RE: Russian lawmakers authorize Putin to use military force outside the country
07-15-2022, 06:13 PM
07-15-2022, 06:13 PM
There are really four problems in Germany:
1. Gas in electrical generation. This one's easy, as the electrons are fungible and they have already been working towards green power.
2. Gas in heating. This one needs infrastructure changes, but can make cheap incremental progress with heat pumps and the like.
3. Petrol in cars. Same as above, but progress is more expensive, though smaller volume is easier to make up with tankers.
4. Gas in industrial processes. Would take infrastructure changes that take sections of the economy offline.
Even a climatologist like me worries about the idea of ripping the bandage off. I like the idea of hard date targets for abandoning fossil fuel use in specific industries. But that doesn't change the fact that Germany is paying for a genocide this time around. But most Germans would rather support Ukraine than see energy prices drop. Except AfD, naturally.
In other news, the European Space Agency has kicked Roscosmos out of the club, and is no longer using a Russian launch vehicle for the ExoMars rover. This will cause them to completely miss the next launch window. Russia retaliated by saying they will not use the European robot arm on the space station. Since this is the only arm to service the Russian modules, it's more of a foot-gun. Still, we should expect Russian soldiers to know how to load vehicles by hand, since the Russian army seems to like to load artillery shells one at a time into trucks rented from U-Haul.
Meanwhile, Ukraine has no problem with rockets going to Russia to say "Hi, Mars!" Oh wait, that's HIMARS. Well, close enough. I'm not sure how well they're working, but HIMARS has already been beatified, and is looking to join Saint Javelin soon.
Russia seems to be using its missiles to attack mostly civilian targets, while Ukraine uses its to attack ammunition depots and kill more Orcish generals. I guess if the V1 rockets worked well enough for Germany to end the war, maybe a rocket terror strategy will work well here too? Russia hasn't been designated a terrorist state, but the US State Department has issued a travel advisory to avoid all events where large numbers of people gather in all parts of Ukraine, as they may be targeted by rockets. So, you know, not a terrorist state but just needing the exact same warning as we give countries with terrorists. Got it.
Russia seems most likely to be out of the Paris 2024 Olympics. This isn't really from the top -- almost all of the international athletic federations have prohibited Russians and Belarusians from from participating. But they could still qualify in tennis, judo, and cycling! Not sure why those three. But they'd still need to win enough competitions to qualify. For a country that has twice started a war during the Olympic truce in the past decade, and has a repeated, endemic, state-sponsored doping problem, it's not hard to understand why we ended up here.
-- Estonia also buying HIMARS missile system
-- Video of Ukrainian fighter shooting down a cruise missile. Fighter jets doing a lot of air defense these days
-- Russian denazification effort continues to concentrate on areas of Ukraine rich in natural gas resources
-- EU orders Lithuania to allow transport of goods to Kaliningrad enclave
-- Eiffel Tower lit up in Ukrainian colors for Bastille Day
-- Ukrainians the only ones sad that Boris Johnson is leaving office
-- Russia seems to like making large, inflammable ammunition depots near rail
-- HIMARS also likes large, inflammable ammunition depots
-- Russia in an "operational pause" after generals, supply depots explode
-- NASA fire detection satellites show a lot less pixels emitting a lot of infrared light after HIMARS arrived
-- Ukraine still advancing in Kherson
-- Russian(Soviet) military doctrine includes lots and lots of artillery. But NATO artillery arriving in Ukraine has 10km more range than Russian artillery. (ignore the putin-bot in the comments section) Soviet era guns also don't come equipped with GPS.
-- But Russia can just take out the guns with its air superi... never mind.
-- Patron still extremely cute
1. Gas in electrical generation. This one's easy, as the electrons are fungible and they have already been working towards green power.
2. Gas in heating. This one needs infrastructure changes, but can make cheap incremental progress with heat pumps and the like.
3. Petrol in cars. Same as above, but progress is more expensive, though smaller volume is easier to make up with tankers.
4. Gas in industrial processes. Would take infrastructure changes that take sections of the economy offline.
Even a climatologist like me worries about the idea of ripping the bandage off. I like the idea of hard date targets for abandoning fossil fuel use in specific industries. But that doesn't change the fact that Germany is paying for a genocide this time around. But most Germans would rather support Ukraine than see energy prices drop. Except AfD, naturally.
In other news, the European Space Agency has kicked Roscosmos out of the club, and is no longer using a Russian launch vehicle for the ExoMars rover. This will cause them to completely miss the next launch window. Russia retaliated by saying they will not use the European robot arm on the space station. Since this is the only arm to service the Russian modules, it's more of a foot-gun. Still, we should expect Russian soldiers to know how to load vehicles by hand, since the Russian army seems to like to load artillery shells one at a time into trucks rented from U-Haul.
Meanwhile, Ukraine has no problem with rockets going to Russia to say "Hi, Mars!" Oh wait, that's HIMARS. Well, close enough. I'm not sure how well they're working, but HIMARS has already been beatified, and is looking to join Saint Javelin soon.
Russia seems to be using its missiles to attack mostly civilian targets, while Ukraine uses its to attack ammunition depots and kill more Orcish generals. I guess if the V1 rockets worked well enough for Germany to end the war, maybe a rocket terror strategy will work well here too? Russia hasn't been designated a terrorist state, but the US State Department has issued a travel advisory to avoid all events where large numbers of people gather in all parts of Ukraine, as they may be targeted by rockets. So, you know, not a terrorist state but just needing the exact same warning as we give countries with terrorists. Got it.
Russia seems most likely to be out of the Paris 2024 Olympics. This isn't really from the top -- almost all of the international athletic federations have prohibited Russians and Belarusians from from participating. But they could still qualify in tennis, judo, and cycling! Not sure why those three. But they'd still need to win enough competitions to qualify. For a country that has twice started a war during the Olympic truce in the past decade, and has a repeated, endemic, state-sponsored doping problem, it's not hard to understand why we ended up here.
-- Estonia also buying HIMARS missile system
-- Video of Ukrainian fighter shooting down a cruise missile. Fighter jets doing a lot of air defense these days
-- Russian denazification effort continues to concentrate on areas of Ukraine rich in natural gas resources
-- EU orders Lithuania to allow transport of goods to Kaliningrad enclave
-- Eiffel Tower lit up in Ukrainian colors for Bastille Day
-- Ukrainians the only ones sad that Boris Johnson is leaving office
-- Russia seems to like making large, inflammable ammunition depots near rail
-- HIMARS also likes large, inflammable ammunition depots
-- Russia in an "operational pause" after generals, supply depots explode
-- NASA fire detection satellites show a lot less pixels emitting a lot of infrared light after HIMARS arrived
-- Ukraine still advancing in Kherson
-- Russian(Soviet) military doctrine includes lots and lots of artillery. But NATO artillery arriving in Ukraine has 10km more range than Russian artillery. (ignore the putin-bot in the comments section) Soviet era guns also don't come equipped with GPS.
-- But Russia can just take out the guns with its air superi... never mind.
-- Patron still extremely cute
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