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Gotta fill Bluffdale somehow, right?

> That piece of technological advance has gone mostly under the radar (!) so far

The Ukraine would like to have a word.


FYI, "The Ukraine" is politically charged wording held over from Soviet times, and implies that it is part of Russia. The independent country is known simply as "Ukraine".

There are plenty of languages with gendered country names. Ukraine is die Ukraine (feminine gender) in German and the article is necessary since changing the article changes the meaning of what you're expressing. Whenever I see/hear "the Ukraine" I assume English is their second language.

Yes, my bad, I am not an english native, thanks for the reminder.

How do you explain "back in the USSR"?

For the same reason as "The UK" or "The USA" - all of them are acronyms starting "The Union of ..." or "The United ...".

Similarly you say "The commonwealth of Massachusetts" but not "The Massachusetts".

This does not apply to Ukraine, unless you want to say "The Republic of Ukraine".


You don't know how lucky you are, boy...

... or "Born in the USA"

It’s Ukraine, no “the”.

In many languages the article is necessary. I assume English is their second language.

Yes but as one of the other commenters pointed out, its a charged term when it comes to Ukraine so its worth mentioning to people that use it accidentally.

The drones that are mainly used there are the flying kind.

"Mainly" but they've been assaulting Russian boats and ships with USVs and submersibles.

For example - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Baby#Sub_Sea_Baby


Ukraine completely locked up the Russian fleet inside its bases with the underwater drones.

Underwater drones, not drones in general.

Ukraine has been sinking Russian warships in their harbor using underwater drones for at least a year now.

Have you checked your hearing?

A friend of mine has tinnitus and found out he has bad hearing. Hearing aids fixed zmthe tinnitus.

Another friend has the same, but no aids yet.


It's weekend.

If we just could stop burning that oil, that would be great.

Companies are setting up constantly running gas turbines for powering AI datacenters - insanity.

Billionaires just ignore any laws in place to stop it. Fines don't affect them.

What are the self defence drones against Shaheds at this time? I thought Ukraine was shooting them down with F16s, Gepards and from helicopters.

They have a new interceptor that looks like a big bullet with a set of props on the back end.

This article has a representative image: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-qatar-discuss-acquiri...

You can find videos of their use too


There's different models from several suppliers as well: https://www.hisutton.com/Ukrainian-Interceptor-Drones.html

Thanks for the link, that was the same source I couldn't re-find.

Drone vs drone interceptors in the big deal in Ukraine right now.

Ukraine has been using cheap interceptor drones (models Sting/Bagnet/etc) combined with sensor networks to intercept slower prop driven Geran-2. Then Russia upgraded to jet engine on Geran-3, with higher speeds that are more difficult for prop interceptors to catch. Ukraine switched back to using machine gunners from aircraft to help take those out until they develop faster intercept drones.

Curbing addiction?

Any backups?

> Any backups?

Yup something has to be said too about good old offline backups on fat tapes.


Oh come on, now I want that clock.

https://mitxela.com/shop/clock4


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