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Just for clarity, brain implants or other human interface devices are not related to AI. The idea of brain interfaces is also not new. In 1984 a friend developed an incredibly simple brain-keyboard interface that monitored external brainwaves from the visual cortex. The user looked at a keyboard whose keys rapidly blinked a color (like red) one at a time. Look at the letter A and the visual cortex responses 'red' precisely when the letter A turns red. He began working on this after he was diagnosed with an inoperable tumor in his brain stem.

You miss that Putin's invasion of Ukraine in this day and age is in itself a new level of absurdity.

It's very easy to detect. It's still radioactive (about half of natural uranium) and produces recognizable damage. So at least Ukraine would know.

"Assistant Professor Napapong Pongnapang said the amount of missing caesium-137 is only 0.0005g compared to the 1986 Chernobyl explosion which released 27kg of caesium-137." Well that's clear. I can hear a sigh of relief from all Thai people. More useful, the total cesium in the lost Australian source was 19.9 GBq compared to 1.6 GBq in the Thai capsule inside the meter, or just 8%. Or 'was' until they melted it down in a pile of scrap metal. So what's next, more Thai radioactive 'health' cards like here. ‘Magic’ cards sold in Thailand to cure diseases ‘found to emit dangerous levels of radioactivity’

Putin, Xi, and peace plan for Ukraine has about zero credibility. A secure, face to face meeting is more likely for military planning outside NATO earshot.

You make the completely unfounded assumption that US bio-research involvement with China and Wuhan Labs (for what ever reason) is not in the best interests of the US and the global community.

You may have better luck asking her about fusion.

Total population of current NATO countries is 949.01 million. [ref]. Total population of the Russian Federation is 143.5 million. [ref]

Somewhat misleading. The 5 x 13 inch cylinder is not a radiation canister, rather an old industrial flow meter used at the power plant. Here is a frontal image from this article. Deep inside the flow meter there is a small cesium-137 source used to measure flow, likely similar to the tiny one recently lost (and found) in Australia. Nothing like the famous Samut Prakan lost cobalt-60 canister, which was ~10,000 times more radioactive.

Yes, been here 35 years+. My niece who lives with me gets frequent colds and always wears a mask. It's a well known Thai cultural fact.

Nod off in the middle of class? You forgot that 8 liters of air you gulp every minute are filtered by 100 square meters of wet infectible lung tissue. Your two eyes, just sitting there, have only .00035 m2 (3.5 cm2) of exposed surface and a long way to the lungs past the disease fighting tonsils. If you don't rub your eyes you are mostly safe.

90-95% of Thais still wearing masks because of smog? And where were these masked crusaders before Covid? The only time Thai wore masks pre-covid was when they had respiratory infections that they didn't want to impose on others.

If you could see what it can see you'd be worth as much.

Technology such as stinger missiles are often upgraded with new variants and capabilities. One recent upgrade (2014) added new sensors and a target detection system for UAVs. Iran/Russia will learn somethings but this is simply a fact of war. The current stinger line is no longer manufacturable because its computer chips are no longer available. So it's unlikely that Russia or Iran can simply copy them. The US is also developing a new MANPADS system to replace the stinger.

Today's 'house' is defined more by ideological closeness than by geographical closeness. China is out back in the woods somewhere howling.

That OP image in not John Brennan. If you'd ever met John Brennan you would know. This is John Brennan. The person in the image is also not Bill Burns, it is General David Petraeus who was in related CNN video. The paragraph with Bill Burns name is not the image heading, so you have made several mistakes even before you start erroneously dissing NATO and the US.

You referenced the same article I posted so the conclusions must be the same! No one said fear was unfounded. I trust scientists more than Yahoo or BI. Such articles are also not new. From 2016, Scientific American: As Earth Warms, the Diseases That May Lie within Permafrost Become a Bigger Worry In 2014, Scientific American also asked: Could the Next Lab Accident Result in a Pandemic? Lots to worry about.

Both are full of click & scare. Here is a similar lay article from of a science website. Read it and see if you can see the difference. No scare, more facts. And pictures! Phys.org: Ancient dormant viruses found in permafrost Warning, disturbing images: Neolithic Mega-viruses eat lifeforms!

You don't seem to know how IC and high technology industries work and how interdependent the world has become. Destabilizing the world's IC industry would make covid's $6 trillion loss look like a picnic. However, China has one problem. Taiwan's vast IC industry depends far more on Western high technology than on China's. You might want to start here Reuters:special-report ... if Beijing invades, there is no guarantee it could seize the prized foundries intact. They could easily become a casualty of fighting, severing the supply of chips to China’s vast electronics industry. Even if the foundries survived a Chinese takeover, they would almost certainly be cut off from a global supply chain essential to their output.

Your article is unfortunately paywalled. Here is a March 8 Reuters article quoting German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius' comments on the Ukraine theory. "But I am warning against jumping to conclusions," Pistorius said on the sidelines of a summit in Stockholm. Pistorius said earlier the likelihood was "equally high" that it could have been a "false flag operation staged to blame Ukraine". Who would commit a false flag operation to blame Ukraine?

NB. Pressure in the NS-2 pipe-A dropped from 105 bar (~104 atmospheres) to 7 bar after the explosion [1 , 2]. (105 bar = 1523 psi) Otherwise yes, we are likely to never know. Seeing current very close NATO and US/EU relations, it is highly unlikely the US sabotaged the pipes to spite the EU as a few Putin cheerleaders claim.

Unfortunately the article is paywalled. So, I searched for other recent articles on Ukrainian secret weapons finding several that include: batteries, food, borsch, volunteers, ordinary people spying on Russian forces, and medics. So I screen capped the forbidden article to find the secret weapon, which is Morale. The authors deduce this from the recent video of the Ukrainian prisoner brutally executed while shouting "Slava Ukraini". That probably is the secret weapon that keeps Putin awake at night. The whole world is shouting it. Slava Ukraini!

"I don't see why if someone come and captured the territory ... " Despite your false equivalence whataboutism, it is good that most every Ukrainian now understands the horror of Putin's brutal, illegal invasion and destruction of their homeland and killing of innocent people. No, it was not OK for Adolf Hitler and it is not OK for madman Putin.

How can Putin's repeated brutal and illegal military expansions into democratic Europe and neighboring countries not threaten NATO and everyone? Not to mention threats to attack, destroy, and nuke NATO countries. Feb 24 they suggested moving back Poland's Border. You may be confusing NATO's collective defense Article 5 (attack one attack all) with external threats and security. You are surely confusing Putin's expansionist intentions with Ukraine. NATO, not me, already identified Russia as “the most significant and direct threat to Allies’ security and to peace and stability in the Euro-Atlantic area” in their 2022 Strategic Concept paper. about NATO (bottom). To understand Putin, see Julia Loffe, a charming Russian/American journalist and Putin expert. She has many eye opening interviews, start here.

I don't care.