Yup! Totally plausible - just more expensive and less repeatable. And harder to use against moving targets.

Although you are correct, this destroys the engine.

A good, efficient fusion engine just needs to point the exhaust end towards the enemy and the hyper-accelerated particles will punch a hole through the target for you. And then you point at the next target, etc. etc.

Also, it’s a butchered quote from Larry Niven’s Known Space books, referred to as the “Kzinti Lesson” - because the Kzinti thought humanity was unarmed and helpless until they discovered that humans are really good at improvising weapons.

The usefulness of a fusion engine as a weapon is directly correlated to its efficiency.

Well, then the problem would be solved anyways!

I’m pretty sure astronauts are trained on the usage of garbage receptacles.

The air filters would capture it eventually. It’s not like the ISS has dead air.

I mean, the same goes for a login. People share Steam accounts too.

That implementation of NFTs was a total scam, yes. There are some cool potential applications for NFTs … but mostly it was a solution looking for a problem. Even situations where it could be useful - like tracking ownership of things like concert tickets - weren’t going to fly, because the companies don’t want to relinquish control of the second-hand marketplace. They don’t get their cut that way.

Give a man an LLM that can churn out poor-quality fish day after day for free until he gets used to not having to think for himself, then start charging for the privilege, and you’ll make money for a lifetime.

Sure it is. If it’s a program that is meant to make decisions in the same way an intelligent actor would, then it’s AI. By definition. It may not be AGI, but in the same way that enemies in a video game run on AI, this does too.

The order was to shut down DEI policies, not to stop discrimination. And DEI policies explicitly exist to try to stop discrimination - meaning that what Trump really wants to do is appeal to white men who feel like they’re being left behind when a Pakistani woman gets hired in a position they feel like they ‘deserve’.