you know, in comparison dubya at least tried to have this kind of diplomatic subtlety that is nowhere to be found in current administration
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you can just put a flywheel on synchronous machine and it also works, especially where you have infra left over after coal plant shutdown or something similar
they might have done it this way because hydro, nuclear (or any steam turbine based) or gas (or any gas turbine based) generation is rotating generation, which helps to stabilize grid in a way that solar or (some of) wind power doesn't. on top of that, many of solar installations won't output energy without mains (grid-followers). getting rid of that would be a is a complex problem that would require infrastructure buildout and policy changes
ah yes chatbot seller says these things will become so capable, they're gonna destroy the world, just you wait and see, but need trillion dollars in financing first. op have you eaten your daily recommended pebble today?
aluminum bars, they won't be able to work it into things like with iron. even if they do, they can't make more
commercial planes are a bit subsonic, you're asking for 300-400 km/h trains. high speed rail is like 200 km/h
i think that conspiracy theories are more about feeling special about knowing some secret knowledge, lots of people fall for this and even create conspiracy theories without realizing, no matter how smart they are
Radio transmission doesn't require state-level capacity (yes there are other barriers like cost or skill) and waves don't care about borders. Receiving foreign radio was a big thing and it doesn't require special equipment
once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action. were all these apps vibecoded?
you don't put these SIMs in phones, these go into dedicated devices with very limited functions that pretend to look like phones to operator, dozens per. it can work like a proxy with massive number of outputs
stuff like this https://www.vice.com/en/article/video-ukraine-busts-alleged-russian-bot-farm-using-thousands-of-sim-cards/
also, presumably lots of these cards got burned quite fast, so not all were active at the same time, and some were spares
nothing. safety of people in nato is guaranteed by a several of icbms somewhere in wyoming or in some submarine with putin's name on them. self-preservation is a mighty powerful instinct, and it worked for entire cold war. will easily work for a couple of decades more