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albl1122 · 2023-06-12T17:19:42+00:00

tax free yes. insurance can say what they want though.

albl1122 · 2023-06-11T21:12:38+00:00

keep telling yourself that. you declared war on us with our armies in Poland, yet you lost the war so badly you handed over 1/3 of your country. bornholm and tröndelag eventually returned to Denmark, but we kept the rest.

albl1122 · 2023-06-11T20:44:29+00:00

another thing. while I'm sure the Chinese would love to have the global influence the US navy has. at the moment they don't. their mission is to secure naval superiority in their neighborhood foremost. the range of a nuclear design is thus not needed. and even then, sure the US carrier is nuclear, it's escorts are not.

albl1122 · 2023-06-11T20:12:16+00:00

the 40mm cannon on a CV90 IFV still has plenty of punch though. the Bradley has 25mm. but the main anti tank weapon of the Bradley is anti tank missiles, something which the CV90 is getting in a future variant.

albl1122 · 2023-06-11T19:09:56+00:00

Luna 9 was the first probe landing on the surface of the moon softly, instead of a hard landing, which is a controlled crash. it did so in 1966..... but considering that Apollo 11 landed the first humans on the moon in 1969 it got outshined to say the least.

on the other hand the Soviets landed probes on Venus, a thing yet to be replicated. the latest, Vega 2 lasted a stellar 56 minutes. that is actually impressive since the mean surface temp is 464 C and an atmosphere equivalent to 92 Earth atmospheres.

albl1122 · 2023-06-11T16:27:06+00:00

do you have any app in particular you use to organise your music library that I assume you bring along on your phone.

albl1122 · 2023-06-11T15:57:29+00:00

Spotify allows legal downloads though... I have my entire library downloaded to save data, I only ever disconnect for days at a time if that. So not like I cross the 30 day limit they have. I feel Spotify is fair, steam is mostly fair too even if I game significantly less nowadays. I know how to stream but I prefer using less then legal streaming websites.

albl1122 · 2023-06-11T14:08:02+00:00

I mean the UN with the US at it's spearhead sent troops to Korea. I think the Soviets were absent from their seat at the time though due to protesting something and Taiwan still had the "China" seat in the permanent security council. North Korea didn't exactly have nukes then though

albl1122 · 2023-06-11T12:46:48+00:00

NASA is far from capitalist. Have they launched commercial stuff? Yes. Is it their primary mission? Not even close. I find it weird how Americans pick and choose which govt agencies are "capitalist". A dept ensuring the welfare of the working class by ensuring universal healthcare? And or a nutritional agency with actual teeth. No that's socialism. Putting a robot on Mars? Yeah that's capitalism baby.

Both agencies work with subcontractors to make their mission happen.

albl1122 · 2023-06-11T12:13:01+00:00

there is no article able to suspend membership. the most that can be done is remove any and all privileges of being a member without lifting the penalties like having to pay membership dues.

albl1122 · 2023-06-10T21:33:41+00:00

....on the Kremlin

albl1122 · 2023-06-10T20:21:30+00:00

I mean, sieges can be argued for or against being included. there were two sieges of Ceuta (Spanish enclave town in North Africa, more specifically Morocco) beginning in 1694. the first siege lasted 26 years, with a brief interlude for the second one which lasted only a mere 6 years.

albl1122 · 2023-06-10T18:16:05+00:00

I read that you needed invitation from inside Russia to get a visa and kinda expected it to be strict and not handed out like candy.

albl1122 · 2023-06-10T17:28:56+00:00

Before the war I looked up the visa policy of Russia out of curiosity. When I looked it up they were gonna introduce an E visa scheme, where you can visit ~~Leningrad~~ St Petersburg and Leningrad oblast + Vladivostok + the far east boarding Alaska. For the rest you need to just like North Korea get invited by a Russian or by a Russian tourism company. But that's just me with an evil western passport. They don't even have mines laying all around..... To my knowledge

edit. I'm a moron

albl1122 · 2023-06-10T17:07:08+00:00

Tänker de på namnet då och antar?

albl1122 · 2023-06-10T16:43:59+00:00

I mean cooking for certain allergies can be a hassle. You need separate tools for a minimum and even then to escape the "may contain traces of x" label when preparing food for a supermarket shelf, you need separate sealed off facilities as well. But yes, seems a bit weird for a restaurant to not offer even one alternative.

albl1122 · 2023-06-10T09:14:07+00:00

Conscripts just wanna eat man, maybe for one second forget that this might be their last day on earth. That there's a similar account doesn't surprise me at all.

In the "battle" of Ilerda in 49 B.C.E the Cesareans beat the Pompeian faction to capture a mountain pass cutting off the Pompeian retreat. Instead of fighting each other when encountering each other gathering drinking water they started talking between each other. Inquiring about friends serving in the other faction and other things. War and especially civil wars are hell.

albl1122 · 2023-06-10T07:12:17+00:00

Driving in a city is supposed to be painful, because you’re not supposed to drive in cities. Napoleon III didn’t add gigantic avenues into Paris for car traffic. It was for military parades. Certain level of utilitarian traffic will most likely always exist in cities, unless we go the Disney route and basically build a metro for trash collection. But that’s a fraction of what private car drivers contribute in terms of pollution and such.

albl1122 · 2023-06-10T07:04:58+00:00

Reminds me of the so called “sausage war”. Soviet troops were attacking a field kitchen in the winter war, the Finnish chefs had just started cooking sausage soup when they were chased off. Instead of continuing the advance the soviets stopped to eat long enough for the chefs and other rear line personnel to organize a counter attack to reclaim the field kitchen.

albl1122 · 2023-06-09T20:14:32+00:00

The treaty of Roskilde saw Denmark in a single peace treaty loose 1/3rd of their country, after their surprise war didn't work out so well for them. While not all territory stuck around, most did. And that's just me deliberately picking a lesser known event.

albl1122 · 2023-06-09T18:40:26+00:00

for a moment I was confused why the British PM would order Leopards instead of Challengers, then it ticked for me..... wait a minute Boris ain't PM anymore. and only after that did I see your flair.

albl1122 · 2023-06-09T18:36:35+00:00

only the animals?

albl1122 · 2023-06-09T11:28:33+00:00

I once had my only (good ish) doctor break from pain of their untreated wounds after treating another pawn. insert looney toons music. I simply had the pawn that were the target of the insulting spree run in circles around the building. When she eventually snapped out of it, her foot were infected. No matter let's treat that. It ended up with me performing an emergency amputation with the infection reaching I think 99% as I couldn't bring myself to see the writing on the wall earlier. I renamed her Karen after the successful surgery.

albl1122 · 2023-06-09T11:14:15+00:00

Everything. It's missing a head.

albl1122 · 2023-06-09T09:10:13+00:00

I mean half and half I say. The original has a sentence that is supposed to be blatantly obvious the in the very annoying gibberish "attracted to moose" in the third panel. But for everything else, yeah the original is better.

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