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Half of the initial proposal is $250 billion, not $2.5 billion. $250 billion is the entire GDP of Ukraine. There is no world in which half a trillion is a sensible number here

This is, for a sense of scale, more than five times the total value of everything the US has sent to Ukraine since February 2022

Helen Keller

If you view the modlog from an mbin instance it shows which mod took the action. The mbin modlogs aren't very good for searching through, but a recent action should be easy enough to see

They'll definitely be working with the rebels beyond the rescue! He's getting busted out by a disillusioned veteran of the army that captured him, and that guy is already geared up with a battered and customised mech stolen from that army. The other player characters are going to drop down and fight to rendezvous with the rebel and their friend, at which point they can drop a third mech prepared in advance for that player to join the fight. The rebel leader will definitely stay relevant, he'll just have fewer forces to back the players up than he otherwise would have

Lancer has a system called "reserves", which are basically special bonuses you can acquire by either achieving extra objective in a fight or securing something in the downtime between fights. Stuff like being able to call in an artillery barrage from allied forces, or a flight system with fuel for one fight. These are usually things only for the players, but I'll be treating the loss of rebel forces incurred in rescuing the player as a reserve for the enemy — the rebels aren't able to garrison the town they captured and it's not longer a safe spot to rest, or they can't take out the artillery spotters before a fight, something like that depending on what's relevant and how they decide to approach things.

Fortunately we are playing Lancer, so it's entirely in keeping with the setting for the others to drop from orbit in big mechs to explode things until they get their friend back!

In the meantime there was going to be a thing about working with some rebels behind enemy lines anyway, so they're going to break the hostage out of captivity at the cost of not having the resources to help in a later conflict

One of my players offered themself up as a hostage to get the others out of a losing fight alive, which was a great twist in the story but now I need to run two branches until the others can attempt a rescue

This is obviously beside the point and not helpful to you, but why is the Norwegian-language one called Norway and not Norge?

It was found in a house alongside several other complaints about Ea-Nasir's business dealings

I assume not, but primarily because I would expect the actual scientists and/or Oxford to make a bigger deal out of that if they had achieved it

The actual paper is beyond my level of physics knowledge, but Oxford uni published an article about it themselves which looks far better to me. No clickbait headline and it explains the significance of the achievement far better

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-02-06-first-distributed-quantum-algorithm-brings-quantum-supercomputers-closer

First distributed quantum algorithm brings quantum supercomputers closer

You remembered correctly https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12564879

For readers outside the UK, it should be added that even if the UK somehow really couldn't afford the tiny fraction of its budget that the ads describe, the number was utter horseshit too. Whether or not there was any truth never mattered

Frankly I don't think he owes any tolerance to the guy who is already advocating for the invasion that has killed hundreds of thousands of his fellow Ukrainians. Strategically I don't think it's a bad move either; being nice to Carlson isn't going to get him anywhere because Carlson is a repugnant man and Zelenskyy's evaluation of him is spot on. He might as well show some backbone and humour by mocking him instead, it makes him more likeable to the people that aren't the lost cause of Carlson fans

When I write them, I do the loop anticlockwise until I reach the ascender, continue the stroke straight up to drae the ascender, then back down to put the little tail down to the baseline or continue on to the next letter

I'm not sure why you think he "can't manage" it. Why shouldn't he comment on someone that he is justifiably unhappy with? After all, he can have an opinion too.

Your first comment, not your reply to me

So if you understand why Zelenskyy would feel that way about Carlson, what point were you trying to make with your comment?

Hoping to record a bit of music, but I have some work and studying to get done first. I'm also going to do a test run of a cookie recipe so that the actual batch can definitely be good for the people I'm giving that to. The fact that I get to eat all the test cookies is a completely coincidental benefit

I think I'd also be pretty pissed if someone was using their substantial media platform to run cover for the murderous empire invading my country

Here's a higher-res version https://i.pinimg.com/736x/67/b6/6c/67b66cd39775ab1cea4b2f39562ea298.jpg