I’ve watched all of season one, and part of season two. A very recommendable thing to watch indeed, also partially because it shows very well what kind of place Ukraine is in the eyes of Ukrainians!

Nah. I am a Finn. I do hear Ukrainian almost daily in my life, but my own roots are elsewhere.

ugh, Putin’s mouthpiece– I was wondering when you’d show up.

I would say that esc is most likely being sincere here, and on Ukraine’s side and against putin.

It is a known problem in ZSU that many of the high-ranking officers were trained before year 2014. Before year 2014 the military in Ukraine was trained just the same was as it still is trained in Belarus and in the Russia. The further towards the very top your officers are trained post-2014, the better it is for you. But if you are in a unit where all the officers all the way to the top are pre-2014-trained, then yes, the only thing they can do is to rotate the handle of the meatgrinder. That’s why the Russia is not able to win the war.

But, changing the highest officers in middle of an actual war would cause such a chaos, that only more soldiers’ lives and only more territory would be lost in the chaos during the transition from old officers to new, too inexperienced, ones. They are doing that change, but because of the war, that change is horrendously slow.
There really isn’t much anything else that can be done than live with some units using the unnecessary meatgrinder-y pre-2014 tactics.

If esc is in one of those units where the leadership is merrily using him as a feed for a meat grinder, then yes, I can see why his motivation is not the highest. But even there: A meat-ground unit is doing more to defend Ukraine than not having any unit at all would. It is useful and important that also those units are manned! Esc-am slava for that! Maybe his units is not managed well enough to actually gain any new ground, but it’s keeping the orcs distracted from elsewhere, where better-managed troops are making progress.

So, homes, please be kind to esc. A soldier in one of the most exceptionally mismanaged units in the whole of ZSU is understandably disgruntled. Let’s be happy that he has the unimaginable willpower it takes to not flee under such conditions. He is needed and he is important. They are maybe using only 10% of his capability, but with the capability he has, even those 10% are a LOT!

Eventually the Russia will leave all of Ukraine, including Crimea. That will happen once their logistics are destroyed using long-range sanctions. The military action is only a small-ish part in the whole victory, but it is one without which the victory would be impossible. There is no way for the Russia to avoid having to eventually leave Ukraine, because the Russia will eventually crumble from within. In 2022 it was said that it will happen late 2025. That turned out to be an optimistic assumption, but it looks like 2026 is really the year where either there will be a conclusive victory, or we will at least be in a situation where the victory is already unambiguous, but the enemy will still fight until the last centimetre, just like their spiritual predecessors mindlessly did until May the 8th, 1945.

SLAVA UKRAJINI!

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I also figured out later that offline maps you can download on your phone beforehand and use even without Internet don’t help a shit if you haven’t happened to download them before the Internet we t down.

“The Internet is down, therefore I will download offline maps” isn’t the breakthrough idea I first assumed.

WWWWHY printed maps? They have their Russian-made Maps.me, which has offline-maps. And its equally Russian-made (but without the influence of the Kremlin ally corporation “Mail.ru”) fork, Organic maps.

And if they don’t like the Russian influence, they can use CoMaps.
When you have offline maps in your phone, what’s the problem with that?

I’m wondering why Musk elected to do this now. Most likely has to do with the Epstein files.

But, there are two different ways that may have had an effect. They both may have played a role, but not necessarily:

• Maybe Putin no longer has material for pressuring Musk when the cat is already out of the box anyway. If Musk wanted to support Ukraine, now it can.
• Musk must be furious at Trump for having been selected as one of the people to throw under the bus by choosing Musk as one of the people whose mentions should be published. If this is just it throwing a tantrum, there’s a sadly high chance that the Russia will regain its Starlink access once the assumed tantrum is over.

I would recommend exporting your settings just in case. I was using an instance that kind of vanished for a week and then returned, but with my user account completely gone 😱

It’s nice that you can just import your settings from a file on your own hard drive and continue from basically where you left.

In a way yes, because this post is in a community running on a Lemmy instance. But at the same time: The user was did not use Lemmy to write the Lemmy trashing :)

(And Lemmy is good. It’s just, PieFed is so much better!)

Basically the context is this: !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

PieFed has more features and can do everything Lemmy can. There are many things you can do in Reddit but not on Lemmy, but most of those are possible on PieFed.

A user migrating to PieFed is more likely to stay than a user migrating to Lemmy, because they won’t have a feeling that there are familiar features lacking. You don’t have flairs, multireddits (a.k.a. feeds), polls, events, personal notes on users, or notifications on new posts/comments on Lemmy, but on PieFed you do.

PieFed is a different software. Lemmy is written in Rust and has a certain set of features.

PieFed is a newer project, written from scratch in Python, by completely different people. It includes Lemmy’s features and shows the same posts as Lemmy, but has additional features such as polls, events, feeds (which are the same thing as multireddits on Reddit), emoji reactions, flairs, notifications for new comments coming for some specific post or new posts coming in some specific community, messaging with Mastodon users, and some other stuff that fails to come to my mind right now :)

There are several PieFed instances: https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list

They include components that haven’t been produced since 1990’s. They will have to re-think large parts of the missile if they want to produce more than just a handful of new ones. There aren’t endless amounts of 30-year-old devices laying around to use.

There have been Finnish politicians joining Mastodon in in the last few weeks.

How would “more wars” solve this, in your opinion?

Agricultural exports are a very important part of Ukraine’s economy. The climate change will reduce our planet’s food output very much even in a relatively short term. Whether Ukraine can fully use its best agricultural land or not, makes an extremely important difference in the coming decades.

Almost half of all black soil on this planet is located in Ukraine. And by far the most fertile soil in Ukraine is… Here, where the colour is at its darkest:

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There has been talk of them changing the engine for a European one. Even the engine they would use has been mentioned. Though, I cannot remember which one it is!

if you are a russian soldier and you aren’t an idiot

Isn’t this is a bit like “if you are a person writing in the Fediverse and you don’t have lungs”?

Which of these have military presence by the Russia? Most?

That presence is in the process of disappearing, which will mean action for all those countries…