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South Africa performed above its traditional level just in reaching the second round, which it has not done before.

I think it's also fair to say that the Biden pardons wouldn't have happened without Trump coming into office after, and telegraphing his intentions to abuse power and go after all …

A bit disappointing that the article didn't mention that the record broken was previously held by the amateur team of Luke Bell and his father, from Cape Town.[0] That amateurs are…

Then he should justify that. When I read through the discussion though it seems that the stated reasons were arguably sufficient to justify the action taken. Sanger has been given …

While the merits of Sanger's banning are worth debating, Sanger is dishonestly representing the process here. The reasons, rather than being 'unstated', were stated repeatedly and …

I didn’t intend it as a whataboutism, but as an indicator of progress. Not all that long ago the Ukrainian and Russian militaries were virtually indistinguishable, with the same do…

The UK moved assets into the area in defence of its own bases and in defence of allies like Gulf countries. The war was telegraphed, being at least a little prepared was logical. E…

At this point you’re just making excuses for war crimes, inventing explanations that don’t match the facts. None of the civilian structures and facilities hit by Iran in neighbouri…

If Iran had limited its strikes to US facilities in the Gulf I might have agreed with you. But it didn’t, it hit civilian targets too, all which had nothing to do with the American…

The UK was defending its allies who had not launched illegal strikes, but were themselves attacked by Iran in contravention of international law.

Iran attacked countries that played absolutely no role in the US and Israel’s attack on it, including some (like Oman) that have been fairly closely allied to the regime. That goes…

Nope. The UK only responded after its own territory had been struck, as had that of allies in the region who were not part of the US and Israel’s actions. Its role has been entirel…

Much less than 5-10 years ago, and orders of magnitude less than the Russian military. The pressures of fighting an existential war plus the demands of the public in a democracy ha…

I've seen that same policy in regular corporations. Giving any member of a team 5/5 meant a personal phone call with HR and your skip level to justify it, while the message was sen…

Meshtastic/MeshCore have nothing valuable to offer in terms of delivering bombs accurately. Moreover, militaries already have access to much more robust radio messaging hardware an…

Have not*

As I understand things, the only AI tool the Bluesky team has been pushing has been a feed generator/curator. They have been pushing for vibe coding their systems or for using AI t…

That's inaccurate. Several journalists had both advance and real-time knowledge of the raid on Venezuela, but chose to hold off on reporting out of journalistic ethics. [0] Given t…

It’s likely some customer segmentation label generated through PCA or some other clustering approach. The qualifying criteria is probably just having picked an offer for renewable-…

Department of Defense*. ‘Department of War’ is merely an authorised second name for the department, but legally it remains the Department of Defense until/if Congress changes it.