i like how on lw there’s a comment saying exactly the same thing but 5x more verbose

so, a trebuchet?

with wood, the problem was with lignin which is tightly crosslinked, meaning that it’s insoluble and organism willing to eat it has to secrete some enzymes to break it down in smaller bits that can be absorbed

depending on plastic, this first step might be easier or even happening on its own. there are already bacteria that feed on nylon but nylon starting materials are easier to digest for them

damn, a clanker pretending to be a human. humans read entire words at once, and this includes numbers, length and first digit already give some indication of magnitude

no joke, he wants to live forever, he’s into cryonics and wants to test some random ass not-yet-meds on people to that end (see his anti-FDA stance and enhanced games)

it’s like leaded gasoline for internet - it makes people stupid and aggressive, kids are hit the worst by it, fallout will be felt for decades, cleanup might be hard to impossible, and ultimately it’s a product of corporate greed. except even leaded gasoline solved some problem

it’s also like gambling as in hook model. it’s like cocaine in that it has been marketed to managerial class as a status symbol of sorts

if you’re being invaded, then killing aggressor side soldiers solves very practical problem of getting invaded by them

unless you’re saying that the ethical thing to do is to keel over and die in this situation

comrade xi, please nuke the valley

llms allowed them to glide all the way to the point of failure without learning anything

yeah lol ez just 3dprint polypropylene polymerization reactor. what the fuck is hastelloy?

Live in the forest ig. Some defect to Ukrainians, there are flyers and websites and telegram channels for that, but hard to say how many choose so

nukes, that was just paper thin disguise

couple kg went for fuel fabrication for teheran research reactor, but that’s couple tens kg out of low tons

They could just buy enriched uranium directly

they did buy enriched uranium for their only nuclear power reactors in bushehr npp from russians, and didn’t use their own enrichment facilities to make fuel for it

looks like there’s either downvote brigade keeping critical comments at +1 or 0, or reddit brigading countermeasures went on in defense of wittle promprfondler

trump and netanyahu have their sons (?) that do that job for them (on twitter mostly ig)

it either was, or wasn’t, so 50%

it’s a legit thing even if we don’t know how exactly it works

reverse dust specks: how many LWers would we need to permanently deprive of access to internet to see rationalist discourse dying out?

well, i see a large category of infrastructure problems (that will be 99% civilian use anyway - and not only transport, also telecomms, you can even put healthcare training in there) that is solvable by pouring money at them, and now it’s politically convenient to let it rip even among pro-austerity neoliberals. if you want an example of what can this do, look at eastern eu countries and how they changed after funding went in

which ones? germany has government spending at 48% of gdp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_government_spending_as_percentage_of_GDP so 5% of gdp for defense will be closer to 1/10 of all government spending

going by 2024 numbers, russians putting third of government spending to defence would be closer to 13% gdp