Imperial, adjustable, left handed wrench. Or left handed any common hand tool (hammer, spanner, screwdriver…). Muffler bearing. Light bulb for the crank case. Blinker fluid. The list goes on.

And, within reason, I think those are pretty decent pranks. No one gets hurt, many get a good laugh out of it, including the one looking for a two headed hammer if executed properly.

Estonia alone can’t, but with Finland, Sweden, Poland and eventually Germany, Denmark and Norway joining the fight russians have pretty slim chances to operate from Petersburg if they’re willing to challenge NATO. The bay is narrow enough that both finns and estonians need to be careful not to shoot each other across it with just modern artillery. That combined with pretty capable airforce and navy from Finland and Sweden says that Baltic sea is off limits to any kind of military actions. And additionally, an F-35 from Finland and a Gripen from Sweden could both reach St. Petersburg in about 30 minutes, so good luck to getting anything out of the harbor before it’s out of order.

Wikipedia lists a total of 14000 tanks, reserves included, (majority being T-72 and modernized variants) + unknown number of T-54 and T-64. I suppose even the russians don’t know how many of those are in combat ready shape by any stretch, but apparently at least a half (not counting ones they’ve bought from elsewhere).

So, as the war has been going for two years that 1-2 years more sounds plausible. If current news are anything to go by I’m quite afraid that Ukraine doesn’t have that much unless they really start receiving reinforcements from Europe and US. And should Ukraine collapse it would take 5-10(ish) years for Russia to rebuild enough hardware to do the very same thing with some other country. Maybe not with a NATO country and maybe not one the global west is as interested as Ukraine, but it could (or would, depending on which prediction you want to follow) happen.

Plus the wild card of China, who no doubt are following the situation and spesifically western response pretty closely. I wonder what happened to those 800 000 artillery shells Czechs promised to gather…

According to minusrus they’ve lost 7193 tanks out of 3300 Russia had before the war started. I sincerely hope that the article is correct, but so far they’ve been able to replace lost hardware with a decent rate with manufacturing and presumably purchasing from their allies.

One can hope that the current massive attack ends with the Swan Lake on Russian tv’s, but right now I’m more worried if Ukraine can hold the lines long enough for that to happen. They really need reinforcements, it’s pretty difficult to fight a war without ammunition.

You can’t just tell the cops “no but seriously, I’ve been practicing with an air gun in my backyard, trust me bro”.

Obviously, but you conveniently didn’t quote the part where I said you need a signed proof from a licensed weapons trainer.

But really, can you find me a single one who’d certify you without having been a part of the association? In the current climate? Seriously?

I can. Multiple even, a phone call away. But in here you just of course have to ‘trust me bro’, I’m not going to prove that just for the sake of random conversation over the internet.

Good luck getting a pistol for execution as a farmer without being a hunter. Regards, someone who was born in a village of hunters and farmers.

I know several. Coming from someone currently living in a village of hunters and farmers. Obviously many of them are hobbyist hunters as well, but you don’t get a permit for 9mm pistol for duck hunting.

I’m getting more and more doubtful that you actually have a license for any sort of firearm.

I don’t care. The law, and my very real world experience, says that you don’t need to be a part of any association or club to get a permit regardless of the weapon type, as long as you otherwise qualify to have one.

Because ranges do have weapons you can go shoot with

Some do, but that’s the main attraction on their business where they loan weapons and let you shoot with them. Vast majority of ranges however are just a place in the middle of nowhere, some even without any kind of electricity and often they go days or even weeks without anyone visiting. Most of those places don’t have any kind of winter maintenance either. So if you were forced to leave your firearm there there would be very little of stopping someone malicious visiting with heavy tools and breaking into every safe on site.

For instance, if you want to shoot moose. I’m not sure if exceptions exist, but I’m pretty sure felling permits aren’t given to individual people, but hunting parties.

If you own enough land you can apply for an permit for yourself. You’re correct that vast majority of them are granted to parties and associations, but strictly speaking you don’t have to join one.

You need to show at least two years of shooting with a firearm. Where would you get that kind of experience if you’re not practically part of an association?

By yourself. You can train with a air pistol and all you need is to prove that you’re an active hobbyist. In practice you need to have a certified weapons trainer to prove your word and some of them might not sign the certificate if you’re not a part of their association, but it’s not a strict rule nor something required by law.

We have a freedom of association and that includes freedom of not associating with anyone. I’m not a member of any kind of sport shooting clubs as there’s none around here and that’s not a problem. Sure, you need to find out a certified trainer who trusts your shooting diary, but that’s it. And ‘valid reason’ is as good an explanation as any. Your hobby is target shooting? You can apply for a license with that. Your hobby is hunting? Same thing. You’re a farmer and need a weapon in case you need to kill one of your cows/wild hogs in case it injured itself and/or is a threat to safety? Sure. And if you happened to be a farmer in the 70’s you could get a permit for semi-automatic .22lr pistol for pest control, but I don’t think that’s a valid reason anymore.

So, with that in mind, I’d be very surprised if the gun used in today’s tragedy were illegal but as the media has already covered, it was a legally licensed firearm, so there’s no point of speculating with that any further.

It’s not too hard to get a license for one, but you’d never have it at your residence, it’d be kept at the range, and even with the keys, the kid would not be able to get the gun from the range.

As far as I know there’s no range which would provide gun storages for it’s members for various reasons, most obvious being that they don’t want the liability in case something, like a break in, happens. At least outside big cities this is something that doesn’t and can’t exist. Additionally, by law, the guns must be stored at the primary residence, unless you make special arrangements otherwise, like having a safe at the range with electronic alarm systems and all the jazz or stored with a gun professional in case you intend to sell it/have it repaired/things like that.

With hunting weapons (rifles, shotguns) it’s even more obvious that they can’t be stored elsewhere, but that’s a whole another matter.

For the license you need to have a valid need for a gun of any type. So you need to prove that you’re active hobbyist (no need to join any kind of club or association, regardless of the user case) and prove that you’re mentally and physically in good enough order to own a gun. And that is a fact as I went trough the whole circus few years ago and got myself a permit.

However it could just as well be an actual gunpowder propeller firearm, it’s not impossible, and am very interested in how it was acquired if it is an actual gun.

Based on local news it was an actual handgun (as in gunpowder operated) and legally owned by “close relative” of the shooter. One of tabloid newspapers here made a guess based on a blurry photo that it might have been a .22 revolver, but no official nor confirmed information is released.

High powered gas handguns are legally in the same category than gunpowder operated ones and they’re relatively uncommon compared to .22lr or 9mm pistols, which specially older people could have purchased with relatively easily back in the day. Today the laws are stricter, but it’s still not too difficult to legally get one. They should of course be locked up so that unauthorized people can’t have access to them, but if that relative took the shooter to the range he/she might know where the keys are kept, for example.

Whatever the case might be on how the gun was obtained, I’d say that it’s more important to focus on why this individual decided to shoot classmates. There no point on speculation on what the reasoning was at this point, but if the shooter decided to hurt their classmates a common kitchen knife would’ve been enough too. Once the official investigation is complete we’ll have more information on what actually happened and speculating about “dipshit criminals” doesn’t do anything helpful nor useful at this point.

In any case this is a terrible tragedy for the whole country and there needs to be serious discussion about what the society should do and what we should change to keep our kids, shooter included, safe and in such a mental state (in a lack of better words) that they don’t end up hurting people around them.

I don’t know about homeassistant, but there’s plenty of open source software to interact with odb2 at least for linux. With some tinkering it should be possible to have bluetooth enabled odb2 adapter where you can dump even raw data out and feed it to some other system of your choise, homeassistant included.

If you want live data from the drive itself you of course need to have some kind of recording device with you (raspberry pi comes to mind) but if you’re happy just to log whatever is available when parking the car you could set up a computer with bluetooth nearby the parking spot on your yard and pull data from that. It may require that you keep the car powered on for a while after arrival to keep bus active, but some cars give at least some data via odb even when without the key being in ignition lock.

It’s not a problem to consume that amount of ammunition, you just need ‘a few’ barrels and men to operate them but I’m pretty sure they didn’t produce 700 000 shells per hour.

But yeah, the manufacturing capabilities of whole Europe is a poor joke right now.

Strictly technically speaking, Ukraine could have done that, but I don’t believe it either. FSB has already published a statement claiming terrorists had connections in Ukraine, as expected, but for FSB propaganda it’s well enough if they even have some distant relative in Ukraine. It’s not impossible that some individual in Ukraine would have given weapons for these guys, but ak47’s are common enough all around and isis have their own supplies, so there’s no need to travel that far to find weapons.

My point was that immediately pointing fingers to someone without any evidence doesn’t do any good. Russia will of course at least try to spin this to suit their own purposes, but it doesn’t mean that they orchestrated the attack. There’s been warnings from the USA and other countries about possibility of terrorist attack in Russia for weeks, so it’s a possibility that isis just decided that now it’s a good time to hurt Russia because of their actions in Afganistan (or some other reasoning). Whatever the truth might be terrorism is terrorism and the whole thing has been condemned globally, myself included.

Either way this doesn’t have immediate impact on Ukraine or war front. Russia maybe has now a bit more leverage for their propaganda, so mobilization of new troops might be a bit easier, but that’s about it. Regardless of how Russians react to this, Europe has to continue and increase the support given to Ukraine as it’s been clear for a while that Russia will start massive attacks no matter what and currently I’m afraid that Ukraine doesn’t have the manpower to stop that. Should Ukraine lose this war it would be catastrophic to the rest of the Europe and even globally, possibly ending up in a full blown war between nato and Russia.

In our local news ISIS has claimed responsiblity for the attack. Who knows what really happened, but it’s a bit of a stretch, even for Russian news, to blame Ukraine for that as media globally has this information. Not that it will stop them from at least trying to blame Ukraine, but this kind of freamongering and speculation is a bit too soon to happen.

It might be ISIS, it might be Russians themselves, it might be Ukraine or their associates, who knows. The fact is that the terrorist strike happened, but bluntly stating that it was Putin himself only a hour or two after the news was published doesn’t help anyone. What matters is reaction to this in upcoming few days. Before that it’s better to just follow how the whole thing goes instead of blatantly accusing anyone without any proof.

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And that’s why you can get a sunburn if you’re welding without proper clothing/protection.

Technically speaking nothing is stopping you from building a plasma fireplace right now, it doesn’t need fusion energy. Just grab a stick welder transformer and place couple of carbon rods carefully next to each other. That might be a bit loud, a bit bright for your living room and might set things on fire and have other minor issues like killing your wifi-signal, but it could be done.

Or if you’re satisfied with a bit smaller “flame” you can get a plasma lighter from amazon for 10-20€.

Plasma is a bit hotter than your gas fireplace flame. Common lighter flame is at about 600 deg C and while it’s possible to create plasma which is nearly ambient temperature in controlled environments it’s generally tens of thousands of degrees (plasma arc welding for example) up to tens or hunderds of million degrees celsius (inside fusion generator).

That’s mostly why fusion energy is so difficult problem to solve in the first place as there’s no materials which could withstand the heat. So, no, it wouldn’t be useful as a fireplace. It would of course radiate heat, but it would also light your (and your neighbours) house on fire, so not that useful.

Also a big(ish) issue for the industry. Local news had info that up to 80% of natural berries are picked up by foreginers. For majority of the pickers these gigs are pretty big source of income (compared on what they make back at home) but then there’s the few rotten apples who end up renting accommodiation, cars and everything to the pickers so that pretty much all of their earnings go back to the person providing work. Or that they don’t pay up at all and everything else in between. I’m not sure if that qualifies as human trafficking if pickers end up going back home empty handed, but that’s been an (relatively small, but existing) issue here.

Human trafficking is of course a big deal, but from the ones who end up in our forests picking berries the slavery-like conditions and long work days with next to nothing paid in return is a more common problem. And even if it’s more common it’s still a relatively rare problem.

“It’s important that we not rule everything out for the long term, because we never know how serious the situation becomes,” Valtonen said in an interview this morning. “But the Finnish position is clear: We are not right now sending any troops and not willing to discuss that.”

The full quote has a bit more insight about the matter. But the mesage stands, as of now Finnish troops aren’t going to Ukraine and as long as things say relatively the same it’s not on the table. And as a finn, in my opinion that’s the correct way to manage this right now. We couldn’t send any meaningful amount of troops there and even if we did, what would they do there? Even a battalion wouldn’t change that much in the scope of whole war and Ukraine would have a ton of troops on their hands to find something reasonable to do, set up command chains, plan logistics (even if our troops would bring their own support) and so on. The whole thing would be far more complex than just a phone call from Finland that we’re coming to this and that city and help you from there.

And I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t even be legally possible right now in the first place. Secondly that would be pretty much a diplomatic nightmare, not just with Russia (not that it really matters), but with the rest of Europe too. If the whole thing escalates to nato vs russia war then the situation is of course different, but I sincerely hope we can avoid that.

What Ukraine needs right now is a shit ton of artillery ammunitions and with that we can (and will) do our part. The biggest ammunition manufaturer here was on the news that they increase their production 5 times and if funding from around Europe is secured they’re planning to double that. And even that’s not enoguh, Europe as a whole needs to get their shit together and fast.

I’m pretty sure the cameras around here don’t use OCR at all or even if it does it only recognizes the format for plates from a thing shaped like a plate. So if you’re driving like an ass with the drop tables-“plate” that is pretty relevant.

The Bobby Tables one I’m quite sure would work at least on some systems if they let you input your kids name by yourself to some sort of digital form. Or at least I would be pretty surprised if every school system on earth would be patched against simple sql injections.

Most, but not all, do. So it might be as simple as setting a static address, or it may overlap in the future.

You could ask from ISP (or try it out yourself) if you can use some addresses outside of DHCP pool, my ISP router had /24 subnet with .0.1 as gateway but DHCP pool started from .0.101 so there would’ve been plenty of addresses to use. Mine had a ‘end user’ account too from wehere I could’ve changed LAN IP’s, SSID and other basic stuff, but I replaced the whole thing with my own.