Russia had large reserves of money at the start of the war which allowed them to ride out the initial sanctions. They also massively pivoted their econony to produce military equipment because of the amount of equipment they were losing. Neither of those are sustainable for long and the only cards they have left are (greatly discounted) oil sales to China and India, and conscription (which would be incredibly unpopular) which is why they have been using North Korean soldiers.

All of this is like a hole in Russia’s fuel tank, which would be ok if they could finish the war quickly, but their advance has been so slow that the frontlines are mere kilometers from where they were two years ago and if this doesn’t change they will run out of steam and be unable to continue.

Can confirm, I regularly do

Musk didn’t found Tesla

They could stop paying their CEO so much and hire a few more devs, refocus their identity on privacy and performance (their offline ai translation is actually really useful), and actually give people the sense that their donations will be well spent.

Asking an llm isn’t research, he might as well have been consulting a magic 8 ball.

All I see is *******?

And armholes

Yes this is a small(ish) offline deepseek model

But they’re propping up the mattress!

Circumnavigated

.jxl is the better image format anyway

Carpe Jugulum has vampires who ‘reform’ and integrate into society (but I won’t spoil anything else)

Napoleon the emperor who tried to conquer Europe and nearly succeeded is more famous than the fictional character so that makes sense

I beg you to reconsider

Darth Maul’s toilet brush of choice

It has voice calls and video conferencing, not the same.

Do people not use discord for voice chat? Hop in hop out permanent voice channels that show if your friends are already in or not?

Last I looked you have to use Discord, Teamspeak, or Mumble for this

I would imagine that a demonstration unit has already been sent

This isn’t just jamming signals, it’s microwaving the electronics from a kilometer away so it will work against fibre optic controlled drones as well