True, because inhaling the smoke from gasoline and diesel fires is so good for your health ... LoL.

There were 3,048 cars on that ship, 681 were hybrids and another, 70 were fully electric. The news outlets make it sound like all 3048 were electric. Some are more honest and mention the around 700 hybrids but still count these hybrids as "electric cars". I was only able to find one that actually reported the number of BEVs. Out of these the most fire prone are the Hybrids, followed by the full ICE cars and finally the BEVs which are by far the least likely to catch fire. The fire started: "in a deck carrying electric vehicles" meaning what started the fire was likely a Hybrid but we'll likely never know for sure. Not that any of this will stop Sky News and the luddites from claiming the ship was filled to the hatches with BEVs and that they all caught fire simultaneously and rendered Adak, Alaska 300 miles away uninhabitable due to toxic smoke.

It's always the next get-rich-quick scheme. Before yesterday it was tulips, yesterday it was High-Frequency Trading, today it's “Artificial Intelligence” (in quotes because it has nothing to do with real intelligence, never has and probably never will).

And I always see people falling for these schemes again and again, with ever greater consequences, because greed always trumps logic and reason.

Hybrids are a stepping stone for conservative people with extreme anxieties about new technology i.e. about 40-50% percent Americans (excluding the MAGA base that thinks electric cars are a manifestation of satanic communism and that would rather ride a mule to work than drive an EV). The next step is usually a full EV when people figure out that range anxiety is bullshit and they spend most of their time driving their hybrid in full EV mode anyway. Aaaand yes, given the way the US works, with all the corruption and pork Americans seem to have come to consider normal I expect a lot of money to be wasted on synthetic fuels to keep the corpse of ICE industry twitching and as en excuse to pay out even more subsidies for chemical corporations and farmers in deep red Trump voting districts. Meanwhile I just returned from a tour of several developing countries in SE Asia where I kept track of the types of EVs and hybrids I saw. Chinese and S-Korean cars dominate with at least one Vietnamese brand sprinkled in, nothing American, hardly any Teslas, some European EVs, mostly luxury models and they seem to be transitioning directly to full EVs, no existential anxieties about new technologies there.

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The F-22 also had the advantage of data from other sensors like AEW&C and space based systems streamed directly into its cockpit whereas the IRAF doesn't have any of that and the F-4 pilot was entirely reliant on his forward sensor cone which the F-22 definitely avoided. A Typhoon J-10, J-16, Gripen or Rafale with access to fused data from multiple sensor layers streamed directly into the pilot's cockpit and an onboard IRST system would be far more difficult to surprise like that.

Newer radar can guide a missile near enough for the missile's onboard sensors to find the F-22 acquire it and lock on for terminal guidance. Depending on the situation and how stealth the BVR missile is F-22 pilot might not even realize that he was being shot at until he was lit up by that missiles radar system (and that's assuming it doesn't use passive sensors for terminal guidance). This is basically what happened to that Rafale driver in India not that long ago.

Why, it's almost as if the web was meant to be a many-to-many relationship and we weren't supposed to all be dependent on a single point of failure.

I wonder if the Internet can figure out how to stop putting control of every last goddamn dollar on Earth under the control of a single company full of people who are sexually obsessed with destroying creation? This is what, round three after IBM and Microsoft?

They've laid off 9000 people in the last two years.

Microsoft posted record-breaking financial results in both FYâ2023 and FYâ2024. Additionally, several quarters since then: especially Q2 FYâ2024 and Q3 FYâ2025 were flagged internally as "record" or exceptionally strong performances.

In fiscal year 2024 they made $245 billion in revenue.

Iran didn't use all those pagers, Hezbollah did. What eventually made the Israelis use the pager bombs was some of the pagers being sent to Iran for in-depth forensic examination. Furthermore, after Russia hacked SolarWinds and used their update servers to install backdoors on systems belonging to government departments such as US Homeland Security, State, Commerce and Treasury, that time Chinese intelligence hacked US military contractors, stole F-35 design data and then hacked the US federal government's system for court authorized wiretapping I'd say this seems like a very sensible precaution. I could also bring up the that time White House National Security Advisor Michael Waltz invited a reporter into a Telegram group discussing classified aspects of airstrikes on Yemen but that wasn't an IT failure so much as it was just down to the galactic stupidity of Waltz and the other US government officials involved plus, I don't want to kick a dead horse.

That's basically what he wrote. Linux now has a chance to become a more widely used desktop simply because Microsoft is apparently determined to sabotage Windows, but if the Linux community doesn't get their shit together, they'll keep publishing their own distros by complete inability to agree on anything (over 600 different versions this far and counting) where none of which are actually good enough to be used as a general purpose desktop operating system (instead of necessary but niche uses).

At this point in the story I think it's more likely that Android will take over Windows or maybe SteamOS (which is Linux, but actually usable and more or less stable)

There are statutory regulations and constitutional issues here. To qualify to serve as an O-5 in the Army you need time in grade, time in service and considerable training. You also have to be confirmed by the United States Senate.

Sorry. This story is bullshit. Just like everything else on social media.

I'm still right.

That right there is some straight up bullshit. These people are living in a fantasy world. There is no legal provision for a goddamn chat bot to be "credentialed" for any purpose at all, especially where human mental health is concerned.

I'm as big a supporter of technology and science as the next person, but this slavish worship of solutions to math problems as a substitute for God is going to stop, or AI is going to get regulated into oblivion, and that might not be a bad outcome.

AI is very complex math that simulates the right answer. It is physically impossible for it to be anything else. If you claim otherwise you are not only being unscientific, you're a liar.

My job interview script:

0. Jobs are adult daycare
1. You can't afford me
2. Say hi to your wife and my kids
3. I have your customer list

Americans are in a race to save what's left. No guarantee they'll succeed. This country is submerged in infected shit. Only way out is to stop applying 1992 solutions to 2025 problems.

With all due respect to Sean Connery I give us one chance in three.