Completely false.

Why?

Configuring FreeBSD is extremely straightforward.

FreeBSD is extremely straight forward to configure as a network gateway.

Weapons are only expensive if you want them to be expensive.

Ukraine are butchering Russians for 870 USD per dead soldier.

The USA has the most expensive weapons in the world, the problem is that much of it is obsolete.

Ukraine butchers soldiers for cheap. The US drops a bomb through the Atatollah’s bedroom window for not-cheap. It’s not clear to me which is more cost effective in the end. (Ignoring for a moment that US strategy in this war seems to be nonexistent. Imagine these capabilities were being used with some actual goal in mind besides “if we take their king then we win.”)

There is a big difference between defending against an unprovoked invasion vs assassinating an unsuspecting target.

Ukraine has shown themselves very capable of surgical offensive strikes using cheap drones deep inside enemy territory , so your comparison is not valid.

The US is also bombing girls going to school.

You seem to be confusing my comment about cost effectiveness with an analysis of morality.

Donald Trump strikes me as a man who has done a lot of things in his life that is blackmail material.

Done, yes I agree, but it only counts as blackmail if he were responsive to the threat. That responsiveness is the only place where I'm uncertain.

I'm sure he's done something he is very embarrassed about, some sexual fetish on record or something similar.

I wouldn't put it past him to go to war to protect such secrets, if he can conceivably frame it as something positive.

At least they have a better healthcare system

I know this is extremely off topic, but illegal immigrants are far more likely to commit crimes than citizens, not that this has anything to do with software bugs...

You got that exactly the wrong way round.

Here's one set of numbers from the CATO institute: https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/illegal-immigrant-murde...

The only way your statement holds up is if you treat the act of existing while undocumented as a crime for this comparison, in which case sure - it's a tautology.

First of all, the link you provided mixes illegal migration with legal migration, a classic trick trying to downplay the effects of illegal immigration.

Second, it compares murder rates only, in the state of Texas, a state well known to have extreme amounts of legal guns. You can hardly generalise from this data.

Here is some interesting data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Denmark

FWIW I don’t live in the USA.

> First of all, the link you provided mixes illegal migration with legal migration

No it doesn't. I chose that article specifically because it provides figures for native-born citizens, legal immigrants and illegal immigrants:

> Over the 10-year period from 2013 to 2022, the homicide conviction rate in Texas for illegal immigrants was 2.2 per 100,000, compared to 3.0 per 100,000 for native-born Americans. The homicide conviction rate for legal immigrants in Texas was 1.2 per 100,000.

I accept that the figures in other countries may not work out the same way as figures in the USA.

I would not trust these numbers either way, because they are from a think thank with a very specific agenda.

I probably won't comment further, since as you said this is very off-topic (I only meant to draw out an analogy as to why discussions about AI tend to be ideologically skewed), but every statistic I've seen shows far lower crime rates among illegal immigrants versus citizens (aside from the statutory crime of being in the country illegally).

There is a lot of FUD regarding nuclear power in Germany, don't be surprised.

Why are you spending so much effort helping the most privileged people on the planet? Makes no sense to be their white knight

It seems to me that the people flying private jets are the biggest threats to humanity.