A human being from a Finland.
I’d like to clarify here that Voyager can do with PieFed everything it can do with Lemmy. But PieFed has a lot more features than Lemmy does, and of those extra features, Voyager supports none. But that only means that the PieFed experience on Voyager is precisely the same as the Lemmy experience on Voyager!
PieFed and mBin exist. Both do everything Lemmy does, and a bit more. They use less resources as well. What reason would there be for forking Lemmy? The only reason Lemmy is the most popular one among these is that it was the first one. Since then, better things have surfaced.
PieFed is essentially what OP means. It exists, it does everything Lemmy does, and a bit more. And it does it faster, both for the user and for server resources.
Then probably something else will be funded in the same amount. That will be either PieFed or mBin.
This agreement has been coördinated with USA and i therefore not merely a suggestion by one side of the war.
There are many parts on it that are known to make it impossible for the Russia to accept the agreement, and there are points that the Russia will abuse if it ever signs this agreement.
Things that tell that the Russia is not expected to accept this:
(Furthermore, a Finnish translation talked about both sides ensuring their armies will filly respect the gemeva conventions. This would mean completely retraining all of the Russia’s military, also making it clear to them that what they had previously been explicitly trained consists mostly of war crimes. How.would that show in their support to Kremlin? Heh. But, I cannot see that part anywhere in other sources, and the Finnish article said their text had been translated by an “AI” (and then “proof-read by a reporter” meaning that maybe this part was just hallucinated by the bot.))
PieFed has this out of the box. You click a link at your home instance once on the browser you use. After that, you can get from any post on an unknown instance to yours by adding a few letters in the front of the URL on that browser.
Would be an interesting way for Ukraine to become a nuclear power again.
If they can fly with such a noisy thing, they can also be rescued using land-based vehicles. If you are evacuated in a device like this, you will absolutely get shot in the process. Or a faster FPV drone will catch this one, with the person having nowhere to escape.
Much easier to hit an aerial target of this size than one obscured by scenery.
Would you happen to know which Russian bomber planes have more than just one person in the crew?
Today I read that it happened in an underground shelter. So, the ceiling most likely remained largely intact, simply getting repainted with an interesting black fade radiating from an artistic round-ish dark red smudge.
“Blyaaaaaaaa-splort!” 🍝
In the video they say that only one of the two pilots were ejected back then in 1975, so at least in those days a Su-24 would not eject both seats with one ejection command. This one did, so it probably was not a Su-24.
The video also mentions that this happened because the other joystick was made shorter than usual. Therefore, it might indeed have been a weird technical defect, but I don’t think we have a good reason to assume it was the same as shown on this video, as the result was slightly different.
So… Apparently the ejection system works so that if either person in the plane activates it, both seats are ejected, some seconds apart from each other.
The interesting thing here is: What has actually happened?
As far as I can understand, there are two main options:
And both of those sound like awesome things!
If it was intentional, then it basically has been a case of someone not wanting to bomb Ukraine but also knowing they cannot defect, and considering the other orc in the plane to be so full of shit that the world is better without him. That would be a sign of a trend that will wreak havoc from within the Russian armed forces.
I would say that a pilot is not going to activate the ejection through incompetence. Not even a Russian pilot, as little trained as they are in comparison to other countries’ pilots.
And if it wasn’t intentional but a technical defect instead… Well, that would then mean that the Russian planes are so worn out from overuse that this kind of technical defects start taking place. That’s a good way of reducing the amount of pilots directly and also reducing the motivation to both stay as a pilot and to enter a training in order to become a pilot. Remember, planes as much easier to replace than competent pilots!
The other kids will be very unlikely to ever find out.
European countries have just given Ukraine the go ahead to blow up the pipelines going towards Hungary. Well as long as the explosions happen in Russia.
The thing is, Ukraine is contractually obliged to the western countries to deliver any oil the Russia sends through the transit pipes. It’s also responsible for making sure the pipes within Ukraine’s territory remain in good condition.
But, it’s not in any way responsible for the Russian pipe network, only for its own. It’s the Russia’s responsibility to keep its oil pipe network in good shape, and it’s the Russia’s and only the Russia’s problem if the pipes within its get damaged in some war. Ukraine has all the right to bomb the shit out of those pipes in the Russia, because Ukraine has never signed any contract with any EU countries that says otherwise. And if the pipes don’t work in the Russia, then the Russia is breach of its contractual obligations with the EU countries and must pay compensation, even if the pipes were blown by Ukraine.
Ukraine is not allowed to do any harm to the pipes in its own territory but it is allowed to do harm to the same pipes on territories outside Ukraine.
That system with these contracts is absolute intellectual madness.
It’s a pity they missed the motorbike!
You will lose your bet 🙂
And end to this war will unleash an absolute carnage in the Russia. Soviet Union collapsed largely because 70000 soldiers trained to the Soviet way of war, which consists 60% of raping and torturing human beings, returned to civilian life. They were impossible to rule and they were violent. Then, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, those 70 000 led to violence of 1990’s and the rise of an exceptionally violent kind of a mafia.
Now there are not 70 000 returning from the front but ten times that, 700 000. Plus, the Russia has half the population of what Soviet Union had. The 1990’s will be a sunny day at a beach compared to what’s coming up. And that will come up even if the Russia is victorious.
The Russia can maybe survive that if they get a very big and unambiguous victory. Then the population will be so happy about what their nation gained that they will be less unhappy about being raped (and maimed in the action).
Atop that, in Afghanistan not all that many Russian soldiers actually died or got maimed. In this war there are several hundred thousand dead orcs. And twice that many Russian cripples.
Imagine yourself as a 27-year-old woman being violently raped by a Russian veteran of the war in Ukraine, after your dear husband got killed in the same war, without your country having gained anything really useful. You will feel all the horror of what’s going on in that horrible moment, but while hoping for the situation to end soon and you maybe staying alive, you are are also very aware that this is happening to you because of Kremlin. There will be hundred thousand cases of this situation happening. Some victims will not be 27 but 63, or 14, but the story will be the same and it will repeat everywhere, and it will repeat often. To same women, by varying “men”, even. How willing will you be to do your part in holding up the Russian unity? Nobody will feel a need to be a part of the Russia.
So, if the Russia does not win big time and unambiguously (and maybe even in their beat case scenario…), there will be such a maddening amount of instability that we cannot imagine it. The Russia is much better off destroying its economy by staying in a war they know they will lose than quitting it, because each year the carnage is pushed further into the future is one year without that upcoming horror.
As long as the war continues, the Russian Federation will remain in one piece. After that, it gets impossible to rule over the various colonised regions. If the Russia gets every square centimetre it currently occupies and gets that recognised as Russian territory, that will not be enough of a victory to salvage its future. It will be destroyed by powers from within. That means, it will have de facto lost.
And it will not accept that.
Well… BRD considered DDR an illegal occupation whose decisions never took place. For example in the ID cards people born in Karl-Marx-Stadt suddenly said they are born in Chemnitz, because the reunified Germany considered that the city had never legally changed its name.
So, if we take that interpretation, then the 1972 should not be mentioned at all, because it was not done by a legitimate state apparatus but was more like a wild murder instead. This, if we take the BRD view to the situation. This has the nice effect of censoring a bad deed DDR did.
We could of course also claim that the last execution in BRD took place in 1972. But, ehm… Does that really make more sense than just letting all reunified countries be shown in their pre-reunification form so that the deeds of murderous regimes won’t get whitewashed?
Good to see what the everyday life around the trenches looks like.
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