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New comment by bluealienpie in "Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat"

bluealienpie — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:19:48 +0000

There is a concrete numbers of dollars needed to functionally demine Cambodia, and it's in the low billions of dollars. They have highly effective teams, and you can directly contribute by visiting museum. https://www.cambodialandminemuseum.org/

New comment by bluealienpie in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

bluealienpie — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 06:48:46 +0000

Nor the hundreds of thousands murder by Israel in a genocide, which is why his strategic analysis doesn't see the gulf states are at risk of collapse if they engage Iran on what is perceived to be on Israel's behalf.

New comment by bluealienpie in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

bluealienpie — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 06:47:00 +0000

It was never about nuclear weapons, Netanyahu has been saying Iran was one week away for over 30 years. Europe goes along as an excuse to support politically unpopular war to maintain US support for Ukraine.

New comment by bluealienpie in "'No idea who he is', says Trump after pardoning crypto tycoon"

bluealienpie — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 08:00:54 +0000

America has never been concerned about anything other than America. They literally couldn't care less that they have threaten to take over Canada... Potentially Greenland and Panama militarily.

New comment by bluealienpie in "How the US got left behind in the electric car race"

bluealienpie — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 20:11:04 +0000

Too much of the debate is taken up by regulations are good vs bad. The focus should be on drafting regulations that make sense. The US doesn't allow small trucks due to EPA classification so didn't make any until this recent crop of EVs started popping up.

RE China: They also make the cheapest and best qualities Telsa which are shipped around the world. They can make the best and worst quality depending on your price point.

New comment by bluealienpie in "Engineer restores pay phones for free public use"

bluealienpie — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 07:15:35 +0000

You could get a tourist SIM and do the same? Cellphones don't have some perfect identification system.

New comment by bluealienpie in "4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program"

bluealienpie — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 07:45:57 +0000

Probably the creation of techno-fascist state, or at least the desire to have one as outlined by Thiel and co. The excessive deference that all tech companies have had towards elected leaders instead of striving for independence under the law, and now they strive to co-opt government to achieve their goals.

New comment by bluealienpie in "Fine dining restaurants researching guests to make their dinner unforgettable"

bluealienpie — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 06:32:01 +0000

I'd prefer having consent of when and where my data is used.

New comment by bluealienpie in "OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract"

bluealienpie — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 02:56:27 +0000

That's the rational response.

New comment by bluealienpie in "Autonomous drone defeats human champions in racing first"

bluealienpie — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 04:51:37 +0000

That future arrived years ago. Now it's targeting journalists, women and children. Ukraine is just doing it at a lower cost.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCfv79C_-I0

New comment by bluealienpie in "[dead]"

bluealienpie — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 06:18:15 +0000

This is an interesting perspective on how Russia views it. https://youtu.be/JrMiSQAGOS4

New comment by bluealienpie in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

bluealienpie — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 16:39:30 +0000

Law firm filed for the wrong category perm and it will be 1 1/2 years before I could get AoS based on new visa. Any way to expedite the process?

New comment by bluealienpie in "Tesla Cybertruck [video]"

bluealienpie — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 04:25:30 +0000

Can't believe they didn't test the vehicle prior to demo. Very amateur