The article is nearly word for word out of the Wikipedia article for enshittification. Did AI copy it for them? Or is ARS the wiki editor? Hmm...

The problem isn't necessarily the polls unto themselves. But, literally everyone feeding them to you does so with an agenda that may not be obvious, sometimes less obvious than the statistical makeup of the poll.

Corporate PR damage control at its finest /sarcasm. Internal devs explicitly told them that the mess was going to occur, but they had a new product rollout that management refused to reschedule. "overhauling the software development process" is blame shifting from management onto the developers.

Offering help after you cause the failure means nothing for liability. That like lighting a building on fire due to negligence and saying it's not your fault because you offered to help put out the fire after building has burned to the ground.

former Navy nuc here, you're mostly on the mark. Not confirming numbers. But the highest level of classification wasn't as high as top secret, only one specific section of the plant manual was "secret", the rest was "confidential", the lowest classification level. This was true both on my training "prototype" plant reactor in upstate New York, and my deployed surface ship one.

As long as a small reactor has the same risks and siting requirements as a large one, these can't be competitive. If your fixed costs for a 100MW output unit are approaching the same as a 1000MW unit, then the choice is kinda obvious from a business perspective (or to build something else that's cheaper)

The funding provided by the government around the time of H1N1 in the early 2000's to develop the MRNA technique in the first place.

The first fully hands off automated carrier landing happened in 1985, flying the plane on a course or to a target to shoot is very much a simpler task.

How hard is it to find and narrow the location of a Wifi hotspot with military surveillance tech. Yeah, that easy.

sure, and the available military weapons have never been misused to abuse the populace in any way at all. /sarcasm

In the 70s nearly no one had SWAT teams locally, now they are a fairly routinely used "arrest team" in many or even most locations. Once you crack the door, the flood will happen.

The GOP campaign emails of the last 6 years or so have DEFINED spam. Lies, "campaign contribution" grifting, incitement, insanely marked up campaign merch, etc. etc. If literally anything meets the definition of spam, they are it. As someone above said, let the recipient decide if it's spam, if the recipient thinks that it's spam and doesn't want to see it, reaching them with another message isn't going to change their mind.

they made the "direct launch" distinction, they made it for a reason. I'm guessing at what that reason might be.

using their own words, if it is air launched (not ground or sea) then it would not be prohibited. So you still get the orbital debris, which is the entire point of a moratorium,

restricting a moratorium to "direct ascent" (ground or sea launched) weapons only is a HUGE loophole given that the US's first functional anti-satellite weapon was air launched from an F14