Echo Dot @ echodot @feddit.uk

Posts

1

Comments

9,374

Joined

2 yr. ago

European universities have always been prepared to take in talented American academics who feel that they are being suppressed in the United States. This has been going on for a long time. Particularly in genetics where the US tends to be quite oppressive due to fear of the religious right.

If the United States had to be summed up in one word that would would be "overconfident".

The level of arrogance that the US government has about its military simply based on its size is profound. Military size would be a highly relevant factor if your enemy was expected to engage on your terms. However for some reason this tends not to be the case and you end up spending the entire war defending your flank.

Look at Iraq, the US government sent thousands and thousands of troops in only for them to huddle in fortifications afraid to go out because of homemade explosives. Why didn't the massively superior US military simply shoot the enemy combatants. Oh yeah that's right because they couldn't find them because the insurgents decided not to engage the US in direct combat. End result, essentially complete defeat.

My cousin works as a geologist for a mining company and I've seen the conditions that they have to work in. Often in highly unstable areas with active militia trying to kill them. They have metre thick concrete walls around the perimeter and armed guards. Inside it's like a small city, and every single person there needs to be there there is no one who's playing tourist.

Trying to do that in the Arctic is an insane proposition. Concrete doesn't set well in the cold, the roads are clogged for much of the year, and most industrial mining equipment is extremely sensitive and doesn't work if it's out of temperature range, or if it's too windy, or if you sneeze on it.

Obviously America attacking Greenland would be devastating to global stability but it would almost be worth it to watch the absolute disaster that would be the attempts at resource extraction. It's just like with Venezuela, no one is actually interested in attempting resource extraction other than Trump. The amount of upfront investment and technical hurdles to overcome are enormous and any profits (assuming there are literally any) are a decade or more away. Unless Greenland is harbouring a otherwise undisclosed vain of diamonds wrapped in 24 carat gold then I can't imagine it's going to happen.

Supporting the Trump admin is like the least egregious thing FIFA has ever done.

What does that look like?

Because they always end all of these rants about how unfair it all is with. But I'd still vote for trump.

It's not like they are genuinely reaching out trying to be better people. They admit no fault they admit no wrongdoing they just want everybody else to make it not be happening for them. They are not little kids they don't get to pretend that their own decisions have no bearing on reality.

If China has managed to do something that scientists genuinely thought was impossible why are there several nuclear fusion research facilities all over the planet? If it's impossible that seems like a bad use of resources.

I think maybe that scientists thought it was entirely possible, and that's why they were trying to do it.

I've played enough Battlefield to know that a war in a oil field is nothing at short of spectacular.

When my cat sees a bird he goes low to the ground, because he knows that's what you're supposed to do, and then shuffles awkwardly towards them. Usually they fly off and he looks relieved.

It's impossible because Trump keeps doing things it can still be 3:00 in the morning over there and he'll do something. All Europe seems to have is the Germans, and they keep posting in their weird secret language.

I'm starting to see how he managed to bankrupt the casino. It's because he won't stop committing pointless crimes that don't in fact benefit him in any way.

Even if Trump hangs around as a dictator there's still no point investing in Venezuela. It's not as if there is even a global oil shortage so why would you want to build more infrastructure.

So when he was on air force one and said that he'd spoken to the oil companies before the invasion. That was obviously a lie.

Is brain really is mush isn't it.

Oh I kind of assumed he died.

It's like all those times people try and claim that Coca-Cola can dissolve teeth and is therefore really bad. Ok, then let's do a control test where you do the same thing with other drinks, including freshly squeezed orange juice, milk, and gin.

Because the thing is I know for a fact that the tooth will dissolve in the orange juice and the milk but not in the gin. So I guess gin is good for you then.

Stupid experiment, stupid conclusion

I had it in my head that he had cancer. And blamed that on McDonald's.

I remember trying to set up an Instagram account ages ago and not being able to do it because the app didn't work on Android. Gave up after that.

My parents are constantly getting signed out of their various websites. I don't know how they manage it, because they are definitely not deleting their cookies I doubt they even know how.

Why do weird tech issues always occur to the most technologically incapable people

I wouldn't get too excited just yet. Currently basically nothing runs on it, even most Linux kernels don't support it. I'm sure that will change in the future when CPUs become available.

I don't think it's the consumer market because I've seen basically nothing with that system architecture. Actually that's not true I know of one product that uses RISC-V, and that is a development board that you can drop into a Framework laptop chassis. Which is the development purposes only in barely works.

I have not seen anything marketed as just a general device that uses RISC-V chips.