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  • One-point safety is about preventing a nuclear yield when one of the explosives inside the nuke go off by accident and not all of the detonation triggers. It does help to prevent accidental nuclear yield if the nuke is destroyed by an external explosion. But you’re understimaing how extremely difficult it is to initiate a nuclear fission event. Not only should all the trigger explosives go off, the fission material has to be hit by the explosion from the right place and in a correct sequence and timeframe. Else the fission won’t start.

    Bombs are even stored separate from the explosives sometimes, for extra safety. The biggest issue with these attacks is radioactive material contamination. The risk of a nuclear explosion from bombing a weapons development or storage site is one in billions.



  • Any weapon fired at a civilian is a war crime. It doesn’t matter what kind of munition was used. The problem with cluster bombs is that the shooting party, cannot control the result. Signatories of IHL have a responsibility to minimize damage to civilian people and assets. The same reason autonomous weapons are a huge ethical problem.







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    Hey, Munroe is a rather cool and very intelligent engineer. Very witty writer, and awful at drawing. But his philosophy is mid at best. He is not an authority, and is often wrong or common place when it comes to social topics and human affairs. He understands communication in a very techy engineering dimension. There’s no need to take his comics as anything but what they are. One white dude’s anecdotic commentary on his own very limited experience of the human condition. He knows squat about human communication, sociology, psychology or postmodernism.



  • Size is only a proof of logistics. Not tech. Physics don’t change fundamentally between 6 meters and 120 meters. You learn a lot from scale modeling without the added costs. Starship’s real challenge is actually the logistics necessary to fulfill the desired specifications and experimenting with engineering to reach the scale. The most innovative aspect of Starship would be orbital refueling, and they aren’t there since the thing hasn’t reached orbit yet. SpaceX problem right now is insisting on high turnover engineering, which doesn’t work at scale without heavy costs, because it is a logistic problem, not a engineering problem.


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    You would be confidently wrong. They are artificially de-greened with ethylene. In Brazil it doesn’t get cold enough for natural de-greening. Also, having tasted both natural green and de-greened (and naturally de-greened) oranges. Their outer color has no correlation whatsoever to the taste.



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    I’ve heard James Gunn referred as the “Loser’s director”. Because he turns all the characters he touches into pathetic losers and ridiculous versions of themselves. Then he comes out and shows superman in the fucking Yamcha pose. This movie is gonna suck so bad. Like he is riddled in bed unconscious for over half of the trailer. His own fucking dog kicks him and abuses him. He is even humiliated by Lois with the most basic journalist questions that he should know because he is fucking Clark Kent and a damn good journalist himself. The poster gif of the movie is Superman being hit in the back of the head with a water bottle, and flinching (which they fixed with CGI for the trailer because the criticism went viral). The big monster at the end is literally a giant dick shaped jellyfish.

    James Gunn is such a bad director.


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    Several comic lines have explored this issue. It’s always come down to the fact that there are people just as rich as Wayne who are corrupt and bankrolling mob families, drug traffic, providing weapons, lobbying government, etc. Essentially it is one billionaire against a dozen billionaires. So, he still has to don the bat suit to do illegally the shit he can’t do legally. Often he ends up using intel gathered as the bat for rich-people power plays to oust other corrupt rich people.

    I think it’s poignant of real life. If you want to stay rich, you don’t fuck with the other rich people, because they will disappear you faster than you can blink. Being rich is a club that you are only part of until you start fucking with other people’s wealth. If you are an ostracized solitary sod, who doesn’t go to any social event and all you political stances are openly hostile against the entire rich class you are a part of, you won’t stay rich for long and all the power that comes from that wealth will disappear, if you get to keep your life at all. Without all his money, Batman is just a really buff dude who is very smart and knows martial arts. I’ve met a few of those. Almost all of them broke as fuck.



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    I keep all my ebooks neatly categorized in Calibre. I also keep track on Storygraph. I still register what I read once in a while, but don’t bother with any of the reading streak pressure because it causes me anxiety. I love checking once a year and see that, despite the fact that my currently reading list never goes down. My read list is always growing (as well as my to-read list). So I decided to stop worrying and just enjoy whatever it is I’m reading at the moment without pressure.