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Re: Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"

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Post by wojciii »

Symbiote wrote: post #179
ReptileMan wrote: post #162

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>We as a country are exposed to being attacked by Russia. No you are not. First - no one can find you on a map. You are so tiny. Second for a conventional warfare Russia will have to go trough many many countries to get to you, no matter which road they take (also anyone that thinks Russia is a credible threat is smoking something strong - they don't have the capacity to subdue backwater as eastern Ukraine, let alone…

Denmark's kingdom includes Greenland. It's the 12th largest sovereign country.

Bingo.

Re: Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"

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Post by wojciii »

ReptileMan wrote: post #162
wojciii wrote: post #85

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This is because of the Ukraine war. We as a country are exposed to being attacked by Russia. Be that cyber attacks or destruction of assets by sleeper agents. So instead of decentalizing the electrical grid and making sure it's secure someone at Dansk Supermarked thinks it will earn them money to be prepared for some future crisis. I find the article native.. it says they trust Nets (payment company) to work offline…

>We as a country are exposed to being attacked by Russia. No you are not. First - no one can find you on a map. You are so tiny. Second for a conventional warfare Russia will have to go trough many many countries to get to you, no matter which road they take (also anyone that thinks Russia is a credible threat is smoking something strong - they don't have the capacity to subdue backwater as eastern Ukraine, let alone…

A cyber attack is still an attack.

Sabotage by agents is an attack.

Russia is a terrorist state and will attack this country sooner or later. It's just a question of time.

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Post by throw7448488 »

port11 wrote: post #194
throw7448488 wrote: post #180

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Maybe the USA should do a better job at managing the USA? Compared to the EU, it has more crime, worse life expectancy, more alcoholism, problems with rail infrastructure… you see, that's a bit of a silly argument.

At least there are rails or roads! Imagine the only way to get from LA to SF was 5 day ferry that goes every two weeks, or tiny cesna!!!

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Post by throw7448488 »

jandrewrogers wrote: post #195
throw7448488 wrote: post #180

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The poor lifestyle statistics seem to be a property of Arctic life generally, it isn’t unique to Denmark or any country with Arctic settlements. Humans are adaptable enough to survive up there but they don’t really thrive. That is pretty obviously the nature of the environment. You can’t blame Denmark for it being like that, it isn’t a function of resources delivered. No one has ever been able to convert any part of…

Job opportunities, access to education...

There is no basic infrastructure there! First deliver that, than blame "polar regions". Denmark ks treating Greenland as it's colony!!!

Iceland has very similar situation, but farfar better infrastructure!!!

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Post by scrollaway »

wojciii wrote: post #200
scrollaway wrote: post #185

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Don’t worry, most countries are buying tens of thousands of drones. That investment is happening. (Source: I work in this sector) (Worth noting: Your comment sounds like “I have a feeling fixing (critical bug 1) would be a better investment than (fixing critical bug 2)”. You fix both.)

I don't want to fix any legacy code. I want a design that doesn't contain the bugs. Attacking a distributed grid would probably not be cost effective.

A distributed grid is not a one-and-done solution to everything. Supply chain can stop for a number of reasons, not just electricity.

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Post by guappa »

jamesblonde wrote: post #129
chvid wrote: post #118

One of our biggest practical vulnerabilities is that our payment and electronic id infrastructure (nets, dankort, mitid) has been sold off to a private company (Mastercard) even though it was at one point a government owned and developed setup.

In Sweden, we have Swish, thank God. We don't have Greenland either, so people aren't as worried about 'exogenous shocks'.

And? Remember when all coops closed for a few days due to a ransomware to some USA company?

Re: Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"

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Post by mytailorisrich »

W3zzy wrote: post #124
Eupolemos wrote: post #112

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Not 2 days ago, but in February, iirc. We are thankfully on quite the shopping spree, we have also decided to include women into conscription (and that conscripts can be used for real missions, iirc) and we are financing and building Ukrainian weapons like the Flamingo. Also, Scandinavia has pooled our airforces into one airforce, surpassing the UK, France etc. in size.

Belgian youngsters aged 17 wil get a voluntary call for 'vacation camps' in the army in a few weeks. Recently a lot of people were hired four the federal and regional governments to handle strategic supplies. All Belgians were asked to stock their own 3 day emergency kit.

Damn, France's plan to retake Wallonia has been discovered!

Re: Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"

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Post by guappa »

throw7448488 wrote: post #205
jandrewrogers wrote: post #195

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The poor lifestyle statistics seem to be a property of Arctic life generally, it isn’t unique to Denmark or any country with Arctic settlements. Humans are adaptable enough to survive up there but they don’t really thrive. That is pretty obviously the nature of the environment. You can’t blame Denmark for it being like that, it isn’t a function of resources delivered. No one has ever been able to convert any part of…

Job opportunities, access to education... There is no basic infrastructure there! First deliver that, than blame "polar regions". Denmark ks treating Greenland as it's colony!!! Iceland has very similar situation, but farfar better infrastructure!!!

You are entirely right. And apparently if you go to jail they place you in denmark so you can't receive visits.

Yes greenland is a colony. But I don't think that making them USA's colony would improve their situation… see how the natives of guam or hawaii are doing for example.

Re: Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"

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Post by mytailorisrich »

throw310822 wrote: post #198
ambicapter wrote: post #35

Wait, so we're now approaching risk levels high enough that's its economically feasible for businesses to prepare for situations where their stores lose power, telecom, and resupply? Are we already preparing for land war across western Europe?

We're nowhere near that, but EU leaders keep hinting that there is a big war coming and we should all be prepared. In fact my impression, as a European, is that if any war is coming is because EU leadership are actively rooting for one and waste no opportunity to stoke the tension. This news is just one of the many examples of this. The Ukraine- Russia war is a regional war that is happening outside our borders- all…

Yes this is all BS but I don't think the EU is rooting for war. My suspicion is that EU countries want to build a stronger military and one more integrated at EU level. Both are hard sells especially when governments also keep telling us that there is no money for anything... So Ukraine is a very convenient scarecrow to "manufacture consent".
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