Saw a post there saying that a missile strike finally cleared up traffic.

The short distance to Bahrain probably also makes it an attractive target since that makes interception harder.

I just learned what reinsurance is and the concept sounds insane. The insurance company hands off its risk to another company? Then what is the point of the insurance company? Leeching middleman?

This time they’ve been attacking various strategic points like bases and radars, they must have also learnt from the 12-day war.

There’s no way he’s getting one though, right?

Nationally, five parties, including the Greens, Reform and the Liberal Democrats, are polling double-digit percentages, threatening the Labour-Conservative duopoly of the last century.

Nice to see something akin to a possibility of a shakeup in some levers of bourgeoise policy.

The Texas father who fatally shot his daughter after an argument about President Trump

What’s up with the headline?

Creating a viable alternative to Visa and Mastercard requires “several billion euros” in investment, according to EPI’s own estimates. Low interchange fees under EU regulation make profitability difficult.

It remains to be seen how much political and economic power the European bourgeoise are actually willing to mobilise in order to cut dependence from the US. Can the liberals overcome the temptation for austerity and america worship? Every new project like this that comes along in europe has this giant asterisk attached to it.

In any given economy, there is only a finite amount of living labor to be hired out, a finite amount of embodied labor in goods/services to consume, and a finite amount of embodied labor in the form of machinery/assets.

All of this can be bought with money, and the correspondence between money and amount of labor is quite strong (not on a transaction to transaction basis, but on an aggregate basis)

So if everyone is competing to grow their amount of money, then they will get a bigger share of the pie. And if you don’t grow your own amount of money, you will pay for other capitalists share of the pie.

In market terms, no matter how good of a business you have, other capitalists will always be eyeing your market share. Sit on your ass too long and it’ll all be gone.

Well the “multiple thin wires” technique (litz wire) is more complicated than just having multiple thin wires (you need to braid them in a particular pattern because the magnetic fields that flow through the wires act on each other as well). But it is absolutely used for mitigating the skin effect as well.

Power lines inside residential homes are an exception because the frequency isn’t high. The skin effect for copper at that point is about 8.41 mm.

Then consider this wire gague chart

Even the thickest wires for carrying 300 amps has a radius less than 6 mm (you can also see that the rated frequency is 125 hz).

If you want to calculate the skin depth, use the formula , where f is the frequency, p is the resistivity (copper - 16.78 nano Ohms), u is the permeability (copper - 1.256 micro Henry/meter).

They got many many remains and prisoners back.

Also, they are using this current opportunity to purge collaborator gangs.

This situation also allows for temporary alleviation of acute famine conditions.

the British government have now announced when they’re going to start checking people’s bank account

This kinda shit is why we hate rightists .

Not to be an LLM shill, but perhaps the reason we are not seeing a massive increase in apps being released and new domain names is due to economic factors stunting the potential AI. It’s just a confounding factor I can think of.

If the author wants to steelman their argument, they could look into the total number of developers before AI and after AI. They could compare working hours (not officially recorded working hours, but actual “I am working on making code” hours).

There are other economic factors also. Large corporations will control the majority of developer working hours. And large corporations won’t be making shovelware. Meanwhile people who are not so beholden to factors of economics aren’t necessarily going to build public shovelware. They might just be building scripts for personal use.

Biased, politicised science is real science. Not the platonic ideal you have in your head.

That didn’t feel like science so much as politics and I get why some would be against that.

Respectfully, this is a weak sauce excuse, and a completely unscientific attitude. Scientists do not establish arbitrary barriers between different fields.

These kinds of statements 99% of the time come from people who don’t even do science, and whose understanding of science consists of “take down data points, analyse data points, be neutral” (paraphrasing your comment).

In reality, scientific names are usually given to honor specific people. The idea that the community just gives names to people who discovered things is simply ignorant of history. There are literally cases of people purchasing name recognition. There are also cases of people being honored by having their name on a phenomena they didn’t even discover, or a unit they did not create (typical for units, which are standardised by committees and not named after people in the standardisation committee)

The immortal science grants access to foresight some consider supernatural.

That’s a good point. People tend to forget that non-nuclear payloads can still be used to take out strategic targets. Like, in a war over Taiwan, China could deny the west critical minerals and parts (Literally already happening and the western panties are in a twist). They could blockade western trade routes. They could launch devastating cyber attacks and even create mass panic.

It’s absolutely possible for the UK to increase its defence spending while also not harming civilians, in the Middle East or anywhere else.

Not for imperial Britain. It’s possible for other countries, but not for imperialists. If you have the slightest concern for the people of Britain and people in other countries, you should oppose all attempts made by the imperialists to arm themselves. I oppose the imperial British arming themselves for the same reason I oppose nazi Germany arming itself.

Has there been a single year in my entire life where the western powers were not at war against some third world country? If the British really can be trusted with a military, they should prove it.

justified

Literally never even implied that. I’m sorry that your political education was limited to watching marvel movies with battles between good and evil.

Ukraine, a relatively weak country, joined NATO, it wouldn’t make a massive difference to the capabilities of NATO.

On the contrary, it would. Allowing western military infrastructure on an indefensible border would have been a catastrophic strategic error.

Also, kind of amazing to see liberal now hyping up Russian military capabilities when earlier in the war, they were calling it a “gas station with nukes”. Maybe the threat of these “advanced military capabilities” should have played a role in the political calculations of sending Ukrainians into an unwinnable war.

The reason some Ukrainians want to join NATO is because of the very real existential threat that Russia has posed to the state of Ukraine.

There was no such strategic or existential threat in the aftermath of the cold war where the west basically lotted and puppeteered Russia. Even putin had naively tried to join nato believing that this would alleviate western attempts at putting military pressure on Russia back in 2008 or 7, don’t remember the exact year.

I don’t know why you think Russia should be trusted to launch no more invasions of Europe.

Trusted is the wrong word. Prediction is better. The overwhelming majority of wars occur around previously predictable flashpoints. This does not mean that wars do not break out without reason, but this is rare. The same goes with Ukraine. The Russian invasion of Ukraine had been predicted all the way back in Clinton’s time, with some of his advisors explicitly being concerned that arming Ukraine would undermine the post-cold war order and security in Europe.

Next time it might be another former-USSR country, like one of the Baltics.

On what basis, and for what gain?

The UK is of course obliged by its NATO membership to help the Baltics if they are invaded.

Precisely. You are positing that the Russians will invade and fight against NATO, triggering WW3. But why? What would the geopolitical drive be for such an action on the Russian part?

Also you mention “the encroachment of western military infrastructure into easily penetrable borders” as if that’s a legitimate excuse for Russia’s invasions of Ukraine and Georgia.

The behaviors of states and nations have nothing to do with “legitimacy”, which is a made up concept. On the Russian side, western military encroachment into Ukraine was viewed as an existential threat, and they had communicated this view over and over to the west even before Putin’s rise to power. When dialogue failed to produce results, and the maidan coup happened, the Russians supported the separatists in the Donbass. Even then, they signed 2 ceasefires (Minsk 1 and Minsk 2), both of which were still broken. The Russians thought that Trump would solve the situation, but he didn’t because he generally tends to fumble just about everything.

Then after all that, they decided to launch basically a decapitation strike on Ukraine in Feb 2022. By April 2022, the strike hadn’t worked, but the Ukrainians and Russians were in the process of another treaty, which as far as I remember, Boris Johnson convinced the Ukrainians to not take. It was only then that the attrition war mess started.

My point is, western powers had many many opportunities to de-escalate the situation. Russia also had the choice of not invading, but every Russian leader made it clear that a Ukraine militarily integreated into the west is a national security catastrophe for them. That includes everyone from Gobachev (the one who dissolved the USSR on behalf of the west), Yeltsin (the one installed by the west), and Putin (the Russian liberal who initially wanted to join NATO until the west made it clear that they basically wanted to continue the cold war).

In essence, every russian leader since the late 1980s started out as pro-west, and yet the west simply does not want to end the cold war. So now you’re back to the same situation as before the dissolution of the USSR. The formation of 2 competing blocs that engage in proxy wars to contain each other’s power. And let’s be clear, Russia is not the only taking military action. The west’s military adventurism in west asia directly threatens the security of Russia and China, and India, and Europe. Part of the reason for the west’s fanatical levels of support for Israel is precisely because it is a convenient launching pad for de-stabilization actions taken in the heart of Eurasia.