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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • The executive order in question is likely no. 14215, currently disputed in court by the DNC. Among other things, it says:

    "(b) “Agency,” unless otherwise indicated, means any authority of the United States that is an “agency” under 44 U.S.C. 3502(1), and shall also include the Federal Election Commission.

    …and also…

    The President and the Attorney General, subject to the President’s supervision and control, shall provide authoritative interpretations of law for the executive branch. The President and the Attorney General’s opinions on questions of law are controlling on all employees in the conduct of their official duties.

    No employee of the executive branch acting in their official capacity may advance an interpretation of the law as the position of the United States that contravenes the President or the Attorney General’s opinion on a matter of law, including but not limited to the issuance of regulations, guidance, and positions advanced in litigation, unless authorized to do so by the President or in writing by the Attorney General.

    It’s easy to foresee that he wants to alter the constitutional order and establish an authoritarian regime.

    Some sound advise to people in the US:

    • observe what becomes of the legal challenges to this and other executive orders
    • see what political action you can take within established frameworks
    • get in touch and establish communications with like-minded people

    If the situation worsens, you will benefit from secure communications between people, to hold your councils, make smarter decisions and organize action.

    Also, some controversial advise:

    • if you’re into tech, find a nice hobby involving something like drones, model planes, airships, tethered blimps, kites, rockets, RC cars, boats, subs or even stationary robots - something that is interesting and fits your budget (let’s hope you’ll use your skills for fun and wholesome things, but life could make corrections)

    • it also benefits to know your way around communications: how to participate in a mesh network, how to establish a radio link to some distance, how to lay single mode bare fiber between 2 points exceptionally fast


  • Pigs are intelligent and curious creatures, so it’s possible that they would learn this.

    However, they might come looking at a ground ambush FPV for other reasons too - most FPV controllers slowly spin their motors when armed, or beep (resonate their motors) to indicate that they’re armed. This could draw attention - pigs might think that a piglet is in trouble and come looking. Hopefully not touching, because on that screenshot, the warhead is also waiting to be touched.

    But the killed-to-wounded ratio (as well as the overall loss ratio) is probably very bad for Russians:

    • if a front moves slowly, leaving devastated land behind it, those who come across that land, they won’t have infrastructure supporting them
    • Ukrainians do not seem hell bent on crawling slowly across devastated land, they either defend or do maneuver warfare… Russians seem to have different priorities, they attack even when the attack is very costly
    • these days, any vehicle is a target for FPV drones and must be equipped with powerful electronic countermeasures (which also announce its presence) to survive
    • but some FPV drones lock onto targets with machine vision and others are piloted over optical cable, and there’s not much hope against these even with jammers
    • so, approximately within 7 km of the front, vehicles are a risky thing to have
    • evacuating a wounded person to a distance of 7 km to get him on a vehicle requires non-trivial effort
    • if the official tactic is making “meat attacks”, it’s hard to imagine where that effort comes from

    So, that effort probably doesn’t happen.

    I know of a company in Ukraine making remote operated ground vehicles (“stretcher on tracks”) that can be used to evacuate a person even if they cannot steer the vehicle, but even Ukrainians have few such tools. Russians probably aren’t bothering.