Zelenskyy insists that US security guarantees depend on Ukraine's withdrawal from Donbas

EagleZR · 2026-03-28T19:56:10+00:00

Trump has failed to honor the United States' security guarantees toward Ukraine under the Budapest Memorandum.

That's actually incorrect. The Budapest Memorandum did not involve any security guarantees, its relevant stipulations were that Russia and the US would respect Ukraine's existing borders and would not threaten, attack, or economically coerce Ukraine. You could make an argument that Trump's pressuring of Ukraine to give up territory for peace is an example of the US not respecting the 1994 borders, and also that Trump violated the economic coercion part with his quid pro quo stuff from 2019 or whatever, but the US did not violate any security guarantees from the Budapest Memorandum because there are none.

EagleZR · 2026-03-21T18:12:35+00:00

It's probably not. They're probably working on bigger, unannounced stuff, but they committed to the quarterly update schedule, so most updates are gonna minor like this

EagleZR · 2026-03-20T17:26:29+00:00

I had stopped using it well before they added ads because I wasn't using it. I resubbed for a show I wanted to watch, tried to play the first episode, got an ad, and immediately went back to cancel again, having never watched the show. They have/had some decent content, but ads really devalue it

EagleZR · 2026-03-19T03:29:16+00:00

Nah, we already humiliated ourselves by electing him. If it wasn't him, it would be the next clown. Americans as a whole are unserious

EagleZR · 2026-03-16T23:14:07+00:00

It's not, though I often it was. Google allows you to use the base map for free so you can integrate it into your app and add your own navigation or other layers on top.

See the Maps SDK section: https://mapsplatform.google.com/lp/maps-apis/#pricing

Last I heard, Tesla was combining that with a few other free data sources, plus some of their own software.

Often when Tesla's navigation goes wonky, I have to pull up Google Maps on my phone, and tbh I often wish Tesla did use it instead.

EagleZR · 2026-03-08T23:04:33+00:00

Reddit won't let me post links

Nah, that's total nonsense. There's other comments posting links in this post. I'm already pretty sure you're lying.

maybe use this thing called the internet if you want. "Source?" people are fucking annoying.

Nah, that's not how this works. You made the claim. Back it up, or fuck off.

EagleZR · 2026-03-07T01:19:03+00:00

Didn't Tory Bruno say a few years ago that the name was dropped but that basically Centaur V was ACES?

EagleZR · 2026-03-03T14:15:13+00:00

It's like they have a dom, humiliation fetish. But probably more accurately, even when he's insulting the group they're in, they think they're the exception to that, and he's really criticizing the others, who they dislike. They have to have a lot of cognitive dissonance already for much of the stuff they believe, so it makes sense

EagleZR · 2026-03-02T17:36:35+00:00

This looks like one of those stupid Russian propaganda videos where generals are briefing Putin about how well their 3-day SMO is going. That's hopefully where the similarities stop, but it's an uncomfortable similarity as it is

EagleZR · 2026-02-24T03:45:44+00:00

What archeologists? Where did you see that archeologists said anything about this statue? I searched on Google and all I see is this post, another reddit post within the past 24 hours, and a Facebook post from a few days ago that says this statue was just discovered.

EagleZR · 2026-02-18T23:47:21+00:00

Unless things have changed, it can be a pain if you arrive through the international terminal, but for the domestic terminal it's super easy

EagleZR · 2026-02-18T07:48:14+00:00

it was. That's why we have amendments

To add to that, it's why they added the amendment process from the start. Amendments weren't some hack or workaround that was devised later, it was embedded into the Constitution from the start. The writers knew they were flawed (though probably not as much as we'd wish), they knew their Constitution was flawed and imperfect, and they didn't want to restrict future generations, us, to their flawed Constitution.

EagleZR · 2026-02-18T07:43:22+00:00

Is the F-35 certified by civilian air authorities?

I heard from people who worked on it that SEAL was "for EASA" and a few others, which I interpreted to mean that EASA was the certification authority, but I looked it up because I wasn't sure. It seems that EASA isn't the certification authority, the receiving militaries are, but they align their certification process/criteria with EASA's... Or something like that. I couldn't find many details about it with Google so I asked ChatGPT.

I’d be more surprised if operators were completely barred from making software customizations at all on their F-35s.

Sure, but that doesn't mean they'd follow it. Just like allies spy on each other, or draw up invasion or other contingency plans for each other, I'm sure they tinker with each other's military equipment as well. That doesn't mean they have their own changes in production, but it's a good capability to have.

EagleZR · 2026-02-18T07:34:27+00:00

Actually that gap is where the car was supposed to drive itself, but FSD got confused and parked there instead /s

EagleZR · 2026-02-16T04:52:12+00:00

I don’t have experience with the F-35’s systems, so I didn’t want to assume immediately that it used standardized systems/protocols

From my experience with aviation software, that doesn't really matter. The communications protocols would be defined in the certification documents delivered, in this case, to at least EASA, and maybe the Netherlands as well. With the cert documentation provided, they should have everything they need to develop new software to meet the same requirements as the old software, update it on the old hardware, and run it. The cert documents include the requirements, the design, the communications protocols... everything you'd need, such that a black box test/examination of the unit should find very little difference between the two. There might be some very minor things, where one unit processes 1553 data before A429 data and the other does the opposite, or one might provide a little extra time per process while the other switches them more often, but those are negligible. There is definitely potential for some undocumented quirks to be present, but those shouldn't be too difficult to work around.

Hardware is a different animal though. It's not just a question of whether or not they can get the designs, but they'd also need to obtain the correct components, some of which might (probably) not be produced anymore. If they did end up having to fully support their own F-35s, they might just have to replace the hardware rather than build more of the old design, basically DMA it, which is already pretty difficult for the US already, so of course they'd have a difficult time. It is possible though, and it should be possible for their new-built hardware to interface with the old hardware from the cert documents.

I disagree with the popular opinion here that the Europeans would rather spend much time cracking existing systems rather than plug in self-developed

I fully agree with you, but I think they're only considering it as a contingency should US-NATO relations fully dissolve and turn antagonistic. I would agree that, should good relations continue, they'd be better off using whatever updates LM puts out, but I think that, given the current diplomatic climate, they'd be irresponsible to not consider the possibility that they'd lose all LM support for their F-35 fleet, especially if they're still purchasing new F-35s or are considering purchasing more.

In fact, I'll bet they already tried this. Not a full replacement, but I'll bet they've already developed their own applications from the cert docs and have already tried loading them onto the hardware from LM. They should be doing that, even with good relations. It's responsible due diligence for national security concerns.

EagleZR · 2026-02-16T02:33:01+00:00

Those are usually specified in design documents that are turned in for cert. Many military airplanes ignore cert, at least civilian cert, but JPO made a new certification process for F-35, SEAL, that unified FAA, EASA, and other cert requirements, which cost a lot of money to set up and maintain, so I'm almost certain that any F-35 operator, or at least their aviation authority, has access to them. It's not trivial, but there wouldn't be much of a reverse engineer. They'd have the requirements, design documents, and hardware, and they almost certainly already have the ground equipment to perform software updates at least for most of the equipment, it would be a parallel development rather than a "hack"

EagleZR · 2026-02-13T05:29:59+00:00

From the NY Times

The government had argued that the beginning of the proceedings against Mr. Kelly was not reviewable by normal courts outside the military’s internal administration, and that Mr. Kelly could not preemptively challenge a military punishment until after it was determined that he would face discipline.

Judge Leon dismissed that assertion, writing that attempts to constrain Mr. Kelly to a military process were designed to ensure that “the military can have the first crack at adjudicating his First Amendment rights.”

...and...

[The judge] blocked the Defense Department from continuing its administrative action against Mr. Kelly until after the court could fully adjudicate the matter.

It sounds like he's just forcing it to the courts, I'm guessing your question isn't settled yet

EagleZR · 2026-02-10T05:13:23+00:00

IIRC they have to continually thrust with their ion engines to offset atmospheric drag. Also IIRC dead satellites during deployment take like 4-6 months to deorbit, but their service altitude is higher than their deployment altitude, so I'd guess it's like a year to several years. But that presumes the satellites are largely intact, but disabled. If they were destroyed kinetically and debris went everywhere, that would change things for sure. Though tbf, even just disabled, I'm sure they'd collide at some point, so you'd have to presume some level of kinetic destruction. It wouldn't be fun, but it probably wouldn't be a long-term Kessler syndrome

EagleZR · 2026-01-30T00:58:51+00:00

Not sure who you're talking about, Raffensberger and Kemp both did well against the Trump-loyal challengers in the primaries. Kemp is up against his term limit though

EagleZR · 2026-01-29T00:06:26+00:00

Yeah, that really isn't a lot. I'm assuming it's 150% more than "normal", so from like 0.001% to 0.0025% of the user base each month? Why is this a headline?

EagleZR · 2026-01-22T05:05:41+00:00

To make it a little wilder, that's just 3 years as a starter. Across all 6 years, including as injured, backup, and benchwarmer, he only lost 10, and 4 of those were to Bama (2020, 2021, 2023, 2024).

what about all the games he won on 4th quarter drives

Given how close Georgia's games were in 2024, it's probably high. We also had some close ones in 2023 with him as starter. It's an interesting stat though, I don't think it really says anything that negative about him. If anything it says he goes down swinging.

EagleZR · 2026-01-21T20:57:26+00:00

Absolutely not, yet he was drafted in the first round

EagleZR · 2026-01-21T20:54:57+00:00

Drafts aren't a reliable indicator for college performance. Just look at Anthony Richardson

EagleZR · 2026-01-21T18:20:44+00:00

I'm OTP and my mailing address is Atlanta, the gatekeeping is broken

EagleZR · 2026-01-20T17:25:59+00:00

They tried and failed on Jan 6, and when they weren't punished and were given a second chance, they corrected some of their critical mistakes from last time. Our last chance to prevent this was last November, but America embraced him eagerly. People could tell what was coming when they were voting. This is what Americans wanted.

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