Soil is chemically unable to burn.

I’m going to cut to the chase and just say it: this is the press release equivalent of “well we’ll bomb you infinity plus one”. All it really says is that they have morale and will keep going.

Yeah, exactly. Why use your limited large munition stockpile.

Why would you waste a big rocket on something a small one could do, though?

They can also do the aiming, which is helpful if it’s a drone whizzing around. The operator just pulls the trigger.

It’s a big development, and will have a lot to say about how 21st century warfare works, but if you were expecting Terminator you’ll be relieved.

I can’t tell if they haven’t thought through what that would mean for them themselves, or they know it’s BS but it’s still good for marketing.

A really great recentish article on why, exactly, even if we have the connectome all squared away.

Depaywalled link.

Yeah. Surveillance is covered already.

Overkill. Just find the illegal no-age-collection ISO. Installing with your middle finger raised is optional, but recommended.

That’s the author’s opinion on what this means, anyway. I’ll have to try and actually read the study.

Of course, hiring depends on a whole lot more than AI productivity.

There’s many kinds, but yes.

I know canola has the lowest saturated fat of them all, which is also why it doesn’t smoke easily.

Maybe? It won’t stop them all, but the network effect also works in reverse - one teen leaves, and it’s less attractive to their friends. Hmm, I should check the latest from Australia.

Are you trying to tell us that a government designed entirely around surviving a US bombing won’t be easily dislodged by US bombing? Really?? /s

IIRC it’s still a bit cheaper than gas, but pretty close.

If exchange rates come into play it can of course get a lot more stark. Like, North Korea probably burns coal in anything humanly possible. They don’t have domestic oil, and forex to buy things is precious to them.

This would have worked way better centuries ago. Now, anything with a coast is a bit of a surprise bag.

Australia is far from England, and NZ is literally antipodal to Spain which is close, but they’re pretty English and not very Papuan or Indonesian.

Or they need employees to expand that AI integration, since management is obviously onboard with it. Or they literally just have hype and the economy is booming, and can hire because of it.

Unexpected. It’s probably down to who has investor money to spend on new hires, TBH.

If it lasts that will be WTF, because AI that does nothing should actually just leave hiring about where it is, and AI that does something should lead to layoffs.

Other plant oils are even better yet, if you don’t insist on the consistency. Except peanut, maybe? I forget.

Learn a second language and keep up with the language your parents speak. You will regret being a brat about not wanting to speak this language especially as your family members pass.

Languages are the one thing that gets harder as you get older. Kinda why immersion schooling seems like a decent idea, even if it delays other skills a bit.

Also, Peskov would like you to know water is dry.

American English is the most spoken kind and pretty close to British RP, so it’s not Quebecois. If you want a weird dialect, maybe Jamaican patois, or some of the ones from backcountry UK.