wizardbeard

All from the first page of results for laws preventing private ownership of nuclear weapons.

Changed my mind and took 30 seconds to spoonfeed you. Enjoy. I'm blocking your ass as to prevent the hazard to my own mental health.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/2122

https://www.nti.org/education-center/treaties-and-regimes/treaty-on-the-prohibition-of-nuclear-weapons/

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/832

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/669/text

https://www.acq.osd.mil/ncbdp/nm/NMHB2020rev/chapters/chapter12.html

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1961-1968/npt

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

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-security/non-proliferation/safeguards-to-prevent-nuclear-proliferation.aspx

The only one here scared of anything is you, scared of Musk's clear and present nuclear capabilities. Seriously, seek some anxiety or paranoia treatment.

No, we really, truly are not.

Let me be crystal fucking clear here.

You were not making a valid point.

Your hypothetical is so amazingly absurd that I did not fully believe you were being serious until I saw your response.

I'm still wondering if this isn't some sort of weird ass false flag attempt to make people who dislike Musk look like absolute raving loonies.

I tried to give you places to begin looking into things yourself so you (and anyone else as delusional as you) wouldn't be worried about something so unlikely as to be effectively impossible.

I'm not doing that work for you, I've already had to sit through countless discussions of this shit in my lifetime. Multiple nuclear engineers in the (extended) family, have met members of the regulatory orgs through them, and that's what my parents wanted me to grow up to be (I fucked off into computers though).

Beyond that, I tried to give you some stuff against Musk that's far more rooted in reality than the wildest speculation.

But I really couldn't give a shit what you talk about. I just dislike seeing people undermining legitimate points by throwing around absurd exageration. Especially when there's plenty of legitimate criticisms and concerns out there about Musk.

Please, do go on about how he's going to somehow outsmart intelligence agencies that took out an entire country's nuclear program with a single goddamn computer virus. At this point it's just entertaining.

Are you ok? You've doubled down on nonsense. Seriously, take a breath. Look into some treatment for anxiety.

The whole danger is that AI text generation doesn't misspell, and comes across highly confidently.

There's actual research out there on spotting AI generated text. Most of it is based off tone, frequency of some specific phrases, and sentence structure.

If you're mixing this with the idea that spam emails and scamming comments are often misspelled, that's done in an attempt to avoid word filters, and also to help ensure that people who fall for them are dumb enough not to notice, making them easy marks more likely to overlook other warning signs. If they aren't trying to get you to take an action, or a coordinated push to manufacture consent, the chance of AI is low.

Also, the statistics about internet traffic you're thinking about is about bots. That's largely scripts and web scrapers, less so automated posters making arguments multiple levels down incredibly quiet threads on low user count social media like lemmy.

David Tennant's performance in Jessica Jones stuck with me for a while. It took a while for me not to assume his characters would be evil after that, and I was already familiar with his run as The Doctor.

It was the PS3, and I don't believe you had to buy anything. It had "other OS" functionality for effectively dual-booting Linux on it, which they removed partway through it's lifecycle in a firmware update.

That pretty much kickstarted and supercharged the PS3 hacking scene.

You've got a bit of misunderstanding of how bitcoin works, and they definitely aren't using the juryrigged supercomputer for unmasking. Most likely human analysts and investigators with some minor algorithmic help for analyzing tumbled transactions on the chain.

Bitcoin is inherently traceable. The entire concept of the blockchain originally was to have a distributed ledger of all transactions available and verifiable by anyone, so the banks couldn't go "no that transaction never happened".

The anonimity of being able to instantly and freely create wallets with little to no identifying info attached was a side purpose, but not a true purpose. Your wallet is effectively just a username they'd have to find a way to connect to your real identity.

All bitcoin transactions are auditable by anyone.

So most criminals use tumblers, scattering a transaction into irregular pieces that move across a shit ton of wallets before slowly making their way to the actual destination wallet.

But even those are traceable, just difficult. Over time and through seizing black market servers, intelligence agencies can build maps of what wallets match up to what. Sellers leaving donate links in forum signatures, finding the tumbler accounts from a seized market, etc. Then by using external info like knowledge of the payout amount and how many wallets its going to end up in, they can analyze the block chain ledger and connect the dots.

TL;DR- Bitcoin has always been psuedonymous, not actually anonymous, and is more easily traceable than other options by fucking design. You are only as anonymous as the distance between your real identity and your wallet address. Practice proper OpSec for shady business.

Who prevents him from buying an atomic weapon and setting it off for a meme stunt or internet points ?

You have to be joking.

Nearly every military in the world. Countless regulatory agencies. Intelligence agencies the world over. It's pretty much known that the US made stuxnet to kill one country's nuclear program. Do you seriously fucking think they wouldn't stop a single billionaire?

There's also the fact that even he's not that insane, and any other billionaire out there who wouldn't want the effects of a nuke going off to get in the way of their own shit.

If you were talking a dirty bomb, that might be within his reach. Buy some mines in third world countries, mine up some material, strap it to a conventional bomb. That's also many orders of magnitude less severe (while still horrific). Also, most mining rights in areas with worthwhile radioactive material available have already been bought up by other entities with similar financial levels of backing.

Actual nukes require quite a bit more than just an explosive and some radioactive material to build anyway, and things like nuclear material refinement facilities are quite easily visible from satelite imagery. They also require specialized hardware that is closely monitored. Sure he could pay to reverse engineer and/or get it built. Good luck keeping that secret for as long as it would take.

The man's a living embodiment of a chode with a diamond studded piercing. There's plenty of shit to be upset at him about, or worried about, without getting anywhere close to this absurd. I sincerely hope that you weren't being serious.

If you want shock factor, talk about the slave mines his family wealth comes from, and the slave mines where we source lithium from for EV batteries. Talk about the high frequency of using child soldiers as security for said mines, in addition to the child slave labor.

Talk about the highly likely intentional killing of Twitter by Saudi Arabian government's investment into Musk as a retaliation for the Arab Spring and as a way to further control rapid information dissemination during crisises.

There's real reasons to despise him, going for such extremely ridiculous exaggerations only hurts the point you're trying to make.

Unfortunately all you can do is try to thicken your skin and attempt to "manage upwards".

"I appreciate the feedback and I'll bear that in mind in the future, but there's nothing I can do about this months later. Next time let me know when I still have an opportunity to correct the issue and I'll gladly course-correct."

And refuse to sign the review. Be specific that you don't accept being penalized for mistakes you made months before you were told the rule.

You can push back while being polite and professional in some places, so it's worth a shot if you're already being shit on or are on the way out.

If you've tried it and gotten nowhere though, just disengage and try to stop caring so much.

Your manager's failure to communicate is their problem, not yours.

The Bay Area is a well known warp in reality. Don't expect your experiences there to map to experiences elsewhere.

And even so, it's usually who you know, how well you can sell to VC, and luck that determine success out there.