To be fair, if Ukraine was in a dominant position, taking land back at a large scale and Russia was falling back I doubt the Ukrainians would sue for peace.

Russia of course won’t sue for peace when they’ve got a few more million for the grinder.

So Iran’s inflation, food and water costs, blackouts and other problems weren’t casual whatsoever?

It all happened coz a bunch of university lecturer’s told their students to go uprise?

Umm… What? Excuse me, but when has this been legal?

Well at this point in a vaccine development it’s already passed preclinical (animal testing toxicity) phase 0 and phase I trials (which determines their safety and dosing).

They appear to be already at phase IIIb trial which is to test effectiveness with a group of people who are already at risk of exposure to the virus. Without a global pandemic this is axtually one the hardest and most expensive part of vaccine testing.

One of the core reasons why the covid vaccines were so quick to be released was because there was a massive pool of people who were exposed to the virus (and who were willing to put there hand up to try it).

We knew already that RNA vaccines were safe and weren’t deadly (as preclinical, phase 0 and phase 1 trials had already been done)

Take the Ebola vaccines. These have taken decades to develop because outside of the outbreak we had 12 years ago very few people are exposed to Ebola. It was really hard to find at risk individuals.

Also early Ebola vaccines used a live attenuated vaccine which had a one in a million chance that you get Ebola from the vaccine itself. So simply testing the vaccine could risk starting a epidemic

That said the latest, FDA approved vaccine is a replication-competent recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) vaccine (basically using another virus to deliver targeting data to your immune system.

Arresting 1000 a month for computer images, but not one former prince who fuckedraped a flesh and blood child.

Words matter

Shame he was a racist and nationalist who was happy to support the invasion of Ukraine

Unless the aid is sizeable, moving the needle, I would argue if it is anything but this then it’s simply an empty gesture to curry image and media.

What is on the table?

Sales down 1.2%? Still profitable on the order of billions? Better cut 7% of the workforce.

My companies on paper “profit” (EBITDA) is 8% but I know for a fact that a lot of the billions of “cost” funnelled into capex is being embezzled.

Because I work in a technical industry servicing secret squirrel stuff it’s basically auditors can’t audit and the government is very hands off (even if they could understand what we sell, which for the most part they don’t. Shit most of us don’t understand it either).

Basically licence to do whatever you want.

But because we didn’t hit the declared 11% target they cut the workforce by 10%. They’d didn’t even do an analysis. Basically the CTO just cut people based on their title.

Fuckers

Yanks killed 4 million Vietnamese, literally salting the earth with chemical weapons all without a single declaration of war.

The idea US presidents need it is laughable. Shit it’s even more laughable that the Republicans would ever restrain a US president from a war of aggression is even more laughable, even if it was a democrat pushing the button.

For the republicans every problem is a nail (and boy do their corporate overlords have a great deal on hammers).

I don’t think people understand how completely different French nuclear weapons and doctrine is compared to the UK and NATO.

The French have a nuke first strike policy "dissuasion du faible au fort”, deterring a stronger power by threatening unacceptable damage.

Their policy, is to use a Rafale to, from a Carrier, fire a ASMP-A nuclear tipped cruise missile across the bows of anyone dumb enough to antagonise them.

Conversely the British have no tactical nuclear weapons like the French. All they operate are the Trident II D5s from their ballistic missile subs, even then they only carry 5 MIRV (est) warheads per missile.

And no first strike policy either.

Don’t get me wrong. I very much favour a European military alliance that pushes Europe off the US teat. But the idea of the UK and France changing their doctrine (and a host of other elements) without non nuclear states contributing a significant amount of money is pretty unlikely.

Apparently calling a person a dumb fuck for believing Russian propaganda is an insult

Fucking pussies

I ended up on a ml thread the other day

Fucking Russia bot moderators deleted my post and banned me.

All men were created equal and yet in the US they’ve made it very clear they do not believe, whatsoever in this

I think the following is clear

• Epstein was a pimp
• he procured children and women to be used in awful, highly illegal acts
• he recorded these acts, using the information to extort and blackmail the rich into various schemes and scams, not to mention for information
• this explains how his net worth / wealth jumped several times, especially when he was young and somehow made millions with no clear explanation, at the time, as to where he got the money from.
• we have a huge amount of information from the victims that he used girls as currency
• considering the circles that Epstein, the people he was involved in, including heads of state, former heads of state, politicians, factional powerbrokers, scientists, actors, celebrities and a multitude of oligarchs.

These are the circles intelligence agencies walk in. But who he was involved with is probably gonna be harder to work out.

What about Murena? I wonder if it can defeat Pegasus’s hacks.

That said if I was going to criticise a violent regime like the House of Saud I’d be using a burner phone, and not accepting random messages.

The Pegasus hack reportedly uses an exploit in imessage to execute unauthorised code.

Although the show is pissing me off its clear that Tim Cain, Leonard Boyarsky, Jason Anderson, Chris Taylor, Mark O’Green, Scott Bennie and Christopher Taylor from Fallout 1 definitely did get somethings right ie the US trying to invade Canada.

Standard US playbook. Find lackeys who want to destabilise and split a country and fund their coup.