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Unjammable fiber-optic drones are taking over and turning Ukrainian forests into spiderwebs of wires, video shows

Unjammable fiber-optic drones are taking over and turning Ukrainian forests into spiderwebs of wires, video shows

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  1 Comments  •  last year

It's possible the drones may need to be equipped with cable cutters in the near future.  Each advance seems to be taking the battlefield back to World War I tactics.
Fungus that can "eat you from the inside out" is spreading globally

Fungus that can "eat you from the inside out" is spreading globally

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  1 Comments  •  last year

A very old danger but a new threat?  There is evidence from one dinosaur fossil that indicates non-avian fungal infections, possibly Aspergillus, did occur and might have been common.   Meet...
Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day workweek

Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day workweek

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  10 Comments  •  last year

Sanders wants to give a certain class of worker preferential treatment?  That sounds more like Milton Friedman than Karl Marx.  What about truck drivers, construction workers, barbers, and food...
If Everyone Had Voted, Kamala Harris Still Would Have Lost

If Everyone Had Voted, Kamala Harris Still Would Have Lost

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  1 Comments  •  last year

Democrats can't even find refuge in the before-Trump conventional wisdom of focus group tested talking points.  Like it or not, Trump has changed everything. So what's the alternative?
What would Kamala Harris do?

What would Kamala Harris do?

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  7 Comments  •  last year

Bullet dodged.  World safe.  
Did the Attacks on Iran Succeed?

Did the Attacks on Iran Succeed?

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  21 Comments  •  last year

All the news reporting is beginning to look like a prepper convention.  Bombs, bunkers, and Armageddon.  Do you have enough MREs and toilet paper hidden in your basement? Even if all the pessimists...
The grim shipbuilding news from the UN

The grim shipbuilding news from the UN

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  2 Comments  •  last year

China launches over 1,000 ocean-going vessels each year.  The United States launches fewer than 10.  The United States can't even transport the goods the country imports.  Our supply chains are...
Pentagon details Iran bombing amid questions about scope of damage

Pentagon details Iran bombing amid questions about scope of damage

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  8 Comments  •  last year

Why don't intrepid war reporters go to Iran and gather facts on the ground?  That is what journalists do, isn't it?  But none of this reporting is really about journalism.  It's about personalities...
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