I wonder if there is a single country in Europe ready to receive the amount of Shahed drones Ukraine receives almost daily.

Yes, all of them in fact. It’s called deterrence.

Nobody is building systems to constanty destroy hundreds of drones each day. Just like no one (but a few very persistent morons) builds walls to keep attackers away. The actual protection is the consequences for the attacker. Guess what Ukraine would pick between ten thousands of anti-air systems (the amount you would need to protect an actual country, not just some points of strategic interest) and EU-/NATO-membership.

There is no glory in prevention. Also the ones saving money by not being prepared are not liable for the chaos and its ramifications.

But we are obviously moronic Europeans, so how would we able to remember such complicated facts like “winter exists”.

PS: Euronews was bought by Alpac Capital, whose CEO is best buddy with Orban. So I would expect a similiar trajectory for their content quality like Politico or other “news” bought by right-wing populists.

“We want to show the automotive industry that sustainable and practical design really is achievable”

Funny to think they don’t know already. But sustainable isn’t the goal, maximising profits is.

The original post says “[…] I am quite certain that some of the wording was NOT originally written in German.”

The “Wenn ich mich festlegen müsste…” part however answers the question if it’s a singular or multiple authors. And it mentions one main author who got additional input from someone else which probably got translated via a translation tool. Then: “How do I come the this conclusion? The cumbersome, highly individual style runs through large parts of the text; however, individual sentences differ greatly in style.” And: “What else is irritating? Sentences densely packed with numerical facts, alternating with entire paragraphs of abstract ideological argumentation, almost clichéd; but without clear reference to the facts, as if the facts had been added later.”

So we have: multiple authors, very different wrting styles, no proper editing to make this one whole text; some expressions probably not originating in German; facts and numbers obviously added independently -again in another style- trying to give it more legitimacy.

Sorry, but where exactly is this all disagreeing with my comment? So yeah. Calling this whole text an AI translation because of singular sentences and expressions that are very obviously by another co-author, just like the also added paragraphs trying to justify the rest with numbers, is desinformation. That’s what I said. And the very discussion you linked says the same.

was written in Russian and machine-translated into German

Don’t spread such easy to debunk desinformation when the full text is publically available.

It’s a whole fucking manifest full of ideological anti-technology bullshit but actually well written phrasing- and grammatical-wise. And then there are a few single sentences between whole elaborate sections added in a very different writing style. One set of “we tried to add numbers and fact to give the rambling some additional legitimacy” and a few singular sentences and expressions that sound strange or wooden in native German, including misspellings.

Claiming the whole text is a translation (and why “machine-translated” even? Just because it’s cool now to use AI?) is idiotic when every native can see instantly that it’s not true. The main author definitely speaks/writes native level German. At times it’s even written overly complex, trying to convey notions of high literature/education.

There are however also clues to suggest additional authors/editing… with at least one co-authors probably being non-native.

Oversimplifying facts to make your argument stick when those claims are really easy to debunk is just feeding the usual conspiracy theory morons.

If the US want to remove itself from influence

But they don’t. They are simply governed by morons who want to replace all that “nonsense” with the only actual influence they understand military force.

Wait… criminalisation doesn’t work and just makes unregulated and black markets grow?

Who would have thought?

Sure, there is a usecase for this. But sperate buffers and varying (and often unintuitive) behavior of software and which buffer is used how is a much bigger hurdle for people not used to it than that “middle-click pasting is confusing” bullshit…

As far as I understand it, this is a (social) media exaggeration. But a lot of the F-35’s capabilities, in particular the stealth and networking that are the main selling point, depend on constant adaptions and updates of the electronic systems.

Sure, we can talk about conspiracy theories of a possible killswitch backdoor hidden in the code. But that wouldn’t even be F-35 specific. The more interesting aspect is logistics/spares and software updates for that very high-maintenance jet with modern electronics.

No, what actually makes sense is a proper unification of different copy/paste buffers that is nowadays still mostly improvised and only achieved through very different 3rd party tools (for me using the panel from xfce it’s xfce4-clipman for example that keeps highlighting text and middle-click buffers synchronised with ctrl-c/ctrl-v or ctrl-insert/shift-insert…).

The problem is not accidently pasting something with a middle-click, but not knowing what is in one buffer, what is in another one and which one a program is using.

I said that diversification isn’t the goal. They have geographic and economic reasons. Actual diversification in military equipment for the sake of it is stupid because the most important thing in war (and the actual much bigger cost) is logistics.

it does not make sense to create blackouts in residential districts

Translated from the weird manifesto: “We do not assume that this has resulted in 100,000 households being disconnected from the grid, but rather that they have only been disconnected from that gas-fired power station’s grid.”

Their planning and reasoning seems to be even wilder than their textual ramblings.

They basically hallucinate that damaging the grid will only cut of the power plant and force the company to buy electricity on short notice somewhere else for much inflated prices.

That’s not so much done for diversification but geography and economics.

Poland has regions where -just like in Ukraine- the average Western tank is at times to heavy to operate properly. The K2 is more than 10 tons lighter and Poland scrapped several original requirements to keep it that light because that’s the whole point. Also the K2PL variant additionally comes with (partly) modular composite armor.

And Poland wants domestic production (and the neccessary tech transfer to facilitate it). Something that South Korea is allowing for better footing in the wider European market.

That doesn’t make the decision for US Abrams as the main tank better.

VOLKSWAGEN ID.UNYX

Why (and how) buy the Chinese licensed version of a Cupra Tavascan that isn’t even supposed to be sold outside of China?

Well, then Poland should quickly order more US tanks, just like Denmark recently ordered more F-35 to show what they think of the US threats…

I still don’t know if it’s funny or sad how always those loudly talking are then competing on who can kiss the US’ ass better.

Would love to see the “but there are people on the streets of the US celebrating, so this was obviously the right thing to do” justifications…

Impressive amount of attempted sane-washing and “this doesn’t apply to us because reasons” fairy tales…

Who can yo vote into power but members of the political caste?

We don’t live in a caste system.

The reason non-corrupt people aren’t elected is the fact that the media will loudly tell the voters why that person is truely incompetent and insane every single time. They so because they are paid be the ones protecting their corrupt assets.

Now, what is the actual problem here? Stupid voters helping to exclusively get corrupt people in power because they fall for the same bullshit every time. Or the fact that there is an imaginary caste system and everyone born into it is evil?

Ordering a few additional F-35 yet again will surely help…