So is EN vs FR like Red vs Blue in America?

>>505
In Quebec the French people were super religious and poor. Eventually a nationalist got into power and told them they'd be rich if they kicked the English working class out so now you've got a bunch of dumbasses who think at every dinner that their cultural heritage is being destroyed by the English language.

I guess it's a bit like Confederate and Union states, but it all came to it's peak 70 years ago and no war.

It's a bit funny that Quebec is the innovative powerhouse of Canada in spite of this but I think it's because our taxes are high and most of it goes into promoting social wellness and education. Just unfortunate our language police get angry if you talk English before French in a customer service job.

>>505
I feel it's more like what Texas was to the United States when they wanted to split with a mix of how the British likes to treat the Irish.
Lots of nonsense legesature and strong-arming and yes though it hate to say it but it's true racism against other Canadians as well.

>>507
This is also true.

But anyway. I'm not really sure what use cases these actually have. Drones sure, they make perfect sense but these really can only be used in proxy wars and maybe some certain circumstances. The Problem as I see it is thus, the idea these days is to have highly mobile mechanised infantry, infantry that can be mounted in an APC and sent rapidly to where it needs to go, in that case what role does an autonomous ground vehicle have? The Idea that many such as Rheinmetal have is that these will support the infantry but the Infantry already have the APC to support them and bringing along a land drone would take space if it's possible at all(their Mission Master is basically the size of a car, indeed one of it's roles is to carry things for the infantry which again they have an APC for) these land drones would need whole supply organisations all of their own and would get in the way of the fast and mobile nature of modern war, they are also going to take time to set up and are not always that fast.

>>459
That's not a bad way of going about but there are flaws, the biggest being how expensive that would be. You would also need to find a way to deploy it in hostile areas without being seen as well as what you mentioned with not always being fast.
I think the best approach would be to utilize heavy payloads one big enough to cause a mess so massive you wouldn't need to fire another but there's an issue with that too; something like that can't be fired to reach long distances and needs special launch pads but if we were to find a way to mobilize that like we do SAMs.
So imagine this a mobile robot that can cross any land mass would need only one pilot and a scout carrying a single massive payload, it could also hide from radar. That would make any nation carrying it a true super power.

>>459
Their main marketing line for Spot seems to be towards using it where humans cannot go; the one example video they have is targeted at industrial accidents, allowing for remote surveillance and limited troubleshooting with it's claw arm. As was also fairly publicized, a Spot was sold to a police department in NYC I believe.

>>460
One major sticking point in regards to mobility and usage as I see it, is that Spot likely cannot be used anywhere that has loose soil or mud. It's "feet" are very small, meaning a large amount of weight gets put on a small space rather than being spread out. In places with mud, or sand, Spot will likely get stuck quite easily. Ditto when it comes to light, uncompacted snow as well.

It does seem most likely that Spot will be best suited towards industrial accidents, since there are many unique robots used for such purposes, but all are fairly simple in operation and are often unable to traverse obstacles like rubble or stairs due to being tracked rather than having legs.

Perhaps it could be useful in military applications as a portable manpad launching system. Granted, with limited range and carrying capacity, it's hard to imagine circumstances where it would even be usable. Perhaps then it would be suited towards urban combat, building clearing, and EOD work?

more of a random topic not suited for qa

Boston Dynamics is owned by Toyota or something these days, so anything they make will certainly be looked at for Japanese domestic use. Robots don't need to be tools of war.

If you take into account that the water is warmer during Summer, and that more people are out on cruises and vacations or boating during this time, I'd say it's much more likely that someone would spot a mermaid this season compared to the last.

I think the closest thing to mermaids would have to be dolphins. As far as sightings go, there doesn't appear to be any correlation between the percentage of dolphin sightings and time of year. That said, it is likely true that the volume of sightings is related to time of year, but the over all commonality of sightings is variable and not related to season.

>>441
I've heard manatees are possibly what sailors mistook for mermaids in the past. They definitely have the lower body for it and they're slow and hang out near the surface.
Women sure were ugly back then, though...

>>463
Well, when it's late at night and you're dunk and seasick.....

Big foot and mermaids are holding a party in Loch Ness

If OP was going to kill himself over such a trifling matter then it is likely he would be in the frame of mind to kill himself sooner or later anyway so deleting this post will not change anything.

>>452
EXSCVSE ME op is a cute girl, NOT a smelly boy

>>452
society is based around accountability. Every structure with a law to it(any human organziation) wants to give someone the blame for pulling the trigger. Courts will give you the pass sometimes for not being accountable, but if it seems like you didn't do what you could to stop it then people will not trust you and you might find yourself with enemies you haven't even met.

>>454
Exactly, OP needs to be held accountable for his own actions and expecting the blame to lie on a simple post is like blaming the birds chirping or a lack of English speaking source material on the industrial capacity of the Ottoman empire.

the dude who tried that at kiwifarms at least had the decency to offer money

I guess we're just missing the constant thundershowers now

nice temperature, can i have it

looks like the American midwest

weather always calls for shit in my city with terrible storms,and blizzards in the winter but it never happens
every town outside a 30 minute drive gets hit but it's always calm here
the storm always goes further north in canada or south into the US
think it has to do with the position relative to the great lakes

Always forget about that first part...

absolutely love honey
put it in tea, pancakes, toast, etc. it's really useful for everything

I started beekeeping a few years ago. It's a very rewarding and pleasing hobby to partake in, I strongly recommend it.

The hives I operate are more traditional and are setup off of my property. This is an interesting looking hive, maybe would be something good for a hive in my backyard.

>>414

pics plz

I'd never want to hike around in the woods without proper preparation. Crazy things lie in there that I don't want to take my chances with. Maybe a little look, but otherwise I'd definitely pack up some stuff to take with me and get rest first. At least you're safe OP

I'm a huge weenie so I bet I'd have a whole bunch of emergency stuff myself. What kind of survival stuff did you do? Did you build a tree house?!
Choosing to spend an extended time outside?! You must have a nice climate, or least better than the one I have. Do you need to use bug spray and wear covered clothes and stuff? That stuff ruins the fun randomness of wandering around for me.

>>411
Yes it's never a bad idea to bring things along I think apart of why I was safe is luck as I was fortunate enough to run into any wild animals.
I got unlucky the very first time I started when a medium sized fox attacked me, took a chunk of my left hand the bugger. I fought it off by biting it's nose, punching the throat and clawing at the eyes.
Pro tip: one good form of self-defence against animals like that it to carry an umbrella with a crazy design and a small sharp blade. Sounds strange but it works.
The umbrella when closed can be used for something for it to bite on or you can open and close it really fast to scare it away.
>>412
Nope didn't do any treehouses it would more tree tent if I did. No need for covered clothing and the only bugs you see a lot of are dragon flies, moths, spiders and butterflies I'm right in the middle of the Great Lakes so it's either really cool or sticky hot and your biggest threats are foxes, coyotes and surprise cliffs at least in my zone.
My first technique was keeping track of how many left and right turns I did then I paid attention to the wind and walked towards where it felt cooler and felt the air for moistness this was to try and find a river and I did and once that was done with I followed it downstream making sure I didn't lose track by being sure the river was right of my person as I moved down. After that I looked at the trees to see which ends have more growth and went that way since the sun is facing north. The forest was deep so it took awhile to even see the sun, I also kept moving only to rest for no longer then 45seconds to a minute as I'm always burning daylight and I knew I would be screwed without it.

I have a question not unrelated to this; if a torrent site gets taken down, will the magnet links obtained from that site stop working?

>>406
Yes and no. You'll still be able to load the torrent, you'll just have a lot more trouble finding seeders and peers because that's what a tracker communicates to the client.

>>405
>decline in tech knowledge
I think it's more that tech-illiterate types have greater access to technology. The people who use streaming services aren't the sort of people who would've learned to use torrents and burn CDs. They're the people who got all their movies from Blockbuster.

I wonder why there aren't more torrent sites on tor. It seems to be the perfect place for that because they are only directories and don't transfer large data so tor's speed isn't a problem, plus it is a lot more resistant to takedown, where a lot more highly illegal websites continue to exist.

>>407
>you'll just have a lot more trouble finding seeders and peers because that's what a tracker communicates to the client.
Torrent site is different from torrent trackers.

>>409
>Torrent site is different from torrent trackers.
I'm aware...

Per Wikipedia:
"The 'tracker' server keeps track of where file copies reside on peer machines, which ones are available at time of the client request, and helps coordinate efficient transmission and reassembly of the copied file.

"Since the creation of the distributed hash table (DHT) method for 'trackerless' torrents, BitTorrent trackers have largely become redundant; however, they are still often included with torrents to improve the speed of peer discovery."

>>385

>A crusade is different from a Jihad, one is defensive/in order to defend Christiandom

uh, not necessarily, while you could kinda say that was ostensibly so for the initial crusades for the holy land, things like the albigensian crusade and the northern crusades were not particularly defensive

but yeah, it's stupid, from what I remember from reading the book many years ago the fremen were basically space mujahideens, I distinctly remember even the color green was prominently featured, seems really stupid they'd do something like that but gotta be PC I guess

I don't like where this thread is going!

>>390
Killing Cathars (Albigensian) in france is a defensive thing because the Cathars threatened the realm. Killing Baltic tribals (Northern Crusade) is defensive war in the fact the tribals were raiding Central Europe.
A jihad (HOLY STRUGGLE) is an offensive war conquering people in the name of Allah.
How the fuck is (spoilers) calling what Paul does at the end of the first book a crusade a correct when a crusade is a defensive war for the holy land and defending against heathens and heretics to a Jihad.
Have you fucking read the book? You know the book where the author himself expressly called it a Jihad?
Fuck you for defending the change and supporting the rape of author's intent.

>>426
I didn't read the second half of your post but principally fuck the hack writers for raping Dune, same with his son who has masscared the series.
You really can't adapt Dune.

It's too hot~~

It sure is summer (and it sucks).
I guess this is why people pay good money to live in Mediterranean climates, because the humidity here just makes me want to die

>>73653
how's winter in the mediterranean, if it's not cold it can't be that desirable

https://technosports.co.in/2020/09/14/amd-radeon-rx-6000-gpu-benchmarks-blow-away-stock-rtx-2080-ti/

AMD's responded to the latest reveal

There's nothing to use it, though. RTX is available for... Minecraft and recently Fortnite. PC is unfortunately largely defined by ports, and while Japanese companies are getting better at it I don't expect them to start using cutting-edge technology that's not possible on consoles.
GPUs are really not worth upgrading any time soon unless you an old one

ｷﾀ━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━!!

Apparently not that soon.

>>357
mmm grafix crunchy

Being a seaman must be terrifying...