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>must surely be impacting the Russian residents as well, right? They don't give a fuck. Was watching a youtube video by a russian the other day talking about

by Havoc 5mo ago

>must surely be impacting the Russian residents as well, right? They don't give a fuck. Was watching a youtube video by a russian the other day talking about war & sanction impact and things like ride sharing apps literally say on screen the location is going to be wrong and to select pickup spot manually. It's just assumed to be fucked as a given even at an app development level

N19PEDL2 5mo ago
They don't even have internet anymore... https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr510de17jlo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr510de17jlo
- brokensystems 5mo ago
  Bit of a reach, their internet may be restricted to a degree, but they sure do have internet... my partner calls and video calls their family back in Russia daily from half way around the world.
- b65e8bee43c2ed0 5mo ago
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  - Joker_vD 5mo ago
    "Do not ever give up your guns", har-har. In the guerilla stage of the Second Chechen War one of the ways to deal with the insurgents who would barricade in a building was to drive a T-72 to it and fire a couple of HE shells at it. The house would fold in like, well, a house of cards; I believe there even used to be recorded footage on YT. I imagine a single fragmentation shell would be enough for an average American house. My point is, in the modern days having small firearms is not really going to help you against a government who would be willing to use its military on its own territory; you'd need automatic weapons and artillery at the very least, and a lot of foreign funding and training as well. Even then...
    - b65e8bee43c2ed0 5mo ago
      what was the outcome of the First Chechen War?
      - Joker_vD 5mo ago
        Why, the Second Chechen War.
        b65e8bee43c2ed0 5mo ago
        okay, let me rephrase that: would it have taken two wars to subdue that tiny, sparsely populated country had that country been armed with nothing but sticks, stones, and Molotov's?
        Joker_vD 5mo ago
        Probably? We can look at the English attempts at "pacifying" Ireland during the XIX and XX century... my point is, if you really need your uprising against a decisive and ruthless government to succeed, you better get foreign backing and a shitload of supplies and training from them, and even then it may be crushed; having small firearms "pre-deployed" amongst the population won't really help all that much.
        justsomehnguy 5mo ago
        Ah, yes the famous sticks with "AK-74" and "RPG" on them. It's also amusing how the stupid Soviets took two wars to subdue that tiny, sparsely populated country had that country been armed with nothing but sticks, stones, and Molotov's; while the mighty, eagle screeching top-tech first world economy with a giant student debt took checks notes two decades to accomplish check the notes again replacing Taliban with Taliban in a "country been armed with nothing but sticks, stones, and Molotov's".
        b65e8bee43c2ed0 5mo ago
        you appear to have misread my comment. I didn't say the Chechens were unarmed.
- Hundredth0006 5mo ago
  We do. And my VPN is not even turned on now to write this comment
yehat 5mo ago
Does ukrainians and romanians give a fuck, 'cause not many russians live in the north-west part of Black Sea? And the jamming there's from who?
- danicriss 5mo ago
  Afaik the grains corridors for the Ukrainian ships are alongside the Romanian coast, hence the Russian interest > Do Romanians give a fuck? A Ukrainian USV (water surface drone) just exploded the other day in Romania's main industrial port (Europe's 4th largest for a sense of scale), apparently thinking it's somewhere else due to GPS EW interference. Yes they're affected, yes they care
chocrates 5mo ago
Weren't we promised that quantum dead reckoning was right around the corner?
- PunchyHamster 5mo ago
  "works" and "fits in phone" are to VERY different levels of maturity of the tech
drysine 5mo ago
>and to select pickup spot manually. It's just assumed to be fucked as a given even at an app development level No, it's a feature that was there from the beginning - you don't always choose the location you are currently at. >They don't give a fuck. But yes, we don't give a fuck

by Havoc 5mo ago

N19PEDL2 5mo ago

They don't even have internet anymore... https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr510de17jlo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr510de17jlo

brokensystems 5mo ago
Bit of a reach, their internet may be restricted to a degree, but they sure do have internet... my partner calls and video calls their family back in Russia daily from half way around the world.
b65e8bee43c2ed0 5mo ago
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- Joker_vD 5mo ago
  "Do not ever give up your guns", har-har. In the guerilla stage of the Second Chechen War one of the ways to deal with the insurgents who would barricade in a building was to drive a T-72 to it and fire a couple of HE shells at it. The house would fold in like, well, a house of cards; I believe there even used to be recorded footage on YT. I imagine a single fragmentation shell would be enough for an average American house. My point is, in the modern days having small firearms is not really going to help you against a government who would be willing to use its military on its own territory; you'd need automatic weapons and artillery at the very least, and a lot of foreign funding and training as well. Even then...
  - b65e8bee43c2ed0 5mo ago
    what was the outcome of the First Chechen War?
    - Joker_vD 5mo ago
      Why, the Second Chechen War.
      - b65e8bee43c2ed0 5mo ago
        okay, let me rephrase that: would it have taken two wars to subdue that tiny, sparsely populated country had that country been armed with nothing but sticks, stones, and Molotov's?
        Joker_vD 5mo ago
        Probably? We can look at the English attempts at "pacifying" Ireland during the XIX and XX century... my point is, if you really need your uprising against a decisive and ruthless government to succeed, you better get foreign backing and a shitload of supplies and training from them, and even then it may be crushed; having small firearms "pre-deployed" amongst the population won't really help all that much.
        justsomehnguy 5mo ago
        Ah, yes the famous sticks with "AK-74" and "RPG" on them. It's also amusing how the stupid Soviets took two wars to subdue that tiny, sparsely populated country had that country been armed with nothing but sticks, stones, and Molotov's; while the mighty, eagle screeching top-tech first world economy with a giant student debt took checks notes two decades to accomplish check the notes again replacing Taliban with Taliban in a "country been armed with nothing but sticks, stones, and Molotov's".
        b65e8bee43c2ed0 5mo ago
        you appear to have misread my comment. I didn't say the Chechens were unarmed.
Hundredth0006 5mo ago
We do. And my VPN is not even turned on now to write this comment

yehat 5mo ago

Does ukrainians and romanians give a fuck, 'cause not many russians live in the north-west part of Black Sea? And the jamming there's from who?

danicriss 5mo ago
Afaik the grains corridors for the Ukrainian ships are alongside the Romanian coast, hence the Russian interest > Do Romanians give a fuck? A Ukrainian USV (water surface drone) just exploded the other day in Romania's main industrial port (Europe's 4th largest for a sense of scale), apparently thinking it's somewhere else due to GPS EW interference. Yes they're affected, yes they care

chocrates 5mo ago

Weren't we promised that quantum dead reckoning was right around the corner?

PunchyHamster 5mo ago
"works" and "fits in phone" are to VERY different levels of maturity of the tech

drysine 5mo ago

>and to select pickup spot manually. It's just assumed to be fucked as a given even at an app development level No, it's a feature that was there from the beginning - you don't always choose the location you are currently at. >They don't give a fuck. But yes, we don't give a fuck