The US and UK did not contract to prevent the invasion of Ukraine or protect it from all comers.

They promised not to invade or to negatively economically coerce.

Russia brokethe Budapest memorandum. The US & UK did not.

Full details in the other reply

Only Russia broke that agreement. The US & UK have upheld their end.

Hint, do you actually know what’s in it ? I suspect not

It works exactly the same way ambulance access to pedestrian malls and shared zones works.

They don’t drive through at 60mph lights and sirens and “get the hell out of my way” attitude.

This is the UK not the US.

They can drive quickly up to the restricted zone, then they’re progressing at 5 to 10mph with the passenger watching for inattentive pedestrians.

Before the howl of outrage this is short distances in a high density city. The difference in travel time by slowing down for the last mile is a minute or two. Time that could just as easily be lost by inattentive drivers not moving out of the way en route.

Lol. Do you really think only govts can track you via your phone ? Both the phone OS providers and the telcos can readily do so, and additionally many apps ask for access that allows them to do so if you’re not careful. Refer the jogging app that compromised military security in Afghanistan & the middle east for example.

That doesn’t make the flock cameras irrelevant though. It takes an additional step because a) you can’t opt out of number plate tracking and b) it’s facial recognition as well as anpr into a central tracking database.

Unlikely, he’s been running it a loss for years now, propped up by his money, his billionaire mates’ money and some launch contracts in addition to Starlink.

This is the reason he’s building in terms into the IPO that prevent him being ousted - public companies making losses are at risk of board shakeups, he’s making sure that isn’t possible before the float launches.

He doesnt care if twitter or spaceX lose money, they’re valuable levers to get what he wants

We have a very large 5th column funded by Putain & the Fanta Fascist. We can’t get complacent.

Good. The sooner the US pulls out the better, the newly fascist America isn’t going to uphold NATO anyway, so the sooner the band-aid is pulled off the better

So the Palantir whitewashing has started, seems the backlash has scared the techno-fascists. A shame the Guardian is uncritically on board. Feels more like a Daily Heil or terrorgraph sort of article

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

OP has a reasonable concern, Microsoft has had a troubling past history, and embrace extend extinguish hasn’t gone away, just look at the office file standards shenanigans.

It’s certainly the case that the purchase of github is intended to create a platform that has network effects (making it hard to leave).

Microsoft has proven many times that their participation in FOSS tends to come with a catch or an intent to subvert.

Video is posted in the thread, and yes that’s a model 3 about to be crushed by a sherman tank.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw4ZjhOukwU