There’s a funny thing going on at EU level, were Danish unions are lobbying against an EU wide minimum wage. As they believe un-unionised immigrant labour will end up with worse wages, if there’s a legal minimum wage they can point to

I would assume fortified positions do not count as battlefield

What makes you think they’re pushing 10k people past their trenches at all times?

This statement is about the battlefield. The area between fortifications. Given a M777 howitzer has a range of 21-40 km based on type of shell.

If we go by the most extreme expectations, then the battlefield will be at least 10 kms wide - As both sides will keep artillery a bit further back to protect them against enemy artillery fire.

To get the expert infantry badge in the US army, a soldier needs to be able to march with full equipment at 6.33 km an hour. It’s fair to assume the Russian soldiers running into their death aren’t spotting full equipment. So if we’re setting it a bit high they might be able to move 5 km during the 30 minute expected kill time.

The numbers are similar for the other side of this fight. It means the only way to push the battle lines is by using equipment

If you’re attempting to assassinate someone, you don’t want a physical trail going straight back to your location.

I think fiber optics would only see niche applications, when done by either a lunatic or a professional agent aware they’d sacrifice themselves for the target.

But if you’re at the point of having professional agents, willing to sacrifice themselves. It’s more likely you’d sneak a drone onto a civilian vehicle like a truck, with a preprogrammed path able to scan for a specific face (or a handful of them) which acts offline once it sets off

China did exercises with Cambodia last year, as a way to showcase their drone technology.

I have a conspiracy theory; AI is secretly pushed to the level it is, because Pentagon demands it. China and the US has been in an AI cold war for half a decade, maybe a decade, as they understand the power the technology is able to bring to a battlefield scenario

And a pretty high percentage will turn to organised crime, an astounding number of American biker gangs were created by veterans after Vietnam.

Although you could argue the types of veterans seeking adrenaline, probably won’t be the drone operators and drone builders - But if they take that route, holy mackarel the turf wars will turn grim

I think the reason is as simple as flamboyant outfits being easily available.

Two hundred years ago, a flamboyant outfit indicated you did minimum manual work. As that’d destroy the drip, and it was also quite expensive. While commoners would wear often brown/grey work outfits.

It’s the same reasons for why it used to be in to be white/pale, as that indicated you’d stay inside all day rather than working the fields. Now it’s in to be tan, as that indicates you’re able to sunbath rather than work in an office all day long

A summer cape, a pair of undies and nothing else?

I’m European enough to have visa free travel to Thailand and that fact broke the passport checker guy. The Chinese officer could not comprehend visa free travel does exist for certain nationals.

Again there’s no need for them to do the check, as I’d stay in the international zone of the airport. As well as the initial airline having checked everything was fine before departure, due to them having to cover a return flight if you’re not accepted into your destination country - But yeah, it was a complete shit show to layover through China

Just don’t do a layover through China, that’s a complete shitshow. In the rest of the world, traveling from outside the country to outside the country. They’ll just let you stick around in the international zone.

China tho, holy fuck. Has to get through another passport control, at which Chinese officers whom doesn’t know the visa rules are examining if you have proper visas to enter the country you’re traveling to, which funnily enough was already done by the flight company moving you to the Chinese airport. Then another layer of a security check and before you’ve blinked your 3 hour layover has passed. It literally takes 2.5+ hours to get through that shit

Looking at the 6 countries being more fond of the US, we essentially have 3 groups.

• China backs Russia: Poland
• China is a regional threat: the Philippines, South Korea, India and Japan
• They genuinely like Trump: Israel

But for most, China is reliable and you understand what their goals are. Because they literally have a 100 year plan and tells you most things in advance. Trump is just a smoking gun, he’ll do something today, something else tomorrow and I can’t even fathom what he’ll do the day after - While being corrupted more than any leader of a major country ever has

Rocket launch, Twitter and xAI is roughly a zero valuation.

Starlink the worlds fastest growing ISP, while having an enormous profit margin is the bread and butter. From a serious perspective, also what you should aim the valuation for.

Did their IPO launch at a fair valuation? Hell nah

20% of the parliament is women. Beating the US congress.

The guardianship rules doesn’t apply for working and traveling. So any woman over 21 can apply for a passport and leave if they feel like it.

77% of women has a secondary (high school) education and 37% participate in the workforce.

Yes Saudi Arabia has a long freaking way to go, but they’ve been closing the gender gap in recent years.

Womens rights is a theme among several middle eastern countries, I’m naive enough to believe they understand it will benefit society and not done so entirely to befriend Europe

Statistically speaking, then immigrants and refugees, commit more crimes.

It’s not so much the first generation (the immigrants/refugees themselves) but second and third generation growing up in the country of destination, well and often origin for 2nd/3rd.

Even when factoring for socioeconomic factors, they’re over represented statistically speaking. But it’s still missing a lot of factors.

There’s more reported crime in areas with closer population density, most immigrants aim for the big cities; As they’re often more diverse and have better job opportunities, but they’re often ending up in below median pay jobs. Combined with living in the most expensive areas, they often end up living in some of the roughest neighbourhoods of the big cities.

While a lot of the poor people among the natives tend to live in rural locations, which sees less reported crimes and tends to have no/few turf wars.

Looking at immigrant workers going to Europe during the worker shortage of the 70s, lots of Turks and Persian folks migrated for jobs and a lot of new cheap housing were built at the edges of city centers. These areas full of people not speaking the native tongue, under median pay. Was the perfect storm to ensure slower than wanted immigration/assimilation - Ideally you’d want to spread migration across the entire country, so Ibrahim, Jiao, Radoslaw, Brian and whatever else their names are would immediately interact with natives from day 1.

Which is exactly what several countries did for Ukrainian refugees, we have examples of countries paying their citizens to house them in their homes and the results are obvious. It worked really well. Although we still have to wait another decade, before we can spot whether or not their children still end up in crime statistics.

There also tends to be rules that disfavours non citizens, an example from Denmark is the fact you can be forced to live with your parents until you’re 21 if you’re a non EU citizen. Even though you were born here, went through the Danish school system aced high school and the likes. You might be forced to stay at home, rendering university impossible for a subset of bright people for a few years of life.

These systematic rules, is something that will turn people against the system and is also a part of the explanation

Flushing may present a new issue after the fact, but I can’t see a way around flushing

There is one, embrace the sink. Become a sink pisser, it’s just like a pissoir which you wash your hands and face in!

It’s the green guy from monsters inc

They’re probably just annotating within a common topic and in a language which is easy to find cheap workers within.

If you’re easily replaceable, they’ll use people from the third world for the job

But that’s more expensive, as people demand 50-100% more salary as a contractor; Line must go up faster