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[ "21st century technology enforcing 7th century laws, what a surreal world.", ">\n\nAuthoritarian regimes are only going to have an easier and easier time controlling their populations as technology moves forward. China is on the bleeding edge with facial recog, social credit system, etc. Eventually, or at least what they're banking on, the system will be so strong it will snuff out any opposition before it is even able to materialize.", ">\n\n\nThat's partially true, but there's a very real trade-off about information dissemination within authoritarian regimes. They NEED to be able to control and craft narratives without having evidence to the contrary. That's a lot harder when people have access to outside information, even in areas where internet control is a thing there are things like games or social media where people can get outside info. \nI suspect that's why North Korea has been so successful, because they became a hermit nation before the internet revolution and thus have much greater control of their populace by simply never letting it take root.", ">\n\nNow they can just arrest and torture anyone they don't like and claim afterwards \"oups, false positive\", if anything.", ">\n\nAnd now people understand what it will be used for.", ">\n\nAlready a questionable technology being used as shady stuff.", ">\n\n\"B- b- but, if you haven't done anything wrong it won't be a problem.\"", ">\n\nI hope whoever provides this technology gives them viruses. 🙏", ">\n\nI hope worse but that's no no language uwu" ]

[ "21st century technology enforcing 7th century laws, what a surreal world.", ">\n\nAuthoritarian regimes are only going to have an easier and easier time controlling their populations as technology moves forward. China is on the bleeding edge with facial recog, social credit system, etc. Eventually, or at least what they're banking on, the system will be so strong it will snuff out any opposition before it is even able to materialize.", ">\n\n\nThat's partially true, but there's a very real trade-off about information dissemination within authoritarian regimes. They NEED to be able to control and craft narratives without having evidence to the contrary. That's a lot harder when people have access to outside information, even in areas where internet control is a thing there are things like games or social media where people can get outside info. \nI suspect that's why North Korea has been so successful, because they became a hermit nation before the internet revolution and thus have much greater control of their populace by simply never letting it take root.", ">\n\nNow they can just arrest and torture anyone they don't like and claim afterwards \"oups, false positive\", if anything.", ">\n\nAnd now people understand what it will be used for.", ">\n\nAlready a questionable technology being used as shady stuff.", ">\n\n\"B- b- but, if you haven't done anything wrong it won't be a problem.\"", ">\n\nI hope whoever provides this technology gives them viruses. 🙏", ">\n\nI hope worse but that's no no language uwu", ">\n\nWho said I meant computer viruses? I mean, I did but still" ]

[ "21st century technology enforcing 7th century laws, what a surreal world.", ">\n\nAuthoritarian regimes are only going to have an easier and easier time controlling their populations as technology moves forward. China is on the bleeding edge with facial recog, social credit system, etc. Eventually, or at least what they're banking on, the system will be so strong it will snuff out any opposition before it is even able to materialize.", ">\n\n\nThat's partially true, but there's a very real trade-off about information dissemination within authoritarian regimes. They NEED to be able to control and craft narratives without having evidence to the contrary. That's a lot harder when people have access to outside information, even in areas where internet control is a thing there are things like games or social media where people can get outside info. \nI suspect that's why North Korea has been so successful, because they became a hermit nation before the internet revolution and thus have much greater control of their populace by simply never letting it take root.", ">\n\nNow they can just arrest and torture anyone they don't like and claim afterwards \"oups, false positive\", if anything.", ">\n\nAnd now people understand what it will be used for.", ">\n\nAlready a questionable technology being used as shady stuff.", ">\n\n\"B- b- but, if you haven't done anything wrong it won't be a problem.\"", ">\n\nI hope whoever provides this technology gives them viruses. 🙏", ">\n\nI hope worse but that's no no language uwu", ">\n\nWho said I meant computer viruses? I mean, I did but still", ">\n\nI see a coming rise in Iranian female Juggalos" ]

[ "21st century technology enforcing 7th century laws, what a surreal world.", ">\n\nAuthoritarian regimes are only going to have an easier and easier time controlling their populations as technology moves forward. China is on the bleeding edge with facial recog, social credit system, etc. Eventually, or at least what they're banking on, the system will be so strong it will snuff out any opposition before it is even able to materialize.", ">\n\n\nThat's partially true, but there's a very real trade-off about information dissemination within authoritarian regimes. They NEED to be able to control and craft narratives without having evidence to the contrary. That's a lot harder when people have access to outside information, even in areas where internet control is a thing there are things like games or social media where people can get outside info. \nI suspect that's why North Korea has been so successful, because they became a hermit nation before the internet revolution and thus have much greater control of their populace by simply never letting it take root.", ">\n\nNow they can just arrest and torture anyone they don't like and claim afterwards \"oups, false positive\", if anything.", ">\n\nAnd now people understand what it will be used for.", ">\n\nAlready a questionable technology being used as shady stuff.", ">\n\n\"B- b- but, if you haven't done anything wrong it won't be a problem.\"", ">\n\nI hope whoever provides this technology gives them viruses. 🙏", ">\n\nI hope worse but that's no no language uwu", ">\n\nWho said I meant computer viruses? I mean, I did but still", ">\n\nI see a coming rise in Iranian female Juggalos", ">\n\noh no your slaves are revolting, Iran? They don't want to be tied to the kitchen? Oh whatever will you do?\nReligion. Not even once." ]

[ "21st century technology enforcing 7th century laws, what a surreal world.", ">\n\nAuthoritarian regimes are only going to have an easier and easier time controlling their populations as technology moves forward. China is on the bleeding edge with facial recog, social credit system, etc. Eventually, or at least what they're banking on, the system will be so strong it will snuff out any opposition before it is even able to materialize.", ">\n\n\nThat's partially true, but there's a very real trade-off about information dissemination within authoritarian regimes. They NEED to be able to control and craft narratives without having evidence to the contrary. That's a lot harder when people have access to outside information, even in areas where internet control is a thing there are things like games or social media where people can get outside info. \nI suspect that's why North Korea has been so successful, because they became a hermit nation before the internet revolution and thus have much greater control of their populace by simply never letting it take root.", ">\n\nNow they can just arrest and torture anyone they don't like and claim afterwards \"oups, false positive\", if anything.", ">\n\nAnd now people understand what it will be used for.", ">\n\nAlready a questionable technology being used as shady stuff.", ">\n\n\"B- b- but, if you haven't done anything wrong it won't be a problem.\"", ">\n\nI hope whoever provides this technology gives them viruses. 🙏", ">\n\nI hope worse but that's no no language uwu", ">\n\nWho said I meant computer viruses? I mean, I did but still", ">\n\nI see a coming rise in Iranian female Juggalos", ">\n\noh no your slaves are revolting, Iran? They don't want to be tied to the kitchen? Oh whatever will you do?\nReligion. Not even once.", ">\n\nI guess no civil rights groups in Iran other than the ones risking their lives in protest or are imprisoned 😓✊ it's becoming more apparent why checks and balances are needed in government. Especially with tech advancements and lowlife populists taking power" ]

[ "21st century technology enforcing 7th century laws, what a surreal world.", ">\n\nAuthoritarian regimes are only going to have an easier and easier time controlling their populations as technology moves forward. China is on the bleeding edge with facial recog, social credit system, etc. Eventually, or at least what they're banking on, the system will be so strong it will snuff out any opposition before it is even able to materialize.", ">\n\n\nThat's partially true, but there's a very real trade-off about information dissemination within authoritarian regimes. They NEED to be able to control and craft narratives without having evidence to the contrary. That's a lot harder when people have access to outside information, even in areas where internet control is a thing there are things like games or social media where people can get outside info. \nI suspect that's why North Korea has been so successful, because they became a hermit nation before the internet revolution and thus have much greater control of their populace by simply never letting it take root.", ">\n\nNow they can just arrest and torture anyone they don't like and claim afterwards \"oups, false positive\", if anything.", ">\n\nAnd now people understand what it will be used for.", ">\n\nAlready a questionable technology being used as shady stuff.", ">\n\n\"B- b- but, if you haven't done anything wrong it won't be a problem.\"", ">\n\nI hope whoever provides this technology gives them viruses. 🙏", ">\n\nI hope worse but that's no no language uwu", ">\n\nWho said I meant computer viruses? I mean, I did but still", ">\n\nI see a coming rise in Iranian female Juggalos", ">\n\noh no your slaves are revolting, Iran? They don't want to be tied to the kitchen? Oh whatever will you do?\nReligion. Not even once.", ">\n\nI guess no civil rights groups in Iran other than the ones risking their lives in protest or are imprisoned 😓✊ it's becoming more apparent why checks and balances are needed in government. Especially with tech advancements and lowlife populists taking power", ">\n\nAncient problems require modern solutions.\nAlso: f**k the ayatullah" ]

[ "21st century technology enforcing 7th century laws, what a surreal world.", ">\n\nAuthoritarian regimes are only going to have an easier and easier time controlling their populations as technology moves forward. China is on the bleeding edge with facial recog, social credit system, etc. Eventually, or at least what they're banking on, the system will be so strong it will snuff out any opposition before it is even able to materialize.", ">\n\n\nThat's partially true, but there's a very real trade-off about information dissemination within authoritarian regimes. They NEED to be able to control and craft narratives without having evidence to the contrary. That's a lot harder when people have access to outside information, even in areas where internet control is a thing there are things like games or social media where people can get outside info. \nI suspect that's why North Korea has been so successful, because they became a hermit nation before the internet revolution and thus have much greater control of their populace by simply never letting it take root.", ">\n\nNow they can just arrest and torture anyone they don't like and claim afterwards \"oups, false positive\", if anything.", ">\n\nAnd now people understand what it will be used for.", ">\n\nAlready a questionable technology being used as shady stuff.", ">\n\n\"B- b- but, if you haven't done anything wrong it won't be a problem.\"", ">\n\nI hope whoever provides this technology gives them viruses. 🙏", ">\n\nI hope worse but that's no no language uwu", ">\n\nWho said I meant computer viruses? I mean, I did but still", ">\n\nI see a coming rise in Iranian female Juggalos", ">\n\noh no your slaves are revolting, Iran? They don't want to be tied to the kitchen? Oh whatever will you do?\nReligion. Not even once.", ">\n\nI guess no civil rights groups in Iran other than the ones risking their lives in protest or are imprisoned 😓✊ it's becoming more apparent why checks and balances are needed in government. Especially with tech advancements and lowlife populists taking power", ">\n\nAncient problems require modern solutions.\nAlso: f**k the ayatullah", ">\n\nIsn’t that cute. What a great use of technology." ]

[ "21st century technology enforcing 7th century laws, what a surreal world.", ">\n\nAuthoritarian regimes are only going to have an easier and easier time controlling their populations as technology moves forward. China is on the bleeding edge with facial recog, social credit system, etc. Eventually, or at least what they're banking on, the system will be so strong it will snuff out any opposition before it is even able to materialize.", ">\n\n\nThat's partially true, but there's a very real trade-off about information dissemination within authoritarian regimes. They NEED to be able to control and craft narratives without having evidence to the contrary. That's a lot harder when people have access to outside information, even in areas where internet control is a thing there are things like games or social media where people can get outside info. \nI suspect that's why North Korea has been so successful, because they became a hermit nation before the internet revolution and thus have much greater control of their populace by simply never letting it take root.", ">\n\nNow they can just arrest and torture anyone they don't like and claim afterwards \"oups, false positive\", if anything.", ">\n\nAnd now people understand what it will be used for.", ">\n\nAlready a questionable technology being used as shady stuff.", ">\n\n\"B- b- but, if you haven't done anything wrong it won't be a problem.\"", ">\n\nI hope whoever provides this technology gives them viruses. 🙏", ">\n\nI hope worse but that's no no language uwu", ">\n\nWho said I meant computer viruses? I mean, I did but still", ">\n\nI see a coming rise in Iranian female Juggalos", ">\n\noh no your slaves are revolting, Iran? They don't want to be tied to the kitchen? Oh whatever will you do?\nReligion. Not even once.", ">\n\nI guess no civil rights groups in Iran other than the ones risking their lives in protest or are imprisoned 😓✊ it's becoming more apparent why checks and balances are needed in government. Especially with tech advancements and lowlife populists taking power", ">\n\nAncient problems require modern solutions.\nAlso: f**k the ayatullah", ">\n\nIsn’t that cute. What a great use of technology.", ">\n\nWait. Religious leaders who are traditionally against capturing images of any kind are now agreeing to store an archive of the faces of ALL Iran’s women just to punish a few who reveal the real thing in public?\nEveryone involved in this scheme should be facing a worse punishment than the women caught by it." ]

[ "21st century technology enforcing 7th century laws, what a surreal world.", ">\n\nAuthoritarian regimes are only going to have an easier and easier time controlling their populations as technology moves forward. China is on the bleeding edge with facial recog, social credit system, etc. Eventually, or at least what they're banking on, the system will be so strong it will snuff out any opposition before it is even able to materialize.", ">\n\n\nThat's partially true, but there's a very real trade-off about information dissemination within authoritarian regimes. They NEED to be able to control and craft narratives without having evidence to the contrary. That's a lot harder when people have access to outside information, even in areas where internet control is a thing there are things like games or social media where people can get outside info. \nI suspect that's why North Korea has been so successful, because they became a hermit nation before the internet revolution and thus have much greater control of their populace by simply never letting it take root.", ">\n\nNow they can just arrest and torture anyone they don't like and claim afterwards \"oups, false positive\", if anything.", ">\n\nAnd now people understand what it will be used for.", ">\n\nAlready a questionable technology being used as shady stuff.", ">\n\n\"B- b- but, if you haven't done anything wrong it won't be a problem.\"", ">\n\nI hope whoever provides this technology gives them viruses. 🙏", ">\n\nI hope worse but that's no no language uwu", ">\n\nWho said I meant computer viruses? I mean, I did but still", ">\n\nI see a coming rise in Iranian female Juggalos", ">\n\noh no your slaves are revolting, Iran? They don't want to be tied to the kitchen? Oh whatever will you do?\nReligion. Not even once.", ">\n\nI guess no civil rights groups in Iran other than the ones risking their lives in protest or are imprisoned 😓✊ it's becoming more apparent why checks and balances are needed in government. Especially with tech advancements and lowlife populists taking power", ">\n\nAncient problems require modern solutions.\nAlso: f**k the ayatullah", ">\n\nIsn’t that cute. What a great use of technology.", ">\n\nWait. Religious leaders who are traditionally against capturing images of any kind are now agreeing to store an archive of the faces of ALL Iran’s women just to punish a few who reveal the real thing in public?\nEveryone involved in this scheme should be facing a worse punishment than the women caught by it.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nIran's government has monitored social media to identify opponents of the regime for years, Grothe says, but if government claims about the use of face recognition are true, it's the first instance she knows of a government using the technology to enforce gender-related dress law.\nSome face recognition in use in Iran today comes from Chinese camera and artificial intelligence company Tiandy.\nDespite deploying repressive technology and mass surveillance, in the past month both China and Iran have witnessed some of the largest protests either nation has seen in decades.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Iran^#1 surveillance^#2 government^#3 technology^#4 face^#5" ]

[ "21st century technology enforcing 7th century laws, what a surreal world.", ">\n\nAuthoritarian regimes are only going to have an easier and easier time controlling their populations as technology moves forward. China is on the bleeding edge with facial recog, social credit system, etc. Eventually, or at least what they're banking on, the system will be so strong it will snuff out any opposition before it is even able to materialize.", ">\n\n\nThat's partially true, but there's a very real trade-off about information dissemination within authoritarian regimes. They NEED to be able to control and craft narratives without having evidence to the contrary. That's a lot harder when people have access to outside information, even in areas where internet control is a thing there are things like games or social media where people can get outside info. \nI suspect that's why North Korea has been so successful, because they became a hermit nation before the internet revolution and thus have much greater control of their populace by simply never letting it take root.", ">\n\nNow they can just arrest and torture anyone they don't like and claim afterwards \"oups, false positive\", if anything.", ">\n\nAnd now people understand what it will be used for.", ">\n\nAlready a questionable technology being used as shady stuff.", ">\n\n\"B- b- but, if you haven't done anything wrong it won't be a problem.\"", ">\n\nI hope whoever provides this technology gives them viruses. 🙏", ">\n\nI hope worse but that's no no language uwu", ">\n\nWho said I meant computer viruses? I mean, I did but still", ">\n\nI see a coming rise in Iranian female Juggalos", ">\n\noh no your slaves are revolting, Iran? They don't want to be tied to the kitchen? Oh whatever will you do?\nReligion. Not even once.", ">\n\nI guess no civil rights groups in Iran other than the ones risking their lives in protest or are imprisoned 😓✊ it's becoming more apparent why checks and balances are needed in government. Especially with tech advancements and lowlife populists taking power", ">\n\nAncient problems require modern solutions.\nAlso: f**k the ayatullah", ">\n\nIsn’t that cute. What a great use of technology.", ">\n\nWait. Religious leaders who are traditionally against capturing images of any kind are now agreeing to store an archive of the faces of ALL Iran’s women just to punish a few who reveal the real thing in public?\nEveryone involved in this scheme should be facing a worse punishment than the women caught by it.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nIran's government has monitored social media to identify opponents of the regime for years, Grothe says, but if government claims about the use of face recognition are true, it's the first instance she knows of a government using the technology to enforce gender-related dress law.\nSome face recognition in use in Iran today comes from Chinese camera and artificial intelligence company Tiandy.\nDespite deploying repressive technology and mass surveillance, in the past month both China and Iran have witnessed some of the largest protests either nation has seen in decades.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Iran^#1 surveillance^#2 government^#3 technology^#4 face^#5", ">\n\nThe beatings will continue until moral improves." ]

[ "21st century technology enforcing 7th century laws, what a surreal world.", ">\n\nAuthoritarian regimes are only going to have an easier and easier time controlling their populations as technology moves forward. China is on the bleeding edge with facial recog, social credit system, etc. Eventually, or at least what they're banking on, the system will be so strong it will snuff out any opposition before it is even able to materialize.", ">\n\n\nThat's partially true, but there's a very real trade-off about information dissemination within authoritarian regimes. They NEED to be able to control and craft narratives without having evidence to the contrary. That's a lot harder when people have access to outside information, even in areas where internet control is a thing there are things like games or social media where people can get outside info. \nI suspect that's why North Korea has been so successful, because they became a hermit nation before the internet revolution and thus have much greater control of their populace by simply never letting it take root.", ">\n\nNow they can just arrest and torture anyone they don't like and claim afterwards \"oups, false positive\", if anything.", ">\n\nAnd now people understand what it will be used for.", ">\n\nAlready a questionable technology being used as shady stuff.", ">\n\n\"B- b- but, if you haven't done anything wrong it won't be a problem.\"", ">\n\nI hope whoever provides this technology gives them viruses. 🙏", ">\n\nI hope worse but that's no no language uwu", ">\n\nWho said I meant computer viruses? I mean, I did but still", ">\n\nI see a coming rise in Iranian female Juggalos", ">\n\noh no your slaves are revolting, Iran? They don't want to be tied to the kitchen? Oh whatever will you do?\nReligion. Not even once.", ">\n\nI guess no civil rights groups in Iran other than the ones risking their lives in protest or are imprisoned 😓✊ it's becoming more apparent why checks and balances are needed in government. Especially with tech advancements and lowlife populists taking power", ">\n\nAncient problems require modern solutions.\nAlso: f**k the ayatullah", ">\n\nIsn’t that cute. What a great use of technology.", ">\n\nWait. Religious leaders who are traditionally against capturing images of any kind are now agreeing to store an archive of the faces of ALL Iran’s women just to punish a few who reveal the real thing in public?\nEveryone involved in this scheme should be facing a worse punishment than the women caught by it.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nIran's government has monitored social media to identify opponents of the regime for years, Grothe says, but if government claims about the use of face recognition are true, it's the first instance she knows of a government using the technology to enforce gender-related dress law.\nSome face recognition in use in Iran today comes from Chinese camera and artificial intelligence company Tiandy.\nDespite deploying repressive technology and mass surveillance, in the past month both China and Iran have witnessed some of the largest protests either nation has seen in decades.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Iran^#1 surveillance^#2 government^#3 technology^#4 face^#5", ">\n\nThe beatings will continue until moral improves.", ">\n\nThis is not the technological revolution I signed up for" ]

[ "21st century technology enforcing 7th century laws, what a surreal world.", ">\n\nAuthoritarian regimes are only going to have an easier and easier time controlling their populations as technology moves forward. China is on the bleeding edge with facial recog, social credit system, etc. Eventually, or at least what they're banking on, the system will be so strong it will snuff out any opposition before it is even able to materialize.", ">\n\n\nThat's partially true, but there's a very real trade-off about information dissemination within authoritarian regimes. They NEED to be able to control and craft narratives without having evidence to the contrary. That's a lot harder when people have access to outside information, even in areas where internet control is a thing there are things like games or social media where people can get outside info. \nI suspect that's why North Korea has been so successful, because they became a hermit nation before the internet revolution and thus have much greater control of their populace by simply never letting it take root.", ">\n\nNow they can just arrest and torture anyone they don't like and claim afterwards \"oups, false positive\", if anything.", ">\n\nAnd now people understand what it will be used for.", ">\n\nAlready a questionable technology being used as shady stuff.", ">\n\n\"B- b- but, if you haven't done anything wrong it won't be a problem.\"", ">\n\nI hope whoever provides this technology gives them viruses. 🙏", ">\n\nI hope worse but that's no no language uwu", ">\n\nWho said I meant computer viruses? I mean, I did but still", ">\n\nI see a coming rise in Iranian female Juggalos", ">\n\noh no your slaves are revolting, Iran? They don't want to be tied to the kitchen? Oh whatever will you do?\nReligion. Not even once.", ">\n\nI guess no civil rights groups in Iran other than the ones risking their lives in protest or are imprisoned 😓✊ it's becoming more apparent why checks and balances are needed in government. Especially with tech advancements and lowlife populists taking power", ">\n\nAncient problems require modern solutions.\nAlso: f**k the ayatullah", ">\n\nIsn’t that cute. What a great use of technology.", ">\n\nWait. Religious leaders who are traditionally against capturing images of any kind are now agreeing to store an archive of the faces of ALL Iran’s women just to punish a few who reveal the real thing in public?\nEveryone involved in this scheme should be facing a worse punishment than the women caught by it.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nIran's government has monitored social media to identify opponents of the regime for years, Grothe says, but if government claims about the use of face recognition are true, it's the first instance she knows of a government using the technology to enforce gender-related dress law.\nSome face recognition in use in Iran today comes from Chinese camera and artificial intelligence company Tiandy.\nDespite deploying repressive technology and mass surveillance, in the past month both China and Iran have witnessed some of the largest protests either nation has seen in decades.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Iran^#1 surveillance^#2 government^#3 technology^#4 face^#5", ">\n\nThe beatings will continue until moral improves.", ">\n\nThis is not the technological revolution I signed up for", ">\n\nAlternate headline -\n\"Women breaking hijab laws say torches will recognize Iran in the face\"." ]

[ "21st century technology enforcing 7th century laws, what a surreal world.", ">\n\nAuthoritarian regimes are only going to have an easier and easier time controlling their populations as technology moves forward. China is on the bleeding edge with facial recog, social credit system, etc. Eventually, or at least what they're banking on, the system will be so strong it will snuff out any opposition before it is even able to materialize.", ">\n\n\nThat's partially true, but there's a very real trade-off about information dissemination within authoritarian regimes. They NEED to be able to control and craft narratives without having evidence to the contrary. That's a lot harder when people have access to outside information, even in areas where internet control is a thing there are things like games or social media where people can get outside info. \nI suspect that's why North Korea has been so successful, because they became a hermit nation before the internet revolution and thus have much greater control of their populace by simply never letting it take root.", ">\n\nNow they can just arrest and torture anyone they don't like and claim afterwards \"oups, false positive\", if anything.", ">\n\nAnd now people understand what it will be used for.", ">\n\nAlready a questionable technology being used as shady stuff.", ">\n\n\"B- b- but, if you haven't done anything wrong it won't be a problem.\"", ">\n\nI hope whoever provides this technology gives them viruses. 🙏", ">\n\nI hope worse but that's no no language uwu", ">\n\nWho said I meant computer viruses? I mean, I did but still", ">\n\nI see a coming rise in Iranian female Juggalos", ">\n\noh no your slaves are revolting, Iran? They don't want to be tied to the kitchen? Oh whatever will you do?\nReligion. Not even once.", ">\n\nI guess no civil rights groups in Iran other than the ones risking their lives in protest or are imprisoned 😓✊ it's becoming more apparent why checks and balances are needed in government. Especially with tech advancements and lowlife populists taking power", ">\n\nAncient problems require modern solutions.\nAlso: f**k the ayatullah", ">\n\nIsn’t that cute. What a great use of technology.", ">\n\nWait. Religious leaders who are traditionally against capturing images of any kind are now agreeing to store an archive of the faces of ALL Iran’s women just to punish a few who reveal the real thing in public?\nEveryone involved in this scheme should be facing a worse punishment than the women caught by it.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nIran's government has monitored social media to identify opponents of the regime for years, Grothe says, but if government claims about the use of face recognition are true, it's the first instance she knows of a government using the technology to enforce gender-related dress law.\nSome face recognition in use in Iran today comes from Chinese camera and artificial intelligence company Tiandy.\nDespite deploying repressive technology and mass surveillance, in the past month both China and Iran have witnessed some of the largest protests either nation has seen in decades.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Iran^#1 surveillance^#2 government^#3 technology^#4 face^#5", ">\n\nThe beatings will continue until moral improves.", ">\n\nThis is not the technological revolution I signed up for", ">\n\nAlternate headline -\n\"Women breaking hijab laws say torches will recognize Iran in the face\".", ">\n\nJesus christ these people are fucking losers" ]

[ "21st century technology enforcing 7th century laws, what a surreal world.", ">\n\nAuthoritarian regimes are only going to have an easier and easier time controlling their populations as technology moves forward. China is on the bleeding edge with facial recog, social credit system, etc. Eventually, or at least what they're banking on, the system will be so strong it will snuff out any opposition before it is even able to materialize.", ">\n\n\nThat's partially true, but there's a very real trade-off about information dissemination within authoritarian regimes. They NEED to be able to control and craft narratives without having evidence to the contrary. That's a lot harder when people have access to outside information, even in areas where internet control is a thing there are things like games or social media where people can get outside info. \nI suspect that's why North Korea has been so successful, because they became a hermit nation before the internet revolution and thus have much greater control of their populace by simply never letting it take root.", ">\n\nNow they can just arrest and torture anyone they don't like and claim afterwards \"oups, false positive\", if anything.", ">\n\nAnd now people understand what it will be used for.", ">\n\nAlready a questionable technology being used as shady stuff.", ">\n\n\"B- b- but, if you haven't done anything wrong it won't be a problem.\"", ">\n\nI hope whoever provides this technology gives them viruses. 🙏", ">\n\nI hope worse but that's no no language uwu", ">\n\nWho said I meant computer viruses? I mean, I did but still", ">\n\nI see a coming rise in Iranian female Juggalos", ">\n\noh no your slaves are revolting, Iran? They don't want to be tied to the kitchen? Oh whatever will you do?\nReligion. Not even once.", ">\n\nI guess no civil rights groups in Iran other than the ones risking their lives in protest or are imprisoned 😓✊ it's becoming more apparent why checks and balances are needed in government. Especially with tech advancements and lowlife populists taking power", ">\n\nAncient problems require modern solutions.\nAlso: f**k the ayatullah", ">\n\nIsn’t that cute. What a great use of technology.", ">\n\nWait. Religious leaders who are traditionally against capturing images of any kind are now agreeing to store an archive of the faces of ALL Iran’s women just to punish a few who reveal the real thing in public?\nEveryone involved in this scheme should be facing a worse punishment than the women caught by it.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nIran's government has monitored social media to identify opponents of the regime for years, Grothe says, but if government claims about the use of face recognition are true, it's the first instance she knows of a government using the technology to enforce gender-related dress law.\nSome face recognition in use in Iran today comes from Chinese camera and artificial intelligence company Tiandy.\nDespite deploying repressive technology and mass surveillance, in the past month both China and Iran have witnessed some of the largest protests either nation has seen in decades.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Iran^#1 surveillance^#2 government^#3 technology^#4 face^#5", ">\n\nThe beatings will continue until moral improves.", ">\n\nThis is not the technological revolution I signed up for", ">\n\nAlternate headline -\n\"Women breaking hijab laws say torches will recognize Iran in the face\".", ">\n\nJesus christ these people are fucking losers", ">\n\nAny company providing tech to Iran should be demolished." ]

[ "21st century technology enforcing 7th century laws, what a surreal world.", ">\n\nAuthoritarian regimes are only going to have an easier and easier time controlling their populations as technology moves forward. China is on the bleeding edge with facial recog, social credit system, etc. Eventually, or at least what they're banking on, the system will be so strong it will snuff out any opposition before it is even able to materialize.", ">\n\n\nThat's partially true, but there's a very real trade-off about information dissemination within authoritarian regimes. They NEED to be able to control and craft narratives without having evidence to the contrary. That's a lot harder when people have access to outside information, even in areas where internet control is a thing there are things like games or social media where people can get outside info. \nI suspect that's why North Korea has been so successful, because they became a hermit nation before the internet revolution and thus have much greater control of their populace by simply never letting it take root.", ">\n\nNow they can just arrest and torture anyone they don't like and claim afterwards \"oups, false positive\", if anything.", ">\n\nAnd now people understand what it will be used for.", ">\n\nAlready a questionable technology being used as shady stuff.", ">\n\n\"B- b- but, if you haven't done anything wrong it won't be a problem.\"", ">\n\nI hope whoever provides this technology gives them viruses. 🙏", ">\n\nI hope worse but that's no no language uwu", ">\n\nWho said I meant computer viruses? I mean, I did but still", ">\n\nI see a coming rise in Iranian female Juggalos", ">\n\noh no your slaves are revolting, Iran? They don't want to be tied to the kitchen? Oh whatever will you do?\nReligion. Not even once.", ">\n\nI guess no civil rights groups in Iran other than the ones risking their lives in protest or are imprisoned 😓✊ it's becoming more apparent why checks and balances are needed in government. Especially with tech advancements and lowlife populists taking power", ">\n\nAncient problems require modern solutions.\nAlso: f**k the ayatullah", ">\n\nIsn’t that cute. What a great use of technology.", ">\n\nWait. Religious leaders who are traditionally against capturing images of any kind are now agreeing to store an archive of the faces of ALL Iran’s women just to punish a few who reveal the real thing in public?\nEveryone involved in this scheme should be facing a worse punishment than the women caught by it.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nIran's government has monitored social media to identify opponents of the regime for years, Grothe says, but if government claims about the use of face recognition are true, it's the first instance she knows of a government using the technology to enforce gender-related dress law.\nSome face recognition in use in Iran today comes from Chinese camera and artificial intelligence company Tiandy.\nDespite deploying repressive technology and mass surveillance, in the past month both China and Iran have witnessed some of the largest protests either nation has seen in decades.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Iran^#1 surveillance^#2 government^#3 technology^#4 face^#5", ">\n\nThe beatings will continue until moral improves.", ">\n\nThis is not the technological revolution I signed up for", ">\n\nAlternate headline -\n\"Women breaking hijab laws say torches will recognize Iran in the face\".", ">\n\nJesus christ these people are fucking losers", ">\n\nAny company providing tech to Iran should be demolished.", ">\n\nBullshit, they haven't the capability" ]

[ "21st century technology enforcing 7th century laws, what a surreal world.", ">\n\nAuthoritarian regimes are only going to have an easier and easier time controlling their populations as technology moves forward. China is on the bleeding edge with facial recog, social credit system, etc. Eventually, or at least what they're banking on, the system will be so strong it will snuff out any opposition before it is even able to materialize.", ">\n\n\nThat's partially true, but there's a very real trade-off about information dissemination within authoritarian regimes. They NEED to be able to control and craft narratives without having evidence to the contrary. That's a lot harder when people have access to outside information, even in areas where internet control is a thing there are things like games or social media where people can get outside info. \nI suspect that's why North Korea has been so successful, because they became a hermit nation before the internet revolution and thus have much greater control of their populace by simply never letting it take root.", ">\n\nNow they can just arrest and torture anyone they don't like and claim afterwards \"oups, false positive\", if anything.", ">\n\nAnd now people understand what it will be used for.", ">\n\nAlready a questionable technology being used as shady stuff.", ">\n\n\"B- b- but, if you haven't done anything wrong it won't be a problem.\"", ">\n\nI hope whoever provides this technology gives them viruses. 🙏", ">\n\nI hope worse but that's no no language uwu", ">\n\nWho said I meant computer viruses? I mean, I did but still", ">\n\nI see a coming rise in Iranian female Juggalos", ">\n\noh no your slaves are revolting, Iran? They don't want to be tied to the kitchen? Oh whatever will you do?\nReligion. Not even once.", ">\n\nI guess no civil rights groups in Iran other than the ones risking their lives in protest or are imprisoned 😓✊ it's becoming more apparent why checks and balances are needed in government. Especially with tech advancements and lowlife populists taking power", ">\n\nAncient problems require modern solutions.\nAlso: f**k the ayatullah", ">\n\nIsn’t that cute. What a great use of technology.", ">\n\nWait. Religious leaders who are traditionally against capturing images of any kind are now agreeing to store an archive of the faces of ALL Iran’s women just to punish a few who reveal the real thing in public?\nEveryone involved in this scheme should be facing a worse punishment than the women caught by it.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nIran's government has monitored social media to identify opponents of the regime for years, Grothe says, but if government claims about the use of face recognition are true, it's the first instance she knows of a government using the technology to enforce gender-related dress law.\nSome face recognition in use in Iran today comes from Chinese camera and artificial intelligence company Tiandy.\nDespite deploying repressive technology and mass surveillance, in the past month both China and Iran have witnessed some of the largest protests either nation has seen in decades.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Iran^#1 surveillance^#2 government^#3 technology^#4 face^#5", ">\n\nThe beatings will continue until moral improves.", ">\n\nThis is not the technological revolution I signed up for", ">\n\nAlternate headline -\n\"Women breaking hijab laws say torches will recognize Iran in the face\".", ">\n\nJesus christ these people are fucking losers", ">\n\nAny company providing tech to Iran should be demolished.", ">\n\nBullshit, they haven't the capability", ">\n\nWhat makes you think that? Local PDs can do that in the States, the Iranian national government can figure out how to use easily accessible programs to do this work too so long as they have cameras on the protests and a bank of pictures from official IDs / social media / etc." ]

[ "21st century technology enforcing 7th century laws, what a surreal world.", ">\n\nAuthoritarian regimes are only going to have an easier and easier time controlling their populations as technology moves forward. China is on the bleeding edge with facial recog, social credit system, etc. Eventually, or at least what they're banking on, the system will be so strong it will snuff out any opposition before it is even able to materialize.", ">\n\n\nThat's partially true, but there's a very real trade-off about information dissemination within authoritarian regimes. They NEED to be able to control and craft narratives without having evidence to the contrary. That's a lot harder when people have access to outside information, even in areas where internet control is a thing there are things like games or social media where people can get outside info. \nI suspect that's why North Korea has been so successful, because they became a hermit nation before the internet revolution and thus have much greater control of their populace by simply never letting it take root.", ">\n\nNow they can just arrest and torture anyone they don't like and claim afterwards \"oups, false positive\", if anything.", ">\n\nAnd now people understand what it will be used for.", ">\n\nAlready a questionable technology being used as shady stuff.", ">\n\n\"B- b- but, if you haven't done anything wrong it won't be a problem.\"", ">\n\nI hope whoever provides this technology gives them viruses. 🙏", ">\n\nI hope worse but that's no no language uwu", ">\n\nWho said I meant computer viruses? I mean, I did but still", ">\n\nI see a coming rise in Iranian female Juggalos", ">\n\noh no your slaves are revolting, Iran? They don't want to be tied to the kitchen? Oh whatever will you do?\nReligion. Not even once.", ">\n\nI guess no civil rights groups in Iran other than the ones risking their lives in protest or are imprisoned 😓✊ it's becoming more apparent why checks and balances are needed in government. Especially with tech advancements and lowlife populists taking power", ">\n\nAncient problems require modern solutions.\nAlso: f**k the ayatullah", ">\n\nIsn’t that cute. What a great use of technology.", ">\n\nWait. Religious leaders who are traditionally against capturing images of any kind are now agreeing to store an archive of the faces of ALL Iran’s women just to punish a few who reveal the real thing in public?\nEveryone involved in this scheme should be facing a worse punishment than the women caught by it.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nIran's government has monitored social media to identify opponents of the regime for years, Grothe says, but if government claims about the use of face recognition are true, it's the first instance she knows of a government using the technology to enforce gender-related dress law.\nSome face recognition in use in Iran today comes from Chinese camera and artificial intelligence company Tiandy.\nDespite deploying repressive technology and mass surveillance, in the past month both China and Iran have witnessed some of the largest protests either nation has seen in decades.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Iran^#1 surveillance^#2 government^#3 technology^#4 face^#5", ">\n\nThe beatings will continue until moral improves.", ">\n\nThis is not the technological revolution I signed up for", ">\n\nAlternate headline -\n\"Women breaking hijab laws say torches will recognize Iran in the face\".", ">\n\nJesus christ these people are fucking losers", ">\n\nAny company providing tech to Iran should be demolished.", ">\n\nBullshit, they haven't the capability", ">\n\nWhat makes you think that? Local PDs can do that in the States, the Iranian national government can figure out how to use easily accessible programs to do this work too so long as they have cameras on the protests and a bank of pictures from official IDs / social media / etc.", ">\n\nYou are correct, I'm having a bad morning and got snide" ]

[ "21st century technology enforcing 7th century laws, what a surreal world.", ">\n\nAuthoritarian regimes are only going to have an easier and easier time controlling their populations as technology moves forward. China is on the bleeding edge with facial recog, social credit system, etc. Eventually, or at least what they're banking on, the system will be so strong it will snuff out any opposition before it is even able to materialize.", ">\n\n\nThat's partially true, but there's a very real trade-off about information dissemination within authoritarian regimes. They NEED to be able to control and craft narratives without having evidence to the contrary. That's a lot harder when people have access to outside information, even in areas where internet control is a thing there are things like games or social media where people can get outside info. \nI suspect that's why North Korea has been so successful, because they became a hermit nation before the internet revolution and thus have much greater control of their populace by simply never letting it take root.", ">\n\nNow they can just arrest and torture anyone they don't like and claim afterwards \"oups, false positive\", if anything.", ">\n\nAnd now people understand what it will be used for.", ">\n\nAlready a questionable technology being used as shady stuff.", ">\n\n\"B- b- but, if you haven't done anything wrong it won't be a problem.\"", ">\n\nI hope whoever provides this technology gives them viruses. 🙏", ">\n\nI hope worse but that's no no language uwu", ">\n\nWho said I meant computer viruses? I mean, I did but still", ">\n\nI see a coming rise in Iranian female Juggalos", ">\n\noh no your slaves are revolting, Iran? They don't want to be tied to the kitchen? Oh whatever will you do?\nReligion. Not even once.", ">\n\nI guess no civil rights groups in Iran other than the ones risking their lives in protest or are imprisoned 😓✊ it's becoming more apparent why checks and balances are needed in government. Especially with tech advancements and lowlife populists taking power", ">\n\nAncient problems require modern solutions.\nAlso: f**k the ayatullah", ">\n\nIsn’t that cute. What a great use of technology.", ">\n\nWait. Religious leaders who are traditionally against capturing images of any kind are now agreeing to store an archive of the faces of ALL Iran’s women just to punish a few who reveal the real thing in public?\nEveryone involved in this scheme should be facing a worse punishment than the women caught by it.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nIran's government has monitored social media to identify opponents of the regime for years, Grothe says, but if government claims about the use of face recognition are true, it's the first instance she knows of a government using the technology to enforce gender-related dress law.\nSome face recognition in use in Iran today comes from Chinese camera and artificial intelligence company Tiandy.\nDespite deploying repressive technology and mass surveillance, in the past month both China and Iran have witnessed some of the largest protests either nation has seen in decades.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Iran^#1 surveillance^#2 government^#3 technology^#4 face^#5", ">\n\nThe beatings will continue until moral improves.", ">\n\nThis is not the technological revolution I signed up for", ">\n\nAlternate headline -\n\"Women breaking hijab laws say torches will recognize Iran in the face\".", ">\n\nJesus christ these people are fucking losers", ">\n\nAny company providing tech to Iran should be demolished.", ">\n\nBullshit, they haven't the capability", ">\n\nWhat makes you think that? Local PDs can do that in the States, the Iranian national government can figure out how to use easily accessible programs to do this work too so long as they have cameras on the protests and a bank of pictures from official IDs / social media / etc.", ">\n\nYou are correct, I'm having a bad morning and got snide", ">\n\nAll good friend" ]

[ "21st century technology enforcing 7th century laws, what a surreal world.", ">\n\nAuthoritarian regimes are only going to have an easier and easier time controlling their populations as technology moves forward. China is on the bleeding edge with facial recog, social credit system, etc. Eventually, or at least what they're banking on, the system will be so strong it will snuff out any opposition before it is even able to materialize.", ">\n\n\nThat's partially true, but there's a very real trade-off about information dissemination within authoritarian regimes. They NEED to be able to control and craft narratives without having evidence to the contrary. That's a lot harder when people have access to outside information, even in areas where internet control is a thing there are things like games or social media where people can get outside info. \nI suspect that's why North Korea has been so successful, because they became a hermit nation before the internet revolution and thus have much greater control of their populace by simply never letting it take root.", ">\n\nNow they can just arrest and torture anyone they don't like and claim afterwards \"oups, false positive\", if anything.", ">\n\nAnd now people understand what it will be used for.", ">\n\nAlready a questionable technology being used as shady stuff.", ">\n\n\"B- b- but, if you haven't done anything wrong it won't be a problem.\"", ">\n\nI hope whoever provides this technology gives them viruses. 🙏", ">\n\nI hope worse but that's no no language uwu", ">\n\nWho said I meant computer viruses? I mean, I did but still", ">\n\nI see a coming rise in Iranian female Juggalos", ">\n\noh no your slaves are revolting, Iran? They don't want to be tied to the kitchen? Oh whatever will you do?\nReligion. Not even once.", ">\n\nI guess no civil rights groups in Iran other than the ones risking their lives in protest or are imprisoned 😓✊ it's becoming more apparent why checks and balances are needed in government. Especially with tech advancements and lowlife populists taking power", ">\n\nAncient problems require modern solutions.\nAlso: f**k the ayatullah", ">\n\nIsn’t that cute. What a great use of technology.", ">\n\nWait. Religious leaders who are traditionally against capturing images of any kind are now agreeing to store an archive of the faces of ALL Iran’s women just to punish a few who reveal the real thing in public?\nEveryone involved in this scheme should be facing a worse punishment than the women caught by it.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nIran's government has monitored social media to identify opponents of the regime for years, Grothe says, but if government claims about the use of face recognition are true, it's the first instance she knows of a government using the technology to enforce gender-related dress law.\nSome face recognition in use in Iran today comes from Chinese camera and artificial intelligence company Tiandy.\nDespite deploying repressive technology and mass surveillance, in the past month both China and Iran have witnessed some of the largest protests either nation has seen in decades.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Iran^#1 surveillance^#2 government^#3 technology^#4 face^#5", ">\n\nThe beatings will continue until moral improves.", ">\n\nThis is not the technological revolution I signed up for", ">\n\nAlternate headline -\n\"Women breaking hijab laws say torches will recognize Iran in the face\".", ">\n\nJesus christ these people are fucking losers", ">\n\nAny company providing tech to Iran should be demolished.", ">\n\nBullshit, they haven't the capability", ">\n\nWhat makes you think that? Local PDs can do that in the States, the Iranian national government can figure out how to use easily accessible programs to do this work too so long as they have cameras on the protests and a bank of pictures from official IDs / social media / etc.", ">\n\nYou are correct, I'm having a bad morning and got snide", ">\n\nAll good friend", ">\n\nTerrible." ]

[ "21st century technology enforcing 7th century laws, what a surreal world.", ">\n\nAuthoritarian regimes are only going to have an easier and easier time controlling their populations as technology moves forward. China is on the bleeding edge with facial recog, social credit system, etc. Eventually, or at least what they're banking on, the system will be so strong it will snuff out any opposition before it is even able to materialize.", ">\n\n\nThat's partially true, but there's a very real trade-off about information dissemination within authoritarian regimes. They NEED to be able to control and craft narratives without having evidence to the contrary. That's a lot harder when people have access to outside information, even in areas where internet control is a thing there are things like games or social media where people can get outside info. \nI suspect that's why North Korea has been so successful, because they became a hermit nation before the internet revolution and thus have much greater control of their populace by simply never letting it take root.", ">\n\nNow they can just arrest and torture anyone they don't like and claim afterwards \"oups, false positive\", if anything.", ">\n\nAnd now people understand what it will be used for.", ">\n\nAlready a questionable technology being used as shady stuff.", ">\n\n\"B- b- but, if you haven't done anything wrong it won't be a problem.\"", ">\n\nI hope whoever provides this technology gives them viruses. 🙏", ">\n\nI hope worse but that's no no language uwu", ">\n\nWho said I meant computer viruses? I mean, I did but still", ">\n\nI see a coming rise in Iranian female Juggalos", ">\n\noh no your slaves are revolting, Iran? They don't want to be tied to the kitchen? Oh whatever will you do?\nReligion. Not even once.", ">\n\nI guess no civil rights groups in Iran other than the ones risking their lives in protest or are imprisoned 😓✊ it's becoming more apparent why checks and balances are needed in government. Especially with tech advancements and lowlife populists taking power", ">\n\nAncient problems require modern solutions.\nAlso: f**k the ayatullah", ">\n\nIsn’t that cute. What a great use of technology.", ">\n\nWait. Religious leaders who are traditionally against capturing images of any kind are now agreeing to store an archive of the faces of ALL Iran’s women just to punish a few who reveal the real thing in public?\nEveryone involved in this scheme should be facing a worse punishment than the women caught by it.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nIran's government has monitored social media to identify opponents of the regime for years, Grothe says, but if government claims about the use of face recognition are true, it's the first instance she knows of a government using the technology to enforce gender-related dress law.\nSome face recognition in use in Iran today comes from Chinese camera and artificial intelligence company Tiandy.\nDespite deploying repressive technology and mass surveillance, in the past month both China and Iran have witnessed some of the largest protests either nation has seen in decades.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Iran^#1 surveillance^#2 government^#3 technology^#4 face^#5", ">\n\nThe beatings will continue until moral improves.", ">\n\nThis is not the technological revolution I signed up for", ">\n\nAlternate headline -\n\"Women breaking hijab laws say torches will recognize Iran in the face\".", ">\n\nJesus christ these people are fucking losers", ">\n\nAny company providing tech to Iran should be demolished.", ">\n\nBullshit, they haven't the capability", ">\n\nWhat makes you think that? Local PDs can do that in the States, the Iranian national government can figure out how to use easily accessible programs to do this work too so long as they have cameras on the protests and a bank of pictures from official IDs / social media / etc.", ">\n\nYou are correct, I'm having a bad morning and got snide", ">\n\nAll good friend", ">\n\nTerrible.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nIran's government has monitored social media to identify opponents of the regime for years, Grothe says, but if government claims about the use of face recognition are true, it's the first instance she knows of a government using the technology to enforce gender-related dress law.\nSome face recognition in use in Iran today comes from Chinese camera and artificial intelligence company Tiandy.\nDespite deploying repressive technology and mass surveillance, in the past month both China and Iran have witnessed some of the largest protests either nation has seen in decades.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Iran^#1 surveillance^#2 government^#3 technology^#4 face^#5" ]

[ "21st century technology enforcing 7th century laws, what a surreal world.", ">\n\nAuthoritarian regimes are only going to have an easier and easier time controlling their populations as technology moves forward. China is on the bleeding edge with facial recog, social credit system, etc. Eventually, or at least what they're banking on, the system will be so strong it will snuff out any opposition before it is even able to materialize.", ">\n\n\nThat's partially true, but there's a very real trade-off about information dissemination within authoritarian regimes. They NEED to be able to control and craft narratives without having evidence to the contrary. That's a lot harder when people have access to outside information, even in areas where internet control is a thing there are things like games or social media where people can get outside info. \nI suspect that's why North Korea has been so successful, because they became a hermit nation before the internet revolution and thus have much greater control of their populace by simply never letting it take root.", ">\n\nNow they can just arrest and torture anyone they don't like and claim afterwards \"oups, false positive\", if anything.", ">\n\nAnd now people understand what it will be used for.", ">\n\nAlready a questionable technology being used as shady stuff.", ">\n\n\"B- b- but, if you haven't done anything wrong it won't be a problem.\"", ">\n\nI hope whoever provides this technology gives them viruses. 🙏", ">\n\nI hope worse but that's no no language uwu", ">\n\nWho said I meant computer viruses? I mean, I did but still", ">\n\nI see a coming rise in Iranian female Juggalos", ">\n\noh no your slaves are revolting, Iran? They don't want to be tied to the kitchen? Oh whatever will you do?\nReligion. Not even once.", ">\n\nI guess no civil rights groups in Iran other than the ones risking their lives in protest or are imprisoned 😓✊ it's becoming more apparent why checks and balances are needed in government. Especially with tech advancements and lowlife populists taking power", ">\n\nAncient problems require modern solutions.\nAlso: f**k the ayatullah", ">\n\nIsn’t that cute. What a great use of technology.", ">\n\nWait. Religious leaders who are traditionally against capturing images of any kind are now agreeing to store an archive of the faces of ALL Iran’s women just to punish a few who reveal the real thing in public?\nEveryone involved in this scheme should be facing a worse punishment than the women caught by it.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nIran's government has monitored social media to identify opponents of the regime for years, Grothe says, but if government claims about the use of face recognition are true, it's the first instance she knows of a government using the technology to enforce gender-related dress law.\nSome face recognition in use in Iran today comes from Chinese camera and artificial intelligence company Tiandy.\nDespite deploying repressive technology and mass surveillance, in the past month both China and Iran have witnessed some of the largest protests either nation has seen in decades.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Iran^#1 surveillance^#2 government^#3 technology^#4 face^#5", ">\n\nThe beatings will continue until moral improves.", ">\n\nThis is not the technological revolution I signed up for", ">\n\nAlternate headline -\n\"Women breaking hijab laws say torches will recognize Iran in the face\".", ">\n\nJesus christ these people are fucking losers", ">\n\nAny company providing tech to Iran should be demolished.", ">\n\nBullshit, they haven't the capability", ">\n\nWhat makes you think that? Local PDs can do that in the States, the Iranian national government can figure out how to use easily accessible programs to do this work too so long as they have cameras on the protests and a bank of pictures from official IDs / social media / etc.", ">\n\nYou are correct, I'm having a bad morning and got snide", ">\n\nAll good friend", ">\n\nTerrible.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nIran's government has monitored social media to identify opponents of the regime for years, Grothe says, but if government claims about the use of face recognition are true, it's the first instance she knows of a government using the technology to enforce gender-related dress law.\nSome face recognition in use in Iran today comes from Chinese camera and artificial intelligence company Tiandy.\nDespite deploying repressive technology and mass surveillance, in the past month both China and Iran have witnessed some of the largest protests either nation has seen in decades.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Iran^#1 surveillance^#2 government^#3 technology^#4 face^#5", ">\n\nWear irregular shaped face paint when protesting. This may help some. Wearing sunglasses and masks may also help. \nIf they're using ai to look at gait you can also just skip or something." ]

[ "21st century technology enforcing 7th century laws, what a surreal world.", ">\n\nAuthoritarian regimes are only going to have an easier and easier time controlling their populations as technology moves forward. China is on the bleeding edge with facial recog, social credit system, etc. Eventually, or at least what they're banking on, the system will be so strong it will snuff out any opposition before it is even able to materialize.", ">\n\n\nThat's partially true, but there's a very real trade-off about information dissemination within authoritarian regimes. They NEED to be able to control and craft narratives without having evidence to the contrary. That's a lot harder when people have access to outside information, even in areas where internet control is a thing there are things like games or social media where people can get outside info. \nI suspect that's why North Korea has been so successful, because they became a hermit nation before the internet revolution and thus have much greater control of their populace by simply never letting it take root.", ">\n\nNow they can just arrest and torture anyone they don't like and claim afterwards \"oups, false positive\", if anything.", ">\n\nAnd now people understand what it will be used for.", ">\n\nAlready a questionable technology being used as shady stuff.", ">\n\n\"B- b- but, if you haven't done anything wrong it won't be a problem.\"", ">\n\nI hope whoever provides this technology gives them viruses. 🙏", ">\n\nI hope worse but that's no no language uwu", ">\n\nWho said I meant computer viruses? I mean, I did but still", ">\n\nI see a coming rise in Iranian female Juggalos", ">\n\noh no your slaves are revolting, Iran? They don't want to be tied to the kitchen? Oh whatever will you do?\nReligion. Not even once.", ">\n\nI guess no civil rights groups in Iran other than the ones risking their lives in protest or are imprisoned 😓✊ it's becoming more apparent why checks and balances are needed in government. Especially with tech advancements and lowlife populists taking power", ">\n\nAncient problems require modern solutions.\nAlso: f**k the ayatullah", ">\n\nIsn’t that cute. What a great use of technology.", ">\n\nWait. Religious leaders who are traditionally against capturing images of any kind are now agreeing to store an archive of the faces of ALL Iran’s women just to punish a few who reveal the real thing in public?\nEveryone involved in this scheme should be facing a worse punishment than the women caught by it.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nIran's government has monitored social media to identify opponents of the regime for years, Grothe says, but if government claims about the use of face recognition are true, it's the first instance she knows of a government using the technology to enforce gender-related dress law.\nSome face recognition in use in Iran today comes from Chinese camera and artificial intelligence company Tiandy.\nDespite deploying repressive technology and mass surveillance, in the past month both China and Iran have witnessed some of the largest protests either nation has seen in decades.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Iran^#1 surveillance^#2 government^#3 technology^#4 face^#5", ">\n\nThe beatings will continue until moral improves.", ">\n\nThis is not the technological revolution I signed up for", ">\n\nAlternate headline -\n\"Women breaking hijab laws say torches will recognize Iran in the face\".", ">\n\nJesus christ these people are fucking losers", ">\n\nAny company providing tech to Iran should be demolished.", ">\n\nBullshit, they haven't the capability", ">\n\nWhat makes you think that? Local PDs can do that in the States, the Iranian national government can figure out how to use easily accessible programs to do this work too so long as they have cameras on the protests and a bank of pictures from official IDs / social media / etc.", ">\n\nYou are correct, I'm having a bad morning and got snide", ">\n\nAll good friend", ">\n\nTerrible.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nIran's government has monitored social media to identify opponents of the regime for years, Grothe says, but if government claims about the use of face recognition are true, it's the first instance she knows of a government using the technology to enforce gender-related dress law.\nSome face recognition in use in Iran today comes from Chinese camera and artificial intelligence company Tiandy.\nDespite deploying repressive technology and mass surveillance, in the past month both China and Iran have witnessed some of the largest protests either nation has seen in decades.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Iran^#1 surveillance^#2 government^#3 technology^#4 face^#5", ">\n\nWear irregular shaped face paint when protesting. This may help some. Wearing sunglasses and masks may also help. \nIf they're using ai to look at gait you can also just skip or something.", ">\n\nGet someone to inject a bit of malware that turns the results into their tin-pot dictator." ]

[ "21st century technology enforcing 7th century laws, what a surreal world.", ">\n\nAuthoritarian regimes are only going to have an easier and easier time controlling their populations as technology moves forward. China is on the bleeding edge with facial recog, social credit system, etc. Eventually, or at least what they're banking on, the system will be so strong it will snuff out any opposition before it is even able to materialize.", ">\n\n\nThat's partially true, but there's a very real trade-off about information dissemination within authoritarian regimes. They NEED to be able to control and craft narratives without having evidence to the contrary. That's a lot harder when people have access to outside information, even in areas where internet control is a thing there are things like games or social media where people can get outside info. \nI suspect that's why North Korea has been so successful, because they became a hermit nation before the internet revolution and thus have much greater control of their populace by simply never letting it take root.", ">\n\nNow they can just arrest and torture anyone they don't like and claim afterwards \"oups, false positive\", if anything.", ">\n\nAnd now people understand what it will be used for.", ">\n\nAlready a questionable technology being used as shady stuff.", ">\n\n\"B- b- but, if you haven't done anything wrong it won't be a problem.\"", ">\n\nI hope whoever provides this technology gives them viruses. 🙏", ">\n\nI hope worse but that's no no language uwu", ">\n\nWho said I meant computer viruses? I mean, I did but still", ">\n\nI see a coming rise in Iranian female Juggalos", ">\n\noh no your slaves are revolting, Iran? They don't want to be tied to the kitchen? Oh whatever will you do?\nReligion. Not even once.", ">\n\nI guess no civil rights groups in Iran other than the ones risking their lives in protest or are imprisoned 😓✊ it's becoming more apparent why checks and balances are needed in government. Especially with tech advancements and lowlife populists taking power", ">\n\nAncient problems require modern solutions.\nAlso: f**k the ayatullah", ">\n\nIsn’t that cute. What a great use of technology.", ">\n\nWait. Religious leaders who are traditionally against capturing images of any kind are now agreeing to store an archive of the faces of ALL Iran’s women just to punish a few who reveal the real thing in public?\nEveryone involved in this scheme should be facing a worse punishment than the women caught by it.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nIran's government has monitored social media to identify opponents of the regime for years, Grothe says, but if government claims about the use of face recognition are true, it's the first instance she knows of a government using the technology to enforce gender-related dress law.\nSome face recognition in use in Iran today comes from Chinese camera and artificial intelligence company Tiandy.\nDespite deploying repressive technology and mass surveillance, in the past month both China and Iran have witnessed some of the largest protests either nation has seen in decades.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Iran^#1 surveillance^#2 government^#3 technology^#4 face^#5", ">\n\nThe beatings will continue until moral improves.", ">\n\nThis is not the technological revolution I signed up for", ">\n\nAlternate headline -\n\"Women breaking hijab laws say torches will recognize Iran in the face\".", ">\n\nJesus christ these people are fucking losers", ">\n\nAny company providing tech to Iran should be demolished.", ">\n\nBullshit, they haven't the capability", ">\n\nWhat makes you think that? Local PDs can do that in the States, the Iranian national government can figure out how to use easily accessible programs to do this work too so long as they have cameras on the protests and a bank of pictures from official IDs / social media / etc.", ">\n\nYou are correct, I'm having a bad morning and got snide", ">\n\nAll good friend", ">\n\nTerrible.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nIran's government has monitored social media to identify opponents of the regime for years, Grothe says, but if government claims about the use of face recognition are true, it's the first instance she knows of a government using the technology to enforce gender-related dress law.\nSome face recognition in use in Iran today comes from Chinese camera and artificial intelligence company Tiandy.\nDespite deploying repressive technology and mass surveillance, in the past month both China and Iran have witnessed some of the largest protests either nation has seen in decades.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Iran^#1 surveillance^#2 government^#3 technology^#4 face^#5", ">\n\nWear irregular shaped face paint when protesting. This may help some. Wearing sunglasses and masks may also help. \nIf they're using ai to look at gait you can also just skip or something.", ">\n\nGet someone to inject a bit of malware that turns the results into their tin-pot dictator.", ">\n\nA clear demonstration of how Facial Recognition could be used for truly nefarious goals and why we are very concerned about it use." ]

[ "21st century technology enforcing 7th century laws, what a surreal world.", ">\n\nAuthoritarian regimes are only going to have an easier and easier time controlling their populations as technology moves forward. China is on the bleeding edge with facial recog, social credit system, etc. Eventually, or at least what they're banking on, the system will be so strong it will snuff out any opposition before it is even able to materialize.", ">\n\n\nThat's partially true, but there's a very real trade-off about information dissemination within authoritarian regimes. They NEED to be able to control and craft narratives without having evidence to the contrary. That's a lot harder when people have access to outside information, even in areas where internet control is a thing there are things like games or social media where people can get outside info. \nI suspect that's why North Korea has been so successful, because they became a hermit nation before the internet revolution and thus have much greater control of their populace by simply never letting it take root.", ">\n\nNow they can just arrest and torture anyone they don't like and claim afterwards \"oups, false positive\", if anything.", ">\n\nAnd now people understand what it will be used for.", ">\n\nAlready a questionable technology being used as shady stuff.", ">\n\n\"B- b- but, if you haven't done anything wrong it won't be a problem.\"", ">\n\nI hope whoever provides this technology gives them viruses. 🙏", ">\n\nI hope worse but that's no no language uwu", ">\n\nWho said I meant computer viruses? I mean, I did but still", ">\n\nI see a coming rise in Iranian female Juggalos", ">\n\noh no your slaves are revolting, Iran? They don't want to be tied to the kitchen? Oh whatever will you do?\nReligion. Not even once.", ">\n\nI guess no civil rights groups in Iran other than the ones risking their lives in protest or are imprisoned 😓✊ it's becoming more apparent why checks and balances are needed in government. Especially with tech advancements and lowlife populists taking power", ">\n\nAncient problems require modern solutions.\nAlso: f**k the ayatullah", ">\n\nIsn’t that cute. What a great use of technology.", ">\n\nWait. Religious leaders who are traditionally against capturing images of any kind are now agreeing to store an archive of the faces of ALL Iran’s women just to punish a few who reveal the real thing in public?\nEveryone involved in this scheme should be facing a worse punishment than the women caught by it.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nIran's government has monitored social media to identify opponents of the regime for years, Grothe says, but if government claims about the use of face recognition are true, it's the first instance she knows of a government using the technology to enforce gender-related dress law.\nSome face recognition in use in Iran today comes from Chinese camera and artificial intelligence company Tiandy.\nDespite deploying repressive technology and mass surveillance, in the past month both China and Iran have witnessed some of the largest protests either nation has seen in decades.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Iran^#1 surveillance^#2 government^#3 technology^#4 face^#5", ">\n\nThe beatings will continue until moral improves.", ">\n\nThis is not the technological revolution I signed up for", ">\n\nAlternate headline -\n\"Women breaking hijab laws say torches will recognize Iran in the face\".", ">\n\nJesus christ these people are fucking losers", ">\n\nAny company providing tech to Iran should be demolished.", ">\n\nBullshit, they haven't the capability", ">\n\nWhat makes you think that? Local PDs can do that in the States, the Iranian national government can figure out how to use easily accessible programs to do this work too so long as they have cameras on the protests and a bank of pictures from official IDs / social media / etc.", ">\n\nYou are correct, I'm having a bad morning and got snide", ">\n\nAll good friend", ">\n\nTerrible.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nIran's government has monitored social media to identify opponents of the regime for years, Grothe says, but if government claims about the use of face recognition are true, it's the first instance she knows of a government using the technology to enforce gender-related dress law.\nSome face recognition in use in Iran today comes from Chinese camera and artificial intelligence company Tiandy.\nDespite deploying repressive technology and mass surveillance, in the past month both China and Iran have witnessed some of the largest protests either nation has seen in decades.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Iran^#1 surveillance^#2 government^#3 technology^#4 face^#5", ">\n\nWear irregular shaped face paint when protesting. This may help some. Wearing sunglasses and masks may also help. \nIf they're using ai to look at gait you can also just skip or something.", ">\n\nGet someone to inject a bit of malware that turns the results into their tin-pot dictator.", ">\n\nA clear demonstration of how Facial Recognition could be used for truly nefarious goals and why we are very concerned about it use.", ">\n\nLiterally 1984" ]

[ "21st century technology enforcing 7th century laws, what a surreal world.", ">\n\nAuthoritarian regimes are only going to have an easier and easier time controlling their populations as technology moves forward. China is on the bleeding edge with facial recog, social credit system, etc. Eventually, or at least what they're banking on, the system will be so strong it will snuff out any opposition before it is even able to materialize.", ">\n\n\nThat's partially true, but there's a very real trade-off about information dissemination within authoritarian regimes. They NEED to be able to control and craft narratives without having evidence to the contrary. That's a lot harder when people have access to outside information, even in areas where internet control is a thing there are things like games or social media where people can get outside info. \nI suspect that's why North Korea has been so successful, because they became a hermit nation before the internet revolution and thus have much greater control of their populace by simply never letting it take root.", ">\n\nNow they can just arrest and torture anyone they don't like and claim afterwards \"oups, false positive\", if anything.", ">\n\nAnd now people understand what it will be used for.", ">\n\nAlready a questionable technology being used as shady stuff.", ">\n\n\"B- b- but, if you haven't done anything wrong it won't be a problem.\"", ">\n\nI hope whoever provides this technology gives them viruses. 🙏", ">\n\nI hope worse but that's no no language uwu", ">\n\nWho said I meant computer viruses? I mean, I did but still", ">\n\nI see a coming rise in Iranian female Juggalos", ">\n\noh no your slaves are revolting, Iran? They don't want to be tied to the kitchen? Oh whatever will you do?\nReligion. Not even once.", ">\n\nI guess no civil rights groups in Iran other than the ones risking their lives in protest or are imprisoned 😓✊ it's becoming more apparent why checks and balances are needed in government. Especially with tech advancements and lowlife populists taking power", ">\n\nAncient problems require modern solutions.\nAlso: f**k the ayatullah", ">\n\nIsn’t that cute. What a great use of technology.", ">\n\nWait. Religious leaders who are traditionally against capturing images of any kind are now agreeing to store an archive of the faces of ALL Iran’s women just to punish a few who reveal the real thing in public?\nEveryone involved in this scheme should be facing a worse punishment than the women caught by it.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nIran's government has monitored social media to identify opponents of the regime for years, Grothe says, but if government claims about the use of face recognition are true, it's the first instance she knows of a government using the technology to enforce gender-related dress law.\nSome face recognition in use in Iran today comes from Chinese camera and artificial intelligence company Tiandy.\nDespite deploying repressive technology and mass surveillance, in the past month both China and Iran have witnessed some of the largest protests either nation has seen in decades.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Iran^#1 surveillance^#2 government^#3 technology^#4 face^#5", ">\n\nThe beatings will continue until moral improves.", ">\n\nThis is not the technological revolution I signed up for", ">\n\nAlternate headline -\n\"Women breaking hijab laws say torches will recognize Iran in the face\".", ">\n\nJesus christ these people are fucking losers", ">\n\nAny company providing tech to Iran should be demolished.", ">\n\nBullshit, they haven't the capability", ">\n\nWhat makes you think that? Local PDs can do that in the States, the Iranian national government can figure out how to use easily accessible programs to do this work too so long as they have cameras on the protests and a bank of pictures from official IDs / social media / etc.", ">\n\nYou are correct, I'm having a bad morning and got snide", ">\n\nAll good friend", ">\n\nTerrible.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nIran's government has monitored social media to identify opponents of the regime for years, Grothe says, but if government claims about the use of face recognition are true, it's the first instance she knows of a government using the technology to enforce gender-related dress law.\nSome face recognition in use in Iran today comes from Chinese camera and artificial intelligence company Tiandy.\nDespite deploying repressive technology and mass surveillance, in the past month both China and Iran have witnessed some of the largest protests either nation has seen in decades.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Iran^#1 surveillance^#2 government^#3 technology^#4 face^#5", ">\n\nWear irregular shaped face paint when protesting. This may help some. Wearing sunglasses and masks may also help. \nIf they're using ai to look at gait you can also just skip or something.", ">\n\nGet someone to inject a bit of malware that turns the results into their tin-pot dictator.", ">\n\nA clear demonstration of how Facial Recognition could be used for truly nefarious goals and why we are very concerned about it use.", ">\n\nLiterally 1984", ">\n\nAuthoritarians gonna authoritarianate." ]

[ "21st century technology enforcing 7th century laws, what a surreal world.", ">\n\nAuthoritarian regimes are only going to have an easier and easier time controlling their populations as technology moves forward. China is on the bleeding edge with facial recog, social credit system, etc. Eventually, or at least what they're banking on, the system will be so strong it will snuff out any opposition before it is even able to materialize.", ">\n\n\nThat's partially true, but there's a very real trade-off about information dissemination within authoritarian regimes. They NEED to be able to control and craft narratives without having evidence to the contrary. That's a lot harder when people have access to outside information, even in areas where internet control is a thing there are things like games or social media where people can get outside info. \nI suspect that's why North Korea has been so successful, because they became a hermit nation before the internet revolution and thus have much greater control of their populace by simply never letting it take root.", ">\n\nNow they can just arrest and torture anyone they don't like and claim afterwards \"oups, false positive\", if anything.", ">\n\nAnd now people understand what it will be used for.", ">\n\nAlready a questionable technology being used as shady stuff.", ">\n\n\"B- b- but, if you haven't done anything wrong it won't be a problem.\"", ">\n\nI hope whoever provides this technology gives them viruses. 🙏", ">\n\nI hope worse but that's no no language uwu", ">\n\nWho said I meant computer viruses? I mean, I did but still", ">\n\nI see a coming rise in Iranian female Juggalos", ">\n\noh no your slaves are revolting, Iran? They don't want to be tied to the kitchen? Oh whatever will you do?\nReligion. Not even once.", ">\n\nI guess no civil rights groups in Iran other than the ones risking their lives in protest or are imprisoned 😓✊ it's becoming more apparent why checks and balances are needed in government. Especially with tech advancements and lowlife populists taking power", ">\n\nAncient problems require modern solutions.\nAlso: f**k the ayatullah", ">\n\nIsn’t that cute. What a great use of technology.", ">\n\nWait. Religious leaders who are traditionally against capturing images of any kind are now agreeing to store an archive of the faces of ALL Iran’s women just to punish a few who reveal the real thing in public?\nEveryone involved in this scheme should be facing a worse punishment than the women caught by it.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nIran's government has monitored social media to identify opponents of the regime for years, Grothe says, but if government claims about the use of face recognition are true, it's the first instance she knows of a government using the technology to enforce gender-related dress law.\nSome face recognition in use in Iran today comes from Chinese camera and artificial intelligence company Tiandy.\nDespite deploying repressive technology and mass surveillance, in the past month both China and Iran have witnessed some of the largest protests either nation has seen in decades.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Iran^#1 surveillance^#2 government^#3 technology^#4 face^#5", ">\n\nThe beatings will continue until moral improves.", ">\n\nThis is not the technological revolution I signed up for", ">\n\nAlternate headline -\n\"Women breaking hijab laws say torches will recognize Iran in the face\".", ">\n\nJesus christ these people are fucking losers", ">\n\nAny company providing tech to Iran should be demolished.", ">\n\nBullshit, they haven't the capability", ">\n\nWhat makes you think that? Local PDs can do that in the States, the Iranian national government can figure out how to use easily accessible programs to do this work too so long as they have cameras on the protests and a bank of pictures from official IDs / social media / etc.", ">\n\nYou are correct, I'm having a bad morning and got snide", ">\n\nAll good friend", ">\n\nTerrible.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nIran's government has monitored social media to identify opponents of the regime for years, Grothe says, but if government claims about the use of face recognition are true, it's the first instance she knows of a government using the technology to enforce gender-related dress law.\nSome face recognition in use in Iran today comes from Chinese camera and artificial intelligence company Tiandy.\nDespite deploying repressive technology and mass surveillance, in the past month both China and Iran have witnessed some of the largest protests either nation has seen in decades.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Iran^#1 surveillance^#2 government^#3 technology^#4 face^#5", ">\n\nWear irregular shaped face paint when protesting. This may help some. Wearing sunglasses and masks may also help. \nIf they're using ai to look at gait you can also just skip or something.", ">\n\nGet someone to inject a bit of malware that turns the results into their tin-pot dictator.", ">\n\nA clear demonstration of how Facial Recognition could be used for truly nefarious goals and why we are very concerned about it use.", ">\n\nLiterally 1984", ">\n\nAuthoritarians gonna authoritarianate.", ">\n\n🤓" ]

[ "21st century technology enforcing 7th century laws, what a surreal world.", ">\n\nAuthoritarian regimes are only going to have an easier and easier time controlling their populations as technology moves forward. China is on the bleeding edge with facial recog, social credit system, etc. Eventually, or at least what they're banking on, the system will be so strong it will snuff out any opposition before it is even able to materialize.", ">\n\n\nThat's partially true, but there's a very real trade-off about information dissemination within authoritarian regimes. They NEED to be able to control and craft narratives without having evidence to the contrary. That's a lot harder when people have access to outside information, even in areas where internet control is a thing there are things like games or social media where people can get outside info. \nI suspect that's why North Korea has been so successful, because they became a hermit nation before the internet revolution and thus have much greater control of their populace by simply never letting it take root.", ">\n\nNow they can just arrest and torture anyone they don't like and claim afterwards \"oups, false positive\", if anything.", ">\n\nAnd now people understand what it will be used for.", ">\n\nAlready a questionable technology being used as shady stuff.", ">\n\n\"B- b- but, if you haven't done anything wrong it won't be a problem.\"", ">\n\nI hope whoever provides this technology gives them viruses. 🙏", ">\n\nI hope worse but that's no no language uwu", ">\n\nWho said I meant computer viruses? I mean, I did but still", ">\n\nI see a coming rise in Iranian female Juggalos", ">\n\noh no your slaves are revolting, Iran? They don't want to be tied to the kitchen? Oh whatever will you do?\nReligion. Not even once.", ">\n\nI guess no civil rights groups in Iran other than the ones risking their lives in protest or are imprisoned 😓✊ it's becoming more apparent why checks and balances are needed in government. Especially with tech advancements and lowlife populists taking power", ">\n\nAncient problems require modern solutions.\nAlso: f**k the ayatullah", ">\n\nIsn’t that cute. What a great use of technology.", ">\n\nWait. Religious leaders who are traditionally against capturing images of any kind are now agreeing to store an archive of the faces of ALL Iran’s women just to punish a few who reveal the real thing in public?\nEveryone involved in this scheme should be facing a worse punishment than the women caught by it.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nIran's government has monitored social media to identify opponents of the regime for years, Grothe says, but if government claims about the use of face recognition are true, it's the first instance she knows of a government using the technology to enforce gender-related dress law.\nSome face recognition in use in Iran today comes from Chinese camera and artificial intelligence company Tiandy.\nDespite deploying repressive technology and mass surveillance, in the past month both China and Iran have witnessed some of the largest protests either nation has seen in decades.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Iran^#1 surveillance^#2 government^#3 technology^#4 face^#5", ">\n\nThe beatings will continue until moral improves.", ">\n\nThis is not the technological revolution I signed up for", ">\n\nAlternate headline -\n\"Women breaking hijab laws say torches will recognize Iran in the face\".", ">\n\nJesus christ these people are fucking losers", ">\n\nAny company providing tech to Iran should be demolished.", ">\n\nBullshit, they haven't the capability", ">\n\nWhat makes you think that? Local PDs can do that in the States, the Iranian national government can figure out how to use easily accessible programs to do this work too so long as they have cameras on the protests and a bank of pictures from official IDs / social media / etc.", ">\n\nYou are correct, I'm having a bad morning and got snide", ">\n\nAll good friend", ">\n\nTerrible.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nIran's government has monitored social media to identify opponents of the regime for years, Grothe says, but if government claims about the use of face recognition are true, it's the first instance she knows of a government using the technology to enforce gender-related dress law.\nSome face recognition in use in Iran today comes from Chinese camera and artificial intelligence company Tiandy.\nDespite deploying repressive technology and mass surveillance, in the past month both China and Iran have witnessed some of the largest protests either nation has seen in decades.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Iran^#1 surveillance^#2 government^#3 technology^#4 face^#5", ">\n\nWear irregular shaped face paint when protesting. This may help some. Wearing sunglasses and masks may also help. \nIf they're using ai to look at gait you can also just skip or something.", ">\n\nGet someone to inject a bit of malware that turns the results into their tin-pot dictator.", ">\n\nA clear demonstration of how Facial Recognition could be used for truly nefarious goals and why we are very concerned about it use.", ">\n\nLiterally 1984", ">\n\nAuthoritarians gonna authoritarianate.", ">\n\n🤓", ">\n\nHahaha, like they can get that." ]

[ "21st century technology enforcing 7th century laws, what a surreal world.", ">\n\nAuthoritarian regimes are only going to have an easier and easier time controlling their populations as technology moves forward. China is on the bleeding edge with facial recog, social credit system, etc. Eventually, or at least what they're banking on, the system will be so strong it will snuff out any opposition before it is even able to materialize.", ">\n\n\nThat's partially true, but there's a very real trade-off about information dissemination within authoritarian regimes. They NEED to be able to control and craft narratives without having evidence to the contrary. That's a lot harder when people have access to outside information, even in areas where internet control is a thing there are things like games or social media where people can get outside info. \nI suspect that's why North Korea has been so successful, because they became a hermit nation before the internet revolution and thus have much greater control of their populace by simply never letting it take root.", ">\n\nNow they can just arrest and torture anyone they don't like and claim afterwards \"oups, false positive\", if anything.", ">\n\nAnd now people understand what it will be used for.", ">\n\nAlready a questionable technology being used as shady stuff.", ">\n\n\"B- b- but, if you haven't done anything wrong it won't be a problem.\"", ">\n\nI hope whoever provides this technology gives them viruses. 🙏", ">\n\nI hope worse but that's no no language uwu", ">\n\nWho said I meant computer viruses? I mean, I did but still", ">\n\nI see a coming rise in Iranian female Juggalos", ">\n\noh no your slaves are revolting, Iran? They don't want to be tied to the kitchen? Oh whatever will you do?\nReligion. Not even once.", ">\n\nI guess no civil rights groups in Iran other than the ones risking their lives in protest or are imprisoned 😓✊ it's becoming more apparent why checks and balances are needed in government. Especially with tech advancements and lowlife populists taking power", ">\n\nAncient problems require modern solutions.\nAlso: f**k the ayatullah", ">\n\nIsn’t that cute. What a great use of technology.", ">\n\nWait. Religious leaders who are traditionally against capturing images of any kind are now agreeing to store an archive of the faces of ALL Iran’s women just to punish a few who reveal the real thing in public?\nEveryone involved in this scheme should be facing a worse punishment than the women caught by it.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nIran's government has monitored social media to identify opponents of the regime for years, Grothe says, but if government claims about the use of face recognition are true, it's the first instance she knows of a government using the technology to enforce gender-related dress law.\nSome face recognition in use in Iran today comes from Chinese camera and artificial intelligence company Tiandy.\nDespite deploying repressive technology and mass surveillance, in the past month both China and Iran have witnessed some of the largest protests either nation has seen in decades.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Iran^#1 surveillance^#2 government^#3 technology^#4 face^#5", ">\n\nThe beatings will continue until moral improves.", ">\n\nThis is not the technological revolution I signed up for", ">\n\nAlternate headline -\n\"Women breaking hijab laws say torches will recognize Iran in the face\".", ">\n\nJesus christ these people are fucking losers", ">\n\nAny company providing tech to Iran should be demolished.", ">\n\nBullshit, they haven't the capability", ">\n\nWhat makes you think that? Local PDs can do that in the States, the Iranian national government can figure out how to use easily accessible programs to do this work too so long as they have cameras on the protests and a bank of pictures from official IDs / social media / etc.", ">\n\nYou are correct, I'm having a bad morning and got snide", ">\n\nAll good friend", ">\n\nTerrible.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nIran's government has monitored social media to identify opponents of the regime for years, Grothe says, but if government claims about the use of face recognition are true, it's the first instance she knows of a government using the technology to enforce gender-related dress law.\nSome face recognition in use in Iran today comes from Chinese camera and artificial intelligence company Tiandy.\nDespite deploying repressive technology and mass surveillance, in the past month both China and Iran have witnessed some of the largest protests either nation has seen in decades.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Iran^#1 surveillance^#2 government^#3 technology^#4 face^#5", ">\n\nWear irregular shaped face paint when protesting. This may help some. Wearing sunglasses and masks may also help. \nIf they're using ai to look at gait you can also just skip or something.", ">\n\nGet someone to inject a bit of malware that turns the results into their tin-pot dictator.", ">\n\nA clear demonstration of how Facial Recognition could be used for truly nefarious goals and why we are very concerned about it use.", ">\n\nLiterally 1984", ">\n\nAuthoritarians gonna authoritarianate.", ">\n\n🤓", ">\n\nHahaha, like they can get that.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nIran's government has monitored social media to identify opponents of the regime for years, Grothe says, but if government claims about the use of face recognition are true, it's the first instance she knows of a government using the technology to enforce gender-related dress law.\nSome face recognition in use in Iran today comes from Chinese camera and artificial intelligence company Tiandy.\nDespite deploying repressive technology and mass surveillance, in the past month both China and Iran have witnessed some of the largest protests either nation has seen in decades.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Iran^#1 surveillance^#2 government^#3 technology^#4 face^#5" ]

[ "21st century technology enforcing 7th century laws, what a surreal world.", ">\n\nAuthoritarian regimes are only going to have an easier and easier time controlling their populations as technology moves forward. China is on the bleeding edge with facial recog, social credit system, etc. Eventually, or at least what they're banking on, the system will be so strong it will snuff out any opposition before it is even able to materialize.", ">\n\n\nThat's partially true, but there's a very real trade-off about information dissemination within authoritarian regimes. They NEED to be able to control and craft narratives without having evidence to the contrary. That's a lot harder when people have access to outside information, even in areas where internet control is a thing there are things like games or social media where people can get outside info. \nI suspect that's why North Korea has been so successful, because they became a hermit nation before the internet revolution and thus have much greater control of their populace by simply never letting it take root.", ">\n\nNow they can just arrest and torture anyone they don't like and claim afterwards \"oups, false positive\", if anything.", ">\n\nAnd now people understand what it will be used for.", ">\n\nAlready a questionable technology being used as shady stuff.", ">\n\n\"B- b- but, if you haven't done anything wrong it won't be a problem.\"", ">\n\nI hope whoever provides this technology gives them viruses. 🙏", ">\n\nI hope worse but that's no no language uwu", ">\n\nWho said I meant computer viruses? I mean, I did but still", ">\n\nI see a coming rise in Iranian female Juggalos", ">\n\noh no your slaves are revolting, Iran? They don't want to be tied to the kitchen? Oh whatever will you do?\nReligion. Not even once.", ">\n\nI guess no civil rights groups in Iran other than the ones risking their lives in protest or are imprisoned 😓✊ it's becoming more apparent why checks and balances are needed in government. Especially with tech advancements and lowlife populists taking power", ">\n\nAncient problems require modern solutions.\nAlso: f**k the ayatullah", ">\n\nIsn’t that cute. What a great use of technology.", ">\n\nWait. Religious leaders who are traditionally against capturing images of any kind are now agreeing to store an archive of the faces of ALL Iran’s women just to punish a few who reveal the real thing in public?\nEveryone involved in this scheme should be facing a worse punishment than the women caught by it.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nIran's government has monitored social media to identify opponents of the regime for years, Grothe says, but if government claims about the use of face recognition are true, it's the first instance she knows of a government using the technology to enforce gender-related dress law.\nSome face recognition in use in Iran today comes from Chinese camera and artificial intelligence company Tiandy.\nDespite deploying repressive technology and mass surveillance, in the past month both China and Iran have witnessed some of the largest protests either nation has seen in decades.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Iran^#1 surveillance^#2 government^#3 technology^#4 face^#5", ">\n\nThe beatings will continue until moral improves.", ">\n\nThis is not the technological revolution I signed up for", ">\n\nAlternate headline -\n\"Women breaking hijab laws say torches will recognize Iran in the face\".", ">\n\nJesus christ these people are fucking losers", ">\n\nAny company providing tech to Iran should be demolished.", ">\n\nBullshit, they haven't the capability", ">\n\nWhat makes you think that? Local PDs can do that in the States, the Iranian national government can figure out how to use easily accessible programs to do this work too so long as they have cameras on the protests and a bank of pictures from official IDs / social media / etc.", ">\n\nYou are correct, I'm having a bad morning and got snide", ">\n\nAll good friend", ">\n\nTerrible.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nIran's government has monitored social media to identify opponents of the regime for years, Grothe says, but if government claims about the use of face recognition are true, it's the first instance she knows of a government using the technology to enforce gender-related dress law.\nSome face recognition in use in Iran today comes from Chinese camera and artificial intelligence company Tiandy.\nDespite deploying repressive technology and mass surveillance, in the past month both China and Iran have witnessed some of the largest protests either nation has seen in decades.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Iran^#1 surveillance^#2 government^#3 technology^#4 face^#5", ">\n\nWear irregular shaped face paint when protesting. This may help some. Wearing sunglasses and masks may also help. \nIf they're using ai to look at gait you can also just skip or something.", ">\n\nGet someone to inject a bit of malware that turns the results into their tin-pot dictator.", ">\n\nA clear demonstration of how Facial Recognition could be used for truly nefarious goals and why we are very concerned about it use.", ">\n\nLiterally 1984", ">\n\nAuthoritarians gonna authoritarianate.", ">\n\n🤓", ">\n\nHahaha, like they can get that.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nIran's government has monitored social media to identify opponents of the regime for years, Grothe says, but if government claims about the use of face recognition are true, it's the first instance she knows of a government using the technology to enforce gender-related dress law.\nSome face recognition in use in Iran today comes from Chinese camera and artificial intelligence company Tiandy.\nDespite deploying repressive technology and mass surveillance, in the past month both China and Iran have witnessed some of the largest protests either nation has seen in decades.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Iran^#1 surveillance^#2 government^#3 technology^#4 face^#5", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nIran's government has monitored social media to identify opponents of the regime for years, Grothe says, but if government claims about the use of face recognition are true, it's the first instance she knows of a government using the technology to enforce gender-related dress law.\nSome face recognition in use in Iran today comes from Chinese camera and artificial intelligence company Tiandy.\nDespite deploying repressive technology and mass surveillance, in the past month both China and Iran have witnessed some of the largest protests either nation has seen in decades.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Iran^#1 surveillance^#2 government^#3 technology^#4 face^#5" ]

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[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy...." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust..." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\"." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68." ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?" ]

[ "That's because an unsigned Czech isn't valid.", ">\n\n(╯°□°)╯( ┻━┻", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ) \nEasy there, big guy…", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯ ︵ ( \\o°o)\\", ">\n\n( \\o°o)\\ ノ( º _ ºノ)", ">\n\nLa fin.", ">\n\n┻━┻ \n━╤デ╦︻(▀̿̿Ĺ̯̿̿▀̿ ̿) The table stays flipped or else buddy....", ">\n\n┬─┬ノ( º # ºノ)", ">\n\nWhy'd you come and flip over the table? You wanted to.", ">\n\n...I don't think you trust...", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 58%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, personally signed the T-72 tank that will be sent to the Ukrainian military.\n\"The largest contract that Excalibur Army is working on in this area is the supply of modernised T-72 tanks to Ukraine, which is jointly financed by the USA and the Netherlands. This cooperation has advantages for all parties involved. NATO strengthens the capabilities of the brave defenders of Ukraine, whose success depends on global security, and the Czech Republic receives benefits for its defence industry,\" noted Petr Fiala.\nIn autumn, a public initiative in the Czech Republic collected more than 1 million euros in one month for the purchase of a modernised T-72 for Ukraine; the tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: tank^#1 Ukraine^#2 T-72^#3 Czech^#4 Republic^#5", ">\n\n\nthe tank was named Tomas in honour of the first president of Czechoslovakia, Tomas Masaryk.\n\nLol Tomas the Tank", ">\n\nZelensky did the Ukrainian dubbing for Thomas the Tank Engine BTW, he's still only the 2nd most famous voice actor for that show", ">\n\nI love that it's called a tank engine. As a non native speaker I thought there was an alternative show in which Thomas was an actual tank when I heard that the first time.", ">\n\nIt's because a steam locomotive has two main parts: an external-combustion engine and a water tank. Earlier, static, steam trains often had an external water source - so the combination of engine and tank was a 'tank engine'.\nIn WW1 the British referred to their new tracked armoured vehicles as 'tanks' on shipping manifests and documents so if enemy spies saw it they'd think it referred to inoccuous equipment and not a game-changing new breakthrough weapon. They were actually called 'landships' but 'tank' stuck.", ">\n\nYou're mostly correct. \nTo my understanding, a tank engine is specifically different from an engine that tows it's water tank behind on a tender (which usually also holds coal). Tank engines tend to be small and short ranged, they have limited capacity for water and coal on board so they're usually only used on short lines and for moving stuff around on the station area.", ">\n\nA tank engine can still tow a water tender - this will sometimes show as 'T+T' on type notation (tank + tender.) But yes, typically they have smaller engines than a tender-only design. \nThere are some articulated South African tank-only locos that rival even big American tender locos. And they were also favoured on lines with turntables, as you can fit a TE on a turntable in one go - if you have a busy rail yard in a confined space it can be more economical to build water towers along the line than spend more time on the turntable (you see this a lot on the GWR line - turnaround time was at a premium in London so the line has more water towers than you'd expect for such a short line.)", ">\n\nWow. A tank you note from the PM. Cool!", ">\n\n(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻", ">\n\nI completely forgot ASCII comments existed, this takes me back", ">\n\nElegant comments from a more civilised aged", ">\n\nThe better unicode.", ">\n\nBut that comment contains Unicode characters.", ">\n\nYes, the better ones.", ">\n\nNothing unifies people like a common enemy", ">\n\nIt’s why ironically Russia, in its efforts to divide Europe and conquer parts of it for itself, has accidentally expedited decades of negotiations for the allied world. \nA drippy pipe can stay a problem and people will say “eh we will get to it”. But make that pipe burst and it’s an all hands on deck!", ">\n\nI definitely care less about who's going to pay the plumber when I'm scared my whole apartment is about to get flooded, too.", ">\n\nRight! And that’s a good point, people who would have made excuses before hand about why they can’t help fix the leaky pipe now are forced or at least heavily incentivized to help now because this problem will now drastically effect them if they don’t do something about it! \nNow it’s “you know I was going to go minimal repairs but this is something I can’t avoid and really should get fixed”. It’s the difference between your car making a weird noise and getting a flat. You can’t just ignore that you have to do something about it and now.", ">\n\nNa zdravi", ">\n\nTe Vole", ">\n\nTee vole", ">\n\nI wonder if this fellow is old enough to remember when Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968 to quell any ideas the Czechs might have had about reducing their dependence on Moscow. I imagine anyone from that generation is none too fond of the Russians, and is happy to see them get their asses kicked by Ukraine.", ">\n\nActually the older generations are the most fond of Russia. Lot of older people are still stuck in their communist \"good old days\" and see the West and NATO as bad influence on our country.", ">\n\nHow bizarre.", ">\n\nI've experienced these attitudes over the past 10 years or so, and massively over the last few weeks, due to upcoming elections. Talking to those old enough to vividly remember the occupation and who were staunch anti-communists throughout their life.\nOutside of old people looking for their youth (and those that don't know better), I think it's a wealth inequality thing. It sucks working just as hard as your neighbour but seeing him with a whole lot more. Whereas back in the day, no one had to really worry about finding work, and everyone had a very similar quality of life. That, and nothing more than, \"oh, they'll pay me more of a pension\".", ">\n\nI spoke to a tourguide in Berlin a few years back who's in-laws loved the communist regime.\nThey were from a small village so for them they didn't really deal with all the craziness of the secret police and stuff like that, it was a farming village so if the crops failed that year it didn't impact their livelihood because they got a fixed amount of money which allowed them to always survive. For them life just got a little easier. \nCommunism as a whole is bad but there's definitely been people who 'thrived' during it.", ">\n\nCommunism as a whole is good precisely for things like this you just mentioned. Being able to live a descent life like a human being is supposed to without having to work yourself to death.", ">\n\ner, you still very much worked yourself to death but for a very basic existence and next to zero freedom. The quality of life part was quite shit. Communism as a whole in theory might look enticing, but it doesn't work in practice, at all. As demonstrated by almost the entirety of the 20th century.", ">\n\nZimbabwe?", ">\n\nIt reads, “Suck on this, Vladimir” — probably", ">\n\nIt reads\n\nTo the brave defenders of Ukraine\nCzech Republic (+signature of PM)", ">\n\nYou would think the PM of the Czech Republic would sign his name instead of +signature of PM.", ">\n\nWell you're not the PM of the Czech Republic, so who are you to judge?", ">\n\nI pay for my right to judge. I pay his salary.", ">\n\nAs a Murican, my existence gives me the right to judge because freedom!", ">\n\n🪨 🇺🇲🦅", ">\n\nAccuracy +5\nSpeed +6", ">\n\n+30 Morale", ">\n\n\n10 Acuity -5% revenues from agriculture", ">\n\nGun was Czeched out, apparently", ">\n\nAustria is apparently is discussions of sending a T-800", ">\n\nI know this is a joke, but just as a random fact of the day - Austria didnt donate jack shit compared to others in the region and is currently one of the most pro-russian countries in the EU.", ">\n\nTo be fair, we sent humanitarian supplies, but yeah, I agree we should send military supplies as well.\nWe have M109 self propelled artillery which we could send for example. Lithuania sent some of theirs which we sold them in the first place.", ">\n\nAustria has really sent a pittance though compared to practically every other EU country", ">\n\nThey took it out of its original packaging though; that's gonna hurt the value.", ">\n\nHow can I sell a used gun?!?!", ">\n\nI like you.\nWell.. maybe not. But I understand you.", ">\n\nI didnt know the Czech could do enchantments", ">\n\nFrom CR with love!", ">\n\nLegendary skin T-72", ">\n\nA polite way to send Fuck You to Putler.", ">\n\nŘ", ">\n\n\"Tank you very much\"", ">\n\nSlavidarity continues", ">\n\nMore help is great news. Gift from Czech will be put to good use by Ukraine unlike the Russian who cannot manage their own tanks.", ">\n\nI'm not questioning the Czech's altruism, but this is just as much about self preservation. As long as the Ukrainians are giving the Russians fits, then they are less likely to attack the Czech Republic.", ">\n\nThis is wrong on so many levels.\n\n\nCzechia doesn't border Russia. Russia would have to defeat Ukraine and then cross either Slovakia or Poland.\n\n\nCzechia, as well as Poland or Slovakia are NATO countries. If Russia attacks any of them, all NATO goes to war. All of the NATO air forces.\n\n\nThere is nothing self-preservation in there. But 50 years of communism and invasion in 68.", ">\n\nI'm trusting this guy and doing 0 further research", ">\n\nHow do you not know this basic world knowledge?", ">\n\nThis is so fucking redditor it hurts." ]