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New comment by ta20240528 in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

ta20240528 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 11:13:15 +0000

For active soldiers, yes - kill them, any time, anywhere. That's what "at war" means. Its not a policing operation.

New comment by ta20240528 in "Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland"

ta20240528 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 11:07:00 +0000

Oh stop being so self-loathing: Israel was created by a mandate from the League of Nations.

So, most of the planet (1)

(1) Well, excluding Ethiopia because they still thought it was cool to have slaves.

New comment by ta20240528 in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

ta20240528 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 05:58:33 +0000

China. If they wanted to.

New comment by ta20240528 in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

ta20240528 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 05:57:18 +0000

Come now American people,

The UK and France have long had a project 'on the shelf' to substitute the missiles with the French M51 ballistic missiles.

They don't want to do it, they'll do it if they have to.

New comment by ta20240528 in "Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence"

ta20240528 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:58:02 +0000

"The concern about a new dependency on China is real,"

The dependency is latent, is only become a problem when you (USA) does something to dick with China's dependency on you.

If you don't do that, no problems. The rest of us live just fine depending on things from China.

New comment by ta20240528 in "Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland"

ta20240528 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:41:31 +0000

You are mistaking the battle for the war: Denmark / EU would no doubt lose the BATTLE for Greenland. Within hours.

But the sun would rise the next day and the USA won't like the 'non-kinetic' consequences. Too many to enumerate.

Eventually the adults in USA would just return it.

New comment by ta20240528 in "Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland"

ta20240528 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:17:11 +0000

You clearly don't know British understatement.

Firing on one British officer would be as bad a firing on 10000.

It's about lines.

New comment by ta20240528 in "Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland"

ta20240528 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:15:02 +0000

Nah mate,

Rich powerful countries could also keep slaves and no one would be able to stop it by force.

But they don't. Civilisation advances.

New comment by ta20240528 in "Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland"

ta20240528 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:10:57 +0000

The UK only had to send a single officer to Greenland to stop Trump's previous attempt to annex Greenland.

That was a signal, thankfully there are still adults in the USA who recognised it.

New comment by ta20240528 in "AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE"

ta20240528 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 11:48:45 +0000

From The United States Uniform Code of Military Justice: "Attacking civilians is unequivocally a war crime".

https://ucmj.us/is-attacking-civilians-a-war-crime/

@dang: you've banned members from this forum before for messy threads merely discussing apartheid. Surely advocating for war crimes — that the US itself considers crimes — is beyond the pale?

New comment by ta20240528 in "AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE"

ta20240528 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:38:25 +0000

That's a war crime.

New comment by ta20240528 in "AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE"

ta20240528 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:45:55 +0000

… but they did bomb apartment buildings in Tehran. I saw that with my own eyes.

Stick to the challenge: what won't you accept? Nothing?

New comment by ta20240528 in "AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE"

ta20240528 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 06:29:53 +0000

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New comment by ta20240528 in "AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE"

ta20240528 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:33:20 +0000

Agreed. But that wasn't the OP's question.

New comment by ta20240528 in "AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE"

ta20240528 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:00:14 +0000

I can't guess what the USA wants other than a distraction from the raping-of- children saga, but I bet Israel would settle for "we acknowledge your right to exist and won't fund or encourage organisations that plan to harm you."

If Saudi Arabia can get there…

New comment by ta20240528 in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

ta20240528 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:43:22 +0000

Note that in 36 odd states in the USA companies and their officers (i.e real people) cannot boycott Israel (or even say nasty things) and then do business with the state.

By law.

So, not so much free speech.

New comment by ta20240528 in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

ta20240528 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:17:13 +0000

No need for a clearance, merely explain that

1. fibre-optic traffic is a beam of light

2. this beam can be passed through a glass prism…

3. the prism splits off say 20% of the light by intensity

4. this 20% is identical to the 80%

5. both the 20% and 80% component are 'bright' enough to be used

6. the 80% continues on its merry way, the 20% is redirected for 'other' uses.

New comment by ta20240528 in "Luce: First Electric Ferrari"

ta20240528 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 09:06:13 +0000

vetroresina or steel?

New comment by ta20240528 in "Luce: First Electric Ferrari"

ta20240528 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:22:57 +0000

Yes, the dashboard must be tan. Like in Magnum PI.

New comment by ta20240528 in "AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder"

ta20240528 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 12:21:10 +0000

I'll vibe code when vibe-coding can make a frontier LLM from scratch.

Meta-circularity is the real test.

After all, I can make new humans :)