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Russian here; good fucking luck banning VPNs

First, they evolve very rapidly and are able to evade even the most sensitive detection methods Russia and China are using

Second, people in power never want to apply the same restrictions to themselves, so, ironically, they themselves are often VPN users and as such they undermine themselves

Now defend it from domestic one.

But this reactor turns mercury into gold, and is meant to produce power.

Nice site you got there! Made from scratch or using some service/app?

With all the care, I would strongly advise you not to go with "you must be in a survival situation to learn to swim" cliché.

Not only is it, well, dangerous, but it also doesn't teach you to swim properly either. If you just try to stay on the surface, you'll expend a ton of energy and can get water in your throat which will complicate things severely.

You should learn to stay on the surface by breathing only. Pick a place with still water (lake? calm sea? pool?) and learn to lay down on your spine without movement. Do it near the shore, of course. Just put your body in a star shape, legs and hands extended, and learn to breathe in a way that allows you to float still. Once you learn it, not only you have improved breathing technique helpful in swimming, but you can also take a rest on water anytime to restore without even having a jacket in the first place.

Then, knowing how to breathe to stay afloat, learn to swim. Now you can save a lot of energy because you don't need much movement to keep you afloat, and you can just swim in the direction you need

Exactly

Or those "terraform Mars" fantasies

TERRAFORM THE DAMN EARTH FIRST

To me, there are two reasons we're doing it too soon;

• We don't really have technology needed to build a self-sustaining colony anywhere outside Earth; say, a colony on Mars is inherently dependent on Earth's supplies, and will quickly die out as Earth does too; the technologies needed can largely be developed on Earth;
• The chance of some asteroid obliterating Earth in the coming millenia is so minor we might as well focus on much more real threats.

Yep, and I understand how little this message changes in the world

But at least it's good to highlight the basics to ensure people understand the dangers and shortcomings

As if we didn't know this already.

Space launches disrupt ozone layer, contribute to air pollution and global warming, waste a lot of resources, and produce tons upon tons of space debris.

We should be careful with this industry and technology, and use it when it makes sense. But hey, why not launch billionaires and their cars into space for leisure and launch hundreds of satellites under different brandings all promising the best Internet ever or whatnot?

Also, massive launches such as Starlink should be approved by international bodies, not national organizations. Cool, US has greenlit the launch, but now it's a global headache.

I like the premise behind this.

But how do we differentiate? Unless explicitly mentioned, it might be hard to tell the difference between AI and native human message.

It's enough for the other side not to mention the message is AI-generated to fool us for quite a while.

And also check if the source actually says what LLM says.

I once tested Perplexity for article search and it did absolutely terrible job, citing wrong articles, sometimes hallucinating, sometimes picking info from entirely different articles I found later.

To be fair, the answer is true - popcorn is made of corn, and corn doesn't have either gliadin or glutelin, which together form what we know as gluten.

(Source: am food scientist, can back up with articles if necessary)

But using AI as a source is still a crime against humanity.