Pretti’s death may have turned the tide. If he had fired his weapon or even unholstered it, that would not be true.

I share your pessimism. My answer had nothing to do with what might actually happen.

This isn’t the first time the US has done

“directly capturing a sovereign leader”

Or just a US revolution could work. We don’t have to kill everyone.

More importantly, the evil people running the petroleum industry are in fact old, but that is not why they are evil.

Evil people in positions of power tend to be old because a) it takes time to accumulate power, and b) folks with power tend to keep it till they’re dead. It’s just statistics - it doesn’t mean oldness causes evil.

Downvoted for ageism.

Biodiesel is a renewable liquid fuel.

And yet the democratic party remains the only one where progressives are able to have a voice and make a modicum of progress.

Also, I didn’t say anything about democrats, positive or negative, in my comment. OP was about republicans, so I commented about republicans.

You can’t hoard wealth and distribute it too.

The average republican is not super wealthy, of course, but they are manipulated and controlled by those who are.

or dials even!

Also deserts are not even nearly lifeless. A solar farm of the size needed would wipe out a lot of habitat.

Wow, hopefully that doesn’t get tampered!

omg I just watched all of that video and it is freaking great! What a revelation. I learned so much about how AI really works, even though that is not directly the subject.
Thank you!

Unfortunately there are a few too many young men who think that all looks “fun.” They’ve been playing at all those scenarios in video games their whole lives, and now they want the real thing.

I’m just so grateful that so many great scientists fled nazi germany. Also that those who stayed behind (this is controversial and not known for sure) hindered and delayed Germany’s nuclear weapons program.

Sure enough! Thanks, that was fun to watch again.

Isn’t that step two?

I feel like step one was “get a box,” but I could be misremembering.

Kill the aliens.

Srsly tho, it’s not about the tech they have or the 1000x power. Any jamming can be circumvented, and humans would have a much greater motivation to adapt than the aliens would.

I believe there is an ongoing feud among Linux kernel maintainers regarding moving to Rust. I don’t know much about it myself, but perhaps that is why OP thought this belonged here.

I’m mostly with you about the negativity being unwelcome here, but I just have to point out: Richard Stallman is a boomer. Boomers literally created Linux from whole cloth.

Ageism is also negativity. Please try to avoid it.