It would be nice that if instead of a full competition, space race, there was cooperative competition, similar to, but better than, the International Space Station. Plan the first lunar base together, but each country works on their own rockets, landers, etc. Share the cost, have a vested interest in making space accesible
Bring India into the fold, as well as Japan, ESA, etc.
Russia is excluded.
I agree, it would be very nice.
The US is playing a completely different game than China. There is really no way to "win" whatever imaginary zero sum game that our politicians and populace thinks we should be playing.
Okay - let's discuss. What game is China playing? Then what game is the US playing?
Chang'e, the Chinese Lunar program is moving along recently landing at the lunar South Pole. They have a pretty well thought out mission. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Present plans are to land people in 2030. Planned for 2035 is a moon base with nations China, Russia, South Africa, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Venezuela, Pakistan and Egypt as partners.
This isn't the same game as the 1960's race, this one might have sovereign property declaration involved. There are science implications as well - witness the brouhaha over China's recent landing at the South Pole. There are mineral rights as well - if the pole holds water, it would have an important role in water for drinking and fuel for further space exploration. Seems like a plausible reason for a race to me.
Your thoughts?
I thought we lured them all onto Facebook then ran for the hills?
Since I'm required to be on that cesspit, and all jokes aside, there are plenty of under 60's there. Surprisingly seems to be as many thirst traps as say, instagram. There are even some proper uses for it.
But yes, social media for kids is terribly toxic. And I'm certain some will get around the ban. But we shouldn't make perfect the enemy of good.
As we fall off this bridge, we really need to attempt to do an assessment of how it affects older people as well. People might remember I'm an amateur researcher in the area of gender relations. Young adults are being harmed as well, especially in the area of relationships.
Things like the Toxic TikTok relationship tests are "testing" relationships by destroying them - loyalty tests, fake breakup tests. Illiterate boyfriend tests. Ignore your boyfriend tests.
And on the other side, since men have learned of these tests, the result is usually an immediate breakup. Because men have their own access to the internet and social media, and are sharing some of this.
A pity, because a lot of relationships that might have gone somewhere have ended over stupid tests.
The pieces are in place, so time to roll seriously. Artemis appears to have shaken down okay. Now it’s time to get the mating pieces put together and make certain they work.
people will assume that any woman hired was hired due to this bias
No, "people" in general won't assume that, but pre-biased idiots that are looking for an excuse will.
Dear Crimestoppers, I'm reporting a crime involving Jeffrey Epstein. Sincerely Jeffrey Epstein
I heard he was well hung....
Quit? Oh man you should have lived in Europe. You'd probably have been able to retire on the payout the courts would have given you.
Wink, wink! Just because there is a law, doesn't mean it won't happen. Just buried a few layers deeper.
"I also believed there was a reason the Democrats lost in teh previous general election" And what reason would that be ? Even wet poop should have won 90% of the votes against Trump if voters had a brain.
I'm not denying anything about Republican stupidity. Trump is a grifter, a stupid man who does however understand the art of the grift, telling people what they want to hear. They FAFOd. The Democrats were being equally stupid, just in a different direction while feigning superiority and following a group of far left misandrysts. I present to you the DNC produced "Men for Kamala" ads, which used Feminist stereoypes of White males, including a morbidly obese white male, bragging about eating carburetors for breakfast. protip: Not much uses carburetors any more, other than lawnmowers and small engines
And they were feigning the that Republicans were anti science, while they were riding the back end of the Trans movement, which ended up in stark denial of biology and science, to the point of not being able to tell the difference between man and women. Rejection of DNA and biology at a level that would be approved by ideology driven Soviet Union scientists and their Lysenkoism.
They supported schools aiding students who were transitioning, and allowing the schools to keep that fact that the students were transitioning a secret from the students parents. Note - this is not Trump's idiotic claims that Bobby can go to school Monday and come home as Tina, or whatever claim he made. The matter has been going back and forth for a while.
They largely declared males irrelevant, believing a blue estrogen wave would suffice, and with an undercurrent of #metoo stirring the pot.
They declared that the working class was not needed in person and bluntly, when Harris told the head of the Teamsters, that she was going to win with or without Union support.
Finally, they came to understand what the years of feminist attacks on males brought forth, the concept of male toxicity when ended up morphing into it's final form - that being male was in itself toxic. You may to my not agree, but they lost the young male vote, once quite reliably a liberal vote. I guess when you are told almost from birth that you are evil, you might not end up voting for that accusing demographic.
And the Republicans could point to documented evidence of all this, didn't have to even make shit up. All of this has been diagnosed by smarter people than I. Fortunately, it appears the insanity has calmed down. I believe that the Dems have learned their lesson. We've seen the results of following a half-wit President and his rubber stamping minions in power. Ain't good
Make all voting machine code public, or ban their use altogether if they refuse. Full audits of all machines. Ensure every state is required to use a valid form of ID to ensure legal citizens are casting votes. Ensure every vote is counted in public. In the Town Square if necessary. Twice.
If you actually accept all of these actions as lawful and necessary for the integrity of a nationwide election, then fucking dare tell me which political party would be bitching endlessly about these “unfair” practices. Because I can ensure you it would be only ONE party bitching. The cheating one.
And remember there is power in tend idea that if you convince a lot of people to hold the idea that voting in the US is corrupt if you lose, and fair and free is your party wins, and never ever ever conceded, who cares if there is absolutely no fraud? The paradigm just shifts.
And don't even deny that this has happened, and my bet if there is a shift in the midterms, it will happen again.
I live in a very liberal area. I go into the polling place, pull out my wallet and my voter registration and drivers license, they mark that I was voting on paper, and I fill out a paper ballot. How is that corrupt? And I mean it is those corrupt Democrats running the system.
What would a completely non corrupt 100 percent verifiable Republican system involve? And I hope you do know that the never-ending accusations of corruption is a wedge issue that is more valuable as a wedge issue than actually corrupt voting. You obviously is a Republican implements plan that no Republican will ever complain about. It's like abortion, rallying the faithful base is more important than actually eliminating it.
Looking forward to the infallible system you present, and it is a lot more than what you have said so far.
That's over simplifying things a bit, but yeah, we have fundamental infrastructure issues in the UK with any proposed mass rollout of AI DCs.
What I see as an issue however, is the apparent paradigm that Data Centers, need all of the generated power - not just available, but all of it. And then need more. Here in teh states we're talking bout restarting old nuc plants to service the Data Centers. I don't see much introspection, just "Build more DCs, we need more power!" More nuc plants - they are green, so nothing can go wrong!" What I've heard and seen so far is there appears to be no limit, to the need.
Don't forget as Datacenters store more data, that there will be more data, which means more datacenter, to store more data - seems like infinity is in that equation,
Then again, this *could* just be Microsoft wriggling off the hook because they're starting to think the AI bubble might be somewhat overinflated and therefore they might not be needing all that capacity they've been saying they are going to build afterall, but don't want to start the stampede for the exits until they're already through the door.
And you might have just hit the nail directly on the head. I'm not particularly frightened of AI, but I can't be the only one that sees the current models as unsustainable. In another post, I compared the present Datacenter concept with the original tube based computers. We're acting as if current AI and its needs are already finished product. Just like I'm sure that the makers of those behemoth tube computers were.
This need for more power, more centers smacks of that. And it is a weird bubble, and as I noted, a lot of people much smarter than I probably are seeing that too.
* UNIX is a Trademark of Bell Laboratories.
