[Original article in German, this is a paraphrased summary.]

After Denmark, several drones have now been sighted again on Friday night in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany's most northern state.

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According to Interior Minister Sabine Sütterlin-Waack (from the conservative CDU), the suspected espionage is now being investigated. The Interior Ministry is “in intensive and progressive exchange” with the Federal government and the Bundeswehr. The state police in coordination with the other northern German countries strengthens the drone defense. How many drones were sighted and where, the Minister made no information.

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There have already been several incidents with drones in Schleswig-Holstein. Earlier this month, special police forces chained a freighter on the North Sea Canal. The ship is said to have served as a base for drone flights. On August 26, a drone is said to have been launched on board and steered via a naval ship to explore it and take pictures. The investigations are still ongoing.

In January, several drones are said to have flown over a Patriot air base in Schwesing near Husum (North Frisia county). In Brunsbüttel (Dithmarschen district), numerous illegal drone flights over critical infrastructure were sighted in August 2024. In this case, the investigation was stopped because no perpetrator could be identified.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/36435262

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According to the data journalism project To Be Exact, almost one quarter of schools in Russia were in need of major structural repairs in 2024. Most of these schools were in the Murmansk (77 percent), Kirov (69 percent), Karelia (65 percent), and Kabardino-Balkaria (64 percent) regions.

Nor did all schools have basic amenities. At a school in the Karelian village of Voloma, the bathroom didn’t have running water for a year, forcing students to use a bucket instead. The school’s principal defended the situation to a local activist, arguing that “the first graders were more used to” a bucket than a toilet.

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More than half the schools in the Tuva Republic and 41 percent of schools in Dagestan and the Sakha Republic were without sewage infrastructure. These same regions also topped the list for the highest percentage of schools without running water, according to To Be Precise.

Additionally, in the Tuva Republic, 68 percent of schools had no central heating. The figures were also high in Kalmykia (35 percent) and Ingushetia (31 percent).

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The school in the Novosibirsk region that collapsed earlier this month was first opened in 1937. In the 1990s, there were plans to build a new facility, but construction was never completed. Authorities finally revisited the idea in 2023, but progress has been slow due to high groundwater levels. After the old building’s collapse, officials promised to complete construction of the new school in time for the 2026–2027 school year.

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Some parents said they had complained to the principal about the building’s condition, but received no response.

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A teacher who served as principal of a different school in the Novosibirsk region until 2018 [said] that school directors who push for building repairs can face serious repercussions. According to him, the commission that conducts building inspections before each academic year often overlooks issues and pressures the principal to sign off on their reports.

The teacher said inspectors typically suggest either conducting a follow-up assessment or postponing the repairs until the next school break, and school administrators often agree to these terms. But if a principal refuses to sign the report and insists on getting repairs done before the school year starts, they’re told: “Just sign it. If you don’t, we’ll find someone else who will.”

A UK judge on Friday ruled that Liam O'Hanna, a member of the Irish rap group Kneecap who was charged with a terrorism offence in May, would no longer face proceedings because the six-month limit usually fixed for such charges had expired. O’Hanna was told he was “free to go” as supporters in court cheered.

going to preface this with, don't worry about my immediate health or anything. i am not having a psychotic episode of anything like that, i am 100% sober...and...that's honestly the scariest part for me.

there is a message that finally got through to me, woke me up (wait, motherfucker...is that where "woke" comes from?!?!?), something I'v been aware of for a long time now i think, but it got suppressed down for...10 goddamn years... for whatever reason, until now.

now that I'm aware of it, I see it damn near everywhere, almost every majorly acclaimed movie, song, book, poem, fucking everything...

and it's not like this is some short-term problem either, it's not going away when trump dies, it's not even going away if trump dies and the establishment regains control (i have my doubts they can pull this off).

it's the same goddamn cycle over and over (with slight variations), boom followed by completely deliberate bust, one privacy-overreach followed by another, the same playbook used over and over. and occasionally either end is some random organic act-of-god, which just works to obfuscate the intentional acts.

it's so large and all encompassing you can't even be sure which parts are apart of it and which are just...people still asleep just going about their lives.

and now, because this world seems to be ran by a bunch of fucking psychopaths, I'm even more paranoid sober than when I was having a actual mental breakdown

because how the fuck do I trust anyone now?

how do i seperate those that know from those that don't?

psychopathic assholes from regular assholes?

friend from foe?

hell, how the hell do Ieven confirm that this is real, I know that everyone in my own immediate family is stuck in these little arithmetic bubbles too so i can't bring it up with them, if i tried they would probably be worried I'm going crazy.

and because of past-me's mistakes over the years I have no irl friends whatsoever to talk with either, so i guess all I have left is to send this out onto the internet and hope for the best?

Today, we're excited to announce the release of Linkwarden 2.13! 🥳 This update brings significant improvements and new features to enhance your experience.

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🐞 Bug fixes and Optimizations

This release comes with many bug fixes, security fixes, and optimizations that's recommended for all users.

✅ And more...

There are also a bunch of smaller improvements and fixes in this release to keep everything running smoothly.

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Nom Nom Nom...

I've genuinely been unable to progress in my factorio world because every time I load in I get attacked and cant do anything so I exit out and try to search it and all I get is about the PC version with the keyboard and mouse...

Please help! I want to play factorio!

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European diplomats warned the Kremlin this week that NATO is ready to respond to further violations of its airspace with full force, including by shooting down Russian planes, according to officials familiar with the exchange.

At a tense meeting in Moscow, British, French and German envoys addressed their concerns about an incursion by three MiG-31 fighter jets over Estonia last week, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity as the talks took place behind closed doors. Following the conversation, they concluded that the violation had been a deliberate tactic ordered by Russian commanders.

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NATO’s eastern members have faced a series of violations this month that have posed an unprecedented test of the alliance’s resolve at a moment when Vladimir Putin is stepping up Russian attacks on Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure and US backing for Kyiv is wavering.

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The account of the meeting in Moscow shows that Putin has been given a more forceful warning about the volley of jets and drones into the skies over eastern Europe and offers an insight into the brinkmanship between the two sides.

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The Russian side took extensive notes during the conversation, the officials said, leading the European team to speculate that they had been instructed to provide a detailed readout of the NATO position up the chain of command.

A German government official confirmed that a meeting took place and that the ambassadors told Moscow that the incursions had to stop. Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Thursday that he’s coordinating with Paris, London and Warsaw and supports “all measures necessary.”

UK and French spokespeople weren’t immediately able to comment on the meeting. President Emmanuel Macron declined to specify how NATO would respond to further incursions in an interview on France 24 on Wednesday.

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“The intention is to create division and to make us scared,” Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard told reporters Thursday. “The threat from hybrid attacks is here to stay.”

The sudden uptick aligns with the view from some security officials that a belligerent move from Moscow, whose war on Ukraine is well into its fourth year, would likely not come in the form of a conventional attack against the West, but rather a hybrid operation with deliberate ambiguity about its origins and motivations.

“Russia is testing us, testing our preparedness, testing our commitment to retaliate,” Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said in an interview Monday in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. “I think it’s very important to show the solidarity — and even more important, fast reaction.”

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“If NATO shoots down a Russian plane under the pretext of an alleged violation of its airspace, this will be war,” Russian Ambassador Alexey Meshkov said Thursday during a broadcast on the French radio station RTL.

Other NATO leaders including Italy’s Giorgia Meloni have also urged caution, warning allies in effect not to take the Kremlin’s bait, though Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof said he would support bringing down a plane.

“The Russians should be aware it could happen if they enter NATO airspace,” Schoof said in an interview Thursday in New York.

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Romanian authorities monitored a Russian drone that had breached the country’s airspace for 50 minutes on Sept. 13. Although tracked by two F-16 fighter jets, a decision not to shoot it down — citing risks of falling debris — was met with criticism.

“When it comes to your own security, there’s no bigger priority than showing those who test you that you are capable of protecting your airspace,” former Romanian President Traian Basescu told broadcaster Digi TV.

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Archive link in the URL, in case it doesn't work: https://archive.is/EhGyF

The link should speak for itself, it felt already a bit on the limit of personal attack, but here's what made me remove it

I'm all for debating the validity or not to consolidate communities, generally it's a case-by-case discussion.

I gave more reasons in the thread, but basically it's to ensure that communities stay active enough rather than all fade and die each on their own.

I'm also open to unpin that pinned post if it's considered controversial.

If you want to discuss any of those points, you can open a thread on !fedigrow@lemmy.zip .

But arguing in bad faith when already targeting me with a meme, it's no.

Note that the meme was also reported by someone else as a personal attack, thank you to that person.

I just added an additional rule to the community sidebar

Memes should not be personal attacks towards other users

Sanctions:

• removed the post
• 7 days ban

Edit: copy pasting a comment I made there

Let's have a look at my regular activity

• posting to !android@lemdro.id rather than !android@lemmy.world
• posting to !privacy@programming.dev rather than !privacy@lemmy.ml or !privacy@lemmy.world
• posting to !lego@piefed.social rather than !lego@lemmy.world (which is mostly inactive also)
• posting to !football@sopuli.xyz
• posting to !imaginary@reddthat.com rather than any other alternative on LW
• posting to !buyeuropean@feddit.uk rather than another European community on feddit.org
• spreading the meta communities I mod to several instances such as !fedigrow@lemmy.zip , !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com , !fediverse@piefed.social rather than have all of them on lemmy.world
• posting to !world@quokk.au rather than !world@lemmy.world

At the same time, I still regularly help new Lemmy.world users:

• https://lemmy.world/post/36504272
• https://lemmy.world/post/35786460
• https://lemmy.world/post/36439363/19589379
• https://lemmy.world/post/36435745/19589335

I will repeat, 95% of the active communities are currently on Lemmy.world: https://piefed.zip/communities?search=&home_select=any&subscribe_select=any&topic_id=0&feed_id=0&language_id=0&instance=&sort_by=active_weekly+desc

It feels ironic to be called out about "not wanting to spread out" when I'm actively trying to spread the communities