Interesting, I learnt something new today.
Seems delightfully medieval as a solution. What does the Kevlar do? Mostly anti-spalling?
Interesting, I learnt something new today.
Seems delightfully medieval as a solution. What does the Kevlar do? Mostly anti-spalling?
Maybe I just don’t know how bulletproof vests work, but shouldn’t there be some layers of energy dispersing material on top of that plate?
Is it a fair comparison without?
Dozens!
That’s almost an hour of soldiers at the current casualty rate
What is this thread but people yelling at clouds?
Board games have been nearly ruined by kickstarter.
Instead of buying a well reviewed and recommended game from a store, you have to back a hyped up sales pitch, and then wait 4 months for delivery, if the producers don’t just bail with your money or go “oops, we couldn’t finish what we promised, and we already spent all your money…”.
And if you don’t back it to later read the reviews, the game is out of print and still waiting for the first wave of deliveries, meaning a second print is still at least a year off.
Also, the ratings are heavily skewed by people rating on the hype or early/review copies, meaning the rankings are heavily amazonified.
EtA: Also games are heavily bloated with social media candy: heavy and fragile minis, box stands, blingy crap periferals (branded dice holding toucan) and still needing organisers, player aids and mods from third parties who’ve gotten review copies to make said supplements…
Oh, and the stretch goal extras (get another 150 vanity minis/3D printed scoring tokens) for only $150 and an 18 month wait!
At least once you can
Damm shame, and it was so flammable too!
Alternate plan (as it would be a shame to waste a dam): Keep the dam, flood the Baltic sea until Kaliningrad is under water?
Estimate a week ago was that a counteroffensive can come next spring earliest. Might just be information warfare, but Ukraine is currently on the back foot.
The Chinese rank 60th in happiness, which is ahead of Greece, Russia, Turkey, India and other market economies.
There are other ways to care for your population than making them compete for basic necessities. It’s unfair to judge by your own lens.
But then again, this is probably much too much nuance for this thread.
I use Newpipe, it’s not as good as Vanced, but better than reVanced. And good enough that I recoil in horror at the stock app.
It already has?
But price increases of cereals ( bread, pasta, grains, etc.) increased by about 7,5 % last year alone, which is more than the inflation, and more than the increase after inflation.
That’s where people might complain. They still can’t afford food, as food prices increase faster than overall inflation
I appreciate a data supported argument, and love that you actually linked sources.
One thing that I feel is missing in most of the linked analyses is that inflation has also hit unevenly, and the price of basic goods has increased significantly more than overall inflation. Which would explain why households still have less disposable income, also the mean debt burden is much higher leading to loan costs being more common.
Or brought up by a neurodivergent parent, or sibling, or have an ND partner
If only there was some way to leave traces and/or study left traces. Would definitely cut down on all the time travel pollution
What a well reasoned and well described set of posts. You are a credit to our community!
For programming, you should probably be able to copy that project design.
If you want to make it difficult for yourself, you pick a user or use case to optimise for.
Maybe you make it a wargaming centered booking and matching site (for ladders and weekly games type tournaments)?
Maybe you make it conference centre based, giving appropriately sized suggestions and showcase the rooms?
Maybe you make it for yourself and add schedule sync, or notifications, or whatever you’ve always been missing from your calendar app.
Have you seen the numbers? Could you link them?
The only thing I’ve been able to find is 2,2 million “encounters” in a high year, over the whole country.
Germany takes in a million immigrants per year by itself, and has at least a handful of encounters per immigrant to process them. Also has a bunch of encounters with illegal immigrants.
Germany is smaller than Texas.
That’s probably exactly what I was thinking of.
I mostly see them in US media, and they always seem so thick. But then again, the Russian vest doesn’t, so I guess they’re for different uses.