> And...why not just say 100 years for example? That would make the numbers even bigger. Why does it need to be 25?

Because about 25 years is the US's War on Terror, and most people aren't aware of the extend of the death it's caused.

> In order to get those numbers, you're having to make maximalist assumptions, and worse, they can't even be verified.

What maximalist claims assumptions? Are you claiming those or similar ones are not made when people quote for example Russian deaths or the number of deaths during Iran protests?

(On indirect deaths: "An estimated 3.6-3.8 million people died indirectly in post-9/11 war zones, bringing the total death toll to at least 4.5-4.7 million and counting")

> you're also counting figures that can't even be directly attributed to the US, and are probably better attributed to Iran.

In what way are they doing that?

> Just to give you an idea, I think it was something like 70% of IEDs were sourced from Iran.

Could you be more clear about how you think that affects things?

And how does that compare in numbers and destructive power of the over 325,000 bombs and missiles the US and its allies have dropped since 2000?

Including the one that tripped ...

Robots in Beijing half-marathon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

> How many Chinese people pick Cuba as a tourist destination?

Surprisingly a lot according to Google.

Why do you ask?

> what we need to survive is proteins, carbs, and fats. I feel like there's a fourth thing there but I forgot.

Me too, so I looked it up:

There's six with vitamins, minerals and water. And dietary fibre too, but it's not an essential nutrient.

> The problem is that as this happen and progress, we will be bind by legal agreement to supply this province or that state

In other words, for now there isn't as you said a need to "lurk back to Ontario and the USA and cry for energy that we need to buy back at crazy rate" and currently HQ is still making a large profit overall from it's sales and purchases of power from outside the province.

> and we will be fucked

That doesn't seem to be the case. The current reduction of power exports is because of below average precipitation in recent years, but they aren't expected to stay low and climate change models expect at least an overall small rise in average precipitations.

- https://www.ledevoir.com/actua...

- https://www.ouranos.ca/en/clim...

> What does Cuba have to offer China as payment for these solar panels?

Tourism: Despite recent declines due to international pressure and decreased visitors, tourism has long been the primary revenue generator.

Professional Services Exports: The government generates significant income by sending doctors and other professionals abroad.

Key Exports: In 2024, exports were led by tobacco ($418M), zinc ore ($107M), and nickel ($88.6M).

Key Industries: Petroleum, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology are also important industries for the economy.

- https://www.google.com/search?...

And GDP is over 100 billion.

- https://www.google.com/search?...

> We lost the control ... lurk back to Ontario and the USA and cry for energy that we need to buy back at crazy rate.

Do you have references?

From the following link, Quebec has only recently (~2024 / 2025) started to buy more power from outside than it's sold, and it looks like it's done so at a good profit:

"Hydro-Québec is now buying more power from outside the province than it’s exporting, a significant reversal from years past caused by a drop in its northern water reservoirs at a time of surging demand. The utility, Canada’s biggest producer of electricity, purchased about 10 terawatt-hours of power at a price of 5 cents a kilowatt-hour for the first nine months of the year, according to its latest quarterly report published Friday. It sold about 8 twh at 15 cents a kwh over the same time outside Quebec."

- https://www.theglobeandmail.co...

"Water cycles are unpredictable. After an eight-year period of high water inflows from 2013 to 2021, volumes in Hydro-Québec reservoirs have since decreased to below average levels, according to Pierre-Olivier Pineau, an energy specialist at Montreal’s HEC business school.

"It’s not surprising and we should not be alarmed,” Mr. Pineau said in an interview. “Markets and interconnections are there to balance supply and demand.”

"The sheer size of Hydro-Québec’s system and its storage capacity give the power producer flexibility in handling its reserves, exporting electricity when prices are high and importing when they’re low, Mr. Aucoin said. The company has generated more than $600-million in profit this way since January, part of the $2.83-billion in net income it reported for the first nine months of the year."

> That's what evolution is, the only question is how rapidly it occurs. Rapid evolution isn't a new discovery.

He's not claiming relatively rapid evolution is a new discovery. Abstract : https://www.science.org/doi/10...

The rate of useful change depends on a multitude of factors, one higher level concept is the idea of evolutionary rescue.

"genetic rescue vs evolutionary rescue" in google brought up some interesting information.

> Are they not the same company now?

Yes

"Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. is an American multinational entertainment company that was founded in 2010 following the merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster"

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

From the summary: "$1.7 billion in transfers to a network that was funding Iran-backed terror groups"

> Hamas, Hezbollah, al-Qaeda, ISIS ... I'm surprised that Slashdot didn't name the terrorist groups.

ISIS ?

"ISIS and Iran are staunch enemies. They are separated by deep ideological, religious, and political divides: Iran is a Shia-led power, while ISIS is a Sunni extremist group that considers Shiites apostates." - Gemini

"Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Deadly Bombings in Iran - The group, which has struck before in Iran, has a long history of division with the country" - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/0...

If I'm following the debate, it could work pretty well for Android and Apple phones, but on PCs a teenager could declare themselves an adult by reinstalling the OS or by installing a VM.

In other words, most minors probably couldn't impersonate an adult and the number of those that could would approach zero the younger they are.

> Both the article from mozilla [mozilla.org] and anthropic [anthropic.com] doesn't mention anything about a "test version of the browser", instead it specifically states the current/latest version of Firefox...

Right, those articles don't.

Claude found the bugs, and then tried to exploit 2 of them but...

"Anthropic’s team also asked Claude to build exploit code – the kind of tool a hacker would use to actually attack someone through a discovered vulnerability. While Claude did write two working exploits, it was only against a test version of Firefox. Firefox's real-world security defenses would have blocked both of them, according to Logan Graham, who leads Anthropic's Frontier Red Team — the group that tests Claude for potential risks." - https://timesofindia.indiatime...

So the summary's sources don't include all the information that could give us a clearer view of what's actually going on.

> "[T]hose deciding which age-based controls need to exist, and those enforcing them gain a tremendous influence on what content is accessible to whom on the internet."

Would that be avoided if there ways to make something like an adult setting at the OS level?

Are there ways to make that work reasonably well or at least better or with less problems that what's currently being used?

> Nope, I did the math. Jews stayed there for more time than the cumulative time spent by other ethnicities.

Seems to me a conclusion like that can only be based on a biased use of categories and math.

Are you including in your calculations claims taken from biblical stories ?

> For more than 2 thousand years those lands belonged to Jews.

For a bit more than that those lands belonged to other ethnicities ?

> That's the very high-level picture I got

Why stop there ? Why not take a higher view ?