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US confirms no casualties from Iran’s attack on base in Qatar
  • they were still a party to NPT the entire time, and they didn't meet obligations of that treaty for over 20 years. NPT also includes inspections by IAEA

    say what you want, they can't unbomb Fordow so any discussions about future iranian nuclear program are pointless

  • US confirms no casualties from Iran’s attack on base in Qatar
  • ah yes, the completely civilian nuclear program that for last month+ was busy using up 5% enriched uranium (on upper range of enrichment in normal reactors) and 20% (usual in research reactors) to get 60% enriched uranium (no civilian applications)

  • US confirms no casualties from Iran’s attack on base in Qatar
  • neither. the same kind of propaganda activity targeted at iranian internal audience like after assassination of qasem soleimani. like in 2020, it's pretty obvious that trump takes this offramp

    but also, this time international response is wildly different

    in 2020: UK and Qatar called for deescalation, Saudis said they stand with Iraq, Turkey offered diplomatic support for deescalation

    today, Saudis, UAE, Qatar (obviously), Bahrain, Kuwait, (countries directly impacted) but also Oman, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, Lebanon, Turkey, Yemen (Aden) and Palestinian Authority all condemned Iranian strikes

    today also iranian proxies are much weaker, and we already know how incompetent their air defences were

  • Another Dumb Electrical Code Change Could Ban DIY EV Charger Installs
  • if it's permanently installed high power device, it only makes sense to wire it directly, like it's done with ovens, and EV charger draws even more power. why there's even plug on the way there? it's not gonna be moved anyway. and while we're at, why you people don't have three phase circuits for big loads like this? standard euro five wire three phase 32A circuit (or plug) gets you 22kW, that plug tops off at 9kW

  • ‘Martyrdom or Bust:’ Texas Man Caught Plotting Terror Attack Through Roblox Chats
  • bro tried to recruit jihadists in roblox (failed) and now screenshots from this all are a matter of public record 💀

  • Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users
  • *bong rip* you know what would make bots vanish* tolerable? eye-devouring shitcoin-based authentication scheme (illegal in EU)

    * the other people's bots, that is

  • G7 leaders: ‘Iran can never have a nuclear weapon’
  • it also helps if your air defense network doesn't collapse immediately because it turns out that in order to guard these nukes you need also regular capable conventional military

  • G7 leaders: ‘Iran can never have a nuclear weapon’
  • Yeah, who else. Nuking Dresden at that point would be useless

  • G7 leaders: ‘Iran can never have a nuclear weapon’
  • you don't have to choose a side and you can wish everyone involved a very nice visit to hague

  • G7 leaders: ‘Iran can never have a nuclear weapon’
  • either that, or nukes would be used first in korean war instead. imo it's a good thing that nukes were first used against the most cartoonishly evil fascist state imaginable at that point

  • Eliezer uses the tragic death of someone to smugly (and falsely) further his rhetoric
  • oh no what will we do, the open source leaded gasoline was released. the genie is out of the bottle, even if you ban it you'll still have people using it locally

  • Wake up babe, new "in this moment I am enlightened" copypasta just dropped
  • You don’t read books for that though. Does this person think books are just sequences of facts you’re supposed to memorise?

    I think i have something shaped like counterexample. Large literature reviews and compilations of data tables and such can work like this, and grepping them will get you a feel what is possible and a single practical example per, but even then you're supposed to read them in order to get not only what is possible, but also what is not (or at least what wasn't tested) and what fails and how and why. Actually reading through also gives you a bigger picture and allows for drawing your own conclusions ofc like you notice

    Don’t you ever read something and go “oh, I never even thought about this”, “I didn’t know this was a problem”, “I wouldn’t have thought of this myself”. If not then what the fuck are you reading??

    even then feeding them to chatbot is valleybrain nonsense because grep will be more than enough and much faster, and you naturally know what's inside only after reading it

    even then, just having right snippet is not enough because presumably result would be only apparent after testing irl, or perhaps building a model or simulation or what have you. even then, getting to the point where you need to do any of that requires degree of curiosity and ability to put information from different sources together that would exclude promptfondlers. it's like these people try on purpose to think as little as possible

  • Wake up babe, new "in this moment I am enlightened" copypasta just dropped
  • solzhenitsyn is pretty sus too, with all that him being orthodox fundamentalist, fan of tsar, panslavic antisemite, 2000s putin fan (died three days into russian invasion of georgia), proponent of enlargement of russia to include "sufficiently russified" parts of belarus, ukraine and kazakhstan and therefore opponent of ukranian independence; also

    Solzhenitsyn made a speaking tour after Francisco Franco's death, and "told liberals not to push too hard for changes because Spain had more freedoms now than the Soviet Union had ever known."

    In 1983 he met Margaret Thatcher and told her "the German army could have liberated the Soviet Union from Communism but Hitler was stupid and did not use this weapon"

    Regarding Ukraine he wrote “All the talk of a separate Ukrainian people existing since something like the ninth century and possessing its own non-Russian language is recently invented falsehood” and "we all sprang from precious Kiev".

    Solzhenitsyn was a supporter of the Vietnam War and referred to the Paris Peace Accords as 'shortsighted' and a 'hasty capitulation'.

    Solzhenitsyn was critical of NATO's eastward expansion towards Russia's borders and described the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia as "cruel" [...] Solzhenitsyn accused NATO of trying to bring Russia under its control; he stated that this was visible because of its "ideological support for the 'colour revolutions' and the paradoxical forcing of North Atlantic interests on Central Asia"

    (all from wikipedia entry on him)

    it's a little wonder that american altright embraced his writings

  • Bad brainwaves: ChatGPT makes you stupid
  • chatbots really are leaded gasoline for zoomers

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