Most people aren’t cheering that we are rearming, but they understand that it is a necessary evil.
Russia is right at our doorsteps and is increasingly aggressive. So we either rearm in the hope that that threat keeps Russia at bay, or we don’t and will hopelessly lose if Russia invades.
Personally I prefer the first option.
At this moment they are discussing doing that, but that does not mean it has already passed or is going to pass
I believe the point is not to replace the existing carreer soldiers, but to train up part of the population to increase the size of your reserve forces.
That way, if war were to break out, you have a pool of trained civilians to draw from until you finish training your new recruits.
Fire the trade bazooka!
Quality news headline right there
Expect more to follow. America is clearly showing that they cannot be trusted as an ally, so countries are going to make the calculation whether it might just be better to align with China instead
Haven’t we always been at war with Eurasia?
Okay, but then don’t come crying that your “allies” aren’t helping you the next time y’all decide to invade the Middle East
If you can’t have sex with the sex-machine making machine, what even is the point?
There is a difference between human-scale and humanoid.
Human-scale just means the robot needs to fit in a space where humans should also fit, while humanoid means it is supposed to resemble a humans not just in size, but also in shape. A humanoid robot would generally have a torso, two arms, two legs, and probably a head.
As an example, a roomba fits in a human environment but is not humanoid. You could hypothetically make a humanoid robot that is capable of using an ordinary vacuum to vacuum the same space, but it would be significantly more complex and more expensive to do that. A purpose-built roomba is a much more cost-effective solution for cleaning up after humans.
Given that it’s a humanoid robot, I suspect that this is more of a marketing stunt than any practical deployment of robots.
Humanoid robots don’t make a ton of sense in manufacturing. Why mimic the sub-optimal anatomy of a human when you can make your robotic work slave have any appendage you want, which are designed to be optinal for their task along the assembly line?
Humanoid robots mostly only make sense in spaces that need to be designed for humans (like homes or hospitals) where the robot needs to regularly interact with human infrastructure.
It could maybe be convenient to transmit files to your own devices without having to fumble around with wires, bluetooth, or the cloud?
I would still recommend tweaking the provided text a little to be more personal to you, but it’s a really good baseline to work from.
Once again I will post the following link:
https://fightchatcontrol.eu/
I will keep posting this link whenever Chat Control shows its ugly head again.
Any specific reason why they should be phones older than 2020?
Hypothetically the police could come with a warrant and force you to hand over the footage you recorded. It’s a higher barrier than if footage is being uploaded to the cloud, but it can still happen.
And even if the cameras are not uploading their footage to the cloud, it still wouldn’t sit well with me if every other house has a camera pointed at the public street
Where I live it is technically illegal to record the public street with an automated camera, but it’s not really being enforced. So there is Ring cameras everywhere.
Yes, but it’ll take them another ten years
It’s a BBC article, so it stands to reason that this is about the UK government.
I’m no expert, but I believe this is down to the individual member states.
In my country (the NL) it is technically not allowed to film the public street with an automated camera, which effectively makes Ring and equivalents illegal to install in most places
Practically this is not really enforced though, so you see them everywhere anyway.
From the coverage that I read in my national newspaper (which admittedly isn’t Slovakian) the speed limit applies to everyone on the sidewalk. Not just to e-bikes and e-scooters, but also to pedestrians.
The speed limit is set to 6 km/h. Joggers and people making a sprint to catch a bus, would easily be breaking that speed limit.
Even the NOS didn’t really spend a lot of attention on it. I only really saw one or two articles on the topic.
That’s nothing compared to, for example, the row with China over Nexperia that has been brewing over the past two months.