Nonsense, spy sattelites were a thing when that program was developed. Even now it's pretty difficult for a sattelite to reliably spot, let alone track a flying airplane. (I'm making this up by the way, I have no sources or information and if any side did have sattelites with that capability, they wouldn't tell anyone)
Aren't they just waiting for the active camouflaging technology to catch up? Normally, we think about that as something on the underside of the aircraft so that it appears invisible from the ground... but the same principle could apply to the top side of the aircraft if it ever becomes viable.
That would only be relevant to commercial-based optical spectrum providers. Gov mils have SAR (Synthetic-aperture radar) capabilities that would render that moot.
Yeah, in that case you're just retired and homesteading is your hobby. Nothing wrong with having a hobby when you retire from your job, but in no way is it comparable to doing the thing as a job.
No, because Stardew Valley is not real life. I may have 5000 hours in Factorio, but I'm pretty sure I'm confident that I would not enjoy mining coal to feed the burners to smelt metal in real life.
Haha, also have several thousand hours in factorio and you're right I don't hold this standard with all my games. That being said, if i was immune to pollution I would at least want to walk around my factories a bit
But it would be pretty cool to have a coal mine on your property and you could go down and like dig up a piece for fun. Have you ever looked at a piece of coal under a microscope? they can look pretty cool!
The US pressured the Swedish government to close Pirate bay, sieze its servers etc. Tried to shut it for the whole world.
This is the country that banned Tiktok, inacted the DMCA. Apparently the US has blocked 1.2m websites since 2010. They sieze domains, sieze servers. They stop payment companies working for the sites.
That part of the Pacific is very sheltered by islands so it is often fairly calm. The First Nations people have hunted and traveled in canoes there for many generations (unlike the Inuit on the eastern arctic and in Greenland that used sealed kayaks where the water was rougher).
CA's central valley is missing ~140 million acre feet of groundwater relative to historical norms, and is pumping an additional ~15 million acre feet a year. Ban that and desalinate 30 million acre feet of oceanwater at $2000 per acre-foot and you can have your cake and eat it too at a cost of 60 billion dollars a year, expand agriculture and develop a sustainable aquifer & watershed.
But central valley agriculture only makes $37 billion a year.
Well if you wish for California to become the next Sahelian desert, sure. California is already on track to become one adverse climate event away from turning into a complete clusterfuck.
In some reguards I would say it is. Yt-dlp terminates my need for an adblocker for the lifetime of the videos I download, something chrome no longer does on a per-view basis and these days not as easily. It also blocks the YouTube algorithm suggestions, which in my eyes are an advertisement too.
