The times do change…:

Sounds like a job for dirigibles, tbh.

I’m not a fan. Proton Mail turns out to have some fundamental issues:

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/the-intercept-proton-mail-says-it-s-politically-neutral-while-praising-republican-party/24456

One ping only.

I… I don’t understand what the joke is here. Not even the explainxkcd mentions any kind of humor outside of the alt text. What am I missing?

Good news everyone!

The exact purpose of this facility remains unknown.

I was hoping for more clues on that. It sounds like an easy thing to disrupt so I can’t imagine they’d try manufacturing anything. The only thing that makes sense to me would be a distribution point to send the power further on into the Russian grid.

According to a confidential email, DR is in possession of, production is expected to start December 1. According to the confidential email, the company FPRT, which was founded by Fire Point, which is behind the “flamingo” missile, will produce solid rocket fuel at an address close to Air Station Skrydstrup.

Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen (V) has long announced that there are Ukrainian defence companies on the way to start production in Denmark.

Now DR can tell you who one of the companies is and where it should be.

This is the company FPRT, which was founded by Fire Point, which is the company behind Ukraine’s brand new long-range “flamingo” cruise missile, which they have reportedly recently used to hit a FSB base in Crimea.

A missile, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has called Ukraine’s “most successful.”

The production will take place just on the other side of the fence from Air Station Skrydstrup, where the Danish F-35 fighter jets are housed.

This is shown by a confidential email sent around among ministries and agencies that DR has come into possession of. It also appears that production is scheduled to start on 1 December this year.

Here you can read that FPRT must produce solid rocket fuel.

Fast rocket fuel turns on quickly and can deliver a powerful and stable combustion, making it suitable for, among other things, missiles and military purposes.

Unlike liquid rocket fuel, it doesn’t need to be refuelled just before launching, and it’s easier to handle and store.

Prevent the “flamingo” missile uses solid rocket fuel. The “Flamingo” missile is being produced by Ukrainian Fire Point. It has a range of 3,000 kilometers. According to The Economist, prototypes of the missile were painted pink. (Photo: © Emfrem Lukatsky/AP/Ritzau Scanpix) Has created a Danish website

Further in the mail, it says that it will use the new controversial law that gives the government unprecedented power to disregard other laws and citizens’ right to complain if a project serves significant national defense goals or civil emergency purposes.

The law is due to be voted through next week and is expected to take effect from mid-September.

• The purpose of the consultation is to ensure that all ministries and agencies with relevant areas of responsibility have the opportunity to submit comments as well as assess whether there is further regulation to be waived in order for the company to be established and initiate its production on 1 December 2025, says the mail.

The company FPRT has already received a Danish CVR number. In addition, a Danish website has been set up, where the company writes that it is “in the process of a large project”, where it “establishes modern production facilities in Vojens”.

• We work with designing and manufacturing parts for rocket engines. We test and approve our products at special test facilities that are located in a different place than where the production takes place.

“Our work supports programs that are very important for Denmark’s defence,” they wrote.

On the contrary, they’re brilliant design!

What you want to control is water temperature and (separately) water flow rate. Two taps let you control those but only by guessing the right combination of settings with trial and error. On your first try you’ll get one right (the flow rate, say) and mess up the other one (the temperature, say). Try again and you’re a little closer, but not perfect.

One-handled taps align their control vectors with the search space’s basis vectors. You want more flow? Turn this way, exactly to the right setting. You want higher temperature? Turn this other way, orthogonal to the first, without altering what you had set there. There’s no comparison.

Oh, “And Another Thing”? I didn’t enjoy that at all. It was like a rehash of old jokes and I felt the author was barely familiar with the previous work. I remember coming across one rehashed joke they clearly hadn’t understood completely. Can’t remember the details, though.

“Tim… how high did you say you turned up that signal? This planet did have oceans a while ago, didn’t it?”

As I understand, it turns out the probe was listening and even replying, but it was replying with a whisper instead of a shout (it hadn’t turned on an amplifier) and we couldn’t hear it.

They could, of course, also have been smuggling spectacles and failed explosively. 🤓

Oof. Look at the seating positions at that table. Things have changed, but that’s not a good look, glancing back. Europe has some guilt for the current situation. I hope we continue to move firmly towards repairing it.

Toilets flush in a direction determined by how the water is poured into the bowl. For other vessels the pre-existing motion of the water, the shape of the vessel, and the shape of the drain dominate the direction.

And 😙 is more like:

NO TANKY

Ah ok.

Apparently in algae bloom regions ships leave wakes that “can be seen in satellite radar images as long bright strips of enhanced backscatter with characteristic length of up to several hundred kilometres lasting more than 5 hours” according to this Russian Space Research Institute article.

I wish there was a “deliver ONLY during the weekend” option so you don’t have to have things delivered to your workplace because no-one’s home.