The Potent Powers of Graphene: Unleashing its Sorcery during the Witching Hour

The concept of the witching hour has been a topic of fascination for centuries, with many believing it to be a time when supernatural forces are at their strongest. Whether it's the bewitching power of sorcery or the mysterious nature of the hour itself, there is something captivating about this time period. Interestingly, recent advancements in technology have led to the discovery of graphene, a material that has the potential to revolutionize many industries. One such application is its use in the development of a quick renovator, a product that could drastically reduce the time and effort required for home improvements. The combination of the witching hour's potent energy and the innovative properties of graphene could result in a powerful and efficient tool for renovating spaces. Imagine being able to complete a renovation project in a fraction of the time it would normally take, all thanks to the sorcery of graphene.

Bloody good show with the science! To use a probe that just happens to be wandering past to do some science on the way. Should I replace wandering with zooming perhaps?

Belarus seems like it should be even more culturally similar to Russia, and yet that separated off after the end of the Soviet Union, and Belarussians don t seem eager to rejoin. Global arms manufacturers are doing well because stupid Western read mostly stupid European governments that have been refusing to update their forces equipment or recognise the threats from Russia and China, have just woken up and smelled the coffee.

Imagine being able to complete a renovation project in a fraction of the time it would normally take, all thanks to the sorcery of graphene. The possibilities are truly endless, and the impact on the construction and design industries could be immense. From quick renovations to large-scale projects, the witching hour sorcery potent graphene quick renovator has the potential to transform the way we think about home improvements.

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I’d put them in it, and launch it now. That way Boeing have a chance of getting competent new leadership, a sanguine example of the dangers of "value engineering" and cam build the next capsule properly. If they launch on November 5th, we can all get free fireworks too…

Elon Musk's ambitions for Starship soar high while reality waits on launchpad

You might be right, and the N1 wasn’t possible with the available technology. But the Soviets never got to find that out because of their quality control problems. Not testing every engine for example seems like a very bad decision.

Cat accused of wiping US Veteran Affairs server info after jumping on keyboard

I think you’ll find that weasels are a stoatily different kind of animal.

Re: Seems like a good "Who Me" article to me.

Who Meow? Surely.

NASA taking its time unboxing asteroid sample because it grabbed too much stuff

Why waste all that money?

If scientists are so desperate to get access to billion year-old dust - all they needed to do was ask. It would have saved all that time, money and bother. I've got several cupboards in this office - that are absolutely full of billion year-old dust - they can come over and knock themselves out. Might be a problem if they're scared of spiders.

Russia to ban all VPNs – again – says senator

Re: Everyone's at it..

You might be right there. You used to be able to get to RT, but not today.

I looked this up to see if the UK had banned it. And I missed that Ofcom had rescinded RT's UK broadcasting license in March 2022. The EU banned them from the satellite feed in February, so they'd already disappeared from our screens. But unlike newspapers in the UK, TV stations have to meet impartiality requirements - which are overseen by Ofcom. I guess it didn't get widely reported, seeing as it was rather late.

I can't find a mention of any internet ban / block. Admittedly only after a quick search. You can still get to TASS, which is a Russian state-owned news agency. But you can still get to the Sputnik news website, which is the same group as RT - they're both part or RIA Novosti. So I've no idea whether it's been stopped here, or by RT themselves.

I wouldn't have banned them. Though to keep them broadcasting in the UK would have required a change of law - which I also wouldn't have done. Because Ofcom had already found them guilty in several impartiality cases, and they were non-stop offenders once the full-scale invasion of UK started. I wouldn't have blocked RT.com.

Re: How’s that war* coming along Pooty?

I believe it's technically known as a special military clusterfuck.

With emphasis on the "special".

Re: Russia regards Zuck's biz as an extremist organization.

Remember that my enemy's enemy might also be my enemy too. Think of it as a target-rich envionment.

Re: Everyone's at it..

Yet one of the first actions in the SMO

The word you are looking for is war. Or unprovoked invasion if you prefer.

And then some whataboutism to bulk up your post.

By the way, RT and Sputnik aren't news services. They're straight propaganda. But we also didn't ban access to them. You can still get them online, if you so desire. I don't think the UK even did anything. But the EU banned them from their satellite broadcast. I don't know if that affected the UK service, or if they just decided to shut up shop because sanctions would have made it harder to pay the bills. Even if the EU ban knocked them off Freesat, they could have still gone out on Freeview.

Ukraine accuses Russian spies of hunting for war-crime info on its servers

Re: Sounds like a great place to dump

The Eel's output seems to have suffered a marked drop in quality in recent days. There used to be some sensible sounding arguments there. I can't believe I just read about Ukraine having a secret cloning program.

I guess we need to worry when Ukraine's army start wearing all white body armour.

US v Sam Bankman-Fried trial begins . as imploded crypto-biz boss sues his insurer

Re: Depends on the small print

I would guess that it covers for him being sued for whatever, but not for him if he's committed deliberate fraud. The problem being he's not been convicted. So can they refuse to pay him on the grounds they think he's guilty and certainly won't be able to pay them their money back if he is convicted? Also, are they paying for him to be able to sue them to make them pay for him?

Astronomers debate whether or not lightning strikes even once on Venus

So you've dodged the lightning!

Well done puny mortal! You have survived the first challenge! Now the 400°C surface temperature will melt you! Not to mention the 90 bar pressure. And despite the lack of thunder, we still have the sulphuric acid rain to dissolve your lifeless corpse!

it's one less way to die I suppose.

Bloody good show with the science! To use a probe that just happens to be wandering past to do some science on the way. Should I replace wandering with zooming perhaps?

Norway wants Facebook behavioral advertising banned across Europe

Re: Consent is overrated.

Is consent the best model for protecting online privacy, when the consent is almost never informed. Most people have no clue how the internet works, how online advertising works. or just how much information Google and Facebook have built up about them.

Also the consent model has given us the fucking stupid cookie pop-ups that we now get every time we go onto a website. Whereas perhaps it would have been better to regulate cookies at the browser level, forcing browser makers to give people viable ways of controlling their own data and system.

I mean you could also try to legislate for what advertisers do, but that's a lot harder, but there are fewer browswer manufacturers, so they're easier to find, to check up on, and to punish.

Just as an example I use Safari on my iPad. And for some reason they have allowed random webmasters the right to control my fucking iPad. Which I fucking paid for. Pinch to zoom doesn't work on some websites, because the website designer is allowed to switch it off. Which means I'm forced to get our my reading glasses to read their shit, whereas for every other website I can zoom in and out to my heart's content.

There are various approaches that could be taken to cookie control. But making everyone waste a few seconds every time they visiit a new website, or a few minutes if they're going to actually read the privacy polity and drill down into the settings - doesn't seem like it's advancing the cause of privacy very much.

Not that I'm claiming our politicians won't bugger things up in some different way.

Data breach reveals distressing info: People who order pineapple on pizza

Re: I don't understand.

Curry sauce as a condiment is the devil's spunk.K

Putting anything liquid on chips is an abomination. The things are deep fried in order to make them nice and crispy on the outside, while being fluffy in the middle. Even vinegar only works under precisely controlled conditions. Which is why chips shouldn't be served in boxes, or horrible polystyrene trays, they should be wrapped in paper! Like a beautiful Christmas present, but smelling of beef dripping and vinegar.

But a nice side of ketchup for dipping is also good, curry or otherwise. Curry sauce or gravy is not good at all.

Perhaps a little battered sausage as well? Or a lovely piece of battered haddock.

. Wanders off to happy place.

Re: Pineapple on pizza.

It is absolutely bloody delicious.

But not a meal where you're under any illusions about the healthiness of your meal choices. Goes down rather nicely with a pint or two of ale.

Re: Pineapple on pizza.

It's not the best. But I do like a bit of ham and pineapple sometimes. I think my favourite is Fiorentina. Which is a good, credible choice that establishes my pizza bona-fides. On the other hand it's spinach and egg - so plenty of people are disgusted by it.

However, I do have a shameful secret. Delicious but shameful. A local pub does a pizza cone.

Take one margerita pizza. Wrap it into a cone shape, like a paper cone. Fill said cone with chips, bacon and cheese sauce. Serve on a specially made conical metal holder thing that has two sauce bowls. One with bbq sauce to dip the chips, the other with garlic mayo for bits of crust.

I expect a crack team of Italian special forces to raid the pub any moment - and torture everyone involved, before returning them to Italy for life imprisonment or execution. And if they can get the customer list, I guess I'll never be allowed into Italy again. But it really is very nice.

And yes, I am appropriately ashamed.

I have been made aware of a man who eats Marmite, peanut butter and jam mixed on his crumpets.

I like to think I'm a liberal, reasonable and tolerant man. But hangin's too good for 'im!

Re: I don't understand.

Proper Brussels friteries have curry ketchup. Which is the condiment of the Gods.

Second preference would be proper salt and vinegar. But that only works if the chips are served in proper newsprint. Ink optional, it's the paper that means you can get enough vinegar on to flavour them, while there's still something absorbent there to stop them going disgusting and soggy.

Third choice ketchup.

Mayo isn't right. Too oily perhaps? If I'm doing that, then salad cream is way nicer, for the extra vinegar hit. Though to be fair, I haven't had salad cream since I was a teenager, so it could be the nostalgia speaking.

Oh God! Oh God! Oh God! I've not had salad cream this century! I might be getting just a teensy bit old!

Re: Having grown up in Hawaii

Of course "real" pizza should only have tomato, mozzarella and basil.

I prefer pepperoni. Basil makes the pizza tastes a bit. Long-piggy.

Russian allegedly smuggled US weapons electronics to Moscow

Re: Why bother?

I'm not sure calling Russians "Orcs" is racism, particularly if done by Ukrainians, a majority of whom are basically the same ethnic group. Had history turned out differently the capital of Russia might still have been Kyiv/Kiev. Although from the outside I don't claim to understand the culture. Belarus seems like it should be even more culturally similar to Russia, and yet that separated off after the end of the Soviet Union, and Belarussians don't seem eager to rejoin. Could there be a different version of history where a separate Ukrainian identity merged with a Russian one? Or is that just Soviet nostalgia and Russian wishful thinking?

I think calling Russians orcs is wrong. But the Russian army and government have certainly done a lot to deserve that reputation in the last 30 years. Since the Chechen wars the Russian army has done nothing wage brutal but incompetent wars with mass civilian casualties and allowed it's soldiers to commit mass rape. In the second Chechen war large numbers of the Russian army supplemented their terrible wages by kidnapping the locals and ransoming them back. When they didn't just murder them anyway. And that was in their off hours. When they weren't levelling whole towns and cities with mass artillery bombardment in their working hours. And those neighbours they haven't invaded, their government regularly threatens. Plus of course using their intelligence services for targetted murders and blowing up the odd arms warehouse. Supporting the Syrian government in slaughtering and gassing their own population, using both chemical and radiological weapons in the UK, kidnapping childern in Ukraine and sending them to Russia to be "re-educated". Plus the well-documented death-squads they sent to Ukraine. And invasion they planned utterly piss-poorly, and failed to tell some of their own troops they were due to invade, and yet had the death squads prepped and ready to go and murder Ukrainian local government and civic leaders in the bits they captured.

Russia is going to have to do a lot to live down its recent history. It might do well to learn from Germany in particular. OK their genocidal policies in Ukraine have been of the mild variety, the wholesale destruction of civilian targets, ethnic cleansing, targetted murders of local political leadership in order to further an occupation that they were unable to maintain militarily, a bit of light kidnapping of children and forcing children in occupied areas to only learn in Russian under threat of kidnapping. It's no holocaust. Although Stalin did of course kill millions of Ukrainians with a targetted famine in the 30s, and deported the Crimean Tartars en masse to Siberia in 1941, where about a third of them died - so that doesn't exactly help.

Putin has ensured that Russians are going to suffer from collective abuse for a while. And like the Germans under Hitler, quite a few Russians actively support the crimes of the regime and the rest of the people are going to have to find a way to live that down.

As for your comparison of the MARS/M142 / HIMARS/M270 system to Grad, you're just being silly. I think the Russians invented multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) in World War II - the Allies used similar rocket artillery as part of amphibious invasions, but not in general operations. That was what the original NATO system was back in the 70s, when it was introduced. Unguided rockets with cluster munitions. And that seems to be what the Russian systems still are. With added incendiary warheads that Russia have made excellent use of in bombing cities, as well as sometimes even using them on military targets.

But NATO don't use them as the grid square removal company, like they used to - and the way Russia still does. Too many of the sub-munitions failed to go off, so the ammo was withdrawn. For mass-effect but inaccurate area bombardment NATO is more likely to use artillery. Although I think the US have a fragmentation warhead that nobody in Europe has bought for theirs yet. Even artillery is becoming a precision weapon, with laser-guided and GPS guided shells.

The updated GIMLRS guided missiles is how Ukraine were able to use HIMARS to make the bridges in Kherson unusable with precision strikes. You could measure the regular spacing between hits in some of the photos I saw. We didn't give Ukraine unguided rockets, but then they have their own ex-Soviet GRADs for that.

As for Challenger, we don't need to supply that to Ukraine. We only sent 14 because nobody else would do it. Once resistance was broken, the Leopards got sent in larger numbers, which is the better tank for Ukraine anyway. Being lighter and more plentiful. Abrams are also plentiful, but more expensive, heavier and with higher maintenance requirements. I don't think we need a large number of tanks, given they were most likely only going to be needed to defend Eastern Europe from Russia. And Russia is a tad short of tanks nowadays. Though we're currently building the Ajax, which is 40 tonnes, so if we need more than the 150-odd Challenger 3s we're making - building the hull is the easy bit. The upgrade already involves new power trains, new turrets, new electronics - and in fact new updated armour. From Chobbham / Dorchester to Epsom (IIRC) - the armour on Challenger is modular, weirdly. We couldn't build more in a hurry. But we don't need more in a hurry. If Ukraine desperately need new tanks, we'd just have to buy them Leopards or Abrams. Personally I think we need 5 more frigates, 5 more subs and and a couple more destroyers, more than we need more tanks. And it looks like that's how we'll spend our money. And if that's paid for, I'd say our next priority would be another batch of Typhoons and/or a few more F35s. NATO doesn't need us to produce more tank divisions. Poland has that covered.

Re: "We are laser-focused on rooting out the procurement networks fueling the Russian war machine"

How telling the arms manufacturers they can donate to the Ukrainian conflict only they won't get paid.

The arms manufacturers are making very little out of the Ukraine war directly. Mostly the vast sums of cash attributed to our donations to Ukraine are government accounting. We're giving them old tanks and infantry vehicles and then couting the current purchase price of a new one as the value of the aid we've given Ukraine.

We've given them a few new bits of kit, e.g. NASAMS air defence systems, that have either been manufactured for the purpose or were new in service with us so we've given Ukraine ours and then immediately bought replacements. But mostly it's been stuff our forces had in long-term storage or were due for replacement anyway. Even with missiles we've been donating the stuff that's about to reach its use-by date - and so will either need to be fired off in exercises or expensively re-manufactured and brought up to the latest standards.

The only area where we're reallly paying out the cash is artillery ammunition. We've run our stocks to the bare minimum before our generals start crying and been scouring the world to buy whatever we can grab - particularly of the ex Soviet calibres that are only made in small-ish numbers in Eastern Europe - and the Russians aren't selling.

So having donated them some of our old spare artillery, as well as some of the new shinies - we're now paying out a few billion to upgrade our factories to the level they should have been at before in order to service our war stocks. However even that is only something like a couple of billion from the US and a billion in the EU - I think the UK has bunged half a billion to BAe to get the Geordies to knock us up a few more rounds as well.

Global arms manufacturers are doing well because stupid Western (read mostly stupid European) governments that have been refusing to update their forces' equipment or recognise the threats from Russia and China, have just woken up and smelled the coffee. They've had a fright and now they're doing their jobs properly again, at least for a while.

The reason this war is dragging on is because Putin is too pig-headed or too stupid to realise that he's already lost. Or because he's not actual a Russian patriot at all, and realises that the best thing for Russia is to make peace and leave Ukraine - but won't because he fears it'll be the end of his regime.

Admittedly if we'd flooded Ukraine with weapons in 2022 - maybe he'd have got that message earlier. But then people were genuinely worried that he might go nuclear, so I can understand why caution played out. Although of course the real thing to stop this war dragging on would have been to give Ukraine $5 billion of advanced weapons after 2014 - to make the point to Putin's regime that aggression has consequences - and to make Ukraine too scary a target to attack. But of course that might upset your stupid narrative that this war is somehow the fault of anyone except Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin - who started it and continues it, despite it being a disaster for both his country and Ukraine.

Re: Why bother?

I can't think of a single piece of current Russian military tech that is even on a par with current Western tech, if not several generations behind it. Which wasn't true in the days of the Soviet Union, where they were ahead in several areas - particularly in the 50s and 60s.

One area where Russia was thought to be still in the top tier was their air defence tech. But that has not done very well during this war. Even 20 year old tech like Storm Shadow / SCALP appears to be able to attack well defended targets at will. It's a low level cruise missile - so only air defence at the target (or its unlucky enough to come across en route) is a threat to it. It's shaped to reduce its radar cross section, but doesn't have other stealth tech. We've also only shipped the early versions - because the later ones are longer ranged and we've signed treaties that we won't sell cruise missiles with more than 300km range. It's also not been terrible good at shooting down volleys of HIMARS rockets aimed at defended bridges. A faster target, but one not flying at low level, so there's loads of time to deal with it.

Now partly this has been Ukraine using decoy missiles and attacking search radars to blind Russia's air defences at crucial times. So it could be as much poor operation / training as poor technology. But these are the technologies designed to deal with the last of the Soviet systems still being highly effective against updates of those.

The one are Russia might still be a ahead in is electronic warfare. But as an amateur its even harder to work out what's going on there than in other military fields. And even there, they don't seem to have trained with their own kit, so that Russia was as hampered at the start of the Ukraine war by it's own EW as the Ukrainians were. Leading to them being forced to switch a lot of it off.

Meanwhile the Russian air force - which has had a lot of updated kit - has been incredibly ineffective. Despite being the bit of the Russian forces that has got the most recent combat experience in Syria - where it was quite effective. But I guess bombing hospitals against civilian rebels with no air defence is pretty easy - whereas bombing hospitals in Ukraine requires fighting ex Soviet air defence kit, so they've had to resort to lobbing drones and missiles from inside Russia. With seemingly poor to mixed results.

The Russian navy has probably had the most investment since Soviet times. And had some of the best air defence kit to start with. And yet seem to have lost a cruiser, a couple of amphibious landing ships and a submarine, plus a modern missile covette and destroyer damaged - to a country that doesn't have a navy.

We straight copied good ideas from the Soviets, like the BMP 1 infantry fighting vehicle, which caused us to develop the Bradley, Marder and Warrior IFVs and I believe the Soviets had helmet cued missile firing in planes decades before the West. I can't think of much we're trying to copy at the moment.

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Unlocking the Mysteries of the Witching Hour: Exploring Graphene's Potent Magic