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Crazy to die because you used a jogging app. Really goes to show the value of privacy. And, you know, not committing war crimes that would make people want to hunt you down and kill you. Either or.
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You're in a very weak position to attempt whataboutism, tovarishch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariupol_theatre_airstrike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_March_2022_Chernihiv_bombing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16_March_2022_Chernihiv_breadl... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_2023_Chernihiv_missile_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_strikes_against_Ukrain... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Dnipro_r…
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> Iran is everyones problem It was at best a regional problem until the US and israel decided to fuck things up and make it a global problem, they didn't have nukes, they were not building nukes, even if they had nukes they would not have used them for anything other than extinction level threats, so just like israel, everyone is OK with them having nukes despite being the same type of religious nutjob thecracy, stra…
> even if they had nukes they would not have used them for anything other than extinction level threats I'd agree for just about any other country, but Iran have a terrorist regime that is funding terrorists everywhere. They are not like Pakistan or North Korea etc, Iran is crazy and doesn't follow normal international norms. Even Russia and Ukraine doesn't bomb third party countries in war just for supporting the ot…
NK is much more pathological than Iran is IMHO. NK basically treats its citizens like slaves; I wouldn't say the same about Iran.
The only reason NK doesn't mess with its neighbors as much as Iran does is that NK is surrounded by major powers -- or in the case of SK a country with strong backing by the most powerful country in the world -- and even then they got up to kidnapping ordinary Japanese citizens and keeping them forever and denying to the world that they ever kidnapped them.
The current regime in Iran is theocratic, which makes it very different from the societies of most of us here, but strong religiosity and a lack of the separation of religion and government have been elements of Iranian society for many centuries.
Iran was interfered with by colonial powers, especially the Brits, who hoped to use Iran to secure a reliable supply of oil (before the Brits started to be able to access North Sea oil) and has definitively shaken off this kind of predation and now stand as an truly independent (albeit poor) nation. In contrast, the regime in NK has survived only because it would make China less secure to have a US ally right on its border. The regime in NK was and is not competent enough to do what Iran has done (namely, gain true independence without constant help from a great power).
I'm not saying Iran is good. I am asserting that it is definitely better than NK.
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It also seems worth considering that the article's view that "spending a lot of time searching for the carrier is a good way to get killed by defending fighters" is a distinctly pre-drone-ubiquity assumption. Can a carrier group's point defense weapons and fighters reliably counter a swarm of hundreds of cheap drones, flying lower than cloud cover, that are programmed to look for carriers over a wide area, confirm th…
How cheap do you think a drone which can cover a large area of ocean actually is? And not just search it - you have to get it to the sector as well.
Aside from the hostile drone command and launch being found and destroyed, the drone itself would either be shot down by a missile or disabled by a direct energy weapon.
If the drone were to fault on it's own and was designed to float, it will be expensive to retreive it. Cheaper at scale to launch the sensors into orbit or deploy bouys.
This is always Strava isn’t it? Was it Finnish security services that leaked the exacti location of the president because some of them wanted to share their runs? Why don’t militaries and security services just ban it?
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It does but my point is that your settings are applied to all activities. Here's a few examples that might help demonstrate my point: I used to do parkrun regularly. I had no problem sharing my Strava activities for parkrun because me doing it wasn't a secret, nor was the location secret, nor was my time secret. All of these things could be found from the parkrun website once the results had come up. John Doe was at…
Right, requiring human intervention to share a run (other than maybe with eg a specific small circle of mutual friends) seems like it solves all those problems, other than perhaps being annoyed that you forgot to manually share a run. But at least that's a failure you can fix once you notice, as opposed to making something public that shouldn't have been. Letting people opt in to automatically sharing runs to the pub…
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You're in a very weak position to attempt whataboutism, tovarishch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariupol_theatre_airstrike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_March_2022_Chernihiv_bombing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16_March_2022_Chernihiv_breadl... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_2023_Chernihiv_missile_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_strikes_against_Ukrain... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Dnipro_r…
Quite the opposite. Just a recent Ukrainian strike at Russian city Bryansk, killing 8 and wounding almost 50 civilians.[0] [0] https://t.me/milinfolive/168222
In the same Telegram channel that you shared, the next post is about that factory: https://t.me/milinfolive/168223?single
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And “only so fast” can be north of 30 knots. The vessel could today be 1000km in any direction from where it was when you found it yesterday.
Yes, but if you know the general direction of where it's going that reduces the search area quite a bit. In this case, for example, the French Government publicly announced where it's going.
"Upon closer inspection, the neural network is just scraping public information from the French Ministry of Defense"
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Quite the opposite. Just a recent Ukrainian strike at Russian city Bryansk, killing 8 and wounding almost 50 civilians.[0] [0] https://t.me/milinfolive/168222
Versus 15 Wikipedia links where in every one of those events 10+ civilians were killed — in some events even 50+ civilians killed in places like supermarkets, residential buildings, and railway stations - all you have is a Storm Shadow attack launched to strike one of the largest microchip producers for military hardware? In the same Telegram channel that you shared, the next post is about that factory: https://t.me/…
As I said, that's just a recent event that's fresh in my memory.
>killed in places like supermarkets
Oh, right, of course, all Ukrainian missiles that hit Russian civilians were off-target and all Russian missiles that hit Ukrainian civilians were targeting civilians. That's what western media and Ukrainian propaganda tells you