He already has been, the amount of money Lockheed Martin has missed out on due to countries turning away from the F-35 is eye-watering

We only finished repaying our WWII loans from the US and Canada in 2006

Tom Scott’s game show! https://lateralcast.com/

He has always had a real love for game shows and has done quite a few different ones over time, but Lateral seems to be his main project just now. The format is dead simple, it’s Tom plus three guests (usually other youtubers or podcasters that he has met throughout his career) taking turns asking the each other some kind of a question that requires, as the name suggests, some lateral thinking to puzzle out

Every time video game things come up on Lateral he’s more or less stumped because he has just never been into games, which is totally fair enough, but I feel like if he were going to enjoy any video game at all it’d be Portal

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

Ignore me, I was misinterpreting it and others have explained it Presumably being less orange in some way. None of it actually means anything, all of Orange’s words are a parody of that incel terminology. Orange is naturally less orange than they would like to be and is going to some lengths to become more orange, but doesn’t think that the results are convincing to others and that they will never really be orange in the same way that Green is green

I appreciate the recommendation! Unfortunately the keyboard I’ve got is very old and does not have a MIDI output. I don’t mind learning the old fashioned way though! It got me through the other instruments

Ask and ye shall receive

Although apparently my cat is laying claim to it today

Blues and rock are my comfort zones, and I can happily get along with most genres of jazz and metal that aren’t ultra-technical. I can do some passable funk

Guitar is what I’m best at, I’m decent on bass, and I’m complete dogshit on keyboard but working to change that situation. I technically also own a little reed flute that I bought from a whittler at a winter solstice festival that I know how to play the Shrek theme and Darude’s Sandstorm on

If you play guitar, bass, or piano/keyboard, we’re having a jam session. Otherwise, board games! Flashpoint is a cool one, it’s easy to pick up and it’s cooperative

OP doesn’t believe in anthropogenic climate change and avoided getting covid vaccinations. It’s definitely about that and/or the conspiracy that we’re all going to be made to switch to an insect-based diet

I like to imagine they all just got exported to Canada so that a completely unrelated politician who happens to also have the surname Harris could match that denim cap to their Canadian tuxedo

Wait what the fuck, they really did switch a bakery over to drone production and put them on a conveyor belt like that

https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/y8xcnjxrg24.jpg

I’m glad to report that they’re still standing! These photos aren’t great, but they do at least show how much taller they are than every other tree in the area and the incredibly confusing presence of an old phone box is a helpful comparison for how chunky they are

However, I also found out that these are dawn redwoods, the smallest variety of redwoods. These don’t even get to half the height of the giant ones in California and they’re still the biggest trees I’ve ever seen in person

Also tagging @shalafi@lemmy.world

Anecdotally I would say that London specifically, rather than the UK as a whole, has either an unusually high population of foxes or a unusually bold one. I’ve never seen so many out in the open as there

Thank you for adventuring responsibly! I’m glad you had a good time here

I think that this is more or less the approach I would take, but you shouldn’t worry about the actual diameter of anything. It’s not important, after all - if everything was scaled up twice as big, the answer would be the same. Just call the diameter of the cup a nice round number and then see how the hazelnuts compare to it. In this case I think there’s about five hazelnut widths to the glass, so I’m gonna call the glass diameter 50, the nuts 10, and the glass height 80.

You’ll need to change your formulae, though. pi*d is the circumference of a circle, but we need the area here, so pi*r*r (and then multiply by height for volume). That gives me 157,050 whateverunits cubed for the volume of the cup. For a sphere it’s (4/3)*pi*r*r*r, so 524 for the hazelnuts. Now, I know that spheres don’t pack perfectly into a volume, but I don’t remember the factor even for optimal packing, so I’m just gonna take a wild guess and say that 70% of the internal volume of the cup is actually occupied by hazelnuts. That gives me… 209 hazelnuts in the cup. Which seems worse than your answer on a gut level, but I can count 86 visible ones so it’s maybe actually not bad

Oh holy shit, we have half a million of them‽ I was under the impression it was just a few scattered around the place