Christian Heinzel

The 1973 oil embargo was in fact the exception, not the rule, and while that was about Israel, it notably was not about Palestine.

Somehow this seems like a dumber version of the British Army's former purchase system

My problem is that I keep and sync the PDFs via onedrive rather than zotero's own service (to avoid paying for it) and I've found that can create issues on android.
I've solved this for e.g. Obsidian on my phone via FolderSync, but I'm going to want to make sure the same applies here.

Haha, thanks.
Cursory searches make it look like it works well in general but is likely to face problems for my specific setup. But I've been really tempted to get an e-ink device, even if I can print for free in my office.

A very specific question that seems enough up your alley to ask:
How usable are these for annotating papers in a Zotero library?
(Particularly the reader in the middle, not sure which exact models you have there)

I feel like attempting a list of what he didn't understand might be a sysiphean task

Talarico is out there getting earned media from the NRSC

It would be even funnier if a chief propagator of such takes ended up snatched by the MSS for questioning when he hung out in the PRC...

Tbf this particular one might be a tiny bit more difficult due to being a Huawei product.

Like, most of the sane reasons to have major problems with the guy tend to require knowing his stances over an extended period of time, or to be relatively high info on (specific) policy (details) in ways that are representative of no constituency but bsky users.

Also arguably more problematic: "convincing the insurers that every single mine is removed"

Would be a lot funnier than murdering random fishermen in the Caribbean tbh

lots of contingencies that make this weird. SPRs can compensate some gaps, but also if oil wells had to shut down due to lack of storage/export capacity their restarting takes time with some margin of error, and then of course you also have damage to facilities with repairs etc.

I've been wondering about the acoustic detection in particular, and that seems like something that would come with diminishing returns in more crowded airspaces.
Even absent civil aviation, the number of US and allied fighters and large drones that are active in the area have to be a problem.

I guess it could be more justifiable for the Gulf states that at the very least have neither US force structure and magazine depth?
Though the similarities with (pre-adaption) Ukrainian force structure also already end at lacking existing assets to combat this threat.

Yeah, my main problem with that view is mostly related to whether Iranian state failure *should* be a desirable objective for Israel, both in terms of regional politics and depending on the exact failure state in terms of threat mitigation from the IRGC and possible successor orgs if it unravels.

I guess those effects are more or less orthogonal to how poorly airpower functions as a tool of coercion towards specific strategic objectives?
More of a problem with e.g. the current war is that if the traumatic effect itself is part of the point, then airpower might actually work.

I meant the age at which you settled on your war/military system to be obsessed with, the choice itself is exquisite

Tbf you seem to have been a little early

Thinking about the "tired of winning" quote from all the way back in 2016

“We’re going to win. We’re going to win so much. We’re going to win at trade, we’re going to win at the border. We’re going to win so much, you’re going to be so sick and tired of winning, you’re going to come to me and go, ‘Please, please, we can’t win anymore.’”

reposting the same rant from 30 years ago with an updated coffee composition seems like a good deal for the writer tbf

in British English (and certainly for ANZAC) I would argue WW1 casualties are also roughly treated like this. for good reason their remembrance day is 11/11 and everything and -one is covered in poppies.

Also worth remembering that even when ChatGPT's initial release in Nov 2022 led to more general audience attention was still more of an enthusiast phenomenon, just with easier access.

As someone with an unhealthy wine and hiking habit who isn't a vegetarian, I really cannot complain too much.

one of the fun things you encounter when hiking through 500 inhabitant villages in bumfuck nowhere is that they will have a bus stop serviced exactly 2x per day, once to and once back from the BASF
(also extra trains)

Or the southern palatinate, where everyone who isn't commuting to the BASF is going even further across the Rhine
(my life)

20 miles is very much in the feasible Euro commutes too tbh. basically every major metro/agglomeration in Germany is defined with a commuter radius larger than this.

Walk: 26 min. (3.48 km)

Look, I've got a solid walking pace, but I feel like my local public transport app is just a little too ambitious here

"Since the US is the new Rome, we've been at war with Persia since 54 BC"