They'll possibly even need two tons :P
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Cool project though, could be really useful to indie game devs and animation studios
Thunderbird does it too
NATO overthrew the legitimate democratically elected government in Ukraine and replaced it with a right wing regime
NATO? You think Euromaidan is a creation of NATO? If anything you might mean the US here. Right wing regime? Yeah there were right wing groups involved, but they didn't exactly make it into the government. Poroshenko wasn't good either, but he was democratically elected and certainly not worse than Janukowytsch. I can't attest to the validity of those elections though, I wasn't there. Also Zelenskyy is of jewish heritage and no far right party gained a seat in the 2019 government, you can hardly call that a right wing regime.
Russia was perfectly fine with Ukraine doing its own thing
You're aware Janukowytsch was basically Putins puppet right? That's not Ukraine doing its own thing. I'm still convinced Putin enabled this whole mess in eastern Ukraine because he lost his puppet and wants to bring it back. If Ukraine joined NATO, that would become impossible. This is why Putin is so scared of NATO
Russian invasion of Ukraine is not justifiable, however it’s reductionist to ignore the reasons behind why the invasion happened.
Agreed
The war is a result of tensions that were largely escalated by NATO
Disagreed. I believe if NATO didn't expand to the east (those countries joined voluntarily by the way), Russia would have caused much more chaos there in the past 30 years. Or maybe it could have worked out better, we will never know since it didn't happen.
plenty of experts in the west have been warning about this
It's easy to find people who predicted the future when it's already in the past. But in the present things are not as obvious
That's it from me
Russia literally spent 8 years trying to get meaningful security guarantees from NATO, and it was stonewalled. Stop trying to rewrite history.
Do you know why NATO troops are deployed at their eastern borders ("enhanced forward presence")? Because of the annexation of Crimea and the Donbas war. Of course Ukraine wants to be in NATO when their neighbor does stuff like that. Russia brought this to themselves. And with that they're trying to play the victim in this story. They want security guarantees? How about they guarantee the security of their neighbor first and get out of there, then there might be a chance to talk
Why is the second statement absurd? Okay I overdid it a little, but placing tens of thousands of troops at a border for months is a huge logistical undertaking and certainly not something someone would do just like that. I don't know a reason to do this other than to invade a neighbor
It’s not hindsightish
Germany could have vetoed this two weeks ago. All they had to do was ...
Thanks Captain Hindsight.
But I doubt Germany could have done anything at this point anyway. Putin wants to get rid of the current Ukrainian government, and his demands to NATO before the invasion were probably just an attempt to get NATO further away from Ukraine to have an easier time invading it. At worst for Putin NATO would ignore the demands (which they did) and give him another alleged reason to invade. Remember they say they're only there to "denazify" and demilitarize Ukraine, and it's totally not a war. If Putin really felt forced by NATO to invade, he would probably just be honest about it. But he would invade either way, because you don't just accidentally build up thousands of troops along a border with a country where you've wreaked havoc for the past eight years, and then blame Germany when all of NATO didn't bend over to your demands mere days before you invade.
If you have a water stream nearby, using excess energy to pump the water upstream (so it passes through your generator again when there is no excess) is the greenest thing.
Do you have some resources on how to do that and what performance this could provide on a small scale?
Yeah feeding back into the grid has the least conversion losses and doesn't take additional material.
Local energy storage can be useful though for complete self-sufficiency (at least in summer), but with the currently available options there will be no return of investment, both financially and environmentally, or they just don't have enough capacity/power to keep a family powered over night. I hope EV manufacturers will continue experimenting with using EV batteries as storage for solar power, it could be a nice combo for people who need a car.
That picture is not from Mariupol. It's in Irpin next to Kiev. And I have seen it before in the context of civilians using the bridge to hide from shelling.
There's a video of it too from some reporter in a language I don't understand: https://twitter.com/La_SER/status/1500053681273724931
This does not look like civilians being held hostage at all.
As for the telegram video, it's hard to verify. It's not terribly hard to let some random woman say something in front of a camera. And looking at the rest of the channel, it seems to be an extremely pro-invasion channel as well. I guess we will have to wait until there are more details, but I highly doubt nobody was informed of the corridor.
And let's not forget the most important part: If Russia simply didn't invade, all of these humanitarian crises wouldn't have existed in the first place
What's SFU? E2EE has been working for a long time
USA bad != Russia good
I come from Germany, we hate both of them here.
Where have I been the last 60 years? Nonexistent, mostly. Probably just like you. Stop this whataboutism
Again, NATOs eastward "expansion" is going on for 30 years, and it doesn't happen by force but by those countries voluntarily joining it. And Russia is still doing great advertisements showing why someone should join NATO. They do this to themselves. The only thing forbidding this expansion is an old agreement with the Soviet Union, which still doesn't exist.
And where is the 0.2% Nazis nonsense coming from
Good question, I don't know where it's coming from either. I don't see it anywhere in this entire thread, so it must be coming from you. I already explained in another comment what a straw man is, thanks for the great example. You even combined it with Godwin's law.
But since you bring it up, why doesn't Russia bother getting rid of their own Nazis first? The Wagner Group? Why do they not-so-covertly sponsor many far-right parties in European countries? Why does a presence of Nazis even warrant an invasion? If Russia just never bothered annexing their land and sponsoring seperatists, things like Azov (which I assume is what you're on about here) would have never even existed in the first place.
I didn't suddenly "wake up" to this war by the way. I have friends and relatives in Ukraine, I have actually been there and seen the country and the people. Did you? I talked to people who were fighting the separatists, and who are fighting in Kiev now. The parents of a friend are stuck in Sumi right now, a shop next to their home was bombed a few days ago. They sure love being "liberated" by Russian artillery.
And before you say "whAt AboUT tHe USa??!": yes they invade countries too and it's bad too. Finally something we can agree on
I won't feed this discussion any further
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