eagleal

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by eagleal 5d ago
Minsk per the people that brokered it was just a temporary patch to prepare Ukraine for the invasion. So no. That's not it. It's business and by now it should be clear to anyone that there's no morality involved in this space
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by eagleal 5d ago
Those can be said for other economic partners that are being used so no. That's not it, that's just rhetoric for the masses. _You'll here the same thing tomorrow, after I say the complete opposite today._
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by eagleal 5d ago
Yeah the EU leadership has been really shortsighted on these past decades (especially since the 10s), especially in their strategic energy and industrial sectors. Be it the Ukranian conflict, the ME crisis, the NA wars and instabilities, et
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by eagleal 13d ago
> Mail in ballots don’t get rid of secrecy They mean voter buying cases, "paying you to confirm a vote for X" and see you check the card. In ballot cabins the buyer can't come with you inside the booth to confirm, so your
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by eagleal 2mo ago
> 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 offers are at stake, that creating the demand is inevitable
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by eagleal 3mo ago
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 was bad, as in _really_ bad.
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by eagleal 3mo ago
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 easily demonstrate the center of control is in fact in Germ
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by eagleal 3mo ago
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, etc if they can't use alternatives. Even antique fron
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by eagleal 3mo ago
> 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 war, including the IDF. I assume your confusio
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by eagleal 3mo ago
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 back to the XX century rhetoric promoters and activists.
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by eagleal 3mo ago
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 neonazi/neofascist base they need to overpower&
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by eagleal 3mo ago
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 becoming increasingly non-cooperative, it may not be wise
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by eagleal 4mo ago
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 cruise missiles for this platform, and after the crisis of the
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by eagleal 4mo ago
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 the community back then was probably less susceptible
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by eagleal 5mo ago
> 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 to the probably sponsored articles on Bloomberg for
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by eagleal 5mo ago
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 archive (well modern as new rules) you'd have to be an
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by eagleal 6mo ago
> 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 to go both ways.
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by eagleal 6mo ago
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 both the official ukrianian government, and by the russia&#x27
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by eagleal 6mo ago
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 discuss the details. For example it is now common knowle
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by eagleal 7mo ago
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 militia in a foreign country, or what would've been on old t
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by eagleal 7mo ago
It's a per country thing as the EU is not 1 country. In Italy for example RT website is blocked.
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by eagleal 7mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37681554
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by eagleal 7mo ago
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 respond he sues them for libel or similar asking moral
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by eagleal 8mo ago
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.com/news/science-environment-689421
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by eagleal 8mo ago
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 local network devices without the precise geolocation shari
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by eagleal 8mo ago
> 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 are really scales of magnitude of difference between a h
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by eagleal 11mo ago
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. Speaking of the EU, in Italy specifically for example the naturaliz
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by eagleal 11mo ago
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 (Defense, Media Company, Political party, Rich In
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by eagleal 11mo ago
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 both such services providers and their users in the EU (ties
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by eagleal 1y ago
Usually it's not allowed for people involved in an ongoing investigation to talk about said investigation. Maybe the US is different.

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