It’s currently a 182nd week of the 2 week police operation, Russians got to be tired of all the winniging by now /s.

I am glad this exists. How else can people who unlike me didn’t live under comminist regime get to appreciate the unique unconstrained by reality logic of a communist newspaper 😂

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AFAIK betaflight (IMO the most coommon fc fw) will only start supporting POSHOLD / ALTHOLD from yet unreleased version 4.6. I’ve recently seen a video about it from Joshua Bardwell - its far from perfect and relies on GPS module that Ukrainians don’t use (according to the article above) to keep the cost as low as possible.

I agree that there is a difference between learning to fly and learning to fly well.

These drones were originally designed to be toys for rich people. Before they were press-ganged into service as tools of war, they were used either in aerobatic displays or in races where a group of operators would compete in flying through an obstacle course. In either case, the drones were not meant to be easy to fly. They were meant to be highly maneuverable, but also unstable. First-person view drones cannot really hover, fly slowly, or linger above a target. The assumption among hobbyists is that enthusiasts will invest the time and money to become proficient at flying. As a result, training a highly proficient operator can take months. A standard, base-level course for Ukrainian drone pilots takes about five weeks. The quality of operators it prepares is questionable, and graduates of the course need extra on-the-job experience to become truly proficient. Most drone pilots I encountered did not go through this course. Instead, they learned to fly drones on the job. Even experienced operators routinely miss their targets and crash into trees, power lines, or other obstacles.

This surprised me also. FPVs can’t hover (it ain’t EZ but I thought I can)? 5 weeks for training? I believe I’ve learned to fly “acro” (on a computer) inside a month - and I am going to work… I don’t know what they mean by “highly profficient” though. There may be complexities I don’t appreciate, that aren’t mentioned…

Not sure if it’s just the Tass being Tass - but somehow her statements are totally missing the debt crisis.

Total corporate debt has reached RUB 86.2 trillion (about US$1.1 trillion), up 65% compared to the start of the full-scale war. Nearly half of this debt is owed by Russia’s 78 largest companies. One in six of them spends over a third of profits on interest payments, while 8% of the total debt is owed by companies that cannot even cover their loan servicing costs.

msn, bloomberg archived, themoscowtimes

Even though she claims inflation is falling (to 3-4% nonetheless) The Bank of Russia interest rate is still breathtaking 20% tradingeconomics

You have a really good spelling for an American.

Also let me use this opportunity to welcome you to the Fediverse - as your account is less than 24 hours old.

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A bit misleding:

• there is no doubt Russia tried to influence US elections in 2016
• the uncertainty is about whether Trump actively cooperated with them - which he didn’t have to - and very likely didn’t.

I love this part (end of the article):

As the Iranian Armed Forces pounded Israel and its military and industrial infrastructure, using many new-generation missiles that precisely hit the designated targets, the embattled regime was forced to unilaterally declare a truce deal on June 24.

Nazi proxies led by jewish president. You are really smart and definitely not a looser.

They are operating exclusively Boeing 737 variants ( afaik 600+ planes) to save money by symplifying maintenance and pilot training. Adding another new completely different plane into the mix (one noone outside china knows how to maintain or fly) would add lots of costly complexity and overhead they can do without. They would have to fully switch only to single COMAC plane variant for all future purchases to make it make sense and imo they are nowhere near beaing ready fot that kind of commitment.

That is all true. I’d still prefer it to an unarmored donkey

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I am not a crypto nerd but in my childish mind I imagine that if a policeman wants to unlock my phone I’ll just tell hin the “duress pin” and let him wipe the device himself … (GrapheneOS)

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There were times when Israel was at least trying to be ambiguous about their possession of nuclear weapons. The famous

“not to be the first to introduce nuclear weapons into the area.”

Now we get junior ministers, half of the media and all the facebook discussing who should be nuked first. Mordechai Vanunu spent 2 decades in prison because of this crap.

We, the undersigned, citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to transition official government communications away from Twitter/X to more secure, community-regulated platforms that prioritise public safety, accurate information, and accessibility. We encourage the government to explore publicly accountable alternatives, including decentralised networks, to ensure reliable and responsible communication with Canadians.

Not a ban really (not in US banning tiktok sense), better.

None of those actually mention the vote in Ukrainian parliament, that is where the “unanimously” comes from 😇 I’ve looked through several sources and AJ English had it summarized the best 🤷‍♂️

off topic: not sure what are your reservations about AJ - soft power vehicle for Qatari gov?

This is really annoying for me 😇 . I am not one who would believe words of the Elon and I would say that intuitively it didn’t make financial sense but I’ve looked into it and to my surprise the numbers are actually getting kinda close:

• they claim they have 4 million customers - at 100 USD per customer / month x 12 - 4.8 billion USD. There will be some tax, but they have also deals with US military (StarShield) or GSM Operator and wide range of “enterprise services” , so I suspect the income could be at around those 5 billion USD from starlink alone.
• they did 90 launches last year maintaining and expanding the network. It’s hard to say how much a falcon 9 launch cost - but CNBC says it was sold for 67 million USD in 2022. Not sure how much margin Elon gets on a single launch, but 5 billion / 90 is over 55 million USD - which is right there in the area…

Now this is ignoring the cost of the satellites, the maintenance of 150 ground stations, development of the HW /SW, advertising and god knows what else - but still at least in the “ballpark numbers”.

To my unpleasant surprise - the Elon might not be joking on this one 🧐 - the Starlink might be one day paying for the development of the Starship - if it isn’t already 😲 Also - this is bloody cool 🤬