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I could imagine training in Ukraine being a whole lot easier to arrange than to have to arrange visa's, housing and transport for your troops, only to then also have to deal with doing your exercises on someone elses training ground, who might have all sorts of complicated paperwork before you...

If we didn't want the war to spill over to areas that affect us, we should have funded Ukraine appropriately to end the war quickly. It's nice that it's an LNG tanker, the methane will either get released into the air or burned away, preferably burned away to decrease climate effects. But the...

Here in NL we had a pretty acceptable 7.38 dollar per gallon before the conflict. Now it's 10.85 dollar per gallon. This is including a high tax of course, I don't know if you do or don't include that in the listed price in the US for this stuff? I guess it's nice that it's cheaper to take the...

I find it quite wild that my Aliexpress feed now has the drone-specific fibre reels popping up in it. I can't see any use for it outside of the battlefield. Where else are the ridiculously long ranges needed in an RF-hostile environment that you can't just use long range RF links with GPS return...

From what I've read when that Russian ship was hit, the risk of a huge detonation is not very big. LNG is pretty hard to light on fire by virtue of being liquid and freezing cold. You're not putting the fire out or saving the ship, but it won't go off like a ship full of explosives. The LNG...

Doing what @inemesitaffia did is already against the soapbox rules I think, no link and runs. For the contents of what he posted:

Until the state of Israel gets worse sanctions and public treatment than the South African apartheid regime did, I don't think I can be convinced that the cause is anti-semitism instead of the natural reaction to a state perpetrating horrifying crimes and its citizens that seemingly support...

Yeah, me too. Generally this is a pretty reliable regional news website, but it does seem to be pretty sparse in sources for this piece. So far the only articles about this case in the Netherlands that I can find are the article in the regional paper 'Tubantia', and an exact copy of the article...

Huh, that's weird. It's from a regional news website that has a paywall, so I just shared the link I used to bypass the paywall.

You think ICE is just a far away thing on the other side of the Atlantic, but occasionally it even ends up in my local regional news: https://archive.is/eJTBO Some 40-ish year old guy living and working in Texas for 15 years on a marriage-based Green Card got divorced and summarily deported...

Yes, but suppliers should make a best effort to avoid such things. In this case apparently one sales agent even explicitly said that there would be extra costs because the sale was illegal afainst sanctions, and another proposed transshipping through Turkey to avoid sanctions. If such avenues...

Trump: 'They're war heroes just because they were killed! I like people that weren't killed in action'

A few months ago I encountered an acquaintance who was trying to find someone to come work at a new startup with them. That startup was a machine vision startup that pivoted from something else towards doing AI-assisted last-mile delivery... of explosives by drone. The idea that random tiny...

Even if the USA can easily, for example, kidnap the Dutch prime minister, what would this accomplish exactly? It's not like a dictatorial system where the dictator is the essentia center of the regime. A democracy can just elect a new leader, and that election would likely go very anti-American.

I always assumed this was just a good joke account, were they seriously meant to be a large group of deep state park service employees?

At least here in the Netherlands, there's a big difference between the coast guard (kustwacht) and the rescue services (KNRM, akin to British RNLI). Rescue services rescue mariners in distress, with small shore-based boats. They are independent from the government and funded mainly by donations...

They will be able to do what they want, so long as it is exactly what the US wants. Even if someone who campaigns on promises that run counter to the wishes of the US manages to win elections, they have a huge implied threat hanging over them. And to be clear, the wishes of the US will be the...

Here bank transfers are instant. Why would you want money to float? Cash doesn't float either. If you tap or enter your card and type your pin for the amount of money stated on the card machine, you are paying at that point. No backsies.

Jesus, I just listened to news on the radio and it was only the usual 'Angry America throws some explosives around', which could theoretically still de-escalate. Good luck to anyone on that side of the atlantic. What a way to start the year.

Man, America is messed up... Her in NL a debit card transaction costs somewhere between €0.05 and €0.25, and of course some manageable monthly charges for the payment device for the shopkeeper. Generally having customers pay by card is preferred because the time cost of handling cash is higher...