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This comic is kinda old already, but still stays relevant.

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[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 127 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (7 children)

Russia's economy is smaller than California's, yet we still pretend that they're a massive threat so that we can continue buying aircraft carriers. Graphic should have USA fish about 10x bigger than Russia fish.

Also, needs Iran and China fishes.

... and the opposing fishes should be shown buying Russia's oil with their frowny faces. "I can't believe that you're making me buy your oil, you are deplorable. Here's 50 billion dollars. Jerk. You're a jerk."

[–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 47 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Russia used to have a lot of tanks left over from the soviet union. Ukraine has blown most of them up.

Electrified everything I own because fuck Putin. I think the next think to look at is a battery to use off peak energy. Just looked and it appears some much better capacity/£ options are available since I last looked. Its always looking more and more tempting but then I always think about what if I wait for the next one to come out which is even batter?

[–] jason@discuss.online 11 points 4 weeks ago

To be completely fair, Russia has been the number 1 donor of tanks to Ukraine, so they weren't all blown up.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Some companies offer modular batteries, so instead of buying like one big 15kWh battery, you can get 3 5kWh batteries. And there's usually a cabinet or server rack where you can put them together.

That way it's more scalable and easier to add capacity. And when it's time to upgrade or replace them, you can do that in smaller steps instead of all at once.

[–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Have wondered about those, not sure how hard it would be to connect to the whole house. A single ring I could probably do quite easily. Think you need proper sockets/plugs to do it safely rather than the technically works but you may die if you touch the pin kinda cable. Then just flip the circuit breaker to remove that ring from the grid.

But that wouldn't cover cooking or my heat pump. Not sure if that could properly be done as a DIY job.

Though doing 1 ring from the battery would make it pretty easy to measure my non cooking/heating energy usage. Suppose lighting is separate but that should be all LEDs anyway.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah I'm not an electrician, and unless you are one I'd say you should probably have one install it for you if you want it to feed directly into your home circuit.

There's a few other components to it though, like an inverter basically takes the DC output from the batteries and converts it to AC at the right specs for your home circuit. So really you just need that to be installed properly, and then I'm pretty sure the batteries are plug-and-play.

Also an MPPT is important for solar batteries because it controls the flow from the panel to the batteries, which improves efficiency as well as battery health and safety.

The smaller modular batteries though, they can be rated for over 3500W continuous output. That should be enough for a heat pump, especially because I'm pretty sure that's for each battery.

But if you're running stuff from outlets, you can also look into portable batteries, sometimes called power stations. Some of them come with built-in inverters and MPPT controllers so you can charge them with solar panels and run AC devices on them without any additional peripherals.

[–] drath@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Russia’s economy is smaller than California’s, yet we still pretend that they’re a massive threat so that we can continue buying aircraft carriers. Graphic should have USA fish about 10x bigger than Russia fish.

The problem is that California uses US weapons that costs magnitudes more for at best marginal improvements over weapons used by both Russia and Ukraine that cost less than vodka by weight, and which US cannot feasibly produce for less than 10X price, so it kind of levels out. Throwing money at Ukraine to produce them is smart, but there's only so many they can make.

[–] Mika@piefed.ca 20 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Ukrainian here, glad someone understands. Russia is still the threat, and a very real threat to the whole Europe. No European country is ready for the war of drones - neither on the frontlines vs FPV (which we see repeatedly in European-Ukrainian trainings) and in the air vs reactive jet shaheds.

Like ffs just count the amount of antiair rockets you have in your country and check out the history of russian aerial attacks on Ukrainian cities. Its 200-300 shaheds every second day. Would your stocks last a week? Okay, two? USA is learning this in Iran, but they are on the other side of the world so they can take the L and move on.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

USA is learning this in Iran, but they are on the other side of the world so they can take the L and move on.

Idk if the US gets to walk away from this. How many military bases in the region are still standing? What's the timeline for replacing all those lost F-15s and C-130s?

We're not seeing a war in downtown Cincinnati. But the US empire is going to be fundamentally changed from it's "Push Libya's shit in because we can" Obama Era recent past.

[–] Mika@piefed.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Empire is crumbling right before our eyes. Well, people voted for it. But it doesn't threaten shaheds to fly daily over states. Not instantly, at least.

And the same can't be said about EU, sending shaheds from Belarus = pretty much the whole Europe is in range.

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[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago

In a way. But Russia is a lot more willing to spill blood.

They're regularly having weeks as bad as 9/11 and they're just not all that notable.

If it came down to both countries fighting for their lives like WWII, then yeah, the 20x would be accurate.

[–] MrNobody@quokk.au 7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

And we need all the fish on the right giving missiles to Israel and Israel as it slaughters a little Palestinian fish and they should be sucking off America as they both try to kill the Iran fish.

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[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 weeks ago

Yes, but, nuclear bombs. That matters much less for the usa cause im pretty sure russia literally doesnt have the capabilites to bomb the us cause of missile defense but for europe it matters.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Russia’s economy is smaller than California’s, yet we still pretend that they’re a massive threat

How big is Yemen's economy compared to Saudi Arabia?

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Russia's potential economy is much bigger though:

  • 130M of obedient slaves
  • largest land mass in the world
  • access to the melting arctic
  • loads of natural resources
[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 56 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I think at least China, Iran and North Korea could be added as participants on Russia's side

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 19 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Are we counting Belarus as its own country or as the puppet state it actually is?

[–] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago

More of a remora, aka suckerfish.

[–] Archer@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

Why would you count Belarus Oblast as its own country??

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 50 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (6 children)

Trump asks Zelensky to not attack Russian refineries.

Imagine your country having been invaded, Russia is trying to kill you, has brought in soldiers not just from Russia but from other countries. You've toured countless bombed cities, and regularly see soldiers and civilians, men, women, and children missing limbs. You regularly get casualty numbers, names, and stories of your fellow countrymen.... for years. Year after year.

...and some fat American President who watches Fox news and is a child rapist, is telling you to go easy on the country invading you.

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[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 34 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

The pedant in me cant help but point out that that isnt how shark anatomy works. Male sharks have two analogous structures, called claspers, and they are located on the back of their pelvic fins.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.social 25 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Stereo penises.

[–] bampop@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

Humans have fingers. That's like 5.1 surround penis

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[–] TimboSlice@discuss.online 19 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

This is art

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago

Get ready for others also sucking off Russia soon if the AfD victory is indication of anything.

[–] JizzmasterD@lemmy.ca 15 points 4 weeks ago

Kanye isn’t the only one that loves fish sticks

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Do you like fishsticks?

[–] expletivedeleted@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I like putting them in my mouth.

-Donald Teump and Kanye West

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

comic strip.

posted in c/funny

big divisive arguments in the thread

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

At some point, the "America and Russia are having sex" joke has fully exhausted itself.

It's all just cope. Totally divorced from the historical moment. Millions of people dead. More slated to die in a hellish conflict with no clear end.

But, "Lolz what if they were giving each other BJs" is immortal.

[–] EatMyPixelDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's not really a joke at this point anymore though, just a statement

[–] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah i think we're past laughing.

[–] SquareScarletCougar@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Both. Its both

[–] Pratai@piefed.ca 4 points 4 weeks ago

Both.

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It is not like they do it of the goodness of their hearts. It is just a strategic decision for them (that might be what the comic also implies anyways...) We have seen how much they responded against Israel. Some like Germany infact went the other way.

[–] abc@suppo.fi 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I think these days it should be so that the Ukraine fish is larger than the others on the right side combined, including USA

[–] P1k1e@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Or increase the size a little and give him a big ass coral drone

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[–] myyass@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

I think there's a German word for this that means both at the same time.

[–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 2 points 3 weeks ago

No matter what, the Donald sucks.

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