The only impressive thing I saw just the sheer amount of matter. A Venus orbit sphere ~1500 meters thick is like 250,000 Earths. Over 100 Jupiters. They probably had to haul most of that from other star systems.
All so they could use solar cells for power.
Which they then had to abandon because the star was set to explode.
...probably not your sharpest of aliens. This is the most brute force solution to energy possible. Probably robots that just mindless build it over millions of years.
The biggest thing any of us can actually do: be racist.
That store with the "black owned business" sign on it, or in OPs case Indian-run business? Avoid. Don't buy anything there, don't recommend it to friends, leave a bad review - or at least a worse review than otherwise. But it's a mom and pop store? Too bad. Go out of your way, pay more, or find other ways to favor your people.
That doesn't mean be shitty to other peoples to their face - in fact just the opposite. Be nice and pleasant and then metaphorically knife them in the back.
In better times you could listen to your heart and your compassion, but we're clearly facing an orchestrated global campaign to destroy our culture and life and we have to respond like the existential threat it is. I can tell you it doesn't come natural to me to discriminate and be tribal, it's not in my bones, but it's what must be done.
Eggs are definitely cheaper because disruption of our 2% egg exports not because of replacing the 100 million hens that were culled.
Whoever wrote this (probably John Barron) is laughing at anybody taking any of this obvious fantasy seriously.
A lot of manufacturing will come back, not nearly as many jobs though.
Do you think you could start a company selling goods on the web? Twenty years ago anybody could start a warehouse business. Today you need hordes of robots zipping around your warehouse sealing, labelling, and directing the boxes to even have a small chance to compete with Amazon.
We're on the cusp of this same kind of robotized disruption happening in all manufacturing. Not necessarily humanoid robots, which are a ways off, but ones that are easy to set up, train, that use AI to be flexible and adaptable.
Like Apple's hundreds of billions "Advanced Manufacturing Fund", do you think it's going to people turning tiny screws? That's all going to be robotized. That money is for the people who will build, program, and configure the robots.
In case anybody didn't pick up on this, Graham isn't an idiot.
When Graham said if you don't praise the vaccine the dems will steal your credit and beat you he knew full well following that advice would actively harm Trump's election chance.
I think another aspect I've not seen anyone mention, maybe a minor one, is to shake out corruption in Customs enforcement.
Like I imagine inspectors are looking a lot closer at origin and what's in the containers than ever before while they're enforcing all these changes. The corrupt ones are worried about getting caught from closer and unexpected scrutiny. The lazy ones actually opening crates and looking inside.
And I don't know if there was really anything not tariffed before, but a blanket 10% minimum means everything gets looked at in some way, no exceptions.
It's soon going to be like real-world AI, where we can just create anything with a prompt.
"ChatDNA create a dodo-like bird out of this hodgepodge of DNA".
And it'll make some Moreau-esque monstrosity that looks like a dodo.
In the book, scientists engineer the dinos to be missing an amino acid and they only raised one sex of dinos so they couldn't reproduce on their own.
Over the course of the disaster it's revealed that the amphibian DNA used to fill in missing gaps let them change sex and so reproduce, and that the dinos found a natural source of the missing protein.
That's the twist at the end is that the Nedry situation and the hurricane just revealed that the park had already failed to contain the dinosaurs. So without Nedry they just would have gone on longer without knowing the dinosaurs were already loose. The park was ready to open soon so probably they wouldn't even have resurrected any new species.
Basically we'll have one Star Wars where Han gives Greedo a bouquet of flowers and they kiss.
And one where Han shoots first and the blood and guts spray everywhere and Luke starts puking from the disgusting display.
And the original will be lost forever, along with our collective sanity.
I don't think it'll ever work like you giving it a script and out comes something good. There's too much distance and intelligence between the words and a good result.
Instead, you'll be able to film a movie with cardboard props and have the AI make it look real. The director himself will be able to play every character and make them look and sound like actual different people.
I'm actually not, I'm saying that what "government" meant in the early 1800s is "a question for the court" - but I'm pretty sure it didn't unambiguously mean "nation" since the law listed out both.
The issue before the court will be whether Tren de Aragua is covered - Trump admin says it is.
So when Sotomayor says the case shouldn't even be heard because they aren't a "nation" she's prejudging the question before the court on behalf of all the other Supremes. Which I have to say is at least consistent with her "wise Latina" arrogance.
It does seem clear to me that the law was intended as 'any identifiable, organized group of foreigners'. Back then it wasn't just well-formed US / Canada / Mexico as basically all of North America. There were Indian tribes, local and splinter governments, and independent lands. I really doubt they intended for the Navajo to be okay invading us because they weren't a nation-state, or for the government to deport all Shoshone after a Ute incursion.
That seems to me the intent of the "public proclamation of the event" - so it's clear who is getting rounded up and only those people in the group that actually did it.
Oh wow. If you're going to only respond to a minor side point then quote it or identify what you are replying to.
I didn't pick up on you attempting to derail the conversation because it was about "this is an about-face from Kennedy" - this is what the title of the post even is about.
It's not. He's been entirely consistent, and factually correct. And he's committed to answering your "what's the tradeoff" question.
So you're not saying you're upset at RFKj, you haven't identified anywhere he was wrong, he's committed to answering your question. Do you even have a point you are trying to make? What do you want to have a conversation about.
Sotomayor: "the Act grants the President power to detain and remove foreign citizens of a “hostile nation or government” when “there is a declared war” with such nation or when a “foreign nation” threatens “invasion or predatory incursion” against the territory of the United States"
The act doesn't say "foreign citizens" it says "all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects".
The act doesn't say "foreign nation" it says "foreign nation or government".
The act doesn't say "threatens" it says "is perpetrated, attempted, or threatened".
So she has intentionally and deceitfully removed many relevant conditions and terms from the law in her dissent opinion. This continues throughout the whole opinion, for example:
Sotomayor: "There is, of course, no ongoing war between the United States and Venezuela. Nor is Tren de Aragua itself a “foreign nation.”
The act doesn't require and ongoing war, nor a foreign nation; a government was clearly recognized as something different from a nation. And Tren de Aragua is a government - they govern their "subjects". Your home owner association is a governing body. Whether the act can apply to a Venezuelan HOA that forms a militia and invades is maybe a question for the court, but clearly with saying natives, denizens and subjects they're not envisioning that only official Red Coats can be deported.
This continues:
Sotomayor: "Congress requires the President to “mak[e] public proclamation” of his intention to invoke the Alien Enemies Act."
Again a distortion. The law says the President can deport them when he "makes public proclamation of the event" - not the intention to invoke the act, but a proclamation of the event. And he's been calling it an invasion for some time, which is maybe all that's required.
I give Katanji a pass on this because she's a moron. Sotomayor isn't dumb enough to use that as an excuse - she's just an evil, duplicitous bitch.
A humanoid robot can be trained just by watching a person do the job, like Google's AI robot (although most of their PR video was faked).
That takes all the cost out of it other than the robot.
The robots aren't up to it yet, but that's the theory anyway.
These are wikipedia liberals.
Trump's wikipedia entry for a case study. Before end of 2015 it had many positive statements, such as "one of his first projects [succeeded in] turning a 1200 unit complex with a 66% vacancy rate to 100% occupancy within a year". Since 2016 there's not a single positive statement in the entire entry - and it's long.
They even replace MAGA with "Trumpism" because "make great" is a positive framing. "Trump is the central figure of Trumpism" - which links to a page about something "also referred to as MAGA". The central thesis and slogan of two successful election campaigns is not even mentioned one time in their history of the man. The same of course applies on the entry for "Trumpism" -- absolutely no positive statement in the entire entry.
The NPR and wikipedia audience's defining characteristic is that when they are presented with a huge set of entirely one-sided statements they're not at all suspicious.