If you are don’t station troop at nuclear facilities, then no they are not safe from assault.
Re:The era of jobs is ending
by reducesuffering on Monday December 08, 2025 @07:40PM
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It does not matter how many people you have against a sea of automated drone factories and billions of drones. The war against Ukraine is primarily a drone war
The buildings are hardened against damage, but the facilities are only surrounded by chainlink fence. A small group seize any power plant and force a shutdown.
Drones would be great for taking out substations.
Re:The era of jobs is ending
by dreamcompiler on Sunday December 07, 2025 @11:18PM
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> Note to oligarchs: a post-apocalyptic world is no fun. Not even for you in your bunkers.
It's amusing to me that oligarchs don't seem to understand that if the economy goes to hell, their private security forces will just leave (or worse!). What do they think they will pay salaries with? Bitcoin? Do they really think an army of robot dogs is going to protect them?
Re:The era of jobs is ending
by conception on Sunday December 07, 2025 @11:22PM
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Warlords exist in the poorest of economies. They have made the calculation that they should hedge for collapse and attempt to establish themselves for that situation.
Re:The era of jobs is ending
by dreamcompiler on Monday December 08, 2025 @10:28AM
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Warlords will emerge, but the current crop of pasty-faced manboy billionaires ain't gonna become the warlords.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Do they really think an army of robot dogs is going to protect them?
Why would anyone think otherwise?
Re:The era of jobs is ending
by dreamcompiler on Monday December 08, 2025 @10:48AM
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Because they knew Snow Crash was fiction?
15 guns, and what do I get? [...] Sold my soul to the company habitat.
its called universal basic income
its inevitable tbh
It's the choice from manna[0] all over again.
thank you for that read
Is nuclear power safe from assault? I dunno. Visit Chernobyl and see.
If an even greater concentration of wealth is to lead to mass destruction/revolution, I advise a more even distribution.
Note to oligarchs: a post-apocalyptic world is no fun. Not even for you in your bunkers.