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as long as states like Iran aren’t getting access

This is kind of the whole argument against nuclear proliferation though. The more bombs that exist, the harder it is to keep it out of the hands of completely unpredictable groups like iran. You have allies to radical Islam all over the world, it’s how you get the kind of coordinated terrorism on the scale of 9/11 and the Paris attacks. Even one single security slip up might be enough to completely fuck us all.

The barrier to entry between terrorists and nuclear weapons needs to be kept watertight, rock solid, and a mile thick, and you really can’t expect that on a global scale, it’s just the law of large numbers. The risks of proliferation therefore, in my opinion at least, are completely unacceptable

Edit: also I just want to mention that the swords/guns metaphor really doesn’t work because this is a problem that potentially concerns the security of literally all life on earth. There is no historical precedent beyond a few decades of REALLY precarious history. That precedent is being set every single day with every policy and every minute to minute decision. The danger to humanity is very real

Thanks for the (second!) completely unprovoked swipe in this thread but it’s a minor inconvenience and I like my instance just fine

Mike though? How is there any universe where this wasn’t scripted

Ohhh wait does it depend on the instance your account is hosted on?? And not the instance you’re on?

no offense but i don’t think I’ve ever heard this opinion before, may i ask why

You think Putins imperial Tsarist regime is gonna save you from capitalism? Russian imperialism and western imperialism are two turds from the same ass moron. All these people know how to do is steal land and inflict suffering

we did most of the work ourselves tbh

step 1. invent light speed communication and connect all of humanity to each other

step 2. do not under any circumstances regulate it or the people who control it

step 3. lose everything

they do this every cycle iirc it means literally nothing. Not that i think he doesn’t mean it this time lmao

Europeans seem like they constantly need reminding of this. You people are also fucked for a myriad of reasons

costing us the election and then rolling out the red, black and white carpet

Shit shit shit just everywhere all shit

Who do i contact to reenable the downvote button

https://youtu.be/ljaP2etvDc4?si=IKya90_mFZoSiFR5

my tax dollars

i promise im not defending protest or non voters (i need to specify this before im picked apart by a swarm of piranhas) but does no one realize that this massive rift in our social fabric is no longer just a political issue? would defeating trump this year have ended the rise of fascism? the intensifying hatred of minorities, the puritanism, the scapegoating, the violence? kicking the can down the road to 2028 would have accomplished nothing but delaying the inevitable.

if trumps GOP is using the rhetoric they use purely for the purposes of gaining power, had they not gained power in this election they would have just intensified their rhetoric even more and gained power in 2028 instead. these people are literally willing to destroy American society to enrich themselves and their friends.

i voted, you voted, pretty sure everyone on lemmy (worth acknowledging anyway) voted. it was with an empty feeling in my gut though because ballots just determine presidents, they are not a panacea

Side loading works great for this and it’s free

whos gonna prosecute any of this shit now

Anti cheat works fine nowadays, I’ve heard that the only problems are caused by devs/publishers that explicitly don’t allow their games to launch on Linux. e.g. Elden Ring and Apex Legends both use easy anticheat; the former boots just fine on Linux while the latter doesn’t work no matter what you do

we’re about to see something really shocking and ugly aren’t we. more so than usual I mean