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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Or you can save yourself a lot of time and hassle and use that money to get an account with a Usenet provider. You still end up downloading everything at full speed over HTTPS, but you don't have to bother with the extra step of waiting for your seedbox to download the torrent.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I mean, the FSB could have easily had an asset inside the refueling operation at the Moscow airport. Place a small time-delayed explosive charge in the fuel intake of the left wing just before take-off, and you'd end up with pretty much exactly the crash profile we've seen.

It's cheaper and more reliable than a missile, leaves less physical evidence behind, and maintains a higher level of plausible deniability. Especially if your fallback plan is to blame it on the Ukrainians if the plot gets discovered.

Source: I watched all 7 seasons of Homeland.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Just because 'Statement A' implies 'Implication B' does not make 'Statement A' any less true.

If you receive 1% of your overall funding from one organization, that's a close formal association. It doesn't automatically mean their reporting is compromised or anything else you might assume comes along with that tag, but that tag is definitely accurate in this case.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Hard disagree. If you receive 1% of your overall funding from one organization, that's a close formal association. It doesn't automatically mean their reporting is compromised or anything else you might assume comes along with that tag, but it definitely does apply in this case.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Twitter didn't say they had government appointed staff. They said they were "state affiliated". Which you just confirmed as 100% true.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's from a movie named "Half Baked".

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is it? Any context about why I should care that you might be willing to include?