I saw these. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

XD

I wish i had mod points.

I am supposed to quit the country. Now i will have to leave by boat ! Well, at least less risk of TSA or ICE.

I think this is the beginning of a long process.

They are close to a nuclear threshold, but do not talk yet of building their own deterrent. But they talk openly of needing a nuclear deterrent. which is IMHO how they prepare their public for what might come next.

They know they U.S.A. Is not reliable anymore.

(For the dunces who do not read serious newspapers, unhinged tariffs= economic war = not an ally at all. Retards at the U.S. government= not funny at all = decapitated head of military staff = U.S.A. Not able to fight long wars for lack of a competent brass in charge, etc... What matters is their perception, not ours.)

So they need their own deterrence. It would not be the first time they have someone else's nuclear weapons on their soil. But my guess it that "nuclear talk" is a way to slowly introduce the Japanese public to the idea that they must be ready to build their own nuclear deterrent quickly if an urgency arises. Besides the nuclear aspect, military alliances are reshaping in the region to face the loss of trust in the U.S.A.

It is fascinating that most of the American public, even the part that passes for more or less left are not at all aware of this. There is no "going back to normal after the midterms"

Southern hemisphere, there are already the ELT and the GMT being built there.

The TMT is supposed to observe the north. Canary Islands thus make sense even if less ideal than Hawaii.

I do not claim you are lying but in many cases these kind of incidents have been traced to Russia. Entirely possible the current Trumpanzees might have learned from the Russians.

Far-right in Europe exploiting this is a problem but on another hand Europeans are becoming less and less naïve and indecisive in front of destabilization attempts.

Yes, scientific conferences are being either cancelled or see half attendance for more than a year now. They move to Asia and Europe. People disappear entering the US legally. Some people have wound up dead. Some have been jailed for social media posts. And being European and relatively rich doesn't protect you. Even the Ig Nobels have moved outside the USA because some winners refused to come fetch their prizes. Too dangerous.

Besides, it has been way more than a year it is official policy for public researchers of some EU countries to have the same instructions to go to the US than going to China.

- Buy a blank computer with zero data on it.
- No phone
- Once at your hotel, download your data from the cloud
- You can buy a local phone if you desire.
- Go to conference
- After the conference, discard the computer and the phone if you bought one.
- Cross the border empty-handed.
- And before all, consider if a travel to the USA is absolutely necessary

These ones come from French researchers. As i said, it is official policy.

Besides, i heard Honolulu is overrated. ;)

When i am at it, a friend of mine working in Germany has moved from the Automobile industry to the defense industry. One of the entry conditions was to be:

- Citizen of a NATO country
- NOT a citizen of the United States

And i have already been told shedding my double nationality would not be enough for some defense related work. The simple fact i have lived several years in the US seem to be a liability for some.

It is hardly surprising if you open a newspaper from time to time.

The teens will continue to use them, we knew it in advance.

But as long as they are not supposed to be there, it is more difficult to sell adverts for them. So there is less point in designing products to get the next generation addicted. And if the government notices addictive content is still targeting the teens, it is now more easy to effectively ban it. Advertising companies (that's what social media are) cannot argue thee are deprived of a legitimate market since that market has been outlawed.

But, yes, outlawing would have been enough. Age control tech is pointless and a slippery slope.

In Sweden, in the past, they had banned advertising targeted at children because adverts could influence the children, go figure. Because they thought influencing the kids was not desirable. I think it is the kind of measure we should tend to. With some flexibility.

Your four examples are quite awful jobs. Who in hell would want to become that ? (I had a friend at uni whose parents were both social workers, they had not chosen their field. They suffered a lot from the fact that social work is usually about not helping people and often keeping their heads down and dispatching the people in duress towards the jobs nobody wanted, also because most students were morons to the point of being embarrassing and tiring.)

Aren't these kind of controversial degrees the specialty of bullshit private universities ?

I mean, even serious universities have mediocre to outright bullshit degrees, but they try to stay into socially established degrees. They want the money bad students bring without being too obvious, and they make a balance between the money it brings and the reputational cost. The communication degree of my Alma Mater had an atrocious reputation, but degrees in communication were common so in that regard they could argue we were not worse than the others.

So i am surprised this come from a state university. But i obviously know very poorly the US university ecosystem. The Americans i work with have very classical background.

Such concepts are *never* objectively defined. They are defined by consensus. Several consensuses can compete in a given period. For example who is considered centrist will yield a different result in France or in the United States. You have to know those LLMs are from the US so it is the American consensus you must refer to.

As far as i know, they still are in my Alma Mater. Sometimes you would be allowed a non programmable pocket calculator. The only thing where you could use AI would be a few visit reports left and right but the risk of being caught would be high and you'd get a zero. Even the lab reports were handwritten at the lab, before the end of the lab activity.

I am surprised by the leniency of those universities. They must take an insane amount of money from the parents of these "students" to tolerate such blatant and ridiculous cheating and the reputational damage they will suffer.

In my younger years, in Brussels, the punishment for cheating depended on the faculty. My engineering school would flunk your entire exam period which means if you were in your final exams you would automatically flunk your year. No more, no less. The science faculty would be much more radical, they would transmit your file to the central administration of the university and you would be expelled for life from the whole university. No arguing, no second chance. The communication section, which was part of the "philosophy and letters" faculty at the time totally tolerated cheating and often didn't even read the memoirs and graded at semi-random. Being a girl with pretty legs helped a lot with the grading.

That's why i buy my games on GOG. For example. Unless computers and mass storage disappears, there will be backups for a long time. Music is also buyable. For the rest: The high seas.