The President can’t amend the Constitution. In fact, the entire federal government’s only role – not talking just the Executive Branch, but also the Legislative and Judicial – is, in one of the two amendment routes, to propose the amendment. In the other, they have no involvement at all. The amending process is really a process done by the states.

I mean, if you have the ability to build a spacecraft and get there, you’ve already overcome far larger barriers. Any physical security on the door is going to be comparatively irrelevant as a barrier.

Locks, like walls and other passive defenses, aren’t designed to stop people. They’re designed to keep basically-honest people honest and slow down the rest to the point where other things, like people, can deal with them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe#Burglary_ratings

The highest safe rating here against burglary is 30 minutes of resistance against someone equipped with suitable tools (like, cutting torches and such).

If you can get up to the ISS, it’s a pretty safe bet that nobody’s going to show up in 30 minutes to do anything about you entering.

It’s not even the underlighting. Like, his hair looks lopsided, his eyes aren’t symmetrical, the camera is looking down at him…like, this was his official portrait from Term 1:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Donald_Trump_official_portrait.jpg

That’s far more conventional.

Looking at a Fox News article comparing the two side-by-side, I guess that the idea with his new portrait is to evoke his mugshot, as it’s posed similarly:

But whatever the political benefit his campaign perceives it as, the campaign is over. He’s in (well, going to be in) office. Having done that, do you truly want to try to evoke a mugshot as your legacy?

EDIT: For contrast, here are the portraits of all prior presidents:

https://www.whitehousehistory.org/galleries/presidential-portraits

The only other one that’s really as oddball as that is JFK’s, and I’d sure rather have something like JFK’s than Trump’s.

Unless they’ve removed it from the game, I assume so.

obsolete knowledge

doom cheat codes

The second article on games@lemmy.world is about Doom (running on PDFs)

The Vance one looks reasonably normal, but for Trump…I’m kind of surprised that that’s how Trump wants history to see him.

Honestly, that looks pretty tasty, even with the keys.

I can see it now: “New worm infects PDFs, causes users viewing them to mine Bitcoin.”

Every user creates an account on one instance. You did so on lemmy.world, which is the largest instance out there, a popular one. That is their home instance.

Posts and comments from other instances will be visible to an instance as long as the two instances are federated – that is, the instance admins have not explicitly cut them off from each other. Lemmy.world and lemmy.today are federated.

Normally, any user from any instance can see and post to any community on a federated instance.

A given community on a source instance will not actually see its content be copied to a destination instance until at least one user on the destination instance has subscribed to that community – this helps reduce bandwidth usage on the network. I’m subscribed to AskLemmy@lemmy.world, and probably other users on lemmy.today are as well, so we can see this community.

EDIT: Oh, sorry, I think I see the confusion. I meant that of the instances I listed, lemmy.world was defederated with all except lemmy.ml, not that it was defederated with all instances out there except lemmy.ml.

You can see instance relationships at /instances, so for lemmy.world, https://lemmy.world/instances

It can theoretically alter it in any way. I mean, that’s up to the instance admin.

Read the instance rules in the sidebar of the main page, and see if you’re okay with them. That won’t tell you everything, but it might give you a rough idea of the specifics of the instance. For mbin instances, rather than the sidebar, look at /terms, like https://fedia.io/terms for fedia.io.

I personally avoid communities on lemmygrad.ml, hexbear.net, and lemmy.ml if possible, and am not currently subscribed to any. Your home instance is lemmy.world, which is outright defederated with all but lemmy.ml, so you won’t even see some of those. I’m fine with other instances. But that’s gonna vary on a personal basis, so there’s no global answer for that.

There are small devices with directional antennas, often gun-shaped, intended to jam the datalink. Not really “electromagnetic pulse”, though.

I mean, Rutte only just got the office. Whatever the merits of the statement, stuff from the Secretary General at the beginning of the war isn’t really on him.

I think that it’s more likely that the other half of the dev team probably knew about the charges, saw this sentence likely coming and didn’t want to sink more time into the project. Which, I mean, I can understand if it’s a two person company. If you’re doing a company like this, you’re betting that the product is going to be successful, and “maybe half the company will vanish” is kind of a huge risk factor.

Frankly, if Musk were President instead of Trump, I’d be rather happier about this upcoming four years.

He can’t be President absent amending the US Constitution, though, as he’d run afoul of the “natural-born citizen” requirement for the office.

Cars are totally out of control, have been for a few years, and it doesn’t seem like there’s an end in sight.

I don’t know where you’re located, but looking at a new, plain-Jane Toyota Corolla in the US:

https://www.toyota.com/corolla/2024/

A 2024 new base Toyota Corolla has an MSRP of $22,050.

https://www.kbb.com/toyota/corolla/2004/

A 2004 new base Toyota Corolla had an MSRP of $14,220. In 2024 dollars, that 2004 Corolla cost $23,613.86. That is, the price for a new Corolla has slightly dropped in real terms over that period of time.

I’m very much interested in what they intend to use to shoot the drones. Missiles? Way to expensive.

Well, if we’re talking about a policing role, it may be fine.

In war, if Country A and Country B are arm-wrestling, and Country A can launch a drone that costs a tenth of what Country B’s missiles do, you can probably guess that Country A is going to keep sending drones, because that’s a pretty favorable exchange. Gotta worry about what happens if it scales up.

But if we’re talking a policing role and don’t expect hundreds or thousands of drones to be sent out – like, the aim is countering espionage or sabotage – that might be okay.

Now, granted, one possibility is that someone might try to figure out a way to send large numbers of drones to do the above, but then that starts to stand out. I think that the current situation is probably more of one where the concern is that malicious drone operators are trying to hide in the noise created by benign drone operators. We don’t easily know whether a given drone is just some random person flying a drone where it shouldn’t be, or whether it’s someone trying to gather intelligence. But if spies start launching a hundred drones at a go, it’s going to be pretty obvious that it’s not just some random person making a mistake.

EDIT:

Not sure the Bundeswehr got any and if not it’ll take fives years of debate if this is technology we actually need and another ten to procure the necessary equipment.

I remember just reading about some kind of programmable-airburst SPAAG that Germany’s sending Ukraine, think it was on a Boxer chassis. Assuming that Germany isn’t sending every one of those that they have, they probably have some to stick around sensitive areas of their own.

kagis

https://mil.in.ua/en/news/ukraine-is-likely-to-receive-boxer-infantry-fighting-vehicles/

The Boxer RCT30 combat module combines the unmanned turret from KNDS Germany with the proven Boxer control module from ARTEC – a joint venture between Rheinmetall and KNDS Germany. The module is armed with the MK 30-2/ABM 30×173 mm stabilized automatic cannon from Rheinmetall. It provides accurate engagement of moving targets both on the ground and in motion.

The German army intends to purchase about 150 systems of this type, and the Netherlands – 72 systems.

The vehicle also has a landing compartment that can accommodate up to six fully equipped infantrymen. However, as the publication notes, the name “command support vehicle” may indicate that these combat vehicles will not be used as an infantry fighting vehicle, but can be used to protect the RCH 155 self-propelled howitzers from drones.

https://www.rheinmetall.com/Rheinmetall Group/brochure-download/Weapon-Ammmunition/B305e0424-MK30-2-ABM-automatic-cannon.pdf

Within a range up to 3,000 metres the MK30-2/ABM delivers maximum effectiveness against land-, air- and sea targets.

So if you plonk one of those in the middle of a military base or whatever, you’ve got a sphere of something like 3km radius.

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It also looks like there’s some fancier thing that has both a gun and missiles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyranger_30

The Skyranger 30 is a short range air defense turret system developed by Rheinmetall Air Defence AG (formerly Oerlikon) and first revealed in March 2021. Its role is to provide ground units with a mobile system capable of engaging fixed and rotary-wing aircraft, Group I and II unmanned aerial systems (UAS), loitering munitions and cruise missiles.[1][2]

Assuming that the “Group I” here is the same as the US classification scheme for UASes and Germany isn’t doing some unrelated-but-similarly-named classification system, it’s intended for use against fairly small drones:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle#Terminology

Group 1: Max take-off weight: < 20 lb (9.1 kg)

Group 2: Max take-off weight: > 20 & < 55

It won’t help with weather or provide a lot of cargo space or passenger room, but depending upon one’s use case, an ebike or motorcycle may work, and can provide fast road transit for less than a car.

For portable air conditioners, many inexpensive units have only a single hose (hot air exhaust) rather than a dual hose (outside air intake and hot air exhaust) which is going to cause inefficiency (like, you’re going to be pulling air from outside into the house by creating a pressure difference).

It looks like the Hulu subreddit is full of unhappy people complaining about it.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Hulu/comments/1i1km60/hulu_just_logged_itself_out_on_my_roku_now_trying/

Doesn’t appear to be a Hulu Threadiverse community.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983

The video game crash of 1983 (known in Japan as the Atari shock)[1] was a large-scale recession in the video game industry that occurred from 1983 to 1985 in the United States. The crash was attributed to several factors, including market saturation in the number of video game consoles and available games, many of which were of poor quality.