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[–] ylph 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Most Polish people would disagree. Poland got pretty fucked in ww2, from all sides, but at least they managed to hold on to some of their sovereignty and not be forced to join USSR as a Soviet Republic.

This partially allowed the democratization movement to form in Poland in the 80s (with Solidarność) and eventually for Poland to get out from under Russia's boot and join the EU and NATO, and avoid the fate of former Soviet Republics like Belarus and Ukraine.

[–] ylph 37 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Looks like a JVC RC-660

The guys in the back both have some kind of Grundig - probably C260 or similar.

Here are a bunch of Grundigs as well, also in Poland.

Even more here

Edit: found the same guy as well

[–] ylph 26 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Poland was not part of the USSR...

[–] ylph 1 points 6 months ago

The only fuel you can make from water is hydrogen. The RS-25 engines used on the SLS core stage and the Space Shuttle used liquid hydrogen, as did the J-2 engines on the second and third stage of the Saturn V (but not the first stage, which used RP-1 (kerosene) burning F-1 engine)

Starship's Raptor engines use liquid methane however. There are a bunch of tradeoffs between the different fuels, but generally liquid hydrogen is more difficult and expensive to deal with. With low cost reusability being one of the primary objectives of Starship, liquid methane was chosen as the best option. The fact that it can also be manufactured on Mars was also considered, since CO2 is abundant in Martian atmosphere.

[–] ylph 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

LOX is liquid oxygen, which is not a fuel, but an oxidizer. Starship is fueled by liquid methane. Methane can not be made from just water, you need a source of carbon. On Mars for example methane could be produced from CO2 in the atmosphere and water from ice.

[–] ylph 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Reagan was a union leader in the 40s and 50s, governor of California in the 60s, and elected president in 84 - he didn't just go from acting to being president, he had a lot more political experience and track record than Trump.

Sure he had charisma and was a good public speaker, but that's pretty much what got Obama the presidency as well.

[–] ylph 4 points 8 months ago

There also appears to be a safari hat on the ground, implying they are eating a tourist? Just extra mood I guess :)

[–] ylph 25 points 9 months ago (3 children)
[–] ylph 31 points 10 months ago

YouTube video ads can't be blocked with just DNS blocking unfortunately, they are served from the same hosts as YouTube videos.

[–] ylph 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I think "popular" is stretching it here, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is dead now, and while Hurd is interesting, it has ways to go.

Alpine is actually popular, particularly as a lightweight host OS to run docker.

[–] ylph 21 points 11 months ago (5 children)

You can have a Linux distro without GNU -Alpine Linux is a popular example

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