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skillissuer, 7 days ago

This thing had a grenade fuze so a little bit less suicidal than that x.com/war_noir/status/1792591036201541906 probably ERA or NERA absorbed it all, no aftermath is shown

skillissuer, 7 days ago

No, ERA is late cold war thing

Kontakt-1 was introduced in 1982, composite armour was introduced earlier

skillissuer, 9 days ago

use vm instead

skillissuer, 9 days ago

it’s a short synthetic peptide with unnatural aminoacids, sure in principle you could make it in completely automated way on SPPS but this is so expensive it’s really for research only. on scale you’d need normal wet synthesis, bucket scale or bigger and this is where things get tricky, especially purificationS and many of them, each intermediate needs one; then analysis and qc of it all. on top of that account for sourcing or synthesis of all these weird bits that you need, including multiple vendors and second options so that nothing gets halted because you’re out of some basic reagent or solvent

this shit is hard but also it’s opposite of career killer. i’m specifically not complaining

skillissuer, 10 days ago

so this also means that if netanyahu loses elections, he can be just sent to hague

skillissuer, 9 days ago

no, the video with him pointing at dead prisoners and complaining about lack of ammo happened a few months later

skillissuer, 9 days ago

He can’t get to heaven, because Girkin will smite him with Buk on the way there

skillissuer, 10 days ago

it must have been delivered before 1978

skillissuer, 10 days ago

that’s not so certain. it also seems that he was supposed to be next supreme leader of iran, and crosssection of competent, fundamentalist enough to current big boss taste and having enough authority in irgc is almost empty now

and on top of that foreign minister that was also onboard was supposed to be next president. expect some power struggles

skillissuer, 10 days ago

this is not a job for an useful idiot, this is job for next grand ayatollah and current one is 85 years old

skillissuer, 10 days ago

at least it was when bits of heli were still on fire

skillissuer, 10 days ago

well Raisi specifically was a serious candidate. Ahmadinejad fell out of favours with Khamenei as he was deemed too nationalist, and Rouhani apparently was too weak on foreign policy

skillissuer, 10 days ago

oh absolutely, but things will become much less stable

skillissuer, 10 days ago

well look it up for yourself, apparently Khamenei jr is most likely pick right now en.wikipedia.org/…/Next_Supreme_Leader_of_Iran_el…

skillissuer, 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

They did, 50 years ago (Bell 212)

skillissuer, 8 days ago

you need to work on your delivery

skillissuer, 11 days ago (edited 11 days ago)

how long? until next sufficiently large solar flare, after climate change strains all infrastructure enough. not like we have that long left

skillissuer, 12 days ago

Has science gone too far?

skillissuer, 6 days ago

i’ve always been of opinion that the best defense against bitcoin mining facility is 120mm mortar

skillissuer, 13 days ago

bits of ballistic missiles with NK markings and there’s some complaining by russians about low accuracy of NK 152mm propellant charges (variable amount of propellant, sometimes missing decoppering wire, decomposition etc)

skillissuer, 13 days ago

NK manufactures and stores empty artillery shells and fills them as needed, because scaling up manufacture of filling plant is easy but scaling up steelworks is hard. This way shell forged in 70s but filled in 2023 is still pretty useful

skillissuer, 13 days ago

You’d be surprised how much metallurgy advanced. Western shells from 50s and from 90s are completely different beasts, but difference is less in NK ammo, which means lower range and lethality out of comparable calibre. This way NK 180mm shell is less lethal and maybe shorter ranged than western 155mm, it’s closer to modern 105mm

skillissuer, 13 days ago

www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68933778

skillissuer, 12 days ago

it’s well outside of his ballpark somehow, it’s like how Linus Pauling started all that megadose vitamin horseshit (starting with vit C), it sorta, kinda made a vibe-based shred of sense when you ignore all actual details, but he was hopelessly lost because he was not a biologist. what he had was nobel prize so he had enough cred for people to fall for it. many such cases!

skillissuer, 12 days ago

and can you guess why it was discontinued? it’s because that company has new, equally useless antibody, that also got approval, but has none of that pr stink around so they can repeat entire process again