Tuukka R

Back when it sank, it was said that it was carrying cranes needed at the Vladivostok port for expanding the Russia’s ability to export over the sea to southeastern Asia.

Might have been true as well, but it’s interesting that this kind of important piece of information managed to go missing for so long because it looked like there was already an answer to why the ship was on the way. And also, to why it was sunk.

Here’s PieFed’s “Donate” page: https://piefed.europe.pub/donate

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:

• 7] Ukraine would get a definite date of EU accession – apparently regardless of whether it fulfills the criteria or not
• 13] The Russia would never agree to implement educational programmes in schools and across society as a whole that promote understanding and tolerance of different cultures. Especially eliminating racism is diametrically opposed to the base values the Russian government has been emphasizing in the school curriculum. If that was done, people in the Russia would notice what lies they had been fed until the yesr of signing the agreement and would be sure to revolt.
• 17.2] Returning all detained children would be a tough thing to do because the “new parents” were promised by the Kremlin liars that they’d have the children forever. As their own. (As their own slaves…)

(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.

What does “walking away from Ukraine” even mean?

USA is not supporting Ukraine in any manner.
If a weapon bought by some other country is going to be donated to Ukraine, USA adds a 10% punishment fee to the price of the weapon. I don’t think this will end if USA “walks away from Ukraine”.

The only thing USA walking away would mean would be it no longer trying to pressure Ukraine into capitulating to the Russia.
So… Maybe we should help Trump see us as weak? Walk away, dude, just walk away. Good riddance.

I wonder why this is considered surprising. If a country considers it acceptable to use a name of a unit of 1940’s Nazi Germany as a name for its contemporary unit, why is it a surprise that the country does stuff typical to Nazis?

The Russia is what it is.

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:

• Intentional ejection
• Technical defect

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!