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OK. That guy still did Trump a favor and Trump doesn’t know it.

Did Trump a favor. It would backfire the same way it did with Luigi.

These anti-vaxxer spreading parties are going up a level.

Venison dinner!

This is true. The 2008 crisis was about banks. Banks are linked to everything. Most companies aren’t that deep into an AI transition. They can still shrug it off and go back to what they were doing.

The big tech companies are fucked. The Saudis who just bought EA are fucked (their plan was to reduce costs by making games with a lot of AI tools). Nvidia is really fucked. The rest? They may have to reverse some plans, but they can shrug it off.

I want to add that when I said they give away that their arguments demonstrate why math education needed to change, I do mean it. This is a clear cut case of the education system failing them.

I’d normally be happy to throw snark at the idiot things parents say that make our education system worse, but not this time.

That’s the sort of thing “new math” was trying to teach. Those sorts of breakdowns are exactly what the kids who were good at math were always doing, and teaching methods eventually caught up and realized they should just teach the tricks.

Then a bunch of parents who were bad at math asked “new math? How can math change?” The fact that they even asked that question showed how their math education was lacking, but they seem to have won.

The Final Experiment in Antarctica about a year ago fractured the community. The way this sort of thing generally works is that a lot of them break off, but the remaining ones are even crazier than before. As examples, see the Great Disappointment among Adventists, or 1975 among Jehovah’s Witnesses.

That said, they still lost some major voices. If you don’t follow this sort of thing on YouTube a lot, you’re probably going to miss them completely.

There’s a few different solutions. They tend to invent brand new physics in the course of explaining it.

https://wiki.tfes.org/Sunrise_and_Sunset

The great circle route doesn’t quite get over Antarctica, but it’s close. Planes generally avoid going over Antarctica for safety reasons even when it’s technically the shortest route. It’s better to go down in cold ocean where there’s a chance of being picked up by a boat, rather than going down over an icy hellscape where nobody can get to you.

You can do this same sort of thing in the Northern Hemisphere. It just gets more obvious the further you go south.

For example, check a direct flight from LA to Seoul. On a Gleason map (the most common flat earth map, though there are a few others), flights between those two should be going well over Alaska and parts of Russia. On a great circle route, they barely go over the Aleutians and don’t go into Russian airspace at all. Guess which one flights actually use?

Supremes will do it for them. Just have to wait for cases to get to them. But they can’t rule on everything; not enough time for a small body to do that.

The Jury box is ultimately insufficient without Congress doing something, and Congress ain’t doing shit.

Then what’s needed is to organize smart engineers. This doesn’t need anyone like Musk. It can happen in a nationalized company connected to state-funded universities; tends to be easier to do when you don’t have a whole political party dedicated to sabotaging any attempt at this and then claiming it can’t work. All Musk does is extract value from the process for himself, and then make sure that political party stays at the top.

People mistake “robot” for “android” all the time. There’s plenty of sex toys that have qualified as a robot even back when the OP was brand new.

Just commenting on that thumbnail pic. It’s interesting how it could just be a school. By which I mean actual schools and juvenile detention aren’t that far apart.

Yes, and we’re already seeing prices go negative with that mix. This shouldn’t happen (at least not very often) if it’s built properly.

Gelsinger wanted to do it. Biden Admin shut it down, saying the federal money they were getting to build a fab was contingent on them staying together.

Hypersonics, at least, are likely overrated. They reduce the window between detection and countermeasure deployment. They also can’t maneuver very well without losing their hypersonic speed or generating too much heat, and therefore travel on a predictable course.

Drones have been the champion technology of the Ukraine war, and that’s probably the future. Of course, those are also a reason why a Golden Dome plan wouldn’t work.

Correct. Most people who say this are focused on healthcare and other social safety net issues. When you look at LGBTQ+ rights, or racial discrimination, or even abortion, Democrats are further to the left of lots of European parties. It can be a slog to get a European to admit they even have racial issues at all.

Gotta be able to afford the Pro Max subscription.