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There’s an element of the fact that the west is generally on Ukraine’s side, and that we’re therefore seeing a Ukraine-centric perspective
But at the same time, the maps don’t lie: Russia was expected to roll Ukraine over in a matter of days or weeks, yet is now 7 weeks into the war and have clearly not steamrolled Ukraine or even achieved their likely/apparent goals
The system that Braille replaced used raised letters. It was designed specifically because that older system was an utter failure
There major downsides of the old system:
They’re not just screaming because of the lockdown, they’re ALSO screaming because you literally cannot get FOOD online. Hunger has become a serious issue among the residents here. (To clarify, previous lockdowns did not have food shortage issues. This lockdown is the only lockdown that we’ve been unable to get food. )
When Sollozzo entered the picture, he requested the Corleone for protection and to give up political influence, something that he did not need at large for his business – so he was pushing his and someone else’s agenda -, in return he will give a cut of the profits, and take care of the Tataglia from his end.
Conjoined twins always die very close to the other.
Our bodies are riddled with bacteria, and our immune systems keep them in check. We decompose because when we die, there’s no longer an immune system to fight this bacteria, so the population explodes and consumes the body. When one twin dies, half of the immune system is knocked out, and the system of the living twin and their organs are flooded with bacteria. This is worse if the twins are mostly separated but, say, joined at the hip – the living twin has an entire decomposing corpse and all of its microbes connected to their body. It would be a very nasty way to die.
(photo: CGP Grey)
Embassies are essentially the office of a country/government that resides in a foreign country.
For example, the US Embassy in Germany is an extention of the US Govt in Germany. Likewise, the German Embassy in the US is an extension of the German govt.
The highest ranking official in an Embassy is an Ambassador.
Russia spends 3x times more of it’s Budget on the military than countries with a comparable economy, so it has far more military hardware and personnel. They also have mandatory military service.
The export a great deal of hardware from guns, vehicles, tanks, and airplanes to other nations which helps justify their R&D budget.
They also have huge amounts of surplus hardware left over from the Soviet Union. A lot of hardware the Russians are using is very old and much of the new state-of-art equipment they flaunt is in very short supply.
The Khmer Rouge was a communist revolutionary government in Cambodia in the mid/late 70’s. It was founded by a group of largely western-educated Cambodians who entirely rejected concepts of the free market and individual liberties.
Instead, they attempted to construct an entirely self-sustaining nation through a rigid regime of top-down social engineering.
Tactical nukes are small, a few kilotons yield. They’re delivered by normal weapons systems, such as artillery or strike aircraft over relatively short ranges.
Their job is to break up formations of enemy troops on the battlefield. This can be offensive or defensive. It may seem odd to think of a nuke as a defensive weapon, but the idea is that when you see enemy forces massing to attack you, you drop a tactical nuke on them to break up the attack.
(photo: Oleg Alexandrov)
With a gas or diesel engine the engine has to spin to provide any power at all to the wheels. If you want more power then you can only add more fuel up to a point.
At some point getting more power out of an engine means you have to have the engine spin faster.
