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  • It’s important to note that russia will never “run out” of anything. Making tube artillery isn’t hard (compared to say, modern radar systems or nightvision gear), and they can just keep making more.

    What they’re running out of are the ungodly amounts of cold war reserves meant to rush the Fulda Gap. The “free” soviet holdovers that Russia could re-mobilize relatively easy is finally gone, after using up all the easy stuff, all the kinda-hard stuff, and now also the not-quite-a-rusted-scrappiece-yet.

    But they CAN still make new guns, it’s just much slower than pulling them out of storage. And that means Russia will have far fewer guns in the field. And that’s kind of a big problem for a military that has spent the last century basically centered around massed tube artillery and tanks.



  • Also, depending on where and when in the middle ages, currency would vary hugely and work with several dozens of different coins. Travel to another region would involve money changers, scales, entirely different systems of coinage with (by modern standards) absurd breakdowns of coins and wholly new names and words.

    And having pure coins would be easy, so obviously you’d have fun stuff like “new dollars” being worth 7/16th of an “old dollar” because they have less silver in them.













  • In the US, water is often supplied by the city, and there isn’t really a “flat fee” like in the Netherlands (I’m just assuming we’re both Dutch, since I’ve never seen a non Dutch feddit.nl user).

    In the Netherlands we pay something like 100 euros plus 1 euro per liter, and a fixed price for sewage based on inhabitants.

    The the US, payment for metered water are without a fixed fee or with a very low one. In Seattle you something like 25 USD, plus ~6 USD per 100 cubic feet, (2.25 per cubic meter). But you also pay something like 18 USD per 100cubic feet of water in sewerage costs. So really, your water bill is around 8 bucks per cubic meter.

    And many cities in warmer places have winter and summer pricing for water and sewage. So for a 3 person household using between 50% and 150% of average, that’s between 40 and 100 USD per month depending on use.

    For a Dutch household, the bill for that same household would vary between 5 and 13 euros per month, since the rest is flat. So nobody really cares if you’re off by 25%.