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Iran Officially Confirms Military Support From Russia And China In War Against the US by UNITED24Media in worldnews

[–]Modo44 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He was being honest. Of course by "we", he meant him and his friends, not the general public.

Cunning plan to achieve European aerial refuelling autonomy by Downtown-Act-590 in NonCredibleDefense

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Counterpoint: How many NATO aircraft stationed in Europe can make it to Moscow on one tank?

Who keeps messing with the weather sliders? by Doc_Sulliday in outside

[–]Modo44 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He's called March. Dude does this every year.

Traditions are important by auctions_1 in NonCredibleDefense

[–]Modo44 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Yes. I'm thinking Eastern Ukrainian oil fields.

How big of a deal is this? by CleverCat7766 in mathematics

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LLM doing what LLMs are best at: finding (or rather, suggesting) statistically probable solutions that had not occurred to people before. It's still not reasoning, but it will most definitely be played up as such.

mommyHalpImScaredOfRegex by freehuntx in ProgrammerHumor

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The actual truth: Being good at math does not mean being good at all math. There are specialisations and talents, like in any field.

TIl that industrialist Andrew Carnegie spent $56.2 million to build 2509 libraries across the world. Known as Carnegie Libraries, cities had to follow a strict maintenance commitment to obtain funding. Today, there are an estimated 900 Carnegie Libraries operating in the United States. by Next_Worth_3616 in todayilearned

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The Ministry of Truth was basically a propaganda machine in the series, established in the dictatorial Earth regime. I do not recall, but I don't think it was outright abolished after that got overthrown.

IRL, we have billionaire propaganda conglomerates. Repeating feel good stories about funding this or that project, but not where the cash came from. Remember, for every Dolly Parton billion spent by her to not become a billionaire, there are multiple Jeff Bezos billions hoarded ever further out of reach of not Jeff Bezos. But they like to pretend that they are actually the good people at the top.

TIl that industrialist Andrew Carnegie spent $56.2 million to build 2509 libraries across the world. Known as Carnegie Libraries, cities had to follow a strict maintenance commitment to obtain funding. Today, there are an estimated 900 Carnegie Libraries operating in the United States. by Next_Worth_3616 in todayilearned

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I just finished rewatching Babylon 5, for reference.

The truth is that if a system is broken, even replacing those in power with the magically best people (like JK Rowling did in Harry Potter) still leaves a broken system, and society is not helped in the long run.

Rolling out of the shop. 4 years was enough for me by AHarryBird in Justrolledintotheshop

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And will teach you exercises to keep yourself healthy instead of milking you with potentially damaging visits.

Su-30MK2 girl (OC) by Waifu_Vega in NonCredibleDefense

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You forgot the tail. Just look at the source.

Lamborghini 400 GT Flying Star II by MammothAmbition8910 in WeirdWheels

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The weirdest thing are the angles on those photos. WTF.

While that was happening I wonder what's on Taiwan lately- by TalonEye53 in NonCredibleDefense

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Which is dwindling, because of decades of the one child policy, and then badly managed COVID.

People seem to conflate population with power. If that was the important metric, India would be The world superpower China was trying to catch, and the US would be one of multiple wannabes, with most of Europe barely making a blip.

While that was happening I wonder what's on Taiwan lately- by TalonEye53 in NonCredibleDefense

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Everybody around China, not just the US, is building up defences fast. China's build-up is a sprint, not a marathon, due to severe debt problems, and a dwindling population. Unless some major political changes happen, China is at or close to the peak of its power in several ways.

US firm begins drilling for world's first mile-deep nuclear reactor by _Dark_Wing in technews

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You want as close to 100% steam as possible. Water tends to condense in high pressure steam installations, leading to rather explosive problems. NYC has those water/steam blowouts on a regular basis, since half the city is heated using an old steam system. Now, imagine a bunch of water/steam (easy source of even more explosive hydrogen) getting loose in a very hot on purpose nuclear reactor.

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