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

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Post by mopsi »

mrguyorama wrote: post #360
mopsi wrote: post #335

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There simply isn't an "enormous amount of modern weaponry", otherwise it would have been given to Ukraine a long time ago. Russia’s war against Ukraine has underscored the importance of air defence, as Kyiv begs the west for additional systems and rockets to protect its cities, troops and energy grid against daily bombing raids. But according to people familiar with confidential defence plans drawn up last year, Nato…

>The same applies to tanks, artillery, and pretty much everything else. It literally does not. US built 6700 Bradleys. US built 10,000 Abrams. Thousands of these machines are already stationed in Europe just waiting to shoot Russians. Germany built 3600 Leopard 2 tanks. They built 2k Marder IFVs. Saab built 300 Grippens. The Brits alone built over 400 main battle tanks. France alone built 800 of theirs. You should di…

Germany might have built 3600 Leopard tanks since the 1970s, but as of 2025, it has only about 300 in service with the Bundeswehr, of which roughly 200 are combat-ready. France, the UK, and Italy each also have around 200 tanks in active service; Spain has fewer than 100.

Nor are there thousands of American tanks in Europe ready to fire at the Russians. The last permanently stationed US tanks were withdrawn from Europe in 2013. At any given time, about 100 to 200 US tanks in total are scattered across Europe on temporary rotations (exercises etc).

These figures pale in comparison with independently verified Ukrainian tank losses, which currently stand at 1267, with total losses estimated between 1500 and 1900. In early 2023, the Ukrainian high command requested 300-500 tanks from allies for the next counteroffensive. The US was unwilling to provide such support, and other countries could not supply anything comparable, even through a joint effort. Hence the stalemate.

If Europe had deep stockpiles to draw from without compromising its own military readiness, the picture would be completely different. During the Cold War, Europe maintained such stockpiles, but they were dismantled in the 1990s and early 2000s as a cost-cutting measure.

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

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

xquce wrote: post #169
TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #55

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I don't think Denmark in particular is preparing, because at the end of the year their national postal service will cease to deliver letters (after the government removed the legal requirement for it to do so), and more than 85% of Danes will only be able to receive government and commercial letters in digital form via a privately owned cloud service (e-Boks). That is an alarming level of concentration. If I were hyp…

You seen to have failed to understand both solutions and changes you mention... the technology stack of our digital post and the change of letter delivery (I don't blame you, many of my fellow Danes don't understand it either). But Eboks is not holding all digital post of all our citizens, it's one of at least 3 services who we can choose from to read our mail from the governmental organizations. It's a freemarket co…

I don't think a massive market concentration in a single cloud service is good for societal preparedness, regardless of whether there are technically other options.

In the same way, it concerns me how much Sweden relies on BankID, but that's a different thing.

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

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

Symbiote wrote: post #176
TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #55

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I don't think Denmark in particular is preparing, because at the end of the year their national postal service will cease to deliver letters (after the government removed the legal requirement for it to do so), and more than 85% of Danes will only be able to receive government and commercial letters in digital form via a privately owned cloud service (e-Boks). That is an alarming level of concentration. If I were hyp…

From next year, national post will be handled by a different company than currently does the job.

From next year there will still be one private company claiming to offer this service, yes, but they are under no obligation to keep doing so, and if the market is already so unprofitable that the national postal operator immediately exited it once freed from the obligation of remaining in it, it is questionable how long a private company will remain.

One particular concern I have is whether that company will be connected to the Universal Postal Union; if they aren't, sending letters to and from foreign countries will suddenly be a minefield. I don't know and have been trying to find out.

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Post by scotty79 »

mytailorisrich wrote: post #302
scotty79 wrote: post #299

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> Now Russia is probably at its weakest relative to NATO That's exactly why there's gonna by full scale war with russia. It's simply the best moment for it and russia showed it can't be left alone.

Are you suggesting that NATO is going to start a war against Russia, the country with the largest nuke stockpile? That's bonkers on all levels, and more.

Largest nuke arsenal that they could find even one in, that they would be sure enough it works to detonate even on their own vast wasteland as the show of force?

Ask yourself why despite ample amount of scaremongering russia didn't detonate even one, just for show? If they tried and failed they'd demonstrate weakness.

And rockets? All they could demonstrate in 3 years was a single stripped down monkey patched small sort of ICBM and even that after making some very nice crater in russia on previous attempted launch.

Might of russia is mostly American PR stuck from the times of cold war.

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

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Post by scotty79 »

chiph wrote: post #312
inigoalonso wrote: post #254

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The “no transaction cost” claim is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Cash may feel free to the person handing over a coin, but only because the costs are hidden upstream. Someone has to produce those notes and coins, swap out designs to keep ahead of counterfeiters, move them around in armored vans, count and recount them in tills, reconcile them at the bank, and insure against theft along the way. None of that is c…

Most of the cost of currency is up-front in it's production and initial distribution. The cost of handling it is also mostly up front (purchasing a wallet to hold it, buying a cash register with a drawer for the bills and coins). The transactional costs are things like taking it to the bank for depositing. But if you have cash to deposit - your business is probably doing things right and this is negligible.

> The transactional costs are things like taking it to the bank for depositing. But if you have cash to deposit - your business is probably doing things right and this is negligible.

It's not neglible to the point that some sellers where it's legal don't take cash because credit cars fees there cost less than cash handling.

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Post by ahartmetz »

HankStallone wrote: post #352
walthamstow wrote: post #273

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Even if you're eating it tonight surely you want the freshest item? Most foods deteriorate after harvest.

It would feel socially rude of me to take the freshest item from the back, knowing I don't need it, leaving the older ones to someone who might not have time to cook as soon. Someone has to take take the one in front, or the store has to throw it out, creating waste and ultimately raising prices for everyone. Seems kinda like farting in a crowded room and then slipping out the door.

I do that, too. Why take something that I don't need, but somebody else might?

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

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Post by ahartmetz »

chvid wrote: post #294
0dayz wrote: post #256

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Mind sharing those articles?

The Brazil stuff is related to the case againt Trump-ally Bolsonaro. The European cases so far have been related to the Israel-Palestine conflict. The US uses its so-called SDN list which in general prevents the person having a bank account in any western country. It also caused Microsoft to kill off the email account (I believe the full azure services - ie. Active Directory - rendering his work computer useless) of…

>Trump-ally Bolsonaro

There is a book "Autocracy Inc." about this curious, somewhat recent phenomenon of autocrats everywhere supporting each other. It's like autocracy itself is more important to them than their countries' interests.

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Post by impossiblefork »

jamesblonde wrote: post #354
impossiblefork wrote: post #346

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They do as they do. We do as we have said we will. There's no reason to be afraid. We get what we get and if they come we'll fight.

Not if they come for the Danes, we won't!

If they come for the Danes, we can't. You know as well as I that that is not tolerable.

But, meming-aside: you know we will.

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Post by dredmorbius »

walthamstow wrote: post #154
lm28469 wrote: post #149

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90% of people won't do it

They will in small countries with high trust and community, near to Russia and currently or formerly having national service. In fat, lazy, individualist countries like the UK and US? No way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45155471>

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

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Post by OptionOfT »

fy20 wrote: post #134
OptionOfT wrote: post #96

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Wow. I'm in software and my whole house is as automated as can be, but I want my important documents physical, and delivered via the mail. Credit card bills, notices, etc. I don't want to have to log in every time I want to check a bill / notification, only to have to pull out my Yubikey or phone. Not to mention having to click 'no' to all the popups about new credit cards or subscription upgrades.

My country does this, however there are multiple authentication options. The main one is a private company that provides an authentication system using private certificates. When you try to login to an authenticated website your phone pops up a message asking you to verify the login and enter your PIN. That signs the request with your private certificate and sends it back to the provider. Other actions such as transf…

Sounds exactly like the system we used in Belgium.

I don't think the system you explain is bad. It's essentially PKI.

My issues are deliverability: what if I get the email and never open it? What if it gets marked as spam?

And it requires me to read emails, something I've actually tried to reduce because every subject is screaming for attention.

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