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Your russian friends struck the UN vehicle

@esrtweet To add to the compression part: JPEG and MPEG were designed based on human vision limits and hearing limits. If we were orbiting another world, the odds we could figure out how they encode or compress their video and audio would be further complicated by not knowing their biology

I see from the replies to my original dive into the difficulty of eavesdropping on a civilization's video from orbit that there are a couple of points I didn't cover or emphasize enough. First: If the locals are sufficiently advanced (as in, just slightly more than humans now) you're not even going to be able to identify individual video channels to decode. Frequency hopping. It's a thing. It's how we do cell phones. Your cell phone doesn't communicate with the system using a fixed-frequency carrier like analog radios. Instead, transmitter and receiver coordinate a pseudo-random sequence of frequency hops many times a second. If you have computers sufficiently cheap and small to embed in a radio, this is unequivocally better than narrow-band transmission. It's intrinsically resistant to interference and jamming. And - which is relevant to our visitors - it's extremely resistant to eavesdropping. Whether it's a broadcast or a conversation, you can't listen in unless you know the rule for frequency shifting that the transmitter and receiver share. On Earth, it is not likely that narrow-band transmission is going to survive for much longer in historical time. Just the resistance to interference ("no static at all") is enough to pretty much guarantee that, even without the other advantages. In general, you shouldn't expect that narrow-band transmission will remain in use for longer than about 150 years after the earliest spark gap transmitters. So there you are in orbit around the planet. All your sensors can pick up is the dull roar of millions of intermingled frequency-hop sequences. AI does not solve this problem. How could it? Even if you know the boundaries of the frequency band, all frequency-hopping sequences within it are equiprobable. Only a tiny fraction of them are in use and can be followed to reconstruct a signal you might want to listen to. Make a wrong choice, and all you get is uncorrelated noise. And mind you, this is on top of the difficulty I discussed in my earlier post. Which is that there are lots and lots of different ways to write video codecs. Even if by some miracle you know the right frequency shift sequence to pick out one video channel, transcoding that bitstream into something you can see and hear is not going to be trivial. The most optimistic thing that can be said is that throwing AI at the codec layer of the problem might not be completely doomed. But AI won't have any purchase on the first layer, the signal-extraction problem.

@RpsAgainstTrump @TheBonnyDoon As always, Donald is speaking complete nonsense.

Igor "Strelkov" Girkin made similar claims around the same time. ✅️There were almost no sepratists, it was almost all regular Russian troops and mercenaries. Girkin placed the separatist number at 1K to 1.2K ✅️The only people killing Russian speakers in the Donbas was Russians. ✅️Girkin started and led the kinetic war in the Donbas, he was an FSB Colonel at the time. ✅️Prigozhin said the expanded war of aggression was about oligarch greed. The so-called Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics had been plundered, nothing was left, and the oligarchs wanted more.

uhhhh...so amidst Trump's immigration "crackdown", his State Department also worked feverishly to bring BACK to the country a Canadian couple were were kicked out for running an illegal Russian propaganda effort inside the U.S.. Putin is in charge. We get this, right?

Donald Trump: "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed [...] President Putin has been very generous in his feelings towards Ukraine succeeding."

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The US declassified exchanges between US President Bush and Putin from 2008 in which Putin already called Ukraine an „artificial“ state, clearly denying its right for existence. This is years before the war started and should remind us once again that Putin always wanted to take Ukraine. It also says that this war will never end with Putin in the Kremlin. It will go on until he is removed, permanently, and Russia fully dislodged. Everything else is just noise.

This is the timeline of how the US government tried to force Ukraine into a Russian-dictated “peace,” and who exposed the plot: 1. THE PLAN EMERGES (Early Nov) The 28-point proposal, drafted by Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and Putin’s aide Kirill Dmitriev, is leaked. Its terms—including ceding land (like Donbas areas Ukraine still controls) and military restrictions—are completely one sided. 2. TRUMP’S ULTIMATUM (Nov 21) President Trump publicly demands Ukraine accept the deal by Thanksgiving, threatening to cut off critical US military and intelligence aid if President Zelenskiy refuses. Kyiv is put under impossible pressure to capitulate. 3. THE HALIFAX BOMBSHELL (Nov 22) US Senators at the Halifax Security Forum reveal that Secretary of State Marco Rubio privately called them to warn that the plan was NOT American policy, but a "Russian wish list" the US was simply passing along. 4. THE 180-DEGREE DENIAL (Nov 22) In a panicked effort to save face, the US administration, including Rubio, immediately denies the senators' account. Rubio tweets the plan is "authored by the U.S." and is merely a "framework," attempting to walk back the "Russian wish list" claim. 5. THE GOP CIVIL WAR (Nov 25) Vice President JD Vance launches public attacks on Twitter against Republican critics like Mitch McConnell, effectively proving this was a Vance-backed initiative. McConnell had suggested firing officials "more concerned with appeasing Putin." 6. THE FINAL EXPOSURE (BLOOMBERG) A transcript of a recorded call is leaked to Bloomberg, showing envoy Witkoff advising Putin’s top foreign policy aide, Yuri Ushakov, on how to pitch the plan to Trump—including what talking points Putin should use. This leak, likely from a listening intelligence agency, definitively proves the US was consulting with the Kremlin on negotiating strategy, not negotiating in good faith on Ukraine's behalf. CONCLUSION: The US administration pushed a Kremlin-approved surrender document, lied about its origin, and was only exposed by deep internal infighting and the extraordinary leak of call transcripts.

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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past" - George Orwell "1984". The Budapest Memorandum signed in 1994…has disappeared from White House web site.

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@cdnpoli101 It's crystal clear it's India that's keeping @PierrePoilievre from having a National Security Clearance. India owns him! But our Canadian media are too afraid of Poilievre to challenge him. They fear his angry cult will attack them & their families. So they shut up! Scary!

@WestJet The option to add baggage is not available because the flight is not in their system correctly. WestJet should be able to contact Condor and fix this. Your customer service was why I choose WestJet, and "go talk to them again" isn't how you usually act... who can fix this?

@krutten Pre-paid checked bags are eligible on WestJet operated and marketed flights, for flights operated or marketed by our airline partners, bags can only be added at check-in.

@WestJet hoping you can help me get my Westjet codeshare flight into condor.com so I can manage the flight, or you can help me buy the luggage. Talked to Condor already and nobody is answering the Westjet line

@WestJet Hi @WestJet I purchased the flight directly on WestJet.com WS5952 and your website now directs me to go to your partner page, but I cannot even try to purchase checked baggage until you get me into their system. They need you, the seller, to put into the system

@krutten If you booked through a travel agent (online or directly), corporate travel arranger, or another airline please contact them directly. For more information on WestJet service fees please see the following link - ms.spr.ly/6184gSjIA

@CondorCares have a @WestJet with you and nobody has been able to help me add baggage. You helped me by phone to check in but we can't add the booking so how can I add baggage?

Mass graves visible from space - not escalation Blowing up Nova Kakhovka dam - not escalation Destroying 80% of the energy infrastructure of a country of 40 million people - not escalation Ukraine hitting military targets inside russia - escalation🙃