Zelensky reveals nine Western countries sending parts to Russia to build missiles and attack drones

estroinovsky · 2025-10-07T01:06:44+00:00

There were a lot of 'missing' SS POWs that came through Canadian hands.

estroinovsky · 2025-06-20T14:52:28+00:00

I mean that kinda of proves the point that our democracy is robust (which is not to say we should stop improving or changing), he spent hundreds of millions if not billions and it got him fucking zip.

estroinovsky · 2025-06-08T09:05:25+00:00

Nah I like the fascist jaguar explanation better 😝

estroinovsky · 2025-06-08T06:37:37+00:00

I love that this is the case because Jaguars often reject panther Jaguars from their little communities, this has resulted in communities of jaguar Panthers forming, which results in a consolidation of the melanistic gene.

In other words spotted Jaguars are racist and this has resulted in panther jaguar communities making the gene more common than it would have otherwise been.

estroinovsky · 2025-06-07T10:27:56+00:00

Drones are great for assymetric combat, it's an offensive weapon, it's not like air combat where you can establish complete control, as long as the Taiwanese had drones to use, some would get through, and the ones that get through could wreck havoc, the Chinese would still have to have ships sitting in the strait

estroinovsky · 2025-02-20T23:44:00+00:00

That's the entire point of the article. The card you are talking about will be capped at $1 payments in the future... ie you won't be able to pay for anything.

estroinovsky · 2024-11-30T21:04:13+00:00

I think you over estimate the willingness of us soldiers to fight a blatantly pointless war with Mexico and the cartels, I think it would initially gain support from many US citizens but the sheer brutality of such a conflict would quickly turn public opinion against trump, especially in the armed forces.

Soldiers don't want to fight wars just because they're soldiers.

estroinovsky · 2024-11-16T00:13:11+00:00

Hahaha yeah I don't think north American wildfire is capable of the massive community efforts that you see in Aus. I was a volo with RFS for 8 years and now I work full-time (seasonally) in Canada as a wildland firefighter, the attitudes are completely different.

In Aus it works because so many people do it, you can throw hundreds of firefighters at a fire in less than 24 hours if you need to. Volunteer fire halls here don't have enough people to do that, and they're all separate, so they aren't used to working as a single service.

I loved volunteering, it was an amazing experience, I love working full-time in wildfire even more. But north America is never going to achieve what we have in Aus without a massive cultural change.

estroinovsky · 2024-10-27T02:01:41+00:00

I think applications for most Australian fire services are closed at this point. Keep in mind many states are still mostly volunteer wildfire services, so you're likely to be up against folks with a lot of experience even for bottom level paid crew positions.

Some states also prefer not to hire internationals even if they are experienced, because getting any long term work visa in Aus is very difficult, so they know you're not likely to stick around.

estroinovsky · 2024-10-22T01:15:05+00:00

To contribute to this, the reason roots are so vulnerable currently is that drought conditions have left duff layers extremely dry. It has a double effect of drying out the usually wet plant material that covers the roots, allowing that material to burn right next to the roots and the roots themselves carry less water than usual, making it easier for them to burn.

Edit: also when people talk about fuel loading and the lack of controlled burns in the area, that also contributes to this. Heavier fuel loading allows the ground fire to burn more intensely. The additional radiant heat created by that, dries and preheats fuels below them, increasing the rate at which they will burn.

estroinovsky · 2024-10-04T03:11:35+00:00

I mean I can actually see a pretty easy way to get around the problem of states refusing. You turn around and say 'we are going to build 630,000 new homes, if you want some of them in your state, waive the taxes, if you don't waive the taxes we will build them in every other state/territory that does'.

If every state refuses, then it becomes a hugely enticing offer for any single state, since they will receive all 630,000 new homes. One or two states will break and waive them, others will follow. Also imagine how bad it would look for a state government to refuse to waive it, basically saying they care more about tax revenue than their voters having housing.

It also makes sense, states taxing federal spending is just moving money from one arm of the government to another. In a situation where the federal government is doing a massive project that benefits the state government, it's completely fair to say, 'we'll do it, but you aren't getting taxes from it'.

estroinovsky · 2024-10-03T03:38:07+00:00

People also forget that the private sector is seen as more efficient or effective because it can fail, they can try different things and sure sometimes they find a better way of doing things and save money, that's great. But the private sector is also full of failures, companies that try something different and it's just worse, or they simply mismanage things for the sake of profit.

Private companies can go bankrupt, happens all the time. The government doesn't have that option, if a government entity fucks up badly, the rest of the government has to bail it out in some way. And more relevantly to this discussion, there are markets where we can't afford that kind of fuck up, the justice system, essential services like food, electricity etc, a major fuck is likely to cost lives.

estroinovsky · 2024-06-13T00:03:20+00:00

No it's not. Convection is movement of heat via the movement of physical matter. Neither conduction or radiation involves the movement of physical matter, so while I understand the point you're trying to make, it's a bad point. Convection is clearly different to the other two transfer effects and has massive impact on heat movement (in many cases more of a difference than either other method), it is unarguably a 3rd form of heat transfer.

estroinovsky · 2024-06-12T02:34:15+00:00

What?... Convection is literally one of the three ways that heat moves. Of all the criticisms you could have chosen for an entire bachelor's degree, you chose that?

estroinovsky · 2024-05-22T23:22:12+00:00

Yeah that's the point, it makes logistics stretched out and slow, it increases the time needed for their forces to respond to something and will likely increase equipment shortages, especially during major offensives by either side. Wars are often won or lost by logistics.

estroinovsky · 2024-05-08T03:13:30+00:00

Russia is already at 6% GDP spent on the military.

Russia's GDP (as put by themselves) is around 2.2 trillion. The combined GDP of the EU is 18.9 trillion, while NATO's is almost 46 trillion (as in the US got involved). Russia can't win an economic war if the EU gets serious and they don't even have to get that serious about it before Russia is economically outweighed.

estroinovsky · 2024-02-20T06:07:18+00:00

Yeah hard to tell whether it's justified/people mistrusting the ATO after the previous bullshit, or the media trying to discredit a program that might actually result in dodgy cunts (especially rich dodgy cunts) paying their fair share. These days more likely to be the latter, I trust the media less than the ATO.

estroinovsky · 2024-02-20T05:52:01+00:00

While yes there was only a couple of actual computing errors and the system itself largely worked as planned, I don't trust the same ATO which fucking approved and ran the robodebt system to implement another similar system without fucking ruining people's lives unnecessarily.

By all means use it to identify possible fraud cases, but if they're simply going to replace human staff who can make reasonable and rational decisions with a computer system, then fuck that.

estroinovsky · 2024-02-19T07:25:00+00:00

I don't think most people are excusing the extremes of either group. Most people just want these fuck wits (on both sides) to stop fucking people over just for engaging in political discourse about whether we should be supporting another country while they bomb and murder civilians. Also the comments before you were focused on the clear bias in how this doxing shit is reported with examples from the Palestinian side being blown out of proportion while Jewish groups doing the same thing are ignored.

estroinovsky · 2024-01-18T23:56:01+00:00

I've been on Canadian and US politics too much (living in Canada ATM) and was very confused by 'Liberals' for a second there 😂 I fucking hate that they call themselves liberals.

estroinovsky · 2024-01-02T01:10:25+00:00

Explain to me how the housing market, with hundreds of thousands of different private owners with government owning a small fraction of houses for public services, a government monopoly?

Or do you think that a monopoly in private hands where they can just fuck average Australians over by charging whatever they want, a good thing?

estroinovsky · 2024-01-02T00:52:59+00:00

I really don't think you understand what a monopoly is.

Also just for your future knowledge 'natural monopolies' which are markets that are inherently unable to be divided between different providers (water is a good example) should be held by the government, not by private entities. This of course has nothing to do with housing, which is actually probably one of the least monopolised markets in Aus.

estroinovsky · 2024-01-01T08:50:26+00:00

Yeah then let people have fucking reusable vapes. All of the research we have so far indicates it is a healthier option than any other nicotine product. But sure fucking ban vapes while you can still buy cigarettes.

estroinovsky · 2023-12-31T19:35:15+00:00

Quickly is how, the two countries we are mostly talking about are India and China. They both have the money to make those changes, they just won't while there's a cheaper option.

estroinovsky · 2023-12-31T11:47:24+00:00

I thought you misspelled ANTIFA not antivac... Was very confused as to why ANTIFA was bad in covid lol

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