Comment Missed opportunity... (Score 2) 43
...to call it DeepSheikh.
...to call it DeepSheikh.
Listen, this is barely even on topic. We should be talking about how bad tariffs are, and if the supreme court will allow the tariffs to continue and force Trump and Republicans to eat their shit sandwich. Etc.
But what he's done to medicine and research? Not really pertinent. Besides, the point I was going to make, is how can the modern medicine complex even continue? You routinely here about how people and their insurance isn't able to pay the exorbitant prices they want to charge for the output of said advances. It's so unrealistic. Can the upper 20% of consumers in America prop this up? That's probably not even accurate, I would bet it's less than 5%, so just high net worth households, that stand a chance at paying for this research. This industry is delusional and has to extend the timelines of paying back themselves for their costs. The current path for health insurance in America that we were already on was going to threaten our "world-leading biomedical research industry."
My favorite story ever I got via an anti-vaccer family member. In the process of sharing a story about vaccine safety the story led with how it was Reagan who indemnified the industry from lawsuits relating to how unsafe vaccines were. Pure political disillusion. MAGA is indeed a cult.
I've seen a few Ukrainian FPV drones that can explode on command, presumably Russia has those too, but most of them probably still use the wire that completes a circuit when it's bent mechanism that isn't even connected to the flight hardware, so I doubt they could make them explode outright.
In comparison to Iran that used 3rd party software on 3rd party hardware that they would have had no reason or knowledge to inspect too deeply, a drone manufacturer is probably actively developing the firmware and someone would have noticed a commit that added a killswitch.
1999, some books:
2001 A Space Odyssey
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Good Omens
It
Doom: Knee-Deep in the Dead
Neuromancer
Space Opera
Starcraft Campaign Editor : Prima's Official Strategy Guide
The Lord of the Rings
Y2K : It's Already Too Late
The shift in tone to despising Nazis for being racists mostly came after the War.
Racists are everywhere. Usually, they just say stupid off color things, but they can still be nice/kind/polite to others. Racists come in many varieties and shades of grey. But kill a few million Jews, Greeks, Armenians, and all of a sudden people are ready to start punching some faces.
These guys don't actually believe in free speech. During Covid when a democratic governor shut down a church, they sang the song of the first amendment. When tradiional Catholics were categorized a certain way, they sang the song again. But time and time again you can see that these guys don't actually care. No principles. Why would a college student, foreign or domestic, not want to protest? Or speak out about damn near anything? Or have any of a huge variety of opinions? They have to be super careful now about how and what and to whom (or where) they share these opinions? And we're supposed to believe that the current administration will limit this hyper critical treatment of online speech to foreigners wanting to come here to college? Are they promising this is limited to online reviews - by the way its not... they were asking/forcing Harvard to review their cameras... Will they hire spies to go on campus during protests to gather video and further intel? I'd almost guarantee that they will/have/do. Will there be a Palantir database for this too? Will citizens accidentally be pulled into this dataset?
And just to further cement the absurdity of all of this, Republicans on J6 carried the flag of traitors all over DC. But they're not "foreign terrorists", just domestic. I'm not even sure if that's sarcasm or sadness. I just can't understand anything these days.
Say what you want about Biden but he did more to "stimulate" and build manufacturing in the USA. Señor TACO acts tough like he is bringing manufacturing back but this completely remains to be seen. What little jobs that could come from modern manufacturing takes sincerity, capital, incentives/rebates/grants/cheap-loans, and an educated and available work force for this to happen. The administration is not inspiring me in any way on these. The modern republican party only knows how to sow the seeds of a culture war, deregulate, and pass a tax cut. These won't be enough.
For a further anecdote, I know someone in parts manufacturing for manufacturing and they have been very busy for a year plus. They have a hard time hiring good people that can do the work and stay on. So to say Trump will accomplish more than Biden makes me very suspicious. And then think about what they're gonna do to interest rates if all the treasury market/bond worries play out with an increase in deficit spending and federal debt? Now it'll be harder to get the capital, do the buildouts, hope your investments pay off, hope the tariffs are stable enough to incentive on shored production?
If you kick out significant numbers of able immigrants, you pressure the available work force even more. Now you need to train/hire them for modern manufacturing - and if this in particular rings any bells that would be because that's the talk of a Democrat, not a Republican! You think Republicans are going to talk about helping kids go to tech school w/ subsidized tuition?! There are SOO many questions to all of this.
I assumed that's just called 'typing on a keyboard'.
When you hone a skill to a good level of proficiency you usually develop muscle memory that offloads the conscious effort from your brain, like knowing where to place your fingers on a violin, balance on a bicycle without training wheels, determine the doneness of your steak without a thermometer.
From my experience it just something that develops on its own, you don't have to 'learn' anything. With that said, I've worked with a guy who would did typing speed challenges on his downtime, seemed pretty silly to me because I never felt typing speed was ever a significant bottleneck.
Pull a Fox Con on Trump? Start planning and building a building. Get the tariffs eased and in 4 years ignore the deal and sell the building to someone else.
Thatâ(TM)s Trumps Winning. Make him look good and even if he loses appears over reality
How many times have you been in an elevator and thought 'I wish there was a guy pulling a lever for me here"?
Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. Space is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen to you.