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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You are asking it in the wrong place. Consult an environmentalist community, or at least provide citation to a report that shows your 'concerns' have some foundation otherwise you're making a false equivalency to frakking with nothing but your ignorance to back it up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Gas and fossil fuel is also not about the environmental

This is starting to sound like trolling. At this point if you still have a bug up your ass about Geothermal/Heat Pump power generation I'm asking you to cite sources for your claims and avoid the nonsense tu quoques.

 

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/18095802

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In previous studies, PS Lab showed that most Russians justify the war without being its convinced supporters (PS Lab calls them “non-opponents” of the war)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

What's russian for "meat is back on the menu boys"?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

According to Vchk-Ogpu, Feshchenko was allegedly killed during a conflict with a friend with whom he had previously served in the Far East. The suspect, reportedly detained, has pleaded guilty to the murder.

The Kyiv Independent could not verify the claims.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

According to the new research, the 10 companies that paid the most profit taxes to Russia in 2023 were:

  • tobacco company Philip Morris International ($220 million),
  • beverage corporation PepsiCo ($135 million),
  • confectionary company Mars ($99 million),
  • health and hygiene consumer goods firm Procter & Gamble ($67 million),
  • confectionary company Mondelez ($62 million),
  • investment bank Citigroup ($53 million),
  • agricultural company Cargill ($50 million),
  • pharmaceutical firm Johnson & Johnson ($42 million),
  • independent soft-drink bottler Coca-Cola Hellenic ($34 million) and
  • oilfield service company Weatherford ($32 million).
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

My theory is thick cloud cover

 

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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/17936193

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Russian UMPK kits, which turn regular bombs into guided glide bombs, use components imported by bypassing sanctions. Although the trail initially seemed to lead to Taiwan, further investigations revealed that companies from China were collaborating with the Russians.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

In a combat zone you are considered combat effective until proven otherwise. This is not a warcrime. Faking an injured leg or being dead are commonly done to avoid getting droned. Not seeing a weapon isn't an excuse either. Grenade on the belt, or sidearm in the coat are both likely possibilities. You don't know and until you do it is safer to take them out then apply warm and fuzzy civilian sensibilities to the problem.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

This is without a doubt a war crime

There are many doubts. He could be faking injury, drunk, still armed. The observer drone who suspected incapacitation was not the one attacking so you'd have to prove the actual attacking drone operator believed the target was incapacitated. Injured =/ incapacitated and his presence alone at the front occupies enemy territory which means they are a participant.

The bounds on what are 'reasonable' are very different in war than civilian life. This tendency to jump to 'ope warcrime' is as irrational as saying someone with an automatic weapon firing a burst commits a warcrime when the second round in a row strikes the victim. 'They were injured with the first bullet so it is a warcrime and automatic weapons must be prohibited by law'!

Had this soldier been on a stretcher, and/or being attended by an unarmed someone with a red cross on their arm, or had waved a white anything in the air, I'd agree with calling it a warcrime. A still conscious soldier being tossed out on their ass by 2 armed soldiers and 'appearing injured' in this era where the enemy feigns injury/death to avoid drone strikes is not hors de combat.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

The og version isn't much better.

Ukraine’s Moscow-malleting doodlebug missile is about to become very important

That said 'completes development' instead of 'develops' would have been an, unlikely in this inexplicable era of minimum syllable headlines, improvement.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Okay @wilshire, of the myriad videos I've seen in my time as mod here you finally found one that made me say 'W.T.F.' out loud. 😂

Banned for depiction of a human centipede! 😋

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why does a mastodon user get completely different profiles and history when viewed from different lemmy instances? They look like 2 completely different users when compared except for having the same @address. In fact this makes them immune from moderation if they comment from a different instance than the mod is on.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/32553642

The U.S. will send Ukraine the full $6 billion in outstanding military aid before President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated on Jan. 20, Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said at a briefing on Nov. 7.

Previously, Politico reported that U.S. President Joe Biden was rushing to deliver the remaining $6 billion by the end of his term out of fear that a Trump administration might halt weapons shipments to Ukraine.

Ukraine will receive $4 billion under the Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA), which pulls weapons from U.S. stocks, and $2 billion from the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), Singh told reporters.

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In consideration of those who use UI's that autoplay videos, and that posts would show up in /All, the rules for posts containing combat footage have been changed:

From now on, any new post containing combat footage should have "[Combat]" in its title. If any of the footage contains visible humans in combat, alive, injured, or otherwise, then the post must have the NSFW flag checkmarked.

As always, extreme violence, and gore are still prohibited.

Thank you for your understanding.

 

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I've been getting complaints about footage that is technically non-violent but leaves enough to the imagination that it apparently bothers people, so I wanted to get input regarding where the NSFW line should be drawn.

The video posted here is a perfect example of where I think the limit is. The only complaint I can see is the discharge of a firearm. Does that count? Is 'being able to put 2 and 2 together to know what happened' enough to warrant flagging as NSFW? Was the previous status quo good enough?

Setting aside the obvious "I know it when I see it", please share your thoughts.

Until a better consensus of where the line should be for the community I will leave it temporarily flagged as NSFW.

 

Recently, we spoke about the state of Russia's economy after more than two and a half years of war. It was characterised by strong growth but also signs of overheating, as the economy ran at or beyond capacity.

Today, I want to cover the other side, and look at how Ukraine's is holding on after extensive Russian pressure. I'll look at headline economic indicators, the budget, defence production, and the impact of attacks on Ukraine's energy grid.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/28897886

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has firmly stated that Ukraine should be allowed to conduct long-range strikes inside Russian territory, despite threats from Moscow.

This stance comes in the wake of Ukrainian forces occupying parts of Russian territory for the first time since World War II, and Ukrainian officialls asking Western partners to remove restrictions on the use of Western long-range weapons so that Ukraine can degrade Russia’s logistics and airfields in the rear and bring the war to an end faster.

“Canada fully supports Ukraine using long-range weaponry to prevent and interdict Russia’s continued ability to degrade Ukrainian civilians and infrastructure, and mostly to kill innocent civilians in their unjust war,” Trudeau declared at a news conference in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec.

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