It's like any other strength, having it and applying it are totally different things. Nobody uses all of their potential all of the time. It comes down to willpower and training. Like being able to paint well but never finishing a painting, being strong and not knowing how to fight or lacking endurance, being smart and buying crypto.. IQ tests are like pull-up competitions, it'll help you find strong people, not people that don't suck at everything.

And if that doesn't terrify you it should.

There's a guy born on a German military base that got deported to Jamaica because his father, a naturalized citizen from jamaica, was from jamaica. You can guess what his skin color was...

The man does not have citizenship in jamaica. Or germany. And now thanks to Trump he doesn't have citizenship in America despite being born on us soil.

The real problem is Trump can't run things competently so he's not able to deport people at the rates Obama and Biden did. So they will deport anyone for any reason and they do it so quick the courts can't stop them.

And because of that it could happen to any of us. No matter how sure of your citizenship you are you could just be someone picked up and sent off because somebody needs to make number go up.

You need government support. Without government support companies will turn to other nations where they can pollute the land and use borderline or not so borderline slave labor.

I mentioned it on another comment but the real problem is that the kind of infrastructure you need to do what they're trying to do in that video is extraordinarily expensive and takes decades and decades to pay off. It can't be done by Private industry because Private industry is always going to be thinking about this quarter and maybe the next.

People do not think about manufacturing as something that is infrastructure. The military does. But the general public does not.

That's why we still have private car companies. That's why we don't let them collapse when they periodically overextend themselves or just fuck up. It's because that capacity is there so we can retool the factories into war time. Although it's debatable how effective that would be in this day and age it's still why we do it.

If you want your manufacturing base back you need to do like China and subsidize the hell out of it.

Just remember the jobs won't come back. You'll get a handful of engineering jobs and a handful of short-term construction jobs but the factories are going to be automated. You never ever ever going to see huge factories staffed by tens of thousands of people. Technology has moved on.

I mean assuming you're not using slave labor. Everything is possible with slave labor. But I'd like to think that most of us want that off the table. I say most of us because America uses a hell of a lot of prison labor and if you're down south and go into a McDonald's your order might be taken by a slave...

I don't know what world you're in but healthcare absolutely has money in it still.

The downside is that every time a line of work starts making a lot of money MBAs come in and get to work collapsing wages.

It's got a name, Taylorism. It's the process of identifying skilled labor and breaking it down so that it's no longer skilled labor and it doesn't matter what your industry is somebody is working on that problem.

If you work for a living instead of owning things for a living then one of the things that you need to know is that there is somebody out there paid a lot of money who's only job is to figure out how to cut your pay.

It's not more of a cultural problem than a education one?

A lot of people compare to Americans because we have a hyper individualistic culture and that results in a lot of people who will go out of their way to find problems to solve and solve them.

It does make us quite a bit more independent. The downside to that is it makes us less likely to work together harmoniously. So you end up needing more management to smooth over people's quirks.

Although that's a broad generalization I can tell you that as an American there are plenty of people here who just do what they learned in college and nothing else.

And frankly there is nothing wrong with that. I don't really like the way we look down on people who work for a living.

Like if you're not contributing to some big huge advancement in human knowledge or shareholder value then you're not a worthwhile person.

Here in America we get a really really nasty result from that sometimes. Resume driven development..

Because we all have to be hyper individuals that solve big problems you get people who take a problem that is already solved, like how teaching phonics is the best way to teach kids to read, and somebody comes up with a new solution and tests it out on a bunch of kids. Then their solution doesn't really work as well as the old existing solution and suddenly you've got a bunch of kids that don't read so well.

This is the one that I know because I know a bunch of teachers who are kind of pissed off when they were told to stop teaching phonics. But there's plenty of cases of this all over engineering and computer science and especially user interface design.

Hell, one of the apis I work with had absolutely amazing documentation. Documentation so good and so well laid out that it was an actual competitive advantage.

But they had somebody in charge of documentation and that's somebody needed to overhaul the docs because they want to put it on their resume that they overhauled the docs. And now they were jumbled mess.

I guess what I'm saying is the grass is always greener on the other side and peoples are people.

How is that a scam? It has led to significant reductions in CO2 emissions. Just because something doesn't suit your view doesn't make it a scam.

No. They turn the windmills off due to transmission limitations

No they aren't raking in the money. They are spending considerable amounts building LNG import facilities and regasifiers to import more expensive gas from a more supply constrained market. Yeah your gas price is higher, but it's the direct result of a policy not to appease Putin, not because someone is profiteering off you.

Now if your crystal ball worked maybe you could have warned the UK about a potential global instability affecting their energy security 20 years ago. But in a time of incredible and prolonged peace you and your crystal ball would probably have been called a scam.

A poor people a specific nation or ethnic group or do you not know what the word genocide means? I thought you spoke the Queen's tongue.

Not a chance. They will just come up with unpleasant ways to comply.

On the other hand I'm not entirely sure this is a bad thing but I'm not sure it's a good thing either.

I think the issue is that in Brazil they have some pretty extreme violence being coordinated and encouraged on social media sites.

Of course the potential for abuse here is enormous, you can basically shut down anyone you don't like with false reports.

It's one of those things where there are deeper underlining problems but an immediate issue that really does need to be resolved. And I honestly do not know how to solve it while preserving free speech.

Here in America I would just say deal with the underlining problems. E. G. The violence which is probably motivated by race or class. I'm definitely not giving up section 230 of the CDA. The internet is the last place you can go for information that doesn't come straight from a corporate billionaires asshole.

There has been talks about this in Europe for 18 years already. The AEEP was launched in 2007 with this kind of goal in mind. The problem is it is a political minefield to build green energy for export to Europe when North Africa themselves have an carbon intensity problem in their energy industry. They are too poor to rapidly invest themselves, and it would be seen as outright exploitative for another country to come in and fund green energy for the purpose of export (in fact this would have negative CO2 benefits compared to first decarbonising north Africa itself since you are expending energy to move energy to a place where it has a lower CO2 reduction effect than using it locally.

On the face of it it is a good idea, but pulling back the veil it becomes an incredibly complex problem.

I suspect it's an issue of sovereign funding. The UK is spending money, Spain and France are not. France isn't complaining about needing more capacity in its interconnect to Spain. Having a 3rd country (especially one that explicitly didn't want anything to do with the EU) come in with their wishes is a political shitshow.

It's amazing how complicated surgery can be when you try and do it minimally invasive. The complexity and difficulty is why it was only now done with robots but the benefits of doing so are actually quite significant.

For many years we've been making surgery ever more complex and difficult. The easy way is to just slice someone open to access the bits you need, but that usually results in worse health outcomes than e.g. keyhole surgery. The less trauma to the body the better... and the more complicated.

You're confusing not doing something with not having the responsibility. It is indeed the job description of an editor to do that. I take it you yourself are an editor and are too ashamed that you also are shit at your job. That's the only reason I could think of you justifying this.

Maybe go do something complicated like a liberal arts degree at university and learn what Editors do.

There's an elevated risk of you dying walking down the stairs. It's similar here. Writing can be done yourself, getting a photo is a copyright shitshow especially if the story its about hasn't had an image provided by a media department for use. As it stands the overwhelming majority of news has used stock photos in their articles for decades. It stands to reason that someone would use AI to generate pictures, but that has an "elevated risk" that the article is AI about as close to zero as you can get.

It seems like a bunch of people here (including you) are outing themselves as never having known how the media industry works. Just for fun why not click through every Slashdot story and have a look. Here I'll do it for you in order from this story down:
1. This is logo of Swift pasted over an iPhone stock photo in the Apple story: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2F9to5google.com%2F2025%2F06...
2. Completely irrelevant stock photo of a building with xfinity logo on it for the Comcast datacap story: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcmag.com%2Fnews%2Fcom...
3. This one is real. But this story is about a person and he gave a press release so it stands to reason that there'd be a photo https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2025%2F0...
4. The AI kills search traffic has a stock photo of a Google icon on a mobile display in truly eye bleeding quality https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2025%2F06...
5. The story about blender while down in the article has a screenshot of blender, the actual image tag for the story is a random stock photo of some networking code unrelated to blender
6. The story about youtube has a child like drawing of the youtube logo.

There, we got through the entire front page of Slashdot and only a single link to one of the stories had an actual original image for that story. Did you not read Slashdot at all today because of the risk it was all irrelevant?

Jesus Christ, at least it's not universal. Honestly I've not seen a data cap in about 20 years. And I've lived in 4 different countries in that time.

No one said it can't. The OP said IPv4 only equipment should be EOL'd and IPv4 allocations should be revoked. Your home network doesn't have an IPv4 allocation (I suspect), it uses a private reserved space.

One of the more interesting things about this argument is that I frequently find when home networks do have a problem with IPv4, a simple ping still goes through, ... to perfectly fine resolving IPv6 addresses. It's a curious result of people being scared of IPv6. The setup process for IPv6 itself is virtually completely automated these days, and you shouldn't really find it any more complicated one way or the other. But people fuck around with the IPv4 network and break things int he process. It's 2025 and for most home systems things Just Work (tm). Better still this entire mess is largely transparent to the end user. Many people don't even realise they are using IPv6 in their home networks. Even here if I ping my server I get "Pinging zeus.local [2001:1c00:9e85:..." But if I pink my little smart display I get "Pinging iotmonitor.local [192.168.2.117]". Everything just works, dual stack, in an automated way.

And if you're in a situation where a device doesn't have connectivity the IP address it gets is rarely the problem, and pinging an IP address is rarely a solution.

That's not what the GP said. He said "IPv4 only equipment". I agree with you Cisco won't ever end IPv4 support, and honestly no device should do so. But in 2025 *new* devices not supporting IPv6 should be banned from connecting to outside networks. There's zero reason to be dual stack these days, especially since doing so will give your critical equipment some much needed life in the form of 4-6 gateways and routing.