RIotingPacifist

we could also see in the future more cars that can swap their battery in charging stations.

I know they have been demoing this tech in China, but if you have at home charging a major advantage of electric vehicles is that you don't need worry about refuling during normal usage. So I think battery-swap technology is going to be limited to long distance trips (which are kind of only a major thing in the US & China due to the way both isolate their workers from their homes to prevent them from organizing).

I was going to say if people are comfortable renting the battery in their car, they might as well be comfortable renting a space in a larger vehicle such as a train, but I think Americans do regularly rent their cars (or at least only pay interest on the loans they take out to purchase the cars), so maybe it's not so crazy, but I personally wouldn't let anyone swap the battery in the phone or laptop for one that is likely less well taken care of.

electrified highways would be amazing.

We already have those: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_electrification

Tyres are a major source of microplastics that doesn't stop when they go electric: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5664766/

Electric scooters with swappable batteries work super well in urban areas.

This sounds cool though

Utterly insane to change the license and not realize it's still a derivative product, especially when it has the same name!

This was the one thing in thought LLMs would be good for Wikipedia, there is such a wealth of knowledge on non-english wikis.

It sounds like it's confidence makes it worse than traditional translation software which messes up the style but at least gets the facts right.

China & Russia have subs too and when Titan went smush nobody was going to give away that they heard it, but it's likely that if any military had cared it would have been found much sooner.

Pretty sure there are other things in the Indian Ocean with sensors, and even the ship that was hit likely has sensor readings that in retrospect can make spotting US subs easier.

That was my point.

You can bet your ass that Iran (& any others operating in the region) will be sharing those sensor logs with China to lessen the invisibility of US submarines.

Honestly the whole article comes across as fearslop that Lemmy will eat up

Tension with Open Source licensing

Not really, open source licenses make sure that if you can get the app, you can get the code, they don't typically require that your application MUST be available to children.

No central authority

Having an API that covered applications can hit and verify if the user is a child or not, doesn't require a central authority, that's good.

I agree with him though, increasing spending is a bad idea, it's just recreating the conditions for world wars.

OFC the US want more spending, they're an arms dealer with a democracy attached. But the goal of any nation should be to reduce its military spending as a % of GDP, because that means spending more on it's people.

Really what the EU should be doing is spending the same (or less) but onshoring production so they can get more "bang" for their buck AND stop funding the MiC that helps elect Trump.

Wasnt Spain calling for an EU army weeks ago?

Honestly though, the EU is capable of defending itself from pretty much any attacker except the US, and maybe China, so I'm not very convinced of the need for a permanent EU army/MiC, especially as it brings with it a huge risk of wishing democracy at a level where the EU already lacks democracy.

An EU army would have already been dragged into a war with Iran, so it's good actually that individual armies who's national leaders are more accountable to their national public are deciding if they want to get involved.

HMM I wonder if there is a reason the US hasn't use its stealth submarines since WWII, like keeping their capabilities secret from enemies that are closer to US levels of tech, or something.

Not a military guy, but this seems like a dumb use of secretive assets.

Kim has the chance to do the funniest thing.

Sure buddy, we all know you're a bitch that will send British troops in to die in Iran if your buddy Trump asks.