The scary part about the ballroom is that he wouldn’t be building it at the WH if he expected to be out of there in 3 years. He’d be building it at Mar-a-Lago or something.

Problem is that the EU industry is profiting off Vucic big time. It was the same with Orbán, but now it’s everyone’s problem so the EU gave us a chance to get rid of him.

I have a feeling that this might not be the best economic system ever

I thought that the US charging people with terrorism willy-nilly was already par for the course

Vucic will throw as many people under the bus as he needs to to cling to power.

Even the police investigators are considering the case ridiculous. The assembly law does not apply to state or municipal gatherings, and him getting involved in this way made it one.

The charges are bogus and everyone knows that, but Orbán would prefer we all talk about this instead of his failing government and constant pedo rape scandals.

Thanks for pointing it out though, I couldn’t find data on that warhead, I guess my guess was off by an order of magnitude.

How does this help? If anything, it creates a central data store that can be breached by Russians.

Weren’t they part of the PAK-FA project? Can’t they salvage something from it?

Australia can still require VPS providers to log IPs. This is the country with the backdooring law, common sense does not apply seemingly.

Which country?

A lot of European countries have direct bank transactions streamlined, you scan a QR code and fraud is owned by the bank.

It’s ecen more secure than cards, since you can’t get double charged by the vendor.

It’s much harder to hit something going 160 km/h than to hit something static with a munition going 160 km/h.

And a thermobaric munition is like the miniaturised version of the MOAB that the US was busting bunkers with in Afghanistan.

Point is, even if it hits the drone 100 m away, I don’t think that would be safe for the target. The primary defense is still jamming, but that is ineffective against wire-guided stuff.

It’s not useless, but I don’t think Putin is safe either. It could also be a cope cage like thing, where the point is just the appearance of safety to calm Putin’s nerves and to discourage attackers.

FPV drones can go over 160 km/h, and can carry thermobaric warheads.

This is not about the NL, Western Europe has built its infra to carry Western tanks during the Cold War, this is about the East.

A western tank like a Leopard weighs twice of what a T72 does, because it prioritises crew survivability over that of the vehicle.

Soviet tanks are much smaller since they would rather have you not hit the tank at all, the tradeoff is that if you do, it cooks the crew.

They would blacklist consumer VPN IPs and block payments to them, not prevent you from logging in to a corp network.

Democracy and freedom is a continuing struggle. The EU is not better at it because these proposals don’t get submitted, but because they keep being shot down.

Also, this is just another proposal that likely won’t pass, which doesn’t mean we should be asleep on it. These idiots will keep trying.

Nothing special, these proposals try to make the phone OS scan your messages at rest instead of trying to break encryption. So you could use your XMPP client and then when it decrypts the data for you to read, it would also be read by the scanner.

I don’t think world capitalism has seen a crisis like this one yet to be honest. Local ones, sure, the owner class is class conscious in the global sense so they pull each other up and push us down if they can. The US itself however has not seen a crisis at this level ever, and I’m not even talking about Trump, but the Reagan-Thatcher world order collapsing and the current batch of shitheads not being able to set the new one up.

Correct me if I’m wrong.

There is Paks II, a second reactor to the aging Paks complex in Hungary. It was built by the Russians, and predictably it’s a mess of budget overruns, rife with corruption, and with the war it seems that the govt will have to still pay the Russians despite them not being able to deliver, since the contract was so intensely in Russia’s favour most likely. Nobody really knows, since the contract itself is classified until at least around 2046.