What do you see in this satellite photo of CECOT?

It’s not left and right, it’s up and down.

Better question. When does reddit run out of real users.

Correct. I did follow up today and read some more sources and it sounds like it’s not quite as simple a story, but the dependence on the US military seems to be a significant issue. I found a better article with a more nuanced take here if you’re interested in that sort of thing: https://theaviationist.com/2025/03/10/f-35-kill-switch-myth/

My understanding is that that plane needs to “call home” daily or it won’t work.

I couldn’t find the article, but found a more recent one that basically agrees with you, except on the whole replacement of the computer systems. That plane took so long to complete and had so many problems, im betting it’s easier to design a new plane rather than reverse engineer this one but that’s neither here nor there.

I think the largest issue is the over-dependence on the US military across the board which as you mentioned, we see playing out in the Ukraine already.

Do you think the EU has what it takes to rebuild fast enough to stand up for themselves alone?

I hope so. I’m not informed enough to know.

Yes. This is why I’ve disabled it repeatedly when it supplants my assistant.

If they remove automation, well, that was the one thing standing between me and de-googling.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14485007/donald-trump-f35-kill-switch-concern-europe.html

Basically, yes.

I read that it’s trivially easy for the US to remotely disable those planes. Seems like a security concern to use them.

Jam the mic? https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B08Y5GGP4D

Works on my phone…

Reddit says the vast majority of users will not be affected Is that because the vast majority of users are bots? 🤔

Welcome, internet stranger!

I don’t disagree, but the systems necessary to make this happen non-destructively just do not exist.

BTW, you may like the limits to growth study. https://archive.org/details/TheLimitsToGrowth

Although it is kind of a downer. In the 70s, they predicted the downfall of society. We’re on track with the prediction, more or less.

Lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Has this energy…

It’s a difficult enough task that I would probably be unable to suspend disbelief.

That said, if your hero has some time and a soldering kit it would be fairly doable and relatively believable. Also keep in mind that most flash drives now have the contacts for the USB port as part of The printed circuit board that has the actual storage on it and usually the actual storage would be encased in resin, at least with a good flash drive.

The cheap ones, you could totally do this though.

You’re a nice person. Keep being you!

I ducking knew it too, I’ve been a long for the ride though. The models still do have some niche applications where they’re actually useful.

This whole thing with OpenAI and Microsoft whinging about fair play is truly laughable though. What clowns.

As a side note, it took a few tries to write ducking, my keyboard kept correcting it to fucking. We’re definitely 2 different people. Lol.

Dude, we tried to get coffee before it went up… It had already went from $12 to $16!

I like to think it’s this… Kurtzgesagt - The Egg

Here’s a link to the original short story https://galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

I heard someone saying Idiocracy is thinly veiled eugenics propaganda. I still don’t know how to feel about that.