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It is the US that has suddenly become unreliable.

Speaking of the UK and Italy, it is unlikely that they will give up on the F-35 at this point, given the huge investment they have already made on it. Much more likely that they will try to limit the use of US components on the future GCAP as much as possible.

I think it's related to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43200065

An interesting challenge for sex robot makers will be to leap beyond the uncanny valley. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

They could be preparing something different than kinetic weapons: https://breakingdefense.com/2024/05/is-russias-cosmos-2553-s...

It is likely due to one or both these lines:

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> a homemade solar system powered his lights, fridge and, in later years, his internet connection.

I would have liked more information on this. But clearly I can't expect many technical details from an article intended for the general public.

It is clear that the main cause of the disaster was the landing in the middle of the runway and at excessive speed. However, if instead of that concrete wall there had been, for example, an extension of the runway filled with some material that could help dissipate the kinetic energy, perhaps the death toll would have been lower.

I think the motivation is mostly strategic: the EU does not want to be dependent on US satellites or undersea cables that can be sabotaged by the Russians for its communications.

> so far the US hasn't started banning bidets.

Not really, but it looks like it will impose tariffs on other goods from the EU. [0]

[0] https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-warned-to-prepare-for-ear...

I sincerely hope it's not Broadcom. A 10x price increase would scare away a lot of customers.

Maybe you could just cut the wires. Surely the former tenant's contract does not oblige you to provide electricity and connectivity to those devices.

I think microwaves could be jammed too. The safest solution is probably to run the cables over the Øresund Bridge and the future Fehmarn Belt tunnel, and then continue overland to Finland.

It seems that Putin has indeed succeeded in rebuilding the USSR, but only on the economic side.

Some of those countries don't have nuclear weapons. What do they produce plutonium for?

> Microsoft?

It already owns Edge. I would rather bet on Meta or Amazon.

I am sure that Poland would be eager to develop a nuclear arsenal. Countries like Germany, Italy and Turkey could also easily develop one if they thought that the NATO nuclear umbrella was unreliable.

Sad to say, but it's true. The US wasted the opportunity that was created by the end of the USSR.

I suppose that credits earned at a North Korean university are not accepted by any other university. However, having lived in North Korea and having an insider's view of the country certainly has its advantages.

I can't help but agree with you.

It depends on what you mean by the British Empire today. If it is the countries whose head of state is the King of England, then you are right. If it is the territories ruled by the government of London (directly or indirectly), then neither Australia nor New Zealand, both sovereign states, are part of it anymore.

Perhaps things would have turned out differently if the UK had given British citizenship to the Chagossians instead of kicking them out of their islands. After all, this method worked in the Falklands.

As someone pointed out on Reddit, for the first time in centuries the United Kingdom will no longer be the empire on which the sun never sets.

Perhaps Mauritius could just create the second-level domain .io.mu and move all .io websites there.

Snap already tried this with Spectacles 8 years ago.

Just yesterday I finished reading Flying Blind by Peter Robison. A leopard can't change its spots...

I would bet UltraAV is some kind of Russian/Chinese spyware.

> property owners don’t want to confront uncomfortable facts.

This seems to be a constant around the world. Just look at how many towns have been built closer to Vesuvius than Pompeii: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=40.75&mlon=14.49

Side question: is .so another domain hack for software?