The tiki torches aren’t really part of the shadowy plots so much as they are secondhand effects of the staggering inequality. The top-heavy hierarchy of wealth demands its attendant true-believers, who also tend to have other inequitable feelings about how things ought to be.

There was a hearing this week but I don’t think they’re expecting a ruling for a few months.

It’s the biggest bubble in history because corporate leadership consistently falls for the reification fallacy.

So-called “AI” (specifically, large language models) are massively-multidimensional maps of human language use. They can be used to draw humanlike vectors through the phase space of all possible combinations of symbols, but they aren’t intelligent because human intelligence doesn’t come from the use of language. Rather, language comes from intelligence.

For real, finding clothes that fit an enby like me is a nightmare.

I’m 100% confident that Greenland could repel a U.S. invasion based on nothing more than the fact that the U.S.A. has never fought a war in arctic conditions. It’d be like trying to invade Russia in wintertime.

Looks like it, Steam’s work on gaming for Linux has been instrumental.

I’m pretty sure illegally withholding state funding is also a serious crime.

Couldn’t be me, trying every day to strike the right balance between a masc and femme presentation. XD

Yeh, I’m a fan of the term. 😀

Nope, enbies that resemble other genders still resemble enbies. 😀

I understand this sentiment, but “non gendered” sounds more like a term for agender folks than an enby like myself, who is full of gender.

Continuing to fund anti-abortion efforts even as they pay for another mistress’ mysterious trips out of state.

Enbys have the best assets. =3

Gyoza

And they’ll use a bunch of teens straight out of high-school that still have youthful reaction times instead.

Move to Washington D.C. or Cheyenne Wyoming, if you’re inside the blast radius then you won’t have to live to see the world end.

I just want to see him forced to work a minimum-wage job for a living.

Depends on the nature of the offensive application. I expect we’ll see them used for a mass blinding terror attack in my lifetime.

Seems like the kind of situation that sandblasters were invented for. They’ve even got ones that use dry ice as their abrasive so they won’t leave any grit behind in those holes.

A report from an Israeli defense publicatiom says it’s “capable of 100kW of power focused on a spot the diameter of a coin at a distance of 10km”

So, definitely not an anti-satellite weapon from the ground, or even high-atmosphere, but it ought to work if they mounted one to another satellite.

That said, there’s no such thing as a defensive-only weapon. Laser weapons can be deadly to people too, and even at a fraction of their rated power output they could blind people instantly.