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Nukes detonate at great heights though, IDK if stuff like this would defend against that

Or when you use the right tool for the job (Python instead of Rust)

Correct. That’s the law in Hungary. Remember the whole supply chain issue a few years ago? That destroyed a bunch of overtime built up for a lot of people though production shutdowns.

The same law raised the overtime limit to 400 hours per year from 250. It also let employers bypass unions on overtime negotiations as well.

Look up “rabszolgatörvény” or the “Slave Law”.

Then why do you care? Or how are you not more understanding?

It’s like people saying the US deserves to go to civil war and have people die because some of them elected Trump.

Sorry, but fuck this mentality. As an EU citizen, this is your fault. You voted for this for the past 20 years.

The EU has given incalculable money to Orbán while opposition politicians in the EP were asking you all to stop doing that, give the money directly to municipalities or at least check where it’s going. There was zero enforcement even after case after case after case of blatant misuse uncovered. Most of that money ended up paying for a propaganda apparatus that has kept Hungarians in fear for the past 15 years, destroyed communities and families and fomented hate not just domestically, but across Europe. Le Pen was supported from that stolen money. Also the AfD.

But since Orbán was buddy-buddy with your oligarchs, particularly the German car industry, it was all fine. You voted politicians like Merkel in while her buddy Orbán was pushing through things like German car factories only having to pay out overtime three years after accrued, and only if it was not offset with being given less hours years later. We protested that, we were on the streets, there was not one quip from the EU.

And when the recent crises hit, you were all fine with VW laying people off in Germany while keeping the vulnerable Hungarian workers, and only when the chickens really came home to roost, when Orbán is making a fool out of the EU and its leaders on the world stage again and again, now the EU turns off the unlimited money. And just after that happens, we start to clean your mess up, and he’s on his way out. This could have happened 10-15 years ago, and we wouldn’t be in this mess, but the industry needed its wage slaves.

Yet, German and French and whichever other countries’ leadership did not learn one bit. They prop up Vucic, who the incredibly brave students and protestors of Serbia are standing up to, despite being shot at by Western sound cannons. And I won’t even bring up the reluctance of everyone to stop arming a genocidal army in Israel after its leader was indicted by the ICC.

He only wants to be. His days are numbered as of now, his party is squarely in the minority

As a Hungarian citizen, I’ve been doing the same since the invasion started, and I’m happy my investment is paying off

I wonder what this means for US GDP, not just the AI bubble, but the various other speculative bubbles goimg around.

How much of the US economy is real and how much is it a fake foam of stock market bubbles?

Nobody cares if Ivan can fuel his Lada, but apparently farms are having difficulty fueling their harvesters, and Russia’s biggest export after shit that comes out of the ground is shit that grows on it.

But that should be accounted for, otherwise the whole graph is pointless.

BTW Hungary is also off, because the amount of days off depends on your age.

The only real info from this whole map is that everywhere in the world except the US there is a concept of holidays.

And Belgium is also missing 12 days since the workweek is 38 hours but in effect that’s just given out as 12 more holidays.

Thanks for pointing it out though, I couldn’t find data on that warhead, I guess my guess was off by an order of magnitude.

It’s much harder to hit something going 160 km/h than to hit something static with a munition going 160 km/h.

And a thermobaric munition is like the miniaturised version of the MOAB that the US was busting bunkers with in Afghanistan.

Point is, even if it hits the drone 100 m away, I don’t think that would be safe for the target. The primary defense is still jamming, but that is ineffective against wire-guided stuff.

It’s not useless, but I don’t think Putin is safe either. It could also be a cope cage like thing, where the point is just the appearance of safety to calm Putin’s nerves and to discourage attackers.

FPV drones can go over 160 km/h, and can carry thermobaric warheads.

I don’t think that will happen, there is no inbetween for him, it’s either impunity or death.

What’s the difference between the two Neptuns?

I’d say that from what we can see here, Russian capabilities did not improve in general, but diverged.

They have much better drone recon allowing better precision nowadays, but are running out of good guns to follow up on that, so they are most likely doing blanket artillery saturation while also hitting valuable targets with glide bombs and ballistic missiles.

So vis-a-vis artillery, they need many more shells for the same effect, and it’s getting worse, but they are getting better with drones and cheap smart munitions.

The picture is neither a video game controller, nor manufactured by a UK company.

It’s a Chinese dedicated drone controller.

Nothing is really self-sufficient. Tanks especially so, especially today.

The idea that the Soviets had was to just have a Tunguska running around within tank platoons, that’s why it’s also a tracked system. The thing with drones is that we have been de-emphasising SHORAD systems since the West always assumed air superiority, while the East was more into asymmetrical defense against expensive platforms, imagine stuff like the 9K31 or the Osa. Somehow nobody thought that progress means that while more and more advanced expensive platforms become reachable, the knock-on effect is that already-available platforms become much much cheaper.

The 2A8 is capable of mounting TROPHY, there is a thing called Eurotrophy, I think that’s the company with the license?

The problem with stuff like TROPHY or ARENA is that they are last-ditch and expensive, shooting drones down with a Gepard or a Tunguska autocannon is cheaper, which can save lives if there are hundreds of drones going for you at the same time.