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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ted Koppel on Covering—and Befriending—Henry Kissinger</strong> - Did the veteran newscaster give Kissinger a pass on his hundredth birthday? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/ted-koppel-on-covering-and-befriending-henry-kissinger">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Irrational Exuberance of a Non-Catastrophe</strong> - The bipartisan debt deal was a win for both Biden and McCarthy, but it might not have been the breakthrough Washington was waiting for. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/the-irrational-exuberance-of-a-non-catastrophe">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Abortion Fight Has Voters Turning to Ballot Initiatives</strong> - And Republicans are increasingly attempting to limit that direct-democracy option. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-abortion-fight-has-voters-turning-to-ballot-initiatives">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>What Does the Debt-Ceiling Agreement Say About the U.S. Political System?</strong> - The bipartisan deal showed that the government is still capable of avoiding a self-inflicted disaster, but a credit-ratings agency warns it is suffering from slow rot. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/what-does-the-debt-ceiling-agreement-say-about-the-us-political-system">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Is It Possible to Be Both Moderate and Anti-Woke?</strong> - A small nonprofit launched by the journalist Bari Weiss devolves into tribalism. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-activism/is-it-possible-to-be-both-moderate-and-anti-woke">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>Can the West keep supplying Ukraine with enough artillery?</strong> -
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<img alt="Artillery shells are lined up in rows, ready to be put into the furnace at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on April 12." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/laqFwAfP27bFxIfQjpaqHdmfDuU=/354x0:4518x3123/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/72344628/1251797895.0.jpg"/>
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According to a March estimate, Ukraine was then using between 6,000 and 7,000 artillery shells each day. | Aimee Dilger/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
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And what it might take.
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In Ukraine, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-artillery-does-more-damage-with-fewer-rounds-than-russia-2023-4">artillery</a> has become a defining feature of the war. Both Russian and Ukrainian troops have <a href="https://euobserver.com/ukraine/156836">fired a lot of it</a>, and it has become a symbol of the brutal, attritional fight across the front lines. But the nature of these battles is unlikely to change, and that means Ukraine and <a href="https://www.vox.com/russia">Russia</a> will need more and more munitions.
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Artillery is sometimes called the <a href="https://history.army.mil/html/books/070/70-27/cmhPub_70-27.pdf">“king of battle.”</a> These are the big guns that allow militaries to hit larger targets, frequently at long ranges. The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDiWjgHNZd4">howitzers</a> and <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/ukrainian-soldiers-carry-out-risky-mortar-shell-attacks-on-the-front/a-64866091">mortars</a> or certain <a href="https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/himars.html">rocket systems</a>.
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Ukraine has relied on such systems, <a href="https://www.csis.org/analysis/expanding-equipment-options-ukraine-case-artillery">which the West has supplied</a>. It also relies on the West for a steady stream of rounds: that is, the shells or munitions that launch from these artillery systems. Think those <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/eu-plan-aims-to-accelerate-production-of-weapons/">155 millimeter</a> shells, which look like gigantic bullets. The two-foot-long shells are filled with explosives, so when they land, they explode, with a blast radius that kills.
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Ukraine was burning through about 6,000 to 7,000 <a href="https://time.com/6263802/ukraine-west-ammunition-shortages/">artillery rounds per day, according to an estimate in March</a>, adding up to much more than the US or Europe is currently producing in a given month. As the <a href="https://www.vox.com/russia-invasion-ukraine">war in Ukraine</a> goes on, and looks to go on much longer, the United States and Europe are <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/18/europe-weapons-military-industrial-base/">facing more constraints</a> in their ability to supply Ukraine. Stockpiles are being depleted, reaching a point where to give much more might mean compromising Western countries’ own military readiness.
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There are reports that Ukraine has had to cut or limit the use of artillery because it has shortages of munitions. Ukrainian officials <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9QIxeTAdB0">have talked about it</a>, and so have Western officials; the so-called <a href="https://twitter.com/StevenErlanger/status/1633391102072856581?s=20">“artillery”</a> or <a href="https://twitter.com/KofmanMichael/status/1633458341069422592?lang=en">“ammunition”</a> diet.
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Artillery isn’t the only weapon facing <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-may-run-out-of-air-defenses-by-may-leaked-pentagon-documents-warn-b96b0655">possible supply constraints</a> as the Ukraine war stretches on, but the availability and continued access to shells is likely to be decisive in this war. Both Russia and Ukraine risk shortages, but Kyiv is wholly dependent on support from the West. Supply interruptions could force Ukrainian troops to make trade-offs on the battlefield — holding or delaying fire, for example.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy recently said that Ukraine <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraines-zelensky-we-are-ready-for-counteroffensive-22f4f3f2">is ready</a> for its long-anticipated counteroffensive. The hope among Western partners is that Ukraine will have <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/24/us/politics/ukraine-russia-war-spring-offensive.html">enough firepower to execute its spring campaign</a>, and potentially be in a strong enough position by fall and winter to buy Ukraine’s backers some time to <a href="https://www.defensenews.com/digital-show-dailies/2023/03/28/us-army-eyes-six-fold-production-boost-of-155mm-shells-used-in-ukraine/">scale up things like artillery production</a>, as <a href="https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2023/05/05/eu-joint-procurement-of-ammunition-and-missiles-for-ukraine-council-agrees-1-billion-support-under-the-european-peace-facility/">they’re starting to do</a>, and deliver more supplies.
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But it also raises new questions for the US and Europe, about how much more support they might need to deliver to Ukraine, and how much they are willing to invest to do it, potentially moving industry to a more explicitly wartime footing. As experts said, there are obstacles to scaling up production — supply chains and labor, for example — and while a lot of these can be overcome, it’s at a cost. And even then, it’s unclear what amount of artillery will actually be enough for a war being fought around it, with an indefinite end.
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“Nobody has as much as they want, whenever they want it,” said Eugene Gholz, associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, and former Pentagon adviser for manufacturing and industrial base policy. “And yet, somehow, they manage to fight.”
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The US and Europe don’t have unlimited stockpiles of artillery
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At the start of the Ukraine war, the US and its allies, especially eastern European countries, donated lots of old Soviet-style weapons to Ukraine. They gave Western equipment, too, but a lot of it was the military-assistance equivalent of cleaning out the basement. Governments found ammo and refurbished old systems that would work with Ukraine’s Soviet models. This made sense: the West wasn’t going to use it, and Ukraine’s military was already trained on and familiar with it.
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But this equipment has since gotten used up and worn down, and it can’t be replaced or easily fixed. So the West began donating more of its own stuff, gradually upgrading to more advanced weaponry as its confidence in Ukraine increased — <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/17/russia-ukraine-war-summary-of-weapons-us-has-given-to-ukraine.html">howitzers</a> to <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3095394/us-provided-himars-effective-in-ukraine/">HIMARS</a>, <a href="https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/gearscout/2022/05/12/javelin-missile-made-by-the-us-wielded-by-ukraine-feared-by-russia/">anti-tank weapons</a> to <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-battle-tanks-russia-spring-counteroffensive-abrams-leopards-challengers-1799378">main battle tanks</a>. A lot of this stuff came out of arsenals in the US and Europe. For example, in the US, <a href="https://www.vox.com/joe-biden">President Joe Biden</a> uses something called “<a href="https://www.state.gov/use-of-presidential-drawdown-authority-for-military-assistance-for-ukraine/">drawdown authority</a>,” which lets the US transfer weapons from the Pentagon’s own stocks in emergency situations.
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These stockpiles are not unlimited. There are also limits to how much the US or Europe can give without jeopardizing their own security (though exactly what those thresholds are is probably a subject of debate). This is an issue for the United States, but much more so for many European countries, which, on the eve of the Ukraine war, did not have the kind of arsenal or commitment to military readiness that exists in the US.
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“A lot of European countries already ahead of the war faced significant shortfalls in their stockpiles,” said Rafael Loss, coordinator for pan-European data projects at the European Council on Foreign Relations. “And because of what they have supplied to Ukraine over the past 15 months, they have become more and more empty.”
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Which is where we are now: the West wants to keep supplying Ukraine, and Ukraine needs more weapons to fight. Especially when it comes to artillery shells, the West needs to replace the stuff it’s given away, and maybe add to it, as Russia’s war has shifted European countries’ calculuses about their own<strong> </strong>security. In part, the US is trying to find other sources for artillery to give to Ukraine (<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/south-korean-artillery-supply-allows-u-s-to-delay-decision-on-cluster-munitions-for-ukraine-4e41c04b">hello, South Korea</a>). But mostly, the war has forced the US and Europe to think about making a lot more of it.
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How the West is trying to overcome the artillery math
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More than a year into Russia’s war in Ukraine, artillery continues to shape the conflict. And providing more of it makes sense: it has immediate impact on the battlefield, and while it requires precision to manufacture, it’s not quite the same as a battle tank or a fighter jet, which also requires significant training and long-term maintenance. Artillery is designed to be destroyed.
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As of May, the United States has given Ukraine <a href="https://www.state.gov/u-s-security-cooperation-with-ukraine/">more than 160 howitzers and more than 2 million 155 mm artillery rounds</a>, in addition to other systems and thousands more types of ammunition that fit them. <strong> </strong>
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European allies, Canada, Australia, and other Ukraine backers have all donated thousands of artillery shells. But Kyiv is firing off tens of thousands of rounds each month as it is. This spring, <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/75ee9701-aa93-4c5d-a1bc-7a51422280fd">Ukraine asked the EU for 250,000 rounds per month</a> — which is not that far off <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/eu-plan-aims-to-accelerate-production-of-weapons/">what the EU arms industries collectively produced in all of 2022</a>.
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Which is why both the US and Europe are trying to scale up production. Typically, the United States <a href="https://www.defensenews.com/digital-show-dailies/2023/03/28/us-army-eyes-six-fold-production-boost-of-155mm-shells-used-in-ukraine/#:~:text=The%20Army%20is%20spending%20%241.45,Force%20Symposium%20in%20Huntsville%2C%20Alabama.">produces about 14,000 155 mm shells per month</a>, just a small fraction of what the US has given Ukraine in the past year and a half. Now, the Pentagon is <a href="https://www.defensenews.com/digital-show-dailies/2023/03/28/us-army-eyes-six-fold-production-boost-of-155mm-shells-used-in-ukraine/#:~:text=The%20Army%20is%20spending%20%241.45,Force%20Symposium%20in%20Huntsville%2C%20Alabama.">investing about $1.45 billion to increase that to 24,000 per month later this year</a>, with the goal of reaching 85,000 to 90,000 rounds per month in five years. This is about a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/24/us/politics/pentagon-ukraine-ammunition.html">500 percent increase</a> in production in two years, rivaling levels not seen since the Korean War, according to the New York Times.
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Europe is also trying to supercharge production. But European defense industries face even bigger hurdles, as EU countries have tended not to have as big of military spending appetites as the United States.
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In the spring, the European Union proposed a plan to deliver about 1 million artillery shells to Ukraine by the end of the year. The plan includes three stages. The first is to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-envoys-seal-deal-joint-ammunition-buying-ukraine-2023-05-03/">reimburse states that turn over their stocks</a>; the second is to make joint purchases to replace those stocks; the third involves ramping up production to meet EU defense needs and the needs of Ukraine. Though it took a bit to agree on the details, this plan is a big deal for the EU. Usually, defense is the purview of individual EU countries, but a component of this plan involves joint procurement — think <a href="https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/coronavirus-response/public-health/eu-vaccines-strategy_en">the EU’s Covid vaccine plan</a>, but for weapons.
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The <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-says-its-sent-220000-artillery-shells-ukraine-2023-05-23/">plan has yielded about 220,000 artillery shells so far</a>, Josep Borrell, the EU foreign policy chief, said at the end of May.
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What it actually takes to make a lot more artillery shells
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These might just seem like a bunch of numbers; the US and the EU want more, so they make more. It is that simple, but also not quite that simple.
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“The US can’t, or the European allies can’t, just push a button, but they can start planning,” said Jennifer Erickson, an arms expert and associate professor at Boston College.
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The United States has a little bit more capacity than Europe, but both face constraints. Making artillery takes time: you’ve got to cut steel, cool it, mold it, and fill it with explosives to make a shell. There are supply chain, labor, and production issues — for example, <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/long-war-in-ukraine-highlights-need-for-u-s-army-to-modernize-ammo-production">the US has just two sites that make the steel bodies for the 155 mm rounds used in howitzers</a>. “It’s not like there’s an empty factory, right, sitting out there that could just do it,” said Jen Spindel, assistant professor of political science at the University of New Hampshire.
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Broadly, the more resources you put in, the easier it is to overcome these constraints. “If you want more ammunition, you just have to say, ‘We want more ammunition, and here’s the money to make it,” Gholz said. If you want as much as Ukraine does, this fast, it will cost you, he added. “But the fundamental question is: how many resources are you going to devote for this? What are you willing to do?”
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In some ways, that is not really a resource question but a political, economic, and security one. In deciding to make those investments — putting billions into making more artillery — governments are signaling their national and defense priorities, now and potentially into the future. This is about Ukraine, but also about the potential of other threats: Russia, <a href="https://www.vox.com/china">China</a>, and whatever other big war might be looming.
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A lot of defense industry experts will say that if weapons companies are going to increase capacity and hire more people to make more artillery, then they want to know that they’re going to have a buyer not just this year, but in the long term too — and the buyer is really governments.
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“But,” she added, “if the US government incentivized firms enough, it’ll happen. It’s just that the firms aren’t going to do it without these major, major incentives.”
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The European defense base is a little bit more complicated. For European defense manufacturers, the issue had previously been whether they would produce too much for Europe’s defense needs, rather than not enough. And defense has typically been handled by individual countries in the EU — Germany does its own thing, Poland does its own thing — each with their own security needs and priorities. That makes a collective ramp-up hard. The EU is trying to tackle with with its new plan, though exactly how successful it will be is still unclear.
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“We need more artillery shells,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFNAnm1VFk8">said Serhii Cherevatyi, spokesperson for Ukraine’s Operational Command East in a recent Semafor video</a>. “This entire war, we’ve been on the artillery ammo diet. I wouldn’t say it’s a total hunger, but it’s a diet.”
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An artillery diet is really about trade-offs, and all militaries make them to some degree. If you need to conserve artillery, it may be a choice between firing on a target today, or waiting until tomorrow, in hopes of a clearer, more decisive shot. It may <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/29/two-weeks-at-the-front-in-ukraine">mean compensating with different weapons or tools</a>.
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And for Ukraine, more is more, but the Western weapons-delivery system is an imperfect one. “It’s volume, it’s also availability. And it’s making sure that you have the right combination of hardware, and then shell, is easily accessible, and easy to get into the theaters of conflict once a fight has begun,” Spindel said.
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Ukraine is getting a lot of artillery from NATO, and as you may have heard, NATO equipment is interoperable, or is supposed to be — the idea being if allies were fighting a war together, their equipment and systems should also able to work together. That’s why a lot of countries have this 155 mm caliber shell: it’s part of a standardization effort across NATO. “That doesn’t translate into interchangeability in a lot of ways, and we see this in Ukraine,” Loss said.
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In other words, interoperability isn’t interchangeability. A US system may work with, say, a German-made shell, but it might not be quite as good. The projectile might not travel the same range, which potentially reduces its effectiveness on the battlefield. It could potentially degrade the equipment. “It’s like a giant matching problem,” Gholz said.
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These are not necessarily new challenges for Ukraine, just another Kyiv will have to deal with as its <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/06/05/world/russia-ukraine-news">expected counteroffensive has maybe, finally, begun</a>. Offensives, when troops are moving forward, tend to require lot more ammunition than when they’re on defense, firing from more static positions. That is, if Ukraine is restrained, it will be harder to pull off what they need to this spring and summer.
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This is partly behind the Western urgency of getting artillery and other equipment to Ukraine. But that comes with the <a href="https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2023/4/22/23693259/ukraine-counteroffensive-russia-spring">expectation of Ukraine making real advances, and retaking territory</a>. If it does not, and the war looks increasingly deadlocked — two sides, just firing and firing artillery, with no real progress — that could change the West’s calculus when it comes to continued support to Ukraine.
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A ramp-up in artillery production won’t be instantaneous in either the US or Europe. But plans to do so are a signal of political support — a sign, at least, that the West is willing to support Ukraine for the long haul.
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But, in lots of ways, the decisions by Washington and Brussels to invest in arms manufacturing goes well beyond Russia’s invasion.
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Ukraine <a href="https://www.vox.com/world-politics/23600837/ukraine-war-russia-whats-next">is reshaping our understanding of warfare</a>. The Ukraine war is already one of the bloodiest and deadliest of this century, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/06/23/ukraine-war-deaths-soldiers-history/">if not longer</a>. This is true on the front lines, where artillery has contributed to stunning casualty counts in the <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-war-already-with-up-354000-casualties-likely-drag-us-documents-2023-04-12/">hundreds of thousands of soldiers</a>, but also for <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/news/2023/05/ukraine-civilian-casualty-update-8-may-2023#:~:text=From%2024%20February%202022%2C%20which,8%2C791%20killed%20and%2014%2C815%20injured.">Ukrainian civilians whose cities and towns have become artillery battlefields</a> themselves.
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Right now, traditional instruments of war — ammunition, artillery, armored vehicles, ground troops, trenches — are anchoring this conflict. Both Russia and Ukraine are deploying advanced technology on the battlefield — drones and facial recognition, for example — but instead of replacing old tools of warfare, it is interacting with or enhancing them. One way to know where to direct your artillery fire is to send in a surveillance drone over an enemy’s position.
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All armies have artillery, and artillery stockpiles. No one, after all, was about to abandon the “king of battle.” But the rate of artillery use in Ukraine raises questions about whether the US and its partners really are, themselves, prepared for a big war. Part of the reason the US manufactured the number of shells it did is because that was enough in relative peacetime: <a href="https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/trecms/pdf/AD1127059.pdf">enough to use, when needed</a>, and keep those stockpiles in good condition.
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“The wars the US has fought have been fairly low-intensity, and so the production capacity could meet that — or it was short, high-intensity,” Spindel said. “And so the reserves were never burned through in quite the same way that Ukraine was doing it.”
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Of course, some of this is about opportunity: The Ukraine war is a chance for the generals and the military agencies and the defense industries to get more resources, to make the case that the US or Europe needs more to prepare for a future conflict.
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Ukraine really is generating a broader reassessment about what the next war will look like, especially among more evenly matched powers. Russia is very much bogged down right now, but its invasion of Ukraine raised the threat level, especially in Europe. US-China tensions are not ebbing, especially <a href="https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2023/4/1/23665178/taiwan-president-americas-china-tsai-ing-wen">over Taiwan</a>. The decision to ramp up artillery production may say much about Western support for Ukraine, but it says much more about what the US and its allies think they might need to fight their next war.
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Thousands of people and human rights activists gather on the Dam Square to attend a rally for abortion rights worldwide on May 7, 2022, in Amsterdam. | Pierre Crom/Getty Images
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Republicans scrambling to<strong> </strong>address mounting backlash to abortion bans have<strong> </strong>landed on what they hope they can market as a moderate political compromise: limiting abortion after 12 weeks of pregnancy.
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Over the last month, Republicans in North Carolina and Nebraska have passed 12-week abortion bans, a dramatic reduction in access for states that previously allowed <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/5/3/23055125/roe-v-wade-abortion-rights-supreme-court-dobbs-v-jackson">abortion</a> up until 20 weeks and 22 weeks, respectively.
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<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/us/abortion-ban-north-carolina.html">North Carolina’s ban</a> would permit abortion for rape victims through 20 weeks, for life-threatening fetal anomalies through 24 weeks, and to protect the life of the mother throughout. <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/05/20/1177304503/nebraska-12-week-abortion-ban-restrictions-gender-affirming-care">Nebraska’s new ban</a> would permit exceptions for rape and to save the life of the mother, but not for fatal fetal anomalies. (Health of pregnant person exceptions <a href="https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/3/12/23631278/supreme-court-abortion-texas-medically-necessary-sepsis-zurawski">have been notoriously confusing</a> for doctors in practice, who <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/04/25/1171851775/oklahoma-woman-abortion-ban-study-shows-confusion-at-hospitals">fear criminal sanctions for violating the vague statutes</a>.)
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Republican politicians <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/20/republicans-deploy-new-playbook-abortion-bans-citing-political-backlash/">are casting these new 12-week bans</a> as “<a href="https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/article275487376.html">mainstream</a>,” comparing them to even more extreme GOP-led states that have banned virtually all abortion, and pointing to other countries, particularly in Europe, that also impose gestational age limits at 12 weeks.
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The rhetorical strategy of invoking other countries to justify banning abortion will sound familiar to those who followed<em> </em>the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/5/3/23055125/roe-v-wade-abortion-rights-supreme-court-dobbs-v-jackson">overturn of <em>Roe v. Wade</em></a><em>. </em>In that case, <em>Dobbs v. Jackson, </em>Mississippi lawmakers defended their 15-week abortion ban <a href="https://apnews.com/article/abortion-health-tate-reeves-jackson-constitutions-e7b1cd1786edc6d6657a3b71dec795f7">by pointing out</a> that most European countries have even earlier restrictions.
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In the <em>Dobbs </em><a href="https://www.vox.com/scotus">Supreme Court</a> hearing itself, Justice John G. Roberts <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2021/19-1392_4425.pdf">claimed</a> the proposed 15-week ban mirrors “the standard that the vast majority of other countries have.” In his majority opinion, Justice Samuel Alito <a href="https://lozierinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/On-Point-63.pdf">cited a study published</a> by a leading anti-abortion group that argued the US was out of step with the rest of the world in terms of abortion after 20 weeks.
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The study, published by the think tank arm of the Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, said 47 out of 50 European nations limit “elective” abortion before 15 weeks, meaning before then doctors are not required to attest to a particular justification for the abortion.
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But differences between the US and European countries are more complex than that simple comparison suggests. In practice, abortion limits in the United States are far more restrictive than what exists in most of the Western world, including in nations with gestational age limits at 12 weeks, like Germany, Denmark, Belgium, and Italy.
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This distinction between “elective” abortions (or “abortion on demand,” as it’s more provocatively called) and “therapeutic” abortions, which are done for medical reasons, might seem like a key distinction between the US and Europe. But in practice, the line is much blurrier. All <a href="https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/why-we-should-stop-using-term-elective-abortion/2018-12">abortions are ultimately elective</a> — no one is forced to end a pregnancy, even if a doctor recommends it. Plenty of elective abortions are done for therapeutic reasons.
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Moreover, European countries that have 12-week limits on “elective” abortions still make it fairly easy for women to get abortions later on, with relatively broad exceptions for <a href="https://www.vox.com/mental-health">mental health</a> or socioeconomic circumstances. Republicans have aggressively fought against similar exceptions, and in particular have <a href="https://apnews.com/article/abortion-science-health-government-and-politics-arizona-fc2114ecfce72eeca65e21fb970ca62f">worked to bar consideration of mental health risk</a> — <a href="https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2023/Bills/Senate/PDF/S20v5.pdf">even the risk of suicide</a> if a pregnancy continues — as a factor.
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And in other ways, European countries make it easier to get an abortion than in even relatively permissive jurisdictions in the United States.<strong> </strong>Across Europe, abortion services are covered<strong> </strong>under national health insurance, meaning the cost of accessing care is a far lower barrier for pregnant people facing time constraints.
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By contrast, in the US, cost is one of the biggest hurdles to ending a pregnancy. Even though <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/ss/ss7110a1.htm#T10_down">more than<strong> </strong>90 percent of</a> abortions occur within the first 13 weeks, <a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/induced-abortion-united-states">roughly 75 percent of all US abortion patients</a> are low-income<strong> </strong>according to 2014 numbers, and researchers find Americans needing care in the second trimester <a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/news-release/2011/second-trimester-abortions-concentrated-among-certain-groups-women">tend to be</a> those with less education, Black women, and women who have experienced “multiple disruptive events” in the past year, such as losing a job.
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Republican lawmakers are also bucking international trends in working to aggressively restrict access to telehealth abortion care and medication abortion generally — which allows patients, especially those who live in remote and rural areas, to get the abortion services they seek on a faster timeline. Both <a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/state-facts-about-abortion-north-carolina">North Carolina</a> and <a href="https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=28-335">Nebraska</a> have fully banned abortion via telehealth, <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5847856/">despite research affirming its safety and efficacy</a>.
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Across the globe, <a href="https://reproductiverights.org/us-a-global-outlier-on-abortion-rights/">the clear trend </a>has been to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/21/colombia-decriminalize-legal-abortion/">expand</a> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/07/mexico-abortion-supreme-court/">access</a> to abortion, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/argentina-abortion-legal-fernandez-senate-vote/2020/12/28/4a6d77d4-492a-11eb-a9f4-0e668b9772ba_story.html">decriminalize</a> <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-newzealand-abortion/new-zealand-passes-historic-law-to-decriminalize-abortion-idUSKBN2153YN">the procedure</a>, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/south-korea-court-strikes-down-six-decade-old-abortion-ban/2019/04/11/0200f028-5c43-11e9-842d-7d3ed7eb3957_story.html">and loosen</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/26/ireland-votes-by-landslide-to-legalise-abortion">restrictions</a>. While restrictive policies, including earlier gestational limits, still present barriers for international abortion care, per the Center for Reproductive Rights, nearly 60 countries have liberalized their laws and policies on abortion since 1994. Only four — the US, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Poland — have further restricted rights.
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Even with earlier gestational limits, abortion in Europe is broadly affordable and accessible. This is not the paradigm Republicans are proposing in the United States. They are fighting to keep abortion expensive, particularly for low-income patients who rely on Medicaid; to limit the reasons like mental health for which patients can access legal abortion; and to restrict access to care, all while imposing bans on telemedicine, ramping up criminal penalties for providers, and shortening the legal timeline for pregnant people to raise funds, arrange travel, and book mandatory medical appointments.
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Republicans have been eager to point to countries that restrict “elective” abortion after 12 weeks to justify the supposedly mainstream nature of their new bans. But across Europe, the cost of abortion care is fully paid for by federal governments, making first-trimester abortions simply easier to do. Abortions in the US <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.01528">can easily exceed $500</a> out of pocket, and only 17 states currently cover abortion under their Medicaid programs, which they must do with state funds, <a href="https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Briefing-Paper_The-High-Cost-of-State-Bans-on-Abortion-Coverage_Updated_9.16.pdf">not federal dollars, as Congress prohibits it</a>.
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Another difference is that abortion exceptions for “health of the pregnant woman” in Europe take into account mental health, too. In Germany, for example, while abortion is permitted upon request throughout the first 12 weeks, someone can seek legal abortion <a href="https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_stgb.html">through 22 weeks</a> if it would help them “avert the danger of grave impairment<strong> </strong>to [their] physical or mental health.”
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In Britain, which allows<strong> </strong>legal abortion <a href="https://www.msichoices.org.uk/abortion-services/abortion-and-your-rights/">up to 24 weeks</a>, it’s similarly clarified that a pregnant person can access care<strong> </strong>if it’s determined that ending the pregnancy would cause less damage to the patient’s physical or mental health than continuing to carry.
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“This is always granted [by doctors] under the correct assumption that continuing a pregnancy is <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22270271/">always more dangerous </a>than terminating, and that continuing an unwanted pregnancy is always detrimental to a person’s mental health,” said Maria Lewandowska, a reproductive and sexual health researcher at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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Any doctor can provide this authorization, she said, and in practice, patients often get approval directly from doctors at abortion clinics. Advocates in the UK have been encouraging the government to authorize nurses and midwives to grant this permission, too.
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Some countries don’t explicitly state “mental health” in their statute, but recognize that maternal health includes psychological health. The author of France’s 1975 abortion law clarified <a href="https://eclj.org/abortion/french-institutions/avortement-jusquau-9e-mois-pour-detresse-psychosociale--le-danger-dun-motif-imprecis">during legislative hearings</a> that “the very term ‘health’ covers, it seems to me, the mental aspect as well as the physical aspect.” The World Health Organization’s definition of <a href="https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/major-themes/health-and-well-being">“health” includes “mental health.”</a> In Canada, leaders make no formal distinction between physical and mental health, which Joyce Arthur, executive director of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada, says allows providers to “better integrate abortion care into the broader <a href="https://www.vox.com/health-care">health care</a> system.”
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Meanwhile, research on the psychological harm associated with carrying unwanted pregnancies continues to mount. The <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23055300/supreme-court-overturn-roe-wade-abortion-bans-health-care">Turnaway Study, a longitudinal study</a> on the effects of unwanted pregnancy on patients’ lives, found that the mental health of women able to end unwanted pregnancies was significantly better than that of women forced to carry to term. Another <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8976222/">report</a> published in 2022 found that suicide is a leading cause of death for pregnant people during pregnancy and the first year following it.
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Anti-abortion activists in the US, for their part, continue to dismiss these studies. “Having an abortion will not mitigate mental health issues,” <a href="https://apnews.com/article/abortion-science-health-government-and-politics-arizona-fc2114ecfce72eeca65e21fb970ca62f">said</a> Laura Echevarria, a spokesperson for the National Right to Life Committee, which has lobbied state legislatures to exclude mental health.
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In addition to providing exceptions for mental health and paying for abortion care, pregnant people in European countries can also seek legal abortion beyond their country’s 12- or 14-week limit for broad socioeconomic reasons, like feeling too young or too old to have children, feeling consumed by existing children, being a single parent, or lacking a stable housing or financial situation. The Center for Reproductive Rights <a href="https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/15381_CRR_Europe_October_2022.pdf">counts at least 16 European countries</a> that permit abortion on socioeconomic grounds.
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In Denmark, for example, though the country has a 12-week ban on paper, it’s considered relatively feasible for residents to get approval for abortion beyond that. In 2021, 803 pregnant people applied to get an abortion in Denmark beyond 12 weeks, and <a href="https://cphpost.dk/2022-12-12/news/ethics-council-mulls-new-abortion-recommendations/">750 were approved</a>.
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Thousands of pregnant women living in countries with 12-week abortion bans travel internationally to end their pregnancies
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Even with broader grounds for legal exceptions and greater financial assistance available in countries with earlier gestational age limits, first-trimester bans in Europe <a href="https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1471-0528.16534#bjo16534-bib-0009">still force thousands of pregnant people</a> to travel internationally every year to end their unwanted pregnancies. (A French <a href="https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/15/rapports/ega/l15b3343_rapport-information.pdf">parliamentary report from 2020</a> estimated that as many <a href="https://www.vie-publique.fr/rapport/276225-rapport-sur-lacces-linterruption-volontaire-de-grossesse-ivg">as 4,000 French women traveled abroad</a> for abortion annually due to gestational limits. In 2022, French legislators extended their limit to 14 weeks.)
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One <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027795362300117X">study published in March</a> looked at people who traveled from countries like Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germany, and Italy to the Netherlands or England for later abortion care. Over half of the pregnant people surveyed hadn’t learned they were even pregnant until they were at least 14 weeks along, when they had already surpassed the limits in their home countries.
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The reasons participants cited for not knowing they were pregnant hold strong relevance for pregnant people in the US living in states with new 12- or six-week bans. The participants all said they would have preferred earlier abortion care but didn’t know they were pregnant due to reasons like irregular periods, lack of clear pregnancy signs, misinformation by doctors about contraception, or their gestational age.
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While European passports make travel to other EU countries relatively easy, pregnant people then have to shoulder the cost of travel and the abortion, as national governments only fund abortion care for their own residents. Feminist <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/28/europe/europe-abortion-travel-as-equals-intl-cmd/index.html">activists help fundraise for pan-European surgical abortion</a>, as well as <a href="https://www.doctorsforchoice.mt/abortion-statistics">the distribution of medication abortion</a> to regions where it’s illegal, but second-trimester abortions for non-Dutch residents <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/28/europe/europe-abortion-travel-as-equals-intl-cmd/index.html">can cost up to 1,100 euros</a>. Abortion travel also delays care, which increases a pregnant person’s health risks.
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Twelve-week bans in the US won’t end the need for abortion care in the second trimester, because there will always be women who lack the knowledge that they’re pregnant before then. But if Republicans wanted to reduce the need for abortion after 12 weeks, they could back straightforward policies to make the procedure more accessible and affordable.
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<li><strong>Who wants to pay $3,500 for Apple’s new goggles?</strong> -
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An image from Apple’s Vision Pro promotional video. | Apple
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We know what the Vision Pro does, but we’re still wondering why you would buy it. Apple seems confused, too.
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Goggles. They’re goggles.
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<a href="https://www.vox.com/apple">Apple</a> CEO <a href="https://www.vox.com/tim-cook">Tim Cook</a> debuted the <a href="https://www.apple.com/apple-vision-pro/">$3,500 Vision Pro</a> headset on Monday. And we’ll have to take his word for it that these goggles use amazing tech to show you really cool things when you wear them. As we <a href="https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/5/31/23742675/apple-headset-goggles-vr-ar-mixed-extended-reality-peter-kafka-media-column">previewed last week</a>, they can either show you a completely digital reality, or they can show you digital images superimposed on the real world around you.
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Also, let’s imagine that over time we’ll see advances that will make the goggles smaller and cheaper. And that maybe one day they’ll just become glasses.
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But for now, Apple’s biggest product launch in more than a decade — maybe its biggest launch since the iPhone — is a pair of goggles. If they didn’t have a power cord attached to them, you might mistake them for something you’d see on a ski slope.
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For the record: Apple says Vision Pro is its entry into “spatial computing.” In practical terms that means it’s a computer you wear on your face, and that instead of staring into a phone screen or monitor, you look into the headset — and sometimes, through it to see digital images overlaid on the world around you. You can plug it into the wall or use a battery pack to power it.
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Apple promises that Vision Pro can do many of the things you can do on an iPhone or MacBook: run apps, use FaceTime, watch <a href="https://www.vox.com/movies">movies</a>. But instead of manipulating the software with a mouse or a keyboard or a touch screen, you’ll use your eye movements and hand movements, because it has cameras trained on your face as well as the outside world. We’ve seen versions of this tech before, namely <a href="https://www.vox.com/meta">Meta</a>’s Oculus line of VR headsets. But Apple, as it often does, says its version is better, more sophisticated, and more intuitive.
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So we can talk about what Vision Pro does now — or, more accurately, “early next year,” when Apple says they’ll go on sale — and what it might do down the road. But my main takeaway from Apple’s debut demo is that these things are goggles. And I have to wonder how many people want to wear goggles of any size, weight, or cost, for any amount of time.
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The question was implicit throughout the demo, and Apple seemed to labor to answer it. Maybe they’ll be cool when you’re sitting at home — alone — and watching a movie: You could make the screen fill your entire living room. Maybe they’ll be cool when you’re sitting at home — alone — and want to see your kids: You could look at videos of your kids, or even talk to them on FaceTime. Maybe they’ll be cool when you’re at work — not quite alone, but not really interacting with your coworkers, either — and you want to look at multiple screens at a time: You could do that, too.
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The question is also implicit in the design of the goggles themselves. Apple knows that wearing goggles cuts you off from the world, so it has created a way for people to see your eyes. Technically, it’s a video display on the front of your goggles that shows a representation of your eyes, filmed by cameras inside the goggles that are trained on your eyes, all so people won’t feel so cut off from you.
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It was one of the first things the company showed off in its demo: A woman is happily browsing something online in a giant urban apartment. A younger person, maybe her daughter, wants to come interact with her.
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If we stopped the movie there, it might be standard sci-fi dystopia, straight from <em>Black Mirror</em>. But Apple’s contention is that because the person wearing the goggles can see the person who’s not wearing the goggles — and because the person who’s not wearing the goggles can see a video screen of the goggle-wearer’s eyes — it’s actually super cool. Something you’d pay $3,500 for.
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Maybe?
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In that scene from <a href="https://www.apple.com/apple-events/">Apple’s demo video</a>, by the way, likely-Mom is using her Vision Pro to … look at a website for designer furniture. She seems totally into it! But it’s hard to see that her experience is much different from looking at the same site on her iPad, and Apple doesn’t explain it themselves. It wants the user to do that work, on their own.
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So who is that user?
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One thing Apple was uncharacteristically frank about in its demo video is that Vision Pro is a starting point for the “mixed reality” tech it has been working on for years. Good enough to sell, eventually. Good enough for <a href="https://www.vox.com/disney">Disney</a> CEO Bob Iger to endorse via an onstage appearance. It was explicitly rolling this out now, more than half a year before it will start shipping them, at Apple’s annual developers conference so that developers can make stuff for the goggles.
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And some developers most certainly will. Even if you don’t believe Vision Pro or subsequent models are going to be mass market devices in the near future, the promise of being a star app in Apple’s prized new platform-to-be will be an exceptionally powerful lure.
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But, again, Apple doesn’t imagine that the stuff it showed off today is where it’s going to stop. The expectation is that it will get cheaper, better, lighter, with longer-lasting batteries, etc. Go find the original 2007 model of the iPhone and compare it to the one you have today.
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But the Catch-22 is that until someone does create something truly remarkable and compelling and useful — and, crucially, something you can’t do with the phones and computers Apple sells today — it’s going to be very hard to convince people to wear these things. Which means there’s less incentive for the brightest minds to make that killer app, and no incentive to strap these things on.
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Caveat! All of this takes time. Developers didn’t make apps for the iPhone for a year following its debut. And once they did, they made a lot of crap. Apple still has an admonition in its developer guidelines, written in 2010, telling programmers that it has all the fart apps it needs, thank you very much.
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The bigger caveat is that people may end up loving the idea of putting on goggles, tuning out the world, and retreating to their own digital worlds. They’re pretty much doing that already with phones and earbuds (or, as I increasingly see on the subway or in the park, just blasting the audio out to everyone around them, whether they want to hear it or not). So what’s an additional piece of hardware to strap to their face?
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But I don’t think Apple truly believes that’s what people want. If they did, why didn’t Cook and Iger wear the goggles themselves in their demo? The trick will be figuring out what they do want.
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Tottenham hires Ange Postecoglou as manager after his departure from Celtic</strong> - The 57-year-old Postecoglou, who just won a trophy treble with Celtic in Scotland, has signed a four-year contract with English Premier League side Tottenham Hotspurs</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>French Open | Alexander Zverev defeats Grigor Dimitrov, advances into quarter-finals</strong> - 26-year-old Zverev defeated Grigor Dimitrov in three straight sets 6-1, 6-4, and 6-3.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Anhra Pradesh: 42,000 quintals of seeds are being distributed to farmers through Rythu Bharosa Kendras in Vizianagaram district, says official</strong> - ‘Adequate quantity of fertilizers is also being kept ready ahead of kharif season’</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ukraine war: Kyiv says troops advance on eastern front</strong> - Ukraine says its has gained ground near Bakhmut, as Russia claims to have thwarted a new attack.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ukraine war: Wagner detains Russian officer over ‘drunk’ attack</strong> - In a video posted online, the officer says he fired on a Wagner vehicle because he dislikes the group.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ukraine war: ‘It’s better to die at home than abroad’</strong> - Thousands of Ukrainians are moving back to towns close to the front line, despite the dangers.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Why are people leaving Russia, who are they, and where are they going?</strong> - A trickle of Russians leaving became a stream after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine of 2022.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Poland protest: Hundreds of thousands demand change in Warsaw</strong> - Politicians including main opposition leader Donald Tusk led crowds calling for a change of direction.</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Mass exploitation of critical MOVEit flaw is ransacking orgs big and small</strong> - SQL injection attacks on MOVEit file transfer service likely to get worse. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1945579">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>What to make of Apple’s intriguing $3,499 Vision Pro headset</strong> - Some instant analysis of Apple’s boldest product experiment in years. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1945556">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Game on—the most metal of asteroid missions is back on the menu</strong> - “We believe Psyche is on a positive course for an October 2023 launch.” - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1945486">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>SEC sues Binance, says it evaded US law with “extensive web of deception”</strong> - Binance slammed by SEC chair for “calculated evasion of the law.” - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1945525">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Apple avoids “AI” hype at WWDC keynote by baking ML into products</strong> - Apple prefers using “machine learning,” or just having AI work in the background. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1945446">link</a></p></li>
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“I can’t speak to my wife directly as she might find it offensive, given our old age” he says to the doc.
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“There’s a simple trick you can try to determine her hearing” explains the doctor. “Simply ask her a question at a distance and if she doesn’t hear you, move slightly closer and ask again until she does”.
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That night, the husband arrives home and sees his wife in the kitchen cooking. He thinks to himself, “what a perfect opportunity to test her hearing”.
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“What’s for dinner honey?”
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No answer. He moves closer.
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“What’s for dinner honey?”
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“What’s for dinner honey?”
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Still his wife doesn’t answer. He now sees how serious her hearing problem is. At this point, he is standing right next to his wife.
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“What’s for dinner honey?”
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“FOR THE FOURTH FUCKING TIME WE’RE HAVING CHICKEN”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/HelpingHandsUs"> /u/HelpingHandsUs </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/141xwx3/a_husband_notices_his_wifes_hearing_is/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/141xwx3/a_husband_notices_his_wifes_hearing_is/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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To beat the crowds
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/attractivepenguin"> /u/attractivepenguin </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/14268cy/why_do_riot_police_wake_up_early/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/14268cy/why_do_riot_police_wake_up_early/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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I decided to break the ice with the new friends with a few jokes, most of which went down very well…until I decided to tell a few more offensive ones…and picked the worst possible one to start with.
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"What do you do if you see an epileptic having a fit in the bath?
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Throw your washing (laundry if you’re American) in."
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One of the new friends instantly became enraged and swung for me. When I asked him what the hell his problem was he replied that his younger brother was epileptic and died in the bath many years ago.
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Obviously, I felt mortified as I didn’t know about it, and said “I’m so sorry to hear that. Did he drown?”
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“No,” replied the guy. “He choked on a sock.”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ThatOnePogger"> /u/ThatOnePogger </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/141n924/serious_just_a_reminder_to_be_careful_when/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/141n924/serious_just_a_reminder_to_be_careful_when/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Reddit’s new API Costs</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF --></p>
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Yep that’s it. It’s going to price out all those apps you all use instead of the official one to read or post jokes. And I can tell you first hand, it is much tougher to copy and paste in official app.
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Can we go black out on June 12-14?
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First up is the Serb. “I request a pillow strapped on my back!” he says. After 2 lashes it rips apart and his back gets completely torn open.
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Second up is the Croat. “I request two pillows strapped on my back!” he says. After 4 lashes it rips apart and his back gets completely torn open.
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Third up is the Bosniak. The judge says “since you are a fellow muslim, you can make 2 requests!”.
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“My first request is for 100 lashes!” the Bosniak shouts. Bewildered the judge asks “And your second request?”.
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“Strap the Serb on my back!”
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I hope I don’t start of another balkan war in the comments. I’m a Serb myself and this is my favourite Balkan joke. Love and peace, my brothers!
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