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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

While I don't think that what you're saying is by any means implausible, there is an actual difference here. All rockets and missiles destroy themselves in the process of attacking a target. Not all drones do. A lot of them have a simple mechanism that drops a grenade or similar

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Then it's no wonder she left

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

It might allow you to join the clan as a social club, essentially. A fair few of them have newsletters and run events where they get together, so it can be a good network. It doesn't affect the day-to-day life of the average person, though

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Here in Scotland / the UK you'd be absolutely fine so long as you're a decent person. There's not even a language barrier beyond dialect, and dialects vary hugely within the UK and each part of the UK anyway. Just please don't insist that your great-great-grandmother is actually from Clan MacWhatever.

[–] [email protected] 107 points 1 day ago

You fool, you're only supposed to post things like that on the Warthunder forums!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

space nerd is a title i shall wear with pride

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's one of the many often attributed to Winston Churchill, though to my knowledge there's no actual evidence of him actually saying it and his other writings go against the sentiment. I don't know who actually did say it first

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I know this is absolutely not the point of this, but for some reason this prompted me to try to get a sense of the resolution the JWST is providing here. Here is the original image without our infinite otter overlord. It's a small part of NGC 3324, which looks like this. If you look at the right hand side of that photo, about in the centre vertically, you'll see the section that the post's image shows. It's rotated 90 degrees between the zoomed in and zoomed out images.

NGC 3324 has an apparent dimension of 11 arc minutes, or 0.183 degrees. So if you imagine a ball that's 10cm across and another one that's 20cm across but twice as far away, they'll have the same apparent dimension. If you imagine a triangle drawn between the observer and the two outside points of the subject, the apparent dimension is the angle of the corner of the triangle at the observer.

So if imagine holding an object at arm's length, say 0.8 m away, how big would that object have to be to have an apparent dimension of 11 arcminutes? About 5 mm. The entire photo - the zoomed out one - is the equivalent of holding a grain of rice at arm's length. And then we get this zoomed in one still showing crazy detail on just a tiny fraction of that

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago

Johnson is a slimy tosspot, and his position on Russia is good only for self-serving reasons. Supporting Ukraine let him act out his little Churchill fantasy and distract from all of his domestic failings

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 days ago (6 children)

As a physically large man who used to work a job that meant he was walking home late at night in the city, just cross the road to overtake. If you're walking that much faster than the other person, you will overtake pretty soon.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They're actually fairly prolific publishers, though I haven't personally played much of their catalogue besides the excellent Golf With Your Friends

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago

I don't think it's necessarily a misleading headline. I don't doubt for a second that Trump would make some meaningless demand with no regard for reality

 

Thou shalt not criticise the Russian invasion of Ukraine on .ml

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Shoutout to poleslav for telling me to ignore the thermometer and giving general encouragement. My distillation efficiency was absolutely terrible and I got the balance of juniper and hibiscus way off, so it's sweeter than I intended, but it's definitely pleasantly drinkable.

For those that can't read my handwriting, it was a super basic barley mash to make the base alcohol, then juniper, hibiscus, rose, and elderflower as botanicals.

 

Over a decade in the works and two since Time I, it is here. I've only had one listen so far, and not really enough to offer an actual review, but I'm thoroughly enjoying it. I think I'm going to be coming back to the guitar solo two third of the way through Storm quite a bit.

 

I'm particularly fond of heather ales and spruce beers. The only sahti (which has juniper) I've had was made by me, so I have no idea if I got it traditionally right, but I certainly enjoyed it. No disrespect to all you IPA lovers out there, but the hops-forward style isn't my thing, so for those of you that are in the same camp, where do you like to turn?

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