Yes, but compared to smart bombs or missiles they are cheap.

If Russia wants to commit suicide and play Fallout IRL they can do that yes.
All the nukes from the west are guaranteed to work. Russia's? Doubtful considering how badly their army was 3 years ago.
Nukes need to be maintained every 15 years! The chance that that actually happened and the higher ups did not pocket the money, is not that big.

Most of the last ICBM's they launched did not even make it off the launchpad before failing. And their bombers: well Ukraine destroyed a decent portion of them.........

You seriously should stop looking at Russia Today.
That is purely propaganda.

Currently have a project going using Python scripting in Blender using scipy.optimize.differential_evolution and Cycles rendering to optimize the shape of a reflector to match a desired light distribution pattern. It's not a perfect tool for the job, but it seems to be pretty accurate.

Do you have a reference for that? All I've seen is visas for the ultra-rich.

Besides, since trump has been happy to cancel student and work visas for people who say things he doesn't like, more visas would not help.

Both can be true, actually. As an aside, Russia truly lost in Ukraine in the first six weeks; most of their goals failed. Even if they were to take all of Ukraine, it would be so Pyrrhic as to not be a "win".

But, for the two statements: First: Russia cannot win in Ukraine. "Winning" is defined by history. There are lots of ways to end the war that will have Putin apologists claiming 100% victory, the best victory, everyone walks up to him and talks about his great victory, he's so powerful! So Russia is unlikely to take large amounts of Ukraine now; they have already taken the easy parts and are stuck on the medium parts. But if you change the "win" condition, he can easily win just by claiming victory (and having enough gullible fanatic to parrot his lines).

Second: Russia (well, Putin) will not want to stop at Ukraine once he declares victory and finds a few more Georgian votes. That seems likely, but he may have to stop, since Russia's military and economy is in terrible shape (as always happens after a long war). Putin is old, his allies in Russia are unhappy with the war, and his ability to wage war is far less than it was before he invaded.

The rebuttal first says:

then:

Spoken like a true group loyalist.

And a lot of the building of those plants are replacements for older, more inefficient plants.

Or more simply: on rooftops.

Same problem in The Netherlands but only because our grid didn't keep up with the changing time. Incompetent government.
So locally we have too much power, while the fossil plants are still running.

As others have said, Thread is IPv6 so it is theoretically addressable from the Internet (though current border devices don't allow that). But since "protected subnet" is not the primary security mechanism for Matter, we'll likely avoid Skynet Over Thread.

If I understand you, you believe that IoT is the biggest threat on the internet? Uh, no, the internet has way worse threats. And you think that I hurt your security by installing them?

So, I think that you are terrified of things you don't understand, and "things you don't understand" includes most technical issues. So, you screech and whine loudly about those things. "Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand". Also "those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves." And Thread is not even in the top 20 current issues covered by that song...

Sounds good. Thread is available for anyone and is a mesh, so the more you deploy, the healthier the network becomes. Matter gives actual security, not "you can't easily get to the network so we assume it's safe". And it all works locally, without needing to talk outside your house. Plus, matter + thread controllers/routers are available in all Amazon/Apple/Google controllers, so you don't need Yet More Random Devices to make things work.

If you don't want smart devices in your house, no worries. Please stop moaning and whining every time they are mentioned; we know. And the world has so many real problems that we don't have the bandwidth to listen to problems solved by "well, I won't install any and I'll shut the fuck up." But if you do want convenient control over your house, and are willing to trade off some security for some functionality, this is an improvement.

Same thing with any other computer.

The Vision Pro shouldn't be marketed as a virtual reality headset. Because that's not what it is.

It should be marketed as an all-in-one computer with a virtual monitor. And as such, it should be updated every 1-2 years with faster hardware and more memory, just like every other desktop and laptop computer.

If you didn't have an interest before in eating tinamou, why would you develop one just because some company makes them big?