Yes, it means “The great bear” or “The big bear”.

I think you have it the wrong way around. Ursus is Latin and arctos is Greek.

Rule number 1 of international law is that it is not a set of laws, but a set of agreements that don’t have the power of law.

I like how this is both a wordplay on his military exploits as on his insane amount of concubines and offspring.

That goes both ways though. Not every part of an F35 is made in the US. In fact, the supply chain is pretty spread out over a dozen countries.

I admire your passion. None of the things you mention are mutually exclusive with generally preferring to rise early, however. Preferring to rise early is not a statement against people working night shifts.

He’ll be shocked about how he ended up looking like a bathroom wall. Maybe a nice light beige/yellow-brown, which is the color of natural rubber?

This is really about habits. I used to be a night owl, but changed my habits gradually and now I’m a morning person. You might have some genetic predisposition towards staying up late, but even so this is something that you can change, I believe.

What helped me, is that I started enjoying waking up early a lot more than staying up late.

I believe that to be true. The frontlines were not well established yet towards the end of 2022 so a push to take back Melitupol would have been possible if they had all the equipment that they used for their push in June 2023. But by then the Russians had dug in and mined the entire frontline and that push (predictably) failed and was abandoned as it would be too costly in lives to continue.

That would have cut the land bridge, which in turn would have enabled the Ukrainians to make Crimea an untenable position (no land bridge, closer to the Kerch strait bridge).

So yes, having the necessary equipment before the Russians were dug in would’ve made a massive difference imo. Not saying they would have retaken it, but their odds would have been a lot more favourable.

I wanted to get back to you on this to thank you for the sources. Much appreciated.

Yes, it does. It’s usually for OS updates/installation sticks or configuration files for stuff like switches, meeting bars, conference phones, etc… and not for data transfer.

I regularly format usb drives to fat32 with windows. You just need to use diskpart.

Do you have any sources I can read up on? This is the first I hear of this.

Especially because he has always been a staunch atlanticist with a ton of connections in the US. That and the fact this comes from Germany, the most pro-US country, barring the UK, in Europe, gives his words extra gravitas.

Can’t tell if these are joke names or real. Since there is that X-AE whatever name, I assume they are real …

Vader being woke as shit. Expect an executive order to ban Star Wars.

Our tabby cat doesn’t even try to go for plausible deniability and goes straight for a mouthful of cat leg, preferably when the other cat is chilling.

I laughed way too hard at this. Thanks for brightening my day

Strongly depends on the company. I have done this exact thing several times when something was critical and it was actually noted as one of the reasons they told me as to why I got my last promotion. Something like “staying focused on the issue at hand while respectfully managing the pushback from the business while still moving ahead with the urgent fix.”

Basically I told the business to shove it in a very polite way and fixed the issue.

Yes, it was. It was all over lemmy for several days.