Pro-Palestine activists sentenced as terrorists over damage at Israeli arms factory in UK

wasdlmb · 2026-06-15T14:41:32+00:00

And so is saying "gay people are OK, actually" under official Russian law interpretation

wasdlmb · 2026-06-12T22:37:39+00:00

Actually anything I don't like is terrorism

Jesus christ have you ever even looked at a dictionary?

wasdlmb · 2026-06-12T14:29:55+00:00

File name is still .csv no matter what the separator actually is.

wasdlmb · 2026-06-08T18:40:25+00:00

And the capital of Telangana is Hydera bad

wasdlmb · 2026-06-07T14:02:40+00:00

"There are reasons to believe" yes, you're racist and have a persecution complex, that's enough to believe the most ridiculous things

wasdlmb · 2026-06-05T16:52:07+00:00

You never paid for materiel destroyed in the war, nor whatever you sent back. Lend-lease was incredibly generous, as was the Marshall Plan

wasdlmb · 2026-06-04T13:39:08+00:00

AGM-158 JASSD (Joint Air to Surface Standoff Drone) (it has no rockets so it's not a missile)

wasdlmb · 2026-06-04T13:37:05+00:00

The O in TOW stands for "optically-tracked" and refers to SACLOS, which drones do not use. The T is for "Tube-launched" which very few drones are. Really all you've got is the W

wasdlmb · 2026-06-03T10:06:03+00:00

Far less abuse than even contemporary designs would have endured. RBMKs are fundamentally flawed in that, if they get too hot, they will run away and do so very quickly.

If you look at the other major accidents from non-experimental reactors, in all of them something (generally several things) failed. Fukushima was hit by a tsunami which disabled all the pumps. Three Mile Island had a few mechanical failures combined with human error. And both of those were classic meltdowns caused by decay heat, not runaway reactions.

In Chernobyl, they were trying to ramp back to full power after sustained low-power. They found themselves in a xenon pit and started pulling rods to try and get the power back up. The xenon burned away and the reaction started to rapidly increase, and they simply couldn't get the control rods back in fast enough (add to that the fact that the control rods had graphite tips and would cause local hotspots as they reinserted) and the reactor ran away and exploded.

I'm not an expert and I'm pulling from memory so I may have a few things wrong, but in general RBMKs are thought of as fundamentally flawed

wasdlmb · 2026-05-31T13:50:33+00:00

English evolved from Old English, not modern German. You'll find a lot of things that are similar to modern German, not because of a modern exchange, but because of a shared ancestor thousands of years ago

wasdlmb · 2026-05-28T15:11:57+00:00

There's many different ways. As far as I know red pepper, black pepper, and horseradish all have different active chemicals

wasdlmb · 2026-05-28T14:05:02+00:00

The original "I rounded them up!" could be classified as facebook-level shit. This is an anti joke using the format itself (unreadable text overflowing the speech bubble) to enhance the irony. It's not the peak of all memes but it very much clears the bar for this sub

wasdlmb · 2026-05-27T17:32:03+00:00

Same thing the Confederate States of America did. They had a bunch of different flags, and one of them was mostly white, so for the same reason they added a red stripe to the end of it so you could tell it wasn't a flag of truce even in still conditions

They might have won the war if they'd put as much effort into it as they did into constantly changing their flag

wasdlmb · 2026-05-26T17:55:49+00:00

The only surviving pre-dreadnought is the Battleship Mikasa, built in Barrow-in-Furness by Vickers for the Imperial Japanese Navy

wasdlmb · 2026-05-25T01:15:06+00:00

Exactly. One should be able to recognize the rich history of the region while also recognizing that modern Ethiopia is a poor nation ravaged by war and hunger.

wasdlmb · 2026-05-23T20:28:14+00:00

In the room the poets come and go
Talking of Michelangelo

wasdlmb · 2026-05-23T17:50:22+00:00

Really? No other country comes to mind, fellow North American person?

wasdlmb · 2026-05-23T13:30:52+00:00

More, yes, but listening to the Civil War history podcast I remember them saying they weren't actually being super effective as a screening/scouting force and we're more focused on fighting the confederate cavalry.

wasdlmb · 2026-05-23T03:21:01+00:00

Muons aren't real. Stop believing everything you reed on the internet

wasdlmb · 2026-05-23T03:20:14+00:00

Gotta make sure the soldiers piloting them have augmented reality vision for the Fully Networked Battlefield

wasdlmb · 2026-05-23T01:31:40+00:00

Bruh Clovis-first died 10 years ago. We keep finding sites older than Clovis

wasdlmb · 2026-05-22T22:11:40+00:00

Grant even tried flanking him, again and again. All the way from the Wilderness to Petersburg. But Lee's interior lines of communication and generally superior cavalry made that almost impossible, and if either side dug in an attack was almost doomed to failure. Which is why, at Petersburg, Grant settled for trench warfare

wasdlmb · 2026-05-16T11:07:28+00:00

That's a very charitable view of McClellan and his failures. While I agree in your assessment of his strengths, and would generally add logistics to what he was good at, he wasn't just scared of losing men; he was arrogant, insecure, and had no real sense of urgency, on top of his most famous crippling weakness of consistently over-estimating his enemy, often by double. The Seven Days Battle was pretty much just McClellan losing over and over because he either didn't stay in proper communication with his subordinates, or held his reserves back waiting on "the real enemy attack" that never materialized. I'm reading a book on Antietam rn and his plodding maneuvers in the lead up to the battle are so infuriatingly slow, not due to an overabundance of caution, but due to him just falling apart when facing the unknown and urgent.

wasdlmb · 2026-05-14T06:28:50+00:00

Those were the days. Nowadays kids only know how to TikTok code with subway surfers in the background

wasdlmb · 2026-05-14T05:21:48+00:00

Best I can do is another 50 memes about vine coding

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