The Ukrainian military has gotten so creative with what they’ve had available. I can’t wait to see what they do with all those F16s.

Slava Ukraini

Exactly. Keep right except to pass. Unless you’re actively passing people, you should be in a right or center lane moving at your speed.

Asked if he is a Ukrainian Q, the gadget master from the James Bond films, [Kleymenov] replies: “Probably, yes.”

Ukraine’s post-war arms manufacturing is going to be next level.

their new partners, Russian mercenaries

A certain leaderless Russian PMC seems to be moving in where the French withdraw. I wonder what effects the chaos in Wagner will have on stability in Africa.

The Vampire Squid cares not where the money comes from, just that the money flows. Helping the Chinese buy a cybersecurity company that works with the British government? The money must flow.

Switched to new phones and “lost” the messages. It was both official and deliberate. Straight from the top. Covering for wannabe Praetorians.

The Powell Memo was written in 1971.

You don’t need a shadowy conspiracy when you make it legal to bribe politicians and write the laws for them. It’s all done out in the open. Regulators and board rooms have revolving doors for the same few people, and they all make insanely disgusting amounts of money while the rest of us suffer.

Separation of church and state was created to protect both the state AND the church. Churches are not supposed to be political organizations for their own good. Dividing into camps along political lines and shouting at each other is what happens out in the world. It’s not supposed to happen at church.

Lindsey Graham reported that his campaign account was hacked by the Russians in December 2016.

It might not matter. A conviction for mishandling classified information disqualifies a person from running for federal office. Paragraph (b). A conviction causes the person to forfeit any federal office and disqualifies them from ever running again. Jack Smith knows what he’s doing.

Of course, it would not bar Trump from running against DeSantis for governor of Florida. That’s a state office.

He’s exactly right. Everything happening with the Court now has been in the works since the Powell Memo in 1971. Weaponize the judiciary to serve business interests. The culture war stuff that grabs headlines is a side effect.

In 2021, for example, the FBI ran more than 3.3 million queries through the Section 702 database, according to a government transparency report.

3.3 million spies of the Patriot Act. It’s set to expire this year, but they’ll reauthorize it. No one is strong enough to throw the ring into the fire.

Cyrano de Bergerac updated for the techno-fascist, neofeudalist hellscape that is the modern world.

It’s definitely the high interest rates. All of tech has been built on venture capitalist money with “grow at all costs” as the primary strategy. With sustained higher interest rates, VC money is much harder to get. The focus has gone from “grow at all costs” to “become profitable at all costs.” It’s jarring, and it’s happening everywhere at the same time.

Always love to hear the deep lore. Lemmy’s early development makes a lot more sense now. Good on them(you) to leave everything open and learn from Reddit’s mistakes.

Still, free and open has a limit. No Facebook and no Nazis. That’s just common sense everyone used to have.