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[–] Skua@kbin.social 4 points 5 months ago

The small one is an E30 3 series and the big one is an X7 (pre-2022). The X7 does get slightly better fuel consumption than that, 27-29 mpg on the petrol engine. The 3 series is probably somewhere in the low 20s based on forum posts but I'm not sure where to get actual data for that one, and I've got no idea which engine is in it

[–] Skua@kbin.social 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Courtesy of /u/idiot206's sleuthing work when this was posted to reddit a couple years back, it's a modded Mac SE

https://www.cultofmac.com/229732/this-13-pound-vintage-mac-laptop-was-killed-by-the-sony-walkman/

[–] Skua@kbin.social 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Oh, that I'm not sure of. I misunderstood what you were asking, sorry about that

While I don't know about actual jets launching munitions over Russian airspace, Ukraine did successfully hit a Shahed drone factory over 1,000 km from the Russia-Ukraine border with what appears to have been one of these light aircraft converted to be unmanned. So Russia's air defence is definitely not impenetrable.

[–] Skua@kbin.social 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Well they've been flying Su-24s, and the F-16s certainly shouldn't be any less capable than those for this sort of thing

Can Ukraine use stormshadows within Russia?

The UK okayed it a couple of weeks ago, France this week

[–] Skua@kbin.social 8 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Nice gesture but why would Ukraine risk losing their new toys on adventurism where is work closer to to home to be done.

Where the frontline is close to the official border, Russia is able to keep its artillery and logistics on the Russian side of the border where Ukraine is not allowed to use half of its equipment. Russia's ongoing Kharkiv offensive is an example of this

Now if they were supplying rockets with ranges over 200km

France and Britain have been supplying the storm shadow missile, which has almost three times that range. Ukraine has been launching it from its own Su-24 aircraft, but those are very old and there aren't a lot of them left. The F-16 could be a good new platform to launch them from. As I understand it, storm shadow and F-16 are not compatible out of the box and would need some modification, but the same was true for the Su-24 and that appears to have worked out

[–] Skua@kbin.social 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well considering both the EU and NATO have articles of mutual defence, they've already agreed to it twice (or once, for Norway and Iceland). I'm not sure sinking a ships qualifies as an escalatory response to bombing bases and sinking ships though. At that point the escalation has already happened.

[–] Skua@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago

Well since neither of them included any sort of language to the effect of "Russia gets to invade if the terms of this agreement aren't upheld", I'm gonna go with more than two. Especially considering DPR forces kept pushing for Debaltseve after both agreements.

[–] Skua@kbin.social 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Console commands also let you apply some non-spell effects as enchantments. If you want to have a bit of fun cheating, you can put a max strength fus ro dah on a hammer and pretend to be Thor

[–] Skua@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago

If you read the article you will see that it is about importing materials like rare earth metals from China

[–] Skua@kbin.social 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I will admit that I did not intentionally include Cornwall; keeping the white between the black and blue was just a matter of keeping the two visually distinct (and the old "rule" of tincture). However if it does qualify as a representation of Cornwall too, I'm on board. Call it a happy accident.

[–] Skua@kbin.social 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The graphic seems to be going by intention. Same reason that the narrow white diagonals are only part of the St Patrick's cross and not part of the St Andrew's one, even though the Scottish flag does also have white there.

I suppose if you continued the logic of your version, you could also count a small diagonal cross in the centre for Northern Ireland too

[–] Skua@kbin.social 9 points 5 months ago (6 children)

I humbly present my proposal to include Wales https://imgur.com/a/tIrnplu

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