We actually are not. Trump's ICE raids might look tough to some, but the number of deported people hasn't significantly increased. There are about 15k deportations per month, and at this rate it'll take a _decade_ to make a dent in the overall illegal immigrant population.

Those have already been deployed. They are flown to the front by the operator, who will in most cases also designate the target, after which the drone will engage it autonomously. Jamming is most effective at close range, so that's when you want the AI to take over.

Good point. An army that sees all others as subhuman and sees only the next death is one that has to keep fighting. It has no choice. It's the only thing it knows. It can keep conquering more territory outwards, or it can slaughter its own government inwards. History shows those are your two options.

Whether or not Russia conquers Ukraine, it will attack other countries - vast numbers of bored, underpaid soldiers would seek entertainment elsewhere if they didn't.

A drone can fly just a few meters above the ground, out of LoS of the turret. There's talk of using laser turrets against drones themselves, though.

But there's even more, Ukraine now launches "carrier drones" that can autonomously fly for about 300 kilometers deep into the Russian territory and release a swarm of smaller attack drones. And this contraption costs less than 1 HIMARS missile. It can even be remotely controlled through cellular Internet, Russia is trying to combat this by literally switching off all the mobile networks if these drones are detected. Not that it'll help in the long run, it's trivially easy to stick something like a Starlink antenna on the carrier.

What's the difference? When somebody moves closer, this can be only enabled (to the first approximation) by increasing the housing density. And supporting this has been the policy of Democrats/liberals for quite a while (YIMBY, "Stronk Cities", "15 minute concentration camps", "walkable neighborhoods", etc).

>"Firefox is just a ui on iOS."

That is 100% not by Mozilla's choice.

>"Chrome is not a boggieman. It's open source, and runs on almost everything."

Chrome is most certainly NOT open source. It is 100% closed. Chromium is open-source, but it is not an open project. Google controls 100% of what goes it in, and brutally so. And it is too big/complex to actually fork. So multiplatform browsers that are not Firefox-ish are, indeed Chromium, for most purposes that matter (Google's control over standards, security, control).

>"They have gone back enough into niche status I wouldn't recommend Firefox to general people."

Then you are doing everyone a great disservice.

>"Vivaldi and Brave retain support for manifest v2 if I remember correctly, so you can continue to use proper ublock origin, and not the shitty v3 version."

Until changes in the base Chromium code they try to maintain become un-maintainable. They don't have the resources to actually perform a true fork.

Vivaldi, Brave, Edge, Opera, whatever, they are all Chromium underneath. They all lend support to Google's control over web "standards" and they all contribute to a dangerous monoculture. One that will have serious security, privacy, and standards implications. Firefox (or its children) are the only real multiplatform alternative left now. And it is not like you have to sacrifice anything to use it.

>"It is like Chrome WITHOUT the Google Spyware and ads."

Except it is, at it's core, Chrome, since it is based on Chromium. And, thus, you still giving power and control to Google. And still promoting a dangerous monoculture, and not protecting from the security and standards nightmare that will be a resulting from that.

If I were *forced* to use a Google-based browser, it might be Brave. It is an obvious better choice, and also somewhat erodes a bit of Google's grip. But I have zero reasons to use Brave over Firefox, and many reasons to use and promote Firefox over any "chrom" browser.

>"It just needs an email client."

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thunderbird.net%2F

>"The snap package is pretty bad. The moment you install the native package though, you wonder why you ever put up with the performance hit in the first place "

And the solution is:

* Don't use Ubuntu
* Don't use Snap
* Don't use containers for important software that should be native

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Flinuxmint.com%2F

>"I take that back; I did run into a site (can't remember now what it was) that told me I needed to update my browser, when what they actually wanted me to do was switch to Chrome/Chromium."

And it is up to us to make noise about that. I know *I* do. It is rare I run across such a site, but you can bet I will immediately Email them at a minimum. If it is a site for a place I would do business, I will do a lot more, up to and including making sure their marketing department knows they are going to lose business from me and others. I closed a bank account over it and let them know, and then recommended to everyone I know not to use that bank because they were incompetent. (They eventually fixed it, but far too late).

It is the ultimate in lazy to not be able to "support" the only three browsers they are likely to ever encounter- chrom*, Firefox, and Safari. There was a time there were a dozen actually different browsers and sites managed. And the reality is that most of this isn't even real, a site can complain about your browser, or throw out a message, and you change the user agent

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Faddons.mozilla.org%2Fen-...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Faddons.mozilla.org%2Fen-...

and it magically works fine. But such warnings can cause SEVERE damage to the adoption and mindshare of Firefox. So can clueless "support staff" saying or "recommending" you just "use Chrome." This mentality has to change.

This is what I'm going by:

The report said that in December 2018, the US Federal Aviation Administration issued a special airworthiness information bulletin based on reports from operators of model 737 planes that the fuel control switches were installed with the locking feature disengaged.

The airworthiness concern was not considered an unsafe condition that would warrant an airworthiness directive – a legally enforceable regulation to correct unsafe conditions.

The same switch design is used in Boeing 787-8 aircraft, including Air India’s VT-ANB, which crashed. The report added: “As per the information from Air India, the suggested inspections were not carried out as the SAIB was advisory and not mandatory.”

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Sorry, but you're wrong. The J-curve (and ESPECIALLY if multiple children are considered) clearly shows the correlation. It's published, peer reviewed science.

The tip the J-curve does not reach the height of the other pole, that's what gives it the name.

No, you neglected to even look at the meaning of the term. Never mind putting it into Google and reading the papers.

And yes, the cause is THAT simple: housing. We have more than enough of it, but the toxic urbanisation made a large portion of it useless.

Economic forces, what else?

Urbanism resulted in runaway growth of large cities. Companies in large city cores have a competitive advantage because they have access to a larger workforce pool. This in turn incentivizes people to move closer to large cities, closing the vicious loop.

There were several vaccines, but given the disease's rarity they are not used anymore.