some context for the bottom row https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/16/exiled-russian-accused-of-spying-on-opposition-including-navalny-movement https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2025/11/04/russian-pro-democracy-activist-detained-in-poland-admits-to-working-for-fsb-en-news

We’re British

important point lol, 90s sucked in eastern block https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cross_(demography)

also a couple of east asian countries like at minimum japan, south korea, taiwan were proper tinpot dictatorships until 90s

roughly tube with a very thick wall and spherical ending (it has to survive 100+ atm under high temperature and neutron irradiation - weakens everything over time)

i think this is what happens when you don’t do preventive maintenance

It said one theory being investigated was that the bomb was planted with the involvement of Ukrainian intelligence services. Ukraine has not commented.

what if his car just did that

i can only watch in disbelief

no no no no it’s on by default so it’s opt-out, and switch for that isn’t even implemented yet

can you get methadone substitution therapy under these laws?

the death penalty for anything approach? yeah nah that would be war on drugs dialed to 11 and it sucked

at least he didn’t say he “fell on it” and it was totally an accident

does DSP count as maths, because there’s plenty of that in radar design. or any other sensor with some double-use potential for that matter

in this economy?

it can be bought in italy as a cleaning agent without going through entire process as for reagents purchase iirc

entire rationalist project is arguably get-smart-quick scheme

Catholic practice of adolescent confirmation

this must be country-specific, because the way i know it, it happens at age when people still can be pressured by parents/grandparents (under 15 or so), it’s about the only reason why it happens, and it marks the last time they are seen in church before marriage (formal requirement for catholic marriage), if at all (country secularizes and many ditch catholic marriage entirely). there’s also very little on the “inside” (you’re picking a saint and write an essay on them that nobody reads; unless you want to become a priest, it has absolutely zero bearing on your life)

“article” is entirely too charitable, this is a substack post

nah. loam is, for example, 40% sand, 20% clay, 40% silt and it’s close to middle of that polygon, on top of letter O

for example, draw a line from 50% sand point on edge to 50% clay point on edge, the first one is 50% sand 50% silt because that axis for sand is also 0% for clay, the second one is 50% sand 50% clay because it lies at the line that is 0% silt

it also means more interceptions per sortie, because it’s 7 missiles in pod per hardpoint, instead of one. this also makes it all cheaper, on top of cost of missiles (fewer sorties = less pilot’s time, less strain and wear on plane)

oh you “did your own research”. i work in pharma and there’s plenty of real problems to be solved instead of chasing wishes of dead chinese emperors

no serious pharma company tries to do that, it’s all high proof uncut transhumanist nonsense, served by crackpots, feeding on old scifi and rooted in the same impulse that driven alchemists in search of immortality

i’m of course not gonna stop you from believing in anything, do what you want