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@ArmchairW Literally true given that by now we've seen a thousand videos of one guy storming a trench defended by an entire squad

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@seld_on Heat management is not only possible, it's likely possible to make it a lot more effective with, say, droplet radiators, for which we didn't have demand . The problem is with "why in the world do we need GPUs in space?!". The answer seems to be "to fund Elon's ventures"

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@ArmchairW Might be related to this, frontline fires over the last month (left) vs. the same period a year ago (right): obvious elongation + Ukrainian claims of incursions being prepared from Belarus as far west as Lutsk. The last few weeks feel like they are trying to force Rus to act now

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@ArmchairW He also probably meant to say "most of the Russian roads are old Russian Imperial roads"

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@seld_on @Ortho_Patrick Reminds me of a hike in Sedona, AZ - the hike ended with this spectacular location where everyone took photos, but the rocks were all covered with scribblings in Polish...

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@ArmchairW US, Russia, and China are constantly collapsing, simultaneously, any moment now, but Ukraine stays strong

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@Alexand61152947 @CasseCool The graph says "the most populated sq. km", not "population per sq. km"

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@RWApodcast Their youth population projection so far looks like the bottom blue line on this plot or worse, so fears not entirely unfounded

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@seld_on It would be pretty hilarious if it turns out that the global migration waves from poor countries in the last decade have been caused Instagram and TikTok

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@_kostyarin @Rob44925761318 @BrianMcDonaldIE Автоперевод Твиттера: "стадион смыло дождем" - с таким переводом и пропаганда не нужна

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@ArmchairW "Peter Thiel fled to Argentina" - news from 1945

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@MoreBirths @_alice_evans Smartphones is the only answer that matters - every other factor you mention is tiny. Every country is impacted by smart phones, some are more susceptible (like hyper pro-tech east Asia) some less (like Central Asia)

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@seld_on I think what seduces Christians from older branches to convert is that evangelicals attempt to build some sort of community life around their missions, while Catholic and Orthodox communities are mostly non-existent and there is very little outreach - as simple as that

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@seld_on American missionaries existed there even before the revolution, e.g. I was recently surprised that my 93 year old grandma from rural Kursk was born baptist and only converted to Orthodox in adulthood

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@ArmchairW I think Russian side KIA is closer to 150k based on the previously leaked hospital data, and I the Ukrainian casualty estimate range is correspond well to other claims, e.g. list of obituaries, MIA lists, Ru MoD claims, etc.

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@ArmchairW I actually did some of my own demographic modelling of Ukrainian male excess mortality using mostly published Ukrainian statistics (net migration, deaths, known average age of death of soldiers, life exp decline) and a wide range between 300-500k KIA total.

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@FistedFoucault Negative energy is always present, unless you are a tenured professor, which is the reason why these positions are so coveted in the US

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@ArmchairW Also, inmate recruitment is such an a huge secret that everybody knowns about it and has. As far as I remember Wagner claimed they recruited something like 30k from prisons, with maybe a comparable amount recruited since 2023 for Storm Z units, which since then were reformed

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@ripplebrain The modern day equivalent of Emperor Valerian being captured in battle by the Persians, ultimately ending in the Roman Empire breaking apart (also caused by other things, but still)

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@witte_sergei Grok is more like "Gork summarize this 120 character tweet for me"