Giant Death Bot?
Thedogdrinkscoffee
joined 6 months ago
I just switched to Linux mint as a HTPC and it works great! Wine and Bottles bridged most of the gaps in software availability.
What good is saving yourself from Russia if humanity snuffs it anyway?
MAD was supposed to be a threat, not a promise.
Your assessment is both correct and incorrect depending on your point of view.
From the geopolitical view of Europe and its allies, yes. Militarization is essential to survive the conflict that is to come. It is coming.
From the perspective of humanity's tenuous grasp on this planet, well, you've heard of misallocation of funds - where spending is suboptimal or wasteful. This military buildup would be the next step down the value ladder. Let me introduce you to the concept of malallocation - spending so out of touch with what's needed, it makes things worse, and actively hurts your interests.
A planet that is in severe ecological overshoot and is having it's Wile E. Coyote moment where its already run off the cliff and there is a brief moment before gravity takes hold. In this case the gravity pulling the coyote down are the forces of the metacrisis - a conflux of problems and predicaments having exceeded so many planetary boundaries and is suffering the consequences of which climate change is only one.
From this point of view, one could surmise that no species this technologically advanced and this terminally shortsighted was meant to survive. When multiple ecological crises rose out of industrialization to threaten our hold on this planet, our final acts were to double down on more of the same so we would be well positioned to fight over the last resources before we snuff ourselves out of existence.
A good candidate for the great filter.
They will just weaponize it. In a starving world, the well fed man is king.
I've said for decades that coalitions of Universities need to make their own journals that operate transparently and trade on their reputations at low to no cost.
The current and proposed publishing rackets need to go.
I'd eat it now.
He is at least thoughtful, a good communicator and helpful.
Updoot for "gaping anus". That's going to work its way into my everyday parlance.
Winner! Well, not really. When you think about it ...
Self defense.
The most environmentally friendly thing you can do as a car owner is stop being one. Ride a bike. Take Mass Transit. Walk.