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by paganel 1y ago
Lots of NATO air-bases here in Europe (and I guess also in North-America) would get nuclearly obliterated were NATO start to be seen doing that, which would be quite unfortunate as my parents live about 30 kilometers as the crow flies from
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by paganel 1y ago
This was most probably supervised by NATO, there's no other way. > former world power Russia still is a nuclear hyper-power, people here in Europe kind of seem to forget that, for whatever reason. Still a big L for Russia, of course
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by paganel 1y ago
Do you really think the Westerners will be able to beat the Russians at the EW thing? If yes, why haven’t they helped the Ukrainians do just that, consistently?
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by paganel 1y ago
> had total air dominance as the "Anglos" fight? It will most probably come as a big surprise to the Anglos when they'll find out that they do not have any such dominance. Also see their surprise when they had to use their
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by paganel 1y ago
No lol about it, because even the concept of a "sales pitch" in the context of a potential existential war (against China or Russia, or against both at the same time, I'm talking from the US's pov) is kind of a lunacy, s
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by paganel 1y ago
There are still some Anglo people that tell things as they are, but they don't seem to be in any decision-making position, like this guy from Lockheed Martin seems to be. It's about this latest group that I was talking about.
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by paganel 1y ago
> Their impact is probably way outsized. This is pretty dismissive in my book, as in not acknowledging that for the last 6 to 12 months (at least) most of the casualties in Eastern Ukraine have been caused by cheap drones. The same chea
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by paganel 1y ago
> And can still take on fixed wing aircraft,” including fourth, fifth, and even sixth-generation fighters, at least to some degree, is important, he continued. Crewed helicopters are still part of the threat picture, as well. You can see
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by paganel 1y ago
Which is most probably the majority of us, computer programmers.
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by paganel 1y ago
That and taking a shower, doing dishes or taking a walk around the block, in fact I'd say that the ratio of bugs/issues I've solved while away from the computer compared to being in front of the computer is quite high (in f
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Small Russian FPV drones RAM large Ukrainian multicopters(old.reddit.com)
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by paganel 1y ago
> have lost the capability of making tank tracks Western Europe has certainly lost the capability of making even artillery shells at scale, let alone tank tracks, just look where we're at it now. > as military technology typicall
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by paganel 1y ago
But then you'd also lose the capability of making diesel engines for good, and, again, they're not used only for tanks when it comes to warfare. Just look at the hole the US has dug for itself when it stopped producing civilian se
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by paganel 1y ago
You can’t wage modern war without diesel engines, those trucks won’t drive themselves close to the front-lines (and, no, electric-powered trucks in times of war are a terrible idea, and the ones powered by gasoline are a lot less efficient
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by paganel 1y ago
For us people not living in Arabia or South Texas the difference between 37 and 42 Celsius is indeed quite important. 37 feels pretty hot, but yet livable, while 42 (and even 40 for me) means that nothing non-urgent should bring me out of t
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by paganel 1y ago
> It is absolutely the greatest golden age in programming ever It depends, because you now have to pay in order to be able to compete against other programmers who're also using AI tools, it wasn't like that in what I'd ca
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by paganel 1y ago
> e.g. I think you will find that Britain and France are culturally closer than France and Slovenia Not sure about Slovenia but there's a lot more France here in Romania (from where I'm from) compared to the France that is pres
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by paganel 1y ago
> coming-of-age novel" Technically it is correct, but in doing that you lose the essence of the word “roman” and of the whole influence French culture had over the whole of Europe until not that long ago, including in Germany. It i
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by paganel 1y ago
> Like is a blanket ban the only reasonable approach? From my pov as a fellow EU citizen a blanket ban for this kind of creepy stuff is the only viable option. Let the Americans become Frankesteins for all I care, it’s their choice, all
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by paganel 1y ago
> Worldwide practice. For sure we don't do that sociopathic thing here in Romania. Ok, I get it, the regulations were set in stone, but after shredding (again, what the flying fuck?!?!) the first animal hasn't any of those Dut
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by paganel 1y ago
You made the very wrong assumption that land possession is mostly an individual thing, and second, that the State would be happy to award “common” ownership to communities big and small, and as such that it would allow said communities (in
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by paganel 2y ago
Maybe I'm looking at the wrong article, but there's this: > For journeys outside the base, *the Army uses Renfe locomotives*. which, in my understanding, means that in order to move military materiel (to the borders with France
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by paganel 2y ago
Not all of us live in (semi-)detached homes, and I’m also not sure how one would implement this at the building-of-appartments level, as in, who’s going to pay for it and how do you handle the battery storage capacity for hundreds of apartm
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by paganel 2y ago
> Spain's electricity grid operator Red Electrica has confirmed power outages across the country. That’s why you still need a strong diesel/diesel-electric locomotive fleet, imagine if Spain had been right in the middle militar
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by paganel 2y ago
> Political protests in France remain quite powerful, Political repression against the gilets jaunes was quite powerful, too, thanks for reminding me. It was surreal to be stopped in the middle of no-where, Pays de la Loire, by a bunch
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by paganel 2y ago
> A bunch of guys got furious that women did not appreciate Olly’s gains Those are not real "gains", he looks like a chicken with muscles in the second photo, maybe a chicken that can lift some weights but still a chicken. I&#x
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by paganel 2y ago
> than political grassroots activists have today in places such as Western Europe and North America That (2021) from the title is on the mark, as I think that by now, 2025, it has been made quite obvious that political protests in the We
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by paganel 2y ago
Hopefully there are still governments that don’t keep such in detail land registries, or any land registries at all, for that matter. Some of us don’t want the State to see everything, at almost every moment in time.
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by paganel 2y ago
Then how come it lines up pretty closely with the British government’s views? See Covid, Ukraine and especially the genocide in Gaza.
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by paganel 2y ago
> but it doesn’t exist for the purpose of spreading a particular viewpoint. Id does exactly that, as does all State-supported media (such as RFI in France or Deutsche Welle in Germany).

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