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3 days agoBecause french was historically the language of diplomacy back when the rules were made. This is also mentioned in the article.
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42·21 days agoHe also listed uninhabited Australian islands and a US military base on an otherwise uninhabited UK island as separate countries. So I would guess China decided that the country list is basically meaningless.
4·21 days agoNot yet. The project was announced in November 2024. First results are expected in summer 2025.
Ecosia and Qwant are currently developing their own index in a joint venture.
2·22 days agoExcept Porsche did continue to develop military vehicles after WW2. The Leopard 1 was a Porsche design. Porsche dropping out of the military industry was not an effect of post-war politics but a business decision that happened much later.
21·1 month agoNot sure if this is a joke, but in case it is not: the relevant part of the post is not the highlighted sentence, but what comes right after that.
1945 was 80 years ago. None of the people working at any german company today were even born when the Holocaust happened. I don’t see how that topic is relevant when it comes to buying decisions today. Punish corporations for stuff that they actually can influence today, not for stuff that nobody alive is even responsible for.
All countries associated with the European Broacast Union can participate.
Theoretically yes, but associated members (in contrast to full members) still need to be approved on a case by case basis.
Active members (as opposed to associate members) of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) are eligible to participate; […]. Associate member broadcasters may be eligible to compete, dependent on approval by the contest’s reference group.[49]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest#Participation
Eurovision is organised by the European Broadcasting Union, which includes basically all countries in the European Broadcasting Area (basically Europe + all of the Mediterranean). Those include Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Israel, Armenia, etc. They have always been allowed to participate. Australia is an outlier. They just got a special invitation.
You can sync with notes in your cloud. I guess if you set it up in a cloud folder that is shared between users, then multiple people might be able to share notes. I did not try it though.
I am not familiar with Google Keep Notes, so I do not know how that one works.
Edit: wrote “calendar” instead of “notes” for some unknown reason
I can recommend SilentNotes, an actual European (and open source) simple note taking app.
2·2 months agoIn Europe, use of mail hauberks continued up through the 14th century, when plate armor began to supplant it. Some knights continued to wear chain hauberks, however, underneath plate armor.[13] It remained in usage until the Renaissance.[10]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauberk
Translated from german with DeepL:
Milanese armour was characterised by its round, bulky shape and asymmetrical construction. A full suit of chain mail was also usually worn underneath the Milanese armour. In Germany, the Gothic armour was predominant, as well as later on the cuirass. The Gothic armour was characterised by its slimmer and more delicate construction. In addition, a complete chain mail shirt was rarely worn under the Gothic armour; more often, chain mail pieces were attached to the doublet in such a way that they covered the weak points of the armour.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rüstung_(Schutzkleidung)
Here is an example picture of a Milanese Armour: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giano_II_di_Campofregoso#/media/File:HJRK_A_11_-_Armour_of_Giano_II_di_Campofregoso.jpg
It is supposed to block the blows that go between the plates, not reinforce the plate itself. A lighter alternative that developed later is patches of chainmail only between the plates.
Mail armour is a layer of protective clothing worn most commonly from the 9th to the 13th century, though it would continue to be worn under plate armour until the 15th century.
In the chapter “Late Middle Ages”:
In armoured techniques taught in the German school of swordsmanship, the attacker concentrates on these “weak spots”, resulting in a fighting style very different from unarmoured sword-fighting. Because of this weakness, most warriors wore a mail shirt (haubergeon or hauberk) beneath their plate armour (or coat-of-plates). Later, full mail shirts were replaced with mail patches, called gussets, which were sewn onto a gambeson or arming jacket.
Not sure how it is in Oblivion, but in real life (depending on the period) plate was often worn on top of chainmail, so it was indeed heavier than just chainmail alone.
1·2 months agoNach etwas Recherche scheint sich das nicht ganz mit dem zu decken, was die Ukrainer heute am Boden beobachten können.
Also in der Ukraine wäre das kein “zusätzliches” Material, sondern das einzige, das laut Pistorius zurückgehalten wird.
Die russischen Truppen haben massive Versorgungsprobleme. Wenn sie wirklich Waffen im Überschuss produzieren, dann können das quasi nur bestimmte Waffentypen sein, aber eine gut ausgestattete Armee mit sinnvollem Waffenmix scheint dabei nicht rauszukommen.
There’s no denying Russia is running low on modern armored vehicles.
Sobolev, a retired lieutenant general of the Russian army, cited " very significant difficulties in supplying units and subdivisions" with ammo and food. He said pack-animal transport was a valid solution, and that losing a donkey would be better for the Russian military than losing troops or transport vehicles.
Russia cannot churn out more than 60 tanks a year, according to Pavel Luzin, a defence analyst with the Center for European Policy Analysis, a think tank in Washington, DC. “We’re not talking about hundreds,” he told Al Jazeera. […] As a result, the number of tanks and armoured vehicles Russia has at hand is fewer than 7,000 – a 20-fold reduction in comparison with the Soviet Union’s 140,000 in 1990, according to The Insider, a Russia-focused, independent media outlet. The shortages may have already resulted in the noticeable slowdown of Russia’s occupation of Donbas.
Ok, dann lag ich wohl damit falsch. Danke für die Korrektur.
Aber wieso nutzt er das dann nicht für einen Durchbruch in der Ukraine? Personalmangel?
Ja ich kenne Perun, nur das spezifische Video kannte ich noch nicht. Danke :)
Ja tut er. Und offensichtlich reichen die Gegenmaßnahmen nicht aus, da Russland immer größere Erfolge erzielt. Siehe Trump. Siehe AfD. Siehe Rassemblement National. Siehe Georgien. Das schafft Putin alles ganz ohne Soldaten.
Vielen Dank, werd ich mir ansehen.
The original idea behind the political concept “Eurafrica” (strategic partnership between Africa & Europe), while originated in Germany, has no specific connection to Germany today. It is used as a political term once in a while (especially in France, due to their connections to Africa). Read the wikipedia entry if you want to know more.
But none of this has any relevance to this meme, because here Eurafrica is just used as a portmanteau of “Europe” and “Africa” without any further connection to the political concept of the same name.