koods said:

And this is why only Mexico has gotten a one month extension

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According to a senior Canadian government source:

Trump became heated about Canada’s protections around the dairy sector. Said it’s an example of how US is treated poorly. That is where the profanity was used, by the US President. Source says Trudeau did not use profanity.

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Enlil said:

Traffic costs the government money.  Office space costs money.  Utilities cost money.  Dude...working remotely greatly reduces overhead.  This is why commercial real estate across this country has plummeted.  Companies learned that they can save an assload with remote workers during covid.  Less office space means less overhead

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budmanman said:

Enlil said:

Working remotely increases efficiency more than anything else.

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For the individual and traffic but not government overhead.

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DOGE effort to sell off federal properties inadvertently exposes CIA black site in Northern Virginia — Bloomberg TV

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Blue Cthulhu said:

AI is a massively overhyped bubble. It’s up there with the cyber truck and going to Mars

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Blue Cthulhu said:

I’m sure that will get DOGE’d and privatized and exploited, too

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An interesting read on AI fighter jet pilots:

An AI-enabled Air Force F-16 fighter jet, left, flies next to an adversary F-16, as both aircraft race within 1,000 feet of each other, trying to force their opponent into vulnerable positions, on Thursday, May 2, 2024, above Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The flight is serving as a public statement of confidence in the future role of AI in air combat. The military is planning to use the technology to operate an unmanned fleet of 1,000 aircraft.
https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2024/05/13/us_to_use_ai_to_fly_fighter_jets_navigate_without_gps_1031205.html

It's pretty wild to imagine a future where military hardware is AI operated. There's probably a decent amount of maneuvers and capabilities that are limited just to keep a human pilot conscious. What a human-operated drone can do is already really cool. Maybe there wouldn't even be a need for billion dollar jets if you don't need a cockpit. Can fit way more drones on an aircraft carrier. All that time saved training pilots too. Every AI drone would be equal to the Ace.

Imagine perfect formation flying, like they can already do with drone arrays. I imagine that could confuse some air defense, if you have 100 drones stacked or grouped in a way to look like 1 target on a radar... expanding or contracting formation when they detect enemy fire. Maybe having their sensors in array could unlock new abilities, too, like the James Webb telescope. Perhaps to read enemy projectile trajectories, to determine exactly which drone in the array is getting tracked by the AA missile, so it can eject itself from the group.

Note that AI requires advanced microchips. It's not a matter of if, but when war will be waged over chips. All of this mineral, manufacturing, and semiconductor independence is pointing toward a conflict with China over Taiwan.

I miss the good ole days of western unipolarity. I think China deserves the top position personally, but USA feels like the one country that will do anything to keep power. I suppose that's just the nature of power though.

What I don't see happening is USA shoring up all of this production and somehow holding onto its #1 spot genuinely through innovation or whatever. People act like America is so smart, but we're mostly just rich. China has caught up though in wealth, education, industrialization. Statistically, with their higher population it's 5x more likely that innovations will happen in China, everything else being equal.

It's not looking good at the moment with cuts to research, education, and the separation between church and state. I think most of China is atheist. That would be so fucking refreshing to not have half the population disqualified from scientific theory.

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koods said:

Starship blew up again. Just like last time, it is now raining down on Caribbean islands. I don’t see how this doesn’t motivate investors get Elon under control.



https://twitter.com/scmesab/status/1897797940787228937?s=46&t=v6A7MSXUAx3KM0glMf5Wdg

This video shows the entire event in great detail.

https://twitter.com/oha_alex/status/1897797548263313631?s=46&t=v6A7MSXUAx3KM0glMf5Wdg

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gopher said:

koods said:

Starship blew up again. Just like last time, it is now raining down on Caribbean islands. I don’t see how this doesn’t motivate investors get Elon under control.



https://twitter.com/scmesab/status/1897797940787228937?s=46&t=v6A7MSXUAx3KM0glMf5Wdg

This video shows the entire event in great detail.

https://twitter.com/oha_alex/status/1897797548263313631?s=46&t=v6A7MSXUAx3KM0glMf5Wdg

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I know if I was an astronaut I would be hella sceptical flying air elon

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