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Probably not.

The gas piston engine didn't just power cars, it also powered aircraft, armoured vehicles, and trucks. Anyone using electric vehicles by the time World War 2 broke out against a gas piston enemy would've been constantly outmanoeuvred and outgunned. And the logistics chains to bring men and materials to the front of the enemy's front lines would've been far faster then any electric trucks at the time. Especially without the modern day micro controllers that make modern battery management systems possible.

Problem is I don't think Russia is ever going to agree to to the point of Ukraine becoming a protectorate of the EU without having legal authority to veto EU military intervention in Ukraine. And I severely doubt Ukraine's is going to agree to give up to give up those lands without a security guarantee that Russia can't veto.

Sides, Russia's got nukes. It's nuke's are the whole reason why the US and Europe has been reluctant to intervene. If, in this scenario, Russia invades Ukraine again and then simple say that it will launch it's warheads at any nation that attempts to intervene, what then?

>That's why local militias from overseas were decided by themselves to organize an "election" about whether the "Republic of Crimea" should declare independence or on the other hand if the "Republic of Crimea" should declare independence. And afterwards these militias finally got to join the Russian forces, for which they all had completed the necessary paperwork years ago.

... Putin said that the little green men were Russian military. http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/20796 It's translated servicemen but basically military.

> This completely breaks my mind as well. Sure, Ukraine has a very ... odd ... relationship with their Nazi past, but Putin was acting as if the Nazis from the dark side of the moon had descended upon Ukraine. And then this issue is turned into a "btw. footnote" during all negotiation attempts.

The best theory I've heard, and admittedly these theories put forward by American, is that Putin is lying about the Nazi's. To him at least, part of his world view appears to be in effect that there is Ukraine. In short that Ukraine is a mistake done by Lenin forced about by a anti Russian agenda of some kind, and that erasing the imagine imaginary line between Ukraine and Russia is necessary to return Russia to the world stage like it was it was part of the USSR.

No idea how true it is but it makes more sense then any other explanation I've heard thus far. And the Kremlin has published an essay by Putin that seems to support that world view even if he's very flowery about it. http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181

That and there's the theory that Putin himself was being fed in effect bad intelligence about both the readiness of his own armed forces as well as the general attitude of Ukrainians towards Russians; namely that the Ukrainians would welcome Russian liberation. Not so much out of malice, but the fact that a lot of folks were telling Putin what they thought he wanted to hear. Given what Putin did to his rivals, not too hard to make a guess why they wouldn't want to give him bad news.

>Most people dont believe this, but Russia doesnt want Ukrainian territory except for Crimea (due to its strategic control over the Strait of Kerch, I assume). This is because of the utter mess it'll cause in the future.

... Ooookay. ...So I've got a really big problem with that theory. Mostly because the actions that Russian military has taken indicates that they want nothing short but to take Ukraine in it's entirety, but were ill prepared for what they got.

But suppose you say is true. What purpose does seizing and holding does Kherson serve to in keeping the control over Crimea and the Strait of Kerch, exactly? It's on the other side of Crimea from Russia. Why attempt go even further and seize Odessa?

Why open a northern front in the Kharkiv Oblast? It's on the opposite side of Ukraine.

Why try to open a front from Belarus into Kyiv?

That's an awful lot of fronts to open up to try take territory that Russia does not want.

>IMO Russia is genuinely scared of Ukraine joining NATO, hence when Ukraine joined the NATO EOP program (used by Sweden and Finland to join NATO) Russia began preparing the 2022 invasion.

First, neither Sweden nor Finland entered into the EOP until after 2014. They were interoperable and friendly, but the EOP didn't happen until May in 2014. Directly in response to the rhe Russian annexation of was more or less done in April of 2014.

Second, Russia got that when they seized Crimea. Ukraine couldn't join even if they wanted at that point by NATO's own rules without renouncing control of Crimea.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't recall him talking about about Greenland or the Panama canal prior to the election either.

You do realize of course that the Russians had already signed the Budapest Memorandum in which the Russian Federation would not use military or economic force against Ukraine except in self defence?

Or Russia's insistence that the Little Green Men in Crimea were not Russians forces, in spite of the fact that somehow these militiamen had the cutting edge of issued Russian Army equipment.

And that the invasion of Ukraine was justified in removing Nazis. As if somehow the single Azov Brigade was somehow actually in control of Ukraine.

This whole argument that Ukraine and the EU could stop this slaughter is inane. What exactly would make you think think Russia's promises about a peace agreement are worth any more then the agreement they've already willingly broken? What makes you think they're telling the truth this time around when they have been disinclined to do so thus far?

It's unfortunately predictable. IIRC Trump has been consistent about wanting to enable more resource extraction from of the public lands and did so under his last term. I assume he's going to do so again this term, it's mostly a question of when and how much.

No, the administration is lying. We Canadians were getting the blunt end of it.

I don't think it's been covered much in American media but President Trump is throwing threats of 25% tariffs on both Mexican and Canadian imports for the last month or so. First it was about how it would make manufacturing move back to the US. Then it was about how Canada is a national threat to the US because we're allowing fentanyl and illegal immigrants to cross in the US. Then it was about how the US was in terrible the trade deal with Canada and Mexico was (it was his deal, the USMCA that replaced NAFTA). Then it was how the US subsidizes Canada because Canada is a failing state and that the US was spending $200 billion a year propping up Canada. Then it was that Canada wasn't meeting it's NATO spending targets. Then it was that Canada is a failed state, and that everything would be better if Canada became the 51st state.

Every day it seemed like his narrative is changing. And when we had our retaliatory tariffs at the ready to cause harm to Republican states, you know what he did?

He blinked. The tariffs for Canada and Mexico were postponed until March. He's been consistent about telegraphing what his actions are going to be, but his justifications are so wildly all over the place that frankly it's probably safe to assume he's lying at least about his motivations.

And if he's willing to lie to one of the oldest allies to the United States, is it really that much of a stretch to think that he could be lying to Americans as well?

Rumour mill is that the Japanese government was pressuring Honda to merge with Nissan to save Nissan. During a press conference the CEO of Honda Toshihiro Mibe couldn't articulate a reason justifying the merger.

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/honda-s-ceo-struggles-t...

Anyone that owns an EV currently won't be affected. New building codes usually allow for grandfathering in existing installations until the next time there's renovation requiring an update to the building's electrical.

This only affects new builds after the codes come into force. EVSE manufacturers will just have to adapt.

Cause you can manipulate multiple services in a single command? Not a big deal when you're looking at one or two services but when you've got a 5 to 15 interlinked and interdependent services and in situations where you may not want to restart everything, it's nice to just have one CLI with tab completion to deal with that.

I just googled the same thing. Quite frankly I don't blame OP for getting it wrong, because the top result is from Cornell University.

> The accepted view: Bicycles are stable because of the gyroscopic effect of the spinning front wheel or because the front wheel "trails" behind the steering axis, or both.

https://ezramagazine.cornell.edu/summer11/researchspotlight....

If you're not already read into bicycle or motorcycle dynamics, the top google result sounds reasonable. Which makes it all the more ironic because they're talking about research which demonstrates, among other things, that it's a misconception to believe that gyroscopic forces are necessary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcZCzr9ExKk

I'd imagine the concern is the radioactive dust / fallout getting stuck onto the vehicle, clothes, and hair which would increase your exposure time; getting through that zone as quick as possible could limit that dust sticking. But that's just my guess.

I can believe it to some degree. Believing that what the killer did is wrong, and being unsympathetic to Brian Thompson's death isn't mutually exclusive.

True the underlying scam is the same, but the operating costs have gotten quite a bit cheaper. Before one person could only call one target at a time, today with a good SIP trunk a single person can target thousands of numbers a day and not even have to be present. It can be just a background task running on their desktop while the scammer goes to their normal 9 to 5.

It's starting to get a bit more common but in a roundabout way. Telus managed Wifi routers can provides isolated guest networks, which AFAIK uses VLAN's and firewall rules internally. It's not visible to the end user though.

https://www.telus.com/en/support/article/create-a-guest-netw...

To a degree. You have to keep in mind that a hospital emergency room isn't legally permitted to turn you away even if you can't pay under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act.

So the wealthy and insured are covered. The lowest rungs and those that don't care and will just run away are covered. It's mostly lower / middle lower class that this really hurts, ironically.

>Quite a few cities have actually solved this problem. They provide housing and all of the additional services, like hygiene facilities, food, and security. Granted, they only solve it for certain cohorts, but it demonstrates that it is rather trivially solvable. That's going to lead to hot political quarreling, so it's a good place to stop.

Most of those services are available AFAIK, there's charities in most major Canadian cities that provide those basics. Without them the homeless population would probably be triple what you can see, and from what I've heard the majority just need it short term to get back on their feet.

But they can only offer those to people without substance abuse problems (drugs and alcohol are banned in those shelters), and those are the folks you'll mostly see out and about. You'd need some sort of institution with far greater resources to handle those, like an asylum. North America just seems to have a sordid history with the like.

Mikrotik maybe? I don't know if they're any good but they have a statement on the bottom of the page indicating software updates to either end of product life or minimum of 5 years after purchase date.

> There's no significant savings to be found by killing the terminally ill more quickly

...Uh...

"Summary table 1 presents the net financial impact of providing MAID in 2021, under the current legislation as set out in bill C-14, which is used as a baseline for the cost estimate. The predicted gross reduction in health care costs amounts to $109.2 million while the cost of administering MAID is estimated at $22.3 million. Thus, the difference between the two represents a net cost reduction for provincial governments of $86.9 million."

-COST ESTIMATE FOR BILL C-7 “MEDICAL ASSISTANCE IN DYING”, 2021, https://publications.gc.ca/site/eng/9.893653/publication.htm...

It's small in the scheme of healthcare budgets, but it's a stretch to call it not significant.

It's charitable. Cold snaps in Prairies can pretty easily hit -35, dropping down to -55 with windchill. You'll get frostbite on exposed skin in 2 minutes at those temperatures.

Most homeless will either take stay in one of the shelters available in the cities, or sneak onto the many freight trains heading towards the cities with milder climates when it starts getting cold. They'll head back when it starts to warm up again. A bus ticket is just enables the journey to be a lot more comfortable.

How would a single armed robot handle oversized luggage or luggage with weird centre of mass? Or poorly packed luggage who's centre of mass is shifting?

Say golf club hard shells case where the owner's left a bunch of golf balls in the bottom of one of the pockets. It's difficult to tell that one end's quite a lot heavier then the other until you actually try to pick it up.

At least to me I don't see a good way of handling this edge case. You'd need either a second manipulator, a very fast feedback system, or a way for the weird luggage to be diverted for human intervention.

The wind farm is being disconnected from the South West Power Pool. It won't be selling power publicly anymore, it will only be used for mining.

They're basically stand ins for family doctors. About 17% of Canadians no longer have access to primary care physicians and have to rely on either walk ins, urgent care, or the emergency room.

COVID was a big one; lot of doctors decided to just retire at once. But primary care physicians are facing issues of the workforce aging out. I think about 18,000 of the 48,000 primary care physicians are set to retire by 2030, but we only add in about 1600 new primary care physicians a year. So by we'll be down by 8400 primary care physicians by 2030 and then however many years it takes to back fill to 2024 levels.

Meanwhile Canada's increased it's population from 37 million in 2019 to 41 million in 2024, with projections of us hitting around 43 to 44 million by 2030.

Most of it stems from the fact that lot of doctors don't want to be primary care physicians. The hours aren't terrible but the pay is low good compared to their specialist care counterparts, and they have far more administrative overhead then any other specialty. And often the work is miserable and thankless. I can't remember who said it but IIRC family doctors have the highest burn out rate out of all physicians.

This is all third hand information so take it for what it's worth, and I'm assuming that I've got an overly simplified view of the issue. Someone in the medical field could probably answer better then me.

There is a dedicated 'rat patrol' as well but for the most part it's a government phone number and then reliance on citizen reporting. Penalties are fines and destruction of the animal in question.

>we can't work metal

........? North America and China are about equal in terms of steel and aluminum working expertise. Really not sure where you're getting that idea...

Blender's not really well suited for dicing dry foods, they typically need some sort of liquid to bring the solids down to the blades.

Food processor might be more what you're thinking about but it's more so for dice or mince. You won't ever really get an even chop out of a processor.

It's hilariously wrong at times, but the problem is when people take what an LLM model spits out as fact.

Just an example was in a mild debate I was having regarding cars, the other person posed a question about how fast a Golf Type R could get in a specific distance and Chat GPT spat out a number that the other person accepted as fact, but I already knew it was too high.

What ChatGPT done was taken the posted 0 to 60 time and extrapolated a linear distance vs velocity formula. Which was impressive granted, but wrong; velocity over distance is logarithmic at best.

It's a great tool, but I think a lot of people are just taking what it spits out without slowing down to question if the output makes sense or not.

Nope, at least last I saw around 2021, Samsung and LG were moving their commercial displays to include Tizen and WebOS as well.

I don't know about the other supliers though.

??? The average BYD line autoworker earns $640 to $840 USD a month, but that require overtime; 1.5x pay on weekdays and 2x pay on weekends.

BYD Wuxi workers went on strike in 2021 because BYD was trying to restructure to eliminate overtime, which would effectively drop the workers wage to under $400 USD a month.

Well, the big seller is Canadian. RAV4 comes out of Woodstock, Ontario.