They knew what they signed up for.

Need to color in square nr. 8 I suppose:

Was it a Birkin bag? They all look the same. I just found out about their existence recently.

Nice. Thank you for summarizing it!

Fedorov on the conflict with Syrsky: It’s not personal, but a difference in worldview

Former Minister Mykhailo Fedorov says that during his tenure, the Ministry of Defense did not block a single decision made by the General Staff and then-Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi, and he denies having a “personal” conflict with the general.

Surely you must have rebooted it since then? It’s possible it could last through a reboot I guess, since it’s only displaying the difference between current_time and start_time, not actually counting every millisecond when it’s in the background.

Edit: ok, yeah, I just tried it: reboots don’t reset the stopwatch, whaddya know!

Ah, you’re right, I misunderstood. A different article makes it a bit clearer that your interpretation is correct:

an open domestic auction in Moscow on September 9 for natural diamonds weighing 10.8 carats (2.16 grams) or more.

Although the wording is not that different… I just misread, I guess.

10.8 carats worth of diamonds is almost nothing for a state. Half a million USD if it was all one single stone, but probably in the tens of thousands USD for multiple stones, I believe.

the LITAVR interceptor drone could lock onto a target by itself during the final stage of flight

Sounds like a classic ramming. I think drones are still too battery-constrained to become reusable.

E’s not dead! Just pinin’ for the fjords, you see!

That orbital photo seems to be a photoshop of a Mount Etna eruption: https://www.alamy.com/stock-image-etna-smoke-seen-from-space-169274368.html

Many poisons make great medicine in smaller doses. Think about it, if for example some poison/venom is able to slow your heart to a stop, it can save your life in a smaller dose if your problem is that your heart rate is rising out of control

Tl;dr:

Taiwan, by contrast, has treated its defense as something to be supplied rather than constructed.

Yes, there’s even a name for this: demand destruction.

That wouldn’t make much economic sense. It’d be like using heroin to cut cocaine (I’m trying to say something similarly priced, not sure if my example fits).

They remind me of Hanafuda cards which I think look really pretty in a naive exotic style. More about Hanafuda.

There is even an emoji based on Hanafuda: 🎴

Cardboard Peace

Of course, definitely!

Now tell us the gotcha.

This feels a bit like marketing, trying to get investors to park their money in a more secure China. Probably not 100% a lie, but a bit. How big can those storage tanks be?

The source said the waterway would also ⁠remain closed until waivers allowing the ⁠sale of Iranian oil ⁠were issued.

So that’s what that last part meant.