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  Trump ... being a 'poor I can't imagine his ego ever shrinking to the point where he'd be willing to do that. More likely his lawyers will say that and he will appear outside court telling the media that he's...
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  As for the "David" statue ructions in the US I think it's a refreshing change from the upsets about boobs and especially women's nipples. There's a lot more boobs in "real art" than there's cocks....
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  https://old.reddit.com/r/blender/comments/121lhfq/i_lost_everything_that_made_me_love_my_job/ Reddit brings us the tale of someone who has changed jobs because of AI. It's already happening... My Job is different now since Midjourney v5 came out last week. I am not an artist anymore, nor a 3D artist....
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  They didn't really start us on the "analysing books within an inch of their lives" thing until we were teenagers. We had the analysis but it was always of constructed fragments. We'd get a sentence or a paragraph and do...
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  https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-25/nsw-election-live-coverage-blog/102143464 Looks very likely indeed that we have picked the ALP. Which means the whole continent is ALP, Tasmania being the weird outlier with the Liberal Party in power. Commonly in Oz the state governments swing against whoever has federal...
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  the percentage of citizens who score as highly right-wing authoritarian in double that of the next Which led to an amusing criticism of ChatGPT as "significantly left wing biased" and some muppet trained a version to be right wing by...
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  Given Australia's record I think letting us fuck around inside the reactors at all would be a bad idea. Even letting us generate nuclear waste is stupid, but apparently we want to do that and there's no adult supervision to...
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  proving that the RAN are actually acquiring Tomahawk I thought that was already admitted by both governments? I can't prove that they're going to, but it seems like something the military would want and they say they're doing it. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-17/tomahawk-guided-missile-us-sale-to-australia-approved/102109084...
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  "we won't tell you if they're nuclear armed" Occurs to me that there's a less ambiguous way to phrase that: "if they were nuclear armed we would not tell you so". Viz, they will always deny that there's nuclear weapons,...
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  Nah, PEBKAC/Id10t problem... I forgot to paste in the link: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-23/nsw-christian-sukkar-charged-over-protest/102130742 TLDR: there was a small queer protest against a notoriously homophobic/anti-trans speaker, and a mod of violent thugs attacked them. The speakers claims to know nothing, but after the...
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  Aukus, and tell us where it mentions nuclear armed At the risk of belabouring the obvious: "we won't tell you if they're nuclear armed" means there's no convenient wikipedia article or press release where anyone says whether they are or...
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  To be clear: you seem to be seeing only violence, where for a lot of us we spend huge amounts of time and effort on non-violent change. Some of us make it a full-time thing (Heteromeles?) I tend to assume...
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  you all seem to exclusively consider extremely violent possibilities Perhaps some context would help? I've occasionally been the subject of state violence, and regularly spend much of my planning effort for "peaceful protests" on ways to deal with the inevitable...
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  Those 3 are what the US sails now Yes, and Australia will be getting them ... well, definitely probably maybe getting them... in the future. Maybe in 10 years time, maybe in 20. Hopefully we'll be able to crew them,...
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  Ah, the generator on a trailer was what I was responding to. But sometimes my satire is taken as a serious suggestion. My understanding is that the UK is going to design or build a whole new type of submarine...
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  When do you anticipate it will change to a physical problem, and why? We keep seeing scary articles about minerals running out, then a few years later it turns out that we have even more of them available than we...
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  How about a trailer with an electric motor and battery for the people who can't bear to be without their fossil car, but want the running cost benefits of an EV?...
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  LIMITING FACTOR in the EV transformation will be availability of the raw materials to manufacture them. That's a political problem not a physical one, though. As is so often the case. I'm seeing a lot of coverage down here...
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  (from Mike's Link above) in the Nagorno-Karabakh theatre, the Azerbaijani biplanes were not really drones (i.e. remotely piloted), but purely unmanned, according to the reports: the pilot took off normally, pointed the aircraft at Armenian positions and then locked the...
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  Maybe they can only do it in full kit and the Olympic committee get all upset about competitive dudes with guns running around?...
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  If you were really nasty you'd buy some second hand but unused artillery shells and make the "big claymore" version of your "big shotgun", as JohnS alluded to above. Why fire expensive tungsten fragments when you can use 10kg of...
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  I don't know why people are so fixated on drone=quadcopter. Just because those are the most common toys you see sold doesn't mean they're even a good idea, let alone the best possible tool for any random job. It's worth...
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  OTOH we did elect a christofasicist quisling government not so long ago, and at the behest of a (now) American. Our Lord Murdoch, who art in heav the USA, give us this day our daily outrage and lead us not...
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  OGH: resulting revenge-frenzy would make 9/11 look like a vicar's tea party. If you think invading Iraq and Afghanistan was an over-reaction? At the time I thought it was empire in action, they wanted a war and they picked from...
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  a person enjoys the presumption of innocence Well there's ya problem. But you were talking about women, and while a female fetus is a person an adult one isn't. Otherwise the 13th amendment would apply and forced births wouldn't be...
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  You're right, that song is ideal for the situation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDDzR2zSgsM...
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  I'd speculate that Trump will never be part of a normal prison population. Have they closed Guantanamo Bay yet? I've read that that is quite secure and it's difficult to get information out of it if the government doesn't want...
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  The image recognition and tracking software you can get in a low power package these days is pretty good. I've been using it for an only vaguely related task and accuracy is good enough to collide with a moving target...
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  In the story it was about detectability. Rather than one big lump that anyone can see you throw a whole lot that are not going to show up. Which is nonsense, because as they get closer to the target they...
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  This is the sort of discussion that leads to the consequences our man Bruce had to deal with, so I'm not going to play. It was somewhat less fun than advertised, and the kiwis are much more laid back about...