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Skua ,

It makes a fair bit of sense for someome that already speaks English to want to claim asylum in an English-speaking country, and a lot of people already speak at least some English. They've got a far better chance of being able to make a life for themselves if they can already converse with everyone.

Skua ,

Gazprom went from a profit of 1.2 trillion roubles in 2022 to a loss of 630 billion in 2023, so I'd say that the current effots are already paying off too. If the EU can do more, fantastic

Skua ,

I will have to preface this with the fact that I have not read any of his books, but former British politician Rory Stewart is one of the people that comes to my mind when reading your description. I don't think that he comes to the right policy positions, of course, but whenever I listen to him he does seem to at least have a degree of empathy for all people. He seems to at least generally see the problem even if I think that his solution wouldn't work. He has an effective way with words in interviews and his writing is generally very well reviewed too.

Skua ,

I'm not sure that makes him not right wing, surely that just means he wasn't the kind of right wing that succeeded in the political landscape of the UK in the past 20ish years? His voting record is generally in favour of less regulation (outside of a few issues), lower taxes, military intervention, isolation from the EU. He's pro-environmentalist, but that hasn't always been an exclusively left-wing thing. Similarly, anarchists and Marxist-Leninists are both left wing, even if they wouldn't necessarily get along well in a single political party together

Skua ,

Fair enough. The whip is a reasonable point to bring up, though I would suggest that if it bothered him that much he wouldn't have stayed in the party for ten years. After all, he had switched parties beforehand. I get where you're coming from though.

Skua ,

Well the bombs explode after he drops them, so I think he can quite safely say he has destroyed those bombs

Skua ,

They meant Russia has more bodies to spend

Skua ,

It's worth remembering that WW2 was an existential threat to the Soviet Union and most of the people living in it. This war isn't. See how the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan turned out.

And, of course, Ukraine was also part of the Soviet Union. Russians weren't the only ones fighting the Nazis on the Eastern Front

Skua ,

Fascinating how Finland has one of the best literacy scores and worst behaviour scores. Apparently Finns understand how to be financially responsible and simply do not care for it

Skua ,

I'm still using it. I've got nice headphones and speakers that run off of a cable and no interest in top-end phones, so it makes sense to get a phone that fits the more expensive audio stuff rather than a bunch of adapters. Nokia's cheaper smartphones have served me quite nicely

Skua ,

https://news.gallup.com/poll/644222/loses-soft-power-edge-africa.aspx

America was up above 80% in 2009/2010, so this change can't be because either of those

Skua ,

I don't think anyone is saying anything happened overnight. We're talking a fifty-sixty year delay on the events mentioned above. But also, I would want to see some evidence that Africans on average weren't aware of the legacy of colonialism up until the 2010s, because that seems like an unreasonably low estimation of education on the continent.

Besides that, Russia and China also saw declines throughout the 2010s from peaks in 2009/2010. That would suggest to me that something in the 2010s made Africans on average less approving of the world's major powers in general

Skua ,

The popularity of the new Fallout show tells me that it's definitely time to revive the Chrysler TV-8 concept

Skua ,

It's not one or the other. You can do both. The French do. Vote for whatever the least bad realistic option is at the election, and then you have years of time to do the other stuff

Skua ,

Poland is one of the larger NATO militaries and would probably be leading the early parts of a NATO-Russia war. Poland will absolutely be targeted either way in the event of a nuclear war

Skua ,

It was originally a Hebrew male name

Skua ,

Invite me to the jam, I swear I can whistle well

U.S. Secretly Shipped New Long-Range Missiles to Ukraine (www.nytimes.com)

The United States last week secretly shipped a new long-range missile system to Ukraine, and Ukrainian forces immediately used the weapons to attack a Russian military airfield in Crimea last Wednesday and Russian troops in the country’s southeast overnight on Tuesday, according to a senior U.S. official....

Skua ,

There is a Convention on Cluster Munitions but many of the world's largest military powers are not signatories to it, including all of the top five by expenditure in America, China, Russia, India, and Saudi Arabia. Ukraine is also not a signatory.

Skua ,

The EU has cut its imports of Russian gas down from nearly half of the total supply to about 15% since the war started, so that's not nearly the threat it once was

Skua ,

It wasn't actually originally Sunak's idea, this one was Johnson and Priti Patel. So probably not. Or at least, that wasn't the original motivation, I would not be surprised in the slightest to hear that they're moving to exploit it. Reporting in 2022 had said that other places had either been rejected for being unsuitable or had refused to agree to the deal, so it seems like Rwanda was basically just the one place that said yes. Being far from Britain, landlocked, and poor enough relative to Britain to be cheap to persuade (you know, if your idea of value for money is burning it to be a dickhead to refugees) makes it ideal as far as the creators of this policy see it

Skua ,

[The 112 year old salvage ship Kommuna] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_rescue_ship_Kommuna)

Skua ,

The thing is, he wouldn't do it openly. He'd pass the names to an assistant who would make some anonymous posts online and let it go from there. Sure, maybe that can be proven in another trial, but that's too far away to help the witnesses or to avoid slowing this case

Skua ,

Niger, not Nigeria. Unless there's another story that o have missed

Skua ,

Given that Iran paid for them years ago and is now in a bit more of a tense situation than usual, I have a feeling Iran is saying to Russia that they'd better deliver or they'll stop selling stuff to Russia. Iran will be fine if Russia loses to Ukraine, so they can afford to make that threat

Skua ,

Vet bills can get nasty in Europe too. They're not covered by universal healthcare policies, unsurprisingly. But also, like... don't be a dickhead about someone's pet getting hurt? They already know it's costing them a lot of money

Skua ,

It seems odd to me that this article is framing octopodes as a surprising inclusion. Aren't they generally known to be some of the most intelligent animals of all?

Skua ,

The hybrit process that some Swedish steelmakers (including SSAB - not a typo, it isn't Saab) are using looks promising. They've been testing it with Volvo and are apparently making it part of Volvo's regular process in 2026

Skua ,

I would if I could

Skua ,

CE/BCE isn't strictly astronomical year terminology, it can be applied to the Gregorian calendar and AD/BC can be used for astronomical years. If you see BCE outside of an astronomy context, it probably does not include a year zero

Skua ,

Exactly. This number is the floor of the possible range, not the actual estimated number

Skua ,

If you need someone qualified to examine the case anyway, what's the point of the AI?

Skua , (edited )

Usually to do work that needs done but does not need the direct attention of the more skilled person. The assistant can do that work by themselves most of the time. In the example above, the assistant is doing all of the most challenging work and then the doctor is checking all of its work

Skua , (edited )

In the test here, it literally only handled text. Doctors can do that. And if you need a doctor to check its work in every case, it has saved zero hours of work for doctors.

Skua ,

In the example you provided, you're doing it by hand afterwards anyway. How is a doctor going to vet the work of the AI without examining the case in as much detail as they would have without the AI?

Skua ,

how high processing power computers with AI/LLM’s can assist in a lab and/or hospital environment

This is an enormously broader scope than the situation I actually responded to, which was LLMs making diagnoses and then getting their work checked by a doctor

Skua ,

It does still use less water than cow milk though, so if someone switches from cow milk to almond milk then it's still a net improvement in terms of water usage

Skua ,

Spitting Image seems like the most immediately obvious one. It's older, of course, but I think the point stands

Skua ,

Would this work against HESH rounds? A lot of British and Canadian equipment that has been sent to Ukraine uses those

I mean, I can't imagine it's that effective if it does work at all. But it might be the kernel of an idea that someone latched on to

Skua ,

I would hope that the bar is higher than a statistically representative random sample of the entire population

Skua ,

You're allowed to get up during the flight though

Skua ,

Mate I'm not telling you off for wanting to stretch, just puzzled about why you don't do it earlier on when you start feeling cramped

Skua ,

While we don't have another total one in the UK until 2090, we've got a near-total one in August 2026. About 90-95% depend on where in the country you are, with Cornwall getting the best of it again. Spain and Iceland get the totality of it, so you could take a short trip to some pretty nice places and catch it along the way

Skua ,

I'm not sure about that characterisation of Ripley in Alien. She doesn't survive by fist-fighting the xenomorph, she's not Arnie in Predator. She's just determined and resourceful.

Skua ,

I have a feeling that you would not be commenting "tear gas is very tame" if this article was about Israel using it in Gaza

Skua , (edited )

You talking about Russia doing it: "Classifying tear gas as a 'illegal chemical attack' is really taking all meaning out of that term."

You talking about Israel doing it: "making it a similar war crime," and "...really gets that israeli war crime multipliers going."

...yeah I'm gonna stand by what I said

Skua ,

Scaphism, although the historicity of it is questionable

Skua ,

What happened in Tanzania? The drop there seems to account for pretty much the entire loss in Africa between 2007 and 2015

Skua ,

Noita! I've stopped playing it now as I more or less achieved everything I wanted to with it, but it really got a hold of me with how much it rewards creative approaches to problems

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