Shrapnel can also be real bitchy. Stuff like: you find out in 2k miles you were leaking transmission fluid from a small shrapnel-induced fracture and now the vehicle won’t shift; causing ‘buy another whole vehicle’ to become a reasonable thought.
Yea, it’s amazing how fast this can go down. Been F5ing Live UA map every few hours the last few days and almost every time there were notable changes.
This also cements Russia’s loss of their only notable Mediterranean port.
Looks like they are attempting to cut off the western portion of the country from government forces. This, if successful, would give the rebels control of the Mediterranean ports and a very large swath of additional territory.
there is no longer any mechanism to make them so…it’s the fact that there are no means to make that happen
The vast majority of Ukraine aid was specifically mandated by Congress. This, for example, was $60B in April. I’m not sure what you are referring to when you say that there is ‘no means to make that happen’ when there clearly is.
If your complaint is that people voted in too many Republicans and Republicans won’t do what you or I want, I would argue that Democrats should step up their game and earn more votes next election.
Discretionary spending is a thing. Multiple arms shipments have already been made via executive decision and not congressional mandate.
Absolutely. That is were notable portions are currently coming from. Biden gave a huge chunk of discretionary spending to Ukraine and some to Israel and some in support of Syrian rebels. This funding, critically, is also Congressionally approved and limited; it isn’t a blank check, Congress sets whatever limits they deem fit on it.
Your description of a dictator doesn’t need to include “sends support to allies” unless you have a bone to pick.
It comes from what we were talking about: something that would require, as you put it “send[ing] anything from the military and it’s impossible to prosecute him or the act as per the Supreme Court saying presidents enjoy absolute immunity?”. If you are talking about prosecutions and presidential immunity, we aren’t talking about Congressionally approved funding.
In summary, Congressionally approved funding good (this includes discretionary spending by definition). While sending military aid that would require prosecutions and presidential immunity, bad.
It’s blatantly illegal for the commander in chief to dictate military spending/logistics?
Congress sets the parameters for how money is spent. You certainly don’t like the next president, yet you encourage presidents to blatantly ignore budget requirements from Congress? Furthermore, you encourage the military to ignore Congress and do whatever illegal stuff the president asks of them?
No, I do not want a dictator. Nor should you.
If you can convince the military to do blatantly illegal stuff, than sure. But I wouldn’t bet (nor would I want) the military doing blatantly illegal stuff, just because it happens to be convenient this one time.
That is a pretty big deal. Cruise missiles have always been in short supply from the West. From what I understand, these Palianysias are pretty capable.
It’s so much more effective to hit a factory than hit each individual product it produced as they are being used against you.
These are pumped hydro, but with extra steps, more expense, and less mass stored (read: less energy storage). ThunderFoot did a video going through this in detail, he even used the crane-based one in his examples.
This is the question you always need to ask: is this new mass-based storage better than pumped hydro?
If you feel up for it, boot into the live disk for Mint. Lets you trial the OS without touching your OS install.
But, I hear you on the lazy angle. Momentum is a hell of a thing.
Maybe they should spend less money. Something like Hollow Knight was made at a fraction of the cost of a AAA game, but is excellent.
If you spent a tenth as much on each game, you only need one or two games to do well for the whole set of ten to be a success.
The company also has a vested interest in keeping PC players on their OS, while simultaneously treating the platform like a second class citizen for years. Anybody remember the abortion that was Games for Windows Live? And it isn’t like Windows Mixed Reality or ‘this is now a tablet OS’ are doing them any favors either.
God am I happy I didn’t buy any software on the Microsoft store.
It continues to gather interest. If you don’t pay it down, you will have a larger loan in the future.
Pay your debt.
Hell, you can even burn C4 and it does not explode.
Good. Gun rights are human rights. All people have the right to defend themselves and those around them. Taking that away by banning the only tool that evens the playing field is not OK.
Paper ballots with machine scanning seems like the ultimate combo. Full paper trail and counting is still fast for 99.9% of the votes. The other 0.1% might take some deciphering if the smudge is actually a mark or an erased mark, or if that tiny dot is intended to be a mark. But, given we are talking 0.1% of the votes here, it generally won’t matter, and when it does, having the full paper trail is 100% worth it.
Yeah, Poland might as well export whatever Swiss arms they currently have to Ukraine . It isn’t like Poland is going to buy more Swiss arms that can’t be used against against their largest geopolitical threat.
Seriously though, Swiss arms cannot be used in war. What a dumb situation the Swiss put themselves in.
Edit: Perun did a great video on this: Global Arms Exports - Winners, losers & trends in the race to rearm. In these times of global arms shortages, arms export business is booming. With the exception of Russian and Swiss arms (though, Russia’s arms are booming in a different way ;p).
Yeah, this is a place the US is much further above others. You don’t have to answer police questions and not answering them cannot be used against you. It’s kinda important, because the police are real good at basically tricking you into admitting guilt. Not having to answer questions is an extremely powerful tool that many fail to utilize.
If the screens were as durable as the non-foldables, foldable phones would be the obvious choice. They protect the screen by putting it on the inside and are pretty satisfying to close.
With that said, I don’t forsee a technology that lets them get the screens nearly as durable as non-foldable screens. So, like you said, will almost certainly remain a niche feature.