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The Lord giveth and taketh away Red Lobster.

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ICBM is old tech but it has advanced a ton over the decades. It is insane how accurately the US can lob a nuke across the Pacific and hit a designated test target.

The new Russian ones are supposed to dodge interceptors at their final stage and fly crazy fast.

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Putin gave NK one fancy luxury Russian car. Does that count?

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A one day old account spouting bullshit a troll?

Surprised Pikachu

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Same for Google Inbox.

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Immortan Joe styles water delivery. They might as well add the "don't get addicted to it" line as well.

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Gaddafi called for Switzerland to be split between its neighbors.

Who has the last laugh now? Don't need with the Swiss and their dark, devious ways

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Bribes aren't exactly a thing in Switzerland. I'm not saying there isn't corruption but it's not common.

That said they have to pay nearly a million dollars to the victims.

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And let us not forget https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/life-aging/historian-reveals-tragedy-of-swiss-child-trade/3791220.

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Check out The Nuclear Power Trio. They rock.

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They have trouble grabbing a next-door land neighbor. They aren't going to do well in a fully amphibious operation squeezed between Finland and Sweden.

Taiwan to acquire more than 1,000 armed drones in new US arms sale ( www.cnn.com )

The United States has approved the $360 million sale of more than 1,000 small armed drones to Taiwan, as the self-ruled island claimed by China aims to strengthen its asymmetrical warfare abilities with an eye on successful tactics used on the battlefield in Ukraine....

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Add some rum along with the weapons for moral support of the Taiwanese defenders.

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Fondue, with a starter plate of cured meats and a desert of meringue covered in double cream.

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Adamant is putting it lightly. The co-founder apparently told his CEO successor:

"If you raise the effing hot dog, I will kill you. Figure it out."

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Fat is the most calorie-dense food available. So that's one big piece of butter mixed with sugar, some flour, aromas, and cacao fat.

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Oh and for those thinking this is too much, some even throw in an egg into the cauldron once the melted cheese is gone.

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And he certainly wasn't anti-crypto when it came to pushing his own lazy NFTs.

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Self-driving cars are AI. And they are butting against the Pareto Principle.

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And hopefully his "Barbie" is the Warhammer project he's trying to get off the ground.

That has the potential to be so much fun if done properly.

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"Spectre" came out the same year. Man from UNCLE was by far the superior spy flic.

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It depends. From my understanding, it can vary from just attaching one's name to calling the big shots.

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A stache so good, he probably could have walked straight into CIA headquarters and nobody would have stopped him for credentials.

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Such a flexible universe too. Anything from magic & monsters, space battles to sci-fi WWI/II stories.

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Wait until he hears about the Adepta Sororitas...

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There is no certainty that LLMs can overcome the current limitations they are stumbling on.

I think developments in AI will come but there is no guarantee they will. They seem to be suffering from the Pareto Principle just like self-driving car ML models and this despite huge investments.

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Breakthroughs are so interesting and the reason predicting the future of tech is so hard. Text embedding and "Internet scale" training are likely the things that allowed this AI boom and the amazing initial results.

I think many people see AI (and other tech) moving linearly from the current point forward but any software developer knows this is rarely the case. And no one can predict the next breakthrough.

It doesn't help the hype and confusion around ML/LLM/AGI. And because on the surface LLMs seem intelligent people misunderstand their capabilities (much like politicians). They certainly have fantastic uses just as they are now but a lot of people are overly optimistic (or pessimistic depending on your point of view) of our new "AI overlords".

Personally, LLMs are absolutely amazing at supporting me in my professional writing. I don't let it do my work but it helps me play around to find a better way to express some things like if I had a sparing writing partner.

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Not to ruin your joke but the missile and aircraft are originally French.

Yeah, French PR for weapon and nuclear sales was awkward during the 70s-80s.

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The French version is called SCALP and the Brit Storm Shadow. Same missile as I understand it.
People were amused to see pictures of both together on the same aircraft flying for Ukraine.

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I've had people above me fired in a startup and I was asked by the board of the company to lock their accounts and seize their professional laptops while they were in a meeting informing them they were fired.

The idiots had tried to stage a "coup" against the CEO which failed spectacularly.

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In THX certified 7.2.1 surround straight out of Bangalore.

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It's sadly more boring than that. Not lizard people, just sociopaths.

I was trying to find a word for a government ruled by sociopaths but I guess "fascism" fits fine.

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Appeasement or having Ukraine bleed Russia slowly rather than decisively kick them out. The US would rather keep Russia busy and weakened than back to their usual shenanigans. Sadly it's the Ukrainians who have to pay the heftier price of this.

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The article's author was the Editor-in-chief of Vice's Motherboard as stated in his bio.

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I have serious doubts about how "clean" even a modern nuke is but modern weapons are supposedly more efficient and therefore cleaner than WW2 equivalents. The other factor is where the bomb is detonated.

At ground level, it irradiates and throws up more material than if it is detonated high up in the air in an air burst configuration.

In any case, any kind of nuke crosses a diplomatic line that would bring a world of hurt against Putin which is not worth the tactical win. His nukes are way more useful as a saber to rattle to scare off Western countries from supporting Ukraine too effectively out of fear of escalation.

I could only see Putin use nukes in a desperate last-ditch defense against invaders at Moscow's gates.

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Nukes need high explosives. The most modern ones use extremely stable explosives but some of the Cold War era accidents in the US often did go boom but not BOOOOOOOM.

Still bad exploding weapons-grade radioactive material. Thankfully not as bad as a nuclear explosion.

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Well, the best way to stop a bad guy with an avocado is a good guy with an avocado.

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He'll never recover after the death of his running mate: VP Brain Worm.

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Even non-high-speed trains go faster than most car highways and don't have to negotiate traffic.

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Sorry to hear neighbour. If it's any consolation, on some of your highways, you can go hella fast.

In Switzerland we don't even have high-speed rail. We have at best pendular high-speedish trains but they are quite neat. We do pay a steep price for it but it beats being required to drive everywhere US-like (minus some exceptions).

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But it would only work on prude countries.

France would scoff at such an attack, they have raunchier shampoo commercials. And Scandinavian countries wouldn't even bat an eye.

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It has a chatbot you can interact with separately. It doesn't uses AI in its search engine as far as I know.

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Exactly, just like the Nigerian prince scam. Those who know about the scam or with enough critical thinking ability are not the marks. They want that small percentage of highly gullible people they can fleece easily.

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With extra testosterone. I bet one of the YouTube grindset cons could make a fortune taking steroids and selling bull semen powder as the way to get swole.

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And when they identify one of these they still need to act. How quickly and efficiently can they get interceptors up in the air and vectored in? How operational are their ground-based anti-air capabilities and do they dare shoot something down? And how much coverage do they actually have?

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The fuel is (relatively) nothing. Interceptors have to haul ass and that means going full throttle for periods which translates into countless hours of maintenance on those planes. This immobilizes the aircraft after the mission and the ground crew to work on it. It also consumes spare parts and reduces the overall lifetime of the airframe.

China does this to Taiwan by playing chicken at the edge of their defensive zone, forcing a smaller air force to keep up with the interceptions.

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Such a system can shoot at a maximum range of 30km. How many refineries and ammo depots does Russia have to protect? It's a huge bloody country which makes it very hard to cover with radar and air defence.

The edge that allowed Russia to win against powerful invading armies bites them in the ass here. So much real estate is hard and expensive to protect.

During the height of the Cold War, a kid flew across Europe in a small, slow plane and landed on the damn Red Square. Another guy landed a helicopter on the White House lawn.

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The asymmetry between the cost of defense vs. offense here is absurd.

The operation of air defense networks, missiles, and fighter jet interceptions, all to try to down kit aircraft costing less than the average Porsche sports car. Fancy-pantsy capabilities that required billions not long ago can be had for cheap. It's no longer the exclusive realm of low-flying supersonic or stealth aircraft to strike the heart of the enemy. What required billions of R&D can be somewhat achieved on the cheap.

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And they'll argue "you don't need [all the things that make this company great]". And then we'll wonder how a once leading company is dying on their now crappy products/services.

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