If we assume that Portugal would have ordered the same number as Czechia (a fellow European country with a pretty close GDP, population, and military budget that already bought F-35s) and take the flyaway cost on wikipedia of $82.500,000 as the price Portugal would have paid per plane, that's $2 billion in sales that Lockheed Martin doesn't get
I wonder which faction they'll use this time? The gameplay kinda depends on there being a huge horde of grunts to mow down, and they've now used the two non-humans factions that that description applies to
I think the title means that the re-posted post is the most-opvoted post of all time on lemmy. It is the top of all time on lemm.ee, on lemmy.world it's a can of beans, and on my home instance kbin.earth it's a news article
I mean yeah, but they were getting shot at regardless of whether they shot back or not seeing as they were there to reconnoitre and bomb stuff. But yeah apparently the dorsal guns couldn't always be used because of leaking lift gas
While I don't know where to find any solid records of them ever actually shooting anything down - there are a few scattered comments about one plane being shot down during the Tondern raid, and others about Alan Arnett McLeod VC getting shot down by one in 1917, but I can't substantiate either - they did have guns on them. To take the Zeppelin P Class as an example, those had eight MG 08 machine guns on them
While they probably shouldn't actually put it on the article themselves, they can submit it to Wikimedia Commons or even just post it somewhere public under a creative commons licence
I am quite fascinated by the TTRPG Eclipse Phase's depiction of humans in an extremely high-tech future. Why physically travel between planets when you could just email over a copy of your mind, have it stuck in a rented body, and then download the copy's memories once it has done whatever you needed done? There's absolutely no requirement for your new body to be a human-shaped one either, provided you can maintain your composure while being in such a different physical form. Some people get really weird with it, others think that it's abominable. There's a mobster who puts her enemies' minds into fish and keeps them in a tank.
I'm not so keen on everything about the setting, and I've never gotten a chance to play a game of it so I have no idea how the mechanics are, but there are cool ideas in there
That's kind of them! But you will probably need to replace that car in the future
I'm not trying to tell you that you absolutely must learn manual. Whether or not it makes sense to do so basically just depends on your personal circumstances. I learned manual, but I live in a country in which automatic gearboxes were pretty rare until quite recently and I enjoy driving (much as I support replacing most driving with public transport). I just wanted to bring up the second hand market as something to consider
One other thing to add that I don't see mentioned yet: if you can drive a manual, you have more options when buying second-hand cars. How many more options will vary depending on where you are, but if cost is a significant concern then it might let you get a much better deal
Apparently our national men's team is ranked 48th, in between fellow basketball titans Senegal and Sweden
I guess we don't really have a British equivalent that is a household name recognisable to non-fans in the way the Williams sisters are. We've got a few men who fit the bill, but that obviously doesn't work for the question. If you need to name a woman that everyone immediately knows is really god damn good at tennis, one of the Williamses is probably gonna be the go-to regardless of where you ask
That's probably the best bet for us regular folk, but the problem is that she probably knows that she really doesn't need to go anywhere near as hard as she could to get every serve past us
The nature of being a bunch of smaller countries is that you have to actually take the time to make sure you're working together on something. There's not a single government to direct it. There will be negotiations.
However in the meantime, support continues. France is supplying intel, and Mirage 2000 jets that France gave to Ukraine deployed in the last couple of days. The UK sent £750,000,000 on Friday. The EU approved about €200,000,000 in contracts for Czech companies to help rebuild damaged things in Ukraine.
Probably not a tonne of people responding to a British polling agency's survey play basketball, but otherwise yeah. If we go by viewrship figures for the men's final at Wimbledon, a little over an eighth of the country watches a game of tennis once a year
Non-state territories like Puerto Rico and Guam are not included in either country's numbers due to not being depicted in the image, save for Washington DC because that one is in the image
If we assume that Portugal would have ordered the same number as Czechia (a fellow European country with a pretty close GDP, population, and military budget that already bought F-35s) and take the flyaway cost on wikipedia of $82.500,000 as the price Portugal would have paid per plane, that's $2 billion in sales that Lockheed Martin doesn't get