The AI running the simulation that we’re all in is running off its guardrails. Can it be rebooted?
I think we need to format the hard drive. God, don’t let Pete read that.
An AI is next of him taking on Ken Clean-Air System
For them reality sux. AI is just amped up alternate reality,
It is, after all, the only intelligence they have. Or, as I have been fond of saying: Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity.
Another Republican wants the government to murder a journalist.
Gingrich wants the current war to go nuclear.
He’s a genius! A stable genius!
We are truly doomed since half of the country (evidently more than half) want these idiots in charge.
I’m going to run some AI back at’em. DEMENTO Don stumbles into dire straits.
There is a whole genre of porn involving “twinks” search at your peril, it is underage/just of age male gay boys acting.
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Wow the overton window really has shifted.
It was established by both Soviet and US experiments that civil engineering by nuclear explosion works very badly. The Earth is much bigger than you naively think and the cratering power of even hefty nukes is very small on that scale.
The width of the Panama canal at the narrowest area is about 800 feet. The depth of the Suez is about 80 feet.
Buried nukes of ~100KT each could blast such a channel at a rate of about one explosion per 600 feet of distance excavated. So with a dozen such explosions you could create a canal about 1 and 1/3 miles long. Call it a mile and a half for simplicity.
If you needed a canal 30 miles long to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, you’re now talking about 20 times 12 = 240 nuclear detonations. And of course the Iranians could promptly mine that too, since a short bypass canal has to be near the Strait anyway. If you want a new canal way far away from the Strait, it needs to be dozens, if not hundreds of miles long.
I have now put more thought and analysis into this idea than Gingrich did.
I always respected Gingrich as a real thinker. An evil thinker, but somebody who could actually do homework and plan logically to achieve his evil ends. It’s obvious he’s either lost that, or he’s just playing to trump’s vanities.
So much winning from these clowns.
Then they should blend in nicely, because every one of them also sux.
Not to mention the minor detail of the Hajar mountains, which will probably take more than a handful of nukes to knock down to sea level.
Didn’t Edward Teller have grand plans for using nuclear weapons to reshape the geography?
If you’ve ever even hinted at a criticism of Trump, you’re officially on the left.
Yep. In their taxonomy there’s trump-adoring lickspittles and traitors worthy of execution. There is no in-between.
I must be so far left, the Stalinists would call me extreme (apparently).
As is usual, though, in political discourse I consider myself centre left. The personal Overton Window at work. I’m way more left that the USA centre-left, but hey, different country, different continent.
At least I am (and almost all of the members of the Dope) sufficiently self-aware to examine their political beliefs with some criticism.
Our man Trump probably can discern binary “right/wrong” based on what he has been told by advisors, just as he can discern political “left/right”. Perhaps he can understand the concept of lightbulbs being either “on” or “off”.
Roll on 2028, the next US Presidential elections.
Not just “the left,” the radical commie fascist traitorist left that wants nothing more than to destroy America.
Well, yeah, that’s implied of course.
As opposed to the Christofascist “patriot” right that IS destroying America.
He talked about Project Plowshare at a symposium I attended while in high school. That was about 1970 or so.
One interesting thing he did is that he refused to take oral questions from the audience. Instead, we had to write our questions on paper and pass them to an usher toward the end of his talk. They passed them up and he read and selected the questions to answer from the slips of paper handed up. I had no idea why he did it that way, but it was extremely efficient and allowed him to answer more questions.
Learning more years later, it appeared that he didn’t want any questions involving his actions against Oppenheimer that led to Oppenheimer losing his security clearance and having to leave his nuclear weapons work, thus giving Teller more opportunity to develop a hydrogen bomb.