This kills me that we’d waste plutonium on this shit. We’re literally running out of the stuff to use for deep space probes. Missions to Jupiter, where the sunlight is 3% as bright as it is around earth are forced to rely on solar power because that’s really all that’s available.

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Can you explain that sentence?

Well put.

That’s the thing, they only have any interest in “innovative new uses for AI”, they aren’t interested in delivering power, so they’re going to do a shitty job of it, they’re going to make a mess that we’ll all be left with.

Additionally, if they connect their power to the grid at all, then they need to work seamlessly or the entire grid is at risk. Again, the aspect of their business they don’t care about at all has to work seamlessly…

Don’t get me started on nuclear, just no. They don’t get to play with isotopes.

The risks here are huge, the potential consequences are disastrous to both the economy and the environment. And the potential rewards are what? Lining the pockets of AI grifters? Pushing expensive technology that nobody wants?

The original law? What’s the wording on that I wonder…

Well one could possibly coat the license plate with a material that left those cameras unable to scan the plate, while any human could read it just fine, not even knowing there was something different about it. I would be totally in favor of that.

Yeah, I think it needs to be “wipe if a specific pin is entered”, so you can wipe it only when you intend to.

Side note, my son has called the cops on several occasions by hitting the emergency button on the lock screen. Kids just have to play with it…

Once you automate something, the corresponding skill set and experience atrophy. It’s a problem that predates LLMs by quite a bit. If the only experience gained is with the automated system, the skills are never acquired.

Well, to be fair, different skills are acquired. You’ve learned how to create automated systems, that’s definitely a skill. In one of my IT jobs there were a lot of people who did things manually, updated computers, installed software one machine at a time. But when someone figures out how to automate that, push the update to all machines in the room simultaneously, that’s valuable and not everyone in that department knew how to do it.

So yeah, I guess my point is, you can forget how to do things the old way, but that’s not always bad. Like, so you don’t really know how to use a scythe, that’s fine if you have a tractor, and trust me, you aren’t missing much.

Hey, I’m sorry to break it to you, but…

Irreparable damage will be done and nobody is really going to pay. The most you can expect is a patsy to take the fall, and it will probably be some military officer who wasn’t the problem.

The Trump administration has argued that the US is at war with drug traffickers and that such strikes are legal under the rules of war, but most legal experts reject that rationale.

I would like to shut that shit down. You are not at war.

Have the “drug runners” struck at any US targets (preferably targets of military significance)? If not, then what I see is one party ruthlessly attacking another party repeatedly. If these were individuals that would be called a serial killer. And for serial killers it’s never been a good defense to say “no no, this is legal, look how many people I’ve liked, I’m clearly at war, and this is legal in war”. That’s idiotic.

Furthermore, WE ARE NOT AT WAR! If you want a war, get Congress to declare war, we have a fucking process for that!

And finally, if this isn’t a war, then it should be more of a policing situation. In no scenario should police fire missiles first and ask questions never. An acceptable way to handle this might be to disable the boat with munitions, and then detain all fisherman narcos aboard. Bonus, this would allow you to seize all the fish narcotics in their hold, which would prove you had the moral high ground and aren’t just crazy murders. I mean can you imagine that, if you were just murdering people because you could and making sure to send all evidence and survivers to the bottom of the sea… Man, that would be nuts! People would be all like “who put these psychopaths in charge?!”

You do our community a great service! Seriously.

It’s not fair! Vladimir gets to take whatever he wants and I don’t! And I’m a way better boy! I want Venezuela! Now!

I have to agree, it’s nice to want things, but…

That’s a nice theory. But if I use it less I may not continue paying for it. That’s certainly worth considering if you’re Netflix.

Why does this exist?

That’s fascinating. So is there precedent on the books now that a tear gas canister flying through the air is a deadly weapon? Because that could potentially be used against cops.

If any protester lost their defence, that could be precedent…

Honestly, that’s pretty decent of them.

Sure, you know everyone’s favorite ship, the aircraft carrier, well wait till you meet the drone carrier! It’s just as big for some reason, but it mostly carries drones and guided missiles and it probably sails alongside a traditional carrier, because it can’t actually perform all of the same duties. This is how we’ll be able to spend more than ever before.

Yep, eerily similar. It’s not even clear what these ships are supposed to do well.