Both them and China try very hard not to.

I’d love if this became a thing.

I’d like to save this piece of news and blast it in the face of the Polish government on the next Katyn anniversary.

How is the ICC both a US puppet and a US enemy right now?

I should start dieting

As one of the devops/sysadmin types, if we give access to prod data to preprod systems, they are now in audit scope and you have to harden them or we lose our insurance and compliance certs.

Obviously the solution is to build some system where everything works out, but it’s not as easy as “just give root to devs”.

Reminds me of this old aeronautical joke. Context is a plane maintenance log.

Plane grounded, airspeed indicator inaccurate above 500 kts. (Signature of the pilot)

Plane airworthy, could not reproduce issue on the ground. (Signature of mechanic)

The reason Trump is doing this is so that we are not focusing on the rift in the party over H1B visas.

Where the fuck are the Democrats hitting the issue while it’s hot with 3 interviews a day agreeing with the average Republican over Trump and Musk?

Yeah you’re right, mentally I added the part of the Caribbean that goes down to Venezuela to it.

It mostly would.

Hungary renamed an iconic square in Budapest like 10 years ago. Most of the city still calls it Moscow Square.

It technically lies between north and south america.

It is a more fitting name than that of the USA.

Yeah, maybe, but docking can be as simple as flying into a net, no precision necessary. And if you make it cheap, you can have twice as many, and worry less about equipment losses.

As it stands, Orbán is more likely to lose the 2026 election than not.

Hopefully that gives him something to worry about other than blocking stuff for Ukraine.

Also, I hope that if the German government won’t listen to common sense and decency, they will at least listen to Rheinmetall lobbyists. There is a Rheinmetall factory in Ukraine now, isn’t it?

Just to add to the other great advice, I’m an ex-tech worker and I went through this every odd year when I switched. Five times in seven years.

It’s always awkward since you are leaving for a reason, and shit always sucks. It’s not you, it’s the system. Focus on your new place. It never gets simpler.

I think the reload mechanism would double the price.

Cheap and disposable is the name of the game.

Also, while in practice SWIFT is controlled by joint western interests, Belgium has control of it, not the US.

If the US is not of one mind about lifting that part, if it can get bogged down in Congress, it’s going nowhere, as the Belgians will def not go along with Trump.

I hope you’re right.

This could be the catalyst to the EU pulling its head out its ass vis-à-vis defence.

It’s a good question what “loss” means here. A total disorganized rout is also a total loss, even though some men might be recoverable and still in fighting shape. The hardware is cooked though. And actually, a rout usually means the Ukrainians get to capture it, so there’s your new tank.

And I wouldn’t want to be the guy trying to find where hundreds of North Koreans ended up near Kursk, with them not speaking any language anyone would understand and not knowing the area.

The Kursk front has some of the biggest single hits the Ukrainians have delivered to Russian manpower though. Remember the troop convoys where artillery hits were killing dozens to hundreds of soldiers all at once since the freshly mobilized troops didn’t know where to go and were just sitting densely packed in trucks on the road?

Soviet-style battalions are half that size though. They usually get augmented with more hardware and are then used as independent units, in what the Russians call a Battalion Tactical Group.

If they lost a battalion, that’s 500-600 people, if they lost the whole BTG, it’s 700-800.

They want to own the internet and all the voices on it. That’s the long and short.