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I look it up and they have developed a specialized training facility that helps promote wildlife skills in the cats:

What is meant by pre-release training?

Our pre-release training programme is our way of developing the necessary life skills that the cats will need for life in the wild. It is important to note that it is illegal to feed live prey to the wildcats. Instead, the programme will include the development of tools (e.g. automated feeders, lures etc.) that will help promote and expand key behaviours, as well as physical and mental fitness. Key behaviours include hunting, foraging, social interactions and avoidance toward human presence.

Before release, the wildcats will have veterinary health checks to ensure they are free from disease and physically healthy.

Yeah, if it weren't for the damage that I know such a thing would cause, I would've loved to see it - just to enjoy the resulting circus.
But I know that those kind of people would get others hurt or worse.

I'm assuming the US wants to ensure Ukrainian pilots are very well trained in the F-16 before it's delivered.

That whole thing about Ukrainians not being capable of operating western military gear reeks to high heaven of some sort of orientalism but with an eastern-european flavor.
It's a very, very weird thing that I've noticed happening for a long, long time. And I definitely seen it occur when it comes to Ukraine as well.
It's the sort of feeling that Eastern Europeans are less-capable, not-as-good, not-as-smart, their tiny little brains can't really handle superior western tech, it's too complicated for them, it's not their fault.
That's how you get all sorts of high western figure being surprised that Ukrainians can actually learn to pilot superior western planes.
Similar thing happened years back when Bernie Sanders went

Today, people living in Bucharest, Romania have access to much faster Internet than most of the US. That's unacceptable and must change.

Those inferior eastern euros have better internet than us muricans! AH! The audacity! How dare they.

Sorry for the rant, it wasn't necessarily direct at you. Your comment just reminded me of that.

Yugoslavia

Ohhh, if only lmao. Yugos had it quite decent... well, for a while at least, then unchecked nationalism made everything go to shit.
But no, we were Yugoslavia's northern neighbor - RSR = Socialist Republic of Romania, we had it so bad that we were escaping to Yugoslavia and the serbs were smuggling all sort of things into our country and sell it on the black market.

And it went so well for those sellers that the entire country knew about the black markets close to the Danube. You could get jeans, brand t-shirts, Kent cigarettes, sweets, electronic watches from Albania, radios, chewing gum that looked like cigarettes and vegeta lol

MLs were immediately replaced by rent-seeking capitalist oligarchs who picked off the bones of yall's societies

Yes and no. Because of the nature of our "revolution" (when we executed Ceausescu and his multi-doctoral and academic wife who didn't know how to read properly and who also pronounced CO2 as in cotwo and not "see-oo-two"), we didn't have any actual justice served. The rest of the system got away with it. The old political class continued to rob us, the torturers from the Securitate weren't punished. Those with political connections got their hands on property and badly managed/unproductive factories and instead of bringing them up to western or even half-way decent standards they sold them for scrap iron - literally.

Even worse that the ML governments suppressed all traditional culture to the point that now it's gone 100% in the opposite direction so that a lot of the people celebrating the traditional culture and straight-up fascists, so if a regular person wants to celebrate traditional culture they're grouped with those fascists.

See, for us it didn't happen like that. That's why in present-day politics our "social democrats" are basically just (corrupt) conservatives, almost identical to our "national liberals" (these are 1% less corrupt). And it is centrist/center-right neolibs types that are the most progressive one. Shit's a fuck, lmao.

Ah, you're from the Balkans too, I see.

Well, our MLs have been in power for a couple of decades, led to us having a disgusting state-capitalist dictatorship with a poor socialist veil that corrupted our society to such a degree that we haven't recovered from it not even 3 decades after the regime fell.
What's even funnier is that western MLs aren't fond of our so-called communist dictatorship because it happened to oppose the soviet dictatorship.

But yeah, to put it mildly, I'm not exactly fond of these kinda people.

There's a part of me that always wonders what would happen if some folks dressed in black cult-like robes would hold a public prayer in front of a school/kindergarten in order for the children to be welcomed into Satan's warm embrace.
Technically it'd be legal, right? Freedom of speech + freed of religion, ez pz.
But I think a lot of people would flip their shit and I gotta say, from an outsider's perspective, that would be pretty fucking funny to watch.

instructed their members who were also members of the SRA to do everything they could to push out the anarchists and demsocs

HA. At least they're keeping it historically consistent.
Hurr durr muh leftist unity, hurr durr.

Thanks for the explanation, I appreciate it!

Ah. Of course.

A better version of the SRA that hasn't been taken over by the PSL

Someone explain please, I'm curious.

Woah, je ne savais pas que nous en avions déjà autant. Merci!

Edit : oops, j'ai oublié que j'étais dans la communauté française!

Quelqu'un sait-il où je peux vérifier le nombre d'utilisateurs sur kbin.social?