• BombOmOm@lemmy.world
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    8 天前

    It’s no surprise it’s all countries bordering Russia. Gotta do what you gotta do!

    • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
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      7 天前

      I really feel for Ukraine. They never wanted to take this step. They know exactly what they’re getting into: antipersonnel mines can halt Russian advances but they represent a bleak future of maimed and killed Ukrainian civilians in those areas.

  • Saleh@feddit.org
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    8 天前

    The cynical part of me is asking, whether landmines aren’t an effective measure to ensure environmental protection. The more areas are being mined now, the less they are available for human exploitation after the war.

    • massi1008@lemmy.world
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      7 天前

      There are currently large forest fires in east germany (as each year). The fire cannot be effectively combatted because the ground is (supposedly) full of unexploded ordenanced from back in the cold war when the area was used as a trainig ground. (agian, nothing new. Nothing unique)

      • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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        8 天前

        Humans regularly kill large animals as well.

        Though I’m unsure how much the presence of mines and absence of humans would affect animal deaths.

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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        7 天前

        Do they? The old ones are usually magnetically triggered and I assume current ones have a CPU onboard interpreting multiple sensors.

  • Usernume@lemmy.world
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    8 天前

    War is coming and AI is already escaping from under control.

    We are at the point were we need to decide how to program ethics and morality into AI, but we are too busy fighting over land and resources while boiling alive.

    • plyth@feddit.org
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      8 天前

      Just imagine that the wars were created to motivate people to build drones and AI. Who doesn’t want to defend themselves?