were there people advocating for privatizing DB?

LET’S FUCKING GOOO

heavy insistence on this mechanism was how smallest (liberatian-ish) party of last coalition iirc limited defense spending including military aid to Ukraine. in last elections they fell under electoral threshold and have no seats in bundestag at all, rip bozo, you won’t be missed

that site sits on .gov.ua, this is for various official things for government of Ukraine

like with any other country that has such presence

not only money runs out, it’s also some categories of military equipment. i mean, it’s not like russia will run out of tanks entirely, because they still have ongoing production, but most of what goes to front are increasingly old rustboxes reanimated in tank factories - because it’s faster than building new one, but that happens too.

according to perun, they’ll start running out of tanks, ifvs, apcs, things of this type somewhere in 2025 - that is, storages will be emptied and any replacements would have to be new, which means that replacements will come something like 5x slower. it’s a bit harder to say with artillery, because barrels have limited number of shots and it is known that barrels can be taken from towed guns to put them in self-propelled guns. but it’s also bad, even if it means there’s another year there

what impact would it have on division of seats for other parties?

is there a possibility that FDP falls under electoral threshold this time?

it’s about NMP (N-methylpyrrolidone) and some secret sauce they don’t want to talk about. NMP is used in petroleum industry for separation of olefins and BTX (both important chemical intermediates) and also it’s a solvent that can dissolve about everything, so it’s used in production of plastics, including kevlar and plastic parts of lithium batteries, and also explosives

Keeping consumers alive as a class is indirectly encouraged in capitalism.

but that won’t show in results for next quarter, so they don’t care

what can i say except to quote david gerard:

AI alignment is literally a bunch of amateur philosophers telling each other scary stories about The Terminator around a campfire

when we’ll find out that it’s a russian cutout?

this is all year+ old info

it’s quite big, expensive, and not readily sourced, so when it’s used, it’s better that it’s really worth it. i don’t think cessnas need starlink, it would be worth it if it’s needed, but i think they might be using inertial + gnss. i heard that some drones had russian sim cards recovered so apparently sometimes gsm is used too. internet connection increases microwave signature greatly, and i’m not sure when it’s worth it, other than in cases where video feed is transmitted back and drones are guided manually, but that’s sea drones only. cessnas targeting refineries can work fine with gnss (+ maybe some crude tercom?) because refinery won’t run away

not by any fucking stretch “all drones” operate on starlink, these small surveillance and fpv antitank drones are controlled directly by operator. couple of times starlink terminals were spotted on boat drones on black sea, but far from always. there was an incident where musk personally turned off starlink over black sea, when ukrainian sea drones were on the way to destroy ships in port of sevastopol. these drones drifted off uselessly, which gave russians warning, pushed dod to get exclusive use of some part of starlink, and pushed ukrainians to develop their own alternatives. nowadays ukrainians use their own communications. why are you talking about things you clearly have no fucking clue about?

they can, but they had problems initially. also that claim about “all drones” is utter bs

nah you got it right first time around, it’s closer to half overall

i misinterpreted certain statistics first time around, which suggested that potential canadian impact on available primary aluminum in us would be lower. canadians also export lots of oil and gas south, and there’s plenty of gas powerplants in us

right, american production of aluminum metal is 1/4 of canadian production. it also critically depends on cheap elecrticity, canadians have nuclear powerplants and hydro, and guess what other funny thing canadians can do

e: i can’t read

it breaks down like this: american production of aluminum 750k tons, canadian 3000k tons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_aluminium_production), 95% of canadian aluminum exports go to usa (https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/raw-aluminium/reporter/can#trade-flow), and comparing export value, price per ton and manufacture, it looks like most of manufacture goes to export, let’s say 90%, of which 95% goes to usa, that is somewhere around 2560k tons. this is 56% of imports, so the rest is about 2010k tons. so out of 5320k tons total, canadians can just take away almost half

relatively few of them were on actual frontline, so it tracks

seems in line with number of wounded reported previously (4000) along with 300 dead, that one seemed low (by south korean intelligence sources)

these 11k are what, week worth of casualties? nothing significant, other than for diplomatic effects

if violence doesn’t work, then why state uses it?