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Comment Re:Getting caught with one can mean death (Score 1) 132

The reputational damage this has caused the US is incalculable.

Same for Israel. They won't be able to play the victim card again for 3,000 years.

The world will be unrecognizable by trump's end.

It certainly will for Americans, our privilege is over.

I expect China will be the big winner.

Yeah, nobody needs a crystal ball for that one.

Comment Re: On the bright side (Score 1) 35

Your early computers had substantial ROMs though

Yes, but still not that large even by the standards of the day. Amigas for example had 256kB in A1000, 512kB in most OCS Amigas (1MB for 2.x) and later Amigas had 1MB (2.x) or 2MB (3.x). Plus, the newer your OS, the more routines you were patching and not actually using the versions in ROM.

Comment Re:Missing the point (Score 1) 35

there are a lot of adults that understand the age-verification movement to be an invasion of their privacy. Whether or not this is true, "perception is reality".

And it is true, because one after another every entity which institutes age verification announces eventually that it will have to be done via identity verification.

Comment Re:Getting caught with one can mean death (Score 1) 132

They used to only have to wait until 2030 to freely make them. But now. Iran will never get them.

So which is it, will Iran never get nukes, or is Trump's favorite buddy (since Epstein's death anyway) Netanyahu right when he says we have to keep bombing Iran so they don't get nukes? Make up your mind.

Comment Re:Yawn... (Score 1) 34

We have a fix for that, it's called earth bag. Or humorously, dirtbag :)

You put soil approximately suitable for rammed earth into sacks and then place them in courses with barbed wire between them, which provides tensile strength. The soil mix can actually be a bit more variable than rammed earth because of the sacks. If you use plastic bags they can't rot. You stucco or otherwise similarly cover the result to protect it from weather.

This tech lends itself to making both round and organic shapes. You can also use to just build walls. If you make the walls curve back and forth, they self-support. There's a photo of such a wall that was hit by a truck. Truck totaled, wall lost some covering (which was just troweled-on mud in this case) but was otherwise unaffected.

Comment Re:I always wonder why giant legos never happened. (Score 1) 34

Aircrete has great R-Value and you can make it with dish soap and a food additive. IIRC it's Xanthan gum. You could put channels for wiring into the blocks. (You could even just cast conduit into them.) You can get a lot of different outcomes with a fairly small selection of lego blocks...

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