In this case, I’m a spaceflight fan, so I like talking about the topic. Also, I don’t do it for this specific poster, its clear they didn’t even read the article or understand it, but for other that may be thinking the same vague question (because of a flawed premise) that this poster did.
Wouldn’t it make more sense for Brazil to send up their own satellites with rockets that are already capable
I’m assuming you mean “rockets that are already capable” from other nations? Brazil already does this.
than to waste time, money, energy and
Brazil isn’t wasting any money. This is a South Korean company launching a South Korean satellite from Brazil. In fact, Brazil is benefiting financially, which could, to your original point, feed more people because they have the money from these launches.
hurt the environment by trying to launch their own?
Funny enough, launching from places like Brazil is actually less environmentally damaging than launching from the USA, China, or Russia because this Brazilian launch site is on the equator, meaning less fuel is needed to launch from here than other nations with spaceflight programs. This geography is why Europe’s launch site is also pretty close by in French Guiana.
So if your concern is less environment impact, you would want MORE of the worlds rockets to come from here.
I’m not saying Brazil doesn’t need to launch a satellite, I’m saying they don’t need their own rocket program.
As already stated, this isn’t a Brazilian rocket, nor a Brazilian rocket program.
I already addressed that. There are more problems that humanity needs to solve that spaceflight can address.
They don’t need more.
How do you know? Feeding people isn’t the only problem facing humanity, and its not only problem spaceflight can address.
On the downside, Energy Dome’s facility takes up about twice as much land as a comparable capacity lithium-ion battery would. And the domes themselves, which are about the height of a sports stadium at their apex, and longer, might stand out on a landscape and draw some NIMBY pushback.
This is surprisingly good! I would have figured it would have taken far more than twice the land than a Lithium battery solution.
yeah, sure thing buddy. the CO2 will be in a closed loop until it won’t. just like Fukushima and Chernobyl were supposed to be closed loop systems, until they weren’t. disasters happen, no matter how much the techbro mindset insists that they’re impossible.
So you concern is the ecological impact should this bubble fail and the entirety of the CO2 is released to the atmosphere as pollution? Did you even read the article? They discuss that.
First, a full on failure would be rare. Then, a full on failure of 100% loss of the closed loop CO2 is equivalent to 15 round trip flights of a jet flying from New York to London. To put it in perspective there about 250+ flights of this length per day from London, with many being much much farther.
So you’re comparing the impacts of a once in a lifetime nuclear power plant failure to the impacts of another source 1/16th of something that already happens every in one airport. Your logic is why out of whack on this if this is your concern with the bubble.
I was thinking about much larger scale bubbles in “unwanted” geological depressions such as old open pit mines or rock quarries. The depression in the ground might offer more protection allowing it to scale up higher in volume.
Your internet traffic is already encrypted in transit, that what the “s” in https means.
You don’t get the “s” until you have the “https”. Your DNS request which turns www.TheWebsiteYouDoNotWantKnown.com into its IP address happens before you have the “s” in “https”. By default, that request is sent in plaintext, and frequently by default, to your internet service provider. So an outside monitor may not be able to see the contents of the website once you establish your https connection, they likely know that you went there and have a good idea how long you stayed on it.
While its also possible to encrypt the DNS request with DoH or DoT, its not on by default and requires the user to take configuration actions in their browser. If they’re looking at VPNs for the first time, they likely don’t know this and are sending their DNS requests in the clear.
Spaceflight helps feed people.
So no, then. Because even if they were told that (and I don’t doubt you that happens), that recruit knows they’re talking to a uniformed US military recruiter and is actively engaging they are discussing joining the US military. They also know the US military has a long history of fighting hot wars. Any possible recruit the recruiters are talking to grew up with 14 years of Afghanistan war on the news.
This is nothing like being told you’re going to be a body guard of an oil company exec or pop star engaging in civilian activities in another country, which is how it sounds like these folks were sold on joining.
You must be fun at parties…
The guy at no time said US was the same as Russia. He simply said the shitty tactics in recruitment by lies is similar.
If he (and consequently you) are going to be vague about your definition of your definition of the word “tactics”, then you’re going to elicit a response that can assume the worst. The tactics specifically called out here in the article are about Russian operatives employing locals in another nation to recruit front line fighters under false pretenses in yet another nation. Thats a tactic. That’s the prime differentiator as to why this article is news.
He simply said the shitty tactics in recruitment by lies is similar.
Nothing about those tactics is similar to the way the US operates. Then you have this poster making a statement which can largely read they are accusing the USA of the same thing. It doesn’t help that the person you’re talking about is a “.ml” user whose lemmy instance has a long history of defending Russia.
Military recruiters in the states lie all the time about work, benefits, and so on to young people and then when they get shipped out to wherever.
Then OP needed say THAT, instead of his vague statement. Military recruiters aren’t lying they are recruiters nor are they lying they’re recruiting for the armed forces to fight wars.
Young people these days…
Just because someone disagrees with you doesn’t mean they’re young.
You’ve heard private companies offer foreign nationals VIP bodyguard jobs, but in reality its the US government that ends up sending those new hires to be front line mercenaries in an active war zone?
That is very VERY different than a uniformed US military recruitment sergeant operating out of a well marked suburban recruitment office offering teenagers adventure, money, and free college to get them to join the US Armed forces.
Evita Duffy-Alfonso said on the social platform X that she nearly missed her flight after opting out of a body scan because she said she is pregnant and concerned about radiation exposure. She said she waited 15 minutes for a pat-down
If taking an extra 15 minutes to go through security is causing you to almost miss your flight, then you’re already not arriving at the airport early enough. Shit happens. Gate changes occur. Overbooked flights are a thing. Long lines at bag check or security happen without any apparent notice or reason. Even something like unexpected traffic getting to the air port is common.
and that TSA agents were “rude” and “tried to pressure” her into walking through the scanner.
Welcome to the world the rest of us live in where the average citizen has to be the calm and collected one in the confrontation when dealing with law enforcement lest you earn their ire (or be shot because they’re nervous or angry).
I’m thinking its also confusion about the backscatter X-ray machines that were used before the millimeter wave scanners replaced them in most places. I had heard some small airports still use the backscatter machines.
I still take the patdown instead of the millimeter wave scanners when I’m randomly selected for more scrutiny than the bog standard metal detector.
Maybe MS couldn’t stuff enough ads into the old Start Menu requiring a re-write to allow for more ad space. /s
In every version of Windows up until now which has contained a taskbar and start menu, as far back as Windows 95. Not just Windows 10.
Sadly not true. Microsoft removed the Start button in a version of Windows before. It was in Windows 8 (and Windows Server 2012 for some godforsaken reason) with the cursed “metro” interface. MS did it for the same stupid reason they’re citing here “tablet and touchscreen users”. The uproar caused MS to release Windows 8.1 a year later where they returned the Start button.
That will backfire on employers. With the shortage of seniors with good skills, the demand will rise for them. An employer that squeezes his seniors will find them quitting because there will be another desperate employer that will treat them better.
But inexperienced coders will start to use LLMs a lot earlier than the experienced ones do now.
And unlike you that can pick out a bad method or approach just by looking at the LLM output where you correct it, the inexperienced coder will send the bad code right into git if they can get it to pass a unit test.
I get your point, but I guess the learning patterns for junior devs will just be totally different while the industry stays open for talent.
I have no idea what the learning path is going to look like for them. Besides personal hobby projects to get experience, I don’t know who will give them a job when what they produce from their first efforts will be the “bad coder” output that gets replaced by an LLM and a senior dev.
At least I hope it will and it will not only downsize to 50% of the human workforce.
I’ve thought about this many times, and I’m just not seeing a path for juniors. Given this new perspective, I’m interested to hear if you can envision something different than I can. I’m honestly looking for alternate views here, I’ve got nothing.
For the chorus, instead of the 4 syllable line of of “Blame Can-a-da” substitute"Blame don-ald-trump".