Ukraine

Five oil rigs!

Four airfield strikes,

Three French hens,

Two turtledoves,

And a rig in the Caspian Sea!

But Vlad said they have no cards!

Ukraine attacking Russian schools would be ineffective anyway since they're so terrible at teaching.

Ukraine is fighting for self defense. russia is fighting for lebensraum

DPO here. Under GDPR (the european data privacy regulation), there are a number of “legal basis” definitions for why a company would process your data. The strongest bases are the performance of a contract or a regulatory requirement, and at the other end of the spectrum, a company can process your data if you consent for them to do so.

There is a “middle” category of legal basis which is “legitimate interest,” which is for companies to process your data because it is their line of business to do so, or it is part of a reasonable business process to do so. Marketing is an example. So if you post on Reddit about a positive experience you have had with a manufacturer of PC component, that manufacturer might scrape your blog post, and add you to their CRM. They might know your email address from your LinkedIn, and they could associate that with your buying activity for example, to put you in a specific category of customer.

These GDPR popups give you the perception that you can opt out of “legitimate interest” processing, when the reality is that there is no such right afforded to you under GDPR. Therefore the site is either relying on your consent but dressing it up as legitimate interest, or they are just wrong and using the wrong terminology.

I think ublock origin hides that for me (might need to enable cookie notices lists if it doesn't).

Russia had a lot of oil infrastructure. Some equipment can take months or even years to manufacture. Its routine to keep lots of spare parts around if possible for critical or routine repairs. Down-time on the plant = losing lots of money.

So the initial strikes were an inconvenience and caused a short pause in production. Russia rapidly repaired the damage infrastructure with spare parts.

Then Ukraine keeps hitting the fully operational facilities. Russia utilizes more spare parts and they start to run out. This delays the recovery times as reconstruction waits on parts to be manufactured. This also delays normal maintenance, leading to more breakdowns across the entire system.

Currently it's reported that production across the entire system is down. If Ukraine keeps hitting a fully functional facilities regularly, the production will remain suppressed for years.

It's producing much less oil than it would have been without these strikes. At the minimum, it's costing Russia a lot of money, and defensive wars are won by making it too expensive for the invaders to keep going.

They can always buy more oil from India.