USA not liking a Russian-aligned island neighbor is similar to China not liking a USA-aligned Taiwan providing a military launchpad on their maritime border.

It will be interesting to see which strategy turns out to be more effective: China’s carrot and stick approach to reclaiming Taiwan, or USA’s belligerent vendetta against Cuba.

I don’t know if this is the full explanation, but the article does touch on how the LPM can be tweaked to match physical tests:

The trick is to incorporate experimental measurements to fine-tune the model. If a physics simulation doesn’t agree exactly with experimental data, it is often difficult to figure out why and tweak the model until they agree. With AI, incorporating a few experimental examples into the training process is a lot more straightforward, and it’s not necessary to understand where exactly the model went wrong.

Suspect or not, you get the same surveillance treatment as suspected domestic terrorists do.

The other side also gets to vote for when the war is over.

As the wars in Ukraine and Iran have shown, its impossible to stop 100% of drone attacks and drone manufacturing.

Cargo ship insurance companies will have a vote too regarding when the Strait of Hormuz is “open”.

“Cultivating strategic depth for Israeli regional hegemony” is what they’ll call the invading and colonizing.

and Senators

bold of you to assume that anyone outside of the Epstine class is holding enough cash for that to matter

Rods from God deliver the energy of about 12 tons of TNT.

For comparison:

The British used 12 ton “Tallboy” bombs, carried by Lancaster bombers, in WWII against submarine pens.

The “Little Boy” nuke delivered the energy of 15,000 tons of TNT.

Some modern ICBMs carry 10 warheads, each of which delivers the energy of 475,000 tons of TNT.

One benefit of dropping a tungsten telephone pole from orbit is that there’s no good way to stop it, because its just a chunk of metal moving very fast. Hitting it with a missile might scratch the paint, but won’t significantly alter its course.

The main drawback is the expense of getting them into orbit. Falcon 9 can lift 2 of them if the poles are cut in half to fit under the fairing, at a cost of about $70 million. That does not include rocket engines, fuel, and targeting computers needed to get those 2 tungsten rods out of space and onto target.

Have the consequences of under investing in EV tech and over-reliance on the nonsensical USAmerican economy caught up with the world’s largest car company?

aka hydrogen ash

FYI - the Factorio devs think we should all listen to what the nazis have to say, and give them platforms to say it.

We should probably stop giving them money and attention.

IDK, I think we’ve seen adequate evidence that a lot of people out there are unswayed by facts and logic, and many of the ones who can be reasoned with are vulnerable to sophistry, sealioning, and other bad faith propaganda/debate techniques.

Even an informed public seems incapable of making good decisions.

This is The Way.

Would it be better if the oligarchs who own the political right wing and the private schools were given exclusive creative control over the curriculum, while elected progressives and the popular majority they represent have none?

a blue flash, a pop, a wisp of smoke, and then your computer never turns on again

Smells like eugenics.

RFK’s idea about how to make America healthy seems to be to kill everyone who isn’t already immune to the viruses that vaccines protect against.

If the only people who survive & breed are the ones who don’t need expensive medical care, then over time the population’s profit margin increases.

“It was Biden that shit in my pants!”

Stop trying to make Republican-lite happen. Its appealing to exactly nobody.

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Also, we’re kind of already there, the main difference seems to be that we’re not sacrificing nobles en-mass (yet).

The wiki article makes it sound like a custom born of perceived resource scarcity where they would send some people away so the rest could have more.