A nuclear arsenal to prevent certain countries from just randomly invading?

Got to hand it to them though, they’ve done a fantastic job of hastening European re-armament and ultimate independance from the US.

3D artist here, generative AI models are great at making work that looks super impressive while being completely unuseable for most applications, I suspect this is what most tech workers find too.

I think we’re past profitable mattering at this point, even if the next model of chatGPT causes your eyes to bleed after prolonged use they’ll make it profitable by forcing its use anywhere and everywhere no matter how inappropriate it is for any given application.

We’re already there with some products like cars and phones where we just get told what to want and ignored if we disagree.

I’d say they’re hemorrhaging hard power too, the US strategy was always to immediately establish air dominance and then win from there, but it turns out that step 1 kinda just doesn’t work against people armed with more than old toyotas and tents. I’d still bet on the US to win if they just wanted to flatten some place but I’ve got serious questions on their ability to achieve a non-phyric victory against any near-peer after this display.

I think even with solar, wind, tidal and perfect grid storage nuclear is still worth investing in, simply because its a useful technology to have in some space travel applications, in some cases even more useful than fusion power would theoretically be.

Everyone hates getting stuck because it turns out that one tech from half the tech-tree ago was mandatory for progression.

‘To get your boy home in a box’ fits the tempo better I think.

This reminds me of the fall of multiple fictional empires that had rested on their laurels building overpriced wonder weapons that turned out to both too few in number and not all that wonderous when taken out of a white room and exposed to real battlefield conditions.

Didn’t he already partially do that? He also appears to be letting Russia (and no one else) through the blockade to sell oil to Cuba.

I’ll switch to legacy systems before I pay for a subscription service.

Externalized cost = free
As far as any and every large company is concerned anyway.

This is honestly one of the scarier parts about the rhetoric, they’re basically implying they would happily enslave a sentient being.

Strong magnet or some kind of taser on a long stick, ez takedown.

I’ve been thinking about this lately in regards to how shitty food is getting, with shrinkflation a lot of stuff now has smaller portions sizes but the calorie count usually remains the same, presumably due to adding more sugar to mask the taste of replacing ingrediants with cheaper alternatives, fresh produce isn’t spared either as most meat and vegetables turn a lot sooner and are sometimes already beginning to turn the same day you buy them. The result is a decreasing ability to have more than a day or twos worth of fresh ingrediants on hand and frozen food (or worse) just getting simultaniously less health and less filling.

transactional? that implies the US has provided anything in return (to any of its allies) for the last decade.

Nah chat GPT is just a verbal mirror, so the idiot puts his complete lack of legal knoweldge in and gets a complete lack of legal knowledge out.

I just realised that the tankie point of view may be described as thinking countries should get what they deserve based on past wrongs regardless of how many people get thrown into the meat grinder due to the current reality.

And the rise in oil prices and removal of sanctions is pulling the russian economy out of the gutter while simultaniously drawing away air defence that would have otherwise been given to Ukraine (either directly or through European purchases)

I can’t tell if this is a moment from your real life or a bit of creative writing about a dystopian future.

A completely pragmatic soultion with minnimum effort to implement and no R&D cost? Sounds completely useless for generating value for shareholders.