About 250,000 to start, probably closer to 1.5 million by the time responses start.

He’s better than a republican, and he better be getting primaried.

The expense of a delivering the nuke is negligible in comparison to the cost and effort of building a nuke. So much so, that large rocks are more economical than building a nuke at this point.

Use a bigger rock. I might change the cost by hundreds of millions, and still be less than the billions in development and production for a nuke.

Yes, but at this point it would be cheaper and quicker to have spacex fly to orbit, capture a 5 ton rock and drop it on a city.

There’s a reason Iran has been ‘weeks’ from making a bomb for decades now.

They’ll use ai to do pattern matches on available data to assassinate leaders of dissent or those capable of organizing resistance. Knowledge of encryption is uncommon enough of a population to be an acceptable cost.

There are fanatics in Russia. Enough to end the world? Maybe, are those dice you really want to roll with a moron in charge of the US?

My family doctor made a house call in 1978, that’s the last time I heard of it happening. Though he probably continued until he retired in the early 80s.

The argument is ‘I have judges in my pocket, fuck you!’

Bankruptung them through frivolous prosecution is the goal.

I’m still partial to the general philosophy of Dr Who. Killing is to be avoided even at extreme cost. But when survival is put on the line, it’s time to put a bullet in someone, or blow up their entire species. When you reach that point, go as far as you have to, in order to make sure you don’t have to again.