I am waiting for my trillion ruble note as a keepsake.

What do you want to bet the NSA has recordings of Musk’s phone calls? Probably the only thing preventing the feds from using these recordings would be they would have to let on they have this capability.

It’s not scientific racism, it’s racism justified by pseudoscientific bullshit.

How about BBSs? If you want to spam at 1200 baud, you had better be dedicated.

Soon to be the first Greased Priest.

So I have a LLM read a book and paraphrase its contents, that’s not stealing?

In other news: we have lawyers to protect our copyrights, you don’t. Suck it.

That’s a lot of wheels. I’d hate to have to inflate all those tires.

The only real question left in this war is: if Putin orders a nuclear strike, will he be obeyed?

Especially if you have a media empire that is useful to discredit those opposing your invasion.

Yup, this is really maximize shareholder value. I can totally see this teambuilding event doubling dividends. Wait? You said the company never pays dividends and rarely buys back its stock? Wow, I am really seeing those profits!

Does that mean Germany will have the exotic negative energy that makes constructing a wormhole possible?

Just remember, when it comes to baby Jesus, if you’re not first, you’re last.

Ricky Bobby approves.

The Russians have nuclear submarines. No amount of bellicose bravado will blunt the sting of those.

Nuclear war is a very real possibility. If Putin becomes desperate enough, he will try to go to the very edge of brinksmanship. In this situation, with launch on warning, any perceived provocation could rapidly escalate. As the fear of a preemptive strike increases, so does the probability of a preemptive strike. Rationality gives way to fear. This is the logic and danger of brinksmanship: that the more you rely on it, the more likely it is to escalate out of control before one side backs down.

This is Enron-scale manipulation. Someone’s ripping off the public and making a mint with the help of the regulators.

I guess they’ll have to shut down their bootstrap-pulling engines for awhile.

The outcome of the war in Ukraine has always been a game of chicken, being which side is willing to escalate to nuclear weapons, and whether the other side may or may not back down. The logic of escalation has always been that no possible gain exceeds the losses caused by a nuclear exchange. The Madman theory ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory ) is about convincing one’s opponent that is one is not rational, and is willing to use nuclear weapons despite the losses. The threat then, is that Putin, seeing himself politically vulnerable because of his losses, but still powerful enough to command the military to use nuclear weapons, would demonstrate his willingness to use nuclear weapons, even if not directly against a military target, in a demonstration (perhaps in the Black Sea) or an exoatmospheric test.

CAPTCHAs are solved by consensus. Whatever the CAPTCHA thinks a bicycle is depends on what people before it selected. Sometimes it doesn’t know and just uses your answer to set up future CAPTCHAs. So you should be thinking: what would other people (or bots) select for the CAPTCHA.