kroekermartin.bsky.social
Chemist drifted off into programming and mechanical CAD; Acting OpenBLAS maintainer. Always doing things I know too little about.
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Public broadcaster MDR claims that pretty much the same arson attack was carried out against that place a year ago already, burning a couple of trucks destined for Singapore in addition to Bundeswehr ones
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either they are the aliens, or they have convinced themselves that the US can in fact be run (into the ground) like this with no serious repercussions for themselves or their heirs - and damn everybody else
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seems so - the accession number link she posted contains a map with a marker placed on that town
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seriously missed opportunity for a replica - I assume they must have been somewhere between a warm gold color and rose gold when new, depending on bronze composition (also not stated on the page, may even have been the customers' choice back then)
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I wish they would at least provide the thickness of the sheet metal and/or the mass of the object to give an idea of how wearable those would have been (assuming 2mm and a mean diameter around 12cm, I come up with about 500g)
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doesn't create the impression that he wants to suggest the attack in itself was a bad idea, rather that Democrats would have bombed better and with more decorum ?
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their fantasy world is probably full of automata and "AI" that can be switched off and on at will, they have no use for noisy children that have needs beyond electricity
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I'm fairly sure that I've seen at least one such beast in service with a mining exploration business, so they're not as special as a tank. (Doesn't mean they're cheap or numerous enough to leave around as toys for fools and enemies, of course)
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we'll see what (if anything) comes out of this - could be the premises were guarded but the guards were too predictable in their movements, or some of them became enticed by the Moscow-leaning far-right AfD party (which has many voters in former East Germany) after getting their security clearance
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regular in the sense that they are logistics, not fighting vehicles. it does seem like Bundeswehr has become a bit sloppy after decades of peace and budget cuts, but OTOH there is no mention if/how the trucks were guarded and/or if a private security guard could have been compromised
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the news article also states that two pictures of the aftermath that are circulating on Russian Telegram appear to have been taken in broad daylight by a person on the grounds of the dealership, hinting at an inside job
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Apparently yes (for non-fighting vehicles). MAN Service appears to hold a contract for servicing army vehicles on its own premises. Local public broadcaster states there was a similar arson attack in the same place a year ago, destroying German and Singaporean(!) trucks www.mdr.de/nachrichten/...
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Am...
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this has me thinking of a late (though not _that_ late) relative who could have worn it to great effect... timeless indeed
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maybe they have paradoxically evolved to attract bulb propagators 😀
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Perhaps they should have added an option of "do not know either of these foreigners" or "do not know any of these men"
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I don't think it's that simple - even if Trump personally fell out with Netanyahu, the US would probably block any attempt to interfere with him
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Nothing new, just the old playbook of accusing your opponent of the atrocity you are planning to commit yourself. Turns out you don't even need a specially evil people for that to work, just the banal mix of the insecure, disinterested and grifters that every society has
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The US doesn't recognize the ICC, and if I recall correctly he has threatened a raid on The Hague (should any of his guys end up there) at least once
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isn't that pretty close to what the Japanese gachapon machines dispense ? live plants would be a bit tricky of course, but I think the pot+seeds+compressed soil version exists
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isn't that an unkind comment to make on Reggie's birthday, and what could be wrong with pledging allegiance to a toad ?
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ha. thought I'd recognized that froggish green
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Wonder why he wears these silly caps almost permanently now - visible scars from a head surgery, or skin grafts and new open wounds from skin cancer ?
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found it here: www.kornbluthphoto.com/Aarslev.html on a photographer's site - she quotes diameter as 2.8 to 2.92 cm (so not perfectly spherical). Curiously that info is missing on the museum's site natmus.dk, but they translate the spell as "you are our father"
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Great for storing spices too... just remember who's who
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One for the connoisseurs of #BraggYourPattern
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Musk's implantables killed the apes, so they had to take a step back for now
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... and I know of one open pit iron mine where the layers above the ore had lots of jurassic ammonites - unfortunately I cannot find any information about the depth of that layer vs the medieval mining, the mine was reactivated in the 1930s and fossils spread all around with the waste material
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Probably not in the sense that the article talks about, it seems a bit unlikely to me that medieval ploughs would have gone deep enough (or conversely, dinosaur bones been deposited in the very topsoil). Slate or limestone quarries turning up the odd fish, pterosaur or plant stalk on the other hand
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a steed named dysmorphia
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I had a fleeting thought, but something seems to have hidden it now
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Chamenei plays by rules of decorum that only Chuck Schumer understands, but he is so impressed that he wants to see that again and again and again. All the while, Trump and Netanyahu are stumped as they can't find the Hague Convention among the opening moves in their books of 4D Chess
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Looks like it's the usual Netanyahu ceasefire of firing until his enemy ceases to exist... And unless the attack on a political prison was a very strange and deplorable accident, their plans for a regime-changed Iran do not appear to align with the domestic Persian opposition... who'd have thought..
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dapper dipper
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Strange times when the Iranian dictatorship comes across as a lot more level-headed than whatever intermediate stage of dysfunctional democratic government one can call their US counterpart. An expensive show of fireworks for the guy who didn't get the birthday parade he'd hoped for
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that sucks
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should have tried a sea port for that ?
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would certainly explain them frantically trying to cobble together a huge spaceship
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(unless you're in the "binomial names for viruses" camp... Betacoronavirus throatcutteri Ouch&Hurt ?)
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Agree in principle, but how else to do it in the age of the clickbait headline, if you want mainstream or even tabloid media to feature it ?
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you're just begging for a block, aren't you ? i did not imply that the Persian gov was being honest, just that they left options for deescalation. A decrepit Trump admin bombing the ME for Israel only adds to the problems. But your entire tl seems to be unreflected pro-Israel disinfo anyway - bot ?
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Russia is probably too deep into its costly war in Ukraine to do much, and the sudden jump in oil prices may save their economy. China is WTF and we'll see how Egypt and the Arabs react to an unchecked Israel (the only participant with known actual nukes)
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nothing the modern world needs more than a final battle between versions 2 and 3 of a bronze-age religion to see who impresses the same god more. at least in the time of the historical battle(s) at Megiddo Hill, it was customary for the rulers to participate in person
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potentially interesting footnote is that the son of the last Shah is already waving from the sidelines in case anybody wants to put him on
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wonder if he's legal without a taillight ?
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shades of "our" security guarantees in the Minsk treaty ? and we have yet to see what happens to ongoing support for Ukraine if Israel needs more ammo or air defence than expected, or if the whole situation explodes into an Afghanistan-like article 5 scenario
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well, I guess we'll see soon how unwavering our support of Ukraine is, if/when it turns out that Israel needs more air defence and ammunition than expected or Trump drags NATO "partners" into another Afghanistan-style land war
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hat er doch vielleicht - nur dass der Controller am anderen Ende des Lenkdrahts auf einem Bürotisch irgendwo in Washington bereitliegt
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Mossad probably has everything a good housewife could dream of, but Israel also has nukes of unknown range...