> Cyprus, an EU country

RAF base is on "sovereign British land", A vestige of colonialism. Technically not EU.

I see the headline's now been changed to "RAF base in Cyprus hit by drone strike"

The Telegraph is, of course, strongly anti-EU, so the original headline might well have been a form of shit-stirring - "look how weak the EU are being by not retaliating!", or something along those lines.

That's not how the EU views it,

https://x.com/vonderleyen/status/2028357886355570992

I think it is, seeing as she says 'While the Republic of Cyprus was not the target'

>While the Republic of Cyprus was not the target, let me be clear: we stand collectively, firmly and unequivocally with our Member States in the face of any threat.

This is correct.

> the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia (SBA), is a British Overseas Territory that consists of two separate areas on the island of Cyprus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akrotiri_and_Dhekelia

> troops themselves do NOT want this

I thought your empire had a voluntary military?

That's what I was addressing: for many it's "voluntary" in the way poor people "volunteer" to be homeless. (This applies across many countries BTW.)

I absolutely do not mean to slight any soldiers anywhere, I have the utmost respect for them putting their lives on the line for their country, but I also realize many of them are there only due to having few alternatives to escape their circumstances.

> Israel had already killed many, many more civilians in Gaza than Hamas did in Israel with that attack.

And how does it justify Hamas killing unarmed civilians? How does it justify Hamas lobbing grenades at Nepali students?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0kllzqk1vo

That's not what I am answering to, but the assertion "Hamas threw the first stone". No it didn't.

I think the parent comment is referring to RuPay à la visa/mastercard not Vipps which I say is equivalent of UPI. Although UPI is open unlike Vipps.

In my old company new joiners are assigned an monotonic number as id in tech. GitHub profile url reflected that.

Someone may or may not have used the pattern to get to know the attrition rate through running a simple script every month))

TFR of my town of million people with $3k percapita income is 1.5

Screaming at Disk drives has been my go-to party trick to break ice the last decade.

This is actually pretty nice and amazing that they publish video format incident retrospectives.

I pay 30$ a year for 2/3 GB per day and unlimited calls. This is more than enough for me.

For broadband I pay 10$ a month for 100 Mbps.

Mobile is terrible at times, Broadband service is amazing, even though it is slow.

Broadband is not that common

One of my previous orgs used incrementing number for Github profiles. While there was no privacy concern about accessing a Github profile of another user, i don't think the org expected someone to calculate tech attrition and layoff count using this URL pattern ;)