Picric acid? Is this a wrong translation? It was chloropicrin. Something completely different.

Ukraine needs those items (or whatever we might replace) to defend.

Defense does not (only) mean bunkers and what not. It actually means stopping the enemy. Like Ukraine does right now. Except that they lost a ton of people, area etc. to the attacker before getting strong enough. Let’s not do it like that and be prepared instead.

Unnecessary military spending? Being strong enough to actually counter the enemy is the only way to prevent war to begin with. Military alliance or guarantees that are not worth their paper are useless. If the enemy thinks he can beat you, he might as well try.

Of course it is only a tool, the same way an untrained person can not operate an excavator without causing lots of damage. I just wanted to say how impressed I often am at how good the response is.

The output is often really good, even for STEM questions about niche topics.

Ahhh yes.

This comment caused a little fire storm, sorry for the time you wasted trying to explain logic arguments to people that have a set believe.

Look at the history for some context, Egypt used to help them, just like many other states.

This is a massive problem for everyone, what are you talking about?

Are the Ukrainians looking starved and tortured?

As long as China is considered to be a developing county, which they very much want to stay even as a word leading superpower, everyone else subsidieses these packages. I think it is called the “terminal dues” rate which is set by the UPU.

Economic suffocation? How do they think that will work with very few random missiles? It just seems like what they do is less driven by an actual plan and more feels. Like with Trump, he just does whatever he likes, regardless of reality.

What an odd way to think.

There are some for the mid to large scale, which this would affect. Less so for small scale like <<100 kWp.

The biggest threat to peace…? There is already a war, am I missing something?

So what is the actual scam? Do people pay them money? I always find it very odd when someone reports about scams without ever specifying how they actually scam people. So everyone goes “that would never happen to me”. If you actually lay out how they do it, many would be “huh? Fuck”.

I completely lost touch with what goal both sides have. Could anyone fill me in? What is either sides end game? Does Hamas still have hostages? Why does Israel continue the hard push and where to? Etc.

Sounds like a lot of this problem is down to the airport or whoever manages that itself. So unlike everyone else here simply hating Temu, if they make deals with them that result in other packages getting delayed… that is not Temus fault. Upgrade your operations, prioritize medicine more than Temu.

Woooosh