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atomheartbevo

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  1. I don't see what new jobs are being created that can be filled by the people being replaced by automation/AI. Waymo is clever and well-liked, but what new jobs will be created by people who were driving on the side (or even full-time taxi drivers)? And what happens to the people who helped develop Waymo when it reaches a point where it "learns" much more rapidly and has even more data, negating the need for some of the humans behind it? When Amazon has all of its warehouse hubs automated, where do those workers go, especially when other companies do the same? What happens to Thelma down on 290 and South Congress when the sex bots arrive and can work 24/7?
  2. Yep, this is not about narcotics. Otherwise, we would have invaded Mexico long ago.
  3. Cinema West.
  4. The Venezuelans actually have some relatively modern Russian anti-ship missiles on their newish Su-30s. If we invade - it sounds like we are planning to, there's no reason for Maduro to hold back, since he knows he's going to end up dead or in a US prison. Trump is giving off those vibes, and we saw how much he enjoyed having that Iranian general killed in Iraq. I'm worried a bit that we'll get an HMS Sheffield or SS Atlantic Conveyor.
  5. Ukraine might not want to fuck with pipelines feeding China. Let China figure out on their own what to do.
  6. Would be enough to later go out on a hunt, come across a sabre-tooth tiger, and stab Grog in the thigh and then run off and watch the ensuing hijinks.
  7. I'm having a hard time buying the below mattering - there are a myriad of ways they can get that cheap oil, and Beijing isn't going to give it up - Iran could serve as a proxy. Also, this says "seaborne" and nothing about pipelines, of which I'd guess China has a lot of. If China reduces purchases in a huge way (not just "seaborne" but pipelines), then I'd feel like it means they know shit is going down and either they want to contribute to the post-Putin chaos, or they feel like they can wait and get a better deal when the dust dies down.
  8. He'll be shocked when the pitchforks come out. He better be reading up on his Aldous Huxley and figuring out how to keep the out-of-work masses placated. Neil Postman wrote a book back in the 1980s talking about Huxley (contrasting with Brisketexan George Orwell's 1984) and summed it up nicely (decades before Facebook and streaming): What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.
  9. These two words are what concerns me, because what do these even mean (and "value" sounds like tuition-related, but maybe I'm reaching):
  10. One chair? Hell man, you could apply to be chair of GeoSciences, Natural Sciences, and Engineering with that kind of paper. Maybe even Pharmacy as well.
  11. Aimed slowly at making Trump squirm, because the reality is that Moscow is fast approaching a point where they can't export anything oil & gas related, maybe not even crude oil to be refined and re-imported. Hell, that refinery they hit last night, if it's completely down, means Rosneft won't even be selling much fuel internally.
  12. I enjoy the fact that he is telling ranchers to get the price of their cattle down if they want to compete with Argentinians that we just gave billions of dollars to, as well as telling the oil & gas folks that he wants really cheap gas. It has to make some of them squirm slightly.
  13. The Ryazan one is burning pretty nicely. Also, "Ukraine put together a kinetic sanctions package"
  14. Yep, he cares a lot more about looking powerful than about anybody dying or any nation’s borders. I’m kind of surprised that Putin didn’t toss him a bone.
  15. This is the 2nd or 3rd time Putin has made Trump look like an idiot in front of the world in the past few months, and Trump is desperately wanting that label of "deal maker" and "peace maker" and Putin keeps nabbing it out from under him. I think the sanctions might stick.
  16. Vice Adm Vladimir Tsimlyansky, deputy chief of Russian General Staff's Main Organizational-Mobilization Directorate, indicated Russia will use a new draft law for "special musters" of citizens in the active reserve to protect critical infrastructure & other important sites from Ukrainian UAVs. He pointed to recent experience in which some Russian enterprises were protected by mobile fire teams composed of reservists from those companies. He insisted the reservists will serve only in their home regions and won't be sent to Ukraine. ---- Employees with fucking rifles and shotguns.
  17. Would have been even funnier if I had spelled windmills right the first time. Fucking voice-to-text.
  18. "You know, I like to figure out who the mark is when I walk into a room or get on a telephone call with a bunch of people, but with Putin, you just never can figure it out"
  19. We killed two more people, this time near Colombia in the Pacific. Glad they are preventing another *checks notes* 9/11 out of the Middle East.
  20. Telling American cattle ranchers to be grateful for him and to get their prices down.
  21. NEW RESEARCH OUT OF THE GREAT UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS TECH AT LUBBOCK SHOWS THAT WINDMILLS DO CAUSE CANCER. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
  22. @Schulz2.0 already mentioned this one, but a little more info
  23. Plenty of us have stood over our kids' beds at night (or nephews or nieces) with a toy lightsaber lit up.
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