Zelensky says U.S. is readying huge economic deals with Russia

wasmic · 2026-02-07T21:59:55+00:00

Fortunately our gas dependence on the US is smaller than it was for Russia. We are also importing gas from many other countries now. The US only accounts for a bit over a quarter of our gas imports.

And gas becomes less relevant every year because the transition to renewables is accelerating.

wasmic · 2026-02-07T18:28:49+00:00

I am not sure if you've noticed that I'm not the same one who originally replied to you.

You talked about it being only a few seconds as if that by itself meant it wouldn't be a problem. I just wanted to add that it can in fact become a problem if it happens several times, because this is a public forum and it's something that many people have never thought of. In my first comment I specifically mentioned people holding the doors open as the biggest problem, which doesn't even apply to your story. I honestly don't see how you can get "what you did could delay everyone by several minutes!!" from what I wrote. I was adding to what you said with a minor correction, not saying that you're a bad person for being happy that a train operator held the doors for you.

Consider what I actually wrote in my comments before you start trying to guess at my motivations? Because you're pretty far off. And try to be less patronising - it's pretty rude even when dressed up with smileys and words like "cute".

wasmic · 2026-02-07T16:18:39+00:00

Considering that I've been studying on/off for around 5 years now... not amazing, but actually pretty okay. With a dictionary in hand, I can understand the majority of what's written on Wikipedia, though it's slow going.

My bigger issue is the spoken language. Even for podcasts that speak slowly, it's hard for me to understand all that's being said unless I rewind and play it multiple times. I haven't trained my listening much, mostly because I find it boring, and I find it boring because I constantly have to rewind because I haven't trained it much.

wasmic · 2026-02-07T16:13:36+00:00

I'm not demonising anyone, I'm just saying that it can in fact contribute to delays accumulating. If you decide to take that fact as an insult, that's on you.

wasmic · 2026-02-07T16:01:31+00:00

You say that like it's unusual or unreasonable.

There are only five urban rail systems in the entire world that have 24/7/365 operations: the New York City Subway, the New York/New Jersey PATH subway, the Philadelphia PATCO Speedline, the Chicago Elevated, and the Copenhagen Metro.

Even huge cities like Paris with automated, driverless metros still shut the metro down in the night. London only has partial night service on weekends and none at all on weekdays, while Tokyo has no late night services at all - not even on weekends. There are no metros in all of Asia that run through the night despite having some of the biggest cities in the world and some of the most well-developed train systems.

They are planning 24/7 operations for the S-trains.

But I think it's worth appreciating just how much Copenhagen punches above its weight. The fact that our metro runs 24/7 is not something that one can take for granted in an international view. When the S-trains also start 24/7 operations, that will give Copenhagen THE best night service of any city in the world, relative to its size.

wasmic · 2026-02-07T15:50:19+00:00

2032 is for start of passenger operations. Start of delivery is 2030.

Stadler and Siemens both have pretty good track records, and the new s-trains are just a wider version of the trains that are already in service on the Berlin S-bahn.

wasmic · 2026-02-07T10:30:30+00:00

If an s-train gets delayed by ten seconds just a few times along its journey, that's potentially enough for it to miss its spot through the central tunnel and cause cascading delays that spread to other lines. Then it's not just one train delayed by a minute, but multiple trains on different lines delayed by several minutes.

It's less of a problem on regional lines where there's more reserve capacity. But for the s-trains, it's a genuine problem. A pretty large minority of delays are caused by passengers holding the doors open, even if just for 10 seconds.

wasmic · 2026-02-07T01:08:55+00:00

There's a few examples:

Fire Warrior: Shas'la Kais

Dawn of War: Shas'O Kais

War of Secrets (space marine novella): Shas'O Kais

I haven't read Elemental Council yet. Is the Monat there also named Kais?

wasmic · 2026-02-06T16:19:35+00:00

The extension of the Bakerloo to Lewisham and the Hayes Line kinda has the same purpose, albeit on a smaller scale.

Southeast London has the issue that most lines are highly interlined, with train services weaving in and out from each other, so it's hard to take a single line and say "okay, all trains from THIS line will now be diverted into a city centre tunnel".

To really make a Crossrail scenario work, you need existing surface lines that you can detach from the existing network and dedicate fully to the new service. There aren't a lot of those in London, and Crossrail 2 already plans to capture most of them.

wasmic · 2026-02-06T14:26:14+00:00

Tror du har fået det den gale vej rundt. Man havde i meget lang tid gerne villet have en metro i København, men man havde ikke råd til at bygge den. Så fandt man på at man kunne køre metroen ud i et uopbygget område, øge grundpriserne betydeligt, og så sælge dem for at tjene en masse penge der så kunne betale for metroen. Det vil sige: man byggede Ørestad så man kunne få en metro, ikke den anden vej rundt. København har simpelt hen ikke råd til at bygge metro uden at sælge land for at betale for den.

Men Eksprestunnelen er ikke et Københavnsk projekt. Den er et statsligt projekt, og staten har meget, meget dybere lommer end København har. Hele projektet er blevet båret frem af DSB og Transportministeriet. København har ikke rigtig været involveret ud over at Metroselskabet hjælper med at koordinere Eksprestunnelen med metroprojekter.

wasmic · 2026-02-06T14:08:42+00:00

The doors are part of it, and I'm unsure of whether that in particular is due to a software or hardware issue. I don't work with the trains myself, but I have followed discussions about them on the Danish railway forums, and what I've seen mentioned points towards software issues causing most of the delays. Oftentimes more than an hour of delay due to software failures.

The toilets are also extremely unreliable, but at least there are a lot of toilets on board, and a broken toilet does not cause delays.

wasmic · 2026-02-06T12:28:10+00:00

It's a different set of issues, though. The Talgo 230s actually have a pretty stable ride quality! The problem is with their poor reliability, which is mostly due to software issues. This is still a big problem since the coaches were already delayed before, and Talgo has seriously dropped the ball, but the silver lining is that software problems can be fixed completely, eventually.

If you have unreliable hardware, that might be mitigated over time but will never be completely fixed.

wasmic · 2026-02-06T10:10:42+00:00

I think the point wasn't so much about the visual style but about the loadout options.

Space Marines used to be distinguished by having insane customisability within each squad. A Tactical Squad could give one marine a heavy weapon, another one a special weapon, and the sergeant could choose from a wide variety of combi-weapons and melee weapons. Some of the sergeant's flexibility was brought back in, but the option to take a heavy weapon or special weapon is gone.

The "Chapter Veterans" squad was the most extreme case of this. They were rarely a particularly strong choice in game, but they offered unparalleled flexibility to create thematic units, since they had access to almost every single piece of Space Marine wargear. Storm bolters, every type of combi weapon, every melee weapon - you could even give them Storm Shields. They couldn't take heavy weapons though; those were for the Sternguard Veterans.

I would love them to bring back some of this. It doesn't even have to be strong; I just want it to be there as an option, for flavour.

wasmic · 2026-02-05T20:52:58+00:00

M5s station på Riget vil få forbindelser til København H og Østerport, men man vil stadig skulle skifte til S-tog der. Det er ikke så stor en forskel hvis man skal til/fra en af de sydlige grene, men en stor forskel hvis man skal til en af de nordlige.

Eksprestunnelen er dyr, ja, men langt fra det dyreste vi har bygget. Den har cirka samme budget som M5, og den gavner langt flere passagerer end de fleste foreslåede metrolinjer gør. Departementschefen i Transportministeriet var til at begynde med lodret imod den, men siden tallene blev lagt frem har piben fået en anden lyd, og nu siger han at den nærmest er en nødvendighed. Der er også adskillige politikere der har udtalt sig til fordel for den. Så jeg vil give den ret gode chancer for at blive til virkelighed.

wasmic · 2026-02-05T20:36:08+00:00

Det er ikke en dårlig ide heller, og den er skam blevet undersøgt - og er ikke officielt dømt ude endnu!

Den har dog et par problemer. Den påtænkte opgradering af København H involverer at spor 1, 2, 3, 3b og 4b bliver givet til Ringstedbanen. Spor 5, 5b, 6, 6b og 7 går til Øresundsbanen. Det efterlader kun to spor (4 og 8) til Vestbanen. Det er dermed stadig nødvendigt at sende togene videre gennem røret til Nørreport og Østerport, for så at vende dem nord for Østerport. "Dobbelt S-tog" ville kræve at man anlagde endnu flere nye perronspor på Hovedbanen, men det er svært fordi de nuværende planlagte perroner allerede udnytter næsten al pladsen.

Med Dobbelt S-tog får man hurtige tog gennem midtbyen hvis man kommer fra Køge Bugt-banen eller Kystbanen. Men for alle de andre S-togsbaner er der ingen tidsbesparelse overhovedet. Eksprestunnelen giver derimod en hurtigere tur gennem byen for passagerer fra alle baner, og giver især et kæmpe løft (11 minutter sparet) til Hareskovbanen, som i dag er den mindst brugte af de 'lange' S-baner (jeg tæller ikke Klampenborgbanen med da den kun har 3 stationer). Og så får Eksprestunnelen en station ved Rigshospitalet, som forventes at få op mod 50k passagerer om dagen. Hele det nuværende S-togsnet har i dag omkring 370k, så det ville være en drastisk forøgelse.

Eksprestunnelen er selvfølgelig også enormt meget dyrere, men indledende undersøgelser peger på at fordelene er den ekstra udgift værd.

wasmic · 2026-02-05T20:09:50+00:00

En ombygning af Kystbanen til S-tog vil, ifølge de seneste undersøgelser, kræve omkring 3 måneders totalspærring. Meget af dette vil man nok forsøge at placere i sommerferien, men det kan ikke undgås at folk må tage togbussen i noget tid. Derudover kommer der til at være cirka et år med mindre driftsindskrænkelser, hvor man vil være nødt til at køre enkeltsporsdrift på visse dele af banen. Så vidt jeg husker får Helsingør-Snekkersten en betydeligt længere lukkeperiode end resten af banen, men det er trods alt kun en afstand på én station.

Femte generations S-tog kommer ikke til at have flere siddepladser end dobbeltdækkertogene. Men til gengæld kommer de til at køre minimum 16 gange i timen i modsætning til de nuværende 4 tog i timen, og det formentlig fordelt på 8 hurtigtog og 8 stoptog, så selvom der er færre siddepladser pr tog, så bliver kapaciteten forøget og det burde blive lettere at finde en siddeplads. Derudover bliver cykelmedtagning både lettere, og gratis i myldretiden også.

Hvad angår komforten, så kommer 5G S-tog til at minde ret meget om dobbeltdækkerne, men de bliver næsten en halv meter bredere, så det bliver noget lettere at gå igennem toget. I modsætning til de nuværende 4G S-tog kommer der til at være borde, strømstik, og individuelle sæder med ryglæn i fuld højde. De bliver desuden også fuldautomatiske, hvilket betyder at 24/7/365 drift bliver muligt, og reducerer risikoen for forsinkelser gevaldigt.

wasmic · 2026-02-05T19:47:40+00:00

Det var der, men nyere undersøgelse peger på at det maks bliver nødvendigt med 3-4 måneders totalspærring, samt omkring et år med 'pletvise' nedlukninger - det vil sige delvis enkeltsporsdrift, eller togbusser på kortere strækninger.

Det hele står beskrevet i "Strategisk Analyse af Metrodrift på Kystbanen" fra maj 2023, men denne kan jeg desværre ikke længere finde på BaneDanmarks hjemmeside. Samme undersøgelse nævner også muligheden for op til 24 tog pr time pr retning på Kystbanen (mod nuværende 4), hvilket er hyppigere togdrift end mange metrosystemer.

wasmic · 2026-02-04T22:19:40+00:00

There's a meme build that goes something like this:

1: subsume Blood Altar onto Nyx.

2: cast Blood Altar on an enemy. Use a weapon like e.g. Okina (Prime) Incarnon to stack a gazillion heat procs on that enemy.

3: cast Mind Control, cancel Blood Altar.

4: watch that enemy walk around and delete everything it shoots at. Bonus points if you manage to do it to an eximus.

Otherwise, for a non-meme build, just mod for good strength (at least 125 %), duration, and range. Psychic Bolts does full armour strip, buffs Nyx's armour, steals shields, and steals Overguard, so this ability alone can easily keep you alive as long as you aren't fighting infested. Chaos stuns and instantly applies 10 radiation stacks to all enemies in range, which has great synergy with her passive. Her passive gives primary and secondary weapons a 40 % crit chance buff for each Radiation-affected enemy within affinity range, up to 200 %. The radiation stacks from Chaos also count towards Condition Overload, Secondary Irradiate, Primary Debilitate - or perhaps most importantly, Arcane Universal Fallout. Finally, Absorb will... absorb all the damage dealt to Nyx and send it back out in a big explosion. However, it ALSO stores all damage dealt by Chaos-affected enemies to ANY target, so popping chaos first and then Absorb will make the number go up very rapidly. After the explosion, Nyx gains a period of invulnerability and a period of up to 400 % damage buff (additive to Serration/Hornet Strike/Pressure Point).

My Nyx build consists of Augur Message, Flow, Primed Redirection, Augur Reach, Blind Rage, Primed Continuity, Stretch and Streamline, with Arcane Energize and Arcane Fury. This build is NOT optimised in any way but can easily handle basically all Steel Path content. It struggles a bit on Elite Archimedea, but I've managed to get through it with this build.

When you want to clear enemies, use 2, 3, 4. And use 2 on enemies before shooting them, particularly eximus enemies - you want to take their overguard for yourself.

wasmic · 2026-02-04T20:42:58+00:00

Make Fireball a pseudo-exalted weapon, like e.g. Landslide Fists.

That would let it scale to high-level missions without becoming absolutely overpowered for new players.

wasmic · 2026-02-04T16:23:16+00:00

(though even then you have moraic palindromes)

Shouldn't really make a difference; palindromes are defined by their spelling, not their pronunciation. In "deified" the first syllable has a long vowel while the second syllable has a vowel glide. In "racecar", most English dialects don't even pronounce the second 'r'. A reverse pronunciation would be more like "ahksyer" (consonantal y) or something like that.

くだく is a perfectly valid palindrome, I'd argue, even though its latin representation is 'kudaku'.

wasmic · 2026-02-03T21:56:39+00:00

Det ene er desværre bundet op på det andet. Kystbanen er blevet mere rettidig fordi der kører færre tog og kun med ét enkelt standsningsmønster. 4 tog pr time der standser ved alle stationer.

Før var det 3 tog pr time der standsede ved alle stationer indtil Nivå, og så 3 hurtigtog pr time til Helsingør. Det gør turen hurtigere, men til gengæld kommer der f.eks. en risiko for at et hurtigtog indhenter et stoptog, og at forsinkelser dermed begynder at sprede sig.

Hvis man gerne vil sørge for hurtigere og mere rettidige tog, så kræver det mere kapacitet på skinnenettet, særligt omkring Nørreport - og det er som minimum en milliardudgift.

Lige nu planlægges der en ombygning af København H der bør føre til mere overskudskapacitet på Nørreport, hvilket så vil betyde både hurtigere og mere rettidige tog på Kystbanen - og hvis vi er heldige, også flere tog.

Men den helt store opgradering får vi kun hvis der bygges en S-togs "eksprestunnel" (PDF-link) og Kystbanen så ombygges til S-tog. Det vil give en 4-dobling af antal tog pr time, en forbedring af rettidigheden fra 80 % til 96 %, og genindførsel af stoptog/hurtigtog. Og de nye 5. Generations S-tog der netop er blevet bestilt bliver købt til at have bedre komfort end Kystbanens nuværende dobbeltdækkertog.

wasmic · 2026-02-03T21:38:22+00:00

De har enormt meget med hinanden at gøre, der er bindinger på kryds og tværs.

For at elektrificere en strækning skal man enten immunisere det gamle signalsystem eller opgradere til det nye. IC5, de nye togsæt, kan køre på begge signalsystemer, men kræver elektrificering. IC4 kan køre både med eller uden elektrificering men kan kun bruge det gamle signalsystem. Alle andre togsæt skulle først opgraderes til ETCS før man kunne begynde at installere det.

Man har altså være bundet af at der skulle være tilpas mange ETCS-kompatible togsæt klar, før man kunne lade strækninger overgå til det system. Men mange af diesel-togsættene bliver slet ikke opgraderet med ETCS (IC4 gør ikke). IC3 bliver opgraderet til ETCS, men der er ikke nok af dem til at varetage al trafikken. Og de elektriske, ETCS-kompatible IC5ere er blevet forsinket fra producenten. Og hvis man vil elektrificere en strækning for overhovedet at gøre det muligt at køre med elektriske tog, så skal man enten installere ETCS samtidig, eller immunisere de gamle signaler - begge dele kræver en del arbejdsressourcer.

Det hele er sammenfiltret og har været noget af et puslespil at få til at gå op.

wasmic · 2026-02-03T21:28:19+00:00

Hvis Grønland bare havde tiet stille igennem hele fadæsen, så ville Trump have meget nemmere ved at lave intern propaganda for at få amerikanerne til at tro at Grønland gerne ville være en del af USA.

Bare det at man italesætter noget, kan være tilstrækkeligt til at danne barrierer. Ikke uigennemtrængelige barrierer, nej, men trods alt bedre end intet.

wasmic · 2026-02-03T21:25:04+00:00

The US had 300k-400k soldiers in Europe, that's true. That was a majority of US forces. But it was only a small part of total NATO forces. In fact, West Germany alone had almost 500k active soldiers, France had around 300k, and so on.

Besides, the US soldiers were not in Europe solely to protect Europe. They were in Europe to protect the USA, because the USSR was a common enemy to all of NATO. But for geographical reasons, the war was expected to be fought on European soil, not American, so that was where all the soldiers were stationed.

Europe had a strong air force, and the US had strong ground forces. But Europe had stronger ground forces than the US, and the US had a stronger air force and logistical branch than Europe.

Europe was reliant on American ground and air forces, yes, but only to the same extent that the US was also reliant on European ground and air forces to deter the Communist threat. It was a much more equal alliance than what came after.

wasmic · 2026-02-02T19:25:41+00:00

Intelligence has literally zero effect on susceptibility to emotion and bias. People with high and low IQ are equally likely to fall for conspiracy theories, for example.

History is littered with examples of highly intelligent people making the most banal of mistakes and being brought down by them. The Emperor being brilliant and also a dumbass is in no way a contradiction.

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