No! Don't fuck them! That's how you make more of them! We have too many as it is!

I don't know why this hasn't been in the media more.

With abortion set to be banned in several states Republican lawmakers are already working on getting abortion records out of HIPA. Their argument is that abortion will no longer be legally considered a medical procedure therefore HIPA won't apply. They want to subpoena records from former abortion clinics and publish the names of women who have had abortions in order to shame them for what they see as killing babies.

"Chinaâ(TM)s Sky Eye is extremely sensitive in the low-frequency radio band"

LF? Don't LF waves broadcast here on Earth mainly propogate through groundwaves that bend with the planet's curvature? Wouldn't they likely do the same on an alien planet? So how would the signal reach Earth?

If they were actually broadcast from space, with no ground to follow they might. But think of the required antenna size! And the bandwidth! Why pick frequencies that require huge antennas but only provide low bandwidth in space? On Earth we chose LF for some purposes because we WANT the signal to bend with the horizon in order to reach far away terrestrial destinations, but not ones in space.

"probably really bad for Russia since the sanctions never end"

I think you are overestimating the west's attention span when it comes to other people's misfortune such as Ukraine and underestimating their love of money and addiction to cheap oil. I think sanctions are a race to try to break Russia's resolve before the resulting price increases in the various allied countries cause our own conservative parties to gain too much power who will then end sanctions if not side with Russia outright.

"Russia may want a land bridge, but it's not worth fighting a war over."

I'm not sure which scenario or which land bridge this refers to, Russia to Crimea or Kherson to Transnistria. Either way though, they know sanctions will end once the war is over one way or the other. And we know what they think about their human loses. https://genevasolutions.news/u...

After a period of rebuilding their army why wouldn't they go back to war for whatever they still want? If every war gained them just a square foot of land it would only be a question of how many wars until they conquer the whole world.

You are both wrong. The situation is worse than either of those.

The Ukranians haven't lost because they can't give up, as I explained in my other response to the gp post, giving any territory to Russia would just make their total destruction inevitable. And giving up to just become a part of Russia isn't an option either because Russia is killing the civilians. They are going full on genocide. To surrender is to die.

As for western weapons, the west will keep giving them what they need to stay in the game. But not enough to actually win. Unfortunately for Ukraine this is a proxy war now. Grinding down Russia for as long as possible is what's in the west's interest. An actual victory for either side would mean the war is over and then Russia can start rebuilding it's military.

If the Ukranians retake the land they held at the beginning of the year but fail to retake Crimea then Russia will still always want that land bridge and this will all happen again.

If Ukraine gives up it's Eastern region and Crimea but keeps Odessa then Russia will be coveting a land bridge to Transnistria.

If Ukraine gives up all that and Odessa then Russia will have taken almost all their oil reserves and their coast. They will be a landlocked country. How will they thrive? By shipping wheat through Poland and Romania?

What kind of future can they hope for? They will linger a while almost completely surrounded by Russia and it's puppets until either they become one themselves or Russia comes back to finish the job.

Nope, I think they have to fight on to the bitter end. They just haven't been given any other viable choice.

Does it HAVE to be a 2-way conversation?

What if...

FTL and practical interstellar travel just aren't a thing that our universe's physics allows for.

Sad as that might be it would also mean that there is nothing to lose by giving information to the neighbors. Imagine if societies reach a point of scientific development and realize that the universe is full of civilizations AND there is no way to visit (or conquer).

They might just start broadcasting all the science and technology they know and listening for others to do the same.

Sorry, not sorry.

If one's memory is so short or politics are so red that they WANT to see a FoxConn factory in their state I have no sympathy. Of course they got screwed. Luckily it's only money and not a population employed by FoxConn.

That's FoxConn, the company that was in the news a few years back for being such a shitty employer that they had to install nets around their buildings to catch employees attempting to commit suicide by jumping off the roof. If this thing costs the state of Wisconsin all it's money, well at least they dodged the bullet of having a FoxConn factory.

Next the GOP will be pushing for Wallmarts built in the bottom of coal mines.

Independent investors aren't inventing anything and aren't building anything.

The patent trolls give someone an idea (often an obvious one that doesn't deserve a patent) a one time payment because that person knows they couldn't possibly afford all the lawyers and legal fees that would be required to defend the patent themselves.

Then the patent sues anyone who has the same idea and tries to actually make a product.

Should the troll offer a license, and should the maker manage to discover this patent even exists among the millions of patents before getting sued maybe they can pay for a license.

IF they are a large corporation. Otherwise it's far too much money.

Then someone else comes up with their own idea, but it depends on the first. Now the state of the art has two patent trolls to pay off.

And then a third and a fourth because 20 years is fkng forever in tech!

And yes, the patent troll eats very well!

"Would be terrible if thieves flooded the world market with fissile material."

Market? It's not like one just sets up a table and sells nuclear fuel like one does vegetables. No power plant outside of Russia is just going to buy it out of the back of some theif's van! That stuff is traceable via isotope ratios anyway.

The only one who might steal it is Russia. But if Russia sends it's orcs to Romania, a NATO nation it's going to isotopes of hydrogen and helium not uranium that the world will be concerned about.

"In terms of history, 20 years isn't very long."

So what?

In terms of geology a million years is nothing at all.

In terms of a human life 20 years is typically between 1/3 and 1/4.

All tech innovations have to be able to build on the tech that came before. So fans of the current patent system are advocating for each of us only getting to see 3 or maybe 4 levels of improvement before we croak.

Surely most ideas either aren't really such a big deal in the first place or can be turned into a worthwhile profit in far less than 20 years. I don't doubt that some ideas really are that difficult to fully realize that giving the inventor 20 years really does make sense but they should have to provide evidence and prove it to get a patent that long.

No doubt this would have happened years ago if that orange bastard had lost in 2016. Who remembers standing in line next to a row of buses belching diesel fumes? All those people passing around anti-electric memes ought to be forced to take a big breath from the tailpipe of one of those buses to remind them what their children are exposed to.

I once thought there used to be so many phone booths, and now they have no purpose. Somebody must have a bunch they would like to be rid of cheap.

Imagine an old phone booth as an enclosure for a large format 3d printer!

But the only ones I could find were going for "antique" prices. Who has so much money to spend on something that large just to waste so much space as a retro-decoration? What's wrong with people?!?!

Well.. with all the urine comments I see here maybe it's for the better. Or maybe just don't get one from NYC. I don't know. I don't remember phone booths smelling of urine but the last time I was in one people actually still used them for the phones.

The anti-nuke fools should have realized this in 1979. How many plants were never built? How many were already shut down? How much more fossil fuels were already burnt? The damage those activists caused cannot be undone in time.

Although I will give them one thing... nuclear plants built over fault lines and/or in tsunami zones... stupid idea.

No it doesn't.

It generally exercises the same specific muscles over and over giving the worker a false sense of health while actually leaving the rest of the body under-utilized and out of shape.

Then the repetitive motion injuries kick in.

Not to mention exposure to chemicals, accidents, inhaled dust, the deafening effects of long term exposure to loud noise...

Both kinds of work kill you. They just do it in different ways.