My opinion is that Trump has walked into quicksand with this war of "Weapons of Mass Distraction" from illegally concealed Epstein Files evidence.
A "forever war" works only if it was planned as a domestic control strategy, and this seems so unplanned, with inane diversions such as his bunker ballroom and focus on seashells, similar in ways to Emperor Caligula's seashell harvest.[0]
It would seem that he's buying time to think up some escape mechanism, as the damage and disruption mounts.
yeah, most likely what's going on is various project 2025, Russian interests and the bog standard military industrial complex are all pushing him in their preferred direction and instead of say, choosing one over the other, his dimentia means he's just going to choose all of them cause it's not like he had rational consistency before the dimentia so why would that matter anymore.
Authoritarians appeal to narrow interests, such as short-term gain, or racism, xenophobia and so on, in order to gain power.
This is the classic fascist playbook.
And then people pay, whether you call it FAFO, or face-eating-leopards, a price for acting selfishly, out of hate, or not questioning lies, the "three poisons" of Buddhism ... greed, avarice and delusion.
These are emotional and non-critical, and as history shows, easy to manipulate, too often for one's own disadvantage.
If, instead, people acted out of mutual benefit, cooperation and wisdom, individuals and society would be far better off.
It's easy to scoff at this, but as science fiction writers have predicted, until people cooperate instead of dividing and fighting along this line or that, societies and planets destroy themselves.
For a SanFrancisco writer to call Oakland a little-known Bay Area city is either ultra-snark or a deliberate manure-dump.
I do expect SFO to now rename itself to "San Francisco International, We're not Oakland, we stole your Golden State Warriors, your Raiders moved to a small gambling town, and your Athletics are playing in a minor league park in Sacramento, possibly forever if that small gambling town is not going to gush municipal money to the richest and stingiest owner in baseball"
SFO for short.
That said, countering Oakland's chutzpah in stealing San Francisco's name for its airport with cheap shade seems out of place in the Bay Area.
Unintended? Consequences. It encourages weaker passwords, since you are not going to type in 14 of more characters by hand. I tried.
On campus, one service timed you out pretty quickly if you dawdled typing your password. I suggested that you should fail if you type it too fast, instead, to foil shotgun password typing bots, and give users more time for longer passwords.
That was before password managers.
It's hard to get everything right. After some rounds of white-hat password cracking, (the ones I got were so lame)I decided to modify the passwd command to crack passwords on the way in. Much faster with the plain text.
I have distrusted facial recignition since the Columbo episode (spoiler) in which Dabney Coleman sends someone elseout in his car with a face disguise to be deliberately snapped by a traffic camera for an alibi.
The photographically-aware detective notices that the light is wrong.
Thanks for "Helping us understand" via Columbo's timeless wisdom. ;-)
I'm in charge of IT for a 120 person org, anything that's a barrier to copying and pasting passwords just encourages simple password re-use, and the dreaded "laptop festooned with password Post-Its".
No fooling, I had to work on a Sun workstation in a lab. The lab instructor had installed his own password on it, so I had to guess it. (well, there are other ways, of course, but I didn't need one.)
There was a small framed print on the wall of some character from opera or mythology.
This decapitation of education, military, cyber-defense, public news, the arts, disaster preparedness, climate science ... the list goes on ... is so systematic that it can only be described as a fifth column effort to destroy the U.S. from inside, which Putin can't do from outside.
The Cosmological Constant from a Quantum Gravitational θ-Vacua and the Gravitational Hall Effect
Stephon Alexander, Heliudson Bernardo, Aaron Hui
We provide a new perspective on the cosmological constant by exploring the background-independent Wheeler-DeWitt quantization of general relativity. The Chern-Simons-Kodama state of quantum gravity, a generalization of the Hartle-Hawking and Vilenkin states, has a striking structural similarity to the topological field theory of the quantum Hall effect. As a result, we study the gravitational topological θ-sectors in analogy to Yang-Mills theory. We find that the cosmological constant Λ is intimately linked to the θ-parameter by θ=12π2/(Λℓ2Pl)mod2π due to the fact that Chern-Simons-Kodama state must live in a particular θ-sector. This result is shown in the canonical, non-perturbative formalism. Furthermore, we explain how the physics of the Hamiltonian constraint is analogous to the quantum Hall effect, with the cosmological constant playing the role of a quantum gravitational Hall resistivity. These relations suggest that Λ is topologically protected against perturbative graviton loop corrections, analogous to the robustness of quantized Hall conductance against disorder in a metal.
A "forever war" works only if it was planned as a domestic control strategy, and this seems so unplanned, with inane diversions such as his bunker ballroom and focus on seashells, similar in ways to Emperor Caligula's seashell harvest.[0]
It would seem that he's buying time to think up some escape mechanism, as the damage and disruption mounts.
[0] https://www.historyskills.com/classroom/ancient-history/cali...
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