I initially thought this was going to be an onion article, but here we are. Class.

Perfect summary. Harris did a superb job of instantly uniting them under her banner the second it became obvious Biden was fucked. This navel gazing from Pelosi is utter nonsense.

North of 10M voters who turned out for Biden didn’t show up for Harris. She was a great candidate but the democrats message didn’t resonate after the years of inflation.

My eggs are more expensive too. So are everyone elses in the world. I just blame Putin for destabilising and the stores for blatant price gouging the second they felt they could.

Ah the UK and EU are inexorably intertwined. Don’t stress too much. We’re still best buds.

Europe has been fucking pumping money into Ukraine. Now we need to start pumping arms in. It is ludicrous to imagine that this hasn’t been prepared for. The only question is whether our arms production capacity will be enough or ramp up quickly enough.

Financially absolutely. We do not have the military industrial complex to replace the armaments that the US has been providing however.

I’m sure Ukraine has been preparing for this eventually but I really fear for them and the medium term consequences for us all if Putin gets his way in this war. :(

Well that’s fucking terrifying. Project 1997.

Jesus Christ that last thought hadn’t even entered my head. I can’t see Poland or the Baltics putting up with that though.

FML.

And don’t forget his impeachment over Ukraine too. He is going to fuck them hard. I really hope Europe can pick up the slack on arms production quickly.

A king won’t though. That’s why they’re gone. Another dodge.

Excoriate was a new one for me so for anyone else: In this context if means to censure scathingly.

Same. Have mine about 18 months. Never once connected to the internet. Great device.

Very. US troops obviously have lots of experience fighting insurgency style and ridiculously good hardware, logistics etc. but Ukraine have very hard earned experience in near peer conflict with drones and so on.

Soldier for soldier, Ukraine probably has the best troops in the world right now for the kind of conflicts that are unfortunately looming.

I think this is a bug in Lemmy. Saw someone else mention it recently. I believe a fix is coming.

Fuck the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade. All my homies hate the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade.

Yeah, got some upset kids here but did manage to find a correct steam

Sorry. 200k people were on that. Scum. Everyday astronaut is the one I’m watching now.

https://www.youtube.com/live/pIKI7y3DTXk

Live stream available here. Apparently launch in 40 minutes or so from this comment:

Edit: that was some dirty link sorry

I did think that. :) It’s just… So good. I hope it never enshitifies. God help us.

For the uninitiated like me:

The Kessler syndrome (also called the Kessler effect,[1][2] collisional cascading, or ablation cascade), proposed by NASA scientists Donald J. Kessler and Burton G. Cour-Palais in 1978, is a scenario in which the density of objects in low Earth orbit (LEO) due to space pollution is numerous enough that collisions between objects could cause a cascade in which each collision generates space debris that increases the likelihood of further collisions.

Wikipedia link.

Yeah I can see that perspective. It depends a lot on the city I suppose.

You gave me pause for thought and I suppose I just like being in nature more. :)

Oh, Berlin and Amsterdam are also stand out cities. Yeah maybe I like them more than I think I do.