From the NYT link:

The total number of Ukrainian and Russian troops killed or wounded since the war in Ukraine began 18 months ago is nearing 500,000

They break this down into Russian and Ukrainian figures like this:

Russia’s military casualties, the officials said, are approaching 300,000. The number includes as many as 120,000 deaths and 170,000 to 180,000 injured troops. The Russian numbers dwarf the Ukrainian figures, which the officials put at close to 70,000 killed and 100,000 to 120,000 wounded.

I don’t put much stock in these numbers because they’re estimations from a source motivated to paint an optimistic picture, but they come out to be about 300,000 and 190,000 casualties for Russia and Ukraine respectively.

The Mediazona source at least provides some information as to how they arrive at their count. It also states this:

The figures we provide are sourced from publicly available information, including social media posts from family members, local media coverage, and official statements from local authorities. However, these figures represent only a partial account and do not reflect the full extent of the casualties.

And later in the page in their methods section, this:

Our standard for confirmed deaths is stringent—it requires an official publication or social media post from a relative with corresponding details, accompanying photos or dates of burials from local messaging groups, or photos from cemeteries.

We exclude casualties sustained by units of the self-proclaimed DPR and LPR republics, and we do not rely on photographs of bodies (even with accompanying documents) published by Ukraine as these are difficult to verify.

So it’s probably not a complete count of casualties. It’s the best count we have of Russian casualties without being privy to Russia’s internal tracking or using estimation. Unfortunately, without a comparable attempt to count Ukraine’s casualties by similar methods, it’s very hard to extrapolate from this to give a better picture of the balance of casualties on each side. I’d be very curious to see the same thing done for Ukraine, and if you or anyone knows of such a project, please do share.

Where’d you get your numbers?

Russian losses are around 40,000 while Ukrainian losses are around 400,000

Where are you getting these numbers? I can’t find anything that seems reliable, and as I far as I know neither side is releasing their own casualty numbers. A ten to one ratio does not seem like it reflects the mostly frozen lines of the war over the last year, even if Russia is pursuing the strategy you describe.

Give me a train give me a train give a me train now
I can’t tell if I’m the conductor or a rider

Feeling a nostalgic feeling playing an aoe campaign and then looking up what it’s based on. The game was a big part of my interest in the medieval period as a kid and it’s still giving me neat portraits of guys now.

I don’t always pay very close attention to podcasts, so they might have talked a lot about the Hussites in Hell on Earth, but it was cool playing the Jan Žižka campaign and then reading about wagenburgs and the really impressive tactics he used to overcome the odds. Plus, love a guy with an eyepatch.

I think I believe pulling the leverage is the right thing to do. I also have a feeling I wouldn’t be able to do it.

No

I don’t want Microsoft Word to tell me not to use the word insane.

I think they’re funny because the artist is having so much fun with exploring symbolism and weaving meaning into something that otherwise looks very silly. It’s very apparent that it’s not really about millions of people being killed as something funny, or even really about being offensive. Honestly, they’re kind of like neat puzzles to figure out.

A circle should have the greatest area per perimeter and I can’t think of a regular polygon with more sides that tessellates.

Guinea, which borders Guinea-Bissau, but not Equatorial Guinea.

twerking is only sexual in the mind of the observer

And calling you an obtuse asshole is only an insult in the mind of the observer.

And yet you have a purple avatar.

Etymology of salad from Wiktionary

From Middle English salade, from Old French salade, borrowed from Northern Italian salada, salata (compare insalata), from Vulgar Latin *salāta, from *salāre, from Latin saliō, from sal (“salt”).

This is discrimination against the messy bitch culture.

I was gonna say, “Remember when scientists thought testing a nuclear bomb might start a chain reaction enflaming the whole atmosphere and then did it anyway?” But then I looked it up and I guess they actually did calculations and figured out it wouldn’t before they did the test.

it is necessary to “talk about, write or show something from the lives of sexual minorities, transgenders [sic] and other transformers”.
“It’s bad if they are the only ones to win all these competitions – we don’t want that. But this desire for equality… this equality should be everywhere, in everything”

We wouldn’t brook this shit from anyone else. This is functionally the same as when chuds complain about pandering to the woke mob.

Secondly, regarding Slavic culture. Here, as in the case of transgender people and sexual minorities, what I want to say is: you can’t stick anything out, you can’t behave aggressively towards anyone in any way.

When he says this, we should read it in the context of a man who signed into law both the original “for the Purpose of Protecting Children from Information Advocating a Denial of Traditional Family Values” law and its expansion last year. This softening of rhetoric is blowing smoke up people’s ass.

Maybe because there are nearly 10 million people in Seoul and the wholesale bombardment of them would result in massive civilian casualties that would rightfully be condemned as a crime against humanity?

That’s nearly a Texas area of forest.

So cool and normal to live in a country where it’s just quietly understood that legislators don’t have the time to read the legislation they’re voting on.