Thanks to our AI Oligarchs, pretty soon no-one will be able to afford a gaming PC so they'll have to rent Microsoft server time to run the games for them.

Indeed. I heard on Twitter that Russia is losing two million men a day now.

Moderna spent years and years trying to get mRNA cancer treatment through clinical trials before 2020 and never managed to. They might have gone bust if governments around the world hadn't pushed mRNA Covid vaccine on billions of people around the world without having to pass safety trials.

They soon will be North Korea because South Koreans aren't breeding (I think they may have the lowest reproduction rate in the world now?) and Kim will be able to just walk over the border into an empty South Korea before long.

Not sure I'd want to live in North Korea, but I wouldn't want to live in South Korea either.

Don't forget all the money American banks lent to Nazi Germany before the war.

It was likely also a demonstration that they can destroy Western surveillance satellites any time they want to.

But yes, if they know how communication works they may be able to jam it instead. I've seen alleged satellite radar images of Crimea which show large areas with no usable data, presumably from jamming.

NATO turned what was originally intended to be a mostly peaceful show of force like the temporary invasion of Georgia into a war of attrition.

Remember WWI when the lines were pretty much static for years and then suddenly it was all over?

That's what's happening here. Russia has most of Donbas plus a buffer zone in some other regions that directly border Russia. Ukraine is throwing men at the front lines for Russia to kill but is running out. Territory held is largely irrelevant compared to the number of men killed and weapons destroyed.

Hence the desperate calls for 'ceasefire' on the Western side because they know Ukraine can't last much longer.

> none have had jobs that an AI could replace - construction, ships captain, harbor pilot, and so forth.

1. All those jobs can be replaced with computers and/or robots.
2. Who's going to be paying to build houses or ship Chinesium gadgets around the world if the rest of us don't have jobs?

Yes, exactly. All these people saying "ha-ha, I'll be fine, I have a service job which can't be done by a machine" haven't even thought about where their customers are going to come from if all the people doing productive jobs are replaced by computers.

I usually donâ(TM)t reply to AI posts but I dated her for a couple of years and got a pretty good insight into how she worked because I was autistic enough to not ignore her obvious lies, unlike normies whoâ(TM)d believe everything she said. She was clearly a psychopath and ticked all the boxes on how female psychos behave in relationships.

I believe youâ(TM)re right that there are more male psychos but normies are simply unable to under that there are alien predators among us.

I'm not so sure. Everyone loved my psycho ex-girlfriend until the point where she told them 'I don't care, I was just using you' and they suddenly realized she was just wearing a mask the whole time.

"an AI program's idea of how a human should behave" wouldn't be a bad description of her. She was never human, she was just faking how she thought a human should act.

She could easily have talked investors into giving her a few billion dollars for complete nonsense she made up, if she'd decided to go that route.

This why we get companies killing people through cost-cutting, because no-one does anything until they start killing people (and often not even then).

It's hard to properly test leap seconds because NTP tries really, really hard to not diverge from UTC. And your code might work fine but that doesn't matter when the JVM or operating system break underneath you.

If I remember correctly, there was a bug in Java which required updating Java to not crash. We worked around it by shutting things down a few seconds before and starting it again after seconds after.

One of the biggest problems with leap seconds is that it's hard to properly test them. We had to install special firmware on a GPS receiver and use that as the NTP source for our servers so we could command the GPS to insert a fake leap second to test them. I'm very happy that they're gone.

Russian intelligence had agents in Kiev who had assured them that they could stage a coup and take over the country. But the agents mostly turned out to be grifters and double-agents so that plan failed and a lot of high-level Russian intelligence folks got sacked.

They then progressed to forcing Ukraine to the negotiating table, which took a few weeks. Ukraine would have had no choice but to capitulate until Boris Johnson told them NATO would use them as mercenaries against Russia and provide them with weapons and intel.

That then led to the war between NATO and Russia that's been going on for the last four years and is approaching its end. Either NATO sends in troops soon or Ukraine is done because Russia will continue destroying their infrastructure all winter long.