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Can we also get a "destroy the missiles at source" for Ukraine?

Probably bad news for LNG prices...

Russian occupiers have obviously hit a major problem on the front. Reports say Ukrainian fighters started using nearly silent FPV drones with rubber blades that are impossible to hear until they strike.

Sure hope so.
Reducing gas demand should mean the storage levels drop slower and price spikes can be dampened.
Energy security, supply chain security, ... is all just security.

Results of an Iranian Shahed drone strike on the oil tanker 'Skylight'.

First tanker hit of the war, unlikely to be the last. Aside from the human cost, there will likely be a massive environmental cost to the conflict as well.

Misuse of "preventive" over "pre-emptive"...
The excuses Israel and the US make up are just that, but I cannot help but feel hopeful this could end the Mullah regime (even after how Venezuela turned out).

When Israel attacked the Iranian nuclear program in June, it was clear that they had decided on a strategy that would require them to strike repeatedly. “Mowing the lawn,” they called it. But this seems to be about regime change. This will worry neighbors.+

Ecosia search for "russian warlord in east after ww1" leading to the wikipedia entry for Roman von Ungern-Sternberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_von_Ungern-Sternberg

I forgot too, but managed to scrape together the right search terms😆

"aristocratic" brings my mind to Roman von Ungern-Sternberg but not sure they compare.

The ultimatum of July 23, 1914 delivered by Austro-Hungary to Serbia widely seen as an immediate precursor to the outbreak of World War I in August 1914. The text was meticulously constructed to be unacceptable to the Serbian government, thereby ensuring its rejection and thus adding to Austria-Hungary's casus belli. Serbia's response was dismissed by the Austro-Hungarian government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimatum_of_July_23,_1914

Same vides?

Anti-drone nets are being installed on a large scale already.

IRIS-T is a great system and longer range interceptors for it are great, but the article should really mention SAMP/T.

Stacked bar chart titled "US Foreign Military Sales" showing annual major arms sales (in $ billions) by region from 2017 to 2025. The y-axis ranges from 0 to 160 billion dollars. Each bar is divided by region: Europe (largest share in yellow), Indo-Pacific (light green), MENA (green), Americas (blue), Africa and Central Asia (smallest segments at the top). Europe and the Indo-Pacific account for the largest portions in most years. Source: Major Arms Sales (via FMS) Notification Tracker 2026

⚙️ In 2025, Europe remained a major buyer of US weapons, but purchases fell significantly from 2024, suggesting early signs of reduced reliance.

Individual EU countries, however, still top the rankings. Read more in @gspataf95.bsky.social's scrollytelling analysis: iss.europa.eu/publications...

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good :-)

I'm sure electric bikes and electric cars have a future, but no idea which companies will make it.

Traditional cars were also built by a plethora of companies over their history and you'd have a hard time in the early days guessing the ones making it.
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Yes, that seems realy promising too.
Hovever, I'm not sure if battery swapping is even needed for the >80% of applications that don't involve super long distances.
Even trucks are increasingly electric in China.

I'm also very curious/hopeful about vehicle to grid stuff.

Gas stations are everywhere and we take them for granted but the entire logistics chain to distribute gasoline to them via pipeline or tanker truck musn't be underestimated.

Distributing electricity and allow charging access really doesn't seem that hard in comparison, does it?

Not everyone has a garage or fixed parking lot, but simply arriving somewhere and plugging in the vehicle to passively charge will nearly always beat having to drive somewhere specific to fill the tank. -> both distance and time add up.

Swapping the battery seems way more convenient than refueling at a gas station.

Even assuming charger cables, people forget that electricity is everywhere and gas stations were not always (and most likely won't continue to be) as ubiquious as they are today.

Taiwan began paying people to switch to electric scooters and cars. Here's what happened If you’ve ever stood at a red light in Taipei, you know that when it turns green, it’s not just...

I've been to Taiwan twice for scientific conferences. The sea of scooters is definitely a thing. They used to spew toxic fumes & have loud, two-stroke engines. Now the government is paying folks to switch to clean, quiet, battery swapping EVs. With big impacts! 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 electrek.co/2026/02/22/t...

Great news with a lot of benefits.

Electric scooters and bikes actually saving more fuel than electric cars was a welcome surprise for me.
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German was an internationally important language for science, culture and more, not only but also because of the contributions of German speaking jews.

It already suffered due to WW1 but Hitler was the final nail in the coffin never to be recovered from.

Dependency

COBOL is indeed load bearing

Just finished listening and found it excellent.
Thanks for making these videos.

Not sure if we have "a few millenia"...
As long as our economic system doesn't "price in" the cost of emissions, environmental damages and so there are not enough incentives for companies to care.

Was thinking the same when reading "once it is understood precisely what the US intends to do"

So no, it's not just whaling that is the main problem but consumerism and general lack of environmental protection.

A dead blue whale wrapped on the bow of a container ship in Colombo, SriLanka. Credit: Sopaka Karunasundara https://ocean.org/blog/global-study-on-ship-strikes-on-whales/

Thousands of whales are injured or killed each year after being struck by ships, particularly the large container vessels that ferry 80% of the world’s traded goods across the oceans. Collisions are the leading cause of death worldwide for large whale species. Yet global data on ship strikes of whales are hard to come by — impeding efforts to protect vulnerable whale species. A new study published in Science has for the first time quantified the risk for whale-ship collisions worldwide for four geographically widespread ocean giants that are threatened by shipping: blue, fin, humpback and sperm whales. https://ocean.org/blog/global-study-on-ship-strikes-on-whales/

Shareholder value...
Polution, climate change and plain old collisions, especially with container ships.
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11 Million Visitors Short: Inside America’s Continuing Tourism Slump

New data shows the US the only major destination in the world to see a decline in international travellers in 2025. So far 2026 getting worse.

Foreign airlines cutting the number of US-bound flights. Disney warning of “international visitation headwinds”