Guesting mostly coal power plants?

Edit: yup!

There is if you have a potentiometer and a steady enough hand!

Sanctions are already close to maximum. They said they would ramp up aid shipments to Ukraine if Russia didn’t play ball. Russia is calling the bluff, let’s hope they follow though, but I’m not holding my breath.

[email protected]!

Prior to Ukraine the stockpile was good. Then it started disappearing.

Covert Cobal has been classifying in mainly 4 categories. Abysmal is the lowest one, and are often missing such minor accessories as the turet, tracks, engines, and wheels. Not to mention having sat outdoors for upwards of 50 years. Those conditions are mostly what they’re down to. It might allow for slightly higher throughout on production to start on these rusted husks rather than from raw steel, but it’d definitely be harder and more expensive to make these usable than to build a new tank from scratch.

https://youtube.com/@covertcabal

Yup. Not because they were out of more modern tanks yet at that point, but because the more modern tanks took longer to refurbish. But now they really are scraping the bottom of the barrel.

It’s seriously astonishing that they managed to wear though the entire massive Soviet stockpile.

Covert Cobal has great tank and apv counting vids, documenting the ever worsening condition of the vehicles remaining. https://youtube.com/@covertcabal

Interestingly, the US has forward positioned B2s to Diego Garcia to be within easier striking range, along with support aircraft and crew. So they could drop the entire stock of MOABs to dig into hardened buried facilities pretty quickly if they decided to.

Alex Hollings Sandboxx vid https://youtu.be/XgLNZ1Rgbfw

I was expecting projectile vomit to fling everywhere.

Fatburg!

Mid-day should be the middle of the day. Mid-night should be the middle of the night.

You’d need new clocks, those times drift every day, so 12:00 midday would need to change automatically.

To extend the metaphor, it would be like discussing cold fusion with a fellow chemistry enthusiast. They imply that it works, and was shut down by political motives, but that it’s been discussed to death professionally, so no use discussing it further. I agree that it has been discussed to death, but their conclusion is opposite of the conclusion I have found online, so I would push for further support.

The answers I easily got online were opposite of what you were saying, hence my persistence.

But neither of us are political scientists. We’re both backyard chemistry enthusiasts in this metaphor. So when you claim something that doesn’t make sense with my cursory knowledge and searches, I ask you to back it up.

I did reread the thread. My summary still stands. Could you summarize your understanding of it?

Can you imagine how pointless, arrogant and entitled it would be for me, someone who has (as an example) no knowledge about chemistry, to go to a chemistry forum and ask an elementary question on an incredibly divisive topic within the chemistry field?

I actually love that. I love explaining engineering topics to friends and family when they have questions, even though they don’t have as much background. Do you not enjoy taking to people about your field?

What are you saying? That people who don’t have political science degrees shouldn’t participate in politics? The whole point of democracy is more people participating.

You seem to be holding yourself up as an authority, but I have no reason to think you are.

Your assertion was you can’t have an authoritarian communist. I gave a counter example of Stalin, an authoritarian communist. You seem unwilling or unable to refute that Stalin was authoritarian.

Can you answer my question too? Why is Google a bad thing? I know several of the OKB aircraft design bureaus were exiled/killed off the top of my head, but I didn’t want to mix them up and say the wrong one.

I was answering that in a different comment. This was my original question to you.

Was Stalin authoritarian?