EU should just order META split up as an illegal garbage monopoly.

I mean, we could just find them, target them with a Hellfire R9X and murder them where they stand doing next to zero collateral damage ...

I'm really shocked over everyone screaming over here, apparently defending telecoms selling your location data.
This is merely evidence of hyper-partisanship, in this case TDS, but yeah, Trump could cure cancer, and some people would become pro-cancer just out of spite.

Pedantic correction: Nebraska has a unicameral legislature thus cannot be a trifecta. Also how does Ohio fit in West?

there is no reason for ag engine makers to target California It is a massive market.
Not for corn. You don't replant almond trees every season, Plus California loves using people(typically migrant workers) to do the work of harvesting.

Stargate effectively had a single gimmick, the underdog vs incredibly powerful enemies and somehow winning. This resulted in a trope I called "Stargate Syndrome". The Underdog, in order to beat the uber-powerful enemy needs to become more powerful to defeat them, once this happens they need to create another, even more powerful enemy which the heroes need to become more powerful to defeat and then they need an even more powerful enemy to keep the series going, so on and so forth. SG1 started fighting fake gods with high tech and ended up with all the tech fighting almost literal gods.
Yes, power-scaling is a problem and the Stargate Syndrome was first seen in StarWars books(EU, now decanonized). It's why all of them involve Luke being taken out off screen, b/c a Jedi Master really solves a lot of conflict very easily. DBZ had the same problem once you defeat an enemy that can destroy a planet, the next enemy needs to be to destroy 2 planets, until it becomes a galaxy-wide threat etc. But the Stargate as a literary device, allowed for interesting examinations of what if and the human condition. I am surprised the current activists at Amazon did not see it as a great way to shoe horn in some political messaging w/ all the subtlety of a brick through a window.

Ukraine has already "gone to Moscow" with drones and missiles. They can hit targets over a thousand miles into Russian territory. Apparently they've also cut off Crimea. That's the actual target - not Moscow. No telling how long it will take for them to gain operational control of Crimea, but the groundwork is being laid now. Crimea is all but cut off from resupply, and now it's just a matter of starving out the Russians while picking away at their remaining defenses.
Drones and missiles don't hold land, the way armored columns do. As for Crimea, say the Ukrainian's retake it. That doesn't solve Russia's warm water port problem, so expect them to fight over it again. It's happened before.

Several years ago Ukraine was talking about going all the way to Moscow, so this isn't a new thing. They've always planned on winning.
As long as Russia has nukes, there will be no "Road to Moscow" moment with columns of enemy tanks driving to Red Square. The Russians remember what the Red Army did at the end of the "Great Patriotic War" and have no desire to see it visited upon them.

There are also paint types (the chemical used, not the colour) that are high reflective and drastically reduce ambient temperature as they absorb infrared light and reemit it as visible or ultra violet light.
That's quite a trick, perhaps I can use it to power my perpetual motion machine. B/c the usual trick is to capture higher energy photons and reemit lower energy photons.

How did you "just get" something that has yet to be released?
You saw the second part of the grand parent's post and you did not think they were lying? What part of " I am in Europe and our economy is not systematically being destroyed." rings true to you? Unless somehow the Russia-Ukraine conflict is over, the neo-caliphatists have returned home, and the greens have ended their suicide pact against industry.

They might be better off just closing Meta. It's an antisemitic Trash company run by a literal Neonazi.

Oh please. If the police know who it was, then they can find him at his home or workplace using the databases they already have. If he's hiding, then can also do a little more legwork and figure out his family and friends and search those places as well. You know, basic detective work.

If he's smart or paranoid enough to avoid all previous addresses and associates, do you really think he would be dumb or lazy enough to keep using his car with its original license plate?

Stop trying to justify Orwellian mass surveillance using cheap emotional "what if someone raped your mom?" arguments. What, did "think of the children" stop working for you?

Would you mind sharing a little more about what you learned from your experience setting this up? Was there a guide you found particularly useful, or things that you discovered on your own?

I have a couple old Raspberry Pi boxes lying around, and I wouldn't mind following your example if there are no issues with performance or high availability.

I like how his proposed solution for CEOs being distant from the last mile of work and thinking AI is a magic wand is to use AI even more.

Not "get to know the people working on the frontlines". Not "learn more about the things we're trying to automate". Not even "have a basic understanding of the business you're in."

Nope. Spend more time with the delusional AI.

On an unrelated topic, I've discovered that staying drunk all day is a great cure for hangovers.

This is tantamount to misinformation. The regime cut the Internet on January 8th. It was *never* turned back on for the general public. Iran started allowing some country-wide intranet only, with heavy censorship and *no* outbound communication (except for regime figures). There has been no way to communicate with people in Iran anytime since except (a) Starlink (illegal, extremely risky, and subject to jamming) (b) outbound telephone calls (monitored).

Because it started January 8th, it is clear the initial purpose is very different than this states. The protests themselves started in late December. The internet blackout corresponds with nothing else but the regime crackdown in which they murdered tens of thousands of Iranian civilians. The obvious main purpose has been to keep Iranians from sharing about the atrocities.

Is the war related? Of course. It has become only more important as Iran has sought to seize a diplomatic high-ground (or at least equivalency) to maintain full narrative control. And it is true there is an intelligence aspect as well, but more than cyber attacks (how is downing your *own* Internet a win there?) the concern is likely that the Iranian people have been happy to share information to help target the regime, as they did during the previous 12 Day War.

It is malpractice to quote "officials" - if those are indeed "Iranian officials" - and then offer their uncontested view, when they are the ones who blacked out the Internet specifically to be able to offer an uncontested view.