I hadn’t thought about it but I guess it wouldn’t be that hard to tell the GPS satellites to stop broadcasting when over Ukraine.
That’s not really how GPS works though, GPS triangulates across 3 different satellites, it’s the device that works out the location after it pings all 3. Each satellite informs the device of its own location, the device calculates the ping time and the rest is geometry with some relativity adjustments. None of the satellites individually can geolocate the requesting device.
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yeah, you essentially have a broad spectrum jamming the gps frequencies that prevent chips from receiving a satellite signal with enough fidelity
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ukranian forces claims they have special ops units with ability to strike any occupiers that are just over the border with ukraine or possibly still haven’t crossed yet.
For good or bad, I suspect that point is going to be lost, and the main takeaway from this from the right is going to be the need for all US citizens to have assault rifles. This probably belongs in a different thread, but this event might have completely ended the gun control debate (if there ever was one) for all but the bluest strongholds.
CNN is showing video from Przemysl, a Polish border town west of L’Viv. People are showing up to the refugee processing location with food, water, and signs in Ukrainian offering free places to stay.
The reporter found a couple who drove there from Germany and are offering a ride back to Germany and a place to stay. That’s gotta be a 7 or 8 hour drive.
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Why? The army gave the guns out in Ukraine to tens of thousands of people who didn’t have them, maybe hundreds of thousands. They didn’t have to have them in the closet waiting in order to get one for the invasion.
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The US doesn’t border Russia. Also in the case of an immensely unlikely attack on US soil weapons can be distributed to the population.
Felt good/positive that there were only 90 new posts when I woke up this morning.
Having worked for a German company for a long time and lived there for 3 years, I would say they should be known more for their desire for precision, rigidity, and complexity, not efficiency. Sometimes the first three can create efficient designs. This is a generalization but culturally Germans tend to let the perfect be the enemy of the good and waste forever in deliberations and also be married to their processes and unwilling to be flexible with them even when they are creating bad outcomes.
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I could be wrong, but I don’t see it playing out that way.
Is that your takeaway, or do you think that would be a dumb takeaway?
Well, I heard “firing” everyone didn’t end great for Hitler in the end.
25000 in kyiv. i’d put the total under 50000 but still. it’s damn impressive
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The tiger tank in WWII is an example of this. The Americans could produce over 100 Shermans for every Tiger tank, but the Germans loved this powerful tank so they made as many of them as possible and as a result had very few tanks in the battlefield.
It’s bad if they move from incompetence to competence but good that the reports of this thing going badly for Russia are apparently highly accurate
Bad news for my twitter account RussianBot8102
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