I don’t think it favours their military at all. I think the war is grinding the Russian military and economy into dust. The prolonging of the facade is only done because Putin is backed into a corner. If peace is actually declared he has to face the music at home, something he is not prepared to do.

Keeping the war going is the only thing Putin knows will keep him alive. He’s not winning though, as much as he’s trying.

It’s hard to imagine how it could develop in such a ragtag, depoliticized, nihilistic society. Not to mention a lot of those soldiers are just mercenaries.

I think most of them don’t care at all about honour and are just hoping for a payday and to keep their head down until they can go home. Seems like such a dim hope!

I think it’s a pretty safe bet that Putin has tried to keep as many of his eggs in different baskets as possible. Having Epstein manage a bit of his money would be pretty low risk if he’s got most of it in other ventures.

For all the many public failures Putin has had over the past few years, he’s proved himself frustratingly resilient. He’s like some kind of nuclear powered cockroach.

I think this is where we’re really starting to see modern society break down. We’ve gotten to the point where we all live and coexist in a space but there’s nothing binding us together, as community, other than the law. Turns out that if we assume there will always be people who try twist and exploit the law to their own advantage then the law itself no longer works as a tool for building a free and just society.

In the past, we had other systems such as community norms and traditions which tended to be much more adept at dealing with rule-benders. Where did we go wrong?

They’ve also been importing soldiers from other countries, letting mercenaries fight for them. Those will eventually run out too but it’ll take a lot longer. There are a lot of men in global south countries who will take what they think is easy money. They have no idea at all what they’re getting into.

He was just released from prison and kidnapped shortly after. This raises the suspicion that his release was a sham. If that’s the case then he wasn’t really kidnapped since he was never really free, despite being briefly outside prison.

Safety of the tank in terms of evading capture. If the tank explodes instead of just being disabled, it’s useless to capture.

Yes I think we’re approaching the territory of submarines that can visit the bottom of the ocean!

Depends on the capacity, but in general it would have really heavy reinforced walls, like a really high pressure boiler.

I have an instant pot and an espresso machine. The instant pot can manage maybe 2 bar, the espresso machine up to 4 (in its boiler). Both are pretty heavy construction.

Just for further reference, 27 bar of pressure is equivalent to 268 meters depth under the ocean. There’s no way a home oven can be built to contain that amount of pressure.

You may set your oven to 230C and put a dish of water in there, but if you placed a wireless temperature probe in the water the temperature would be at or below 100C until the water boiled away and the probe was exposed directly to air and steam. No matter how hard you tried you could not get a reading much above 100C with the probe immersed in liquid water.

At 230C without a sealed pressure vessel there’s no way the temperature probe is still functioning as a wet bulb thermometer. That temperature in your oven is going to be dry bulb.

A wet bulb thermometer measures the temperature with the probe completely immersed in liquid water. At 230C there won’t be any liquid water at anywhere near atmospheric pressure. 230C corresponds to a saturated steam pressure of 27 bar or 2.7MPa (391 PSI). That’s nearly 10 times the pressure in a pressure cooker at max temperature.

To clarify, that’s outdoors. If you buy a steam combi-oven (fancy tech for food nerds), it has a wet bulb thermometer in it for cooking with steam. You can easily hit wet bulb temperatures in the 90C+ range (100C just does not work due to the lack of pressure seals).

Instant Pot could do wet bulb temps above 100C if they actually had a temperature probe inside the pot itself. They tend not to bother, for cost reasons.

At this point I’m surprised when Putin is telling the truth. He lies so much it’s just easier to assume he’s lying and wait to see if there’s actually any evidence for what he’s saying.

I predicted that this story about an attack on his residence was a lie. Putin does not want peace. Every time they get closer to an agreement he pulls back. He knows that the peace will lead to him getting Gaddafi’d.

They’re clearly remoras which can attach and detach at will:

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You flood their market with cheap food and you put all their domestic farmers out of business.

Dumping charity on developing countries rarely works. You need to help them invest in their economy. This was shown with that micro loans paper (which won a Nobel prize).

The range matters. If you’re taking T prescribed by your doctor to get within the normal range for your gender (regardless of reason, whether you’re trans or if you have T deficiency as a cis man) then you won’t be barred from competition.

Where you cross the line is when you inject T to go above the normal range in order to build muscle and recover faster. That’s what’s considered doping and doctors can’t ethically prescribe that.

At the time when Oscar Pistorious was competing, there was an actual conversation around the fear that people would get their legs amputated so they could get prosthetics like he had if it would gain them a competitive advantage. No one actually knew if his prosthetic legs gave a real advantage because there was no way to do a comparison without having a real athlete go through the amputations.

If you look into the scene around body building and the extreme lengths people go to with steroids, extreme diets, dehydration and more, it doesn’t seem all that implausible that some people would transition in order to gain a competitive advantage. Heck, some people deliberately get their legs broken in order to stretch out the bones just so they can be taller (no competitive reason). That’s an extremely painful process undergone for less extreme reasons.

Right, but before he became a murderer he was an inspiration to many people.

The news of his trial hit many people like a punch in the gut. How could such an inspirational person commit such a horrible crime? It was one of the worst feelings of betrayal experienced by the public.