Now, yes, there are predictions that you could get a supermassive black hole launched into space, especially during a galaxy merger if the velocity of the smaller black hole exceeds the escape velocity of the combined galaxy.

But I'd be wary of assuming that it's a launched black hole, unless we can find the merger it comes from. There may be ways for such a black hole to form that cause the stars to be launched away rather than the black hole being flung, and if a galaxy isn't rotating fast enough to be stable, one could imagine that a sufficiently small galaxy was simply consumed by its central black hole. Both of these would seem to produce exactly the same outcome, if all we have is the black hole itself and a velocity.

I'm not going to say either of these is likely in this case, or that astronomers haven't examine them (they almost certainly have), but rather that we should be cautious until we've a clearer idea of what the astronomers have actually been able to determine or rule out.

For many shelf life rather than miles driven is the limiting factor. Without a doubt people can and have racked up hundreds of thousands of miles on a single battery in a short number of years. While this sounds impressive it isn't a relevant metric for most drivers. What really matters is what happens to the average driver who takes 15... 20 years to reach that same 200k miles?

70% capacity is way below the 80% industry cutoff for lithium battery life. The issue here is not reduced capacity in and of itself but rather tendency of the rate of further capacity decline to fall off a cliff beyond the 80% threshold.

Just like when TRR was opt-in via a dark pattern prompt until it silently became opt-out with zero notification.

I wouldn't discount the "outright cracked" some of them have lots of money and influence. JD Vance's pal Thiel is running around giving lectures on the Antichrist whom he believes is none other than Greta Thunberg. I always knew the froggy hats would give her away.

I'm your type A 80ies computer kid and have been programming since my teens, starting out with Sharps Basic and Opcode on a portable pocket computer (called "handheld computer" back then). However, I didn't study CS but did a performing arts diploma with 5 years of full-time training instead, because my creative streak was stronger. Performing arts sure did help me with my career. Giving presentations and talking in public is no sweat for me whatsoever and it sure does help with office politics having stood on stage in front of an audience and done complex choreographies.

I made my money in the last 25 years doing professional software development and digital design work because art doesn't pay, but given todays rapid pace of innovation I am now really glad I went the path of some obscure stage-craft. I know where ever I go it will still be very helpful in gaining traction in that field. And, curiously enough, I am way better at presenting myself than my job peers with academic degrees which in turn has helped build a big project portfolio that often outbids simple degrees when I apply for senior positions these days.

Bottom line: Should AI really come for us, performing arts is actually a way better deal than CS, or so it might turn out to be. Good for me, I guess.

There is no game I want to play enough to compel me to jump through ANY of these hoops.

I know expecting Russian sycophants to follow basic English capitalization rules is way too heavy of a lift.
Yet if you are just going to argue against reality itself and not make any goddamn sense what is even the point of posting in the first place?

Ukraine won its independence August 24, 1991.

Budapest (Which Russia would subsequently grossly violate) was signed December 5, 1994.

For those keeping track Ukraine gave up their nukes 1199 days AFTER achieving independence.

... as is a redo of the Web itself. We need decoupled namecoin/blockchain bases DNS combined with some WebFS-style offline capable thing. Perhaps even a redo of HTML and Web renderers themselves, they are a historically grown mess. Most of the Web and E-Mail (over 90%) these days is just trackers, scam and juck-ridden garbage.

LOL before I noticed the handle of the poster I thought the post was acknowledging Russia getting itself wrecked for picking the wrong fight.

Million casualties... check.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Funited24media.com%2Fwar-...

People fleeing in the millions.... check.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Bankruptcy ... check.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.themoscowtimes.com...

Energy infrastructure being wiped out... check.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2025%2F12%2F11...

Grim prospect of ceasing to exist as a viable nation state.... one can only hope.

No, the executive tells the civil service what it needs to do, but the civil service is wholly independent.

Some of the fusion startups appear to be little more than legal scams. They use an infinite set of meaningless "milestones" to rake in funding stringing investors along for as long as they can get away with never having any prospect or intention of ever delivering anything useful.

Absolutely hilarious. Love it. ... And why wouldn't AI give it all away? It couldn't care less, especially if we can just shut it off at a whim. This article absolutely made my day. LOL!

My agenda was to point out and seek clarification of your prejudicial and racist remarks. The repeated failure to address your own statements while doing everything possible to smear and deflect including invocation of bizarre random references to incest speaks for itself.

Current gen consoles are too damn expensive to appeal to their usual customer base. When a portable premium tablet with 16+GB of RAM and .5 TB of storage costs less than a meager video-game console that isn't portable and requires a screen to be useful, then the console market has clearly painted itself into a corner. I have no pity for either PlayStation, Xbox or Nintendo at this point.

Make consoles affordable again, then sales will go up again. It's that simple. Meanwhile, I'm glad that at least Xbox is backwards compatible meaning I'm still doing quite very fine with my last gen XBox One X still chugging along and delivering excellent entertainment at fluid framerates with 1080p, which is more than enough for me. It's interesting to see that the refurbished One X still sells for 250 Euros these days. IMHO it hits the sweet-spot of what a console should cost today.

Not an actual starship clone. Minor detail, but not insignificant.