Russia is already sanctioned/sanctioning due to the Ukraine War. China maybe could, but they are more focused on renegotiating a trade deal. The EU is already in the process is strategic decoupling and can’t go that much faster. Any other country is likely going to either have enough economic consequences that they can’t afford to or are doing so little trade that it doesn’t mean anything any way.

Yeah, it is going to get awkward for FIFA playing in half filled stadiums.

It isn’t like Arlington, TX is going to be that much better.

And now there are a lot of laws to prevent it.

Regarding adapting non-Western gauge track, it is worth making the transition. The item that I addressed and you dodged is timeline.

Regarding Russia rebuilding its rail infrastructure, Russia has invested a significant amount of money in military engineering brigades to repair rail corridors. Also, Russia isn’t fighting off an invading force.

You’re still leaving out Finland and the Baltics. It also depends on what Russia may attempt to take back. Putin’s current goals appears to be reestablishing control over Soviet territory. That puts the Baltics at risk. You could see Russia attempt to take the Baltics similar to how it took the Crimean Peninsula and make the EU choose if it is worth it to conduct a war to liberate the Baltics like Ukraine had to debate liberate the Crimean Peninsula.

You need heavy air capabilities for two reasons.

First, most of the EU’s frontier has non-European gauge track. So, it doesn’t help to be able to rely on rail when you have to stop rail shipments well behind the front lines. Upgrading the rail is going to be a generational project.

Second, rail infrastructure can be destroyed and it is generally harder to get rail infrastructure back up after being bombed. Not being able to deploy forces while you wait for repairs.

Yeah, I don’t see the EU being able to have a unified defense policy until defense and foreign policy is an EU competency. The only reason it didn’t become an issue so far was because NATO was effectively the EU’s defense organization.

It isn’t that surprising. Humans have gotten very good at raising chickens in the past 60 years.

Yeah, but the scale of the current set of data centers has gotten to a point where they are becoming a problem for the communities they inhabit. If data centers stayed at the consumption levels they did decades ago, I don’t think we’d be seeing organized political action against them.

So, even though Fetterman was a huge disappointment who needs to be primaried out in the next election, Dr. Oz was the alternative.

Given that cameras are readily available to the public, these glasses will likely only be banned in specific controlled locations.

Gatorade never had vitamins, even in its original formulation. It was flavored water with salt to help athletes with electrolyte depletion.

Also, Gatorade is owned by Pepsi. Maybe you’re thinking of Powerade, which was crap.

And Meta probably have Luxotica a large sack of cash to make these glasses.

In general, the Wikimedia Foundation needs some reform. This strike feels like the mod strike when Reddit removed API access.

Cuba was being planned well before the Iran War started.

Most treaties froze nuclear weapons to the original five.

Israel, North Korea, India, and Pakistan all developed their nuclear weapons after these treaties were signed.

JD did kill the last pope.

Cheney also knew how to pull the levers of power.

The federal government provides minimums for voting, but they’ve never tried providing a maximum requirement until Trump. A state, in theory, could allow various kinds of non-humans from voting.

It is part of the reason why national elections are based on state population, not number of voters.

There is a question of timeline. Maybe in 10+ years, but not 2.

The early wave of layoffs in the sector “due to AI” were at the same time as the interest rate went up, pushing all tech companies to start focusing on profit. A lot of unprofitable divisions were cut because it stopped making financial sense to invest in products that didn’t have day 1 revenue.

You’re now seeing companies doing layoffs and claiming AI to either hide that development in their companies have stalled or they are taking advantage of their new shiny remote work platforms to push wages down by shifting workers to places with lower cost of living.

AI labor isn’t worth its tokens, even when they are heavily discounted to gain market share. It might be in a decade, but not now.