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I don't really see them saying fuck the US, even though they've bombed girls schools in Iran. Or saying fuck Israel because of their super well documented ongo

• 100721 2mo ago
  Did they find evidence of their service being used to bomb schools in Iran, like they found for Russia tracking launch sites in Ukraine? If not, then why would they go on such a tangent? Do you expect them to list every one of their personal geopolitical stances, regardless of the relevance to the article?
  • penteract 2mo ago
    > like they found for Russia tracking launch sites in Ukraine My understanding of that section was that Ukraine were using it to find launch sites in occupied parts of Ukraine - they go on to describe how they helped someone who had been doing the tracking: [From article] > We emailed back and forth and provided documentation on how to run the predictor locally. Edit: my recollection of which parts of Ukraine are occcupied was wrong, leaving me rather confused about who they thought they were helping.
    • aleksejs 2mo ago
      I think the actor they were monitoring was not tracking real launches but rather simulating where a hypothetical balloon launched from their territory would land.
  • enquirewithin 1mo ago
    > Do you expect them to list every one of their personal geopolitical stances, regardless of the relevance to the article? The author of the article lives in Melbourne, so I can assure you, they absolutely do given half a chance.