tal

joined 2 years ago
[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 51 minutes ago* (last edited 51 minutes ago)

Just tell your passengers to shift their mass to the area of the vehicle in the triangle formed by the remaining three wheels.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (3 children)

I'd just stick screens on one's windows and maybe use DEET if you're really at the height of mosquito season in a bad area.

Like, this has a DSLR camera, a GPU constantly churning away, a laser...

20
Cranberry glass (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) by tal@lemmy.today to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world
 

Cranberry glass or 'Gold Ruby' glass is a red glass made by adding gold salts or colloidal gold to molten glass.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

waiting for a ferry

Personally, I'd think that the RORO ferry, once loaded, would be more vulnerable. Then you've got all of the same flammability issues, but now the ship is also at stake and it's harder to fight fires and move not-yet-burning tanker trucks away from a fire.

EDIT:

https://crimeaports.ru/en/affiliates/kerch-ferry-service

Fleet composition: 2 self-propelled ferry

Self-propelled ferry "Yeisk":

The passenger capacity of the "Eysk" c / p is 54 people. (members of the crew of trucks). The maximum possible loading of the ferry with light-duty trucks is 17 units.

Self-propelled ferry "Kerch-2":

The passenger capacity of "Kerch-2" is 60 people. (members of the crew of trucks). The maximum possible loading of the ferry with light-duty trucks is 20 units.

That's also not a whole lot of depth in ferry stock for Russia to be able to afford to lose. It sounds like Ukraine already wiped out Russia's rail ferry capacity to Crimea in the last several months:

https://united24media.com/latest-news/ukraine-knocks-out-russias-last-rail-ferry-slavyanin-supplying-crimea-17733

Ukraine Knocks Out Russia’s Last Rail Ferry “Slavyanin” Supplying Crimea

Apr 08, 2026 13:51

HUR said the ferry had been the last remaining railway ferry used by Russian forces in temporarily occupied Kerch. The vessel was reportedly used to transport fuel, ammunition, military equipment, and weapons to Russian troops stationed on the peninsula.

The intelligence agency noted that the same ferry had previously been targeted in March. At that time, Ukrainian forces also struck another Russian railway ferry, Avangard, which was subsequently disabled.

EDIT2: I guess Russia could also maybe use landing ships to transport fuel trucks onto unimproved shores, if a tractor-trailer can handle sand, but it sounds like Ukraine's been taking them out too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_landing_ship_Saratov

She was destroyed on 24 March 2022, while in the port of Berdyansk, after being struck by a Ukrainian missile.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_landing_ship_Nikolai_Filchenkov

According to Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence, the ship was hit in the night of 19 April 2026 in Sevastopol Bay along with Yamal, and both may have been subsequently taken out of service.[14][15]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_landing_ship_Nikolai_Vilkov

Based in Vladivostok. I don't expect that it can get to Crimea, since Turkey closed the Turkish Straits to warships subsequent to the invasion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_landing_ship_Orsk

Sounds like that one's still in service.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

For Trump


not saying that the same factors are true here, since I haven't been paying attention to Reform


a factor was rural communities who were worried about loss of unskilled manufacturing jobs


assembly lines and the like


that liked hearing about protectionism, both for the labor market and for the finished products.

Glancing at the Reform's policy page, a lot of it looks similar. Lots of stuff about eliminating competition for jobs and eliminating competition to provide those manufactured goods.

https://www.reformparty.uk/policies#policies-section

If I categorize the policy issues:

Eliminating competition for jobs/market access

  • Stop the Boats

  • Secure and Defend Our Borders

  • Deport Illegal Migrants

  • Scrap ILR to Avert the Boriswave

    This sounds kind of incomprehensible, but the first line is " The era of cheap, low-skilled foreign labour is over. Reform UK will end the scam of mass immigration and finally put British citizens first."

  • Put British Workers First

  • Put British Businesses First

Other Rural Economic Support

  • Support Our Farmers and the Rural Economy

Other

  • Protect the NHS

    From looking at a past poll, I recall the NHS was the only item that was in the top five issues for both Labour and Conservative voters, so I imagine that it's kind of de rigueur to stick on one's issues.

  • Restore Britain's Sovereignty

  • Make Law-Abiding Citizens Feel Safe

  • Make Work Pay

  • Scrap Net Zero to Cut Energy Bills

  • Make Britain the Best Place to Start and Run a Business

  • Defend and Protect British Culture and Traditions

  • Rebuild Britain's Armed Forces

  • Help British People Have Children

  • Embrace the Technologies of the Future

  • Dramatically Cut Foreign Aid

  • Make Our Civil Service Lean and Productive

[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/01/ibm-introduces-new-rainbow-logo-support-lgbtq-community/

IBM introduces new rainbow logo in support of the LGBTQ community

January 9, 2017, 5:00 pm EST

[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 5 hours ago

unexplained shit that's happened to you.

I came into existence.

"Why" is a pretty open question.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_is_there_anything_at_all%3F

"Why is there anything at all?" or "Why is there something rather than nothing?" is a question about the reason for basic existence which has been raised or commented on by a range of philosophers and physicists, including Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz,[3] Ludwig Wittgenstein,[4] and Martin Heidegger,[5] who called it "the fundamental question of metaphysics".[6][7][8]

[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

A group of eight men in their early 20s were enjoying a lunchtime beer in a dizzyingly hot, artificially turfed square outside the shopping centre. “We can’t afford AC yet,” one said, “that’s why we work in finance, so one day we can afford it!” Most of them had invested in a Dyson fan, which retail for between £300 and £600.

If the concern is a few really hot days, just doing one room should be viable. A small window unit should be pretty inexpensive.

checks

At Home Depot here in the US, a small window A/C unit is maybe $170.

I mean, sure. You can do a split mini to avoid blocking a window (or having to remove and remount the window unit twice a year) and reduce noise, or do a major renovation and put in ducted central A/C. You can definitely spend considerably more than the bare minimum. But the bar to getting a air conditioned room in the house should really not be very high. And a premium fan of the sort that they're buying isn't comparable to central A/C either.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 6 points 12 hours ago

They're charging for premium features, not for basic access to the service.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am hoping that you put your config in a git repository so that you can revert it.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

I find git to be a rather deep and complex video game with plenty of challenges to overcome as it is without trying to add even more layers on top.

367
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by tal@lemmy.today to c/world@lemmy.world
 

Japan recorded the highest ever temperature of 41.2 degrees Celsius on Wednesday, beating the previous high of 41.1 C marked in 2018 and 2020. Authorities are strongly urging people to take precautions to avoid risks of heatstroke.

The mercury hit the above-human temperature of 41.2 C in the city of Tanba, Hyogo Prefecture, at 14:39, while two cities — Fukuchiyama in Kyoto and Nishiwaki in Hyogo — also recorded extremely high temperatures of 40.6 C and 40 C, respectively.

view more: next ›