Since you're so fixated on Intel DEI hires, can you name any notable examples?

You're going by the republican definition of DEI.

Is the CEO of a wrestling company qualified to run the department of education? How about a drunken Fox commentator who accidentally texts classified info to journalists? He certainly doesn't sound qualified to run the DoD. Excuse me, Department Of War.

There was a criminal trial against Boeing but an orange asshole had it dismissed. https://www.politico.com/news/...

That wasn't *all* I said, but it is apparently as far as you read. But let's stay there for now. You apparently disagree with this, whnich means that you think that LLMs are the only kind of AI that there is, and that language models can be trained to do things like design rocket engines.

Hey, technically correct is the best kind of correct!

On the other hand the guys who run the excavators at large job sites will be mostly gone, as will the dump truck drivers and most of the guys who pour cement, replaced with AI-controlled robots. China already has almost completely automated open pit mines (with all-electric equipment, eliminating cost and pollution of diesel as well) and much of the refining process. Conduit is being run on green-field construction sites, pulling cable through conduit has been automated for years, and loose cable runs are coming soon. Even the fast food place you mentioned is now running with a crew of 5 rather than 10-12 like at the turn of the century. Robots are walking guard patrols and will never come in drunk, fall off the loading dock while sneaking a cigarette, or take a nap in an unused meeting room. Amazon is deploying pick-and-pack robots, robots are stocking shelves in retail stores, robots are delivering food in restaurants and to homes.

UBI will soon be a necessity, since you only have a limited number of jobs cleaning porta-potties or tearing off roofs.

So you somehow found a way to blame DEI in an instance where it had zero mention? I guess DEI was the talking point on Fox News today.

That's what I just said.

That implies rot from within but this was really just top down Intel firing anyone and everyone in order to make quarterly targets.

That was fine when AMD was struggling but AMD got their shit together in 2017. Intel kept firing people they actually need it all the way up to well, now.

The problem is that your engineers are rotting it's that you don't have them because you fired them. Worse it's not as if you got to assassinate them or anything so they went off and got jobs at your competitors.

This is why Nvidia has always been so strong they hire the hell out of engineers in order to keep them out of the hands of competitors. It's a bit problematic because it's why AMD and Intel have such a hard time competing in the GPU market space. They simply cannot afford to hire enough of the kind of engineers they need. Not with the budget the CEO gives them

This is a continuation of standard Russian military tactics under Papa Jo Stalin Throw bodies at the enemy. Try to overwhelm them. It mostly worked during WW2, but it is why the largest loss of life was in Russia.

There is a difference - no US involvement on Russia's side. The lend/lease program supplied a lot of materiel, weapons, planes, food. Russia was second on the list after Great Britain.

So now, what is left is mostly throwing cannon fodder at Ukraine.

They might want to save a few men in order to replenish the population after whatever the outcome of this latest military action.

There's going to be tons of money dumped into the race by corporate PACs to ensure that hate government extremist right MAGA Republicans, and center-right pro-Corporation Democratic, candidates win the primaries and/or elections.

I suggest volunteering locally to make sure people who do get elected are left of center in either party... not that there's many (any?) left of center Republicans left at all to oppose corporate overreach.

Aye, sanctions only help preserve Ukraine booty so el Bunko and the Russia Oligarchs can slice it and dice it to make it their own booty. el Bunko is above corruption in the same way a brick is above the Sargasso Sea (to borrow from Douglas Adams).

"son started working for a Ukrainian energy corporation" Did he siphon money the corporation? Did he sell out Ukraine to Putin? Meanwhile back in the U.S., el Bunko is doing all that and more. Before you think el Bunko is entirely a tool of Putin, he's also a tool of Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud. But he's in good company there since both Putin and bin Salman have no problem whacking their opposition. Just to show he belongs in their league, el Bunko is blowing up boats and people that he claims are ferrying fentanyl to the U.S. from Venezuela. No fentanyl comes to the U.S. from Venezuela, so why the ruse besides that he and Hegseth like killing people who cannot fight back? Venezuela has a lot of yummy oil that el Bunko and his cronies are itching to monetize. And his son-in-law is busy signing up "deals" with the Saudis on the order of billions of dollars.

One of the rules of el Bunko, whenever he does something, look for the trail of bread crumbs back to his pocket.