He might already be there

In my head, I’ve been plotting out a scenario where a barge convoy opens up at the top and bottom to send out a combined swarm of flyers and swimmers to just fuck shit up at Kalingrad for no other reason than to yank teeth out of Russia’s military. Bonus points if the barges sink afterward or drift into bridges and explode. (Accounting for maybe a few sacrificial drone hits on the deck to scare off traffic. We’re looking to sink ships and obstruct seaways here, not indiscriminately kill civilians.)

I think Ukraine can only pull off a big attack like this a few times. Not because they’re incapable, or Russia, now aware of the method, can defend against it, but because each attack generates data. The more data you have, the greater the ability to analyze and spot patterns, which puts Ukrainian operators at risk.

Although it would be excellent if another attack happened very soon against another relatively irreplaceable Russian asset. But a campaign of smaller scale harassment throughout the country would suffice to harm morale and keep supply constraints, well, constrained.

Double homocide.

Conman pretends to be conned by partner when partner isn’t good enough conman.

Disclaimer, I’m just a rando with a search habit. Not like, a professional analyst.

It’s maybe not the dumbest to use them in this way - their carrying capacity meant fewer sorties per pound of munition delivered.

But also, it seems like Russia is picking and choosing how it deploys resources, presumably so its more advanced jets do not have to be put at risk (there are various reasons for why that may be so - the linked article discusses them).

The other side of it is that keeping the strategic fleet demonstrably in use signals to other countries that Russia may be able to back up their nuclear saber-rattling.

Definitely a bokeh effect. Shallow DOF would still have captured the whiskers.

But I don’t doubt it’s a ‘real’ photo. I don’t generally like the iPhone portrait mode because of its artificial DOF. I mean, unless I’m going for that — but it’s tricky because it pulls nonsense like the above photo.

[Bevis chuckle]

Yeah! Show us your kitty, OP! Show us all your holes!

I love Lemmy.

So. Honestly, I’m in over my head on a couple projects that I thought were going to be “easy enough.”

I’m new to the entire “type” of project I’m building - ESP32’s with displays. The starter project is a ‘magic 8 ball.’ I have one of these already and figure the gyro/accelerometer can capture the shake/flip motion. The more complex one is intended to be backed by ESPHome and use a motion sensor/Bluetooth presence detection to deliver customized messages in addition to providing smart home control.

In the course of trying to figure them out, it’s become apparent I’m going to have to learn/use LVGL for the graphics. I haven’t yet gotten to LVGL and I already am on the struggle bus.

And ears so big they can be used as handles. For reasons.

As many as it takes.

Challenge Accepted.

We’ll get insurers and Medicaid to fully cover diabetes supplies in no time.

I was planning to, but work has been hell today. I’ve barely had any time to shitpost.

Ope, now I regret deleting my edited explanation! That is an excellent response to my accidental comment.

My immediate thought was “That’s not all they’re going to be hitting…”

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I’d be fine with it, but my wife barely likes men. There’s no way I could convince her to find me a gaming buddy.

(I kid! I’d actually rather she find someone that knows C++.)

Or mastodon.

He’s a sweet guy. … Mostly. Very much in need of a lot of attention. Sometimes he just sits next to you on the couch and puts his paw on you if you’re not giving him enough attention.

Here he is posing with his sister as a prop:

Everyone is upvoting and laughing but no one is offering up numbers.

This is a serious problem that needs solving!

Is it, 10, 20 — 100!? How many until this problem is solved?
Or is it like school shootings (where there isn’t really a number, and it’s just thots and playas) instead of like, suspected voter fraud (where one instance is enough to warrant disenfranchising millions of voters).