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This is good news, relatively speaking.

SMR technology is one of the most promising pieces of technological development in the nuclear power space.

Standardized factory production and completely sealed, so refueling is only at the factory, never on-site. Their also, small, but scalable depending on the needs of each site.

I'm not sure of the design this company is using, but I'm assuming they're leveraging a fail safe reactor, as in, it requires properly running systems to generate fission, but if those systems fail, the fission process stops. There are no secondary systems that have to kick in, it's a simple as either it's running properly, or it can't run it all.

As opposed to systems like Chernobyl, or 3 Mile Island, that required separate active safety systems to guard against catastrophic failures. But if those failed, they're backups failed, etc., well, meltdown.

North Korean troops are in Ukraine to gain valuable experience in modern combat, and bring it back to the DPRK. As well as to serve as technical advisors and in theater support personnel for North Korean systems being deployed by Russia.

They aren't there as a reserve source of cannon fodder, or secondary invasion force. Some have already died, and more will, but they're not there and enough numbers to seriously weaken their domestic security concerns, and that's not their purpose.

Shitty technicals are a dime a dozen, but this clearly had money, time, and skilled labor, all invested into it.

The gun turret looks decently welded to the body, possibly even the frame.

Replaced the glass on the back windows with metal for extra blast fragment and ricochet shielding. Possibly even additional steel plating for direct small arms fire protection, given how low the suspension is sitting.

Did one of the workers steal the suspension upgrade for himself? Is it designed only to be mobile long enough for it to get into position and lock itself down once the axle snaps?

Or did they blow the entire budget before realizing how fucked they were?

Did no one think to change the suspension out during the modification process?

Talk about a shitty technical.

Yeah, I can't believe the Canadian government cares about..... Canadian residents and citizens being gunned down, in Canada, on orders from the Indian government.

What? Intelligence agencies working with criminal gangs?

Next you'll try and convince me that covert operations are often funded with drug money.

Pimp my Matchbox

Oh god damn it, did I miss that ballot measure?

You know, I try and vote in every election, but I somehow missed the vote on "Support Ukraine or Universal Healthcare Care".

Shit.

Thanks, and you're welcome. Glad it was useful.

Trump is a symptom, not the cause. And while he most likely accelerated aspects of the decline, no, he didn't trigger it.

But neither did those wars, they're just what happens during an empire's death, pointless wars, death, and violence. An angry dying man's lashing out if you will.

Again, symptoms, yes, but not the cause.

I've already written a long enough comment for one day, but there's plenty of academic writings on the subject if you're interested.

Not that I'm going to disagree about the waning power of a dying empire, but India has historically charted its own course in regards to its international relations and dealings i.e. the Non-Aligned Movement of the Cold War.

It knows that it's a critical partner of the US Security State in regards to China, as well as being a significant regional power of its own. So it can buck US power a bit more openly and flagrantly when it comes to securing their own national interests.

It's also on average, a poorer country, relative to its size and influence. These trade deals are largely predicated upon India taking advantage of Russia's weakened position as a global energy exporter, and getting cut rate deals on Russian oil imports.

I believe India is also a huge importer of Russian grain and fertilizer, which I imagine they're also getting good deals on as well, given the current global dynamics.

You'll never catch me defending Modi, but you also won't catch me moralizing about developing, or underdeveloped, countries prioritizing their own energy and food supplies, over external concerns.

And I haven't even touched on the practical national security ties India has with Russia as one of its larger military industrial partners. Even as India is now, or planning on, moving away from Russian arms, they still rely on Russian industry for help maintaining their existing kit. That's just how arms exports works, it's why the global arms trade is so heavily linked to alliances. As an importer of a complex weapon systems, you have to trust that the source country isn't going to cut you off during a conflict, and can be relied upon to fulfill their production and service/support contracts. So for India to sever ties, or even openly embarrass Putin, could significantly weaken their national defense posture and preparedness.

Ironically, the war in Ukraine has shown Russia to be an unreliable partner because they have to redirect orders to their own front lines. This has been one of the important contributing factors for India to start moving away from Russian arms. But in the meantime, they still have a lot of Russian kit in active service.

And I say all this as an avid supporter of Ukraine, and someone who has long advocated for significantly larger, more advanced, and consistent, weapons transfers, and loosening restrictions on their use.

I included that last bit, because a lot of people tend to view acknowledging the fact that a lot of developing and poorer countries still rely on Russia for critical exports, and that shouldn't be moralized, as somehow implying an implicit personal support of Russia or the invasion.

The problem isn't the video feed per se, it's that the business model of IoT companies, especially cheap IoT companies, include selling off customer data to advertising and other surveillance capital type entities.

So, cheap hardware, lax security at best, and a business model that requires all their devices to have an internet connection to function properly, or access its full feature set.

Wait.... Even if users don't pay for this, their car still comes a WWAN module that is hardwired to their ignition. Yes, I realize it's more likely bolted on to the infotainment system and/or the car's RTOS, but it's still baked in.

No amount of copium is going to clear those minefields, or save the coming generations Ukrainians, who will continue to be maimed and killed by these for the foreseeable future..

The only real hope, is that there is a significant technological development that that both dramatically expedites the complete mapping of minefields, and allows demining personel to rapidily destroy the ordinace, while being outside of the blast and shrapnel radius.

If this is a real and documented concern, please provide sources so I can take a look.

Otherwise, no, batteries will not hold a charge for decades. Landmines and unexploded ordinance are analog. They will last as long as the mechanisms and explosive payload aren't damaged, or corroded.

Japanese cities were primarily built using wood as it was better suited for their climate and earthquakes. The fire bombing of Tokyo with a single deadliest attack on the Japanese mainland, killing even more than either atomic bomb drop.

They're referring to landmines, leftover from that region's wars of the mid-20th century: America's Vietnam & Cambodian war, French-Indochina war, Cambodian civil war, etc.

The legacy of landmines and chemical warfare is still regularly killing, maiming, and causes significant increases in fetal birth defects and other rare illnesses.

It's all relative. My cheap Chinese spyware SmartLife devices are free to report the hours I turn my lights on back to China as they please, but they sit on a segmented VLAN with per client isolation.

If they ever EOL'd them, I've got more than my money's worth, and yes, some of them can be flashed, but I'd probably just buy another well established cheap Chinese competitor.

But I agree, the above is not the use case and situation for every IoT device out there, and there are plenty of devices that I would never consider an internet/SaaS dependent version of e.g. medium to large home appliances.

As others have said, fast opening quick notes with basic formatting.

For example, if I get an unexpected call I need to write down more than a call back number, Wordpad was my go to.

Well, at least when back when I used Windows regularly.

This is going to be one of the horrors of Ukraine. A legacy of landmines that will not be cleared in most of our lifetimes, even if the war ended today.

Not the same as unexploded airdropped ordinance, but significantly worse.

Modern air defense is layered, and latest generations are layered and networked.

Short, medium, and long range all have different kill methods/platforms, but may share radar and sensors suites, along with command and control systems.

The operator, system, or mixture of both, then decides which targets are threats, and which kill system to engage them with.