it’s like leaded gasoline for internet - it makes people stupid and aggressive, kids are hit the worst by it, fallout will be felt for decades, cleanup might be hard to impossible, and ultimately it’s a product of corporate greed. except even leaded gasoline solved some problem

it’s also like gambling as in hook model. it’s like cocaine in that it has been marketed to managerial class as a status symbol of sorts

if you’re being invaded, then killing aggressor side soldiers solves very practical problem of getting invaded by them

unless you’re saying that the ethical thing to do is to keel over and die in this situation

comrade xi, please nuke the valley

llms allowed them to glide all the way to the point of failure without learning anything

yeah lol ez just 3dprint polypropylene polymerization reactor. what the fuck is hastelloy?

Live in the forest ig. Some defect to Ukrainians, there are flyers and websites and telegram channels for that, but hard to say how many choose so

nukes, that was just paper thin disguise

couple kg went for fuel fabrication for teheran research reactor, but that’s couple tens kg out of low tons

They could just buy enriched uranium directly

they did buy enriched uranium for their only nuclear power reactors in bushehr npp from russians, and didn’t use their own enrichment facilities to make fuel for it

looks like there’s either downvote brigade keeping critical comments at +1 or 0, or reddit brigading countermeasures went on in defense of wittle promprfondler

trump and netanyahu have their sons (?) that do that job for them (on twitter mostly ig)

it either was, or wasn’t, so 50%

it’s a legit thing even if we don’t know how exactly it works

reverse dust specks: how many LWers would we need to permanently deprive of access to internet to see rationalist discourse dying out?

well, i see a large category of infrastructure problems (that will be 99% civilian use anyway - and not only transport, also telecomms, you can even put healthcare training in there) that is solvable by pouring money at them, and now it’s politically convenient to let it rip even among pro-austerity neoliberals. if you want an example of what can this do, look at eastern eu countries and how they changed after funding went in

which ones? germany has government spending at 48% of gdp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_government_spending_as_percentage_of_GDP so 5% of gdp for defense will be closer to 1/10 of all government spending

going by 2024 numbers, russians putting third of government spending to defence would be closer to 13% gdp

It all depends on how it all will get managed, but there are already longer term infrastructure projects that now got some funding and now also it counts under 5% NATO target. I think that more resources will go towards rail infrastructure, bridges are just more illustrative, but still for a couple of these village 7 ton level bridge there will be one 30 ton bridge in town nearby that will get overhauled

in eastern nato countries there is logistical problem because army suddenly switched from 40 ton tanks to 70 ton tanks, for example, and old bridges or rail can’t support them. this is just one of many small examples that add to that problem, and of course 99% of the time the stronger bridge will be used by civilians

i feel like if it’s not something thst everyone got this would cause new kind of racism

It’s been a thing for years, way before api shitshow

that and deluge of fake bug reports