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Pray for my boi

Pretty sure I’m going to have to put my beautiful baby boy to rest on Monday. He’s been getting very lethargic and lost his appetite. Spent 48 hours at the vet and he was treated for pancreatitis, kidney disease, and now we find heart failure. He’s back home with all the meds he could need and he’s comfortable....

OwlPaste ,

Spend time with your special boy, that’s the best way to make them feel better, and hopefully not any time soon, but be sure to be there to send him over the rainbow bridge when it is his time.

A few years ago I had to say goodbye to my my first cat. It was a heartbreaking 2 weeks of very heavy ups and downs. On Christmas day, that he was sick and went into the final spiral of a terrible day and sometimes a little better, but he kept getting worse and worse generally, until the vet agreed that he wouldn’t recover. He was put to sleep in my and wife’s hands. Sometimes you have to help them to not suffer. And honestly we breathed a very heavy sigh of relief after knowing that he wouldn’t be suffering any more and his final moments were with the humans he loved. Cats try their best not to show pain and discomfort so when they do, you know its really bad.

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I haven’t tried myself, but suspect its more likely to be generally unethical tpwards the civets. From what i heard at least. Think battery hen farming.

But i have done no research beyond general unregulated market assumptions.

France urged to repay billions of dollars to Haiti for independence ‘ransom’ (www.theguardian.com)

The Caribbean island state became the first in the region to win its independence in 1804 after a revolt by enslaved people. But in a move that many Haitians blame for two centuries of turmoil, France later imposed harsh reparations for lost income and that debt was only fully repaid in 1947....

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Given what’s happening over there right now, people who are due reparations will see exactly 0 and all the money would be stolen.

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In the same way and any dicktators need to keep stroking their dicks to feel good. No reason needed

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So it was only half a crash?

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Thats so cute, love it how the other cats “help” by kicking and biting the victims 😂🤣

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This sounds quite positive though quite a few years away, which 😔

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For me the “coming out of dark ages” happened when freestyle libres came out and you didn’t have to stab your fingers all time. Oh what a glorious time that was. Hope to live long enough to maybe see fruits of this labours too.

OwlPaste ,

Russia is big, in the south it can easily reach +40 degrees in summer if not more. Can imagine they did not build in air-conditioning back in those days

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Now do newspapers next!

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Looks like someone you don’t wanna cross in a dark alleyway…

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I wonder if it stemed from not being allowed to park in a disabled parking spot once when he was youger?

OwlPaste ,

If it hits them, it hits you. Modern tabks rely on alot of electronic equipment, from sights to targeting and other systems. Are you going to shield all of them? How much would the tabk cost? What good is all that shielding if an artillery shell or atgm can take out the tank?

Its probably a question of:

  • Cost
  • Blasting your own systems
  • Blasting your own comms

Can you even hear the whizzing of a drone from inside the tank?

OwlPaste ,

I guess geography of large rivers is not a strong point for this person…

NATO’s Pledges to Ukraine Fall Short for a Counteroffensive This Year (www.nytimes.com)

Despite billions of dollars in additional weapons and security assistance that NATO announced this week, allied officials said Ukraine would not be ready to launch a dramatic counteroffensive or retake large swaths of territory from Russia until next year....

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Just keep in mind that russians get ~1mil conscripts a year. They can keep feeding their mince machine for a long time to come. Besides massively more support with heavy weapons without restrictions, I am not entirely sure Ukraine can outlast old ussr stockpiles…

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Problem is that they still have thousands in storage, even if they are in bad condition, a tank is a tank, it still has its place in war. They still have ifvs and they still have artillery and the biggest indicator is that they are still capturing territory regardless of huge losses.

At the rate of 10-20 tanks a day, you are still looking at 300-150 days before they start running out of stored ones, not counting that they are manufacturing some amount monthly. But battle lines don’t lie. They are still moving in the wrong direction. I don’t like it and wish Ukraine could retake those territories but russians are far from wasted no matter how much we all wish that they were.

Its a very bad mistake to underestimate your opponent and assume that some magic wonder weapon will suddenly tip the scale of war. The only thing that will do this is increased supply of western arms and removal of the absolutely insane rules of not attacking russian territory.

F16 by themselves will not be enough, but they will help of course. Hopefully to lower the damage to infrastructure and hopefully to damage russian air force.

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When we get to T-55, these tanks are unable to damage an M1 Abrams.

They don’t need to, they just need to do enough to make western tanks show up at which point they are artillery and drone targets. Ukrainians said so themselves in a number of videos. As soon as western tanks show up, they become priority targets. Plenty of video evidence for that in telegram channels too. Just like meat waves of Bahmut, its not the thing that causes damage, its the side effect.

Obviously its not the time to get complacent. But we can’t deny the shift in Ukrainian’s favor.

I will agree to this only when i see the battle lines moving in the right direction, pushing russians back. For now they are unfortunately still making gains everyday.

Neither apparent hurt for vehicles or manpower losses deters them. Do see Ukrainians making some gains recently from time to time, but overall, its still not going well enough.

To me its the crazy rules of engagement operated by western nations and limitations on strikes which is insane. When this embargo is lifted i think we will see some actual movement on the front. I fear f16 will be under the same embargo. Great that Ukraine will have them but overall i am not convinced they aill tip the war in their favour enough.

It seems that currently glide bombs are a large problem but for f16 to be effective, they need to have permission to engage russian fighter/bombers that tend to fire from deep inside russia, out of “allowed” reach for western missiles. To me thats a massive issue.

OwlPaste ,

Its why the Russians are unable to effectively attack into Ukrainian defenses anymore.

That’s not what is being reported. They are still making advances. Even pro-Ukrainian channels are reporting this.

But that’s what F16s are supposed to change

Its an interesting point, but possibly unlikely f16 would be deployed on the eastern side initially (where they are most needed), suspect their initial proving ground would be Crimea. Ukrainians have for some time now, been hitting russian SAM sites and radar installations in the area. It is also close to the “neutral” sea where NATO awacs and other spy drones can fly and monitor the situation (as well as warn Ukraine if russians scramble jets or any other countermeasures) as an advance warning system. We will very likely see their first use in this theatre as a test ground. And if this works out, we might see them being rolled out on the rest of the eastern front, but that is quite some time away practically. It will most likely depend if Ukraine has enough HIMARS ammunition to overwhelm and destroy more SAM sites it those areas.

In any case, I think the M2 Bradley is probably a match for T-55.

For sure, we seen the videos of some fights, it seems Bradley is the vehicle of choice in Ukraine at least in the released videos.

If you move, artillery can’t hit you.

Kinda false, there are a number of videos showing artillery hitting moving targets, maybe those are rare, but they are non-zero. Now I tend to hang around pro-Ukraine telegram channels so tend to see more pro-Ukrainian videos, but to suggest that russians can’t do something similar (even if rarely) is statistical insanity. I keep saying, if they (russians) were entirely incompetent across the board, the front lines would not be moving against Ukraine.

There are a number of videos of Ukrainians doing just that, even more where the target is first immobilised with FPV drone and then hit with artillery very shortly after the crew bails, indicating cooperation between drone and artillery groups but a small delay for artillery to wait for the target to be stationary and hit it pretty accurately.

That’s not how glide-bombs work.

If the glide bombs are easy to intercept, why are Uranians complaining about them all the time? If the front lines report its still a problem for them I am more likely to believe the news coming out of there than high command. The issue is where russians are using glide bombs in anger, is unlikely to be the first place where f16s are deployed, at least not initially. Which still presents an issue for Ukraine.

Finally, USA has given permission to use American equipment anywhere the Russians are attacking from

For the British side, they have quietly pulled the permission for storm shadow use inside Russia, just a couple examples. I am not sure how fake these are, but pro-Uranian telegram channel has reposted similar news. Permission was very publicly granted and than quietly “clarified”. Now if this some kind of confusion psyop or not, I am not sure. But the west seems to still be not entirely aligned. In fact I really hope it i just some kind of psyop thing to be honest.

euromaidanpress.com/…/uk-clarifies-stance-on-stor…ukrinform.net/…/3885635-expert-criticizes-ban-on-…

As for the American systems, it seems odd that if Ukraine already has unlimited permission, why are there still articles about Ukraine asking for it repeatedly? Again maybe more deception from Ukraine, perhaps. I donno what to think. All I wish is for all restrictions to be lifted.

That’s Russia’s plan.

Absolutely agreed, it would be a terrible place to be in if all USA aid stopped, Europe already proved, it is not enough by itself to supply Ukraine adequately. And with US presidential election looming, it is really worrying me. Thankfully LePen didn’t win, as she threatened to revoke permission from using French weapons in russia.

To be honest, we both want Ukraine to win, and all was saying is that in a modern war where both sides have access to a lot of resources, there are no wonder weapons that will shift the game sufficiently to push for a quick win and that we should not underestimate the enemy. Things help and we in the West, should be doing more to help.

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Look don’t listen to me, but please listen to an analyst from an English language, pro-ukranian telegram channel t.me/WarriorsUkrainian/32207

The lines are not static.

Thanks for explaining about the guided artillery, i did not know how that worked.

OwlPaste ,

A mission to land on the sun you say?

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You really gotta count how many cheap boat Ukrainians lost trying to sink 60 ships. Ofc they (suicide boats) are much, much, much cheaper and cause no crew casualties being remotely controlled. So it is super cost effective, And most importantly safe, but if you count pure numbers i am sure Ukrainian losses of those boats are massively higher.

But the fact that russians can still use their missles ships to launch missiles is a big issue. Even if there are fewer of those ships, its not 0 :(… Yet

OwlPaste ,

You missed the point (and i should have perhaps been clearer), the chap was saying “no navy”, i am pointing out that suicide drones are still part of that navy and Ukrainians had 15000 personal at the start of the war in the navy.

OwlPaste ,

Thats why i said, they are amazing value for money. But sould be interesting to know just how many boats it takes to take out 60 or so ships

OwlPaste ,

Perfectly adequate retort to a vague accusation… /s

OwlPaste ,

Good job, wish more places done this

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No dna tests were done, sounds like they should have been done to remove any allegations credibility if they are so adamantly claiming to not be at fault.

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Special military operation Invasion in… 3… 2…

OwlPaste ,

Debatable, its population is more than 10 smaller than Ukraine, much smaller area. Its easier to blitzkrieg through it. But even a protracted grind war they won’t be as close to friendly nato countries who can supply fast and active armed forces is under 50k. That would include non-front line roles. So another exercise of 2-300k conscripts maybe push through if they have enough vehicles to carry ammo.

But yes they are busy elsewhere atm. curiously armenia seems to have 400 main battle tanks and 200 ifvs so perhaps can offer decent resistance for a few days if they work/have ammo

OwlPaste ,

Shocked? Absolutely not. Disturbed? Nope, content that some rich no clue CEO idiot went yolo? Perhaps

OwlPaste ,

I assume the old guys in government have alot of free time to do nothing useful otherwise… One step closer to the crazy train of some h-manga tropes of restarting population growth…

OwlPaste ,

What was the cheering about in the end?

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Go to elections with this and you got my vote!

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No musk, go away, leave linix alone <insert that meme of leave britney alone, but with linux>

OwlPaste ,

Is there an equivalent for lightroom?

OwlPaste ,

Sorry not looking for a replacement, just how to run it :)

OwlPaste ,

Tried a few times to run it but with no avail, however il try to give this a go.

OwlPaste ,

I would like to know more about LZ16 please!

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Once you live a few decades, years rush by no matter what. Do what makes you happy.

(Ps i do think its weird but who gives a shit what random internet person thinks, you do you)

OwlPaste ,

Get out of here! Microsoft doesn’t need this! They needs the mooney? Please won’t somebody think of Microsoft?!

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Nah its just the trialist failed to watch all the presented ads before being allowed to use lungs… Next time they will let you take short breaths while watching

OwlPaste ,

I have removed alot of advertising on tv by self hosting my dvd/br content. Best decision i had in a while, its like netflix but content is there forever and always accessible from anywhere in the world (if my upload can keep up). Fair amount of work but no subscription chargers

OwlPaste ,

Here you go www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2024/…/E12000007

He actually beat britain first (racists) and a crypto bro trying to save London with privatisation… Can’t make this shit up

I was hoping it be some kind of a celebratory photoshoot though but it wasn’t even a link to a story 😭

OwlPaste ,

Loving the cat photo tax!

OwlPaste ,

Plex user here, you install app on your receiver (tv/tablet/phone/whatever) and if you so desire you can host local content via plex server running on a machine on your network. Not used it as a home screen though, as i avoid paid players.

OwlPaste ,

Doesn’t that still dhow up on your last 3 active games list?

OwlPaste ,

Proton is very gaming on Linux friendly, i main on Linux for a few decades now and had about 3-4 games not work. So i wouldn’t worry about that, however lightroom (and i assume the rest of adobe suit) is out. Couldn’t find a way to install it sensibly at all. Which is unfortunate. The backup for this for me was to use an old android tablet and sometimes id use the work mac out of hours to do some post-processing.

But the rest doesn’t matter much, i personally like Manjaro but the distro doesn’t really matter.

OwlPaste ,

Trickle down shitononics will be taught to get your daily bread and water rations

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And this is why they are billionaires and we are not :)

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