Things created by DARPA - the R&D branch of the US military:

• the building blocks of GPS
• the 1st computer mouse and Graphical user interface (GUI)
• the protocols that underpin the modern Internet
• Onion routing / Tor network - used by dissidents and journalists to circumvent censorship
• The mRNA platform used in the world's leading Covid-19 vaccines (and potentially 1st vaccines against Cancer)

They were on the brink of finding a Hammer and sickle shaped maple leaf.

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Lol wait what?

If a single mistake is made (that is, if a letter is slightly malformed), it can't be erased. Instead, the entire page is discarded.

Therefore, in order to avoid discarding large swatches of text due to a single minor error, it's written on small sheets then stiched together afterwards.

It's a full time job for a whole year by a specially trained person to make one of these. Naturally it's going to cost tens of thousands of dollars.

He wants to create 'debate'... Mindblowing mental gymnastics from this man.

At the risk of being branded a commie, this is what happens when countries progressively privatise higher education. The institutions stray more away from what's best for students and just chase the $$. My father was a university professor before he retired and he lamented that this even applied to research which were increasingly becoming less theoretical and more designed to achieve short term practical application, which is short sighted because it's the more theoretical research that churns out the bigger leaps in scientific understanding in the long term.

Russians: Let’s use resources that are not available.

Yeah it’s a thing, like all of the major news networks have published stories on it.

To clarify further for idiot Americans (like me 😁)

Wikipedia: "The Liberal Party of Australia is a centre-right political party in Australia, one of the two major parties in Australian politics, along with the centre-left Australian Labor Party."

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Just like the time he walked into Engadine Macca's.

It means Russian forces will report destroying 143 out of the 31 Abrams tanks within a month.

Rookie numbers, gotta get them up.

Its like reddit thinks nothing outside of America exists and American politics is the only thing that exists so its the same thing everywhere.

Telling an American their political opinion would be seen as conservative or far right in another country will make them short circuit too.

It would be fun to do if it wasn't every thread.

so does that mean they leave the ukrainian tanks alone or they just get bonus points for western ones?

Are you saying there are Chinese police stations in Canada?

The USA has other allies that produce oil. It will be a domestic issue but they would not run out because of it. Plus the potential for explosive profits due to war time issues would mean a lot of non-opec nations would be happy to ship whatever oil they don't need for a quick buck.

By Deng you meant “crush students and Beijing citizens with tanks on June 4th 1989” Deng?

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But I think your premise is wrong, Finland will always have the support of Sweden, no matter what. For starters, both are in the EU, which has a mutual defense pact. Also, I don't know if those two (or the Nordic countries) have a bilateral defense treaty, but they could and they should. NATO is not exclusive to other military alliances. If the US were attacked, you can be sure Australia would help them however they could, and the US shares as much intelligence (five eyes) with them as they want.

The Russian federation may be dead by then.

Assisting someone in self defense is generally not frowned upon while assisting in unprovoked murder is.

I m 31, 11 years ago I gave plenty of bribes to police and guards, just because I had PL on my car or I would have to wait unreasonable time to do anything.

Both police and guards suggested that if I give them money everything will be fine.

Didn't Israel bomb one of their factories earlier today?