interesting point - I don’t know of any russian CIWS systems (and boy do they have 'em!) meeting success vs. drone attacks. If their systems were capable of taking them out I think they’d have crowed about any shoot downs, but what I see is a russian navy at the bottom of the sea.

You may bet your bollix that tank designers are earning really good overtime at the moment.

something tells me drone and EW designers are pulling even more OT than the tank guys.

In the sub I helped mod, it was a necessary way to reduce spam. Our rule was simple - no links to storefronts.

link to reviews, link to release announcements, blog posts / devblogs - fine! link to steam or etsy or whatever - nope.

without this nuance, it quickly devolved into a few folks flooding the forum for personal promotion. with the nuance, they’d have to create content - blogs, reviews etc., - that would actually be worth visiting instead.

YMMV, and I think this also very subjective depending on the kind of creators involved.

it’s switzerland, I imagine they can sell it to abroad or adude

will they actually serve jail time though?

have you ever stopped for one second and asked: maybe it’s not about me?

stfu and move on with life. jfc, not everything is about you mate. I know this is probably exceptionally hard to comprehend, but really, it’s not.

I’m not gonna dox myself for your satisfaction, but in the past few years I’ve volunteered with habitat for humanity, done wetlands remediation and volunteer weekly with an org that repairs and gives away tools to nonprofits, keeping them out of the waste stream and helping people take care of their houses.

if you’re too sick to walk, that shouldn’t cause you to shit on everyone else’s efforts.

It’s too bad we don’t have anyone willing to protest Big oil

literally what they’re doing, you just don’t like their method. I’m not here to defend them, but that’s pretty pathetic.

better chance of that swaying people than sitting around with their thumbs up their asses.

you do you mate.

So you really think you understand what’s going on?

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/6/16/what-grief-for-a-dying-planet-looks-like-climate-scientists-on-the-edge-2

because the scientists are scared shitless.

dunk on peta all you want, it’s not going to stop the world cooking.

…while I may not like the forms their protest takes, I think - well, they certainly think - it’s worth your ire if it opens people’s eyes to the oncoming worldwide disaster.

suspect they’re right.

I’ve got a bridge in New York for sale. It’s in Brooklyn. You could charge tolls and make billions! HMU.

sure thing kiddo. blah blah blah.

pfft no, but we will fulfill our treaty obligations to the 24 million people who don’t deserve china’s bullshit.

TSMC has kill switches installed already. China would only get a pile of slag if they tried it. and they won’t.

What China should do is reassess the Treaty of Aigun - does it still really apply, considering today’s russians are neither the soviet block nor the russian empire? The areas in question are overwhelmingly asian in demographics. There’s a whole lot of resources up there just sitting around because russia’s never been able to chew bubble gum and walk at the same time, much less persecute a pointless, losing war while exploiting it’s own resources.

It will become its own Great Filter.

yeah, I can’t see us passing the future hurdles and it makes me exceptionally depressed. we can’t get coal rollers and vroom vroom types to stop pouring hydrocarbon byproducts into the atmosphere, how are we going to get the entire world to pull back.

we have one biosphere. once chance. and it’s already so very very very fucked. AMOC collapse, Microplastics in EVERYTHING including all testicles measured - PFAS everywhere - ice sheets collapsing - ocean temps off the charts - mexico, us south, india, pakistan COOKING… it’s all gonna get worse and still the assholes are talking about drilling more and driving their shitmobiles.

You mention justice and balance and I agree that balance is definitely required. Justice is a more complex notion, one which generally involves consequences or punishment.

RAPISTS NEED TO FACE JUSTICE. Instead faith orgs shuffle the rapists around and defend them.

If we simply started there, the world would be a much better place.

I think the imaginary friend(s) problem is going to destroy our species if we can’t outgrow it pretty fucking quickly.

also see: palestine

well put. And:

Putin’s a bigger fascist than anyone else.

It provides people with guidelines to live a good life - ‘as long as you do these things everything is gonna be alright’.

which is a fucking lie. the most decent people I’ve known have been plagued by disease and preyed upon by the strong and greedy. do these things and MAYBE, if you’re really fucking lucky, you won’t die an excruciatingly painful death and/or have your loved ones murdered and your life’s work stolen.

those seem like the odds everyone gets, regardless of faith.

The world needs more faith.

no, the world needs justice, balance. waiting for faith to solve things isn’t going to help anyone.

appreciate the details!

What did the right wing make of Russia’s stunts re: dumping migrants on the border? Where do they stand on putin etc? Thanks for insights from Finland, always wanted to visit.

Russia was (I don’t know the current status) playing games on the border by dumping thousands of migrants at once - https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/finland-says-thousands-migrants-seek-enter-via-russia-2024-02-20/