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Can you provide a source for this claim?

Not the person you asked, but here's a couple of sources that back that claim:

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-starlink-ukraine-gur-elon-mu...

https://kyivindependent.com/nearly-half-of-usaid-starlink-te...

Also, as I understand it, a big part of the reason USAID was fed "into the woodchipper" was because they were investigating SpaceX over Russian use of Starlink - see https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-enemy-usaid-was-investigating...


>Also, as I understand it, a big part of the reason USAID was fed "into the woodchipper" was because they were investigating SpaceX over Russian use of Starlink - see https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-enemy-usaid-was-investigating...

The article you linked contains literally nothing supporting your accusation. Instead, it talks about an investigation targeting the aid recipient:

>The USAID Office of Inspector General, Inspections and Evaluations Division, is initiating an inspection of USAID’s oversight of Starlink satellite terminals provided to the Government of Ukraine. Our objectives are to determine how (1) the Government of Ukraine used the USAID-provided Starlink terminals, and (2) USAID monitored the Government of Ukraine’s use of USAID-provided Starlink terminals


Thx for posting the USAID article. The brazenness of it all is astonishing.

Thank God for the incompetence. It's like we're doing "Clown Show Mussolini".


Here, have a video of the russian cavalry with a Starlink attached to a horse. Yes, you have read that right. 2026 btw. https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1q7i... Also: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/01/08/russia-sat...

Start here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink_in_the_Russian-Ukrain...

Scroll down to Russian use.

Starlink receivers have been found in use in drones by both sides in the war.

There's a lot of Open Source intel on this.


I guess it is to a degree unavoidable - ukrainian units are using a lot of crowdfunded starlink terminals on the front, so even if you geo fenced usage only to the virtual cells outside of Russia controlled territory, you would also disable ukrainian sets at the front. So if Russians smuggle sets from other countries, they might not be really easy to tell from the "good" sets crowdsourced by the ukrainians and used at the front.

As for use in long range strike UAVs I'm sure ukrainian units have specially registered units that will work anywhere but again, Russian long range kamikaze drones you have a smuggled unit that only activates once on ukrainian territory and be used for terminal guidance or reconnaissance. By the time the system spots a new terminal moving quickly in the wrong place the thing would have rammed into a civilian building somewhere.


It doesnt matter where starlink terminals came from, all end up registered with Ukrainian MOD. Btw Poland pays subscription on ~50K of those.


Twitter is a good source for this sort of evidence. It’s Musk, all the way down.

Do you have suggestions on how to do off site backups? For example for images and documents

XXTB HDD in a safe deposit box. Rotate the disks with on-site backup. Test restore once per year.

That Markov chain spiraled out of control


Perhaps Grok was not trained to go so much time with 0 responses due to the downtime?


Could this be a self-inflicted bug? In that case, the broader point still stands: cloud providers can cause outages that are outside your direct realm of responsibility.


Your VPS server and your data center and the ISP your data center uses and the AS system your ISP uses all can cause outages outside your direct realm of responsibility.


My country has laws similar to this, they mostly side with the employee but judges are not blind to a clear abuse


I am not sure that every inspiring action has to be performed by an inspiring person. His family values sadden me, but his story provokes thought. I am not sure I have to admire everyone…


I had a problem where ChatGPT rendered math to me from right to left. Sure thing YMMV


What do you mean by “has a therapist”? Do they just mention it in passing, or do they bring up takeaways from their sessions in everyday conversation? If it’s the latter, I’m not sure that’s really about mental-health openness. It feels more like a broader social habit, the need to present yourself as someone who’s constantly working on every aspect of your life. That’s a different modern-society quirk altogether.


More the former.


Hezoballah group itself defies the Lebanese government and the Lebanese sovereignty


Hezbollah is part of the political system in Lebanon


BDS is a western concept, legal laws banning business with Israel in the Middle East precede it.


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