That moment when you look around for the most competent person, and come the sad conclusion that it's you

while it still has the Elon bad bias

So does reality, I wonder what causes it.

Moscow simply paid him more than Kyiv. Probably accompanied by the phrase "Would be a shame if these pictures got out".

worker: Gets new job

Employer: Shockedpikachu.jpg

Error-correction for dropped packets is also pretty shit.

Yep, they have "treason is against the rules" rule, which lists all the big countries' laws against espionage.

Is that known rapist and sex trafficker Andy Tate?

This is really only a raid, Ukraine has no ability to supply troops by sea, nor the ability to even land enough troops to hold territory.

But the fact that they did this means that Russian "rear" area security is absolute shit, and they have the option to improve that (taking forces from reserves or the fromt) or suffer more rear area raids.

Poorer?

That's weird because in terms of Median Wealth (you know, the thing that decides rich/poor) the US is 21st in the world, the UK is 11th. (Pdf link: https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/corporate/docs/about-us/research/publications/global-wealth-databook-2022.pdf)

GDP doesn't mean shit by itself.

Yeah, ethnic nationalism is pretty fucking far from centre. This party was (eventually) banned for being a criminal organisation.

The library I worked for as a teen used to process off-site reservations by writing them to a text file, which was automatically e-faxed to all locations every odd day.

If you worked at not-the-main-location, you couldn't do an off-site reservation, so on even days, you would print your list and fax it to the main site, who would re-enter it into the system.

This was 2005. And yes, it broke every month with an odd number of days.

"Google Cloud hosts many of Twitter’s trust and safety services. If the disagreement isn’t resolved by the end of the month, and if Twitter severs ties with Google Cloud, this could seriously threaten its ability to fight spam, remove child sexual abuse material and generally protect accounts."

So, it only breaks things that are vitally important for Twitter, as well as legally mandated, but not anything Musk actually cares about...