Dave MacLeod

I think it's just about getting their Starlinks whitelisted. First 100% were blacklisted to make sure, then in Ukraine sign up in person (as individuals) or a portal for companies, maybe the army has a separate way. Then updated on Starlink's side every day iI think. Now about 50% are active again.

So far so good, however

Okay but why not a word about Murmansk this whole month?

Scenario 1 for a bit, followed by 3.

Yep, my favourite of all of them so far. Until then WandaVision had been in first place.

Season 1 I liked but wanted to see more agency for Loki and 2 gave it back to him in spades.

Have you seen season 2 as well?

I saw them quite a bit for a while, then they disappeared, showed up again for a bit, and haven't seen them lately. Probably a whack-a-mole thing whenever the ad makers figure out a new way to get past the filters for a while.

I very much doubt that. Russia is completely dumbfounded that their ally and military equipment turned out to be completely useless and Xi would like Russia to finish up its "SMO" as soon as possible so that it can help out with its navy to blockade and do other mischief. Which is also not happening

I think the moment Russia starts to pull back we'll see a flood of weapons/investment as companies try to get them battlefield approved before the war ends. Like if an EU company intended to send 100 missiles for testing months later they would just quickly ship over the 50 or so they have ready.

That Donetsk airport one yesterday was great, showed like 15 hits one after another in rapid succession as you can see the growing effects of the previous strikes in each one.

"POTUS is...to the table" part checks out at least, not sure about the rest.

Found it! Here's the radar struck near the end for anyone curious:

www.radartutorial.eu/19.kartei/11...

YouTube video by Anders Puck Nielsen Europe's great power move: EU secures Ukraine funding

IMO it's just that Europe still uses the talk softly approach, but what it actually does sets both Trump and Russia into a furor. Like despite all the time it took, Europe still came up with 90B euros and now the other two have to deal with it. Good video on that:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiTN...

That's pretty much a verbatim quote from the very end of Putin's 2021 'academic' paper too (in which he says that Ukraine can't succeed without Russia for God knows what reason). I imagine he probably repeated it a number of times during the conversation and stuck in Trump's ear.

That was a great watch. One other event that not many people noticed/remember is that Ukraine even hit a ship in Russia's waterways that connect the Baltic Sea to other places down south (apparently was going to the Caspian Sea, got hit in this lake on the way).

www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...

Getting closer every day to toys in a tub status

Now just needs an animation of this guy 🐌 moving from the starting point towards the west much faster for comparison.

Yeah, just Ukraine doing diplomatic rope a dope, I think. They know that Trump goes back and forth and wants attention more than anything so they just keep meeting and talking.

Nice! Love when a bit of rummaging through the couch cushions gets used for life-saving drones.

I see Kaliningrad mentioned in there. Presumably the least interested region in working for free for the rest of Russia located waaaay over there while surrounded on all sides by wealth.

Lots of trying but overall it's pretty sad as far as lobbying goes because they aren't offering anything enticing if accepted and there is next to nothing left to take away if it's turned down.

Well, technically they could also cancel PURL and cancel all the American jobs that go with it.

Hyderabad showed up. 💥 Our first SurrealDB Hyderabad meetup at @microsoft.com was electric, and brought together 146 attendees.

Thanks to Community Leaders Jayant Acharya and Chanda Raj Kumar for kickstarting a multi-model revolution, and to Farhan Khan for his session on SurrealDB's architecture.

Hah, he really lost his train of thought there, even more than usual.

Biden gave a lot, I gave nothing! Actually no, I gave some stuff. And more than Obama! I both gave less (which is good) and gave more (which is also good).

@markrussell.bsky.social How's life off in the freshness of AQI 129?

Not sure who is reading but repeat after me:

Putin. Doesn't. Want. Territory.
Putin. Doesn't. Want. Territory.

He wants a subjugated client state.

I can hear these guys tsk tsking all the way from 1910.

This is more akin to your whole company having 13 months to cancel contracts with a bunch of suppliers and find others in their place.

So some will choose to do it sooner rather than later so they don't have to rush around 12 months from now.

YouTube video by Delpag Your talking about Cuba?

Basically this scene:

youtu.be/REV2tgDnsYI?...

After looking all stubbly and bumpy yesterday with the Ukrainians I bet myself that he would go clean shaven for the Russians and turns out I was right.