Generally, an officer starts with that first gold bar then moves on to the second, silver bar after finishing school (4 years). Sometime within 2 years after that they’re likely to move up again, and after that it becomes politics where it could be anywhere from 2 years to the rest of your career before another promotion depending on how much people like you

“autocorrect” AI glorified autocorrect…

Wait

To put it more generally, corporations are people when it’s good to be a person, but not when it’s bad to be a person

I usually have a coat of some sort on and just open it with my hand in my pocket

I’m with ya. Especially with the blatant kiss assery from these two companies to the government, this headlines reads to me as “Google and Meta have agreed to give Trump even more money so that they can add even more surveillance to their products”

I feel like this isn’t a reciprocal thing though. “Guy does good thing” /=/ “You shouldn’t question his judgement/his other ideas are also good. ” feels fair

However

“Guy does bad thing” = “You should question his judgement/his other ideas tend to also be bad” also feels fair

We have to assume that eventually we will win and someone will see to the justice. If you assume we’ve already lost then we have

The pope doesn’t like AI, brandished a sword and called people idiots. More at 11

Not the person you replied to, but I don’t imagine I’m the only one that would just say yes to this.

Considered “friendly” by Israel

Not by Israel, by the system in place for nuclear warheads.

The good system will magically discern…

The system doesn’t have to, the people do. And they’re quite good at it.

If you’re willing to spend the money…

You are absolutely right that resources would have to be moved around. This system, however, is not owned or controlled by a single country. How those resources would get moved around would be way above my pay grade

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1. The tightest missile defense system in the world in public knowledge
2. The actual system that is used for ICBMs wasn’t activated because these were considered “friendly” missiles by that system.

ETA: 3. Those missiles didn’t have nuclear warheads on them, so the good system wouldn’t have really cared even if they weren’t friendly

I think @DesertCreosote@piefed.blahaj.zone gave you a great breakdown, and I’ll add a little more.

I’ve worked with military technologies before. Unfortunately, I can’t give away many details for relatively obvious reasons. However, I can tell you with absolute confidence that in the case of a ICBM with a nuclear warhead being launched, there is a close to 0 chance it will ever land on Earth. In fact, ICBMs are almost entirely useless technology nowadays.

A nuclear warhead may also be delivered via plane, a la WWII. This too, is largely a nonissue. The odds of a plane getting deep enough into a country while carrying a weapon like that while under the level of surveillance that is currently going on are again, close to 0.

There’s a reason nobody has dropped any Nukes yet. It’s not because anyone is afraid of the consequences. It’s because it’s so close to impossible for it be an actual threat.

I have an undue sense of guilt when hearing about some particular war crimes.

I believe in a past life I spoke German. I think I was reincarnated in this way at this point in history to show me the other side of what was done. I’ll do better this time

I really agree. I let my partner try out my steam deck (immutable arch instead of Fedora, but ultimately the same experience. Flatpaks and easy updates). They fell in love with it, so I bought a second one for them. It’s been a year now, running it almost exclusively on desktop mode and using it as a Linux desktop.

I haven’t even shown them the terminal yet.

They’re not calling Rust unsafe. There is a memory safe mode and a memory unsafe mode in Rust, and this was built in unsafe Rust which allowed for the memory bug to be exploited

So… so are they. The new media has not yet been tested for 100 years because they were not invented 100 years ago

To keep an eye on pets

Trump is too stupid to even know what the Aryan Fist is.

Probably not wrong. He might know it as “the white power fist” which is the more common phrase in the US afaik.

My guess is he thinks he’s being iconic by mimicking the gesture he made when he was “shot” during the campaign.

I could see that too.

Which makes me all the more convinced that the entire thing was an act since everything Conservatives do is completely performative.

When was there any doubt that it was a false flag? Dude doesn’t even have a scar, let alone a bullet wound lmao

I don’t think he can raise his arm that high