This is the most insightful thing I've seen on Slashdot in a long time. Thank you for writing it out and posting it here. I hope the currently helpless but not ambivalent segment will gain enough power to make the larger group that is simply ambivalent safe, whether that requires defeating the denialists or simply working around them to ensure that humanity and its technological civilization actually survives without regressing to barbarism.

Calling his actual personal decisions on business management genius is more wrong than wrong conveys. The lost goodwill that Musk has burned through has a real monetary value. It could have been prevented by simply having someone on staff who understands what the word ethics means. As a manager Musk should know how to delegate, and ethical thinking can be delegated to those trained in it. And every one of his ventures has numerous people with the right training. Scientists study that so that their experiments don't make them the new Dr. Mengele (although that ship sailed with Neuralink and its animal cruelty), and Engineers study it so that their designs actually benefit people instead of causing unnecessary deaths. That ship may have also sailed with the Autopilot fiasco. These mistakes could have been avoided by consulting and then listening to someone trained in ethics.

I am only considering Putin's mindset, which you fail to do at every turn. Like you are paid to ignore it. Which is why you post exactly as you do, and will continue to do so until you understand that I want you to live instead. I want you to live a long life and grow old watching grass grow over Putin's grave, rather than he over yours when he kills you along with the others, either by the death squad for recruitment refusal or as conscripts in the field. Your days as instigator are not only numbered, they are ghostly. You will be sent to the field sooner or later, one way or the other. I want you to get out, and take your family with you so Putin can't threaten you through them.

You are an idiot. Russia is bombing the citizens of Ukraine in their homes, and you are obsessing over international trade that is negligible to everyone outside of Russia. In any case, even the Russian concern with this trade is irrelevant given Putin's recklessness causing the loss of the past 30 years of growth of FDI into Russia. There is no reversing that either. Don't try to play economics here. This is war. And I do know that very well and in more ways than your pitiful mind can imagine. Play on for your potato Ivan, just try not to choke on it as you run from your Master's death squads. They are coming for you. You should run while you can. And take your family with you. Get out of Russia. Now.

When you deal with weapons and the men pointing them then the world is exactly that. The time for drawing room bullshit ends when the outcome is death for one side or the other. And that is exactly the situation that Russia forced Ukraine into by invading. Ukraine should have kept its nukes after the Union fell instead of believing Russia. It should have nuked Moscow and everywhere else Putin could hide to ensure his quick death as soon as the Russian invaders started moving into Ukraine.

The reality is that this Russian disinformation campaign is an easily recognizable part of their cyber warfare strategy. It also has a much longer history than your paranoia has allowed you to see. Take a look here for an in depth article from 2014 on its origin in Soviet dogma. Or this for more on their "new style" of warfare. If you don't have access to either that is your problem, but in that case you can still read this which also does a good job showing that this is the Russian preferred approach before combat, intended to prepare the ground for combat. Remember the first gulf war was in 1991 because that is the only point you likely missed in training. For spectators though, the Russian strategy is to attack the institutions of its targets to disrupt their society. It always has been.

Did he really?

The geo-fence restrictive limitation is only being applied to the use by Ukraine of StarLink, not the Russian use of StarLInk. You need to invent a new excuse or accept that Musk has made himself not just a party to the war but one allied to Putin against Ukraine, and against the US, UK, and all of the EU.

At Musk's directive SpaceX has limited the StarLink service to Ukraine so that its coverage excludes the territory that Russia has occupied. This artificially limits the communications network of the Ukrainian soldiers fighting to reclaim their own homes. Musk has decided he will create a new border without any input from Ukraine, effectively partitioning its territory like a 21st century version of the Nazi-occupied Poland. Musk has aided the Russian occupation and enabled their genocide of Ukrainians, exactly in cooperation with Putin's last ditch push to fortify the occupied territories. If Musk was pro-peace, he would give coverage to the full and complete borders of Ukraine.

This is not about pure mathematics alone. As long as the options include paths for advanced decision mathematics, mechanics, and statistics it can be practical and career oriented. It is necessary for the UK to renew its educational investment to prepare its population for the economic revolution of Society 5.0, Industry 4.0, etc. Whatever name is assigned the reality of it remains, and it is happening now. It is past time to increase schooling in other subjects for the same duration. Humanity is required for productive work, and humanity is the unique skill people combine with computers and systems to produce even better results. Moving 100 tons of food is great, but moving 100 tons of food into a disaster area before restocking the cheeto reserve of a chain store is better.

The specific form of this company is a gGmbH, that is a charitable (basically social-purpose) non-profit form of a limited liability company. By law it can not distribute profits among shareholders, because they must instead be put toward the registered charitable/social function. These aspects are not taken lightly because in exchange most registration fees are waived and it is exempted from many taxes. Investors by definition want to exchange capital for a share of future profits. That is not remotely permitted.

Nope. Basic science. More detail.

I think you should research the fairly large number of US military installations and defense contractors in Washington state. In trying to understand why a small undefended area was targeted first, well, isn't that obvious?

Destroying power systems as a form of attack has been in the news for several months already. And it is easy to see who benefits from acts that disrupt electrical power for US industry, and especially disrupt electrical heating during a massive deadly cold winter storm. The upside is that these are disorganized efforts, with little coordinated activity over larger areas. The downside is that these might only be probing attacks.

That might be impossible since the output is not direct excerpt and even the ideas represented in the input are not used as whole objects or theories but simply as feedstock for grammatical concepts. References would be at best things like "0.0001% of input came from the 1911 Britannica" - although the influence of real trained writing might improve the literary quality of popular works. I would like to see this combined with Postscript and LaTeX to automatically produce manuscripts.