Saeculum

In most of the world, $800,000 is enough money that you and your wife would never have to work another day in your lives. Even in Canada that's 20-ish years of the median household income.

It's like "I play baseball" vs "I play sports".

I think more like "I play baseball" Vs "I play softball/rounders/cricket".

It's not that difficult to convince people who enjoy little league to try standard baseball.

People complain about it a lot, but I've never actually ran into a system that uses any maths beyond what a five-year-old should be capable of. Closest I think might be Mutants and Masterminds with stacking multipliers, but still just some extra steps. Nothing that knowing your times tables wouldn't prepare you for.

The Facebook stuff is mostly old stable diffusion models or Dalle, because they're free and relatively easy to use. Midjourney and the newer stable diffusion models get it right most of the time, and have an inpainting feature so you can tell the computer to do that bit again when they don't.

Well, that's nice to see.

They've been able to do hands fine for months now.

The earth has enough resources to give a good quality of life to everyone living on it and more besides. The failure of capitalism to provide well planned urban communities, fair wages or QoL is not reflective of human nature.

I assume this is something you can't find a torrent for? You could always try the quick and dirty method of just taking a screen capture for the length of whatever it is you're watching.

Bears are extinct in my country and all the cool caves got used to make cheese.

While piracy isn't stealing, piracy does decrease profits of the rightful owner.

Only if you would otherwise have bought it. If you never had any intention to buy the thing, the rightful owner loses nothing.

This means that you have to train crews for each specific tank, and if one tank breaks down, you cannot use parts of another tank to repair it.

Sure, but they have trained crews for each specific tank.

Nobody in Europe wants to fight Russia, the calls for conscription are much more likely to topple pro NATO governments than accomplish anything else. People are already literally rioting all across Europe, and anti war parties are gaining popularity by the day.

I don't know what riots you're talking about, the pension protests in France? The farmers protests in Germany, Belgium and the UK?

Anti-Russian sentiment is very strong, especially in Eastern Europe, and most of the large nations are likely to have enough volunteers to remove the need for conscription in the mid term.

Nothing of the sort happened. Only thing EU managed to achieve was to drive up the price.

Ammunition production across Europe has significantly increased, and continues to increase, the price has gone up per shell sure, but that doesn't contradict an increase in production.

The only western source that provides any actual methodology puts Russian losses at around 47k, it's absurd to call that considerable for a country with a population of 140 million.

The source you linked doesn't place losses "around" 47k, it established 47k as the absolute minimum, and provides a higher estimate based on excess mortality. With roughly 100k dead, you'd normally expect to see 2-3x that in injuries rending personnel unfit for service with modern battlefield medicine, and 300-400k gone is more than the entire Russian active combat personnel before the escalation of the war in 2022.

Russia has already stated that they will continue to push in Ukraine and will directly engage NATO if NATO decides to put boots on the ground. This an existential war for Russia, and it's not about Ukraine. The war is about NATO expansion, and Russia will call NATO bluffs.

Assuming it is a bluff. Russia is already bordered by NATO in the Baltic for hundreds of miles, it can survive a NATO Ukraine in the same way that China has survived being surrounded by US allies along it's entire eastern border.

Oh tanks? Sure, tons of different ones, though standardisation is somewhat less important for those since they already have the facilities and engineers trained to support them.