It is indeed, you’re right. Felis silvestris grampia specifically

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Tell my family I died happy

Miamha in Scottish Gaelic! Although I think the Irish míáú is much more fun with the repeated fadas

He looks like he’s already settling into his new home! You must have made a good impression on him

Also this specific instance with the Teufelsrad sounds like something where, even in some hypothetical utopia where nobody ever attempted to upskirt anyone, there is still a) a reason to be filming and b) a solid chance of someone’s skirt lifting up accidentally. So in that regard, the shorts seem like a solid idea

I think the person you’re replying to actuallt just isn’t familiar with the acronym for “internal combuston engine”, since their mentions of America suggests that they think it’s about the American Immigration & Customs Enforcement

It looks like the article itself is being a bit misleading; the actual statement doesn’t mention submods at all, but re-uploads of the original mod. Digging a bit further, it seems like the author is updating the mod to work on the game’s most recent patch, and while he is doing that a bunch of people have used AI to update the mod to that patch and uploaded it wholesale as if it were their own work

Yes, but they don’t actually want Europe to be able to defend itself, they want European money to buy American weapons

It took me longer than it should have to realise that that measuring tape is in inches and your hand is not actually tiny

Hmm, looks the vicious sort to be hunting for bargains at the supermarket

Never doubt cats on the matter of being comfy

While I’m by no means an expert on the matter, as I understand it there is some solid reasoning here: whatever the best solution to fighting drones turns out to be, it’s probably going to require you to bring some heavy equipment and power generation to the frontline. We’ve got various directed-energy systems, guns similar to the CIWS on ships but scaled down, interceptor drones, jammers… But at the end of the day, all of them require you to be able to carry a bunch of heavy shit to the frontline and for it to be durable enough to survive there. At that point you’ve got something a lot like a tank again

This actually seems like a step closer to that future, doesn’t it? Most of the EU operates some variant of the Leopard, especially as the old Soviet and other Eastern Bloc ones age out and get replaced. This project with Italy is to be a variant of the successor to the Leopard, rather than a totally independent design like Italy’s current tanks. Hungary is doing a variant of this too, and France has signed up to collaborate on a tank with Rheinmetall (although the fighter program that collapsed makes this specific case less promising in my eyes). It seems like a general coalescence around the German designs

Even if it made literally no practical difference at all, we should do it to reaffirm our actual reliable alliances

The thing about money is that it only has value because we collectively agree that it does. If you have a dollar or a euro or a yuan, it’s valuable literally only because other people will give you stuff for it. There’s not really anything special about it otherwise, it’s just really useful to have some way of trading things in easily-transferable numbers

Crypto is theoretically the same in terms of what makes it valuable, except for that far fewer people agree that it is valuable and there’s much less agreement on how valuable it is amongst those who do

You need to hang out in different parts of lemmy, anywhere except wherever the fuck you’re currently going

Actually no, but for an exciting reason: this is a species only just newly identified this month!

The one with the incredibly high hunting success rate is the black-footed cat, which is from southern Africa. The one in the pic is a tilcayo, from Bolivia. It looks similar to another species of wildcat in the same area, but one that had brought into a wildlife sanctuary (by a guy who found and cared for it as a kitten and didn’t initially realise it wasn’t a domestic cat) and a scientist realised that it was not actually the same thing

That’s an interesting comparison I hadn’t considered, but isn’t it more like the current EU than the hypothetical federalised EU under discussion?

To be fair, any air superiority scenario is always about some kind of specific geographic area, and Russia is big enough that there are likely to be targets beyond the range of the fighters that enforce air supremacy

Also there is a third country which operates strategic bombers: Russia. It has been using them against Ukraine, and Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb (the raid with trucks full of drones) was specifically an effort to take out a big chunk of that strategic bomber fleet

“Lol no. Actually it was exactly what you said”