I don't know, but somebody is going to have to keister some glitter for it.

Also from Joly in the article: “Our goal is also to double our non-U.S. exports and so you see the prime minister going around and signing new trade deals across the world,”.

The title isn't a lie, but "an open door" seems to be about as far as it goes. They'd have to send a non-insane offer though that door.

Hell yes!

We were going to have to slum it with the other two meatless meat brands Yves Potvin founded.

You would have to have an incredible grindset to become a decent engineer without actually enjoying any of it. You could become a shitty one just by passing tests, I guess. (And probably many people do)

And before that, the worry was Malthusian overpopulation. (Which would be a much bigger problem if it had happened)

That would make more sense. I imagine it would also be good just to wear down their teeth if there's nothing else available.

That makes sense. I guess what I was thinking is a strategic use of a small, tactical-ish nuke, probably framed as tactical. Basically, cross the red line but as minimally as possible, in order to put NATO on the spot.

In a way that was Russia's strategy before the full-scale invasion, and it was working flawlessly. Since then NATO has become much more determined and active, but also more unstable.

Ukraine could absolutely be fighting a dirtier war than it is.

Doing war crimes is bad strategy. It's not free, it doesn't effect enemy military operations and, as we've seen in with Russia's actions in Ukraine, is effective propaganda for the enemy. If the Russian government can provoke Ukraine into it, it's absolutely in their interest to do so.

Ukraine is fighting total war about optimally. Or at least, I don't have any notes for them.

Because they clearly didn’t use them at points where there were more concentrated Ukrainian defences that might at least at a simple tactical level, have an argument for their use if you turned off your brain and soul and thought like a Russian does, for a minute.

Because actual Russians care about far more than just winning. There's also degrees of loss, and MAD is a very significant one. I don't know to what degree they're worried about preserving the value of Ukraine as territory at this point, but if they do that would be another consideration, you're right.

Again, it was a very "technically increases chance of victory" kind of answer.

They’re not going to use nukes of any kind.

Yep, probably not.

Yeah, sand definitely is much harder than teeth (which in a normal vertebrate are based on apatite, at a Mohs hardness of 5). If it's abrasion, that explains a bit, although it's going to be much slower than an actual cutting action. A quick search indicates cement is at Mohs 5-7, so you theoretically could chew through an unusually soft sample.

You could also go with metal or stone, like an actual vault, but we both thought of tupperware. Go figure.

Honestly, when your whole organisation is hardened criminals <10% grift is pretty impressive.

No way. Really? That can't be much softer than their teeth.