I’m in Canada right now. Biggest threat is a heart attack from all the maple syrup infused bacon served everywhere.

I’ve lived in Belgrade and spent much time in Budapest. Vucic and Orban certainly run their countries like mafia. But they are also woefully incompetent.

If you wear a tie it’s because you have to. Ties are very out of fashion now.

Serbian government is even more incompetent than Hungary’s.

My local food coop just fucks me. I didn’t know I could get toys with that too!

I lived in France for two years and spent a good deal of time in Germany. There are areas of extreme poverty, even in the most advanced EU countries. But the linked article and study exaggerates the reality of it in comparison to the rest of the world.

I’m going to guess this was at 2am in the morning after a night of drinking at the local strip club. He just found himself at a table hungover, with a coffee and a plate of greasy bacon and eggs, wondering how he’d got there. Must have been a UFO portal. Couldn’t possibly have been a drunken blackout. No, siree.

Please read Lessig’s Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace. There is no system code that doesn’t implement rules, and no rules that aren’t impacted by its creators’ biases. What matters is intent. It’s clear, the devs of PieFed by implementing anti-Nazi mod tools do not intend to ban people who were born in 1988 or otherwise. You use an edge case to argue a rare injustice trumps the obvious good of tossing neonazis off their platform.

Mod tools on PieFed are vastly better than on Lemmy. And that’s not a political statement.

The one I bought was a 2400bps unit in 1985. I hooked it up to a local BBS I ran on a TRS-80 Model 1. Fun times. Lol

I actually owned one of those!

It’s a cable-tv descrambler.

Yeah. Except, as Trump says, ‘Who would have guessed!?’

YOU FIRST.

I’m not a nuclear weapons designer, I’ve just read some books. But my understanding is that shaped charge implosion is better for Pu designs. It does require much less material to reach criticality. Maybe 8-9kg? vs 65kg for a U device. But I don’t think Iran has been refining Pu, just U.

A backpack device is BIG. It could not be concealed like a suicide vest. It also requires nuclear materials (plutonium) and a specialty implosion design and triggers Iran does not have.

They cannot build a W54. This would be an early prototype device and that would not fit on a vest. Iran only has enriched uranium, not plutonium (according to news reports). It takes a great deal more uranium than plutonium to build a bomb. About 65ish kilos of +90% enriched for a uranium bomb.

The W54 is a shaped charge implosion device. To build a W54, they’d need plutonium. And the trigger to detonate shaped charges at the right time in the right order. Plus, they need a neutron moderator to limit criticality so it doesn’t detonate with the full potential of the nuclear material. This is all well beyond Iran’s capabilities.

Russia could do it though. Probably China too. North Korea? I think not.

They are much larger than a suitcase, extremely heavy, and developing them took decades. If Iran had +90% enriched uranium, their likely first attempt would be a gun style bomb like Little Man. Much easier design than shaped charges, not least because of trigger timing. But that’s a large bomb. The Enola Gay was the largest bomber in the US fleet at the time, and it just barely carried the bomb for Hiroshima.

Maybe a dirty bomb with nuclear materials, but an actual fission bomb on a vest? No. Never mind they don’t have the enriched fuel, never mind just building a working device would be extremely difficult for them and that would be large like the Hiroshima bomb.

This is Iraq Weapons of Mass Distraction all over again. Fuck this administration.

Find a better server.

It’s just research!