No, he’s a cryptocurrency analyst, with a focus on cryptocurrency related hip-hop artists.

Considering India and China are nuclear armed geostrategic rivals, with ongoing territorial disputes, and not too distant history of hot wars, I think this type of cooperation can be a good thing.

But that’s also why I’m skeptical about how much dual use technology they’d be willing to share with each other. And when you’re talking about space travel, or moon bases, practically everything is dual use technology.

If anyone is unclear why Russia would be involved, it’s their rocket and nuclear technology. Or rather, the Soviet legacy of R&D that is still useful.

Not some evidence, clear and convincing evidence.

The problem is that the Saudi “government” is essentially comprised of competing factions of slave owning inbred cousins.

So saying the Saudi government was involved isn’t as clear cut as it sounds for the purpose of adjudicating any “punishment”.

Now, if KSA wasn’t the lynchpin of America’s Middle Eastern security apparatus, and viewed as integral to the entire American imperial project, then the US Security State’s response would have likely been much different.

Probably because people like you make them feel unwelcome.

Did you ever stop and think that if you made them feel comfortable, that they might visit more often?

Here’s a still frame of the otters in question. I’m betting they could quickly surprise and surround anyone they caught alone. And would have no problem giving chase on land.

Wow, talk about some blatant dog whistling here…

Inner-city otters? Why not just call them musteld hoodlums? Or shrimp theiving thugs?

How much you wanna bet that if this was an artic fox, or polar bear attack, the words inner city would never have appeared in this article…

News, tech, left-wing politics, memes, anime, and porn are Lemmy’s biggest community types.

I know a lot of different subtopics fit under each, and I’m sure I left a few top level subjects out, but my point is that there are a lot of mid-sized, and especially smaller (by Reddit standards), subreddits that Lemmy is no where near being remotely useful as a replacement for yet.

I have community subreddit collections that I don’t see Lemmy replacing anytime soon. I mean, I hope they do. I still check every so often, and yes, communities for them exist and they have maybe a few dozen users, but not enough to even try to just suck it up and deal.

If you’re buying off eBay, I would seriously consider looking into a finding an established and equitable extended warranty program and doing the math.

Also, lookup guides on how to properly inspect and receive large fragile items for delivery. Maybe it won’t matter because it didn’t require a signature and you’re not there to receive it personally, but still, worth knowing when it’s possible to refuse delivery of damaged merchandise, and how to CYA if needed.

Pretty sure booting into DOS before loading Windows and playing the Oregon Trail on the Apple IIe both count as command line experience.

I also think that as smug as a lot people feel about this, it doesn’t seem far off to think that physical keyboard typing skills could be substituted with newer technologies, or refined versions of existing tech. At least in terms of performing most office job functions.

I’m not saying it’ll be more efficient, or better, just that it wouldn’t be a surprising next step given the trends being discussed here.

If that happens, I have no doubt that smugness will turn into self-righteous indignation and a stubborn refusal to abandon the tactile keyboard for older generations, myself included.

I just hope that if that transition occurs during my lifetime, it’s an either-or situation, and not a replacement of the keyboard.

Bridges are still functional with giant holes blown in the deck. Maybe capacity is reduced, or it needs patchwork, but still functional.

That is why they’re typically targeted with large bombs, or missiles. Even then, might take a while.

If this wasn’t a hot war, it’s possible a covert demolition team could rig enough explosives at the right structural points, but trying that now is a great way to lose a bunch a SOF teams.

Here’s a somewhat relevant parable about how hard it can be to destroy a bridge during war.

Edit: added a fair amount of information to my original response.

Sorry, like I said it’s been a long time since I spent any real amount of time researching/reading about post-Soviet political economies of eastern bloc countries.

I can tell you that most of what I was reading was in peer-reviewed journals, which I’m sure are still available with the right keyword searches on LexusNexis…or Library Genesis.

If you aren’t already, I would recommend checking out Vlad Vexler. Who is a Soviet-born, political philosopher/academic, outspoken Putin critic, and one of the better English language sources for intimate and nuanced explanations and analysis of the Russian political system, including the competing power structures and political dynamics of Putin’s court.

He also provides some of the most thoughtful and considered arguments and analysis in support of Ukraine.

Edit (hope this helps):

Here’s a keyword to jump start your search:

Silovik

That’s the term for an elite within the intelligence community (FSB), or close ties to it (ex-KGB).

I asked Llama for examples of Siloviki who tried to amass power and influence outside their domain, and it provided me with this response:

Examples of siloviki who have tried to amass power in different fields and faced consequences include:

• Mikhail Khodorkovsky: A former FSB officer who became a successful businessman and politician, but was eventually imprisoned and exiled after he began to challenge the Kremlin’s authority.

• Boris Berezovsky: A former KGB officer who became a wealthy businessman and politician, but was eventually forced into exile after he began to challenge the Kremlin’s authority.

• Alexander Lebed: A former KGB officer who became a politician and governor of Krasnoyarsk, but was eventually killed in a helicopter crash under mysterious circumstances.

It’s worth noting that the Kremlin’s tolerance for siloviki accumulating power in different fields can vary depending on the individual and the circumstances. Some siloviki may be allowed to build significant business or political empires, while others may be subject to strict limits or even persecution.

To be fair, I haven’t double checked the veracity for the people cited above, but only because even if their hallucinations, it aligns with how I understand their system of checks and balances to operate.

The system is setup this way, to give Putin the ability to play mediator when disputes arise and be the bridge between rival factions. So, he remains up top, and no one is capable of amassing enough power or influence to seriously challenge him.

It also means that Putin is not the arch-puppet master pulling all the strings as he’s often portrayed in Western media. He sits a top the food chain, but his power over the elite comes from how he can exert, or finesse influence e.g. mediate disputes, not because he can slam a gavel and make everyone ignore their own self interests.

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But the concept isn’t just about fast food, it’s about the system that produces pink slime based chicken nuggets, and the people who sit up top of that system.

So they’ve correctly identified systemic problems that hurt people, and that those actions are done with intent, either maliciously or with indifference.

They’ve just confused capitalism working as intended, as being a Jewish conspiracy.

Also, “white apps” is just really bad racial propaganda. Whoever coined that term needs some new blood in their marketing team.

Regardless of who coined that phrase, I think you’re confused about WASP’s. It means White Anglo-Saxon Protestant i.e. the largest demographic group within America’s version of old money.

This is one of those things where the concept is entirely appropriate and accurate, except for that one teeny tiny minor issue…

It’s not the Jews, it’s the WASPs and whatever weird Catholic sect/cult that Justice Barret was raised in…okay, and yes, there’s probably some Jews in the mix as well.

Because those are the main demographic groups of the .01%

So what’s the WASP equivalent for goy? Heathenslop?

Edit: I’m having a hard time imagining left-wing Jews being upset at this observation. I’m guessing at least some of these down votes are done in solidarity for people of Jewish heritage… like myself.

So…thank you and lol.

Since when do both parties have to agree there at war, for it to be a war?

McVeigh and his fellow militiamen, or conspirators, felt they were at war with US government.

I’m sure there’s countless people living throughout the Horn of Africa, who feel they are at war with the US government, while the US government would deny that wholeheartedly.

Does that mean any of their pickup trucks with M2 Browning’s mounted in the bed, are not actually technicals?

A golf cart with an expended LAW tube, welded to the back, and used to launch as many motars as it can before one blows inside and kills it’s operator, is a technical.

Any motorized civilian vehicle augmented to kill shit in war is a technical. Except maybe VBIED’s, that I’m not sure about.

Which means that’s the question you should be asking: was a technical used in Oklahoma City bombing?

My comment was a response to yours and within the context of this article, not about the wider war, or other policy implications.

This article is primarily talking about long range strike capabilities, such as Storm Shadow and ATACMS, the lack of supply currently being provided, and how that is being viewed by Ukraine.

Your top comment only addressed issues relating to approval for strikes, which the article does mention, but it’s primarily focused on the lack of actual long range guided munitions being provided.

If you’re familiar with how Ukraine stores their HIMARS and M270 MLRS platforms between fire missions, then that is why I meant by implying that munitions like Storm, Scalp, and ATACMS, are probably being stored relatively securely.

But that last one is just an assumption of my part, I could be wrong about that.

I am unaware of any artillery being fired into Moscow, are you talking about drones?

It sounds like the restrictions are primarily related to supply, as in they aren’t being provided in enough quantity.

Although I’m sure there is more than a handful of red tape still when it comes to using available stocks inside of Russia.

Not to quibble, but I doubt any of these are in a range of Russian indirect fire teams.

And while I assume they are within range of Russian missiles, I’m betting they are stored underground in old Soviet military facilities until needed.

Not a gamer, but I will watch the occasional GN video just for the appreciation of their brand of investigative journalism.

The opening seconds of this video show this is at least in part, a Serbian company. That makes me assume there is probably additional financial grift and embezzlement tied directly to local organized crime groups.

It’s been at least a decade since I’ve done any academic level review on the political economies in the post-Soviet bloc, but organized crime is pretty systemically entrenched in those countries. Unless something dramatic has changed the last 5-10 years.

My favorite was the Bulgarian Thick Necks, purely because of the name. They were organized crime groups that formed from former USSR top level athletic programs i.e. wrestlers. As far as I know, that wasn’t their official name, just a colloquial term for that type of post-Soviet mafioso.

There is some good reading to be had that explains the specific roles that different groups of former Soviet elites were allowed to fill within the corrupt power vacuum that followed the collapse. A lot of the Putin era assassinations were people who tried to branch out e.g. oligarch businessman who tried to gain political power, or vice versa.

Are you sure? Next time you get your mail ballot check the extra sheets papers and information pamphlets for a sticker.

I know that initial ballot envelopes in some other vote by mail states do include that sticker, along with other election information, but I have no idea how universal that approach it.