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by paganel 1y ago
> Article 5 is an option. Not a game mechanic. Tell that to the very pro-Western political leaders here in Eastern Europe, they won't take that well at all.
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by paganel 1y ago
> Thankfully they don’t think it’s worth invoking article 5 over that Is there a threshold anywhere in the NATO treaty that I'm unaware of?
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by paganel 1y ago
I was trying to follow my respondents' reasoning, as in, if Russia had indeed attacked NATO countries, which they said it had indeed happen, then how come NATO, being a defensive alliance first and foremost, didn't do anything abo
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by paganel 1y ago
So then how come hasn't Article 5 been activated yet? Does that mean that said Article 5 is not even worth the piece of paper it has been written on?
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by paganel 1y ago
Which NATO countries would those be?
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by paganel 1y ago
Not really, it was a strong inter-connection between the two at the beginning, going both ways, but I'd say that Django's design philosophy was its own thing. Granted, as time goes on things have started to become fuzzier and fuzz
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by paganel 1y ago
It has definitely slipped into real life, amongst us, persons who don't use TikTok. And I've recently heard therapy talk related to relationships/love coming from a close person who I know for certain that doesn't use Ti
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by paganel 1y ago
Looksmaxxing discourse on HN, things are getting really bleak.
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by paganel 1y ago
First time I read about it, not exactly sure what it is, by quickly glancing at it. Looks like a collection of links to some fan-fiction stuff.
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by paganel 1y ago
> protect ourselves "Protect" ourselves against whom? I'm a EU citizen (unfortunately), and I'm fully on board with China against Brussels. Which is to say, don't try to speak for everyone in this God-forsaken so
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by paganel 1y ago
> You can still buy a new subcompact car (like a Renault Clio or Skoda Fabia) in Europe for under 20k EUR. They're also on their out around these parts, very unfortunately.
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by paganel 1y ago
The State does. The same State which now has an extra-power over its subjects.
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by paganel 1y ago
Which, implicitly, also means that the State now has the right to "give" the copy-right to one's own features. Which, implicitly, also means that now the same State has the right to "get back" / retrieve the co
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by paganel 1y ago
> the required optical fiber So then why isn't the West providing them with optical fiber?
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by paganel 1y ago
A 15-people business is most definitely a small business. > complying to the available laws. That's why Europe has gotten into its present sorry state when it comes to IT. They're winning all the law-related battles but they&#x
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by paganel 1y ago
> As I wrote in my comment above, walking/driving moving targets are still on the table This seems to directly contradict this direct quote from the recent FT article I linked to: > At this point, you’re a lucky man if you drive
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by paganel 1y ago
Because it is mostly the Russians that are using those, the Ukrainians have also started using them but in less fewer numbers.
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by paganel 1y ago
> I would, first of all, recommend ensuring that troops in the field have well-trained organic mortar support with an ample supply of ammunition. That would not be possible because it has become basically impossible to bring in vehicles
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by paganel 1y ago
Yes, you're most probably not taking into consideration the Soviets' incursion into Northern Manchuria, which started on August 9th. The last thing the Japanese leadership wanted was to see a big part of their country turn communi
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by paganel 1y ago
Really, really cool visualisation! Even though I know almost nothing at all about the subject of medieval palaeography in Western Europe, I did read recently the write-downs of a Italian conference focused on the subject of palaeography in
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by paganel 1y ago
If this is marketed as a strategic acquisition for the national interest of the US tech industry in order to counter-act the Chinese trying to catch up on AI then nothing of the sorts will happen.
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by paganel 1y ago
> So you want to reverse the development in Romania over the last 3 decades [1] Not sure that "reverse" is the best word for it, but, yes, I want the huge societal inequalities that have been created during the last three decad
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by paganel 1y ago
911/112 calls are still made via phones, and I have to say that even making a simple phone call has, at times, become highly problematic on these new and very complex smart-phones. With that said, my pants' pocket still manages to
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by paganel 1y ago
By 1998 the shit had already hit the fan big time for the common people in Russia, all "thanks" to Shock Therapy (which you allude to at your point b)). That was the real tragedy, nothing a more "experienced" president c
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by paganel 1y ago
The entire US "race" discourse is pretty stupid, to be fair, too bad it has infected much of the rest of the world because of the influence of the US media.
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by paganel 1y ago
> And i think removing people from the battlefield is a good thing. I agree with your other points, but this only helps with (physically) extending the battlefield, at least going by the current war in Ukraine. It's not only the lin
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by paganel 1y ago
> What? Do you seriously believe that europe would not intervene in a hot war against Europe? With thoughts and prayers, yes, because they have pretty much nothing else remaining. See September 3rd 1939, when on paper Britain was still a
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by paganel 1y ago
> It was the same in Russia, until West pulled the plug The thing is that the EU is not a political monolith, just look at Poland which has just elected a pro-US and anti-EU president. The anti-US policy comes mostly from France, part of
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by paganel 1y ago
When it comes to drones, yes, UA is way ahead of the Westerners, I’ve hinted to that in the recent comments I still leave on this website (you can check both my comment and submission history). But this wouldn’t have been possible without t
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by paganel 1y ago
It’s not Ukraine controlling Musk’s satelite network, that’s for sure. Video of the attacks got out pretty fast, from the drones themselves, and Starlink might have been involved in that happening (say, a Starlink-enabled UA hidden cell clo

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