At this point I’m pretty sure an asteroid could obliterate 95% of the US and the markets would just skyrocket even more. They’re so detatched from reality its gone from satire to sad.

‘To get your boy home in a box’ fits the tempo better I think.

This reminds me of the fall of multiple fictional empires that had rested on their laurels building overpriced wonder weapons that turned out to both too few in number and not all that wonderous when taken out of a white room and exposed to real battlefield conditions.

Didn’t he already partially do that? He also appears to be letting Russia (and no one else) through the blockade to sell oil to Cuba.

I’ll switch to legacy systems before I pay for a subscription service.

I believe there is a generator with functional prototypes in the US and China that uses supercritical CO2? I mean its basically a steam engine but using a different medium and potentially even more efficient.

Even then all of them but solar are just spinning a wheel.

Externalized cost = free
As far as any and every large company is concerned anyway.

This is honestly one of the scarier parts about the rhetoric, they’re basically implying they would happily enslave a sentient being.

I find the actual problems they face to be more organic than other series, there’s always at least a semi-good reason why the threat of the week is occuring rather than something stupid like flying through enemy territory with no shields or some rando just beaming out your ships main computer being a huge weakness that no one ever thought might be a problem.

Everyone thinks AI is bad at their own job specifically because they actually know their own job well enough to release how much AIs ability to do it is entierly superficial, this is the case for pretty much all jobs that its about to ‘replace’. Unless it drastically improves we’re going to end up with no entry level hires AND no AI that can do the job and everyones going to be fucked all round because they’ve gone off the deep end and expect everyone to be born with a decade of experience.

Its weird how people always stop trusting science over things that are completely unrelated to science… then again actually that makes perfect sense.

It might not kill you though, it might psychically control you and use you as a worker bee to drag more prey back to the hive. (In the comics the queens can get pretty intelligent and recognize humans as useful for more than incubators)

Unnamed shuttle sized craft #3, just two of which are consistently capable of disabling any feddration vessel no matter how well prepared.

Strong magnet or some kind of taser on a long stick, ez takedown.

I’ve been thinking about this lately in regards to how shitty food is getting, with shrinkflation a lot of stuff now has smaller portions sizes but the calorie count usually remains the same, presumably due to adding more sugar to mask the taste of replacing ingrediants with cheaper alternatives, fresh produce isn’t spared either as most meat and vegetables turn a lot sooner and are sometimes already beginning to turn the same day you buy them. The result is a decreasing ability to have more than a day or twos worth of fresh ingrediants on hand and frozen food (or worse) just getting simultaniously less health and less filling.

Its early adoption problems in the same way as putting radium in toothpaste was. There are legitimate, already growing uses for various AI systems but as the technology is still new there’s a bunch of people just trying to put it in everything, which is innevitably a lot of places where it will never be good (At least not until it gets much better in a way that LLMs fundementally never can be due to the underlying method by which they work)

transactional? that implies the US has provided anything in return (to any of its allies) for the last decade.

He’s a good showman, its basically the cornerstone of his current success, he may not appeal to you or me but he has that used car salesman, carny barker style energy that really appeals to a certain kind of person.

Nah chat GPT is just a verbal mirror, so the idiot puts his complete lack of legal knoweldge in and gets a complete lack of legal knowledge out.