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And now for something completely different. The Wehrmacht used a mixture of two different greys in a camouflage pattern for its tanks until 1940, when they reverted to a single tone of dark grey (RAL 7021). Because this sort of urban camo is a lot darker than the greys most museums have on hand, a lot of German tanks on display today are not as dark as they were at their prime. In early 1943, after experiments with desert camo in Africa and steppe camo in southern Ukraine, the Wehrmacht decided that the main theatre from now on would be the latter. Therefore, all newly produced tanks were now factory-painted a mustard-like dark yellow (RAL 7028). This looked a lot like desert camo, and so the shipments of freshly-produced armor in the last phases of the Battle of Stalingrad seem to have spawned the myth that Germany redirected Afrikacorps reinforcements bound for Tunisia to bail the 6th Army out instead. Each tank came with a DIY camo kit of green and dark brown paint, to be diluted and applied by the crew - and it was to be diluted with gasoline, but a lot of crews used water, and everyone's mixture ratio was eyeballed so the tone and saturation were off... plus initially there was no specific guidance on camo patterns. No two Tigers' stripes were alike. (Yes, I'm aware that both of these images are Panzer IVs) Oh, and that spaced armor on the turret reminds me... The huge chunks of add-on armor on the turret of the T-62M is known as (Leonid) Ilyich (brezhnev)'s Eyebrows:

So, do we call that a 1.5/4?

Cost of lunch (buffet?) with Warren Buffett, USD mln, right/bar chart, vs his net worth, USD bln (left)

Those guys deserve a reprimand for wasting money. The presence of bias in machine learning systems, especially those trained on samples of Anglophone internet (e.g. GPT-3 has been taught the entirety of Reddit) has been discussed for well over half a decade; the novelty of their research is taking a neural net (possibly one with already known biases), using it as part of the software of a robot, and then acting surprised when the robot continues to show biases. This bit takes the cake, though It seems that they're angry at a spade being a spade, namely a neural net operating off of pure correlation, and not having any morals. While I felt charitable towards the guy in the "Google's sentient AI" incident, here, the ostensible robotics expert completely disregards the nature of the object of study. The big corpos aren't exactly going to take AI ethicists seriously if the level of their expertise rivals that of tinfoil hat wearers accusing AstraZeneca of distributing Bill Gates's mind control microchips.

But does it count as a casino for... uh... tax purposes?

At around the 30 minute mark, the guy manages to reconcile the various iterations of the Nuklon/Zevs tug [on Kilopower] "The difference is, unlike Pu-238, you might as well chew this uranium" (c)

Ah, healthcare stories. My mom got bitten by a tick. So, first she had to walk half a mile to the nearest round-the-clock 'trauma post' where a sleepy guy almost seven feet tall proceeded to remove the tick with care and precision that had probably been suitable for surgeon school. She also had to bring her own jar for her newfound friend. Then she had to show up in the morning for a general physician to issue an antibiotic prescription. And then, glass jar in hand, she had to decide on final disposition. You see, one agency in the entirety of Moscow tests for tick-borne encephalitis, and another for Lime disease. They don't cooperate, and they'll only accept a live tick. Not half a tick. While I decided to trust official data that there wasn't any TBE around this season, my mother was treated to the surreal sight of an entire queue of people with jars doing the rounds between desks and offices in the usual bureaucratic nightmare of contradicatory instructions and boorish officials - a sharp contrast between actual hospitals, which may look pretty unchanged from when Brezhnev was still breathing, but at least the staff don't treat you like an intrusive annoyance. Fortunately, the tick test was the only part of the saga that involved payment. Test came clean, but she has a fever.

Don't forget the flags of DNR and LNR travelling into space on what is the equivalent of a candy wrapper. Thrown away as soon as they stop being useful.

What would one expect from "a Sydney-based senior reporter on HuffPost's trends team, covering U.S. politics, media, pop culture and more" deciding to dabble in aerospace?

Another one for the Real-Life Untitled Spaceships.

USSF and PLASSF inspectors chasing each other. https://spacenews.com/an-in-orbit-game-of-cat-and-mouse-close-approaches-prompt-calls-for-communications-and-norms/

Let me refer you to this.

Russian space situational awareness system circa 2006 Also see caption

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-19/shortages-of-beer-sriracha-popcorn-hit-by-supply-chain-crisis Popcorn shortage

This trifibian involved a hot air balloon rather than wings.

I believe there was also a small production run of Panthers for Britain.

That post post really was just bait for @JoeSchmuckatelli, yes. Funnily enough, something common across all three of the Western MBTs being touted is that they have an optional sensor/systems operator/remote weapon gunner in the hull. The gunner-radioman is back! There's an interview of a T-80BVM jockey. The guy says they only load 10 rounds (barely a quarter of maximum) because anything more is just asking to participate in the Ukranian Turret-Tossing Championship, with rather tragic consequences for the entire crew. https://telegra.ph/Nemnogo-o-T-80BVM-06-03 I am aware, though, that the T-64/T-80 autoloader layout is inherently less safe than the lower-profile T-72/T-90/Sprut/T-14 layout. So you're not the only one thinking about the AMX-13, especially with the next hike in gun size on the horizon.

2008's vision of 2020 2022

One Russian-language science news Twitter account (@PowerNaShary) once wrote: "Elon Musk has promised to deliver Earthlings to Mars in six years. Some think his ideas are madness, but that's unless you realize that it's vitally important humanity bugs out from this olanet before our sun turns into a black hole. Which is 100% going to happen." I have the screens if you insist.

Last year's Glasgow conference trumped this meme. Remember the Teslas charged by a mobile diesel generator?

Apparently ESA are going to discuss internally how categorical this impossibility is in two weeks' time. https://ria.ru/20220613/eka-1795051771.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/12/weekinreview/dotdotdot-dashdashdash-no-more.html

A word of caution is that most of these images have already been generated by a non-artificial intelligence, i.e. they're more artist's conceptions than reality.

Downloading the demo for Terra Invicta as I type this. It's supposed to be what happens when the XCOM: Long War devs read Ken Burnside.

Would they even survive that, though?