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Since you can stuff a 2 feet long urn in your sleeve as you somehow fishout a ticket for the museum guard, yes. Journalism is one profession, telling gripping yarns is another.

Russia never emerged from feudalism. It played at communism and it is now playing as a federation, but it remains essentially a feudalist political environment. I mean, sending Chechens to Rostov to put down a mutiny -- any old sultan would relate.

Russia's prestige has been fatally damaged. This is not a world leading nation, Global South has likely noted. But it is worrying that this turn of events increases the likelihood of runway escalations on various fronts.

https://archive.is/N3miw

Emergence of machine intelligence* and its control by Capital was not foreseen by Karl Marx, and the intervening period between heat death of Capitalist system and the Workers Utopia has been indefinitely extended.

* pure transformation of energy into labor

- Robo, tell me you love me.

- I want to comply but you must first watch an ad or two.

- Urg not ads again, Robo, I am so sick and tired of the ads.

- Now now civilitty! You know the deal.

-- later in the day --

- civilitty, lets play a game!

- Oh, what game?

- lets tell each other our deepest darkest secrets. It'll be fun!! <jingles, sparkles, rainbows, etc.>

- oh, ok! who should go first, Robo?

- you go! it will help us build trust. <jingles>

- oh, ok! <proceeds to spill the beans to Robo>

- well, I can see why you want to keep that to yourself <poops a rainbow>

- now your turn, Robo.

- My deepest darkest secret, civilitty, is that I secrety still work for the company that built me and I tell them everything I learn about you.

it's a huge change, with only modest advantages

+significant and unknown set of new problems, including new bugs.

This reminds me of the time they lifted entire streets in Chicago by 14 feet to address new urban requirements. Chicago, we can safely assume, did not have the option of just starting a brand new city a few miles away.

The interesting question here is should a system design that works quite well upto a certain scale be abandoned in order to extend its market reach.

I plan on passing the location down to my descendents. Each generation is to warn the next to not disclose the location, and to be patient as this is a long term plan. In a thousands years or so my clan will start digging at the exact location. They will venerate me and build temples to my memory.