I think it’s just not really in the spirit of the event. It’s not meant to be a completely serious athletic endeavour, it’s a bit of fun and fundraising. They’re getting 2,000 people of all ages on to a tiny island with a population of 61 to chuck some stones across a pond. There doesn’t seem to be a big cash prize or anything. There was a raffle to win a wheelbarrow described as doing “0-3 mph in 1 second”

Here was me thinking that Toss Master was the one to go for

I think I can skim a stone farther than I can throw one, given a good stone and flat water… and a few attempts. I’m definitely not getting remotely near 60m though, that’s wild

Aside from that this article only comes to the conclusion of broad implications and the author himself says he used both interchangeably in his book, this is an American source and the headline for this post is British. I don’t know about American Engkish, but there is no expectation of a stone being worked by humans in British English. In common usage here a rock is generally bigger than a stone - I’d say whether you can throw it one-handed is roughly where the extremely fuzzy line is - but you could absolutely just pick up any small piece of stone from the ground in nature and call it “a stone” without anyone questioning it

Both, based on IFW Kiel’s numbers. Military aid was about even until the end of Biden’s term, Europe generally provided a bit more non-military. The US sent a huge amount right at the end of Biden’s term. Since then, the US has sent basically nothing and Europe has mostly covered the shortfall

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That price includes a whole bunch of stuff besides the actual tank. To quote the Czech Ministry of Defence (machine-translated):

The purchase price of 44 tanks includes self-propelled and anti-mine protection systems, as well as integrated logistics support including spare parts, support management, documentation and training.

So basically it’s 44 tanks plus a massive service and supply contract to keep the tanks running properly

I see this as even more reason to use my idea

I like the idea of pieons, from peon (which I promise I don’t mean derogatorily seeing as I’m not on piefed myself)

Just tried this out recently. It’s good fun. I do wish it explained itself a little better at the start - I had no idea that it was essentially a roguelite for about the first hour I played - but it gets that feeling of momentum at the edge of wiping out just right

Oh wow, I had completely forgotten about all the hydrogen car experiments! There was even an actual functioning hydrogen bus system for a little while in a city not too far from me

Thanks for the link, that was interesting

It’s so bizarre to me that Toyota in particular isn’t a bigger player in the EV market after they were the first to get a mass market hybrid going. They were halfway there before anyone else, why’d they stumble so badly?

Enjoy the bean juice when you can get some. I think I’ll go brew some myself

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime in particular is hilarious if you get four people playing it

Since OP mentioned it, how may of these can do offline co-op? I don’t think DRG does, and it’s the only one I’ve done multiplayer on (though it is otherwise a great suggestion)

Isn’t that what the different G force limits at the end are about? Like, 10 G is way beyond what is survivable for that sort of duration, so it’s provided as a lower limit for the time

It’s worth noting that there are several other Grok personas besides Ani. If he’s only engaging with / posting the Ani stuff but not the others, that’s something of a smoking gun to me

I’m basing that on just transcribing the text and putting it into google translate with “detect language” turned on. That said I also assumed it’d be a Slavic language too, but I don’t think any of them use the ү character that’s in the second word on the second line, whereas Mongolian, other Mongolic languages, and Turkic languages often do when written in Cyrillic. The first word is “avtomashin”, but Mongolian got that word from Russian

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Автомашин

• тай бүх зургийг сонгоно уу

Roughly Romanised, just using Wiktionary’s versions (I do not know how to pronounce any of this myself)

Avtomašína

• Tai büx zurgiig songono uu

Assuming I’ve got that right, it’s quite definitely not Slavic

And then the machine translation from Mongolian

Car

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It seems like it’s Mongolian, if that helps you figure it out at all