One of Scotland’s most famous castles, Eilean Donan, actually is built on an island. If you go further back in history, though, the people that lived in the Scottish highlands long before Scotland became a country often lived in crannogs, which are the same idea on a smaller scale
Poland is one of the larger NATO militaries and would probably be leading the early parts of a NATO-Russia war. Poland will absolutely be targeted either way in the event of a nuclear war
Doesn’t Bilbo make actual coffee for the dwarves at the start of the Hobbit?
I finished Tunic yesterday! I had a great time with it. Extremely vague and minor spoilers after this, I can’t get the spoiler tags to work so I’ve just taken out the detail. ::: The golden path puzzle in page 9 nearly beat me, but man what a cool discovery it was to figure it out. :::
[The 112 year old salvage ship Kommuna] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_rescue_ship_Kommuna)
Russia isn’t necessarily fine with it just because they started it. After all, they seized Crimea back in 2014 and got away with it without a fight. Russia also made a push to capture Ukraine’s government in a matter of days at the start, which they wouldn’t have done if they didn’t think there was a chance of it succeeding. It’s very possible that Russia expected this to be over quickly and based its decision on that expectation
The thing is, he wouldn’t do it openly. He’d pass the names to an assistant who would make some anonymous posts online and let it go from there. Sure, maybe that can be proven in another trial, but that’s too far away to help the witnesses or to avoid slowing this case
Pffft come on mate, it eats metal. You send a monk and a druid to handle that.
Niger, not Nigeria. Unless there’s another story that o have missed
Given that Iran paid for them years ago and is now in a bit more of a tense situation than usual, I have a feeling Iran is saying to Russia that they’d better deliver or they’ll stop selling stuff to Russia. Iran will be fine if Russia loses to Ukraine, so they can afford to make that threat
It seems odd to me that this article is framing octopodes as a surprising inclusion. Aren’t they generally known to be some of the most intelligent animals of all?
Vet bills can get nasty in Europe too. They’re not covered by universal healthcare policies, unsurprisingly. But also, like… don’t be a dickhead about someone’s pet getting hurt? They already know it’s costing them a lot of money
Better late than never. Even if it reaches a point that Ukraine can’t win, the costlier it would be to force Ukraine to surrender then the better Ukraine’s chances in negotiations are
Then I sure as fuck don’t want to risk a confrontation with a murderer over a supermarket sandwich
The hybrit process that some Swedish steelmakers (including SSAB - not a typo, it isn’t Saab) are using looks promising. They’ve been testing it with Volvo and are apparently making it part of Volvo’s regular process in 2026
I already gave you an example of one of the papers it’s relying on, and it clearly isn’t doing that. Which ones are?
Alright, point me to the page of the study or the line of the database that counts the full water usage of cottonseed in beef production. Should be easy for you.
Is it fuck. You complained about their methodology and then went on to cite an example of a problematic methodology that they simply did not use. You have not read the paper.
I’m afraid they’re straight up lying. The paper doesn’t mention cotton even once. See for yourself in the paper here or the database here. It doesn’t even specify one type of feed for the beef cattle, because it is a meta-analsyis of hundreds of others papers about specific practices in specific areas. It takes a weighted average of those depending on how much of the world’s production the area studied in each one accounts for.
I think the geography and history of the region is playing a part here. These castles are at chokepoints, it’s just that they are water chokepoints. Eilean Donan sits at the narrowest point between the sea and two large lochs, and because the highlands are basically nothing but hills and lochs the easiest way to get around there for most of history was by boat. I’m less familiar with Ardvreck, but it looks like the waterways are navigable from the sea up to the point of the castle, and the castle controls the best place to embark or disembark.
Additionally, most of these castles were for handling other highland clans and conflicts between the lowland-based government and the highland clans. They weren’t trying to stop the full weight of a massed French invasion. On that smaller scale, there’s less likelihood that someone will be willing to properly siege you out and even less likelihood that they can do so when you can just take a boat to the other side of the loch.