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[–] Hazzia@infosec.pub 63 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And what's Putin gonna do about it? Invade Ukraine?

[–] noride@lemm.ee 24 points 1 month ago

Well, Ukraine is definitely off the Christmas card list now, that much is certain. They'll be lucky to even get a Happy New Year's text at this point.

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago
[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Expanding rapidly! Hopefully they don't do the napoleon blunder. Slava Ukraini.

[–] credo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

As is tradition: 386 square miles.

[–] BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Thank fuck, finally a sane measurement system!

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Approximately 1/3 of a Rhode Island

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah, but how many bananas?

[–] credo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A banana is to a mile as a banana peel is to a square mile.

A banana peel is 181.48 sq cm or 7.007 × 10^-9^ sq miles, so…

(386.1 (sq miles)) / (7.00736808e-9 (sq miles)/(banana peel)) =

5.50991464 × 10^10^ banana peels.

So 55 billion, give or take.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Internet tells me a banana is about 200 square centimeters, which confused me so I had to convert that back into measurements I understand.

Google says 200 square centimeters is about 1 bananas worth.

So anyways ~200 billion bananas if my napkin math checks out.

[–] Eggyhead@lemmings.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You mean 1,000 sq kms of East Ukraine?

Edit: I need help with my cardinal directions.

[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, that depends on which end of Ukraine just got a bit bigger. Could be West Ukraine, could be North or East Ukraine too, my world geography is absolutely abysmal, so I wouldn't be able to say for sure.

[–] Eggyhead@lemmings.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was thinking East when I wrote west. Something is wrong with my brain.

[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I also have fingers that don't listen to my brain. The struggle is real! ✊️

Edit: just finally looked at a map....pretty sure West Ukraine would used to have been Poland.....