thebestaquaman

While I get your point, I think it makes complete sense, and a big difference, when opinion pieces are labelled.

While I 100% agree with his reasoning, I hate to point out that the next governor might not care much about precedence.

To put this into perspective for all you Americans: In my country at least, we don't have "rallies" at all. It's not a thing. We have political debates and news broadcasts regularly where politicians from opposing parties are invited to speak their case, that's it. Of course, parties also have stands in public places where they give out pamphlets and promote their party, but in those places you'll likely find stands from a bunch of parties.

The way you do campaigning in the US is absurd to me.

I'm a person that regularly forgives people for "sins" committed in a time where what they were doing was considered normal by that time's standards but regressive by today's standards.

Honestly, it just feels refreshing to have a guy that's actually been pushing his ideals ahead of the status-quo and hasn't shirked from being "too radical".

The corpses could in principle have been placed there after the strike, or could have been killed by machine gun fire to the back of the truck. To me, what makes HIMARS the likely culprit here is the tires.

I wouldn't go as far as calling it "mostly meaningless", but it definitely carries an enhancement bias, in that the better players will tend to be placed on the same team, where they mutually enhance each others goal/assist stats.

From a recruiting perspective for instance, I would assume that it would be interesting to devise a statistic to indicate how much a player improves the team they're on, while somehow factoring out the effects of the other players.

At the same time of course, a lot (most?) of what makes a good team is not just the skills of the individual players, but how the different players utilise each other's strengths and cover each other's weaknesses.

Thats the one! I had forgotten how you could see all the punctures in the windshields. But when not a single tire survives, it indicates a very high density of shrapnel. I saw someone else commenting here that this could have been a Bradley, and while a Bradley could probably also have decimated an unarmoured column like this one, I don't think we would be seeing this kind of damage if that was the case.

While this graphic is awesome, it obviously carries a bias related to what teams a player has played on, and what league they have played in. A forward playing alongside good playmakers will score much more frequently than one without them, at the same time a playmaker with a good forward will get much more assists. Also, the play-style in different leagues can often be different, with more goals scored on average in some leagues than others.

I wonder how one could create a statistic that takes those things into account, by somehow "normalizing" the number of goals/assists a player has based on who they played with and what league they played in.

Also, I think it's really interesting how that graph "curves up". It looks like there's a kind of trend where players getting a few more assists correlates to them scoring a lot more goals, and while almost noone has more than .35 assists per 90, there are quire a few that have more than .4 goals per 90.

Just look at some of the vehicles that aren't burt out. Some of them look more or less fine at first glance. Notice that all their tires are flat.

I remember seeing a video filmed by a Russian who's vehicle had been hit by a HIMARS strike, and he showed how the vehicle looked fine at a distance, but up close you could see that the whole thing was perforated by tiny holes. These little holes were made by thousands of small tungsten balls moving fast enough to pierce clean through the engine block.

It appears that all those flat tires are indicating that those entire trucks, and anyone who was on them, are similarly perforated.

Just remember to keep track of which BTU you're using

How in the world is (month/day/year) more sorted than (day/month/year)? I see two use-cases: Sorting things chronologically, in which case you want YYYY/MM/DD, or referring to nearby dates, where the year or even month can be assumed known implicitly, in which case you use DD/MM/YYYY. In no sane world does MM/DD/YYYY make sense.

That was a great article! I'm actually kind of surprised/impressed that they went as far as taking front-line soldiers off the line to put them in prison when they were convicted of non-violent crimes they committed before the (full-scale) war. It really shows how Ukraine is honouring the ideals of being a just country that sticks by its laws, even in the face of hardship.