Please do not cut off the leaf. Removing a leaf before it is completely brown inhibits it’s growth. Plants relocate mobile nutrients from older/dying leaves to newer ones. Be patient and let the plant do its thing.

Browning in the middle of the variegation is usually due to a drastic change in light. This causes what is essentially a sunburn.

A few tricks from way to many decades growing them. They like direct morning or evening sunlight for 3-4 hours. Watering - completely saturated the pot then allow it to dry out (I water mine only once a month or two). Fertilizer - they do best with a fertilizer with a 3:1:2 NPK ratio. You can give them a bit extra K when they are putting out a new leaf.

Do not move the plant if possible. Rotating them is a great way to mess them up and get sunburn.

Layoffs are common very large companies because of how they operate.

Although they start as innovative companies once they hit a certain size threshold internal inertia prevents any significant innovation.

In order to maintain growth they must buy smaller innovative companies and capitalize on the innovation using their vaster resources.

After they have sucked every last bit of money the purchased innovation, they layoff employees they purchase with the innovative company and all those they added in its ramp up.

They then go on the hunt to purchase the next smaller innovative company.

Mega corporations are a parasite on the economy.

From a purely military perspective, active combat creates expertise at all levels in a military organization. Those that survive improve. This remains true until the losses outcompete the ability of the military to train replacements.

NATO forces have little experience with the type of war that Ukraine is facing. How do you fight all the inexpensive drones being mass produced? These drones have proven to be able to damage or destroy just about everything on the battlefield.

It’s a whole different war that will lead to rapid developments in new ways to kill each other for several decades.

The most efficient way to get NATO troops trained in this new war is to send troops to Ukraine. I suspect this may be one of the reasons that North Korea is sending troops to Ukraine.

Followed by your grandfather’s favorite Nirvana!

It also looks like a FPV drone hit the trees near the shooter. With him standing up like that he possibly caught some shrapnel from it. Maybe one of the shooters buddies was in the trees ate that explosion.

I saw about 8 seconds from explosion to landing.

So that puts the apex of that flip at around 75m (250ish feet).

We might be looking at a record.

All those FPV drones that they are using are not pretty. It’s the absolute bare-bones drone that they can get. Their effectiveness has been shown over and over again in videos. It’s not about aesthetics, it’s about effectiveness.

My wife must be extra tasty. I might get one bite for every 20 she gets. I also rarely react to any mosquito bite. Just a small bump if anything.

I think we’ll see more of this in the coming weeks due to the destruction of some of the main ammo storage locations.

Yes. Given the clarity of the recent images of FPV drones attacking artillery pieces this type was pretty much a given. (artillery is usually 15-20km behind the lines).

Drone flight time depends on how much weight it is lifting and how high up it goes. That looks like a pretty light load so I would guess around 30-40 minutes. Fully loaded at max weight the flight time would be around 10 minutes No way to know for sure without some more data. I imagine they are sending it up high (1000m or more) to avoid it being spotted. They can then send it hovering over the front providing high quality signal far to the rear.

Public indecency in front of a group of police officers was goto for many homeless people in my state. It’s a minor crime with up to 90 days in jail.

Flash th cops in late November, get out in early March.

Much safer than trying to live on the streets over the winter.

Surprising close numbers to the MLRS that Ukraine says they have destroyed. 1,230 reported destroyed on the most recent update.

Removed from bases 1135.

This indicates that the reports of losses are likely pretty accurate. It still means that Ukraine is facing around the same number in the field unfortunately as Russia has been able to mostly replace its losses.

They likely primarily act as a signal relay for other drones. We’ve seen some videos of FPS drones attacking artillery and ammo storage. These are likely many miles behind the enemy lines. Well out of line-of-sight for a ground based platform.

Trying to detect a small drone at high altitudes has got to be close to impossible for radar systems.

All fully armed and ready to launch.

Judging by how the rest of the crew scattered except the guy doing the launching, this isn’t the first time they have come under fire during a launch.

My personal theory:

First off, raw milk does taste noticably different than pasteurized and homogenized milk you find at the store.

Pasteurization: heating the milk triggers the unfolding of proteins (Denaturation). This is what kills the bacteria but can also change the flavor of the milk.

Homogenization. This process breaks up the fat into smaller segments so they stay in solution in the milk. The result is a less creamy flavor.

People instinctually associate flavor with nutritional value. They think that better flavored food = better for you. This sort-of works in tomatoes and a few other fruit/vegetables. However taste perception is a complex blend of genetics, environmental conditions, and psychology. So the results are inherently unpredictable and completely unreliable.

The unpasteurized crowd all fall for the 'it tastes better so it must be better". They then make all sorts of excuses to justify their instinct. " Big corporate milk is evil!!" Blah blah blah.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Saint-Malo

Guessing it was one of the defenses that was hit by close range range artillery fire.

Nobody knows the exact number as they hide their wealth using all sorts of shady methods. We do know they had more than 100 billion in just one investment account. They also own over 1 million acres of agricultural land, and large amounts of commercial real estate. Tracking all the business entities they own around the world is also difficult as they commonly use shell companies and other methods to hide their ownership.

Any estimate you find is just a guess.

Iceland produces most of their cucumbers in high tech greenhouses using geothermal energy for heat and light.

Greenhouse cucumbers grow best in temps around 25-35c. Since the ambient temp in Iceland is usually cooler than this, venting the greenhouse is uncommon.

As the plants use CO2 in photosynthesis the levels of CO2 in the air decline and the O2 levels increase. The lower levels of CO2 drastically slow down the cucumbers growth. The growers often supplement the plants with CO2 from tanks.

It also allows for much longer distance attacks. With a spotter and repeater thy can hit targets at the far edge of the FPV drones flight time.

The distance also explains why you sometimes see them “waste” a drone on an already destroyed target. They are too far out to recover the drone so they make sure the enemy can’t use them.

Tsk… tsk… tsk… For clarity JS actually claimed to have:

“Read glowing writings off a stone placed in a hat.”

Its much more believable that way…