Wildmimic

Yep, he was mature enough to see that he made a mistake and admit it. If anything here is "just for the clicks", its the headline including "and got community noted".

yeah, they would be better advised to throw their money into the garbage, at least that way they wouldn't make some rich asshole even richer.

I understand that we all are targets of propaganda. But the facts laid down in the article are just common sense for everyone that has interest in military things. Russia doesn't care (they didn't even before the war - intruding into NATO airspace to measure reaction times was a common occurrence back then, although i am sure NATO did something similar), drones are cheap and violate airspace, Air-to-Air Missiles cost 10-100 times what the drone costs.

I can't see your earlier responder, which means he is from the fully Putin-pilled .ml instances - the only thing outside of a handful of single users i have on my blocklist. I don't see what he wrote, but I advise you to take whatever they told you with a grain of salt - these are the instances that have proven themselves again and again as authoritarian sockpuppets.

I follow what happens on the battlefield in Ukraine on the regular, and the difference between the two sides is sourcing. If Ukraine claims to have destroyed an armored assault (just as they did 2 days ago), you get video evidence of the whole thing delivered with it. (could still be faked, i agree). Russia on the other side claims they have taken over Kostyantynivka months ago - such claims simply do not survive contact with reality, because in that case they would be hitting their own positions with glide bombs on purpose.

This leads to an easily understandable consequence: If one side only lies (or has delusions), and the other side tries to be as transparent as they can in a war situation, independent reporting will take communication from Ukraine a lot more serious than the unverifiable lies the Kremlin produces. Add to this that free press in Russia is defacto non-existent (the so called "mil-bloggers" of russia are very often FSB assets and just another arm of the Kremlins propaganda machinery designed to collect data on the most dangerous part of civilians to the regime - those that are interested in the war and might disagree with it), while it definitely exists in Ukraine; This situation makes russian sources nearly unusable.

It is not the fault of Ukrainian news outlets that Russian reporting can't be used to offer a different viewpoint - that well was poisoned by Putins clique themselves.

Sorry to interject, but the Ukrainian News Network is an independent outlet that exists since 2007, is one of the 10 most visited sites in Ukraine, and both the founder and the Editor in Chief have (after a quick check, let me know if you have evidence to refute that) no obvious connections to anything political.

The Article itself is also pretty factual. Romanias military has the same issue that other militaries have: Russian soldiers are undertrained if they were trained at all, drones are cheap, therefore some dumb guy in a hole in the ground loses his heading and crosses into the airspace of another nation. The default methods to shoot aerial threats down are not cheap. AIM-9X is expensive and so are fighter jet flight hours.

I propose to Romania the same thing Ukraine is doing: get a good Turboprop with a pilot and a gunner, and shoot them down WW I-style. It doesn't get much cheaper than that.

Edit: just to save you the read (although it might be worth it), this chuds main complaint seems to be that russian propaganda isn't as liked as ukrainian news which might contain propaganda. Either ignore or block him, like i did after this useless exchange.

Maybe some of the fragments made it into a short term orbit? one time around the planet is enough for that lol

You can preemptively add "AI Datacenters in space", because that idea only shows that he has a very limited knowledge basis regarding physics in general and the limited ways of getting rid of heat when there's no medium to absorb it. He probably still thinks "Space is cold".

at least you are not growing old alone, i going with ya all the way ;-)

I have to disappoint you, this really isn't about me. I have lived in monogamous heterosexual relationships for the last 27 years, and my interest in men is only in a way where i would discuss the views of my female partners regarding their desires. I would see myself at a 1 on the Kinsey scale - Men can be good looking, but they really arent something that excite me sexually.

At the moment i am very content with NOT having a partner at all. Being in a relationship always was a huge stressor in my life (something i have been realizing for the first time in my life starting a few months back), and for the first time ever i am experiencing being free from external pressure at all. I really don't want to change a thing at the moment - being this free is a very liberating experience for me.

The banks wouldn't give them the credit needed without this. This is one of the signs of the bubble crumbling. The question isn't if the card house collapses, but when. We're all waiting for it. Currently the can still cover for each other, but that strategy only goes so far.

Damn, i could sell my 5070 now for nearly double the price i bought it. This is fucking insane.

That is something that wouldn't be possible on Reddit, which is why i left (aside from the APIcalypse). I believe we all here can much more easily find common ground simply by staying human.