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MachineFab812

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  • Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman

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  • ... but its not? Literally, the "harder" part about making a bomb with reactor-grade material is keeping it from blowing-up prematurely, while still getting maximum yeild at boom-boom time.

    A less-advanced nation might get a lesser explosion out of a "safer"(doesn't explode until its supposed to) bomb with reactor-grade material, but its still going to be a massive, nuclear explosion, and the unspent fuel creates additional radio-active fallout.

    Apparently, civilized-countries' worst nightmare regarding weapons-grade plutonium is that those that "shouldn't" have "the bomb" could build them and then be able to shelve them for a later, legitimate threat. Oh, and not being able to cry "they built a dirty bomb!!" if such were ever used.

  • Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman

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  • Apparently, the opposite is the case. Funny story, when making a bomb, blowing up during construction, storage, or delivery to the target is an un-desirable trait.

  • Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman

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  • Indeed, and trusting the US to protect allies from invasion was a bad call. The leap from "perhaps US allies should up their defense spending to what it should have been all along, plus a temporary bonus to catch-up/modernize" to "pre-emptive attack and iron-domes for everyone should be on the table" is both eroneous and wasteful.

    Don't encourage countries to bankrupt themselves buying solutions that are sold mostly by the US - thats exacly what my government would love best to enrich defense contractors and justify continued record spending, plus more meddling, I promise.

    "Treat x as an attack that requires immediate action, you can't afford to make rational long-term decisions today" is the hook-line-and-sinker CIA/fascist narrative, always has been.

  • Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman

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  • "Weapons grade" is actually more stable and less prone to blowing up without constant management, who knew?

    Nothing-burger.

  • Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman

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  • You've got it backwards. Weapons-grade is more stable. Less stability is fine for reactors, because they are designed to manage the reaction on an on-going basis and not, in general, blow up.

  • Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman

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  • That's what we've been trying to tell the world about Iraq, Iran, North Korea, and even Cuba. That last one's strategically debatable, but for the rest "we should treat it as an attack" was a lie then.

    Its no more or less of a lie now. Encouraging other countries to embrace reactionary foreign policy is no more of a good idea than following the US' lead on the matter.

  • Meta denies torrenting porn to train AI, says downloads were for “personal use”

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  • If you or I can be held responsible for such activities from our homes, why give google an exemption?

    It would depend on jurisdiction of course, many of us live places that will give us(with help of a lawyer...) a bit of an out for guest wifi or TOR exit nodes, but ultimately, you know google is going to settle for little more(or less) than it would have cost them to buy these works at retail, whereas you or I would also get slapped with thousands of dollars extra(per item?) in fines and legal fees.

    They can afford to pay for the porn, but they chose to go the "we shouldn't have to because its smut" route, and not bother trying to say their employees are responsible for downloading random books/movies/whatever for personal use. Do they get to use this out for CP?

    Also, unlike you or I, they have logging in place, such that they know which employees did what. Not saying they should name-and-shame, but they could(and should) easilly eat the cost and pass it through to those employees, whether it also comes with HR disciplinary action ornot.

  • Meta denies torrenting porn to train AI, says downloads were for “personal use”

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  • Doesn't/shouldn't work for their liability either. Vocabulary fail on my part.

  • Meta denies torrenting porn to train AI, says downloads were for “personal use”

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  • Where did they get the idea that that's a more respectable response?

    EDIT: Doesn't/shouldn't work for their liability either. Vocabulary fail on my part.

  • Texas sues Tylenol company over autism claims

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  • I hope they bankrupt the fucking state of Texas. Someone should sue him for wasting taxpayer money. Toss-up on whether I feel bad enough for progressive &/or sensible Texans to care how those two thoughts play-out.

  • Police officer in Greece suspended for transporting fridge in patrol car

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  • Narrowly avoided a downvote by way of a decent pun. Upvote for the username. jodblesamen🙏

  • Police officer in Greece suspended for transporting fridge in patrol car

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  • Okay, but was it for their home, a friend, their boss, a government office or workspace? Was any harm really done? Was the fridge really unsecured during transport?

    It always amazes me how little the context of what a group with a bad rep is willing to act on matters when they think they've found an excuse to look like they hold themselves accountable with transparency.

    Accountability and transparency should be so much more than a scapegoat, a couple paragraphs, and a picture that doesn't even show the whole fridge/vehicle.

  • Is this seat taken? Gang arrested over theft of 1,000 restaurant chairs in Spain

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  • Every time I think of a stupid theft/security scenario, I find it has been done worse, at a ridiculous scale, and my reasons for not just taking what I want boil down to mostly laziness. Why yes, I'm white, why do you ask?

  • Gotta catch ’em all: Man under Customs probe for not declaring over $30k of Pokemon cards at airport

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  • Thus the confusion in my first comment. Governments play at least as fast and loose with their own rules as this dude did, and you're right, its stupid the article doesn't mention it at all.

  • Gotta catch ’em all: Man under Customs probe for not declaring over $30k of Pokemon cards at airport

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  • I read the article.

  • Gotta catch ’em all: Man under Customs probe for not declaring over $30k of Pokemon cards at airport

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  • Not that he's not reselling them, but paying a 9% tax for every single item you posses beyond $500 in value every time you cross the border is just absurd. Remind me to never take my laptop, phone, or a decent camera anywhere near Singapore.

    All that aside, I thought the idea of customs and import duties was versus new items, not things that can be picked-up at a second-hand store or pawn shop. If he provided itemized receipts, would they even believe him if the prices weren't high-enough? ... or were "too old"?

  • Health Secretary Kennedy, Trump link circumcision to autism through Tylenol

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  • I wouldn't know, but I hope you're right, categorically.

  • Health Secretary Kennedy, Trump link circumcision to autism through Tylenol

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  • Your question is the kind of thing I expected to find out with my own comment, but the answer barely matters when it comes to whether they will take action or not. Either way its their product originally, something they invented/discovered.

  • Health Secretary Kennedy, Trump link circumcision to autism through Tylenol

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  • I agree they have grounds, but I was approaching it from the angle of if they would bother, or need to for that matter.

    Trump is as friendly with big pharma and the big corpbrations as any politician - behind closed doors he'll likely say or do anything to keep them happy, and they know it. Their lawyers may contact his lawyers, but we'll likely never hear of it unless both sides decide to leverage legal/political theater to their mutual benefit somehow, at the taxpayers/consumers' expense.