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You were saying?

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/north-korean-troops-russia-ukraine-vladimir-putin-war-b1198384.html

The North Korean troops are expected to be used to reinforce Putin’s military seeking to recapture a swathe of the Kursk region of Russia which was seized by Ukrainian forces in a surprise attack in the summer.

But despite reports that they were already involved in fighting, western officials believe that they are yet to have been sent into battle.

Dog, if you find yourself using radio free Asia as a source, take a step back and realize you're spewing bullshit.

Claiming that South Korean politics are subordinate to American politics isn't exactly unfair...

To this day, the US maintains a military presence on the DMZ, the zone separating the borders of the two countries. Twice a year, they conduct a mock invasion of the north with the ROK Army. The Republic of Korea’s army is copied from the US structure and was created by the US military occupation: they have four-star generals, they have a Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Republic of Korea (versus a Joints Chiefs of Staff of the United States of America). It shouldn’t come as a surprise: their military was created wholepiece in 1945 by the US presence in Korea. The South Korean equivalent of the CIA was named, you guessed it, the KCIA (now the National Intelligence Service).

More notably, ROK Forces obey the US officers present in Korea through the CFC, the Combined Forces Command. This is the only country in the world which is under this arrangement. While the CFC has changed its mandate a little bit in the past few years, it still states that in case of war involving the Republic of Korea, the US Army will take over command of the Korean forces. A state that has no agency over its military cannot be said to be a sovereign state.

South Korea was created from thin air by US generals

Agreed. I am becoming increasingly more skeptical of psychiatry since it seems like a means of downloading society's problems onto individuals.

I wish the questions weren't mandatory. I am only knowledgeable enough to fairly answer 5 or so of the questions.

Yup, same with PFAS and forever chemicals. Maybe I'm ignorant because I'm not a doctor, but I don't know if this line of thinking holds water - pun not intended.

A picture of soldiers training, a picture of a flag, and an extremely blurry video from radio free Asia.

For months, we've been watching 1080p footage of drones dropping bombs on Russians. The footage is so clear and plentiful that you can make our individual soldiers' stubble. Why is it that there is a complete lack of any sort of evidence like this for North Korean soldiers. Why arent there images of North Korean casualties? Ukraine has chomped at the bit to publish any Russian losses - Why would they suddenly stop for North korean losses?

More like if democracy breaks, people don't vote. Apathy doesn't come out of thin air.

Burden of proof understander has logged on.

So I've heard. Is there any evidence of this? A single picture even?

Is there a single picture or piece of evidence that points to DPRK soldiers in Ukraine?

Literally, this is a good point that I haven't thought of.

Notice the increase since 2015, which is when the 1.5C target was introduced.

At best, the target was completely ignored by the people who are both causing the most damage, as well as have the easiest means to mitigate it. At worst (and most cynical) , these unenforced "targets" are just a means of creating new billionaires. Our regulatory agencies and governments have been captured by special interests, and it should be clear to everyone that asking nicely is not working.

We are about to drive this car off the cliff, and billionaires are pressing down harder on the gas. At some point, we are going to have to explain to our children why we doomed them by failing to break out the guillotines.

Muh civility

Sheeiit I absolutely loved the first one, even only having played it for the first time last year. I was blown away at how well it holds up. I do recommend trying it if you have even a morsel of interest. Just my personal 2 cents tho.

That's not background, that's a free channel that showcases a polar bear in a snowstorm.

Dog.... just stop with the copium. It's embarrassing. Trump will never answer for his crimes, period. This should be abundantly clear after 8 years of flopped motions against him.

No Mueller report, no special council, no hush money case.... is ever going to stop this guy.

Give up on the idea of justice against this dude and start preparing for his dictatorship.

Great question.

That is definitely one of the big caveats of BEVs over diesels. A battery on an EV can only take in so much energy. Once you hit that ceiling, the battery won't take in any more current. Fun fact, having a super charged battery in a BEV causes all sorts of headache and can cost you performance.

You either have to switch back to service brakes or, as you mentioned, burn off energy as heat. Not sure how they're doing it with this truck, but on other BEV loaders which I've worked on, we add a hydraulic valve whose only purpose is to create flow, pressure, and subsequently heat. It basically just adds a dummy load. I suspect they tapped into the dump hydraulics and added such a valve for this truck.

You seem like the type who'd start dropping N bombs if you saw a person of color driving a car you deemed too loud.

Or maybe getting ableist as fuck if you saw a wheelchair-bound person rolling coal.

Sure, these are shitty things to do, but body shaming is the weapon of the enemy.

Seeing deplorable behavior doesn't give you a free pass to body shame, be racist, ableist, or misogynistic.

Good meme, but we really ought to end small-penis hatred.

Liberals will see no problem choosing polite, handwringing genocide over rowdy, bombastic genocide. They fall so easily for style points and optics completely devoid of substance.

20 years from now, when the only choices are between a dem who wants 20 genocide and a republican who wants 21, liberals will still be frothing at the mouths, blaming anti-genocide leftists for the country's devoluton into fascism. This is the logical conclusion of liberal "pragmatic utilitarianism"

In biology, one learns about a certain species of caterpillar that can only cross the threshold of metamorphosis by seeing its future butterfly. Proletarian subjectivity does not evolve by incremental steps but requires nonlinear leaps, especially by way of moral self-recognition through solidarity with the struggle of a distant people. Even when this contradicts short-term self-interest, as in the famous cases of Lancashire cotton workers’ enthusiasm for Lincoln and later for Gandhi, such efforts not only anticipate a world beyond capitalism, they concretely advance the working class’s march toward it.

Socialism, in other words, requires nonutilitarian actors, whose ultimate motivations and values arise from structures of feeling that others would deem spiritual. Marx rightly scourged romantic humanism in the abstract, but his personal pantheon — Prometheus and Spartacus, Homer, Cervantes, and Shakespeare — affirmed a heroic vision of human possibility. But can that possibility be realized in today’s world, a world where the “old working class” has been demoted in agency?

-Mike Davis