The only reason anyone would even think about adding "Russia" to that list is because the current elderly resident of the White House has a hard-on for Putin.

Militarily, Russia has demonstrated it has a hard time defeating a country 1/10 of its size.

Technologically, Russia is so far behind, it's had to rely on equipment being manufactured by Iran and North Korea (neither of which is "first world").

Economically, yeah I'm not even gonna bother with that one, even their sycophants know Russia is a basket case.

Using nukes (or even a large dose of conventional warfare) is beyond a point of no return. Where most other nations will refuse to deal with you. Some may, but then you end up with a division into two groups. Like the Axis and Allied powers during WWII. And we all know how that ended up.

It's not a situation one can step back from easily and return to the negotiating table.

ChatGPT is an idiot savant. It "knows" the contents of the entire web. But it can't figure out NTP?

I use a wristwatch.

Does anyone really know what time it is?
Does anyone really care?

... my peers. If I were to hang around people who use hallucinogenics all the time.

Well, I am on Slashdot, so ...

Because the Uyghurs have too much support from the various global NGOs. Nobody is going to come to the aid of robots.

Hasn't the Crocodile Dundee franchise pretty much run it's course?

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Are you saying you didn't see this coming? It is a democratic system, ain't it? So this means politicians just do what is expedient, that's why they are elected. Leaders have stopped being elected long long time ago. Not that I am for any government intervention into any of this at all, I am against it. I believe we must do what we do as a species without any collective action enforced by government, I am against all government intervention. I am totally against anyone trying to architect our survival as a species, I am all for real natural selection.

Asked the thing to tell me:

is this it?

I don't know how some people get these types of weird answers, I cannot get the damn thing to tell me the wrong time. The only really weird thing is that it is 'searching the web' while 'thinking'.

That's too much future tech, but for now -- why not install a titanium plate? At least it won't cause rejection issues, and functionality wise is no worse than current transplants. And, instead of on-lookers getting revulsed, you'll get looks of awe. Severely disfigured wetware makes people say they offer compassion, but in reality they're severely disgusted and feel an urge to distance themselves from you -- because biologically, looking ill means something potentially transmissible, which our instincts try to protect us from. A visibly artificial face avoids all that.

Yup. It's pretty hard to do the right thing when the oil cartel that has invaded Alberta keeps threatening to shit itself and is actively trying to engineer a separatist movement entirely for its own benefit. Here's hoping Carney eventually finds a way to disembowel them.

The last game Sweeney did the artwork for was ZZT. As much as I love playing around with AI art generation for fun, he's really not an expert on this.