https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Vrbětice_ammunition_warehouse_explosions ?

can these things be reflashed?

Manufacturers, knowingly or unknowingly, use commercial-grade PG when making cough syrups to cut costs.

i’d note that there’s zero technical reason why DEG would end up in PG. reaction of water with ethylene oxide gives you ethylene glycol, diethylene glycol and higher analogues and these are then separated by distillation. propylene glycol is made from propylene oxide instead, and it’s more expensive than ethylene oxide. diethylene glycol has little use on its own, at least compared to other glycols

however,

The physical properties of diethylene glycol make it an excellent counterfeit for pharmaceutical-grade glycerine (also called glycerol) or propylene glycol

there is an ancient spell that will help you:

india romeo mike space hotel tango tango papa sierra colon slash slash golf echo tango dot alpha charlie tango india victor alpha tango echo delta dot whisky india november space pipe space india echo xray

this can be dealt with

After the Nazi invasion of Denmark this placed them in danger; it was illegal at the time to send gold out of Germany, and were it discovered that Laue and Franck had done so, they could have faced prosecution. To prevent this, de Hevesy concealed the medals by dissolving them in aqua regia and placing the resulting solution on a shelf in his laboratory at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. After the war, he returned to find the solution undisturbed and precipitated the gold out of the acid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_de_Hevesy#World_War_II_and_beyond

Trains (electric) or pipelines generally won’t, but pipelines aren’t everywhere you need them and trains can’t be used for anything else in this case. Effect is the same: local shortages

so the way i understand it, at first refinery strikes had little impact because other refineries still had slack capacity. but even before that slack capacity was gone, it had a further effect that now fuel was not prepared in places it used to be, so it had to be hauled longer distances. meaning logistics is strained and some fuel is used to haul it, and also now fuel production is more concentrated

at some point that slack capacity was gone and fuel went from not where you need it to not existing at all. there already were shortages in some regions. that and still large demand for fuel for farming caused decrease in exports. there was a refinery that only produces products for export, and its output wouldn’t be directly usable as fuel (they only distilled crude into fractions, still high in sulfur etc) but it was also hit so exports from it don’t matter because these are none

at any rate these developments are on borrowed time because it only takes maybe half year to repair more advanced parts of refinery, so under certain droning intensity they can just roll on. everyone involved knows that, and looks like situation will get worse for russians

oh no, how come my own actions have consequences

coming from people who made nordstream a thing due to this mistake of a policy

at least it’s not schroeder saying that

aluminum bars, they won’t be able to work it into things like with iron. even if they do, they can’t make more

or any other arty, or any competent ATGM, or bomber drone, or mines (perhaps also laid by a drone), or FPVs detonated on command (with EFPs or something like segment of MON-100 mine)

…and that means retirees will literally starve and live on the streets? I don’t think it will. It will just be less luxurious.

you might think that japanese boomers have generational wealth in form of real estate. this is not really the case, especially for rural population. houses aren’t built to last, lose value like motherfucker and are commonly demolished after 20-30 years, in part because people don’t like second hand, in part because there’s no point of building anything sturdier if typhoon or earthquake takes it. there is some newer construction that is intended to last longer, but it’s not a very common thing. so a reverse mortgage type thing won’t exist there, and yeah lots of people will get shafted by these conditions

that’s no news, that’s China’s final warning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China’s_final_warning

you realize they had one in the past?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_lucidity ?

you don’t put these SIMs in phones, these go into dedicated devices with very limited functions that pretend to look like phones to operator, dozens per. it can work like a proxy with massive number of outputs

stuff like this https://www.vice.com/en/article/video-ukraine-busts-alleged-russian-bot-farm-using-thousands-of-sim-cards/

also, presumably lots of these cards got burned quite fast, so not all were active at the same time, and some were spares

drone strike or railway mine? why would the train be partially derailed if its a drone strike

beats lignite i guess

in 90s, russian oil production dropped by almost half, and rebuilding that output took some 20 years. i thought it was because when you stop using oil well, all these sediments settle and over time it becomes harder to draw oil from it. or was it all undermaintained and they just capped a bunch of wells back then?

yeah, that’s the wildly optimistic bit