@ImpSecBureau @ChrisO_wiki Except that fact is demonstrably true, and is easy to verify yourself if you have a car:
youtu.be/_jACSPipPSE?si…
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A cynically optimistic aero-engineer. That's a fantastic idea, but it'll never work.
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@ChrisO_wiki Putting your car key fob under your chin increases its range because your skull “acts as an antenna booster.”
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Crowdsourcing time! What is the most unbelievable, funny, absurd piece of non-political dis/misinformation you've heard recently?
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@ChrisO_wiki And also expect the Moldovan and Ukrainian intelligence services to both have detailed lists on not just who they are, but how bribeable they are (be it via money, asylum or blackmail/extortion on family back in Russia).
The whole area could be a whisker away from surrender.
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One point that is almost always omitted from reports like this is that the Russian soldiers in Transnistria are almost all local residents - native Transnistrians, often with dual Russian/Transnistrian citizenship, employed as contract soldiers or security guards. Only about 70-100 (generally officers) are actual Russians from Russia. They can't rotate out or be resupplied from Moscow. Those factors greatly limit what they can do in military terms. Their main purpose is symbolic, and their only real utility is likely to be eavesdropping on what NATO is doing in south-eastern Europe.
The Battlefield@TTheBattlefield
🟥 “The situation is becoming even more critical, hostilities may begin from the Transnistrian side: there is intelligence that the Russian command plans to intensify its activities in Transnistria” — General Kirill Budanov 📍 “The Russians are afraid for their contingent and want to take at least some measures to strengthen it so that it is ready to respond if something happens to it,” — Budanov says. 📍 “We see and know about their plans, and we are also obliged to respond. This is a standard military approach”…. 📍 The total number of Russian military personnel in the region is estimated at 1,500 to 3,000 people. 📍 Russian troops continue to guard a large ammunition depot in the village of Kobasna. The Kremlin is trying to intensify mobilization measures in the region and start producing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). See the latest updates with us:@TTheBattlefield
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@ChrisO_wiki It'll be interesting to see just which dominos start falling from this as various elements that were relying on international donations to survive suddenly face a cash crunch.
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Hungary under Orbán was essentially operating as a pass-through for Russian oil money to fund the international far right. That's ending now.
Pete@splendid_pete
The state will not finance these things, neither the event called CPAC nor other related institutions such as the Mathias Corvinus Collegium and similar attached bodies. I believe the state should never have financed them in the first place, it was a crime. Mixing party financing with government spending from the state budget is, in my view, a criminal offense, and this will have to be investigated by the future authorities, including the National Office for the Recovery and Protection of Public Assets, since those budgetary funds were not meant to finance party events. CPAC is welcome to come to Budapest, very welcome, but it should not be financed with Hungarian taxpayers’ money. It should be funded by Fidesz, or by Orbán’s proxies, at least until that money is taken back.
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@ChrisO_wiki It would become very performative if somehow the Ukrainian drone boats gained North Atlantic deployment capabilites to hunt Russian warships outside the Black Sea, with Kyiv posting all the videos.
How did those drone boats get there? A mystery indeed...
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1/ Russia recently sent a 'shadow fleet' tanker through the English Channel, escorted by a Russian Navy warship. However, as the 'Fighterbomber' Telegram channel points out, this is more for performative than practical reasons. ⬇️
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🚨 NEW: Putin has sent a warship to escort sanctioned Russian vessels through the English Channel after Keir Starmer threatened to seize them [@Telegraph]
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@RBoosta10861 Pretty sure I've reported on more dodgy tax advisers called "Mark" than "Ali".
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We’ve just been given 24 hours to take down our report on a dodgy Oxford accounting firm.
Here’s the correspondence. On the Richter scale of legal threats, it’s somewhere between cornflakes and a kitten:
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@KateFantom Always makes me laugh when misinformed people go on about EV batteries lasting only 100000 miles and needing replacement.
Yes, because EGR valves, coolers and intake manifolds on high mileage diesels that are absolutely caked in carbon deposits are famously cheap to repair.
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Here’s another reason why I prefer my MG5 and I know this is JLR kit and it’s absolutely shite, but still, how do people afford to run these.
I’ve just fixed my mates Evoque. What an utter piece of sh1t design this is. The part alone was over £400 from LR.
Add that to his £80 of diesel for 300 miles and I wonder wtf is going on in his head.
If you’ve done an EGR cooler on one of these you’ll understand.
And you wonder why nobody is buying them.
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@ChrisO_wiki Also worth adding there's a bit of history here:
In 2002 the Austrians caught the Americans trying to sneak two undeclared F-117s across their airspace in the shadow of a KC-10 tanker that had an overflight permission.
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1/ Austria has become the latest European country to ban US military overflights related to the Iran war. The country's Defence Ministry has announced that it has refused "several" requests from the US government, citing Austria's Neutrality Law.
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@ChrisO_wiki (not that I disagree with the main argument, history is full of examples where mass bombings didn't lead to the desired change, but they don't seem to have much left by way of options that don't require a ground force...)
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@ChrisO_wiki But the Third Reich wasn't also struggling with hyperinflation and facing mass protests over the very fragile state of the economy, so not exactly 🍎 to 🍎?
And you could argue fuel and drone/ballistic missile supply chain targets are more about disrupting military logistics?
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The Allies carried out a massive aerial bombing campaign against German economic targets in 1944-45; the Nazi regime remained firmly in power right up to the surrender. There's no evidence that this kind of campaign leads to regime collapse.
OSINTtechnical@Osinttechnical
Israel has pivoted to striking Iranian economic targets as it aims to "create the conditions" for the Iranian regime to fall -Times of Israel Israel aims to cause massive economic damage to the Iranian regime.
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@Tommylikesrocks @BronzeAgeGoron @CharlesD353 But this is also a well known issue in project management - work expands to fill the amount of time available for its completion.
So famous, in fact it has a name: Parkinson's Law en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson…
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@BronzeAgeGoron @CharlesD353 If people who could run a 3:52 run a 3:59, then the deadline slowed them down. Translated back over to the original point, deadlines in leadership don't necessarily work, as some people will slow down their work, so as to deliver exactly on time.
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The lesson here is the opposite I expect.
The people who's limit is 4:03 are showing up here at 4:10 having blown up from going too fast chasing sub-4.
Nobody who couldn't run a 4 hour marathon is running one on a deadline, but lots of folks who could run 3:52 are pacing themselves for 3:59 instead.
I've been the guy who blew up and lost 15-25 mins chasing 4 multiple times, and later chasing 3:30.
hagaetc@hagaetc
Marathon finishing time distribution proves one of my biggest leadership lessons: Deadlines work! … even if they are somewhat arbitrary
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@GeoRebekah @CBSNews Yes, sort of.
Most older ambulance and hospital organisations trace their history back to Knights of Malta + Knights Hospitaller that were religious.
As municipal governments developed services in 19th/20th century, some deployed new organisations (e.g. NHS), some kept existing
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@CBSNews Is it normal to have ambulances for specific religions? I'm the US so this concept is very bizarre to me.
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There is shock and fear in the local north London Jewish community after several ambulances belonging to a Jewish volunteer rescue organization were set on fire outside a synagogue early Monday, in what authorities are treating as an antisemitic hate crime. CBS News’ @InayaFolarin was on the scene speaking to locals, some of whom said they no longer feel safe in the U.K.
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@modernheroestv @KarlTurnerMP I think it will.
It'll hopefully make it more widely known that people can get a prescription from the vet and then get their drugs from a competitive pharmacy rather than just from the vets at inflated costs.
And that might give them the confidence to ask for the prescription.
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@KarlTurnerMP Will it make any real difference? A practise that currently charges more than £21 to write a prescription will just add a couple of pounds to their consultation fee and recoup it from everyone
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About time!
Abandonment of pet dogs and cats is partly due to owners not being able to afford vet bills.
Sky News@SkyNews
BREAKING: A price cap will be placed on pet prescriptions, the Competition and Markets Authority has announced Pet owners will pay a maximum of £21 for their first prescription and £12.50 for any other medicines 🔗 Read more trib.al/ooH4b0E
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@graceyldn So when you get made redundant there are mysterious outbreaks of pestilence and when you go on holiday war breaks out?
You don't happen to have 4 horsemen in the family do you?
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Last time I was up for redundancy was the end of 2019 and the beginning of the COVID outbreak.
I’m up for redundancy again…
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 BREAKING: The meningitis outbreak has been declared a "national incident" with the first case now reported in London
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@graceyldn That's a shit start to a Monday Morning.
Sorry to hear it, sending many many margheritas.
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@graceyldn Happy (belated) Mother's Day to Jan!
I hope you finished it off in style by leaving her on the packing counter in Lidl?
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@SecretCampervan To be fair any car will take ages to fully charge on a 7kW charger unless you can leave it over night.
Even if there's a 22kw charger available it won't help much, as the eVito (and most EVs) only accept 11kw AC.
Going to be a long day if there's no DC fast chargers nearby.
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I can only say this electric van is shite. Pointless thing to have! Range is crap. Charging takes forever. My diesel transit (workvan) is far more economical and it’s 13 years old!
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@ChrisO_wiki @airmainengineer Surprisingly easy & common.
There are hard points in the fuselage near all gear legs for tripod jacks, so they can safely maintain & test the landing gear retraction mechanism.
They also have jacks to lift the axels for changing tyres, but they rely on the axel still being there
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Nose landing gear repair of Air India Express Boeing 737 MAX 8 making a hard landing at Phuket Airport
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@ChrisO_wiki Wait, so the Royal Navy has more active minesweepers than the US Navy?
Given the generally dire situation with ship numbers in the Royal Navy, that's quite a damning statement...
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Worth noting that the US Navy has been caught out before. In 1990, it had 20-30 minesweepers, of which it deployed four to the Gulf, and it had to rely on support from British and Belgian minesweepers after the Iraqis mined the Persian Gulf.
Now the *entire* number of minesweepers in the US fleet is equivalent to just those deployed in 1990-91.
Colby Badhwar@ColbyBadhwar
Iran mining the Straight, more than the UAS threat, has been the scenario that the United States & allies have been the least prepared for. The entire US Navy only has 4 minesweepers.
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@AntiEVidiots @eV_Newt @modernheroestv Started off with some amusing Brexit related travelling anecdotes/ stories, but then rapidly became more obscure.
And then turned to trend-hopping for engagement farming.
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@eV_Newt @modernheroestv I’ve no idea why, but I was already following ‘it’’. It is clearly just an engagement farming account.
Unfollowed.
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I’ve never heard anyone suggest the Seal is badly built before - it doesn’t get glowing reviews for a few reasons but build quality never one of them
Thoughts?
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