Ukraine and the Russian invasion, 2022-24

[TopCat]

They won’t get many Patriot missile battery units. A couple around the presidential palace etc.

 

[TopCat]

And you'd think that taking out energy facilities is going to cause loss of life in hospitals, and homes because of hypothermia too.

War equals death. I get this.

 

[ska invita]

And you'd think that taking out energy facilities is going to cause loss of life in hospitals, and homes because of hypothermia too.

exactly that - its why in a US strategy paper the death count from taking out almost entirely the energy grid in Iraq when attacked by the US in 1991 has been estimated at 70,000-170,000 dead at the top end because of damage "including the loss of power to hospitals, the breakdown of water purification systems, and damage to sewage systems, which then contaminated the water supply.
source

 

[elbows]

They won’t get many Patriot missile battery units. A couple around the presidential palace etc.

Things are still at the early stage where certain countries are eager to be seen to contribute on this front, but yes so far the commitment is rather modest.

The latest example:

Dutch government considers sending Patriot missiles to Ukraine, PM says

Though he did not get into specifics, Mark Rutte said his country had ‘the intention’ to join the US and Germany’s ‘Patriots project.’

www.politico.eu

 

[existentialist]

War equals death. I get this.

Something of a reductio ad absurdum there, I'd say...

 

[Chz]

Ukraine fires a lot of artillery shells. But this is also a lot of shells. Several months' worth, at the very least.

 

[_Russ_]

The crashed Helicopter appears to be a Ukrainian Super Puma reportedly with 9 on board
They received 2 newly upgraded from Romania in 2018

 

[TopCat]

Something of a reductio ad absurdum there, I'd say...

My school never taught Latin.

 

[Raheem]

My school never taught Latin.

My school didn't even teach recognising Latin.

 

[mojo pixy]

My school never taught Latin either but in my life I've read things about stuff so know what reductio ad absurdum means. I bloody should too, after all it happens here a lot (though fwiw what existentialist was quoting wasn't really an example of it)

 

[Yossarian]

My school didn't even teach Roman numerals.

 

[Pickman's model]

My school didn't even teach Roman numerals.

 

[mojo pixy]

My church used Latin at times, but (perhaps ironically) that's not where I learned about reductio ad absurdum. They did a good line in magical thinking, begging the question and appeals to authority though.

 

[TopCat]

My school didn't even teach recognising Latin.

Some people like to pepper their sentences with a bit of Latin. I picked up a bit from Rome, Total War but don't know what the warmonger above is on about.

 

[ska invita]

always a wind up when people drop french or latin in a sentence and expect you to understand it
that said reductio ad absurdum sounds like English enough, reduction to the point of absurdity i presume

 

[Pickman's model]

always a wind up when people drop french or latin in a sentence and expect you to understand it
that said reductio ad absurdum sounds like English enough, reduction to the point of absurdity i presume

Plume de ma tante, Rodney

 

[maomao]

My school never taught Latin.

That's okay, he doesn't seem to know what it means either.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Ingens polyspaston habet

 

[Gerry1time]

I did Latin GCSE, but all I remember from it is how to say “if that hare is added. I will buy the pig”. I’m still waiting for this to come in handy one day.

 

[Pickman's model]

I did Latin GCSE, but all I remember from it is how to say “if that hare is added. I will buy the pig”. I’m still waiting for this to come in handy one day.

How do you say that?

 

[Sue]

I did Latin GCSE, but all I remember from it is how to say “if that hare is added. I will buy the pig”. I’m still waiting for this to come in handy one day.

Surely just a matter of time.

 

[DaveCinzano]

How do you say that?

Diligentissime

 

[belboid]

canem scribebat in impluvioum

Thats the only Latin I can remember from my two years of study. It's the phrase we were told definitely not to write when trying to say...... something I have completely forgotten.

 

[The39thStep]

always a wind up when people drop french or latin in a sentence and expect you to understand it
that said reductio ad absurdum sounds like English enough, reduction to the point of absurdity i presume

It’s a grammar school thing isn’t it ?

 

[Yossarian]

Nice work here with the Latin but I think we need to sacrifice a goat or something as well if we're going to summon Satan,

 

[ska invita]

It’s a grammar school thing isn’t it ?

no idea...i think grammar schools were all shut down by the time i was at school?
public school thing in my mind, but you're probably right for people a bit older than me

 

[The39thStep]

Nice work here with the Latin but I think we need to sacrifice a goat or something as well if we're going to summon Satan,

And goats not cheap tbh

 

[Pickman's model]

Nice work here with the Latin but I think we need to sacrifice a goat or something as well if we're going to summon Satan,

Not at all, let's use the enochian calls to summon a demon

 

[maomao]

always a wind up when people drop french or latin in a sentence and expect you to understand it
that said reductio ad absurdum sounds like English enough, reduction to the point of absurdity i presume

It's a specific type of argument in formal logic (that I'm not going to pretend to understand) but poshy showoff types use it to mean 'a gross oversimplification' because that's what it sounds like it means.

 

[existentialist]

My school never taught Latin.

Did they teach you to use Google? Or maybe you figured that out yourself?

But allow me... reductio ad absurdum at DuckDuckGo