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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I think they might mean all european social media users. The vast majority of those are still on corpo socials.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Multiple pictures can be posted at a time by adding the other pictures as embeds to the text body of a post.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 days ago

How do you think the hunter-gatherers got their food? They didn't drive around delivering berries to each other while worrying about credit scores.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The difference between a sauna and an oven is that the heat is transferred from the heater into the air by pouring water onto hot stones, which then boils off and carries its heat and humidity into the air. The rocks have to be hot and have sufficient heat storage capacity to also stay hot even if more water is thrown at once. Having a hidden main heater would be a huge hassle to get the humidity right with some automated system, while also taking away the fun of throwing the water yourself.

Since the hot steam rises up, the benches should be up high enough that people can ideally get their feet above the surface of the stove. Hot air rises up, but the temperature gradient isn't completely smooth. The rising steam mixes the air around a bit, so below that the air doesn't mix all that well and the heat drops much faster the lower you get.

In this one, your entire lower half is in that significalntly colder air and the vast space above you is where the heat escapes to, far from your skin where it's no use to anyone.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Sure looks nice, but that sauna can't produce an adequate heat. The benches are way too low and the heater is utterly undersized. One's feet would be getting cold even with a heater five times the volume of that one.

Also yeah they should try having less money.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

My gaidar (generative ai radar) is going off.

I think a good old shitass paint illustration would be preferable. The message itself is good enough to deserve at least that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Trump is probably too old to survive a proper sauna. I hope he goes into one.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The horse probably couldn't handle the weight of the cow. Both animals might get pissed at you for trying to coax them into this.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Thales' Theorem

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

For the sake of clarity I will say that I was referring to the hegemonic position the US has within NATO. This is the result of them simply being a trusted ally with the largest military on the planet. The latter isn't about to change soon and the former would require very little effor, but the Trump adminstration seems to be doing it's best to demolish the trust between the US and its allies. (Soft power protip #1: Don't threaten your allies with invasion!)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

No I do not believe that. I was talking about NATO troops in Russia, which could in theory also happen through a coup and a new government more alligned with the west. Even then I find it hard to believe that there would be "NATO troops on the Amur" as you put it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Greenland and Canada aren't about countering a Russian military threat. Both are NATO members with US bases in them. The Russian threat to the US was much larger during the cold war and yet the US didn't annex them back then. This is about force projection in the arctic. Control of both the NW passage and the Panama canal would increase US leverage on the world stage, including on their so-called allies. Local resources are most likely of interst as well. Even then, I suspect that a large portion is just rhetoric to stoke up visions of grandeur and might among his supporters, since that would track pretty closely with how fascist regiemes have operated in the past.

I admit that "current de facto US ally #1" might be a bit strongly put, but it's not like the bar would be too high at this point. They do get along well enough. Putin isn't dumb enough to antagonize the US president who is more useful than any of his predesecors in a long time.

A NATO occupation of Russia, be that through overt means or a friendly coup, would still be incredibly expensive and thus politically unpopular across the board. Also Trump is all about pretending to be the peacemaker when it comes to Ukraine and Russia, so this would never go forward barring a major restructuring of NATO where the US is booted out or at least knocked down a peg from their current hegemonic position. Both seem unlikely to say the least.

The way I see it, China is just trying to position itself as a force for reason and making the most out of recent US shortcomings in soft power projection by exercising its own to fill that vacum.

 
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Tarkoitushakuisuus on haiskahtanut hallituksen velkapuheissa, mutta enpä ollut tullut ajatelleeksi, että ministeriökin voisi pelata samaa peliä...

 
 
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