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Yeah, I can't believe the Canadian government cares about..... Canadian residents and citizens being gunned down, in Canada, on orders from the Indian government.

What? Intelligence agencies working with criminal gangs?

Next you'll try and convince me that covert operations are often funded with drug money.

Pimp my Matchbox

Oh god damn it, did I miss that ballot measure?

You know, I try and vote in every election, but I somehow missed the vote on "Support Ukraine or Universal Healthcare Care".

Shit.

Thanks, and you're welcome. Glad it was useful.

Trump is a symptom, not the cause. And while he most likely accelerated aspects of the decline, no, he didn't trigger it.

But neither did those wars, they're just what happens during an empire's death, pointless wars, death, and violence. An angry dying man's lashing out if you will.

Again, symptoms, yes, but not the cause.

I've already written a long enough comment for one day, but there's plenty of academic writings on the subject if you're interested.

Not that I'm going to disagree about the waning power of a dying empire, but India has historically charted its own course in regards to its international relations and dealings i.e. the Non-Aligned Movement of the Cold War.

It knows that it's a critical partner of the US Security State in regards to China, as well as being a significant regional power of its own. So it can buck US power a bit more openly and flagrantly when it comes to securing their own national interests.

It's also on average, a poorer country, relative to its size and influence. These trade deals are largely predicated upon India taking advantage of Russia's weakened position as a global energy exporter, and getting cut rate deals on Russian oil imports.

I believe India is also a huge importer of Russian grain and fertilizer, which I imagine they're also getting good deals on as well, given the current global dynamics.

You'll never catch me defending Modi, but you also won't catch me moralizing about developing, or underdeveloped, countries prioritizing their own energy and food supplies, over external concerns.

And I haven't even touched on the practical national security ties India has with Russia as one of its larger military industrial partners. Even as India is now, or planning on, moving away from Russian arms, they still rely on Russian industry for help maintaining their existing kit. That's just how arms exports works, it's why the global arms trade is so heavily linked to alliances. As an importer of a complex weapon systems, you have to trust that the source country isn't going to cut you off during a conflict, and can be relied upon to fulfill their production and service/support contracts. So for India to sever ties, or even openly embarrass Putin, could significantly weaken their national defense posture and preparedness.

Ironically, the war in Ukraine has shown Russia to be an unreliable partner because they have to redirect orders to their own front lines. This has been one of the important contributing factors for India to start moving away from Russian arms. But in the meantime, they still have a lot of Russian kit in active service.

And I say all this as an avid supporter of Ukraine, and someone who has long advocated for significantly larger, more advanced, and consistent, weapons transfers, and loosening restrictions on their use.

I included that last bit, because a lot of people tend to view acknowledging the fact that a lot of developing and poorer countries still rely on Russia for critical exports, and that shouldn't be moralized, as somehow implying an implicit personal support of Russia or the invasion.

The problem isn't the video feed per se, it's that the business model of IoT companies, especially cheap IoT companies, include selling off customer data to advertising and other surveillance capital type entities.

So, cheap hardware, lax security at best, and a business model that requires all their devices to have an internet connection to function properly, or access its full feature set.

Wait.... Even if users don't pay for this, their car still comes a WWAN module that is hardwired to their ignition. Yes, I realize it's more likely bolted on to the infotainment system and/or the car's RTOS, but it's still baked in.

No amount of copium is going to clear those minefields, or save the coming generations Ukrainians, who will continue to be maimed and killed by these for the foreseeable future..

The only real hope, is that there is a significant technological development that that both dramatically expedites the complete mapping of minefields, and allows demining personel to rapidily destroy the ordinace, while being outside of the blast and shrapnel radius.

If this is a real and documented concern, please provide sources so I can take a look.

Otherwise, no, batteries will not hold a charge for decades. Landmines and unexploded ordinance are analog. They will last as long as the mechanisms and explosive payload aren't damaged, or corroded.

Japanese cities were primarily built using wood as it was better suited for their climate and earthquakes. The fire bombing of Tokyo with a single deadliest attack on the Japanese mainland, killing even more than either atomic bomb drop.

They're referring to landmines, leftover from that region's wars of the mid-20th century: America's Vietnam & Cambodian war, French-Indochina war, Cambodian civil war, etc.

The legacy of landmines and chemical warfare is still regularly killing, maiming, and causes significant increases in fetal birth defects and other rare illnesses.

It's all relative. My cheap Chinese spyware SmartLife devices are free to report the hours I turn my lights on back to China as they please, but they sit on a segmented VLAN with per client isolation.

If they ever EOL'd them, I've got more than my money's worth, and yes, some of them can be flashed, but I'd probably just buy another well established cheap Chinese competitor.

But I agree, the above is not the use case and situation for every IoT device out there, and there are plenty of devices that I would never consider an internet/SaaS dependent version of e.g. medium to large home appliances.

As others have said, fast opening quick notes with basic formatting.

For example, if I get an unexpected call I need to write down more than a call back number, Wordpad was my go to.

Well, at least when back when I used Windows regularly.

This is going to be one of the horrors of Ukraine. A legacy of landmines that will not be cleared in most of our lifetimes, even if the war ended today.

Not the same as unexploded airdropped ordinance, but significantly worse.

Modern air defense is layered, and latest generations are layered and networked.

Short, medium, and long range all have different kill methods/platforms, but may share radar and sensors suites, along with command and control systems.

The operator, system, or mixture of both, then decides which targets are threats, and which kill system to engage them with.

This is about a lot more than minerals and resources, and while you can't extricate those motivations from the larger rational, first and foremost this war was about regime security, or at least Putin's perception on the issue.

And then when it hit a brick wall almost immediately, it really increased Putin's concerns about his regime security.

That, and people who have certain underlying mental health issues, or a family history of them, such as schizophrenia, should never take psychedelic drugs.

Consult a doctor, or at least Google, for a more complete list of the conditions that do not respond well to psychedelics.

The irony is that with that response, either you lost the plot, or I did. I honestly don't know which.

I genuinely don't know what you're referring to, and don't care enough to read this entire thread to try and figure it out.

If you want to post examples, I'll take a look.

I will say that if you decide not to reply and post specific examples, I will not take that to mean anything other than you not wanting to waste anymore time here in this pointless back and forth.

No, what you literally did was qualify it, and then follow that up with a fantasy game plan for your morally righteous white knighting in defense of flat earthers and (presumably) Holocaust deniers, from those that would dare speak down to them.

You can go back to smelling your own farts whenever you're ready.