2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine (Part 3)

The War, on Drugs:

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I am an ignorant but I have been seeing people recently showing boat trackers and increased traffic to Odessa which sounds good.

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The Drone War in Ukraine is having ripple effects…

The unpredictable and complex nature of AI, however, complicates efforts to discern, ex ante, the right course of action. Even when humans follow all the legal and policy guidelines, the gap between human decision-making and machine action implies that outcomes may not be moral. Far from it.

What is moral may not be legal or wise – and vice versa.

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Came here to see if someone already posted the story about phone support.
(Of course you have. :joy:)

This guy put the “engineering” in “social engineering”.

Life hack. Literally.

I imagine a basement, somewhere in Russia, where someone answered the call and the first question was

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, and now the reaction to this news report likely is

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Now, can someone do something similar about those Iranian drones? Maybe get some advice on how to remotely shutdown the thing, or disarming them so they can be “safely landed”?

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I think I just heard a great swoosh as nearly half of all hands in Michigan’s UP raised a middle finger salute all at once.

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None of them have ever been part of Russia. They were parts of the Russian empire, and some were later part of or subject to the Soviet Union, but that’s it.

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Russian blogger came to Mariupol and found the real meaning of the “Russian World”: people living in and around the new builds devastated the playgrounds. After the video gained traction, the area was “cleaned”. The blogger returned for a check but found from the locals that the basements of these new builds were full of water after the guttering burst, and authorities did not want to deal with it. The foul smell fills properties across the whole house. Watch till the end.

What do the “Potemkin villages” of new buildings in Mariupol hide? What is hidden behind the beautiful picture of Russian propagandists where “Mariupol residents have already received housing and are living better than before”?

A Russian blogger came to Mariupol to show the revival of the city and add optimism to the situation, but SOMETHING WENT WRONG…

Listen to how ordinary city residents live in the once prestigious Cheryomushki district after more than 1,5 years of Russian occupation:

  • out of 25 apartment buildings, only 2.5 houses remain after Russian attack;
  • no lighting at all in the night in a whole district;
    • the occupying power avoids as much as possible compensation payments to people for repairs (they refuse compensation if a person, for example, has a formal 8m2 in a barn outside the city);
  • they give compensation not for the size of the apartment, but for 1 person registered in it);
  • people were simply deceived by promising full renovations of apartments destroyed by Russian bombings immediately after the occupation of the city - and then the administration simply retracted their words;
  • residents to whom Russia today pays $100 pensions are offered to make repairs in their apartments themselves, which approximately costs about $10,000;
  • the sewerage collector in a district was destroyed and not restored;
  • the city water supply service does not work because workers are not paid and are on strike.

In fact, all these people were liberated not from the “mystical Nazis,” but from all their property, which they had earned throughout their lives. But instead they were given Russian passports!

This sentence is still actual always: “Russia will always screw you over, son!”

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https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/04/politics/us-iran-seized-weapons-ukraine/index.html

…more than 3,000 assault rifles, 578,000 rounds of ammunition, and 23 anti-tank guided missiles… -CNN

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