can use metallic roof as a groundplane. On HF you’ll need to use actual ground with network of wires, which is lossy. For dipoles, distance to ground will be many wl long on UHF, and it’ll work mostly like in free space, but on HF this changes impedance, losses and radiation pattern. On HF, polarization is scrambled after reflection from ionosphere, on UHF it just goes through

Now we have excellent space weather so you can make long range contacts on 10m, but don’t expect it to last. More typical HF bands are 20m, 40m and for these space becomes a constraint. Then you have to pick two out of three: small, efficient, broadband

Welcome to EU! Prepare for a cultural shift:

Considering that everyone on lemmy is 30+ communist tech worker, it’s probably a welcome change

Speaking more specifically about Poland, depending on how you measure, we might have the most rapidly secularizing society in the world Some Americans (catholic fundamentalists) seem to think that you can just barge in, snatch a tradwife and plot of land and live like it’s 50s, but these people are straight up delusional. Introducing ban on abortion, for example, erased full quarter of support for the party that did it (40% ish to 30% ish overnight) and caused largest protests since dissolution of Soviet Union. There are conservative women, but these tend to be 60+

In tech job market specifically, the bubble has ended (like everywhere else i guess), but if you’re a senior or able to keep your current job you’ll be fine (not sure how you’d get residence permit then). You’d need to lean Polish as a practical matter, because while lots of people do speak decent English, many don’t (esp. 50+ and in small towns) and many official matters can be done in Polish only. Like everywhere else, there’s division between more conservative rural areas and more liberal large cities; no one wants to live in the former, even locals, and so most of foreigners live in Warsaw (or Kraków, or Wrocław). It sounds like you’d blend in right away in one of these places. While property prices and rent went up since start of the plague, it’s not as crushingly bad as in, say, Berlin or Rotterdam. Random benefits include ability to pirate absolutely everything without VPN with no consequences and ability to use complaint as a conversation starter

nvidia at least sells shovels, they already made some real profit unlike openai

i think that the only blocked sites are gambling related and not even everywhere at that