And we'll need to start worrying about that in 400,000,000,000,000 years.

Not really. Every ruling power in Iran over the past century has made the exact same bad decisions in this respect. The previous monarchy, the more recent monarchy, socialists, capitalists, foreign interests, Islamic revolutionaries, they've all been drawing too much water from the aquifers too fast for terrible reasons.

Nothing would make it “help get a little closer to making it a reality” if it’s not physically possible, and there’s a very strong argument that that’s the case. If nothing else, the maximum specific tensile strength allowed by covalent bonding - which is fundamental physics that we can’t change - combined with the reality of defects in a 36,000 km cable - is far below what’s needed to build a space elevator in Earth gravity. It might be possible to build a space elevator on the Moon or even (in the far future) on Mars, because their gravity is such that real materials could potentially do the job. But doing that involves bootstrapping an entire offworld industry, which is far beyond anything even the most advanced nations are capable of currently, let alone a technologically stunted oil state.

There’s no chance they’d actually succeed in building a space elevator. The Line is at least theoretically physically possible with current technology, even if it was always an obviously spectacularly bad idea. A space elevator is not.

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Available as a database, or a collection of individual pages. Mirrored and archived. There are torrents as well.

He's still delivering exactly what he promised.

The difference is that now a lot of people hate him for delivering what he promised.

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Always interesting to see the fascist take. Oh wait... no it's not.

I agree. Questions like this often seem to come from people who don’t *want* to use AI, or perhaps are afraid of it for whatever reason, and they’re looking for reasons that they shouldn’t use it.

Probably because Bluesky is dying.

Who would want to eat a meatball of animal protein goo?? Give it some texture. Also, you need to add 1/2 of bread crumbs and an egg to bind it together. The would make it a much larger meatball.

"How can we achieve regulatory capture without regulations?!"

-- Anthropic, probably

A country is a piece of land. Germany did not do send people to concentration camps - the people running it did.

And we only have estimates because Ubisoft refuses to release sales numbers.

If only they had a marketing department. Someone whose job it was to understand these things