this sounds more like another org with ties to a couple of conservative oligarchs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Congress_of_Families

well it’s spacecraft, not aircraft, duh

that was known almost decade before that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nth_Country_Experiment

it also helps if your air defense network doesn’t collapse immediately because it turns out that in order to guard these nukes you need also regular capable conventional military

Yeah, who else. Nuking Dresden at that point would be useless

you don’t have to choose a side and you can wish everyone involved a very nice visit to hague

either that, or nukes would be used first in korean war instead. imo it’s a good thing that nukes were first used against the most cartoonishly evil fascist state imaginable at that point

both farmers and rifles are in entirely different part of continent

god fearing catholic tiktokers elected pimp, flipper, and gangster for a president. where the fuck do i live

Ukrainian AA can’t reach these bombers because these were used as launching platforms for long range missiles over Caspian, relocating SAM sites does nothing. Also it’s likely that what was hit were good planes, some of which were even fitted with Kh-101 cruise missiles at the time of attack, and part of what is left are planes under maintenance. It could be so that only third or less of long range bombers are usable now, which would most obviously increase wear on them in immediate future

Bad news for Trump’s Golden Dome: He can’t build it without Canada

ftfy

France also has warning shots, js

for more context, the boring liberal mayor got just north of 30%; the fuckass nobody pulled from depths of conservative party apparatus couple of months ago got just south of 30%; there’s 21% split between two far right fuckers, one conspiracy friendly, catholic extremist (6%) and one that pretends to not be (15%); 10% split between three socdems; 5% for former “got talent” host targeting the mythical swing voter; and 2% split between some random weirdos, 1.2% of which goes to a streamer

France accounts for some half of signatures, and also that’s where this campaign is coordinated from

Croatia had some 70% just in final day, but Denmark stayed at some 80ish the entire time. I’ve only heard about this petition from lemmy, maybe a couple of posts there and here made it work in some cases but not in others

there are elections next sunday and it’s likely that next president will be a lib

“what the fuck is exponential backoff” - someone writing software for these meters ten years ago

it’s also made worse by the fact that many appliances are turned on in blacked out areas, so when these are brought online, there’s spike in load power that then tapers off pretty quickly. this can be managed by powering on areas on in smaller chunks, as small as single blocks

this is PSA to turn off appliances off during blackout (biggest ones are things that deal with heat: mostly air conditioning/heat pump and all kinds of heaters)

also in Spain specifically some capacity was met by spinning generators from nuclear or hydro or gas powerplants, but also there’s a lot of photovoltaic generation, which doesn’t vary frequency with imbalances in load. after loss of power nuclear reactors that were running at that time are out for a day because of xenon poisoning, and it looks like first nuclear powerplant went online again only yesterday

maybe they’ll update inverters in at least some of generating stations so that blackstart with PV assistance would be possible in future, because from what i understand most of these are grid-following inverters. this might require policy changes and tighter control of PV powerplant by grid operator. hydropower is most useful in starting from complete blackout condition because all power that is needed is just what it takes to turn valves + some communications and remote switching to make sure it goes to other powerplants

for now no one knows what really happened, but i do hope that investigation will allow for figuring out what went wrong and preventing similar failure in the future

it looks like Portugal had it even worse - their power generation dropped to zero (until 15:00), disconnected from Spain, started hydro and pumped hydro to bring up gas and wind power (22:00 to midnight), then solar, then when they figured their shit out connected to Spain again and lent them a couple gigawatts (bigger grids are more stable so it’s good for both)

these are called bribes