Western countries don't have so much hardware, but they have much better hardware. Simply put, if NATO entered the war, Russian air force and land bases would get eradicated from safe distance, thanks to aviation and missiles Ukraine doesn't have.

The interesting thing is that Russia has been preparing their military doctrine for war with NATO since the beginning of NATO. Russia has operational hypersonic missiles capable of penetrating NATO air defenses. They also have the S-400 anti-aircraft system that can track and shoot down even F22/F35s at long distance. These weapons are useless against Ukraine.

Hypothetical capabilities of Russian weapon systems, that have never been proven in practice, cannot be taken seriously at this junction. Moreover, even the existence of such systems, like the Armata tank and hypersonic missiles, is in doubt.

When was the last time the US fought a peer rather than bullied around an underdeveloped opponent? Who knows how our equipment and doctrine would hold up against a similarly capable adversary.

Our war games don't seem to paint a very rosy picture, and we barely have any manufacturing capability left.

Sink a carrier or two and what are we left with? Nukes, long range bombers, airbases... could we even mobilize enough to defend and hold Europe if the reds invade?

In Syria a few years back, a group of hundreds including Russian paramilitary attempted to seize an oil rig where 20 US soldiers were stationed. The entire Russian paramilitary group was decimated while not a single US soldier was wounded.

“Sink a carrier” is, in terms of how hard it is, somewhere around “bomb White House”. It’s absurdly hard to do even for a well-equipped nation state.

Also, a huge problem with modern Russian hardware is that it’s largely vaporware. That’s why they are using all that USSR-era equipment.

We are producing 150 F35s a year.

Note that in FreeBSD, ping is sandboxed using capsicum, so the impact of this is rather low - you can get ping to crash, and send arbitrary packets, and write arbitrary stuff to the terminal, and I think that's it.

If I'm trying to penetrate somebody's network, then being able to send arbitrary packets - from an "inside" server, running a vulnerable ping binary' - sounds pretty darn useful. Maybe I can compromise a device or ten further out, which the vulnerable server occasionally pings. Maybe I've got a botnet, which returns malicious ping replies to IP #'s on my current "would be useful to compromise" list. Maybe...

If you have a way to make them ping your host at just the right moment, and then keep that ping process running.

Interesting story, especially the part where the Canadian scientist got assassinated by (probably) Israel.

Note that this is about the _second_ witch trial, a civil case between two members of a weird pseudoscientific cult.

Also, regarding the first trials, the really inappropriate thing would be some Christian stall, as it would glorify the perpetrators. I don’t see anything wrong with witchcraft stalls - they are at worst neutral.

I vouched for your comment here. But looking at your comment history, your comments seem to be killed due to spamming (too many in a short time, especially for a new account). Maybe you could avoid it, if you turned it down a bit.

Any responsible journalist would mention that while there have been no backdoors found in Huawei equipment, despite independent audits, there have been numerous backdoors in their American counterparts.

Except those losses are often purely virtual.

There is no reason for Google to not be lying about it.

There are two fundamental differences. One is that Russian invasion and genocide is happening now, not couple of decades ago. Second is that the fact we can’t punish US doesn’t mean we shouldn’t punish other offenders.

I was answering the

> > Nice euphemism for genocidal, imperialist war.

>You’re referring to the U.S. right?

I mean, it's not like this list is censored https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes

Immigrants still revert to native sub-fertility after a generation, or two at most.

Immigration may be a solution for countries in the Anglosphere, as there are countless educated English speakers who want to immigrate.

Countries in the rest of Europe and in East Asia do not have the luxury of educated, native-language speakers in the millions wanting to immigrate. Those who do want to come to us instead of the Anglosphere, either lack marketable skills or lack the language skills necessary to be a part of society. This imposes considerable costs, and our pension systems are not equipped to handle people working here for 20-30 years and then living off a government pension for another 20.

Immigration just delays the fertility problem, so it’s still a fertility problem.

> insufficient immigration

I was told they were stealing our jobs.

Not “millions”, as FTX barely had a million customers. And most of the money belonged to entities like Sequoia Capital and SoftBank and not actual people.

Also, given it was a crypto exchange, ie a ponzi scheme by design, I’m not sure if there’s any point in blaming the owners for making it a bit more scammy.