Obviously if you don't enjoy it then that's 100% valid, but at least in terms of understanding what to do it's totally okay to play DRG without understanding anything beyond "shoot bugs and do whatever thing mission control most recently asked you to do". There's no need to play at a higher hazard if you don't yet know or just don't care to know about how to set up your weapons for maximum effectiveness or how to counter each type of bug and so on. Just play at whatever hazard you find fun and try things out until you find what you enjoy. There's no class or weapon that is non-functional without some other component. No wrong choices, so to speak. They're all just degrees of better and worse at any given job, and if you try something out on a mission and it doesn't work then the absolute worst possible penalty is just that you fail that mission and only get a little bit of xp and cash instead of a bigger amount.
Having four times the population density (5900 people per square km vs 1300 numbers are chosen poorly, see exchange with zershuffle in the replies) and way less money to throw at the problem can't help. Not to say that it's hopeless or that India shouldn't try to clean up its air, of course, but the problem at a glance definitely looks tougher to solve for New Delhi than for Beijing
That was actually a mistake on my part, thank you for catching that. It looks like the National Capital Territory of Delhi with a population of 16.8 million would be the better comparison? And that has an even higher density
Unlikely, since the G20 isn't strictly the 20 largest economies. It's spread out a little more to get in some influential economies that aren't quite as large in raw GDP terms. Fellow Europeans Spain and the Netherlands are both in the top 20 and larger than Poland, but not in the G20 (although Spain has a permanent guest invite). On the other side of that, Argentina and South Africa are members, presumably because they're very influential in their regions despite not technically being in the top 20. The EU is a member, though, so Poland is sort of indirectly represented.
Many German Nazis went right back to work at NATO, the West German government, and various US intelligence and military projects.
Fun fact, they went to the Soviet Union too. Paperclip was very much mirrored by Osoaviakhim. So whatever point you're trying to make by bringing this up, I'm afraid it's very much a both sides thing. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make though. None of what you said makes the comparison I was responding to any less ridiculous. Hitler and his party, funnily enough, were not defined as fascists by protecting the sovereignty of Vichy France, not least because they didn't actually do it.
some cartoon fantasy about how there was peace in the world until Putin and his orcs arbitrarily decided to blacken the land with their unclean hordes and wipe out the good, clean, pure Men of the West for absolutely no reason and with no strategic objective beyond embodying the metaphysical concept of evil.
Thanks for at least confirming you're not operating in good faith. No, I think Putin has a variety of goals here that include securing a more defensible land route to the peninsula that Russia previously stole in 2014 and attempting to place a puppet (or at least friendly) regime in charge. That you're uncritically buying the justifications of a warmongering dictator is proof positive to me that you based your entire opinion here on "whatever the opposite of America is" as if it's a playground football game. I don't need to like how America acts to also not like how Russia acts.
I treat Russia as an ordinary liberal democratic state led by ordinary human people with rational self-interested motives
It means I judge them by the same standards I’d use to judge any similar state with a similar political and economic system in similar circumstances.
Do you? So let's say the UK decided to funnel weapons in to Ireland to restart the Troubles and then sent tanks in to annex Donegal. Would you be similarly opposed to arming Ireland against a much larger and better-armed neighbour? After all it'd hugely expand the UK's exclusive economic zone at sea and significantly reduce the length of the border to defend against Ireland, it seems beneficial for Britain. I don't know about you, but I'd hope someone would back Ireland up in that situation.
If you’re an American as I am
I'm not
the 2014 coup of Ukraine
Good job Ukraine has had two elections since then huh
the ongoing war on Donetsk and Luhansk
It is interesting how so many of Russia's neighbours have pro-Russian separatist movements that always seem to have Russian backing
prohibiting a negotiated end to the ongoing conflict
What leverage do you think Ukraine's supporters actually have to prevent a peace? They'd stop supplying it weapons? Well you apparently want them to do that anyway. Presumably that's because you think Ukraine can negotiate peace without being armed enough to fight Russia. In which case these peace-blocking supporters have no leverage with which to block peace.
Of course they have even less leverage over Russia, which could end this war tomorrow by literally just fucking going home
You’re not some unbiased neutral observer
I didn't claim to be unbiased in the slightest. I am openly pro-Ukraine here. Because I'm generally against countries invading their neighbours and killing hundreds of thousands in order to annex territory, no matter how beneficial it might be to the invader.
Absent continuous US intervention for over a decade, this war never happens.
This is literally just American exceptionalism for people that don't like America. Other countries also do things. Russia has a track record of exactly this kind of thing.
I see this Stoltenberg quote confidently thrown out so often in defence of Russia's invasion. Do you think Russia has some kind of actual right to invade countries if NATO doesn't do what it says? Would you be defending Germany if it sent a similar letter to the CSTO and then invaded Serbia?
If it's a free for all, Germany and its friends can do what they want and send Ukraine as many weapons as they like, can't they? Why have you got a problem with it? Under your logic they're just doing what world powers do
Okay so you do have a problem with it. So what the fuck was with the, "Where did I say I had a problem with anything?"
Meanwhile, anybody who thinks that the same country that’s aiding and abetting a literal genocide is also helping people of Ukraine really needs to get their head checked.
"Britain supplying the Soviet Union with thousands of aircraft and tanks to fight the Nazis during WW2 was bad because Britain had a colonial empire." No, these things don't affect one another. They can, in fact, be evaluated differently.
It's the direct comparison to the scenario Russia created when it sent that letter. It's literally just swapping:
The CSTO for NATO
America for Russia, as the aggressor with a big military
Mexico for Ukraine, as the smaller neighbour that's not even in the alliance in question
But let's not pretend it would be any more just for America to kill hundreds of thousands of Mexicans over nukes stored there. The way America treated Cuba around the time of the missile crisis was basically this, and I would hope that we can agree America was not justified in that. As it is you're just defending warmongering behaviour because it's against a side that you don't like.
The Taiping Rebellion. Basically a Chinese guy claims to be the brother of Jesus and leads a pro-Christian rebellion against the Qing government that results in more deaths than the first world war
I'd contend that it often also benefits the people being attacked by the war, unless you think it would have been reasonable to let the Nazis roll across all of Europe unopposed
The UK, as is often the case with these things, uses a horrible cursed halfway house system. I have every digital clock I own set to 24h time but know that I would get weird looks if I made plans with someone to meet at 18
I think his interest is just in seeing what he can make by himself with what he can gather from nature, rather than specifically in replicating neolithic technology. In that framing it makes sense to push at the limits of what he can do even if it's not the most practical way to solve that problem. He knows he can run a furnace and make neolithic-level things with it, so why not see if he can go for something a bit harder? Historically it was solved with a bunch of teamwork, sure, but he's not trying to re-enact history.
You're correct, and it's usually a formal appointment (obviously with a different title). It's a very common term in British political journalism for some reason
The article doesn't say it's bad that China has invested in it, just that the near-monopoly is risky for the rest of the world. The obvious conclusion is that we need more investment elsewhere, not less in China
A pidgin is a real thing, so your predictive text is right to have it. It's a word for a language that is created when two groups that speak different languages regularly interact with each other. They end up learning a sort of simplified hybrid of their two languages and that hybrid is a called a pidgin. Sometimes they become developed and established enough to be people's first language, at which point it's called a creole
If it's getting all of the carbon for that methane from atmospheric carbon dioxide then it should at least be neutral. The production should, if that is how it's working, remove as much carbon from the atmosphere as burning the product would release. This would make it a hell of a lot better than fossil extraction since that's taking carbon not currently in the atmosphere and then releasing it in to the atmosphere
Archaeologists have uncovered a “folding chair” from the 7th century AD during excavations in the village of Endsee, located in Middle Franconia, Germany.
While revealing new details about one of the most famed CIA operations of all times — the spiriting out of six American diplomats who escaped the 1979 U.S. Embassy seizure in Iran — the intelligence agency for the first time has acknowledged something else as well....
Funnily enough, Last Samurai belongs in the first category too. There were some real-life white military officers who were employed as advisors and ended up fighting against the Meiji government in the late 18th century. They were French, though, not American.
COPENHAGEN, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Denmark, the Netherlands and the United States will spearhead a new international coalition to help Ukraine establish a future air force based on F-16 fighter jets, the Danish ministry of defence said on Wednesday....
They do basically the same thing. The Gripen is better suited to Ukraine's needs; it's cheaper to fly, able to operate with less infrastructure, and able to fly farther out from home. However, there just aren't that many of them in the world compared to the F-16. The F-16 has been produced way more, and there are countries like Norway that just replaced all of their F-16s anyway. There are other differences in each one obviously, but I'm no expert on it. Both are designed to do largely the same job, and the specifics of performance for each will depend heavily on exactly which version of each plane is handed over seeing as both have had literally decades of development and upgrades.
I imagine that, much like the situation with tanks, you'll just see that different Ukrainian units will operate different equipment depending on what is available. Whoever is running their logistics must have an unbelievable coffee budget, but if that means more tanks and jets operating then they'll make it work
Youtuber Max Miller did an episode on ancient pizza in which he attempts to recreate a Roman pizza based on a fresco from Pompeii and a poem usually attributed to Virgil. He went with cheese, dates, pomegranate seeds, and a sauce similar to pesto. Which honestly sounds great to me
At least according to an atheist Jewish ex of mine, it's fine to use "Jewish" to refer to the ethnicity too. She would just specifically "ethnically Jewish" or "religiously Jewish" or whatever else if it wasn't clear from context - neither being more or less Jewish than the other.
According to IFW Kiel, Germany is the second biggest supplier of military aid to Ukraine now. It's only behind the USA, and it's way ahead of 3rd place and the rest
Some Ukrainian pilots apparently finished their Gripen orientation about a month ago, according to the Swedish defence minister. The plane can operate with pretty minimal infrastructure and has a really low cost per flight hour (both in relative terms for a modern jet fighter, of course), so it seems like it's exactly the kind of thing Ukraine could do with even if it does take a bit of time to train on it
The full sentence is "Their small, fine scales are usually brass or bronze in color, sometimes ranging to scarlet, rust, gold, or copper-green." So a red one is kinda like a real life human with ginger hair; uncommon, but not weird. There's also the bit about dragonborn with a particularly strong influence of their draconic ancestor shortly afterwards that says, "These dragonborn often boast scales that more closely match those of their dragon ancestor - bright red, green, blue, or white, lustrous black, or gleaming metallic gold, silver, brass, copper, or bronze."
Rare, yeah, but still a valid possibility. But the main part I wanted to bring up is that the sentence you were referring to actually already includes "scarlet" as an ordinary colour, so the red one in the accompanying picture fits just fine
In terms of the value of military equipment committed to Ukraine, EU+UK are ahead of the USA when taken together by IFW Kiel's numbers. That's only military aid by the way, not factoring in humanitarian aid or housing refugees and such. That's not to say the US isn't pulling its weight, of course. It is. Just don't go around saying nobody else is, because they are
Judging by the image, their concern is more that a lot of the bands they currently listen to are simply of an age that they've retired or died. It's not a lack of fans that stopped Black Sabbath from playing, it's that the members are well in to their 70s
When a microbe was found munching on a plastic bottle in a rubbish dump, it promised a recycling revolution. Now scientists are attempting to turbocharge those powers in a bid to solve our waste crisis. But will it work?
We do probably want both. Even if we end plastic production completely tomorrow, we need to work out a way to clean up all the plastic we've already dumped all over the world
How are you all playing these insanely complex games?
Just some off the top of my head: Destiny, Deep Rock Galactic, Overwatch, and most recently Baldur’s Gate....
‘An invisible killer’: Beijing cleaned up its toxic air. Why can’t New Delhi? | CNN (www.cnn.com)
More than 20 million people woke last week to a thick, acrid, and noxious smog that settled densely across the Indian capital.
Poland among the twenty largest economies in the world. Thanks to the Turkish disaster (next.gazeta.pl)
Germany set to double Ukraine military aid (www.reuters.com)
"We will not stop at Kyiv, Warsaw, Paris. We will stop when we feel secure." - Russian propagandist Solovyov (streamable.com)
Mirror: https://files.catbox.moe/b2jfwt.mp4...
Further Context Rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Neither Hamas nor Israel should rule Gaza in future, EU says (euobserver.com)
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Continued support for Ukraine will cost the west less than letting Putin win | Phillip Inman (www.theguardian.com) Ukrainian
Compulsion (startrek.website)
Primitive Technology: Volute Shaped Blower (www.youtube.com)
As always, don’t forget to enable subtitles.
Valve: "We don't know enough about NFTs to weigh in on that conversation" (web.archive.org)
Sweden has had enough of being mixed up with Switzerland (www.euronews.com)
Gen Z is turned off by onscreen sex, wants no-mance over romance, a new study finds (www.latimes.com)
Can your feet get ... smaller??
Over the last 4 years i’ve barely worn shoes like 30 days in total. Today I noticed my previously best fitting shoes are like a size too big....
EU ‘in touching distance’ of world’s first laws regulating artificial intelligence (www.theguardian.com)
Summary by Bing AI:...
China has ‘outsized presence’ in clean energy market, IEA warns in new report - National | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)
In the Company of Culprits (lemmy.world)
Artificial Photosynthesis Advances: Turning Sunlight Into Fuel — Ultra Unlimited (www.ultra-unlimited.com)
Key Takeaways...
ai is truly genius (lemmy.zip)
100% not haunted (iusearchlinux.fyi)
I don’t understand what has to posses you to think this is a great photo to post. Actually I might have a guess what.
EXCAVATION UNCOVERS EARLY MEDIEVAL “FOLDING CHAIR” MADE FROM IRON (www.heritagedaily.com)
Archaeologists have uncovered a “folding chair” from the 7th century AD during excavations in the village of Endsee, located in Middle Franconia, Germany.
CIA publicly acknowledges 1953 coup it backed in Iran was undemocratic as it revisits 'Argo' rescue (apnews.com)
While revealing new details about one of the most famed CIA operations of all times — the spiriting out of six American diplomats who escaped the 1979 U.S. Embassy seizure in Iran — the intelligence agency for the first time has acknowledged something else as well....
Denmark, Netherlands, US spearhead creation of future Ukraine air force (www.reuters.com)
COPENHAGEN, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Denmark, the Netherlands and the United States will spearhead a new international coalition to help Ukraine establish a future air force based on F-16 fighter jets, the Danish ministry of defence said on Wednesday....
Today's history lesson (lemmy.world)
Genetic tester 23andMe’s hacked data on Jewish users offered for sale online (www.washingtonpost.com)
Ukrainian soldier shows the helmet that saved him from shrapnel during artillery shelling near Klishchiivka (streamable.com)
Mirror: files.catbox.moe/l1f42m.mp4...
Stockholm Offers Fighter Jets for Ukraine if Sweden is Allowed to Join NATO (www.nytimes.com)
Stockholm Offers Fighter Jets for Ukraine if Sweden is Allowed to Join NATO...
BBC witnesses Chinese ships blocking Philippines supply boats (www.bbc.com)
Tensions between Manila and Beijing remain high after the Philippines coast guard cut China’s barriers in disputed waters last month....
It'll go great with our party's purple tiefling (startrek.website)
It’s time Europe reduced its defense reliance on the US, Czech president says (www.politico.eu)
Tom Hanks says AI version of him used in dental plan ad without his consent (www.theguardian.com)
Tom Hanks has warned fans that an ad for a dental plan that appears to use his image is in fact fake and was created using artificial intelligence....
British troops could deploy to Ukraine for first time to train soldiers, says Grant Shapps (www.theguardian.com)
can I have a couple of recommendations of newer bands (i want to listen to people who will still be around in a decade) (lemmy.world)
We are just getting started’: the plastic-eating bacteria that could change the world (www.theguardian.com)
When a microbe was found munching on a plastic bottle in a rubbish dump, it promised a recycling revolution. Now scientists are attempting to turbocharge those powers in a bid to solve our waste crisis. But will it work?