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They could shoot down a plane full of NATO nationals (again), or deploy chemical weapons of mass destruction in European cities (again)?
Oh oh, want about more extra-judicial assassinations in NATO countries? 123m spire ect ect (be sad)
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They could shoot down a plane full of NATO nationals (again), or deploy chemical weapons of mass destruction in European cities (again)?
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Oh oh, want about more extra-judicial assassinations in NATO countries? 123m spire ect ect (be sad)
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GNU Units has builtins for some standard energy equivalent units, specifically "tonoil" and "barreloil". "litreoil" doesn't seem to be included by default (though it can be added via a local configuration file). literoil = 1 barreloil * liter/barrel And the calculation gives me ...10.69 kWh/L The barreloil value is for crude, diesel may have a slightly higher net energy density. But we're good to 3 sig figs. I could…
I looked around a bit in "definitions.units" and there are actually energy densities in there for various fuel sources, including diesel. You have: 1 diesel You want: Wh/L 1 diesel = 10103.465 Wh/L Slightly different value than in Wikipedia, but close enough.
TIL, there are!
Thanks.
(For the curious, the definitions file is ~7500 lines, there's a lot in there. GNU version. For those on MacOS, the stock BSD units offers far less.)
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The Emma Mærsk is powered by a Wärtsilä-Sulzer 14RTFLEX96-C engine, the world's largest single diesel unit, weighing 2,300 tonnes and capable of 81 MW (109,000 hp) when burning 14,000 litres (3,600 US gal) of heavy fuel oil per hour. So bitcoin is equivalent to 425 Emma Mærsks going full bore continually. That'd be 6.3 million TEU - which interesting means that for those big ships, a liter of fuel moves one TEU for o…
> a liter of fuel moves one TEU for one hour. That's a great little number, and actually feels very efficient!
Yandex is not sanctioned, and should not be - it has nothing to do with the war, and neither do its users. Yandex offers a decent email service for free, and you can use your own domain. I had set up one for a few non-profits who are trying to get up and running. They really have nothing to do with the war, so having an outcome where their day-to-day operations are inconvenienced is a really thoughtless turn of event…
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The things that I have seen over the last two months (a lot of social media coming out of Russia, street interviews, phone calls, public statements) make me believe that Russia is completely different than elsewhere in the West. The number of people who'd be easily willing to just murder a bunch of people for an invented reason is much greater than elsewhere. Americans can get 'nationalist' but they are absolutely no…
> The number of people who'd be easily willing to just murder a bunch of people for an invented reason is much greater than elsewhere. > Americans can get 'nationalist' but they are absolutely not like that, beyond a smaller group, Americans are by default positive and gregarious. Americans killed millions, and displaced tens of millions [0] in a "crusade on terror" the consequences of which lasting to this day, for…
This is Russian propaganda - either from someone who doesn't understand the situation (i.e. 'Useful Idiocy' as Stalin himself coined the term) - or - arguing in bad faith.
It's ironically a very good example of the cynical, authoritarian, toxic 'bad faith' acting by the Russian government, and people.
Foreign Minster Lavarov - literally just yesterday, was lambasting Israel for 'supporting the Nazi regime in Ukraine'.
The word 'repulsive' isn't strong enough.
'NATO expansion' is - much like the public story of 'WMDs in Iraq' - a canard.
It's as stupid as the lie about 'denazification' which Putin is using to justify a genocide.
Russia has no real threat from NATO - there is 0% chance of NATO aggression towards Russia, and they know it.
Concerns about 'not listening to Russian concerns for 7 years' is another lie - as though Russia had a material position to begin with.
Russia created the problems in Ukraine, quite on purpose.
In 2004 they poisoned Ukrainian Yushchenko, later, the GRU/FIS/FSB were all over, controlling and corrupting their stooge Yanukovich - who publicly declared he was going to focus on Europe, but after consolidating power, he indicated that Ukraine was going to 'Go with Russia'.
A revolution ensued - and Putin invaded Crimea and invaded (yes, invaded) the Donbas where his forces 'not in uniform' were used to start a conflict between Ukrainians.
Even the leaders of the Ukrainian ultra nationalists were on Putin's payroll - he was cynically playing both sides.
If you want to understand Putin's genocidal motivations in Ukraine, read his own words [1]
You can read Michael McFaul's (former Ambassador to Russia) great articulation of the situation [2]
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Saddam Hussein was a totalitarian mass murderer who invaded Kuwait (Iran before that), gassed his own citizens.
Saddam would call out members of Congress, ask them to confess to their failures ... and then have them executed on the spot.
Saddam is responsible for situation he created for himself, American intentions and methods were overall in good faith, though obviously poorly applied.
The 'WMD story' was an exaggeration of reality for reasons of populism, but it was not even false - WMD's were a problem for this regime, as was his ongoing antagonism.
[1] http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181
[2] https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/what-putin-fears...
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For tax reasons only. We call them "brievenbus firma". They don't have any actual operations here.
Many Russian companies used foreign registration to prevent raiding from corrupt higher-ups. It was kind of rule, at least in IT companies. For example FSB forced Durov to sell vkontakte. It wouldn't happen if vkontakte was registered outside of Russia. I don't know whether that reasoning was applied to Yandex case, but I wouldn't be surprised. Another former Russian company is Jetbrains which used to operate from Ru…
Yandex is not sanctioned, and should not be - it has nothing to do with the war, and neither do its users. Yandex offers a decent email service for free, and you can use your own domain. I had set up one for a few non-profits who are trying to get up and running. They really have nothing to do with the war, so having an outcome where their day-to-day operations are inconvenienced is a really thoughtless turn of event…
The rest of this post operates under the premise that Ukrainians wanting to be a part of the EU/NATO was manipulated by the West. Even if that were the case, the invasion and the ongoing war crimes are committed by Russia.