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Confusion. No confusion here. It's more stupid games to try to intimidate the west. The only appropriate response is to give Ukraine more firepower.

The source appears to be Elon Musk...

https://electrek.co/2024/05/20/elon-musk-confirms-threat-give-me-25-of-tesla-or-no-ai-robotics/ This is a very confusing threat. Give him more control and money or else he'll stop using Tesla's resources for stupid nonsense like AI or robots. Decisions, decisions... what to do...

I saw someone link to a news article on twitter that implied that his pro Russian stance wasn't quite as strong as it seemed and that he was on the verge of turning on them. Hardly proof of Russian involvement but its interesting. Then again going more conspiracy brained on this I might say...

Unfortunately Russian's success in Kharkiv appears to be due to Ukraine dropping the ball there and not constructing actual defenses. Also this projectile that hit belgorod seems to be an S 200 or 300 air defense missile, a thing Russia has repurposed for ground targets. So another piece of...

Who in their right mind would take him up on that offer? He's probably going to overdose on ketamine and fire them again in a few months.

I'm not 100% sure but I think that number is casualties, not KIA.

Holy cow! 1740 combat losses today! I don't think I've seen a number that high.

Interesting. Not too far off from some of the non-russian estimates.

Maybe. Or maybe he's just some citizen in Russia giving us his perspective however misinformed it might be. If it's the latter then I'm interested in what he has to say.

No but more often than not something like this is done by Russia. That's just been the track record for this war. Honestly Ukraine doesn't have the luxury of bombing civilian targets. They don't have the ammunition and it wouldn't get them closer to victory. Out of curiosity can you refer to...

I think that might have been one of those older tanks they fill with tnt and send it to the line of contact. I remember seeing a similar Shockwave.

Optimus bots? That does sound like a good plan. I remember reading about how a patriot missile cost a few million dollars and a shaheed drone cost 40k. Seems like things like the Gepard are a great solution for that. I wonder if that's how it's working out.

I'm not sure that's their main goal. I thought it was meant to be a selling point of buying a Tesla.

Optimus bots?

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/05/9/7455062/ See. I knew we'd eventually block Russian's use of Starlink. Well, very eventually in this case.

Well if they want to improve the ccs1 network I hear there's a world class team that just became available.

I guess if you define successful as not losing so much money that it threatens to bankrupt Elon Musk in the next 5 years then I can see that. I like the community notes feature. Other than that the biggest change in Twitter seems to be an explosion in porn bots. I have to say I'm a little...

He volunteered to loot, murder and destroy in another country? I think your friend might not be a good person.

Wikipedia tells me it's 99% ethnic Russians. Wikipedia is, of course, not always right. Maybe Wikipedia is referring to the city of Ivanovo proper vs the Metropolitan area.

If he's in Ivanovo it makes sense a lot of people wouldn't be missing It's heavily ethnic Russian and Russia likes to draw mostly from non ethnic Russians for their war.

THAT WAS YOU!!?

This is just a theory, because Ukraine has been ammunition starved for 6 months they haven't had anything to attack the land route to Crimea. The situation might change in the near future.

Finally an actual Russian that we can all hold personally responsible for this war.

The news about the assassination attempt were surprising since I thought assassination attempts were non stop this entire time.

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/05/7/7454702/ Interesting. North Korean Ballistic missiles seem to have a failure rate of nearly 50%.

Depends on the clunk. There's several different things it can be. For me it was a sway bar link which are available on Amazon for about $30. Does your car have an air suspension? There was a clunk type issue with those during certain years.

I am hearing differently. at 566seconds "100% of my contacts at Tesla are gone. Every call was bounced."

It's not a smaller staff. It's no staff. You can't make a non-existant team efficient enough to do anything. It breaks basic math.

Great. Well I hope I can still get parts for my car in 5 years when Tesla transitions to a pure AI/Crypto company.

Wasn't Tesla forced to take on new board members that weren't Elon puppets? Are they interested in stopping this madness or do they think Twitter is a success story?

https://publish.twitter.com/?query=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FNOELreports%2Fstatus%2F1787453596423864678&widget=Tweet Sup dawg, we heard you like missiles so we put an a2a missile on your drone so it can boat while it shoots down air frames. I think I did that meme right. Also, why the...

That's a curious one. They were made for the war on terror. I don't think they'll do well in a battlefield with actual air defenses.

Well first off the whole UNRWA thing, the jury's still out on that one. Israel says they're a part of Hamas yet, as far as I know, they haven't actually provided proof of that. An abrupt divestment might have these side effects, I agree. But if Biden would act like it was an option unless...

Interesting. Maybe it's true. But there's a problem with this course of action. It's incompatible with American law and sensibilities. Hence all the protests. If they believe that they have to be barbaric to fight barbarians that's a choice but as an American taxpayer I want no part of it.

I haven't seen this mentioned here. I thought it might be interesting to the discussion. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/04/29/weve-become-addicted-to-explosions-the-idf-unit-responsible-for-demolishing-homes-across-gaza/ It's a piece tracking controlled demolition by the IDF in Gaza. I...

Well there's your problem. Your understanding requires reading the article. Ain't nobody got time for that.

I think they're misinterpreting the situation. They might not be aware that Russia shuts down bridge traffic anytime there's anything happening near it without appreciating that there's other targets than the bridge in that area.

Exactly. Putin will stop when he is forced to stop. Not an inch less. He's running the country like he's playing a game of Civilization.

This is your brain on ketamine. Any questions?

Considering what they accomplished with that unorthodox strategy I think dollar for dollar Ukraine might have come out ahead. As the saying goes, shoot the archers, not the arrows.

Hopefully we'll let them use our stuff to hit targets inside of Russia to slow down missile production. It'll be a lot more cost effective.

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/04/24/7452830/ I'm worried this will be misinterpreted but I think this is a good thing. If I put myself in their position, suppose I escaped early in the war with my family. Maybe I'm sort of torn, I feel a responsibility to fight but I don't want to...

The bill is for 61 billion. But not all at once. You can expect to see quite a few announcements like this over the next year or so.

Well we have to wait for Rand Paul to obstruct as much as he can. He pretty much obstructs everything.

Yeah, no. That's not really what we do. I foresee an initial shipment involving 200 m777 artillery pieces with about 50 artillery shells, our remaining Zumwalt class destroyers, a Nimitz class carrier and 4,000 Segways.

Yes we seem to have an oversupply of tanks but looking at how these vehicles get used I'm wondering if Bradley's are a better way to go.

It's great it finally happened but the circumstances blocking it are very frustrating. The votes were always there. But the will of a fringe group of lunatics were able to subvert the will of the majority for all this time. A very undemocratic thing for a democracy to have to endure.

Let us share a moment of silence for Vladmir Putin, Steven Seagal, MTG and Elon Musk. As great of a day it is for the rest of us it is a very dark day for them.

It appears that the US, having exhausted all other options, has chosen to do the right thing.