I am guessing it's drones.

Maybe Ukraine has added some basic stealth design to reduced their radar profile. Nothing to see here radar, it's just a flock of geese.

Add in a higher cruising altitude, say 4- 5km up for example, would to make them very difficult to detect by sight or sound.

Russia has a long history of open storage at these sites. They also lost a ton of bunkers a few months ago at other sites. So they likely did not have much of an option, and they chose open store it at their "best defended" base.

I personally would bet that site was overstocked as it was likely the primary ammo dump by default. All of the newly manufactured missiles and shells going there directly from the factories.

Sort of impressed the companion of the explosively departed, stayed on the bike through that.

Prompt

John Doe

Customer

Thank you for your payment.

Response:

My Dearest Mr. Doe,

Pray, permit me to take pen in hand and offer, with the utmost sincerity and gratitude, my profound thanks for your timely and generous remittance. Rare indeed is the pleasure that I derive from correspondence of such a felicitous nature, and rarer still is the privilege of addressing a gentleman of your esteemed character and noble disposition.

Your payment, received with all due ceremony, has graced our humble establishment like a ray of golden sunlight filtering through the ancient boughs of a venerable oak. It is not merely the settling of accounts that stirs my heart, but rather the cherished confidence you bestow upon us—a trust which we hold as dearly as any precious relic or priceless heirloom.

Allow me to assure you, most honourable sir, that your patronage is the very lifeblood of our humble enterprise. You have, with a stroke of your pen, renewed the bonds of commerce and camaraderie which unite us, and for this, I am ever in your debt.

May fortune and felicity attend your every step, and may the days to come bring you as much satisfaction as your esteemed custom has brought to us. Should you require aught, whether great or small, pray do not hesitate to command our service, for it would be our greatest pleasure to attend to your wishes with the utmost devotion and alacrity.

With deepest respect and abiding appreciation, I remain— Your most obedient and grateful servant,

[Your Name] [Your Title or Company, if applicable]

I fell like I should change my default invoicing letter. Much better than the default QuickBooks one.

Ah the good ol' days when farmers had 10+ kids.

Only 5 made it to adulthood due to diseases like measles, mumps, influenza, whooping cough etc. , poor and dangerous working conditions, and no healthcare. Of those 5 remaining, 1 of them died in childbirth, and 1 died in a random war and 3 went on to have kids of their own.

That's an obvious explanation of why the reported numbers change but most of the population can't process the information.

It requires a multi-step of thinking to understand and reverses the assumed conclusion when people first look at the numbers.

its just like when people look at violent crime rates in the 1960's-90's. The reported crime rates were steadily increasing even while the actual violent crime rates fell. What changed was a societal acceptance of what constituted a violent crime.

Suddenly beating the shit out of somebody with a different skin color, your kids, or wife was no longer considered a fun weekend activity and was instead a violent crime.

Fucking hell, I understood that. I have slipped and fallen into the dark side. Learn from my mistakes and turn back before you get to this point. There is no hope for me now.

Okay now you have me hitting my wholesale accounts to price out their components. These are wholsale prices.

Perennial ryegrass $1.25/lb Hard Fescue $1.30/lb Quattro Sheep Fescue $1.60/lb English daisy $180/lb White Yarrow Est $150/lb(short supply this year so I get the "call for quote" aka we are screwing you over. White Clover $2.45/lb Sweet allysum $59/lb Baby Blue Eyes $33/lb Strawberry clover (out of stock usually around $5/lb).

Now if you ditched the grasses and just bought the flowers you would need around 1.5lbs for 1/3 of an acre. Pricing it out would depend upon the blend percentages but would guess it to be somewhere around $100/lb so $150 for 1.5lbs. Plus blending cost of around $80 (time + equipment). The total COGs would be around $230.

The total blend original blend would be around $300. They are pulling around a 50% margin on that blend.

I really need to increase my margins. I just sold 20lbs of a pollinator blend to an orchard at only a 20% margin. Sigh...

A lot of the old Soviet stuff works poorly with lots of relatively easy repairs, but didn't give a fuck about the health and safety of the people operating them.

Its referred to as barriers to entry. These are anything that prevents new startups from occuring. These can be natural or contrived.

As somebody who finally started their own business after 25 years of effort and a lot of luck I know these well.

The largest barrier is usually initial capital. Banks don't give out loans to startups without assets. So if you have overall negative personal assets like large student loans, renting, car loans, etc you are fucked in getting a bank to fund your startup. I can't get a line of credit for at least a year, probably 2. At least not one at a reasonable interest rate that doesn't eatup all of my profit. I ended up taking a draw against expected revenue from a vendor who believes in me.

Health insurance (U.S), literally the reason I didn't start my business 10 years ago & 5 years ago when I had 2 opportunities.

Business insurance: it took me 5 months to find somebody that would cover me.

Laws and regulations that create barriers to entry. These can be minor annoyance like fees and paperwork or major regulatory hurdles depending on the industry and country.

Infrastructure to conduct the business. I need highly specialized warehousing for 4 months of the year. I ended up renting from a company that is in a similar business as me that runs on a different cycle (they are empty when I need space). Building my own would require a loan... See above.

Available resources: Do competitors limit your available resources by market manipulation and anti-competative behavior. This is a huge one in industries dominated by oligarchies.

There are many more of these that are around.

Most of these can be alleviated by a fair sharing of revenue. 10 years ago I increased the companies net profit from $500K to $10million. They gave me 5% pay raise and $10k bonus out of a "Theoretical" $200K max.

That's okay, we can reschedule the 1 of the 60 TFCV meetings about theupcoming 5 TPS meetings, that so we can be prepared for the 2 SMR meetings in 3 and 4 months, which is needed for the the BRM meeting in 6 months. Then we'll see if anything is decided at the BRM meeting. If not we'll repeat the meeting schedule for the foreseeable future.

Like one that put Brazil as the leading exporter of a crop that the U.S. used to dominate.

Translation: the market and industry will react like it was bombed with multiple nuclear bombs.

I sold out everything back in Feb. I even processed a 401K to a roll-over IRA just so I could hold the money in cash. The money-market account is paying around 4% right now.

This orange moron is going to cause a massive worldwide recession and a depression in the U.S.

I'll reinvest in a few years.

Get it serviced, the most common cause of lack of water is sediment buildup around the heating elements.

If everything else is fine and the kids are older, turn the heat up. The tanks are all designed to go up to 140F. However by default the setting is lower in the US to prevent scalding 120-125F.

The main draw of movie theatres was a better entertainment experience. A good movie on a large screen with excellent sound.

At my home I now have a 60" TV, surround sound speakers, comfortable couches and the ability to watch any movie/tv I want for free from pirate streaming sites. It's better than any movie theater in my opinion.

The problem, there's nothing I want to see. The vast majority of stuff produced due to the extreme consolidation in the film industry is absolutely trash. Lack of competition has led to film studios producing mediocre garbage in a never ending quest to make guaranteed money.

So my teenager uses the setup to play video games on.

Not an expert but this is how I see it.

Ukraine has had limited options for strategy on this war. Russia had a massive equipment/ammo advantage at the start. Ukraines has been limited. So any major push with a major loss of equipment would hurt Ukraine more than they gained. Ukraine has spent most of the war on the defensive grinding down Russians stockpiles.

In order to win the war, Ukraine has to destroy most of Russias stockpile of munitions first. Then a push across the front to reclaim territory is possible. Small pushes like this are to force Russia to move more equipment especially artillery closer to the front so Ukraine can knock it out.

The weird thing about sovereign nations, they are sovereign.

A government can borrow 5 trillion in funds from banks in another country and just not pay it back. Sovereign nation, they can do that.

Sign a treaty saying that they won't bomb the shit out of their neighbor. Then bomb the shit out their neighbor. Sovereign nations can do that.

Make an agreement with a delusional geriatric giving them mineral rights to half their country. Then invalidate it when the idiot is out of office. Sovereign nations can do that.

How to sign a PDF.

1. Print the PDF onto paper.
2. Sign the paper version.
3. Scan the paper to a PDF.

Yeah, I know it's stupid but I did it 4 times this week for vendors. I do save some paper by getting a double sided scanner.

Internally all of my business activities use electronic signatures not in pdf's.

There's been a few days over 200. However it is the highest.

Russian has lost over 14,000 artillery pieces this past year. That's a massive number that is depleting stocks extremely rapidly. Russia also reportedly only has two remaining facilities that can produce artillery/tank barrels at the rate of 50 per year.