Smoosh

> Are we actually being serious right now of America doing a conflict with Cuba?

Trump says 'Cuba is next' in speech touting US military successes - https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-says-cuba-is-ne...

:shrug:

F9 is their Model 3/Y. Starship is their Cybertruck.

Perhaps they are thinking "I Like People Who Weren't Captured".

I suspect that they are willing to wait a few more years until they have built up their own chip making capacity so that disrupting Formosa won’t strongly affect their own economy, while it will hinder other developed countries.

Nice, thanks.

“When I took over our military, we didn’t have ammunition,” Trump said Monday. “I was told by a top general – maybe the top of them all – ‘Sir, I’m sorry. Sir, we don’t have ammunition.’ I said, ‘I’ll never let another president have that happen to him or her.’ We didn’t have ammunition.”

“provides critical funding to sport, racing and broadcast industries”

I foresee that the amped-up sports gambling will destroy professional sports as all results will be tainted with the probable interference from the gambling industry and those trying to “game the system” (irony noted).

Remember when many people online were complaining that electric vehicles were bad because the grid wouldn’t be able to cope with the demand to charge them?

I suppose those people are now saying the same thing about datacenters, but I just haven’t seen them yet.

The tweet/meme about the face eating leopards seems to be entirely applicable to our current times.

Why would the team apply different strategies if it would not yield any extra points and would probably upset the lower finishing driver ?

You left out a step:

Also Trump: We’re cancelling CAFE because it’s woke.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/12/fact-sheet-pr...

The great thing about populist slogans like “drain the swamp” is that they don’t specify what exactly will be done and how, so they are highly malleable.

Could the non-tech stocks be down because the productivity increases expected from AI are illusory? Or that when the bubble bursts the economy will be wrecked and all businesses will be affected?

Couldn’t it be rooster-adjacent?

I'm struck by how empty the streets are.

That won’t help you if they decide that they don’t like you.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-citizen-arrested-by-ice_n_...

That reply uses I/I’m around a dozen times, forcing the user into anthropomorphising the AI.

I suspect that in a large scale disaster/emergency the communications systems may be disrupted and it may not be possible to remotely control the vehicles.

Perhaps in such cases they can pull over in a safe place, or if they have an occupant ask them if they wish to continue the journey or stop.

Perhaps they already do this, I have no experience with autonomous vehicles.

Aren’t CATL already producing sodium-ion batteries for about 60% the cost of lithium-ion for equivalent capacity?

Oh, no! Hollywood will get richer and the poor author will get nothing!

(2023)

> Like if I bump a table, my reflexes freak out

I know exactly what you mean. I have chronic lower back pain and sciatica but mild enough that I can manage it without medication most of the time.

But often, just walking through the house I will bump into a doorway etc and get a sudden spike of pain not from the bump but from my reflexive response.

Sorry to hear about your condition and I hope you can manage it successfully.

“I believe John Wilkes Booth to be innocent!” - Alexander Hamilton.

"Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?”

And also to reassure people that the chaotic world we live in can be understood, even if it cannot be fully controlled.

Much like gods and demons.

So Brexit is like violence - if it isn’t working, it’s because you aren’t using enough?

Perhaps “Reality has a well-known liberal bias” ?

AI and robots.

But so far, all the robot demonstrations have been faked and the AI was spun off as a separate private Musk company.

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” — Steve Jobs

I agree with you, but people can also be very irrational about the value of gold.