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  • Hardly any US aid to Ukraine is money. Mostly the amounts you see is the value of the aid.

    The US sends Ukraine weapons and munitions that come from their own stock, and buy new ones for the US

    • Older munitions that are closing on their expiration date get used instead of the US paying for refurbishment.
    • Phased out hardware is donated as aid or lend/lease meaning the US buys the equipment they do want instead.
    • Limited amount of new stuff is donated
    • The actual money is then spent by the US, on replacement equipment. (This is purchased from US contractors who manufacture the equipment in the US and Pay Americans their salary).
  • Wanting privacy is OK, and your link to the video on the face ID of the bank also helped explain what you where talking about.

    It's the way you wrote it that came across if you where some conspiracy nutcase and that causes downvotes.

    Many people share concerns about the use and storage of PII by for profit companies and governments without any oversight on what actually happens with the data. It is good that waryness on who you provide what data to is Becoming more mainstream. I remember years ago people would look at me funny if I replied "no thank you" when asked my zip code in a store. Now a lot more people do it.

  • Good, there should be consequences for not adhering to your contracts, and misusing PII.

  • Probably also for the Q-Anon level lunacy with the government apps n stuff.

  • Are they the same thing?

    Criticism can be harrasment, but harrasment does not nessecary be criticism.

    I would imagine the line would be somewhere that concensus (sometimes in the form of the law) say it is. The target of the criticism alone would not be a good measure by itself (I could imagine large polluters would find protest against them harrasment a lot sooner than what the general public would think it is.).

    Does the line then become visible when it targets individuals? I think it is a very interesting question.

  • Isn't apple just offering apple music at least margin then to keep users in their ecosystem

  • Meh, the US will slap enough tariffs on these things to make their own Autoindustry competitive again.

    So will the EU.

    But china has a gigantic middle-class that can afford these things, so I hope they all switch to EV en masse.. it's a win for the planet!

  • Company is beholden to the Chinese government, apparently that is worse than beholden to a manchid and a group of ultrarich shareholders.

  • Heel sneu dat dit soort onzin verkocht wordt en dat de mensen die mentaal kwetsbaar zijn zo in een fabeltjes fuik gezogen worden met alle gevolgen van dien.

    En dan de advocaten en coaches die hier dan weer op azen en misbruik van maken.

    Heel sneu.

  • Me and the wife each separately looked through lists of names on those sites, then we compared notes on ones we liked. This lead to our shortlist. Over the course of a few weeks we managed to narrow it down untill we had a name we both liked with the advantage of having said it out loud many times.. so it was good.

  • You being paid by apple to fear monger about sideloading?

    If you fear this, just leave the sideloading to others.

  • The bulk of their recruitment is voluntary.

    • They offer large signing bonuses and get their minorities to enlist and get blown up.
    • Criminals are offered Amnesty for surviving 6 months in a stormZ unit.

    Neither are forced. Russian civil unrest will only grow if enough of their soldiers don't make it home. It will take a lot of Ukranian doing in order to combat years of propaganda. But now the government will be forced to spend 30pct of their budget on the military it will be harder and harder to maintain "special military operations" is going to plan.

  • The moment each show got a pre-reel for another Amazon show this was clearly the path they where taking.

    Already cancelled a good 6 months ago.

  • What they claim will be irrelevant, if the UK and any other countries decide that this was not the case, the casus belli will be made.

  • These telecom titans can plan and manage their networks. This is not strange at all, the bulk was probably phased out already, but all as late as possible to minimize the opportunity cost.

  • Who cares?! Affordable, Safe, Enough range, Enough space, Comfy.

  • Especially when playing 3rd person games, I find that I enjoy looking at a woman more than at a man in. Also mostly I think the character customization is better.

  • Hogwarts legacy please, my kids would love it. Merry Christmas!