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From what I've seen it actually wouldn't change the rotation speed that much. Despite comparisons to Three Gorges and media calling it a "mega-dam" its design is completely different from a single giant dam with a massive reservoir.

The Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon has a large bend and by digging tunnels through the mountains, water can shortcut a 2.2 km altitude drop in just 45 km, which gives it enormous amounts of kinetic energy which gets captured by five "dams" inside the tunnel. The mountains then function as a natural reservoir dam, so very little water gets lifted up, which is how the Three Gorges Dam slowed the Earth's rotation with its massive reservoir.

You people say "cowpie" too? Thought it was just a Dutch thing

Lmao

I think they meant the Metal Gear Rising one:

They will replace Fidesz with 1990's Fidesz (Orbán started out as a eurolib)

[Fidesz] was formed in 1988 under the name of Alliance of Young Democrats (Fiatal Demokraták Szövetsége, with the acronym FIDESZ) as a centre-left liberal activist movement that opposed the ruling Marxist–Leninist government. It was registered as a political party in 1990, with Orbán as its leader. It entered the National Assembly following the 1990 parliamentary election. Following the 1998 election, it successfully formed a centre-right conservative government.

I know it's a very common Korean surname, but the reporter for this being "Max Kim" is amusing

Something called Maven is the actual computing system that selects targets, any LLM used is for how to present its results:

The AI underneath the interface is not a language model, or at least the AI that counts is not. The systems that detect targets in satellite imagery, fuse data from radar and drone footage, and track objects across multiple intelligence sources are computer vision and sensor fusion. They predate large language models by years. Neither Claude nor any other LLMs detects targets, processes radar, fuses sensor data, or pairs weapons to targets. LLMs are late additions to Palantir’s ecosystem;they were added in late 2024, years after the core system was operational, “AIP” was added as a natural language layer that summarizes documents or constructs and answers queries. (emphasis added)

An article on the long history of the US' obsession with speeding up decision making over who to kill: https://artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/kill-chain

On average there's 6-8 lanes in each direction, so 12-16 in total. Those 6-8 lanes are split into two roadways, one for local traffic and one for express traffic. At some interchanges you can switch between the local and express roadways and at those points a few extra lanes for the ramps are where the 20-lane figure comes from.

I only know this person from a Last Week Tonight segment many years ago:

"Rob Schneider doing an impromptu rendition of his famous character: The Annoying Guy Who Is Wrong"

Wikipedia article for Saint Sebastian himself, there's a section called "LGBTQ association": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Sebastian#LGBTQ_association

I'm sure if the Bolsheviks were just getting started today they'd be doing crypto rugpulls and tax evasion The DPRK siphoning people's crypto wallets comes to mind