From the article:

> It is an impressive sight.

The fascination with this is more than a little disturbing.

Somewhat reassuring to see that many comments here interpret the images as a call to eliminate nuclear weapons. But it's hard to image our current ape man species moving away from mass murder as an international policy implementation.

The propensity of our primate species for self annihilation doesn't pose much hope for extended survival.

Innate murderous tendencies that may have encouraged the caveman's survival will surly be what wipes us out...

Where are the good search engines, for anything?

As the push to force users onto LLMs, search has plummeted in effectively finding relevant pages. And not just goggle.

Why isn't anyone applying LLMs to interpreting the semantic meaning of the search query, and finding pages that closely match?

Except that people build LLMs, train them, and prompt them.

Without humans, there are no LLMs.

I continue to be annoyed by reports that "LLMs solved some problem".

People developed the LLM s/w, trained the model to solve the problem, with other human's prior work, refined and revised the prompts and feedback until finally reaching a tenable solution.

But somehow, the LLM solved the problem 8-/

Compilers didn't end programming, neither will LLMs...

And they're certainly not even in the realm of the scope of abilities of biological life.

If you really feel that an LLM is superior to a human, you should get outside more.

p.s. I'm totally in agreement with you about the murderous psychosis of the state of Israel. Many Israelis are Jewish Nazis committing genocide. That doesn't make LLMs superior.

The main spam i get these days are "your cloud account has expired, pay immediately or you will loose your data".

It's something telling about the internet when spam transitioned from Viagra to cloud computing 8-/

Um, sorry. If you've ever sat behind a poorly maintained vespa at a stop light, and in it's cloud of exhaust when it takes off, then you definitely don't think it's cool...

Same thing for old beetles and VW buses. Total smog creators.

Electric is where it's at.

Can the cool kids catch up?

The main remaining question:

Do they provide anime and video games?

Yea, nothing makes a kid feel more accomplished than putting a choker collar on 'em and teaching them to heal.

It's especially rewarding for them when they get the dog biscuit at the end...

> Weak country Weak constitution

I have to agree with this in whole.

It's like looking at the EU now and wondering, how did they not see this glaring dependency before now? Both the petro energy source and the US military support were never as secure as it seems they were assumed to be.

Here in the US, we're still sitting on a constitution from 250 years ago. Apparently no one though an incoming presidential administration would rape and pillage the place like we've seen in the last year and a half.

European countries did largely overhaul their constitutional documents after WWII. The EU in general has much more modern legislative bodies, and electoral systems.

Here in the US, we're still stuck with founding documents that expect Pony Express to deliver the ballots 8-/

Founding documents are worthless if you don't care to honor them.

EU might have more modern legislation but even there the far right is starting to realize when they are in power they can generally ignore the legislation or work quickly to dismantle it. Trump showed and emboldened them, tech bros are providing funding and oligarchs are steadily gaining power. It's quickly coming from the east and only reason EU might be a bit more ready than US is that it's many decentralized countries with always shifting powers.

While I agree with you, laws are being routinely ignored by the US executive now.

But I would also say, the only impediment to executive overreach has been the constitution, as little as that impediment has been.

Albeit the current supreme court has also stretched the interpretation beyond all previous bounds.

The US certainly needs a modern revised constitution, but I don't see the DNC as having the vision or the balls to accomplish such a thing.

We're pretty much fucked here...

Headline: People in power dont want to put people in power into prison!

How can an executive that steals millions of $ not go to prison, while somebody stealing food in a store can?

Why can police kill people and maybe not even be investigated for it, while somebody else is tried for being a terrorist when doing the same?

The american system is corrupt to the core, but only for the rich and powerful.

In modern times, archive.org is an international treasure.

Which of course means it's facing major opposition from capital interests.

Apparently no one ever thought an incoming presidential administration would literally wipe gigabytes of government funded research results off the web.

Now we see in bold type how precarious is our democracy...

I don't think the jump in EV sales in Europe are primarily driven by environment consciousness.

The jump in EV sales this year are primarily driven by seeing what a psycho in the US whitehouse can immediately do to gasoline prices.

Gasoline only comes from one source., and is largely delivered around the world by shipping.

Electricity is able to be generated by many means, and is available everywhere.

I know several people in modest suburban homes, who generate all of their own electricity, including driving two EVs.

The supply chain can be very short.

There is no other form of energy that can deliver the individual and national energy independence that can be delivered by electricity.

Gasoline and petroleum in general can never, ever, ever, deliver this degree of autonomy.

I think a large part of it is just EV's getting good & cheap. You can get a quite good EV for £15,000 now.

Sorry for the very late reply.

This article was just pubished:

https://www.npr.org/2026/07/09/nx-s1-5872786/iran-war-evs-so...

"China exported more than 2 million electric passenger vehicles between January and May"

Now, with the awesome deal with Iran of a "Big, Beautiful, not-a-nuclear-nonproliferation Treaty" blown out the window, along with the rest of the hot air emitted from our idiot in the oval office, oil prices are going through the roof again.

I am very glad to hear that affordable electric cars are available in England. This is a giant step forward.

I'm not glad for the reason, but I'm also glad that countries around the world are accelerating a transition away from petro based energy.

Here in the US, GM is announcing a new coal powered car, with the slogan: "Bring back the Stanely Steamer".

While all Chinese EVs are banned.