re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.

I wasn't suggesting the container ship would be the launch platform, I was just commenting on the sheer volume of combat power it would be carrying.

Have any of you seen the ticking black mirror dystopian episode about the lady that goes to get the stuffee bear for the dying kid and the whole country is patrolled by these fricking attack dog robot like things that apparently have taken over the world for AI.

We are fricking past that, way way past that. You will look back on these days of battles between Conservatives and liberals as the good ole days. (Those that survive)

May God be with you all as have mercy upon us and spend the time with your family and kids while u can.

This is nothing in the scheme of things, Russia is nothing, neither is Ukraine.

Russia attacks Ukraine with 128 UAVs: air defence downs 72 drones, hits recorded in 10 locations

STANISLAV POHORILOV — 24 October, 09:23

Russian forces attacked Ukraine with 128 drones of the Shahed (about 90), Gerbera and other types on the night of 23-24 October.

Source: Ukraine's Air Force

Details: Early reports indicate that as of 09:00, air defence forces had destroyed or jammed 72 Russian drones of the Shahed, Gerbera and other types in the country's north, south and east.

Hits by 47 UAVs have been recorded in 10 locations.

Aircraft, anti-aircraft missile units, electronic warfare units, unmanned systems units and mobile fire groups from Ukraine's defence forces repelled the attack.

The Air Forces also warned that the attack is ongoing, with several Russian drones still in Ukraine's airspace.

Ukrainska Pravda

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Have any of you seen the ticking black mirror dystopian episode about the lady that goes to get the stuffee bear for the dying kid and the whole country is patrolled by these fricking attack dog robot like things that apparently have taken over the world for AI.

We are fricking past that, way way past that. You will look back on these days of battles between Conservatives and liberals as the good ole days. (Those that survive)

May God be with you all as have mercy upon us and spend the time with your family and kids while u can.

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I'm more concerned about drone attacks than I am AI in the near future.

What's going to stop terrorists from sending drones into packed concerts or football stadiums? And they can potentially keep doing it over and over again until they are caught.

With AI I'm more worried about it being given more and more leeway in operations across various industries and royally fricking something up.

Russian newspaper reports that stoppage of exports to India will mean that China cannot make up for the loss by buying more.

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Solovyov threatens tactical nukes to show that Russia is a military power and that Trump was never serious.

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Autonomous has been around way longer than you think. The first pitfall trap was autonomous without discrimination. Mines are still autonomous and there is NO actual ban against them

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Have any of you seen the ticking black mirror dystopian episode about the lady that goes to get the stuffee bear for the dying kid and the whole country is patrolled by these fricking attack dog robot like things that apparently have taken over the world for AI.

We are fricking past that, way way past that. You will look back on these days of battles between Conservatives and liberals as the good ole days. (Those that survive)

May God be with you all as have mercy upon us and spend the time with your family and kids while u can.

This is nothing in the scheme of things, Russia is nothing, neither is Ukraine.

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I share your concerns, and anyone who says they are not valid isn't paying attention.

Like most "Black Mirror" episodes. that one was influenced heavily the sci fi stories of Phillip K. Dick ("Blade Runner," "Total Recall," "Minority Report" and "The Man in the High Castle" were all based on his books and stories... "The Terminator" might as well have been...).

He wrote a story called "The Second Variety" that was made into a movie in the early 90s, I think... the setting is after a catastrophic nuclear+chemical weapons+ conventional battles war between the US and USSR (can't remember what it was updated to in the movie)...

both sides had started bulding and releasing drones into the battlefields... first just rolling drones that chased people and exploded when close... then a type that bore tunnels and sprang from underground making a screaming sound before expoding. They had also made autonomous bots to repair and then assemble drones in the battlefield. The drones stopped differentiating between which side the humans were on and found common ground... they also built a complex underground and started improving their designs. So a soldier is called back to the last remaining American city because what's left of humanity in the US is relocating to the Moon out of necessity... he starts the journey and find a little boy alone and crying, and brings him along... he sees some fellow American soldiers and is approaching them when they shoot the little boy in the head. "It's a drone... it gets among groups of people then explodes. They're everywhere... we've heard there's a second variety that calls for help and then explodes when people aid it..."

Dick was extremely neurotic and paranoid... I don't think we'll be dealing with convincingly human androids anytime soon... but we are inching towards autonomous anti-personnel air drones, and that's troubling... of course, that might have more humanity than the Russian operators who kill little old ladies and their goats and grandbabies for sport.

Russia's fourth-largest oil refinery halts processing unit after drone attack, sources say

By Reuters
October 24, 202512:11 PM CDT

Oct 24 (Reuters) - Russia's fourth-largest oil refinery, the Ryazan plant located south east of Moscow, halted a primary crude distillation unit on October 23 following a Ukrainian drone attack, two industry sources told Reuters on Friday.

Ukraine has stepped up its attacks on Russia's energy infrastructure as peace talks mediated by U.S. President Donald Trump have not progressed.

Ukraine's general staff said on Thursday that Kyiv's forces had struck the Ryazan oil refinery.

The industry sources in Russia told Reuters the CDU-4 processing unit, was urgently halted on Thursday after it caught fire following a drone attack.

The unit's capacity stands at 4 million metric tons a year, or 80,000 barrels per day, accounting for around a quarter of plant's total capacity.
Oil company Rosneft (ROSN.MM), which owns the refinery, did not respond to a request for comment. The sources said the plant is still processing oil, but at a reduced volume.

One of the sources said some adjacent units were also halted, including a reformer, vacuum gasoil hydrotreater and catalytic cracker.

Reuters

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One of the sources said some adjacent units were also halted, including a reformer, vacuum gasoil hydrotreater and catalytic cracker.

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This is good info and definitely hurts finished products, mostly gasoline production but also some diesel production

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They're almost one in the same now. The Ukrainians have already begun successful steps of using AI drones in the war. It's genuinely terrifying.

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Anduril is making AI undersea drones and selling them to the US and Australia. They have AI drones in Ukraine.