I work in a USA manufacturing plant that has nine figures worth of EV motor manufacturing lines cancelled, sitting around collecting dust since the new administration changed all the regulations and incentives.

And this is when they are not on a holiday, which are myriad.

TIL that song is by Queen. I had no idea. So definitely an appropriate song for this discussion!

So the solution then, is to convince other people not to crave money power or resources.

Why do we need a new calculus book every 3 years? Calculus isn’t fucking changing!

There should be one public domain calculus book used by every college and if teachers want new homework problems there should be FOSS software to randomize the numbers and email out fresh problems.

Unconfusable:

Ready, Set, Go!

We should explore space with semiautonomous robots. We can do space exploration at maybe a quarter of the cost of sending humans to do it.

Flood Mars with exploratory rovers for years. Then mining robots. Then manufacturing robots. Have them build facilities that build more robots to expand the process exponentially .

Then, if we decide it’s even worth it at that point, have them build a city and send people.

Horses and oxen, which do not talk, are still compelled by man to labor.

I did not see a single April fools joke this year

I find it very unlikely the US could keep a lid on 200 deaths and saying it’s six. Not for more than a week or so. People’s families are going to wonder where their loved ones are. Hospital workers, morgue workers, life insurance companies, flight crews, people are going to talk, and share pictures.

“Traffic” definitely implies number of ships.

Cuba also grants political asylum to US fugitive cop killers

I deleted Facebook maybe two years ago. One of the last things I saw was a very obviously AI generated image of six or seven soldiers that had lost the same leg and all had it replaced with a prosthetic at exactly the same point, with some caption about “let’s get some likes for our wounded warriors!” Followed by dozens of comments in support, I assume all were bots.