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I hope she's married to someone whose surname is not Shart and just kept her own name for the sheer power that RANDY SHART carries

In Scotland, supermarkets are not allowed to sell alcohol from 10pm to 10am. Every time I worked in a supermarket, there would inevitably be a queue of old ladies at the tills at 09:57am waiting for the exact moment that they were allowed to purchase their gin or vodka

There is a honeybee statblock in Wilds Beyond the Witchlight. Also a regular spider in the Monster Manual, which could work just as well. Apparently the average spider in the Forgotten Realms is poisonous enough to have a 15% chance of immediately killing an average commoner with a single bite

I don't know anything about Iran's subs, but Sweden's famously stealthy diesel subs keep a big tank of liquid oxygen on board and mix the exhaust with seawater before releasing it

This is awful. Good work.

This is pretty close to Petrov's account of his reasoning, plus that the early warning system only showed four or five missiles inbound and he expected a hypothetical American first strike to be way bigger

So it is. Guess it's time I saw an optician

Brave men. I can only wish them luck

What you described would work, but it's not usually what people mean when they say "2d6". 2d6, or any number of dice in an XdY format, means rolling X number of Y-sided dice and adding the results together. The specific case of 2d6 vs 1d12 comes up a lot in D&D because there are some common weapons that use those two values for their damage rolls

I imagine this was them knowing that 2d6 is different to 1d12 and just not quite understanding why that doesn't apply to two d10s used to roll a d100

7 hours is 420 minutes

Damn if you had checked one hour earlier a few hours later it would have been 69 days and 420 minutes

9:3π/2 rad

Ahh fair enough, misinterpretation of your edit on my part then. I'm afraid whoever did downvote you isn't on kbin, so you won't see anything

I haven't downvoted any of your comments. I'm on kbin, so you can check for yourself here https://kbin.social/m/world@lemmy.world/t/696813/EU-seeks-to-raise-15-billion-euros-for-Ukraine-from/comment/4073577/votes/down

let’s not get in a pissing match or dick-measuring contest about who’s ponying up more

literally your entire presence in this thread is dick-measuring about how europe isn't doing enough

I get you don’t want to discuss that because its a problem with regard to your thesis

No, it isn't. My point is that Europe is giving more to Ukraine and that while the European NATO members should meet the 2% commitment, doing so would not actually help Ukraine. If you want to have a general discussion about Europe's defence capacity then sure, have fun somewhere, but I had figured that since you commented on an article you were commenting about the article

What does this have to do with the article?

And I'm saying that Europe is already doing that. Europe is not the backup because most of Ukraine's aid is coming from Europe. America is a very large contributor and therefore important, and it has the biggest military industry to turn towards production, but to say that Europe "needs to stop playing poor and open their very dusty checkbooks" when Europe is already significantly outspending Ukraine's other supporters only makes sense if you've just never looked at the actual numbers

I didn't side-step the bit about individual domestic military spending commitments because I'm not looking to argue that part. 10 European NATO nations are meeting it this year. The others should do what they said they'd do, but it wouldn't actually help Ukraine unless we're all sending actual troops in.

The USA's GDP is larger than the EU's, but the EU has given more to Ukraine than America has. That's without including contributions by individual nations in the EU or contributions by non-EU European countries like Norway and the UK either.