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> War is less imminent now than ever You can always make your enemy. Current rearming efforts really remind historians of WW1 arm races. At some point once so much interests and of…

Even the latest World Bank report, the defacto neoliberal institution, recognized a couple of months ago that leaving the industries focus be dictaed by purely capital decisions wa…

Do not know Germany's specific tax code, but in most EU countries should a control fire up it would result in tax evasion (not even tax avoidance), as in this case Germany can easi…

Units will use any reinforced or cover position to carry their objective. Even roofs of civilians apartments, let alone reinforced structures such as hospitals, town halls, schools…

> Firing from schools, hospitals and resendential buildings. I really don't want to descend into countless counterexamples, but that's how virtually every military or militia wages…

Yes of course, but that's only the admin. The strong minority base that has been artificially inflated to advance the personal interests of the leadership has linear roots dating b…

Caesarism/kleptocracy is definitely a more accurate description. People usually attribute the term fascist to this admin, because of the racial/ethnic retaliatory actions or the ne…

There's a limit to orbit at your desired location similar to what real estate is. At some point it becomes scarse and consolidation will happen. At a time when state actors are bec…

Japan, Italy and UK have a program for a competing F35 design, GCAP. And Japan is focusing mainly on the engines. Given there will at some point be the need to deliver competing cr…

The Wiki has been a highly contested political/propaganda ground since its inception. My personal opinion is that it pretty much has endured just because the generation that formed…

> We need global open congestion data. At least on the european scale. Congestion data was also used to track the advancing Russian army invasion in Ukraine's urban area according …

Do not know about the US, but some countries publish some type of high profile cases but _only_ after anonimization for obvious privacy reasons. To access the DB through the modern…

> I don't think Iran can take a sustained air campaign for that long Most probably, but Israel and US are now being more conservative with interceptor targets though so that seems …

Russia _recruited_, not mobilized as usually in popular conception that would equate with conscripted. Conscription is enforced with martial law only in ukranian territories, by bo…

There's also the theory of the attacks starting at a certain time because the talks for the nuclear were under way. They probably knew the iranian leaders would group together to d…

This is a valid tool for intelligence and propaganda operations, for both USA and Israel (since they have access to whatever. In this age this is akin to funding and arming a milit…

It's a per country thing as the EU is not 1 country. In Italy for example RT website is blocked.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37681554

In Italy there's a politician named Gasparri who has made a career (30+ years) of barring himself behind Parlamentary immunity and insulting on citizens/journalists. When they resp…

Not long ago there was the story of an orangutan in the wild using a paste it made from plants to heal itself, like some sort of anti-bacterial/anti-inflammatory. https://www.bbc.c…

Google is not using exclusively DBs like MaxMind for geolocation though. They fuse a lot of data together and probably can even discern which building you're on from the other loca…

> And you create music without ever having heard music before? Or are you also extracting other artist’s work and using it as inspiration for what you do? The volumes of production…

Immigration laws and memos (aka office procedures) are usually opaque and ambigous by design. Be it for exploitable loopholes that benefit internal production, or whatever. Speakin…

You're never heard of biased or militant journalists have you? In fact the most common form of journalism you will find is what's akin to a Propaganda channel of a Sponsoring Party…

In Italy such devices are known as Pezzotto, because they are like a patch to connect to different streaming, IPTV, etc channels. Of course illegaly. There was a huge crackdown of …