Similar story: Offramp on a highway I relatively often use, starts with a nice and smooth turn until about 2/3 of the way when it suddenly gets sharper by a lot. Going by the speedlimit indicated by the signs at the start of the offramp is fast enough to lose control.

My headcanon is that during construction the measurements where taken wrong and instead of rebuilding the section to properly fit an offramp, people just continued by building a sharper turn.

I am afraid since the Muskrat just blocked Starlink for the Russians, we will have to wait a little longer.

The thing is, you can design an autoloader in a way that protects the crew.

Yes, you can. But they didn’t. Hence, why I said it makes sense in this specific case.

Also, turns out Geert is from Germany and not the Netherlands.

Well, it makes sense for the loading mechanism they use and on paper it leads to a higher rate of fire due to the more accessible rounds.

However, when asking Ukrainian tank crews, who operate both Russian and Western style tanks, what they prefer, the answer is pretty much always western tanks. Better ergonomics is also a thing (Russian/Soviet tanks are notoriously cramped) but I guess the higher survivability even after a full penetration might be what tips the scales.

Fits either way

THC is AFAIK the component that produces the high and CBD its counterpart that soothes.

This is normal for all major engineering projects.

Well, then maybe we should be honest to each other and just accept that it’s not going to be commercially viable?

We need all the clean energy we can get to meet demand.

Oh, don’t even start with this “clean nuclear” gas lighting.

Söder or any of his ministries still haven’t been able to name one of those experts who supposedly claim that putting the decommissioned power plants back into operation is feasible.

They are decommissioned, it’s done, over, out, never going to happen again.

Every modern build project is over time and massively over budget. No company is going to build a reactor without truckloads of government subsidies and guaranteed prices for electricity, making the whole “cheap and green energy” argument irrelevant. We have better options now. It’s just another attempt to derail the push for renewables.

Everywhere. You have to consider two points: Most light in our nightsky comes from the reflection of sunlight by the Moon. Secondly deep space is not the space between planets or even between the outmost planet and the Kuiper Belt.

It is the place between stars, which is lightyears in diameters and where every star is just a tiny dot in the sky. This is not enough available energy to power our current level of electronics via solar. Which is why i.e. the Voyager probes use RTGs as power source after they left the area of our solar system where solar power is viable.

The type of flail seen in your picture wasn’t used by the peasantry but nobility. Some crafty blacksmith probably saw drafted farmers take their threshing flail into battle as improvised weapon and thought about how to properly weaponize the concept. Also we are not talking about two flimsy sticks here. Flails used for threshing had to be sturdy as they needed to last the whole harvest season. They were made from hardwood and I can personally attest, that they are heavy indeed. The things one finds when clearing the grandparents barn …

As for the practicality of the weaponized flail: it was indeed of dubious use and it is questionable whether it saw widespread military adoption or whether it was the equivalent of “tacticool” gear of the middle ages. An iron club is indeed a more effective weapon and is commenly referred to as mace and if you take a look at a specific type of mace you can probably guess where the idea of the spiky ball came from.

Exactly what I ment.

I understand their predicament but considering the way our political landscape is drifting I don’t think Germany itself is the best option.

My advice in this case: Use the German passport, which gives access to a lot of countries and pic one whose political majority is not on a hard drift towards right extremism.

Flails are used for threshing.

Not conceive a second?

Russia suffered 1.2 million casualties, including up to 325,000 troop deaths, between February 2022 and December 2025.

For anyone wondering why casualties are higher than troop deaths: The term casualty includes wounded people. So basically every person killed, wounded or otherwise incapacitated is a casualty.

Sure, as Churchill famously (didn’t) say “I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself” but the trend is consistent even if the numbers might be not correct.

Oh, the posterchild of the “nuclear is the future” crowd added roughly 300 times more renewables than nuclear?

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