MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]

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Cake day: July 29th, 2020

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  • I’m pretty sure that what’s left of British infrastructure only continues to exist thanks to the fact that the Chinese aren’t interested in crippling our country out of racist or ideological spite. We famously farm out computerised infrastructure to some of the least competent, most unsuitable vendors. Data secruity for institutions here is a joke. We’ve had multiple governments seriously propose banning encryption and almost the entirity of our political class is tech illiterate and our military structure is primarily a bizarre aristocracy that get their appointments via herditary favour.

    And that’s without even getting into what the government offers in terms of pay and benefits to its cybersecurity experts. I’m keeping it vague obviously, but I once met someone via an odd work thing who interviewed for a classified ‘active’ cybersecurity role and was offered a salary that was ‘less than they made as dev at a mobile games studio almost a decade before’.













  • Former Russian mercenary army that were operating on Africa. Got absorbed into the Russian military after prigo-pog tried a coup-esque stunt to prove a point and then died shortly afterwards in a totally unrelated but completely expected plane crash.

    The point the poster above is making is that for years Western occupying militaries, often running illegal dirty wars, in Africa have tried to deflect themselves from criticism by pointing to comparatively small Wagner mercenary operations in the area and saying they have to be there because Russia is.

    But increasingly the Sahel countries are kicking out occupying troops anyway and moving to build more sustainable pan-African power.