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andrewducker) wrote2021-08-01 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 01-08-2021
- FactCheck: What's behind the UK vaccination slowdown?
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- China is building nuclear weapons. Here's why.
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(tags:nuclearweapons China ) - Electric cars have much lower life cycle emissions
- (tags:co2 cars manufacturing )
- How transphobes read Pratchett as being on their side
- (tags:LGBT transgender terrypratchett )
- Google encouraged employees who experienced harassment/assault to use their mental health benefits, then pressured counselors to provide records of their sessions to use in court when those employees filed lawsuits
- (tags:Google assault harassment OhForFucksSake )
- Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped. Some were actively unhelpful
- (tags:ai pandemic epicfail )
- IOC admits guidelines for transgender athletes are not fit for purpose
- (tags:LGBT transgender olympics )
- Amanda Knox: Who Owns My Name?
- (tags:murder corruption lies media TV movies OhForFucksSake )
- The Winged Labrys - a pin designed for inclusive sapphic people
- (tags:LGBT transgender lesbian design )
- Tory chairman Ben Elliot sold access to his uncle Prince Charles
- (tags:conservatives royalty money corruption UK )
- 10 iconic logos. 156 Americans. 80 hours of drawing from memory.
- (tags:marketing design memory viaElfy )
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3. So much for "don't be evil".
7. Amanda Knox has got a valid point, and therefore is being pointedly ignored.
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For second-strike capabilities, I see three methods superior to silos that would be better for China:
1) Traditional submarine-based ballistic missiles - currently very hard to detect once they exit coastal waters and can get into the deep ocean.
2) Mobile land-based ICBMs. Unlike silos (which take years to construct, are easily detectable from orbit, and are easy targets), you can keep moving missile launch platforms around the country. The US truck-based MX missile system from the 1980s would have had had heavily-guarded live and dummy missiles continually moving between hardened launch locations via rail and highways, at a cost of $50 billion. That's unnecessary. It'd be much cheaper to just package a missile and its launch infrastructure in a few anonymous shipping containers, and keep moving them between shipping depots across the country. After an attack, they could be assembled and launched from a nearby parking lot. You'd need a pre-placed survey marker in the parking lot to calibrate the inertial reference system, since you wouldn't want to rely on GPS, but those are everywhere already.
3) Pre-positioned weapons systems. As the old joke goes, it'd be easy to smuggle a nuclear weapon across borders - just hide it in a truckload of drugs. Then, rent an office or storage space near potential targets. This would allow faster response times than ICBM systems, and would avoid anti-missile defences. If a few weapons got caught by Customs, that'd just demonstrate the credibility of your ability to retaliate.
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1) Who actually attacked me?
2) Have they already got devices inside my borders or is this the first?
3) Will the international community, especially the nuclear armed members, agree that this discovery constitutes a first strike?
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https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/11lq29/our_senior_prank_was_to_grease_up_four_pigs_and/
This would be an edge case of the "German Tank Problem" of serial number analysis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/police-officer-mental-health-report-by-fake-psychologist-sexual-harassment-1.6083291