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Jeffery Sachs? The man who reorganized the Russian economy after the collapse of the USSR into a rape and pillage scheme in the new Russian economy. He surely knows how to build something. Yeah right. I think it best to avoid that (de)construction site, it’s unlikely to be very safe.
“People lost jobs, careers, friends. There need to be consequences.” They owe a lot of people an apology. Hell, they even include Putin.”
Really. Poor me, me, me. How about some consequences for the jab lies. You want to talk lost jobs and friends. This had a much larger effect on, well everyone. Lots of finger pointing and naming names without any receipts. Show us the beef! They’re all just a bunch of self serving cunts. Just keep my name in the news, there is no such thing as bad publicity.
“Honduras reinstates mask mandate as COVID cases spread”
LOL because they worked sooooo well the last time.
” However, nations could form a “network of institutions” to guide the development of a highly intelligent AI “that doesn’t want to get rid of people,” Hinton added.
I read that as: “We need more public funding to continue our work cause it isn’t profitable anymore. If not what we’ve already done might kill us all.”
He goes on with this:
“He explained that AI is likely to increasingly seek more control in order to achieve its assigned tasks as it grows more intelligent, and simply “turning it off” when it outpaces humanity will not be an option.”How about we just turn off the electricity if it hasn’t already crashed the grid?
“This formed part of their desire for Ukraine to move towards European Union membership, for their country to integrate into a community more clearly governed by democracy and the rule of law.”
” democracy and the rule of law.”
Holy shit! Really!!!“But that European and anti-corruption aspiration was very real back in 2013”
So they were all squeaky clean up til then?* If your job is pattern matching AI will replace you; All you brain does is pattern match; Connect the dots or AI will connect them for you”
Ai doesn’t connect dots so much as invent them.
Austria is considering a “social tariff” for electricity, intended to help low-income earners, which has led to mixed reactions. The proposed changes would also impact grid fees for those using renewable energy, potentially making it less economical for people who have invested in solar panels. The video features reactions from citizens and comments on the possible consequences of the policy changes.
@dr-d-rich Cambodia v Thailand?
The push is on. That owning the whole world thing isn’t working the way it was planned. TPTB have to ramp things up to 11 on the 10 scale. Expect more shit in central Asia and the south Pacific in the not too distant future.
NORTH AMERICAN ECONOMIC UNION + CBDC, “The Gringo”.
The energy to do it does not and will not exist. If it did, that is what would happen. TPTB think they can do it with money alone.
USA, Canada circa 2035 5-8 semi autonomous regions. Europe- a hot seething mess, possibly radio active.
Eligible Projects
Divided into two categories:
– Category 1: Ammunition, artillery, infantry weapons, cyber defense, and military mobility.
– Category 2: Air/missile defense, naval systems, drones, space assets, and electronic warfare—with stricter eligibility rules.
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Want help summarizing that document or exploring how SAFE might impact global defense dynamics? I’m all in.Zerosum ask it where the resources for this are going to come from? Both natural and manufacturing abilities.
@oxymoron ” We will need clearance to interact with anything digital and just about everything else.”
It will be pushed and cause a lot of harm. I don’t think it will ever make to world domination. It won’t have the energy if it does manage to get the coverage. I think that is the reason behind fifteen minute cities. Condense the populace into small spaces that can be monitored with the least amount of energy. The inability of the tech class to see an end to the resources needed is a function of the financial class claiming that suitable replacements can be found for any resource.The monied class hard at work:
What are we going to do tonight Brain?
Try to take over the world Pinky!AI is coming for your job.
At least, that’s what a lot of big-shot CEOs and pundits keep insisting.
Ford’s CEO, Jim Farley,
Warns AI will wipe out half of white-collar jobs – Fortune Article – July 5, 2025
Amazon’s chief, Andy Jassy, has firmly stated the following in the Amazon official announcement:
As we roll out more Generative AI and agents, it should change the way our work is done. We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today – Amazon Official Statement – June 17, 2025
And it’s not just traditional execs?
Dario Amodei of AI startup Anthropic claimed
AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs — and spike unemployment to 10-20% in the next one to five years, Amodei told us in an interview from his San Francisco office. – Axios Original Interview – May 28, 2025
Yeah, it makes for a great headline. You can almost picture empty office chairs everywhere.
But hold on a second! Are you taking this at face value? We need to ask ourselves how much of this is genuine and how much is just marketing rhetoric.
https://www.ai-supremacy.com/p/will-ai-agents-really-automate-jobs
“The virus has beaten us”!
You beat yourself idiot. Could be the virus or it could be the jab? Those without the jab don’t seem to have the numbers that the jabbed do. Plenty who haven’t beeb jabbed also think they had covid so show me the numbers, spuddler.Dr D Rich:
“Trump has been squandering royally the opportunity to seize the ethical, moral and legal high ground these well-known facts present.”He’s doing exactly what he has done his entire life. Bluster and bloviate. He’s a spuddler. To spuddle I thought might be a good word for a lot of what the political class does.
‘Spuddle’ is an archaic word from the 17th century that means to work ineffectively; to be extremely busy whilst achieving absolutely nothing; to assign trivial things undue importance.
Oshkosh?! Don’t they make coveralls? So you can fire up manufacturing at a moments notice? No sweat re-tooling any operation, just like WW2. Go ahead then, I’ll watch.
A Biden administration effort to electrify the U.S. Postal Service has produced just 250 electric mail trucks in over two years—far behind schedule and slammed by Republicans as a multibillion-dollar “boondoggle.”
The nearly $10 billion project aimed to roll out 35,000 battery-powered USPS vehicles by September 2028, with $3 billion funded through President Biden’s 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), according to the NY Post.
But despite $1.7 billion already spent, only a small portion of the fleet exists, prompting Republicans to push for canceling the remaining $1.3 billion in funding.
“Biden’s multi-billion-dollar EV fleet for the USPS is lost in the mail and more than $1 billion is postmarked to order more,” said Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa).
“I am working to cancel the order and return the money to the sender, the American people.”Wisconsin-based Oshkosh was awarded $2.6 billion to build the trucks. Yet as of late 2024, just 93 had been delivered—far short of the 3,000 expected. Production has been plagued by engineering issues, including airbag calibration failures and leaks so bad water poured out of the trucks.
“This is the bottom line: We don’t know how to make a damn truck,” one insider told The Washington Post.
“The chaos we observe is acute because it is the simultaneous occurrence in the west of an over-accumulation of fictitious capital crisis, an energetic degradation crisis and a cultural crisis that can no longer rationalise the detachment of financial wealth from meaningful existence. One now wonders whether a terminal phase has arrived.”
PPP is not a good indicator of actual economic stability either. It adjusts according to what some product costs here compared to there in local monies. The US is the same on both sides of the ledger due to the reserve currency status. The economists use it to level the field when comparing the costs of a particular product across international borders. As near as I can figure everything in economics as displayed on markets and in financial circles is fantasy. It’s all based on the illusion of perpetual growth in a finite space backed up by fiat! Thinking that that is somehow possible in reality is delusional at best. To base all of the future on this? All…………. of everyone’s future.
GDP? The most unreliable metric possible. Remove any and all government transactions from this metric and you will get closer to the real health of your economic situation. If there is .gov on either side of the transaction it is a negative not a positive on the economic well being of the area in question. GDP just counts the monetary transactions regardless of what they are for or where they are coming from. Government monies are just taxes from current collections or some imaginary taxes coming in the future. Governments create nothing but waste heat. The bigger the .gov the more waste heat produced. I love it when .gov tell me how they pay taxes too! No you don’t you, give some back after you clawed out yours.
TDK no shortage of bugs in my neighbourhood. That said I would say the black fly issue isn’t as bad as it once was. Lots of folks moved here from more urban settings, think there really bad. I haven’t used bug repellent in over two decades, so not as bad as they once were. Lots of bees around our gardens, there weren’t any earlier on so we were a little worried but they have made an appearance recently and are holding strong. Mosquitos are as bad as always, they have a window of opportunity of about an hour just around sunrise and just after sunset that will drive you indoors, otherwise not too bad. The deer flies and moose flies are nasty but thanks to the dragon fly population being strong they take a lot out for meals.
DrD:
“Stay with me here: First we pave 10,000 acres and put up concrete warehouse manufacturing facilities. Then we level ten mountains for ore, drill ten seas for oil, and build 7.5 million acres of railway lines to ship it. Then and only then, can we save the earth.”Sums up the entire “Green” movement nicely.
“Now Sending Weapons to NATO Instead of Ukraine..”
You mean the contracts to build these weapons are now NATO’s contracts.“Mike Benz exposes how Gates’ $200B foundation grants fund censorship to shield his pharma empire & crush dissent.”
This is a good summary of how that is done:
I can’t say it often enough; never trust a millionaire and a billionaire is 1000 times worse. I hear from millionaires in my community say but I never hurt anyone. No? Then how did you make your millions? Answer: investments. Okay, so you supported companies/investment funds that subscribe to growth for growths sake. That means that along the way small and medium sized mom and pop shops are closed out one way or another to accommodate said growth. In that process many families would have been shut out of employment but that’s just business.
What’s an extremist? Here’s a quick and handy description from the RCMP. This is going to raise support for authority?
Apologies if this is repeat, the first attempt went missing after hitting submit.
Von der Leyen says it was Russia. Classic, my failures are someone else’s fault. Standard M.O. by all and sundry at the upper levels of the corrupt.
Von der Leyen blames Russians. Classic: my failures are all some one else’s fault. Standard M.O. buy all and sundry anymore.
Bird flu is for the bird brains.
“Of course, as with any new technology, it will create new jobs requiring different skills. Teachers will not become obsolete. They’ll shift from teaching the basics of math and reading, which AI does quite well, to teaching critical thinking and reasoning, which computers do poorly or not at all.”
That’s rich! Teachers teaching “critical thinking and reasoning”. You mean the kind of thought they teach now? Like the “woke ideology” that uses so much reasoning and critical thought? You know the kind of critical thought that “going woke” would bring in the riches. Some forward thinking there! Failure at catastrophic levels is what my critical thinking leads me to believe. Critical thinking and reason brought to you by the “meme wars” should straighten everything out nicely.
@just-some-randomer
Thanks for that. Makes a bit of sense that way. The way it is presented in the article just didn’t make sense to my high school math abilities.” The 5% GDP target faced opposition from some NATO members. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said his country could not allocate one-fifth of its state budget to defense,”
One fifth! 5% is one fifth? Must be politician math.
From AI:
China Electricity Sources
China’s electricity production is primarily sourced from a mix of fossil fuels, renewables, and other energy sources. In 2021, China produced 8,534 terawatt-hour (TWh) of electricity, which was approximately 30% of the world’s electricity production.
Most of the electricity in China comes from coal power, which accounted for 62% of electricity generation in 2021.
In 2023, China’s total installed electric generation capacity was 2.92 TW, of which 1.26 TW was renewable, including 376 GW from wind power and 425 GW from solar power.
As of 2023, the total power generation capacity for renewable energy sources in China is at 53.9%.
In May 2024, China’s electricity generation mix saw a significant shift away from fossil fuels. The share of coal-fired generation fell to 53%, down from 60% at the same time last year and the lowest share on record. Meanwhile, solar rose to 12%, up from 7% a year earlier and the highest on record. The remainder was made up of wind (11%), hydropower (15%), nuclear (5%), gas (3%) and biomass (2%).
In 2024, the share of wind and solar combined reached 18%, just ahead of the global average of 15% and above its neighbours Japan (11%) and South Korea (6%). The biggest shift in China’s electricity generation in 2024 was the continued explosive growth of solar.
China’s electricity production also includes contributions from nuclear power, which is a low-carbon source of electricity. In 2024, nuclear power contributed 5% to the electricity generation mix.
In addition to these sources, China also generates electricity from biomass, geothermal, and other renewable sources. In 2021, China produced 169 TWh of electricity from biomass, geothermal and other renewable sources of energy.
Overall, while China has made significant strides in increasing its renewable energy capacity, fossil fuels still provide a substantial portion of its electricity generation. In 2024, fossil fuels still provided 62% of China’s electricity.From “425 GW from solar power” to 4000 TW is quite a jump in a world of ever shrinking resources. One TW is 1000 GWs. Where exactly are the raw materials coming from for this jump not to mention the storage issue? A not to insignificant amount is also required for the storage bit. All of this needs FF to accomplish. Looks like more coal after the dams are finished. Oh ya and the dams aren’t built with solar and wind either. Sounds like more bullshit to me.
” The dam will have the yearly output of Germany.” Which year? Germany’s production of everything has fallen off a cliff.
Poppie #191227 Good read!
@noirette
” his Admin, are locked into strange shifting agendas, having no long term strategy, no clear goals (that are realistic imho, other story.)”With his leaning to Palantir and talking CBDC’s it looks and sounds more globalist than America first. All played out as saving the country. It’s for your safety/sovereignty right? Bring back manufacturing to the USSA , that will only take ten years if all goes well. They are also a net importer of electricity so they will need to create more or use less. I see using less as the fastest way to have more. Kill domestic demand and move it toward manufacturing.
Collapse early, avoid the rush.Topcat if it’s the second mouse that gets the cheese, is it the second socialist that gets your wallet?
DrD that’s the canadian medical service in a nutshell. What is not seen in analogies like that is the waste that is .gov bureaucracy behind the scenes. Procedure is to be followed at all cost. Just had my father to his GP for a regular visit. He’s 94 living at home with limited mobility, walker and permanent catheter. He has had the same GP for years and his catheter has been with him for a year now. Walk into his GP’s office and with his file up on the screen the first words out of the doc’s mouth; “how’s your peeing, is there any difficulty with it?”. Really? Now I’ve been with him for all his visits since he’s been with the walker, doc should be aware. So my reply was quick before dad could say anything, “no problem with his water works since the catheter was put in last summer”. JHC! What I’m thinking; You’ve seen him several times in the last year since this has become permanent. The least you could do would be to look at the screen to see where this patient is in their life cycle. Our GP’s are no longer doctors in any meaningful sense, they are interpreters only. You arrive with an issue and if they can’t issue a prescription they send you to a specialist and wait for the report, call you back for a follow up appointment to translate the report for you. Then issue that prescription. All this transpires in a mere 8 to 80 weeks, usually the high end. Procedure is more important than production. When things seem to be slowing or binding up .gov’s answer is always the same, more procedures should fix this. Hire more PMC’s to move the paper,(digital) faster. So stick another layer of do nothings in there with a high pay rate and benefits package that no one in the private sector can even dream of and there fixed. When I was an adolescent in the sixties standing around with my grandfather who was talking with his piers they said then that all the worry about the communists coming was too late, they were already here. We will soon be to the point of shooting our way out.
@dora
“It uses its Gotham software to flag fraud,”Interesting choice for a name “Gotham”. A city so corrupt that a billionaire (BILLIONAIRE!) has to become a vigilante to clean it up. Like a billionaire is going to clean their own shit.
@topcat
The bots do seem to be taking stupid to levels even humans struggle to achieve.
