ByteJunk @ ByteJunk @lemmy.world

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"Why the hell does Ukraine need nukes?"

You in 1994, presumably.

That's all well and good, but you're also missing a critical point.

The European Union is very likely to introduce a bill that will massively subsidize purchases of local (EU) military equipment. This will make all EU alternatives much, much more attractive than F-35s.

This is a great move by the EU - it drives a lot of military spending away from the US and into the local economies, while shoring up its own security as well as preventing being at the hands of a fickle fascist for maintenance and upgrades.

O mundo já mudou. Houve eleições nos EUA, houve uma posição em relação à NATO e ao mundo, afirmada pelo secretário para a Defesa e pelo próprio Presidente dos EUA, que tem que ser tida em conta também na Europa e no que tem a ver com Portugal.

E esse nosso aliado, que ao longo de décadas foi sempre previsível, poderá trazer limitações na utilização, na manutenção, nos componentes, em tudo aquilo que tem a ver com a garantia de que as aeronaves serão operacionais e serão utilizadas em todo o tipo de cenários.

Interview here, in Portuguese.

The world has already changed. There were elections in the USA, there was a position [change] regarding NATO and the world, stated by both the Defense Secretary and the President of the USA, that has to be taken into account in Europe and in Portugal.

Our ally, who through decades has always been predictable [as in steadfast], may bring limitations to using, to maintaining, to components, anything that relates to the assurance that the planes are operational and can be used in all types of scenarios.

For some context, Portugal has an aging fleet of F-16s. The national Air Force wants to replace these with F-35s, but that is no longer likely to happen.

He was asked if Portugal would instead purchase, for example, French aircraft, but he declined to answer.

What the heck are you on about. That's the worst possible solution to this, are you some sort of masochistic?

If Siri is something that needs to be paid for, don't bundle it with the system. Charge extra from the start, and people can opt in to that shit.

Also, they run a massively profitable software store, and THAT is what justifies and pays for the bug fixing and security patches to the overall OS.

The "cell a year" practice isn't to cover development costs, it's to bring in massive profit by milking the consumeristic herd that buys their crap.

While speculation, I don't doubt it one bit.

It's unlikely you'd be able to fly these without US maintenance and supplies in the first place, but even if you could, I'd trust them as much as pagers from Israel.

They probably saw the Zelensky "talks" and decided to save their time.

A French speaking person in Canada? Chance in a million surely.

How about them south Korean subs?

Can you ship moose ribs to Europe? Never had them, but seems like something I'd enjoy.

Yeah the world's doing its part, but it'd be nice if Americans did theirs.

Other than Bernie Sanders, the rest sure like to bitch a lot, but actions speak louder and they're not getting out of their couches...

Well, they do feel warm to the touch, but bananas only grow in warm and humid climates, so everything feels that way.

Or we make like, many more clones and give them blasters?

Thank you for the analysis, very insightful!

Do you reckon this is more of an oversight or bug in the BT stack, or a deliberately places backdoor as the title seems to suggest?

Reddit has rules against inciting coprophagy? TIL.

EDIT: since mods removed the post I was replying to, I'm adding context - it was accusing the poster above from spreading misinformation.

Clear as day.

How to tell: disinformation 101. It's presenting an utter lie as a fact. This is easy to check, just give the article or even the summary a quick read, or better yet actually listen to what Bernie said.

Why is such a blatant lie effective? For most people here it won't be effective. But if you're already "preconditioned" by seeing these kind of baseless claims elsewhere, this will serve to defuse your critical judgement and "save you the work" of thinking it through.

Same. Especially as a European, I wish we could avoid critical dependencies on American companies.

What do you mean? That's a surname.

Is your caps lock broken? What the heck is that second select?

May I suggest reading Carl Sagan's Cosmos? Or watch one of the TV shows.

While your average human is about as smart as a brick, there are so many minds throughout history that were able to pull humanity out of our dark caves and into space.

What we need, to survive as a species, is to nurture people, give them (proper) education, and more will come up.

You spent 4 moves doing nothing but pushing a tower rook out of the game, and didn't lose? Your opponent deserves what he's getting...

This "democrats are the alternative" is just more bullshit. Sure, they're not about the narcissistic cleptocracy, just about your run of the mill plutocracy. As if that's any better.

At least the incompetency and recklessness of the current clown-in-chief might make it all blow up sooner rather than later, which to be honest, is probably the best outcome at this point.