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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • Translation using google translate on the image:

    At the moment, Ukrainian formations have made another attempt at a massive strike on the Crimean peninsula.
    To carry out strikes, both UAVs are used to destroy ground targets, and unmanned boats are used to attack ships of the Black Sea Fleet. Another goal is the Crimean Bridge.

    Judging by the explosions in the vicinity of Feodosia, one of the targets could have been the patrol boat “Sergei Kotov”, which was in that area. It is unknown whether there were hits or whether explosions occurred as a result of the destruction of the BECs.



  • “What I say, goes” might be the proper intention, I was being a little facetious in my initial translation but I decided against it.

    I personally would have liked to see a little more green in the broader German ambitions, and more push back against the Agri lobby.

    In terms of the war the self imposed constraints keep puzzling me and frustrating others. I just hope that Europe will now get serious on a European defense sector that is able to be self sufficient and can sufficiently standardize stuff across the various armies. In the mean time, Germany ordering another 100 Taurus from the manufacturer and sending Ukraine 2 batches of 50 would be helpful. No individual weapon is a game changer, but taking out that stupid bridge will be one.





  • My german writing is not very good so I won’t butcher your language.
    I considered translating the title to “I’m the chancellor, I tell it like it is”.

    I consider it a shame that Olaf refuses to release the bulls from their stable. I sort of understand his reluctance, but then I do not.

    • Usage on Russia proper. So far Ukranians have kept their word on usage of NATO weapons against Russia proper. Future compliance is assured with future aid.
    • Deployment of German soldiers. You either train Ukranians to do it (it’s not rocket science, LOL) or you have your soldiers do it remote. And if you really have to have people in country, ill bet dollars to donuts if you ask for volunteers, some techs familiar with Taurus will step up.

    I thought the leaked audio was hilarious, Soldiers discussing what soldiers are paid to discuss (options, requirements, risks). The leak itself is either monumentally stupid, or intentional. Im still hoping on the latter, but definately not discounting the former.








  • A reasonable response with worries we also share. Thanks for that.

    I’m from Europe and don’t understand why this should not just be resolved with taxes on the companies.

    The record profits of the companies are in my vision because the company does not have to do anything for the healthcare and pensions. So if the company does not have to care for it, but society requires it, this is where the government needs to act. Tax the companies and arrange healthcare and retirement stipends. This solves one issue by solving the other, allowing the company to keep doing what it’s doing without having to think about healthcare… that has been resolved.

    Individuals then have retirement benefits and can use private retirement insurance to supplement this.




  • A few hundred losing their jobs is kinda misrepresenting the situation isn’t it. If you keep seeing each company by itself in terms of firings but then group the market as a whole in terms of people with money in the market.

    It’s either a few thousand with money in the company vs the people fired from that company… Or the market vs all people fired in the market during these waves.

    Plus… when you are one of the fired people the impact can be deeply impactful, in the US even as far as having no health insurance. While less profit does not have such an impact.








  • That was the risk of remaining on the platform the moment musk took over. And if not then, when he started stripping it down and making it less reliable. And if not then, maybe when he started pursuing shadow banning again.

    No government or news business has any business anymore being on Twitter. They should use the fedpub protocol and push out their messages there.

    This will allow their readers/citizens to use a broad scala of apps to read them, allows more 3rd party apps to integrate them.

    Governments and newspapers must hold the reigns over their own infra or risk this happening.