“World War III started 3 years ago” is the stuff of a conspiracist’s fever dream and is not based in any objective reality
I would have said that too...until I watched the Ryan McBeth video about it. I'm still not sure he's correct but he does make a convincing argument that were not only in it but that it started in 2014.
The damn things cost 1.1 Billion each to build plus another 690 Million to fully load for a combined total (each) of something like 1.7 Billion dollars or 170 Billion dollars for 100 of them. There's no way the US Army, which is who operates the Patriots, fit that into their 2023 Budget. It's simply not possible.
Since the study was from Europe I'm going to assume that the primary thing holding people back from plugging in is that they can't. Many, if not most, of them will live in multi-tenant dwellings and most of those dwellings likely don't have the infrastructure to make it possible.
It's the same problem that apartment dwellers here in the US have, there's nowhere convenient to recharge.
At this point, I honestly don’t care if the Arab world stomps them flat.
You would likely end up caring a whole helluva lot when Israel hammers their red funni button and turns the capital cities of the attacking nations into glass.
People can claim that they wouldn't do it but THE use case for nukes is existential threat...and that's exactly what you're describing. Its in those exact situations that Atomic Fire comes out to play.
The Russian and Chinese propaganda machines are making headway for two very clear reasons:
Liberal Immigration Policy.
Rapidly diminishing economic prospects.
The first one is nearly brain dead simple to resolve. Tighten controls on immigration. Like it or not that seems to be what many voters want and the continuing refusal to be responsive to that makes politicians out of step with their constituents. Are these Representative Democracies or not?
The second is more nuanced but also relatively straightforward; stop outsourcing Blue Collar / Manufacturing work to low labor cost places like China. In fact the whole trends needs to reverse and those jobs needs to brought back!
That's it. Those two things explain the rising support for the "Far Right" in both the Europe and the United States. The person pulling the lever for a Right-Oid candidate isn't doing it because they love Russia or Putin, they are doing it because they want meaningful employment that allows them to be at least somewhat comfortable.
Simple mechanisms for flagging/reviewing misinformation would be helpful
It would be helpful but it would only be a band-aid on the sucking chest wound of economic issues. There's also the very real problem of who gets to declare something as "misinformation". There's absolutely no way I would entrust our Government with that power and I trust the private companies running Media and Social Media outlets even less.
I'm interested to know how the Mexican Government, who also had / has the trace data, is bound by the Tiahart Amendment.
I know it's going to be an unpopular opinion but I really see no problem with the Tiahart Amendment shielding Firearms Manufacturers and Gun Stores. The Manufacturers are already regulated and monitored directly by the Federal Government and Gun Stores can only make sales in compliance with Federal Law. They should not be culpable in either Criminal or Civil court for that reason. The truth is that most of the organization who want that data aren't working in Good Faith and only want it so they can launch lawsuits meant to force Manufacturers and Sellers out of business.
It gets even worse at the individual level. There is absolutely zero cause for firearm transaction records to an individual to be publicly available. It's not only a gross violation of privacy but it's also a security concern.
What you SHOULD be mad about is why the BATFE, who clearly and provably does have this data, isn't doing something with it. They already know literally everything in this article and yet they don't seem to be doing much about it. Why?
It's not difficult to understand. The SACEUR doesn't speak for NATO as an organization and in fact the idea that Christopher Cavoli is "NATO’s top military officer" would come as quite a surprise to his boss Admiral Rob Bauer the Chair of the NATO Military Committee.
Admiral Bauer, unlike Cavoli, actually does speak for NATO.
What does Admiral Bauer have to say? His statements are the official ones, not the just opinion of an Officer.
The Federal Trade Commission's Office of Technology has issued a warning to automakers that sell connected cars. Companies that offer such products "do not have the free license to monetize people’s information beyond purposes needed to provide their requested product or service," it wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. Just...
According to that Finnish Researchers project, on his own ES8 from NIO, about 90% of the data the car generates is being sent directly to China. The data includes the cars physical location as well as specific information about the driver.
Having an inner voice makes it easier to absorb the information in a book
I think all of our brains are wired different and the different wiring leads to advantages in one thing but it's probably a disadvantage for others. For instance I have no inner voice but my reading speed, with comprehension, is well faster than nearly anyone I've ever met. I can even sometimes recall precisely where on a page a given word or phrase was located, even years after reading the material. However I'm almost entirely unable to imagine a 3 dimensional object and rotate it in my "minds eye".
I'm not the OP either but my brain seems to work the same way that yours and theirs do. I'd say you did a good job of describing how it works for people like us.
One difference though is that you don't seem to have the visual recall that I do. I don't have a "photographic" memory but I could probably recall the hypothetical map as a visual object and examine it for additional information that I didn't notice the first time.
I can personally push it to a visualisation, but it takes significant mental effort, and the results are unstable.
You may actually be better at this than I am. Describing my results as "unstable" would charitable. I also don't get dog breeds, just amorphous and blurry blobs with rorsarch like colors slapped on them.
Like, bruh, I’m a dude, but I’d rather see a bear than another man if I was on a solo backpacking trip.
I think you may have a skewed perception of the risks, at least where I live. As someone who is out in the wilds of the Rocky Mountains on a frequent basis I'd much rather wander into another man than a bear. Here in Wyoming Brown Bears, aka Grizzlies, are now mauling or killing multiple people per year during wilderness encounters however I haven't heard of a single random wilderness encounter where a man attacked or killed someone in at least a decade.
If you are hiking somewhere that only has Black Bears than yeah you are statistically safer with the Bear. If you hike here though you are statistically safer with the man.
It's all good, I just "outdoor" in a place with a large and growing number of Brown Bears so sometimes I can't help evangelizing a bit about how dangerous they can be, particularly in the spring and fall. Aside from that I have nothing further to say. 🙂
why isn’t more being done to improve security and find the criminals?
It is but Law Enforcement and Healthcare I.T. can't keep up with the growing number of threats and threat actors. From the perspective of someone in Healthcare I.T. I've watched lots of money, time, and effort get spent on securing systems but it's never quite enough and it never happens fast enough.
MFA all the things, HIPS on everything, EDR on everything, Zero Trust everything, regular patching of all systems, High End Firewalls, encrypt all the things, bi-annual security reviews, DNS Filtering, regular network sweeps for unknown or unmanaged equipment...and you can still end up getting whacked by a 0 Day exploit in a commercial helpdesk tool. (This is what got Change / Optum).
The criminals typically belong to overseas hacking groups, many of which are in places that Western Law Enforcement can't reach like Russia, Belarus, China, and North Korea.
It's a nearly impossible challenge and it's never going to end as long as these systems have any path to the public internet.
Fixing the issue doesn’t line the pockets of investors.
Yeah it does. Cyber Security companies are making tons of money selling things like EDR, High End Firewalls, DNS Filtering, MFA, and so on. Healthcare Institutions are buying the stuff but none of it is enough.
I want a $10000 car that would normally be inflated to $30000 in the US.
You can't make that same car in the United States for anything like the same price. Even ignoring the Chinese Governments heavy subsidies there's still a massive cost gap due to worker compensation, cost of compliance with safety regulations, cost of compliance with environmental regulations, and a whole host of other things.
The cost of manufacturing in the United States is radically higher than it is in China and that simply isn't fixable unless you're going to unwind Union pay deals, remove environmental laws, and reduce safety restrictions.
You cannot have both, so which are you choosing? Are you going to go with your wallet like a self absorbed capitalist or are you going to support union workers, stronger environmental laws, and more worker safety?
When this law is signed New Hampshire will have stronger child marriage law than Australia and their existing law is roughly equivalent to Australia's. (Basically 18 with controlled exceptions down to a minimum of 16).
Your horse isn't nearly as tall as you are pretending it is.
Frankly, I never understood why businesses were invested in the office suite anyway.
When MS Office really took off back in the Office 97 days there weren't any good alternatives and now MS Office is so embedded that it's almost impossible to dislodge.
I'm sort of confused by this. Just last week Ukraine announced that they'd start flying F-16s after Orthodox Easter was over...so where are those F-16s coming from?
he should have worked with Biden before shutting off anything.
There's no actual proof that anything was turned off for that attack; there's a claim that it was but there's also a claim that the service was never ON around Sevastopol to begin with.
We saw this same kind of twisted press coverage when Starlink started disabling its service over the ground in contested areas of Ukraine; supposedly it was being done to damage Ukraine's war effort but the truth is that US Federal Law constrains the sale of products and services considered "dual use" and Starlink has to play under those rules.
The US is currently damn grumpy with China for sending "dual use" technology to Russia despite the sanctions so it's not just something that Musk / Starlink pulled out of their ass in order to shift blame.
Musk is an asshole but I do get tired of the twisted media coverage surrounding Starlink.
A group of influential Republican senators has sent a letter to International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan, warning him not to issue international arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials, and threatening him with “severe sanctions” if he does so....
France nuking American Aircraft Carriers?!?! At that point there wouldn't be any need for "boots on the ground" because France would be nothing but glass and smoking craters.
20240520 UPDATE: I just ran winupdate on an ancient win10 surface and after the same 643 error two more times, and running through all the available updates, it's now reporting I'm up to date. yippee....
Shiiit, I have a powershell script for this. Takes 90 seconds or less to fix it on systems with an SSD. Takes 2-3 minutes on HDD systems. I've done hundreds of times since the January 2024 update.
You can literally copy / paste either of these commands into an elevated Powershell session. They create the directories needed, go fetch the script from Github, then execute it with the necessary arguments. I've run this on Windows 10, Windows 11, and all Windows Server versions from 2016 through 2022.
This is a “Confirmation” version. It will stop and prompt you before actually changing anything.
You may see a reboot warning if you have un-applied Windows Updates. In nearly all cases you can safely ignore the warning but the decision is up to the user.
If it fails with an error about insufficient space to resize the partition and your storage isn't full then it's likely that you have immovable files at the end of the primary partition. Turn off Hibernation and System Restore, which will remove those files, then reboot and try again. Remember to turn Hiberation and / or System Restore back on when done. I've only seen that happen a couple of times which is why it's not scripted in, just wasn't worth the effort.
A German government investigation, led by the Foreign Ministry, found that Russian hackers with state support targeted the Social Democratic Party in the governing coalition....
That's exactly it and it's why I have enjoyed the last 2+ years of pushing my clients CyberSecurity to new levels. Every time I get one of them to plug a gap it's another tiny blow to Russia's efforts.
since a crapton of manufacturing and fabrication already happens in China, it does make a lot of sense.
Western manufacturing and fabrication is already pulling out of China; this action will accelerate that trend. It's also a poor bet due to China's slow motion demographic collapse.
Frankly this could be implemented tomorrow and by the end of 2034 it would be dead; torn apart by internal conflict and China's gradual economic decline.
No. You don't get to deny the very real PERSONAL harm done by this condition. No amount of socioeconomic changes could ever stop the personal problems.
Europe CANT do more. They don’t have the military strength due to perpetual underfunding. It’s precisely what every US President since Bill Clinton has been bitching about. The wolf is at the door and they’re every bit as unprepared as has been claimed for the last 30 years.
Putin warns South Korea: Sending killer weapons to Ukraine would be a ‘big mistake’ ( www.politico.eu )
Russian president delivered the warning after Seoul announced it would consider arming Kyiv....
Romania to send Patriot defense system to Ukraine ( kyivindependent.com )
Battery electric vehicles lose their spark in Europe as hybrids steal the show ( www.theregister.com )
Netanyahu Blasts Biden Admin For ‘Withholding’ Weapons From Israel In Harshest Criticism Yet: ‘Inconceivable’ ( www.forbes.com )
Russia mocks Macron following EU election defeat ( www.politico.eu )
Russia was definitely watching the results of the EU election....
Hacked data reveals which US gun sellers are behind Mexican cartel violence ( www.usatoday.com )
Tucker Carlson launches show on Russian state TV ( www.newsweek.com )
EXCLUSIVE: ICC seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimes over October 7 attack and Gaza war | CNN ( edition.cnn.com )
Russia lacks 'numbers for strategic breakthrough' in Ukraine: NATO ( www.euronews.com )
Moscow says it will keep pushing its offensive in Ukraine, though NATO doubts Russia has the resources to make a significant breakthrough....
Connected cars’ illegal data collection and use now on FTC’s “radar” ( arstechnica.com )
The Federal Trade Commission's Office of Technology has issued a warning to automakers that sell connected cars. Companies that offer such products "do not have the free license to monetize people’s information beyond purposes needed to provide their requested product or service," it wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. Just...
TIL that some people do not have an inner voice and think in different nonverbal ways. ( humanities.ku.dk )
cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/2916897...
SIGMA-PILLED bell hooks ( lemmy.cafe )
Cyberattack forces major US health care network to divert ambulances from hospitals ( www.cnn.com )
US to impose tariffs on Chinese EVs next week ( www.arenaev.com )
Barcelona is parched — and angry at quenched tourists ( www.politico.eu )
The yawning gap between locals’ and visitors’ consumption is stoking long-standing resentments ahead of an election....
The Real Reason Your Favourite Game Studios Are Getting Closed Instead Of Sold ( www.thegamer.com )
Republican defends child marriage: I'm "pro-choice" ( www.newsweek.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15199291...
Microsoft wipes out evidence of real ads in Windows 11 Start menu ( www.xda-developers.com )
Biden withheld bomb shipment to Israel out of fear it could be used in Rafah ( abcnews.go.com )
Denmark to send Ukraine first F-16s in summer, Netherlands in fall, Dutch defense minister says ( euromaidanpress.com )
Poland Funds 20,000 Starlink Devices to Support Ukraine's Military ( www.kyivpost.com )
Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose ( arstechnica.com )
EXCLUSIVE: “You Have Been Warned”: Republican Senators Threaten the ICC Prosecutor over Possible Israel Arrest Warrants ( zeteo.com )
A group of influential Republican senators has sent a letter to International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan, warning him not to issue international arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials, and threatening him with “severe sanctions” if he does so....
Ukraine can strike inside Russia with British weapons, UK’s Cameron says ( www.politico.eu )
UK’s top diplomat also pledges £3 billion of annual military help to Ukraine for ‘as long as it takes.’...
Microsoft won't fix Windows 0x80070643 errors, manual fix required ( www.bleepingcomputer.com )
20240520 UPDATE: I just ran winupdate on an ancient win10 surface and after the same 643 error two more times, and running through all the available updates, it's now reporting I'm up to date. yippee....
Germany accuses Russia of cyberattack on governing party ( www.dw.com )
A German government investigation, led by the Foreign Ministry, found that Russian hackers with state support targeted the Social Democratic Party in the governing coalition....
Second Boeing whistleblower dies suddenly ( www.newsweek.com )
Just saw this while getting gas. Why is it illegal to get less than 4 gallons? ( lemmy.world )
The Internet Archive's last-ditch effort to save itself ( lunduke.locals.com )
De-dollarisation gains traction among Brics ( www.khaleejtimes.com )
Targeted excellence ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
Zelenskyy straight-up said Ukraine is going to lose if Congress doesn't send more aid ( www.businessinsider.com )
President Zelenskyy warned that Ukraine would lose the war if the US didn't send it more aid....