…and that means retirees will literally starve and live on the streets? I don’t think it will. It will just be less luxurious.

you might think that japanese boomers have generational wealth in form of real estate. this is not really the case, especially for rural population. houses aren’t built to last, lose value like motherfucker and are commonly demolished after 20-30 years, in part because people don’t like second hand, in part because there’s no point of building anything sturdier if typhoon or earthquake takes it. there is some newer construction that is intended to last longer, but it’s not a very common thing. so a reverse mortgage type thing won’t exist there, and yeah lots of people will get shafted by these conditions

i think that conspiracy theories are more about feeling special about knowing some secret knowledge, lots of people fall for this and even create conspiracy theories without realizing, no matter how smart they are

that’s no news, that’s China’s final warning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China’s_final_warning

you realize they had one in the past?

Radio transmission doesn’t require state-level capacity (yes there are other barriers like cost or skill) and waves don’t care about borders. Receiving foreign radio was a big thing and it doesn’t require special equipment

you don’t put these SIMs in phones, these go into dedicated devices with very limited functions that pretend to look like phones to operator, dozens per. it can work like a proxy with massive number of outputs

stuff like this https://www.vice.com/en/article/video-ukraine-busts-alleged-russian-bot-farm-using-thousands-of-sim-cards/

also, presumably lots of these cards got burned quite fast, so not all were active at the same time, and some were spares

Aristotle said so much dumb shit, like he said that women have less teeth and never bothered to check

New-ish EU national IDs have NFC capability and certificate in them so you can probably sign something with that if you figure out how

thoughts and prayers if you’re lucky, best that they can do now is vagueposting

either they used that or whatever was shot down looked completely different

modern radar can measure speed, size, altitude of target and count turbine blades, allowing to figure out what it is. well, rotational speed of propeller in this case but logic is the same

whatever was shot down was shot by fighter jets, not gbad

the explanation that was given at the time was that drones that were assessed as armed were shot down near border (like the one that blew off roof - it was strictly speaking debris after shootdown) but decoys were allowed to crash on their own

yeah i understand that the proper thing to do would be burning Alabuga to the ground, but we’re kinda not in position to do that

from what i understand, there are now tests of anti-drone systems for purpose of procurement for polish army, and today i heard there’s some kind of training of polish air defense troops by ukrainians to be set up. other than that? they reacted according to doctrine, using what they had, mobilizing allied assets available in the area, could have been worse

they did, try to keep up. russia fucked off from turkey because su-24 also tends to have pilot who died, and this time it’s drones only

maybe his neck just did that

lol nope they can’t do that because “guardrails” aren’t anywhere near reliable, and they won’t because it would cut into their profits userbase numbers, based on which they raise vc money. delusional chatbot user is just a recurrent subscriber

they should go straight to mercury pills, worked* for chinese alchemists

*worked in the sense that massive heavy metal poisoning can stop corpse decomposition for a while, which was taken as an auspicious sign in the context

i’m gonna infect you with covid stay away

very easily, previously these guys weren’t a target. asm launchers were, but these can get hidden in a cave rather quickly