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6 days agoZaluzhny in an English language oped on Russia winning the war of attrition and coyly calling for NATO to get more directly involved
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Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth; And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out.
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No commentary about Lebanon in there, thanks BBC
4·7 days agoyeah if you’ve got the space, energy density isn’t so important. I’m sure the recycled concrete is used in the blocks that are lifted and those are surely cheap, but there’s also a lot of structural steel/concrete in the building itself (you need a legit structure to hold up all that mass) and there are also the cranes and associated moving parts to consider. the heavy ballast is probably the cheapest part of the whole thing.
these are neat. the energy density of them is very low compared to batteries, and concrete is a pretty high emissions material to construct (and you need a lot of it for this kind of thing). article says they’re using recycled concrete for the blocks though. hopefully learnings from this will help flesh out cases where it’s a better move over batteries or pumped hydro
I enjoy using these in timberborn too
I work in an adjacent space and this is 100% correct, no notes. There is a staggering level of disrespect for the amount of skill and understanding needed to make these kinds of weird chemistries work. I see this level of failure all the time even in simpler and better understood systems than rare earth extraction.
People assume you can just chatgpt up a plant design that works. That is only true for products that are commodities from start to finish, both on the side of the feedstock as well as the desired end product. Copper for example is a commodity once it is copper cathode or copper rolled product. However, when it is ore in the ground, it is unique, having its own grade, quality, impurities, mine setting (e.g. local climate, host rock), all of which require bespoke methods and site specific understanding to make a competitive/financially viable product. Rare earths are similar but even more complex as the industry is less mature.
Assuming significant, coordinated effort, the west is 20-30 years away from having a meaningful and reliable domestic rare earth market.
we are stupid together, comrade. nyt seems to be filtering archive.ph.
There is a history of dems getting excited about running troops because it allows them to say they love the troops just as much as the GOP. It wouldn’t surprise me if more credulous members of the American left have some of the same brainworms
Could you please add a non paywall link?
This article was linked on nakedcapitalism.com today and attempts to explain it a bit. I found it pretty hard to read myself, I’m not very familiar with futures markets
mustakbirun and adored by the mustazafin.
What do these terms mean?
Don’t be racist is actually cultural genocide against anglos
2·12 days agoI played a ton of terrae expugnandae for the original Rome total war way back when. That was an awesome one, it made the map way bigger and fleshed out a ton of factions. I played a lot of m2TW as well but I don’t think I went as hard on mods.
I love the depiction of the sirens (
) and the subsequent frog transformationJohn Goodman is also incredible in it, his chemistry with clooney is off the charts
that song fucking rocks and so does the movie
We should probably consider giving electoralist users a place on this site to actually post about their W’s without being constantly attacked.
points 7 and 8 of the newscomm rules were specifically discussed and supported by the community at large when we developed the comm policy quoted on the sidebar. this was specifically because discussions of american electoralism in particular tend to get heated and
on these threads, such as in the present case. I don’t know what it is about american domestic politics in particular that makes people so ornery and combative, but that is consistently the case and the community collectively decided to adopt the policies laid out on the sidebar as written.c/electoralism exists on this site, go there. if that comm isn’t what you want it to be or isn’t as active as you’d like it to be, consider requesting to be a mod and build that community as you see fit. if that doesn’t suit you, I encourage you to look literally anywhere else on the internet because there are countless other social media places to talk about american electoralism. to be clear, if you are looking to talk about the wins of electoralism, particularly american electoralism, and you are expecting a bunch of plaudits and celebration, then you are in the wrong place.
Today’s nakedcapitalism Iran roundup is worth reading. The opening section is about Oman allowing free transit on their side of the strait and the challenge that represents to Iranian goals of tolling.
Pump the brakes on the vagueposting attacks on the community at large. From the sidebar:
We ask community members to appreciate the uncertainty inherent in critical analysis of current events, the need to constantly learn, and take part in the community with humility. None of us are the One True Leftist, not even you, the reader.
They are definitely going to run as the pro Israel party, at least as far as the Israel donor class goes. The dems will correctly be able to say that the GOP was a disaster for Israel
The new uniform costs 15,000 kroner per soldier
Approximately $1,500 USD per soldier
nazism and zionism are the two poles of the american political establishment