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Freakout Over PlayStation DRM Was a Big Nothingburger

^Nah. We've been at a constant state of warfare since Y2001 and we're really good at it now.

United Arab Emirates leaving OPEC, effective May 1

Hmm, Google also tells me that "1% of individuals committing 63% of violent crimes" so maybe Gorth/Malcador math checks out. That means 817 MILLION people living in poverty is going to create a lot of wackadoos. I mean, theyre obviously not in it to uplift their community, and theyre not getting rich doing it, so its really just about inflicting violence on anyone with a different viewpoint until the cycle repeats and its their turn in the tire fire. Perhaps the true solution is giving everyone access to mental health services so they can work out that angry thats inside them?

Gerry Conway

According to Google, ~817 MILLION people live below the poverty level (<$3 / day / person / PPP), yet somehow the vast majority manage to live their lives without becoming radicalized.

Sounds like those countries just need to instituted a UBI and their problems will vanish overnight. 🤔

^I dont know about that. What with Germany, Japan and (presumably) Italy having recently unshackled their defense budgets, we have concrete evidence of the formation of Axis² and them steamrolling to a fascist nirvana with the rest of Europe at their heels. May the Flying Spaghetti Monster forever damn them to a bottomless pit of marinara.

Ruh-roh....somethingsomething Nazis?

Americans' disapproval rating of Congress matches historic high - Live Updates - POLITICO

Japan Scraps WW2 Arms Ban—and China Isn’t Pleased - Newsweek

Contrary to popular superstition, AES 128 is just fine in a post-quantum world - Ars Technica

Are Scientists with Knowledge of U.S. Secrets Disappearing? The Facts Tell a Different Story - The Debrief

Patrick Muldoon

Flawed builders build flawed buildings. How can you possibly parse "the sum of human writing" and fact check it? Then who checks the checker?

Clean Energy Breakthrough: Bottled Lightning Produces Methanol in New “Bubble Reactor” - The Debrief

@Gorgon Which model did you purchase?

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@rjshae Its a woolly mammoth skull and tusks.

Look at the size of that bad boy!

As you point out, isnt that the case for everything? Any random local could wander out into the desert with an RPG-7 and punch big holes in big pipes. Imo, that cant be a reason to stifle progress and also let some country declare themselves owners of international waters. Out of morbid curiosity, I was wondering if it was technically feasible to ignite a subsurface oil field (a la the Centralia mine fire) but apparently the Ahvaz field is approximately 2400 meters deep so not even all our GBU-57 would do the trick.

Iran Demands Bitcoin and Crypto for Strait of Hormuz Toll Payments Clever. Maybe we [i]should[/i] sink Kharg Island under the waves? Alternatives to Strait of Hormuz? Gulf nations are mulling Plan B Maybe new pipelines? It would pay for itself in months vs tolls!

Imo, with the introduction of AI, we are going to enter into a feedback loop of "garbage in, garbage out". Just imagine some LLM scraping this very thread and then regurgitating it back to someone else. Anyone can post anything on the internet and the AI will hoover it up. The fall of humanity will come because we're stupid, and we taught the AI to be stupid too.