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Yeah, I was being a bit cheeky - I wouldn't step on any jet plane that hasn't had access to official spare parts for a few years.

I just found it amusing F-14s were bought in the mid-70s, which I guess is around the time many would say the quality of American cars also began dropping.

Turns out America's greateast weapoin in its fight against terrorism is the quality of its engineering.

So if I get this right, you can always link the state community at [!state@50501.chat](/c/state@50501.chat). !Alaska@50501.chat, for example.

That's pretty neat. Well done whoever set it up, hopefully it'll gain traction. :)

Edit: The comment I responded to originally linked the list of communities at 50501.chat, which I thought was useful in its own right. In addition to the state ones, there's !general@50501.chat for general discussion (not sure how it'll compliment existing communities), !brainstorm@50501.chat for brainstorming, and !mirror@50501.chat to see whatever is happening over at Reddit.

In the state communities, spaces are replaced by underscores, as in !New_York@50501.chat.

I guess the scammers are also in the process of figuring out how to use the Fediverse. Give them time. :)

Information here is public.

That said, there has been problems of people scraping random fediverse servers and causing a lot of traffic, in turn sending a huge bill to the owner of the instance.

We don't have money, so ransom attacks are unlikely.

If it's state actors and cyber warfare, which I think is fair to suspect, we're probably way under the radar. We're not quite critical infrastructure just yet. :)

For the lols attacks could happen anywhere, but this is not that.

Quick info: Before today it was budgedet to 35bn NOK, or 2.98bn Euro. Today that was increased with 50bn NOK, or 4.26bn Euro, making the total planned aid this year 7.24bn Euro.

It was announced in a joint press conference with all political parties of the parliament. All parties are in favour of this, with some wanting to give more. We have elections coming up in September, so that could prove important.

Also, the current minister of finance is Jens Stoltenberg. He is notorious for two things:

1. Until recently and during most of the war he has been general secretary of NATO
2. As PM of Norway, and as an economist, he was responsible for the implementation of the budgetary rule which limits the portion of the sovreign wealth fund can be used every year.

There is talk about breaking the budgetary rule to allow for a lot more money to be sent into Ukraine. Due to his NATO position, it is fair to assume Stoktenburg knows the stakes more than most. But due to his history with the budgetary rule, he is also familiar with the risks involved in breaking it, and he might be more protective of it than most. He has not, however, ruled it out. The rule has been broken once before, during Covid.

I think it's the first time in my life I routinely check in on the stock value of a company, and it's pure Schadenfreude.

While most news media keeps on endlessly reporting on what politicians say, tech and law commentators by definition focus on what is being done. In a world where what is being said is not only irrelevant, but flat-out weaponized, this is the only kind of reporting that matters.

Would make sense for the dealer. Teslas in Europe are becoming unsellable, better to cash in while the insurance companies still have to pretend they have value.

Never gave this much thought. I've been considering subscribing for Kagi again, but basically they are paying for a Google API subscription, meaning that Google directly monetizes my Kagi searches?

To be completely honest, I'm less worried about privacy and more worried about what kind of world I'm contributing to with my internet usage. I Mullvad sends money to Google for every search, it's probably not for me.

Switched to Qwant now - rather Microsoft than Google, and at least they are working on their own engine.

That's @Daojoan@mastodon.social, for those who can follow Mastodon handles. Worth following!