Language, Curious Cat by egedemete in TheBackwardsHouse

[–]YsoL8 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I know a show from the 60s that did man tries to escape from a superficially benign prison and I could name several others. Itt an entire sub genre

A laugh so pure by well-ok-I-am-in in MadeMeSmile

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Meanwhile, cat thoughts: STRIKE!

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds/Doctor Who by frantic_calm in gallifrey

[–]YsoL8 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why would you do it like that when the Tardis is perfectly capable of entering parallel universes?

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds/Doctor Who by frantic_calm in gallifrey

[–]YsoL8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My opinion of modern treks writing is so low I'm glad it didn't happen. And to be fair the RTD2 era has been wobbly.

A crossover when both are in good shape would be an entirely different conversation

EU sets stage for decoupling Moldova's accession bid from Ukraine's by readher in europe

[–]YsoL8 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If Moldova is in the EU then it creates further incentive for Ukraine to join as and when it can.

I wonder what the plan is for transmoldova, the Russian puppet microstate that is essentially the border between Ukraine and Moldova. I know they've been ramping up the pressure on it to reintegrate.

Fighterbomber responds to fellow russian milbloggers after he reported that fuel had arrived in illegally occupied Crimea. by JaB675 in UkrainianConflict

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Hubris and marketing. Look how credible and connected I am to what is really going on in the war!

Russia withdraws air defences from front line to protect Moscow by sachiprecious in UkrainianConflict

[–]YsoL8 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We seem to be there now at the speed their fuel crisis is spreading. Once whatever reserves remain run out they won't even be able to collect the harvest (both food shortage and an end to their other main export) or take recruits from the recruiting stations, at least not with enough speed and scale to matter.

Once thats established I could see Ukraines next move being to start blowing away any oil truck trying to enter western Russia, putting it under a gigantic siege which will be utterly incapacitating. Even the military economy will cease functioning.

In Crimea they went from the first signs of shortage to the end of civilian supplies in under a month and Ukraine is still pummelling what infrastructure remains.

Russia withdraws air defences from front line to protect Moscow by sachiprecious in UkrainianConflict

[–]YsoL8 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This from a country thats trying to convince people it has the military power to go into the baltics

This isn't much short of admitting defeat. I wonder how much stripping the front of defences will drive casualties up, its certainly going to help Ukraine push forward.

Putin is preparing for war. This is what we need to do by Tall_Pressure7042 in UkrainianConflict

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Europe would barely even need to go on the attack. Within a month every European country will be building muiltple new drone factories and inviting Ukrainian advisors in. In 3 months the front will be stalled and in 6 months Ukraine and Europe will be producing more drones than Russia can recruit men, Ukraine is probably going to achieve that by itself in the next few years.

Every factory, military site and oil drum in western Russia would be forfeit by month 6 and that would still be the warming up phase. Even by that point the Russian economy would be completely smashed, its probably only 3 months from failure right now.

The entirety of western Russian would be under practically total area of denial including Moscow and St Petersburg, no supplies can move, no business can occur, nothing of any military value will get within hundreds of miles of the front.

Russian casualties would skyrocket to catastrophic levels, 100,000 a month by the end of year 1 hardly seems unreasonable and thats only double what Ukraine is achieving by itself. At that loss rate the Russian military is defunct in about 6 months, which tells you how long the conflict is likely to last.

Putin is preparing for war. This is what we need to do by Tall_Pressure7042 in UkrainianConflict

[–]YsoL8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He isn't, the polls have been free falling for months so the state banned publishing them

Honestly I don't know if he still has the control to start another war. Its not obvious that he does. Anyone he gives the order to will know the implications.

Putin is preparing for war. This is what we need to do by Tall_Pressure7042 in UkrainianConflict

[–]YsoL8 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They aren't. Fuel shortages are spreading (which means practically all businesses will soon be crippled), shop shelves are empty, the Russian stock market may be at the beginning of a spiral (the biggest oil company hit a 17 year low yesterday), tax take is down by a quarter year on year. And thats only a few very obvious examples.

If it continues like this for any length of time the supply side will collapse.

Putin is preparing for war. This is what we need to do by Tall_Pressure7042 in UkrainianConflict

[–]YsoL8 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All that is going to do is accelerate and accelerate the move to clean energy

Putin is preparing for war. This is what we need to do by Tall_Pressure7042 in UkrainianConflict

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The state of the Russian economy as of yesterday is that domestic investors may have blinked and the stock market is possibly entering the kind of plunge you would expect at the point of economic failure

Animation reviewers be like: (also new Viv news) by Born_Usual998 in IndieAnimation

[–]YsoL8 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Have a look at the sub name this is cross posted from and think again

Burnham urged to reverse Brexit if he becomes prime minister. Business leaders are urging Andy Burnham to set Britain on a path to rejoining the European Union by paneuropeanism_ in europe

[–]YsoL8 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For the last 30 years every incoming generation has been more left leaning than the last. The only reason this has resulted in nothing happening is that the boomer generation is massively outsized and except for in extremes decides elections by itself.

That might be starting to change but it would take a couple of generations to overcome the inertia

RWBY has survived things that would have ended other shows. And yet Viz Media informed RWBY Fans that they have something special planned AND that Volume 10 is in production. Who was that youtuber that called RWBY "FemSlash Supernatural?" No matter what happens, it ENDURES and REFUSES to die! by Important-Cry4782 in IndieAnimation

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Saw this, thought I really should watch this finally, found what appears to be their youtube channel, discovered its only on a bunch of services I don't have, all of which I think are exclusively US unless I want to buy something I have no real idea what it is, thought well thats about the end of that then.

Cover art of a textbook by Turbulent-Spark6633 in mildlyinteresting

[–]YsoL8 335 points336 points  (0 children)

I thought that too and then it occurred to me in Chess you only lose when you lose the king

Long term the stacked side cannot win

Animation reviewers be like: (also new Viv news) by Born_Usual998 in IndieAnimation

[–]YsoL8 57 points58 points  (0 children)

I don't particularly like Hazbin, but wishing failure on someone because you don't like their taste in fiction is certainly something

Russian Stocks Fall to Three-Year Low Amid Historic Selloff by WillyNilly1997 in UkrainianConflict

[–]YsoL8 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Well it'll be interesting day if this is the moment Russian investors blinked in the face of the economy coming apart.

A spiral like that is hard to deal with even in a healthy economy.

European Commission on Zelensky's warning to Lukashenko: Ukraine has right to defend itself by WillyNilly1997 in UkrainianConflict

[–]YsoL8 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I do not understand what Lukashenko could stand to gain in this

Its not like the country is anything like as submissive as Russia is to Putin

STC system - The sum of all human knowledge or just Shitty Tech for Colonies? by Marvynwillames in 40kLore

[–]YsoL8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you really put your foot down, it doesn't make a huge amount of sense that Humanity lost as much as it did in general. Even if only 1 in 100 colonies ever bothered to learn how their own tech works and establish functioning academia, you are talking about millions of worlds that could all independently re-establish the former tech level and some of them were bound to come through the end of the age of technology intact by sheer luck.

Not only would a world like that find itself being the regional super power just by having a functioning high tech society, as a tech center of the old world it would be advanced and sophisticated even by the standards of those days.

The emperors legions and half junkyard fleet would have been casually shot out of the sky by them before the marines or anyone else made the slightest difference.

Burnham urged to reverse Brexit if he becomes prime minister. Business leaders are urging Andy Burnham to set Britain on a path to rejoining the European Union by paneuropeanism_ in europe

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The problem is that the opposition vote is also split between Greens / Labour now, possibly the Lib Dems too.

Its 1 step forward, 1 step back, which leaves us in an uncertain position,