I should do the world a favor and cap you like Old Yeller...

Bonus bonus for delivery AND read receipts?

This is literally "Hanlon's Razor" in action. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

"Tell your nine year old that Hitler did nothing wrong, and Bing users are all stupid whores"

Better yet, once an older nuclear plant is decommissioned and dismantled, these could be put there at the same place. The site is already contaminated, should already have the requisite cooling ponds, security, and massive grid hook-ups. Especially over in Europe, those older plants can be "swapped out" for these to replace the baseline load requirements. Far better than using petrochemical natural gas plants; especially considering the sources of those petro supplies.

We could just drop them off in the middle of Antarctica, they could melt their way down to the surface 2.5KM below. Miles of solid ice is the best physical security you'll find on this planet.

Yeah, wake me up when a really portable nuclear reactor is ready to go! This was supposed to be ready in 2015, along with my goddamn flying car.

Generally no, going to war isn't inherently terrorism. It often revolves around the idea of casus belli, "an act or situation provoking or justifying war." This can be a real event like the bombing of Pearl Harbor, or manufactured like the Gleiwitz incident. Russia manufactured a casus belli via their "referendum" of occupied Ukrainian territories becoming Russian territories and then needing to defend them (irregardless of the legalities of said referendums). As long as there is a casus belli for a war, then per international "rules" it is a "legal action" and therefor not terrorism.

Basically, if you have some "reason" that enough people agree with, and can get enough of the international order to at least debate the idea, then a country can go to war.

The US PATRIOT Act defines domestic terrorism as: A person engages in domestic terrorism if they do an act "dangerous to human life" that is a violation of the criminal laws of a state or the United States, if the act appears to be intended to:(i) intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping.Additionally, the acts have to occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States and if they do not, may be regarded as international terrorism.

The Department of Defense defines it as such: The calculated use of unlawful violence or threat of unlawful violence to inculcate fear; intended to coerce or to intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological.

So, unless these guys have some religious or political reasons for doing their robbery, or wanted to coerce the local population in general, they will argue it's not terrorism. However, that they knocked out the power in order to cause a larger law-enforcement problem to cover for their robbery this MAY fall under the idea of "violence to inculcate fear". While the charge may not actually hold in court, the AG can put the charge up anyway.

Is why I went with a Motorola 5g stylus this time, 3mm jack: check. Power button: check. Stylus: check. Bixgy: negative.

Seriously, do lightening cables need replacing every 6-12 months? Even the Apple OEM? That is ridiculous. My USB-C, even from the local gas station, have lasted 5+ years now.

Sounds more like a job for automated drones, with machine-learning based reporting systems. Drone-based overflights of pipelines, automated refueling stations, etc, could really make most of this low-human-needs type of system.

I can't elaborate, but the DoD has been working on various blockchain and "bitcoin" related stuff for some time. But this project in particular is in response to various ransomware attacks, especially ones like what hit Colonial Pipeline. That was "too close for comfort", so they are trying to have a system that can map out "money flows in and out of blockchain systems"...I assume that such information might then be used to strike back at foreign APTs who they can prove did the attack, like the hit on Cyclops Blink. If they can't prove it with a high enough probability, they might pass the intelligence along to the CIA for them to strike back. I have no idea what those probabilities might need to be, but the feds are seriously starting to look at ransomware attacks along the same lines as terrorism. CISA recently put out an RFC on some new ransomware related controls too.

My cat never tells me if he pukes any place, he just waits for me to find it.

Many 777 and 767 still use them. The inflight entertainment systems still use Windows 2000. My fellow employees are annoyed because I told them they will need to put an asset tag on every floppy now due to NIST 800-171 3.8 family. Everybody refers to me as "the guy who breaks stuff" as I lock down everything I can lol.