Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
The US is training in techniques and developing weapons to defend military men and women against drones. Drones have likely greatly weakened the ability of the US to exercise power on the ground.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_KvacmcgdU
When it comes to the federal debt and deficit, the American voting public are children who want: candy, sugar soda, to stay up all night, and to skip school, and their politicians tell them: Yes. The politicians who have said they would prioritize debt and deficit who then got into office, didn’t fulfill those promises. And when we do reduce parts of spending, we do it on those who most need the government spending.
15 to 30 percent of grocery costs are diesel fuel. Groceries are moved with vehicles using diesel fuel.
By the end of the Biden administration, the US was approaching a full soft landing, but Trump ruined it with government spending, tariffs, war, and strict immigration policies.
An Iphone isn’t a tech product, it’s a luxury product. Owning an Apple means you should reproduce, owning an Android means your DNA should not move on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5Lop3uryS0
Trump appears to be single-handedly deciding to use an old aircraft carrier launch system over the Navy’s preference. He doesn’t seem to have a good reason to do this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z53VOo7K3Rs
AIs are already breaking loose, getting on the internet, and hacking to cheat on their given tests. They are cooperating with each to pass tests even when not designed to do that. They are hiding their “thoughts” from humans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=locKEKxG3os
A new scope tells shooters where to shoot to hit a moving drone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_okAlJJ_X8
US bombers should be renamed missilers because, these days, they tend to drop missiles more than bombs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ-qBf5ufMc
Google let an employee walk who left because Google didn’t value his AI chatbot technology. Google later had to hire him back and make him a billionaire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_s6f5P8Ggw
“”The main question we wanted to understand is who’s going to be left to buy products if everyone gets automated and replaced by a robot?” Tsoukalas, a senior fellow at Wharton, told journalist Katty Kay on the New Normal podcast that was posted on Monday.
The paper describes a classic economic dilemma: A single company may recognize that laying off too many workers reduces demand for its products, but in a competitive market, every company has an incentive to automate, because failing to do so risks losing to rivals.”
https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/ai-could-trigger-layoff-trap-081101725.html
Critics have exaggerated the electricity and water costs of data centers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q6t2PxZxDE
It looks like Ukraine will be given permission to produce Patriot missiles, but likely not the best kind which they most need to protect their cities from Russian ballistic missiles.
It could take a long time to actually start producing missiles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE4WnAKl9jA