I specifically mentioned the “little green men” because it was Russia’s way to funnel an army into an independent country while claiming that they are just part of a local militia.

It’s not a direct attack and worked out pretty much perfectly in 2014. It would absolutely be a way to continue the conflict, even within NATO countries. Though they need to create a rift within the population first to make such an uprising believable.

Moldova is already at this stage and the leaked plans from the start of the war actually had Transnistria next up on their list.

The game is also “free” with Game Pass in case you have that.

The core gameplay and story seem to be very solid and bugs can be fixed in patches. 8/10 with upwards potential looks good to me.

The modern Russian government is essentially claiming the territory of the Soviet Union. The reason they started their invasion now is because it was the last chance before Ukraine would become a EU and NATO candidate. If Ukraine falls, Russia will rearm and try pull the exact same “little green men” strategy in the Baltic states, Georgia and Moldova next.

I don’t think there are any other Instances aside from the default bsky.social‬ right now. It’s only federated in theory and essentially a closed platform until that changes. Pretty sad that it gets all the attention instead of Mastodon.

There is some video evidence. Though it should be noted that since most of the fighting is happening through artillery exchanges and drones, individual soldiers can not necessarily be identified because they are all wearing uniforms of the Russian Armed Forces. Actual close combat is fairly rare and from what I’ve heard from Russian soldiers so far, the North Koreans do get better equipment so they probably get preferential treatment and are second line behind the assault waves.

https://www.chosun.com/english/north-korea-en/2024/11/06/J4CYB5TXCFH5PEJGHVTAZYGHHM/

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2024-11-05/national/northKorea/Video-of-stranded-North-Korean-soldiers-in-Kursk-battle-suggests-communication-problems-RFA/2170842

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/24/flag-beginning-worry-ukraine-north-korea-troops-russia/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cmCfhoDfbA

DPRK soldiers have only been deployed to the Kursk area so far.

More empty threats.

declaring that a conventional attack on Russia by any nation that is supported by a nuclear power will be considered a joint attack on his country

Isn’t that exactly what has been happening in Kursk? Kinda late to do anything about it.

I hope this is not one of those “you can use them, but only for…” situations again.

I’ve heard that too. But I bet there’s going to be much more than that.

You can still buy and transport knives, they just have to be in a “locked” container. Basically just not easily accessible.

I’d be very surprised if it didn’t contain any anti-Russian sentiments.

Not really. The police can search you without cause, it’s the whole reason “Waffenverbotszonen” exist.

Unconstitutional in regards to which constitution?

I’ve switched my KDE setup to Wayland a few months ago and have seen a performance increase on some of my games. For example, Cyberpunk feels much smoother than under X11.

But I’m facing the same issue you’re describing in the native Linux build of War Thunder. It runs at a stable 144FPS on X11 but regularly dips down to 20FPS on Wayland. I initially thought it might be the NVidia drivers, but seeing that you’ve got an AMD card, I’m not so sure anymore. For now the fix is to just switch to a X11 session if I want to play this specific game. I don’t think KDE will drop it anytime soon, there are still a lot of random quirks in Wayland at this point.

I’ve watched an 18 minute video of an Indian scammer talking to an answering machine randomly repeating one of like 10 pre-recorded voice lines. This one is most likely much better and will steal hours of their time.

Also for a lot of people, their social circle is partly there.

I get that, but at this point I’d actively try to get them to use a different site/app. I managed to move large parts of my friend group and my whole family to Signal. I’m now trying to get some to transition from Discord to Matrix, though moving there has definitely been not as smooth.

It should be much easier with Twitter, there are a bunch of very similar and usable alternatives. You just have to put in some work and convince people with solid arguments and support.

There are a lot of leftists still “fighting the good fight” on Xitter, even if the platform is pitted against them and all they do is drive engagement to it. I never understood why some people can’t bring themselves to leave. I left reddit for much less.

The whole thing reads like the ramblings of someone with paranoid schizophrenia tbh…

Lmao what? There won’t be a push for Kyiv anytime soon. And not from Kursk on the other side of the country. Even the worst scenarios don’t include Kyiv getting captured at this point.