I think Ukraine can only pull off a big attack like this a few times. Not because they’re incapable, or Russia, now aware of the method, can defend against it, but because each attack generates data. The more data you have, the greater the ability to analyze and spot patterns, which puts Ukrainian operators at risk.

Although it would be excellent if another attack happened very soon against another relatively irreplaceable Russian asset. But a campaign of smaller scale harassment throughout the country would suffice to harm morale and keep supply constraints, well, constrained.

Double homocide.

Disclaimer, I’m just a rando with a search habit. Not like, a professional analyst.

It’s maybe not the dumbest to use them in this way - their carrying capacity meant fewer sorties per pound of munition delivered.

But also, it seems like Russia is picking and choosing how it deploys resources, presumably so its more advanced jets do not have to be put at risk (there are various reasons for why that may be so - the linked article discusses them).

The other side of it is that keeping the strategic fleet demonstrably in use signals to other countries that Russia may be able to back up their nuclear saber-rattling.

Definitely a bokeh effect. Shallow DOF would still have captured the whiskers.

But I don’t doubt it’s a ‘real’ photo. I don’t generally like the iPhone portrait mode because of its artificial DOF. I mean, unless I’m going for that — but it’s tricky because it pulls nonsense like the above photo.

[Bevis chuckle]

Yeah! Show us your kitty, OP! Show us all your holes!

I love Lemmy.

So. Honestly, I’m in over my head on a couple projects that I thought were going to be “easy enough.”

I’m new to the entire “type” of project I’m building - ESP32’s with displays. The starter project is a ‘magic 8 ball.’ I have one of these already and figure the gyro/accelerometer can capture the shake/flip motion. The more complex one is intended to be backed by ESPHome and use a motion sensor/Bluetooth presence detection to deliver customized messages in addition to providing smart home control.

In the course of trying to figure them out, it’s become apparent I’m going to have to learn/use LVGL for the graphics. I haven’t yet gotten to LVGL and I already am on the struggle bus.

And ears so big they can be used as handles. For reasons.

I was planning to, but work has been hell today. I’ve barely had any time to shitpost.

Ope, now I regret deleting my edited explanation! That is an excellent response to my accidental comment.

My immediate thought was “That’s not all they’re going to be hitting…”

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I’d be fine with it, but my wife barely likes men. There’s no way I could convince her to find me a gaming buddy.

(I kid! I’d actually rather she find someone that knows C++.)

Or mastodon.

I dug a bit deeper still after the above comment, and my additional findings ostensibly seem to contradict your sentiments, but actually lend credence to them.

Quoting myself (roughly) -

It looks like they ran out of ATACMS in March and the U.S. has been sending the significantly less effective GLSDB as a replacement.

Well, shit.

Biden did that.

I’ll have at recalibrate my thoughts a bit.

I misread the headline as “dead ghost” initially.

Your idea + my misreading = what poltergeists refer to as a horror movie.

Edit: After reading the article, it sounds like a horror movie already. I hope all parties involved get the help they need.

They were convicted of conspiracy in federal court in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 2022. […] They are being held at a prison in Colorado

The state would have to charge them with something the Feds didn’t already charge them with (due to double indemnity laws), then issue warrants for their arrest, and hope they get arrested or turn themselves in. One of them doesn’t live in Michigan. I can’t imagine the other would move back. They could be extradited by another state, but then they have to be retried.

Still better than nothing, at least if they do get a bullshit pardon, they would maybe always have the specter of criminal charges hanging over them, and would fail any comprehensive background check. But they wouldn’t be in a cell in the interim.

Yeah - I mean. I’m not an economic analyst by any means, but a lot of people keep expecting a housing market “correction” in the U.S., but one keeps not materializing.

Usually consumer sentiment is self-fulfilling, but the market and the government seem intent on white knuckling their way through this, through whatever shenanigans they have to pull. Ultimately, I sort of think a hyperinflation scenario is becoming more likely.

My presumption is he’s throwing a fit because Greenland signed a mineral rights deal with the EU.

That’s unlikely to happen, and in my layperson’s understanding, that’s probably as bad as a collapse in housing prices.

The U.S. housing market is currently supply constrained, according to this Brookings podcast.

Between the above supply constraints, corporations/venture capital funds snapping up houses, yo-yoing tariffs either driving up costs or creating uncertainty for builders, and climate change rendering millions of homes uninsurable/unfixable in case of disaster, the demand will only increase.

At the same time, a weakening dollar and soaring rates will make houses more expensive to buy and finance.

There will be a real-estate reckoning. I just don’t see it happening irrespective of other factors. I’m more worried about people who don’t have a house or don’t have some way to protect themselves from the economic hell that has yet to unfold.