thepreciousboar

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[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

With a thick smoke noone will be crossing the bridge, so it's safe to bomb.

(/s but not too muchI guess)

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 14 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

So that's a bridge. They can get the coordinates very simply just from google maps. Ukraine jas access to modern western weapons which I assume are gps-guided. How effective really is a smoke screen unless Russia is able to jam gps signals over a 19km long bridge?

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 18 points 2 weeks ago

I wonder why they escaped... They come from the most oppressive country in the world and suddenly they are trasported in the middle of Europe. I guess many places would be happy to take them. If I were one of those soldiers, I would learn how to say "I surrender" and "I know where russians troops sleep" in ukrainian

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 12 points 3 weeks ago

Indeed you should if you are not too hot. For diseases that can be cured otherwise do that first (antibiotics for batterial infections), there are still not good medicines for virus infection, so better let your body fight the infection and decrease your temperature only if too high

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You pay a small tax for public channels (that should have no ads) and you pay for satellite tv

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

Booby trapping violate the same traties, especially hiding explosives in food. If ukrained wanted to commit war crimes, they would choose the smart way, this is just idiotic russians feeding lies to idiotic people

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago

It is not, but it's also hard to notice as a tourist. I've learnt that from here

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

(Assuming you mean DVB-T). In some place OTA is just the standard. Where I'm from cable TV is simply unheard of and all terrestrial digital channels are free with varying degree of ads.

Another great example of how things work so different in different parts of the world

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You forgot language

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That matches my experience. My great aunt lost her husband 15 years ago, but kept going strong and relatively healthy up until 92, then her last sister died (quite unexpectedly) and her health started visibly deteriorating.

After a long hospitalization she got back home, but couldn't walk anymore. We were prepared to a long recovery, but after some promising days, as you said, she ate and talked less every day that passed, at one point she actively refused to eat and drink and just laid in bad. The last day or two she made noises and laments, but was basically unresponsive, with audible stops in breathing that increased as time got along. The only moments of lucidity were when she needed to go to the bathroom (absolutely physically unable to). We believed it was mostly for pride over wearing diapers and to have a last glimpse on independance.

Then she died and we all agreed at some point she just refused to live on, too old and too alone to handle the world. I wonder how much was a concious decision and how much a simple reduction in self preservation (maybe an automatic response of the body when getting to a real old age? I don't know).

Anyway, our biggest relief was that we could bring her home, so she died in peace surrounded by family.

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Looks like a field that can be cultivated, maybe they wanted to preserve it? Or simply too close to infrastructure or civil areas? Or they removed the charge and detonated it while keeping the rest of the bomb to study it? I don't know, just guessing, would be curious to know as well

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 51 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A big part of communication is learning to modulate your language registers. If you speak like a scientic paper is written when talking with your friends, people look strange at you.

Also, sometimes simpler communocation is just more effective communication

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