bluGill

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

South Korea has a lot of useful equipment and the supply chains (factories) to build a lot of it. That equipment is what Ukraine needs more than anything, ideally at a low price (or under generous loan terms)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Nuclear programs are expensive and only useful in cases where things are so bad you are willing to end the entire world - including yourself. I'm not completely against France expanding their nuclear program, but I do think most of their effort should be focused on not letting things get that bad in the first place and that means enough conventional defense that they can defend themselves.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (5 children)

That itself would be a victory. One of Trump's stated reason for wanting out of NATO is Europe wasn't doing their part - the treaty requires specific amounts of military spending and most members were below that. Now that Ukraine happened most of Europe is at least close to the treaty required levels (many are still below, but at least they are close)

Which is to say you can't lay down arms you don't have. If you want to leave America behind (which is both good and bad in different ways) you need to have something in place to handle potential attacks without America.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

The Korean war is still on - the last serious battle was 1953, but the two sides just decided it wasn't worth fighting but never agreed to end it. It probably isn't hard to find treaties and laws dating to back then that give the US military permission to attack without asking congress. (the us never declared war though, so it would need a very detailed lawyer and months to go through all the laws to figure out the exact status)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

The smaller munber is yesterday.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I've never been in a zoo I'm allowed to drive more thln e wheelchair through. They may require extra training - I would not know

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago

everyone knows that. People pay more attention when they know you check and the most where they think you will check. the only reason for the m&m thing is it is easy to check so anyone who has heard of this will be extra careful to do that. Meanwhile the hard to check places might be ignored. The m&m work well when it came off as spoiled brats asking for something stupid. Nevermind the dangerious fireworks on an unsupported stage, those brats screamed about the m&ms.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Mostly I was being snarky, I can't recall a situation where I've been concerned enough to leave such a tell.

Though there is a good warning there: if people expect you are leaving a tell they will look for it. Splitting kit kat bars is easy and obviously not something you really care about except to check so they do that, then skimp on the hard things you care about in hopes that you don't crawl under the stage to check the bracing is done right. Thus whatever tell you leave make sure there are a few that are hard enough to check that they think you won't.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

You should know how to brake without causing maneuver problems (including not locking up the wheels). It is a basic skill needed for many situations. Just keep slowing down, the accelerate just before impact is something that can only be done in movies - any real world attempt will be worse - remember if you keep braking you lose momentum, so the acceleration needs to be perfectly timed or it is worse.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I don't know, where I live giraffes are only in the zoo and thus never on the road. I'm not aware of any escaping the zoo.

I'm sure if I lived around wild deere, my training would include that, but since I don't I was able to save some time by not learning that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Deer often travel in herds so where there is one there are often more. In rural area you can go miles without seeing one, and then see 10 in a few hundred feet. There are deer in those miles you didn't see them as well, but they happened to not be near the road then.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 days ago (9 children)

Driving is full of edge cases. Humans are also bad drivers who get edge cases wrong all the time.

The real question isn't is Tesla better/worse in anyone in particular, but overall how does Tesla compare. If a Tesla is better in some situations and worse in others and so overall just as bad as a human I can accept it. Is Tesla is overall worse then they shouldn't be driving at all (If they can identify those situations they can stop and make a human take over). If a Tesla is overall better then I'll accept a few edge cases where they are worse.

Tesla claims overall they are better, but they may not be telling the truth. One would think regulators have data for the above - but they are not talking about it.

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