What’s Germany’s plan to secure the EU merchant fleet against Iranian anti-ship missiles, fired by Iranian proxies in Yemen, without help from USA or Israel?

Those rockets miss, but the plane in front dropped flares just prior, so the pilot may have believed a heat seeking missile was launched.

The wing breaks off at the engine. Was the engine hit with a missile?

Those engines are 50 years old and probably haven’t been getting their regular maintenance on account of the 3 day special military operation going a bit over schedule. Maybe unmaintained SU-25s just randomly have their wings fall off sometimes?

Industry likes it too. Without a Federal standard, appliance makers would need 50 smaller, less efficient production lines to meet each State’s individual standards.

Imagine an infinitely large box with nothing in it. Where is the center? There isn’t one.

Imagine that box suddenly fills with pieces of stuff, more or less evenly distributed. Still no center.

Imagine the box starts getting bigger, but the amount of stuff stays the same and the distance between stuff quickly increases even though the stuff isn’t moving that fast. Where’s the center of the infinitely large box?

Did he ever have credibility to begin with? Gun control is a non-starter, and that’s his claim to fame.

you can add “–cookies-from-browser firefox” or whatever browser you use, to the end of the yt-dlp target

Those poor drone operators are going to be chasing this dragon for the rest of their careers.

We’re still burning fossil carbon for energy.

Carbon capture does not make sense until we have an excess of clean energy to power it.

Scaling it now would do more harm than good.

I unironically love parking lots & garages, and feel like a city without parking is a prison.

If I had my druthers, existing bike lanes would be turned into medians, side of road parking would become bike lanes, and enough real estate converted to parking garages to meet peak demand.

Sharing a bus or train with a lot of other people every day isn’t appealing because of the way a lot of other people are.

At that time, the first second of eternity will have passed.

We’ll be back the next time protons happen.

There is no escape.

A dozen, a hundred, there’s no way to tell.

yeah, just serve up some r34 animated rats and put cocaine in the beverages

Yes, photons were released when the universe began to cool enough for electrons to combine with protons to make the first neutral hydrogen atoms. Those first photons are now observed as the Cosmic Microwave Background.

This article presents evidence that the cause of those primordial neutral hydrogen atoms having their electrons stripped away again was not primarily huge celestial formations like supermassive black holes or giant galaxies. Instead, it looks like the early universe produced such a large number of small galaxies that the light from stars in those small galaxies did the deed.

Why was the aristocrat university getting welfare checks in the first place?

The Mudroch propaganda machine has been operating in U.K. for a long time already. The disease is more advanced than this post suggests.

There’s a lot to unpack here.

Lets start with the attempt to define “usefulness” as the degree to which connection to humans happens. Human connection on the internet has always been illusory. Yet we still find utility in it.

“Trusted sources” have always been 100% biased in favor of whoever owns them. We all have equal free speech rights, but some of us are more free than others because the ability to purchase a bigger megaphone scales with access to capital.

Organized, capitalized propaganda farms existed before LLMs and have been engaged in the same kind of destructive information warfare. LLMs seem to be more persuasive than the wage-slave humans employed by troll farms and other mass media outlets, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing if it manufactures a more rational public opinion.

LLMs lower the capital requirement to begin competing in the propaganda war. The biggest players who could afford to buy enormous media empires and fund human-generated influence operations are going to have to compete against the rest of us.

This planet has been a soulless hellscape longer than any of us have been alive, and LLMs are more likely to improve the situation than make it worse.

That’s rough buddy.

π == 3

When billionaires use those agglomerations of capital to manipulate markets and engage in other types of anti-competitive practices, it turns a free market into a captured market.

Anti-monopoly regulation & enforcement is required to maintain a market’s freedom.

Sam.