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  • Right, their biggest extent was to the north

    To be fair though it was more of an unification than real expansion since most of that territory was already under the various Ruthenian principalities. Essentially the process would probably sooner or later resulted in unified Russia much like the last of Rurikovich did, but Mongol invasion and then Lithuanian emergence put a 250 years pause on it and moved the center from Kiev, which seems to be the Ukrainian nationalists main gripe really, they would love to be Russia, but history decided they aren’t.



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    Huawei is experimenting with humanoid robots driven by AI so you wouldn’t have to be professional programist to order them to do something but it’s still the future, though i seen videos with such robots already manning warehouses.

    I was just commenting about physical feasibility of things, which idealists like the lady in question don’t seem to understand. Which is especially funny considering even that can be traced to capitalism, which don’t give a shit into real scientific advances but the quick buck lying on the path of easiest resistance. As is easily checkable by western media and writers spending decades fantasising about such advancements in robotics, but China actually doing more about it in few years once they finally overcame their overexploitation by the west.




  • In lore guard sometimes used plasma rifles or pistols too. Which are excellent weapons, but if someone isn’t watching the gauge (which guardsman in lore rarily do) it gets overheated. And then it cool itself automatically by just venting plasma, straight at the user. You can also overheat it purposefully to one hit kill about everything short of heavy tank, but if it overheats then (which it usually does after few shots and it’s random so you never know if you have one shot more in it) it explodes wiping out your entire compan if you’re unlucky (which again guardsman usually are).

    And now imagine same weapon but used by chaos forces, most of them being the relic of great crusade when it was experimental and prone to misfires and random plasma venting (plasma weapons are rare in 40k lore example of actual technical advancement and refinement though it took few thousand years).

    And now imagine Plasma Annihilator, basically the same weapon but so big it’s mounted as main weapon on heaviest titan classes. In one book when it accidentally discharged on board of one of the biggest ships of AdMech it almost crippled it entirely.



  • Ukraine as a country and culture was invented in XIX century, before that the broad culture was usually called alternatively Russian or Ruthenian (there are even early XX century censuses where the peasants are just calling themselves “we are from here” having no concept of nation). The most important of founders of Ukrainian culture, Taras Shevchenko, died in 1861. Ukraine just means “borderland” because it was the centuries long battlefield between Poles, Tatars, Turks, Russians and Cossacks.