Pons_Aelius @ Pons_Aelius @kbin.social

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When I grow up, I'm going to bovine EM university!! - Ralph Wigam

That;s why you need to go with Greek mythology, it is still public domaine.

Could be Cerberus. If so we will need Theseus or maybe Hercules.

No. You are posting content interesting to you, that is relevant and not breaking any rules. While they are not and commenting about what they don't want to see but not posting anything here themselves.

Counterpoint:

All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.

It is not breaking any rules.

It is news from a legitimate news site.

It is not spam.

In five months you have created 3 threads and none in this community.

I imagine there is a more diverse audience here than that.

Then post the content you want to see.

One reason is that the dust cloud that formed our solar system have already gone through several rounds of of star formation and supernova to seed it with the heavy elements.

The second reason is that when the sun reached fusion and started pumping out the solar wind it pushed a lot of the lighter elements to further out in the solar system. That is why the rocky planets are the inner four and the gas giants are the outer four.

Earth has a much higher proportion of heaviest elements than the proto-cloud (which was metal rich in the first place) because of the second reason.

Exactly. Money for influence, except without twitter there is no influence or money and the Saudis are used to getting what they paid for.

If Twitter goes insolvent he looses all of his money he has invested in Twitter

He has also lost the money other people invested with him, like the Saudi Royal family.

Money comes and money goes but bone saws are forever...

Assume the pig is spherical, frictionless and ignore wind resistance.

NotaHoneyPot

On an unsecured, password free hotspot.

And what?

Hoping people will change is a fools game. If a group of people have turned into people you don't want to be around anymore and you have expressed the issues to them and they do not see the problem or did not attempt to change.

Cut you losses.

Find people whose values and outlook you do agree with and invest time creating new friendships and connections.

You have the option to disable sponsorblock in freetube.

Beijing offered Taiwan pilot US$15 million to steal US-made helicopter: court

The pilot, identified by his surname Hsieh, was approached in June by mainland Chinese intelligence officials through a retired Taiwanese army officer to fly the CH-47 Chinook helicopter onto the aircraft carrier

The ch-47 is a 62 year old design, surely it would have been cheaper for the PLA just to buy one second hand from the many countries that operate them.

Headline in article:

Beijing offered Taiwan pilot US$15 million to steal US-made helicopter:

Beijing offered Taiwan pilot US$15 million to steal US-made helicopter: court

Taiwanese pilot planned to defect to mainland China with US-made army helicopter, court told

A Taiwanese army pilot was offered US$15 million to defect by landing an US-made transport helicopter on a People’s Liberation Army Navy aircraft carrier during a military drill near the island, according to prosecutors.

But the scheme fell through after the officer was arrested in August for allegedly spying for Beijing, a Taiwan court has heard.

The pilot, identified by his surname Hsieh, was approached in June by mainland Chinese intelligence officials through a retired Taiwanese army officer to fly the CH-47 Chinook helicopter onto the aircraft carrier, the Taiwan High Court Prosecutors Office said in an indictment revealed by lawmakers on Monday.

“According to the instruction from the [mainland] agents, Lieutenant Colonel Hsieh was asked to fly the helicopter at low altitude along the coastline to the Chinese Communist carrier which would be staging drills close to the waters 24 nautical miles [44km] off [Taiwan],” the indictment said.

In exchange, prosecutors said Hsieh would be paid NT$200,000 (US$6,355) per month, and the mainland side would help evacuate his family to Thailand in the event of a cross-strait conflict.

Mainland China launches military drill near Taiwan in ‘severe warning to separatist forces’

Hsieh initially declined the offer because it was too risky, but later accepted the proposition when mainland agents raised their offer to US$15 million with a US$1 million “deposit”, if he accepted, the indictment said.

Hsieh also proposed that the PLA stage the drill in waters near the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung so that he would not need to cross the median line that separates the island and the mainland in the Taiwan Strait, therefore minimising the chance the helicopter would be intercepted by Taiwan’s air force, according to prosecutors.

The indictment said that Hsieh held a teleconference with mainland operatives in July to discuss the details of the alleged defection, including helping his family immigrate to Thailand.

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The prosecutors later arrested Hsieh and the retired officer following a tip-off, which “prevented the US-made aircraft from falling into the hands of the communist force”, the indictment said.

Chinese President Xi Jinping visits helicopter supplier for PLA’s Taiwan sorties

12 Oct 2023

[President Xi Jinping at the Changhe Aircraft Industries facilities on Wednesday, during an inspection visit to eastern Jiangxi province. Photo: Xinhua]

The would-be defection came to light on Monday after lawmakers grilled Taiwan’s defence minister Chiu Kuo-cheng in a meeting over the security lapse within the military and measures the ministry were to adopt in response.

“I feel pained too, to have discovered a case like this and those allegedly involved must be dealt with according to the law,” Chiu told lawmakers.

The defence ministry also issued a separate statement on Monday, saying the military and security agencies in Taiwan had conducted an internal investigation and fully cooperated with the judiciary in its probes.

China’s PLA sends dozens of warplanes near Taiwan as island holds annual Han Kuang military drills

Hsieh’s case surfaced a week after Taiwanese prosecutors indicted a group of active and retired officers on November 27 for allegedly spying for Beijing.

The case also came as the ministry reported that the PLA’s Shandong battle group sailed south through the Taiwan Strait on Monday on the mainland side of the median line. No further details were provided by the ministry.

Around the time Hsieh was first approached by the mainland agents, the same battle group passed through the same area on June 21.

Taiwan’s military must objectively assess PLA then ‘strengthen ourselves’

23 Oct 2023

[Taiwanese Defence Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng told reporters on Monday that in preparing for war “we should not rest our hopes on the mistakes of others”. Photo: CNA]

Beijing, which views Taiwan as its territory, to be taken under control by force if necessary, has intensified its military operations around the self-ruled island since August last year after then US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taipei.

Beijing said the visit was a violation of its sovereignty and a breach of the US’s one-China policy.

The United States, like most countries, does not recognise Taiwan as an independent state, but is opposed to any unilateral change by force in the cross-strait status quo.

If people see the problem guy getting called out then they’ll reflect on themselves.

Or they won't and at least you will know it is time to move on,

I'm the opposite, Odo will always be Clayton Endicott III.

True. To them it is classical music.

Another example

Considering the group started in Aus, Aka daka is the correct pronunciation...

And also read the meta comments who are dunking on the I don't care crowd...but still opened the thread hoping to see them.

Etc

etc

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TLDR: It's meta all the way down.