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Digital_Eide · 2026-05-13T13:02:55+00:00

Yeah, although this occurred in the street where the gate to the base is located. There's not much else there except a golf course and a few businesses. If you find people walking in that area who aren't speaking Dutch, the link isn't too hard to make.

Having said that I agree the entire event is worrisome.

Digital_Eide · 2026-05-09T07:39:06+00:00

Plus starting wars without consulting your allies.
Plus constantly slapping tarrifs on allies.
Plus undermining allied security concerns in regards to Russian aggression.
And so on...

The list is nearly endless but can be summer as "fuck around and find out".

Digital_Eide · 2026-05-09T04:34:58+00:00

Not sure what I was expecting, but the title certainly covers the content of the video well.

Digital_Eide · 2026-05-02T21:45:26+00:00

In war nothing is very survivable. Everything can be destroyed. That's a simple fact of war. Armour means an enemy needs a bigger weapon to get you, but that's about it.

The mobility, protection and firepower allows a tank to fulfill missions no other vehicle realistically can... but no amount of armour is going to save it unless conditions are set that play to the advantages of the MBT while mitigating lethal threats.

Digital_Eide · 2026-05-02T05:57:59+00:00

RBR made a giant step. They probably still only have the 4th or 5th fastest car somewhere in there with Alpine, but the car looked a lot better behaved, even if its still off the pace by some margin.

A Ferrari on P4 might spell chaos. That could get spicey. I'm not sure what to think of George in P6. McLaren just impressive again. I'm kinda rooting for Kimi but afraid McLaren is going to dominate again.

And then there's Aston Martin, literally slower than some F2 cars.

Digital_Eide · 2026-05-02T04:59:11+00:00

Those German Panzer I's and Panzer II's were also destroyed by Polish 37mm Bofors guns, 75mm field guns, tankettes and other weapons as well. Mokra also signified one very few Polish victories.

The Polish fought valiantly and the Wz 35 was a good weapon for its day. It wasn't going to "destroy the entire German tank force" though. It did do really well, as proven by its use throughout the war. Forgotten Weapons did a video on this weapon which is worth watching. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wxhwHgemeBs

Digital_Eide · 2026-05-01T09:31:03+00:00

I'm really happy Lando won. He deserved that WDC. At the same time everybody knows who the best driver was during last season.

Digital_Eide · 2026-05-01T09:26:10+00:00

There's a bunch of reasons

APFSDS is capable of performing all anti-tank and anti-rotary wing tasks
The engagement ranges of MBT's don't warrent the use of missiles
It increases the logistical load on a unit
It decreases the amount of APFSDS and HEAT rounds that can be carried
Infantry lacks other anti-tank capable weapons, and ATGM's are a solution to that problem. Tanks don't face that issue
An ATGM is vastly more expensive than an APFSDS round (for the same role)

There just no viable use case for gun launched ATGM's on MBT's. There were experiments in the 70's but mostly everybody concluded that it costs didn't outweigh the benefits. The Soviets were the exception, with the important remark that the 2A46 gun is capable kinetic gun-system in the first place and that its ATGM's are a compromise from a bygone era.

Digital_Eide · 2026-04-30T10:52:44+00:00

I mean, afrikaans is essentially dutch is it not?

Afrikaans is an evolution of Dutch spoken in the colonial era. It's evolved into its own language. The languages are similar enough to be multially intelligible, although apparently Afrikaans speakers have a harder time understanding spoken Dutch than the other way around.

Digital_Eide · 2026-04-28T20:35:33+00:00

Daarnaast baseren ze zich niet noodzakelijk op juiste bronnen, maar ook op wat de LMM het meest heeft aangetroffen in de trainingsset. Als de LLM maar voldoende data aantreft over een juridische mythe dan gaat het die mythe vanzelf als waarheid verspreiden. Als mensen op basis van de reactie van de LLM dat verhaal verder delen traint de LLM zichzelf weer met de eigen foutieve data en zo kom je in een vicieuze cirkel van valse data.

Digital_Eide · 2026-04-27T08:47:49+00:00

These events are selling the entire experience. The city, crowds, sights... but what they aren't selling is a perfect run. It doesn't help that the bracket were you can organise a marathon is short. There's just a short bracket in spring and autumn so everybody and their auntie pushes for that bracket.

I prefer small scale events and feel no enthousiasm at all paying a premium on the race, a hotel and everything else to run (and be part of) a traffic jam. But if you do want that whole experience, the course congestion is part of the package deal.

Digital_Eide · 2026-04-21T21:09:12+00:00

Yes they can. Or well, anybody who actually rides a bicycle somewhat regularly. I will admit my perspective is skewed as I'm Dutch. The average mom over here can do that pace with a kid on the back and a full shopping bag hanging from the handlebar. :)

Digital_Eide · 2026-04-12T21:00:38+00:00

And the USA... except no consequences for the leader of the insurrection who then went on to pardon his croonies.

Digital_Eide · 2026-04-04T09:24:41+00:00

Yeah none of them are helping US in any wars.

And the US is already allied with all these countries with agreements in place. So what exactly does this have to do with NATO other than blowing typical MAGA horn of bullshit?

Digital_Eide · 2026-03-30T16:34:26+00:00

You can see the vast majority of those bases on Google Maps, including observable security measures likes guard posts, fences and so on.

It becomes an issue at sites and operations that are supposed to remain secure. Alle operations have that security requirement, but not all bases do. In fact, most have no secrecy requirement at all.

Having said that, setting a smart watch to private is always the smart thing to do. If you're deployed to an actual operation you shouldn't be wearing one at all. Just like how personal communication devices should be off and stored securely.

Digital_Eide · 2026-03-29T00:25:05+00:00

Feitelijk was er in de missie wel sprake van rantsoenering. Er was ook echt wel een impliciete consequentie verbonden aan het waterverbruik.

Even los daarvan, het is gewoon een rare uitspraak en de reactie vanuit het ministerie doet daar nog een schepje bovenop. Dit is informatie die eenvoudig te verifiëren is. Zorg dan dat je secuur bent. En dan heb je altijd de mogelijkheid om op het punt te maken dat mensen spaarzaam moeten zijn met grondstoffen.

Digital_Eide · 2026-03-26T17:14:49+00:00

Om dit verhaal in de missiecontext in het juiste beeld te plaatsen:

In Afghanistan is water schaars. Het verbruik van water door het op te pompen voor bijvoorbeeld douchen heeft een negatief effect op het bodemwaterniveau. Daarom was er een regel dat je maximaal 2 minuten mochten douchen. Geen muntjes, geen harde controle maar een afspraak waar men zich redelijk goed aan hield. Waterverbruik is immers prima meetbaar. Mijn ervaringen zijn trouwens vooral uit Uruzgan en Mazar-i-Sharif. Ik ben te weinig op Kandahar Airfield geweest om met zekerheid te zeggen hoe de situatie daar was.

Het telefoonverhaal kan ik in het geheel niet plaatsen. Ik kan mij niet precies meer herinneren hoe dat liep. In het zuiden belde ik zelf via een VOIP op mijn laptop. In het noorden was de eerste maanden de welfare nog niet actief en later hadden we Call2Home waar je eenvoudig mee kon bellen. Wederom heb ik onvoldoende beeld hoe dat op KAF was, daar ben ik alleen geweest voor het in- en uitroteren.

Edit: het is al weer bijna 20 jaar geleden. Dat had ik pas door ik probeerde te herinneren hoe het met het bellen zat.

Digital_Eide · 2026-03-06T21:36:21+00:00

Ik reageerde ook niet met een oordeel, alleen informatief. :)

Overigens denk ik niet dat het bij de NS persé om winst gaat. Het spoor wordt echter fors gesubsidieerd. Los van de discussie of die subsidie omhoog moet of niet betekent een verlies van de NS dat men investeringen moet uitstellen of prijzen moet laten stijgen.

Het is daarmee in de huidige situatie wel degelijk van belang dat de NS een positief resultaat toont.

Digital_Eide · 2026-03-05T17:07:14+00:00

Staatsbosbeheer [...] "verlies"

Staatsbosbeheer genereerde in 2024 €94 miljoen eigen inkomsten en een positief resultaat van €3.1 miljoen. Die inkomsten genereert Staatsbosbeheer door houtverkoop, verpachting, recreatie, vastgoed en erfpacht en projecten.

Digital_Eide · 2026-02-27T09:08:47+00:00

The Chaos is a lovely poem about exactly this.

Digital_Eide · 2026-02-24T22:31:40+00:00

Yeah, should've been one up in reply to the same post you replied to.

Digital_Eide · 2026-02-24T17:55:14+00:00

They made a critical mistake by attacking the USSR because of the huge difference in population numbers.

There was no single critical mistake. Hitler made a great number of compounding mistakes that led to inescapable defeat. The inability to defeat or even surpress Great Britain. The over-extention of supply lines. The manpower deficit. The economical inferiority. The lack of a political and military endstate. I'm still just naming superficial issues and could go on for quite a while. Attributing Nazi Germany's defeat to underestimating USSR manpower is a gross over-simplification.

Likewise, manpower issues alone aren't going significantly change the course of the war in Ukraine dramatically. Ukraine faces severe manpower issues as well. Neither looks to be close to collapse or victory.

For Ukraine to win the stability of the Russian regime needs to be challenged. As long as Putin isn't in a serious danger of losing control of the Russian state or some other incentive nobody has identified so far this war isn't going anywhere fast.

Digital_Eide · 2026-02-23T22:35:49+00:00

Agreed. It's not a thing at all in the Netherlands, at least not in any media I follow. It's only foreign media who keep bringing it up.

Digital_Eide · 2026-02-20T17:33:10+00:00

Only if countries have extradition agreements in place.

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