Isn’t their current level of inflation now what it was at when they decided it was time to enact emergency measures? measures that are still in place yet haven’t prevented inflation from continuing to rise.

The last time Ukraine was under Russian rule there was a literal genocide, so their backs are kind of against the wall, any peace with Russia is just a re-armament period until the next invasion.

And so weirdly unnecesary, A relative of mine lives in the countryside and genuinely has to use a lot of really beat up tracks, their landrover doesn’t have incredible frontal view but easily better than every single thing in this diagram.

That’s the great part! We make sure only rich people can access the best models so the poor people are forced to handmake content training data for us!

I suspect turning another country into a radioactive wasteland of black-brown glass is politically unetnnable for most nations.

More realistically warheads need their fissionable components replaced every 20 years or so, Considering Russia claims to field the worlds largest nuclear arsenal on the same budget the UK spends on a much smaller arsenal (albeit likely far more advanced in the delivery system department) its extremely questionable wether the nuclear material in most of those warheads is still viable.

While in a full scale nuclear war even a 10% success rate is apocalyptic it really does matter if they want to make a demonstration strike on Ukraine, imagine the geo-political ramifications of Russia making the huge decision to make a nuclear strike only for that missile to fail to properly detonate.

Not a car person but the growth does seem to be beyond simple crumple zones, The minis where I live are closer in size to a small 4x4 than they are to a typical sedan.

From what I understand (I don’t play but my brother does) Starcraft 2 multiplayer was balanced almost entierly around the pro scene.

Ghost in the shell stand alone complex (and 2nd gig) was my first and still favourite anime.

Holy crap its real

I mean… China is capitalist too its just state capitalist.

Except in all the countries with rent control where people still build houses?

Realising that while I love art I should have becom an accountant, I’m good with computers and automation, could have made bank with very little effort.

There is a normal integer between 4 and 5 but sapient beings are completely incapable of percieving it.

There’s a japanese company working on a kidney rejuvination drug for cats that’s meant to come out next year (potential 10 year increase in average lifespan) so we’ll almost certainly have that in 10 years which will be nice.

While I think our current brute force method attempt at AI is already hitting the limits of how ‘smart’ it can be I suspect over the next few years we’ll develop far lighter models until your phone having a simulated personality is just a standard (hopefully optional) feature. They’ll probably also have an online feature to cross reference their own answers with wikipedia or something.

Deaslination is likely to get significantly better by sheer neccesity.

I like to think we’ll have higher frequency rectennas though probably not optical frequency ones.

Those are actually private sized jets they re-branded.

Agreed, though I wish youtubes algorithm was able to take into account video release date. Sometimes most of the science youtubers happen to be on a break and I end up watching a higher proportion of gaming content which then further kills the science content in my feed until I manually search it out again.

gives Disney the authority of a county government.

Yo what the fuck this is literally in the plot of both shadowrun and cyberpunk as the beginning of the end for state governance.

Almost like it was the goddamn aristocrats tricking us into killing eachother all along.

Not really, Russia spends about as much on its arsenal as the UK while having orders of magnitude more warheads to maintain. Either they have help from the magic nuclear maintenance faeries or only a small portion of their arsenal is still functional.