Singapore made the same call when it declared independence from much larger Malaysia. Its military and national-service system are modelled on the IDF. It seems to be a popular model when surrounded by more populous potential enemies.
Well, one’s vital statistics would include things like heart rate and blood pressure, so the name is presumably a reference to his strained demeanour.
They still have a huge ransomware industry. Presumably the state will squeeze the cybercrime gangs to take more and funnel all the takings to the great patriotic war rather than buying lambos.
The problem is that GPS signals are weak, and generally need a line of sight to the sky. Phones don’t rely on GPS alone, but also get location data by triangulating base stations and/or querying databases of WiFi SSIDs over the internet. And AirTags don’t contain either a GPS receiver or an internet connection: they’re just simple, low-power Bluetooth beacons which send an encrypted ID to any nearby iPhones, which add their locations and forward it to Apple.
Basically, all the smarts are in Apple’s infrastructure (including the numerous privately-owned devices running Apple’s location services). Replicating this without a network of roving receivers is a nonstarter.
Well, in a socialist society, the purpose of romantic and sexual relationships is to bring into being the next generation of workers to build socialism, and relationships which don’t do this are bourgeois decadence.
You might want to recheck Poland. The article’s from 2018, and from what I’ve heard, thanks to the aura of Catholic child abuse scandals, they’re speedrunning Ireland’s post-independence history.
That’s fine, because they’re the people’s billionaires.
The Israeli spyware industry didn’t have anything suitable?
In the Marxist historical-materialist sense of the term, presumably
She, of course, never had a chance. The prize was rigged from the start because of Norway’s notorious antisemitism
They call it oat milk these days.
Are these the same people who complain about wind turbine syndrome?
Which means that there’s no barrier to him running for political office. Musk was dissatisfied with Farage not being extreme enough, and may be willing to throw a few hundred million his way should he decide to run for PM (either in a new far-right party, or a takeover of Reform UK LLC). You may want to stock up on popcorn.
Good to hear. Maybe Germany isn’t joining the Putinist axis alongside Hungary and Slovakia after its next elections after all.
The joke is that the kid can solve complex equations instantly in his head, has taught himself 20 languages just from picking up newspapers and listening to the radio, and is the youngest chess grandmaster in history, but is useless in the real world.
If AfD comes to power, the weapons will have to be interoperable with Russian systems.
To be fair, by being rented out, the monarch finally gets to earn his keep.
All my apes, funged!
Named after Trump won the election, but before it went pear-shaped enough to deliver a second Labor term. Calling the party the Australian Trump Party or something would have invited a trademark lawsuit (you don’t get to where Trump is by leaving money on the table), so they chose a plausibly-deniable name, in the sense that it sounds like some kind of very American mashup of Biblical imagery and Cold War-era nationalism. The electorate took one look and said “yeah, nah”