You have to remember that DW is government owned. Yes, DW is formally independend but read up on Wolfram Weimers political stance, who is the current commissioner overseeing DW and it’s clear context is not wanted.

That’s the same government who’s minister of interior demonstrably received a briefing on right wing extremism being the biggest threat to German internal security and then showed up with misleading statistics supposedly proving an equal amount of left wing violence.

funded and supported by the USA and Russia.

Don’t forget China. At least in case of Germanys AFD.

Unkraut vergeht nicht.

Weeds don’t die.

I am afraid since the Muskrat just blocked Starlink for the Russians, we will have to wait a little longer.

The thing is, you can design an autoloader in a way that protects the crew.

Yes, you can. But they didn’t. Hence, why I said it makes sense in this specific case.

Also, turns out Geert is from Germany and not the Netherlands.

Well, it makes sense for the loading mechanism they use and on paper it leads to a higher rate of fire due to the more accessible rounds.

However, when asking Ukrainian tank crews, who operate both Russian and Western style tanks, what they prefer, the answer is pretty much always western tanks. Better ergonomics is also a thing (Russian/Soviet tanks are notoriously cramped) but I guess the higher survivability even after a full penetration might be what tips the scales.

Fits either way

THC is AFAIK the component that produces the high and CBD its counterpart that soothes.

This is normal for all major engineering projects.

Well, then maybe we should be honest to each other and just accept that it’s not going to be commercially viable?

We need all the clean energy we can get to meet demand.

Oh, don’t even start with this “clean nuclear” gas lighting.

Söder or any of his ministries still haven’t been able to name one of those experts who supposedly claim that putting the decommissioned power plants back into operation is feasible.

They are decommissioned, it’s done, over, out, never going to happen again.

Every modern build project is over time and massively over budget. No company is going to build a reactor without truckloads of government subsidies and guaranteed prices for electricity, making the whole “cheap and green energy” argument irrelevant. We have better options now. It’s just another attempt to derail the push for renewables.

I prefer talking to my rubber ducky because I can tell they are a true professional. They are not giving you any feedback unless they are absolutly certain it works.

That’s because you do not own the things which increase productivity so much.

Instead they are provided by the company you work for. At the end of the day all you can sell is your attention to do a job, which hasn’t increased since the start of industrialization.

Everywhere. You have to consider two points: Most light in our nightsky comes from the reflection of sunlight by the Moon. Secondly deep space is not the space between planets or even between the outmost planet and the Kuiper Belt.

It is the place between stars, which is lightyears in diameters and where every star is just a tiny dot in the sky. This is not enough available energy to power our current level of electronics via solar. Which is why i.e. the Voyager probes use RTGs as power source after they left the area of our solar system where solar power is viable.

The type of flail seen in your picture wasn’t used by the peasantry but nobility. Some crafty blacksmith probably saw drafted farmers take their threshing flail into battle as improvised weapon and thought about how to properly weaponize the concept. Also we are not talking about two flimsy sticks here. Flails used for threshing had to be sturdy as they needed to last the whole harvest season. They were made from hardwood and I can personally attest, that they are heavy indeed. The things one finds when clearing the grandparents barn …

As for the practicality of the weaponized flail: it was indeed of dubious use and it is questionable whether it saw widespread military adoption or whether it was the equivalent of “tacticool” gear of the middle ages. An iron club is indeed a more effective weapon and is commenly referred to as mace and if you take a look at a specific type of mace you can probably guess where the idea of the spiky ball came from.

Flails are used for threshing.

Not that I am aware of atm, but I am very certain that people are working on them.

Well, there can be FOSS LLMs so why not support them?

Russia suffered 1.2 million casualties, including up to 325,000 troop deaths, between February 2022 and December 2025.

For anyone wondering why casualties are higher than troop deaths: The term casualty includes wounded people. So basically every person killed, wounded or otherwise incapacitated is a casualty.