those other devices are largely irrelevant now in 2025, you'd need a study in 1960, 1970, 1980, etc. to disprove TV was just as bad. Having been alive back then, I can assure you some kids were big fat depressed couch potatoes glued to the tv, not playing outside

the land is very valuable, that's where Ukraine's resources are. Couple that with control of the sea front and Russia will get centuries of return on its "investment" (they don't care how many of their soldiers get killed)

The "exit strategy" is Russia controls a valuable chunk of Ukraine.

How do you imagine we could "end the war anytime we like"? Seems you're disconnected from reality and maybe ignorant of the subject of warfare.

Just as you live on land that was taken from someone else by killing, so it is with this. How mankind acts, sadly.

Read through the comments in that telegram post, the amount of denial is staggering, the amount of cheerful propaganda is even greater, but there were some worried notes gleaming through all that cheerleading, where someone hoped they would still have a job later on. Someone thinks that the things may not turn out so well, they think that out of all of the options they may end up with the option I listed as number one here https://slashdot.org/comments....

what I can tell you from the very tone of this cheerful post, they do not have all of the necessary components and it will not be simple at all. Obviously they will try to launch Proton in December as scheduled by trying to do it without the service cabin, there is maybe a way, a bunch of wooden planks and ropes, who knows. The number of ways this may end up disasterous for the launch are too many to be listed here.

competing with spaceX is tough indeed, how exactly would you propose the Chinese bill uncle Sam for billions, consistently launching empty oversized buckets that burn up while delivering a banana to the Indian ocean?

i notice your posts always follows his and have poorly worded run-on English sentences. It's as if a N. Korean were using machine translation, badly. Why don't you go out back and dig up a kimchi pot, and chill out with a meal, Kang-Dae?

kids who sat on their ass in front of the tv too long had worse health including significantly higher odds of depression, obesity, and poor sleep.

In 1990s joined by kids who sat on their ass with their home computer or game console

you understand that the war that was supposed to last for maybe a week or two is now closing on 4 years, right? That all of the western powers were absolutely certain that prior to 2022 ruzzia was a world level super power with the military that was somewhere in the top 2 or 3 maybe, right? That this supposed super power was stopped by a country with 1/3 to 1/4 of the population, with 1/28 of size, with no oil or gas mining to speak of. Today ruzzia is occupying significantly less territory than at the end of 2022 as well because Ukraine got some of the territory back, for example the city of Kherson and most of Kharkhiv region.

More than that, Ukraine was able to enter ruzzian territory for whatever purpose and was able to hold some of it for about 6 months.

Currently ruzzia is actually a much more dangerous enemy than it was in 2022 to the rest of Europe, it gained enough knowledge, learned new tactics and is capable of taking out any European army in a conventional fight, I am certain of it. Should Ukraine fail and fall, putin will attack Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and then will go further and nobody will stop him without nuclear weapons if the USA decides to retreat, the Europeans are not in a fighting mood and will not be dying for their homes, they will be enslaved by putin if nuclear weapons are not used, this is certain. Europe's best chance at preventing this is seriously helping Ukraine, at this point with some man power as well.

As to the story we are talking about, ruzzia does not have factory capacity to build a new 8U216 service cabin and this has nothing to do with 'brilliance of people they are attacking', you are not reading me correctly. I am saying they do not have the capacity, they do not have the resources to manufacture this cabin unless they actually stop the war, retreat and restart normal manufacturing. It is also unclear that this type of a cabin can be built at any of their plants, maybe at the Cherepovets metallurgical plant. There is a reason why the USSR was manufacturing this thing in Kramatorsk and it wasn't about brilliance, it was about capacity, ability to handle a task of this magnitude. What, do you think you can just turn any factory into something that can manufacture a structure of this size and complexity? You are the one living in a fantasy world.

"even one time"

Unless you never use a password, in which case, you log in via all the other available options BUT password. You don't notice it missing. Passwords are so 1980s, get with the program.

I don't use biometrics because .. lets just say they are their own version of compromised. You cannot be compelled to give up your Password (legally) (hammer method is still valid) but a fingerprint, face ID etc that doesn't require you to speak can be compelled. I have no idea why people think it is "more secure" to use biometrics.

Not to mention the millions spent on DEI hiring of marginal people based only on demographics.

He did, on the promise of the Biden CHIPs act money- the employees ballooned to 145,000 worldwide by October 2022.

Due to CHIPs act not coming through as planned, in December 2022 they started rounds of layoffs, which Lu Tan is continuing

I am typing this on my phone, while on a train from Kyiv to Lviv, laying down in the dark, I have all of the autocorrect functions disabled on the phone, one thing is hitting the wrong keys and still have a more or less recognizable word come out than having the word changed completely by the stupid autocomplete feature (dumb ass grandfather of whatever we call AI today). That is why the words are often scrambled.

no, the biggest reason is neither, it is the resentment, feeling that nobody actually cares about ruzzia and its role, its status, basically not being the big scary ruzzia, the bear that the ussr was. While their own lives are small, insignificant, unimportant, at least these russkies feel that this war puts ruzzia back at the global stage to be the center of attention. They first felt it back in 2014, when putin orchestrated taking of Crimea and part of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Now was the second wave of this, but it is coming to an end, cannot keep feeling this elation, while your "big and scary" army has been stuck taking yet another destroyed village who knows where in Ukraine. While this didn't matter much earlier, before they really felt it themselves, now they are starting to feel it slowly, as inflation keeps creeping up, their oil refineries and now shadow fleet tankers are getring hit. I was in Kiev for a week, the city lives mostly on generators, but people keep going. I saw drones and anti drone fire, anti missiles hitting ballistic and cruise missiles, flashes of explosions in the sky. The ruzzians are starting to see these as well. Their cities will be living in the dark this winter too, lets see what that does to their attitudes.

In any case, there is and was huge support for this war on their side because they felt pride and at the same time they did not feel the consequences. Lets see what happens to their pride when the consequences hit.

I will add that there is this concept of the "good ruzzians", some who live abroad and are vocal about hoping to see putin gone and a regime change. It still doesn't matter, they hope to see a different ruzzia restored, returned back to the world stage under a different umbrella, paying its debts and such. I do not accept any of it. ruzzia is a death zone, all of its culture is the real death cult with never ending imperial ambotions, it can change colors, it cannot chamge its nature. It needs to be taken apart and it will be, it is inevitable now. With muslims taking over moscow, Chinese taking over Siberia, Kazakhs have some claims, Finnish have a large territory to reclaim, Ukraine actually can claim quite a bit of land, in 10 years time we will see something else and it won't be ruzzia.

It is impossible to launch Soyuz/Proton rockets without this service cabin. The launchpad itself is a huge slob of armored concrete with a hole in the center, used to direct hot gases into a gigantic pit, ot takes a few years to dig out that pit and build the multistory tall launchpad. The service cabin is a multistory metal structire that provides access to set up various umbilicals and to set up the chemical matches, lit electrically, that are inserted into the rocket engines (yes, that is how they light up these types of engines, huge, many feet long, matches). The cabin then slides away into the wall and it is supposed to be fixed in place with some pins. They did not do it this time, so the engine exhaust pulled the cabin out of its niche and blew it out through the vent hole into the pit.

Ukraine did not fold to the threat of the USA stopping all support earlier this year, it will not stop to any of these threats now either, it is a non starter. Zelensky doesn't have the mandate from Ukrainians to this type of a "peace deal" just because USA may stop any support. Ukraine will endure wothout the USA support, just with more casualties.

there is no d8fference where it comes to ruzzians. Majority are pro putin there or they do not care, very few are truly against this or especially are vocal about it. I used to work with them back between 2009 and 2014 and supported the work I uaed to do for them umtil 2022. Then I saw what they really where, the young, the old, doesn't matter. A good test is to ask "whose is Crimea". At this point I decided that I am not a specialist in sorting through various types of shit, I wrote them all off.