"The US is escalating"?
That's a rather specious viewpoint, isn't it? Or did you intend to lie by omission?

The Soviets/Russians have had space based weapons platforms in orbit since the 1960s
The Chinese have had weapons aloft for at least 10y.
Honestly, if the US *doesn't* have functional, effective orbital weapons already up there, they're fucking incompetent.

And, if investors don't like it, they can walk away, can't they?
Isn't that how the free market works? Convince people to invest in you, great. If you're an asshole or do stupid things, they take their $ away.

Look, I get it, slashdot despises Musk for many, many things (some even have to do with actual business or technology). But this is up to investors and their choices.

SpaceX IPO $160 today $162. Not really compelling unless one believes in their mission.
Tesla 1y was $442, now is $385. Not very compelling.
 

Looks like both bookworm and trixie are fixed as of about 3am UTC last night.

Sync your mirrors if it's off cycle. Luckily mine sync around 9am, hopefully the buildbots were busy..

For bookworm you need 8.2.35-1~deb12u1 .

Thank you, Guilhem.

Oh, did they have a warrant signed by a judge?

Illegal searches can be resisted.

Of course you risk being murdered for your rights.

Which appears to be the cost now.

They shouldn't want us to know that; bad chess.

They've gone from being infamous for offering no support to pretending to offer support?

I guess it will help people who haven't yet tried everything on their own before they figure out there is no support.

Happy to be proven wrong and learn that the chatbots are empowered to fix things.

They did things like this at the end of Rome.

P.T. Barnumus.

They can easily be downloading and using it locally/airgapped to get an open weights and measures system.

But that's the problem - an organization as big as the DC regime needs to control what its agents think to maintain discipline.

Marc Andreesen spoke about this when the Biden admin told him to not invest in AI startups because they wouldn't be allowed.

Controlling the Big Three is much more manageable but with hundreds you can't maintain an effective hivemind.

What's good for the country isn't usually what's good for the government.

Buzz has spoken on more than one occasion about a radio source and a structure on Phobos that is being kept hush-hush.

Then he stopped talking about it and won't say why when asked.

"I got bad information from a dope playing a practical joke on me" would have been easy.

Maybe Japan will show something interesting. Maybe the probe will mysteriously fail at an inopportune time.

I'll be glad to see the question resolved if it can be.

Mysteries are fun but discoveries are more interesting.

All centralized power will work to expand its reach. Sometimes nakedly as in Germany or the Soviet Union (neither place having developed a generations-long tradition of self-rule that makes such things taboo). Sometimes subtly, through agencies' expanded remits or assertions of authority to fill a vacuum. But nearly always in the name of some common good. Populism is a dirty word among some folks, you equate it with reactionary politics, but what word would you use to describe exercising "the people's power" on their behalf?

They might pick-and-place here ro fool the regulators and politicians.

Truly a kakistocracy.

He's right, you know, but the demand is self-feeding.

It's necessary to have more successful non-MBA companies outcompete the race-to-the-bottom companies.

We need better social systems to punish the psychopathic impulse. It needs to be more profitable to not exploit people.

I've lost track of how many companies I'm boycotting but most people don"t have time to think abour that.

Republicans used to be protectionists until the middle of 20th century. Milton Friedman convinced a lot of people there were no downsides to outsourcing so long as the quarterly numbers were good. Dude even had the chutzpah to say it's okay to let the defense industry wither away because "steel can be stockpiled."

He was certainly influential. But now that I'm older and wiser, he's the poster child for why economists should be treated with all the respect that practioners of voodoo are due.

And the defined benefits get paid for with...

Well, in the automotive industry, which never fully off-shored, there are plenty of domestic suppliers in places like Alabama and Tennessee, where the factories have always been.

There were plenty of domestic electronics suppliers back in the 70s and 80s when Macs and IBM PCs and peripherals were mostly assembled domestically too. The final assembly went chasing slave labor overseas and surprise surprise the supply chain here withered away (or off-shored, too).

In aerospace where off-shoring is flat-out illegal in most cases (ITAR), the domestic supply network for both mechanical and electronics is quite robust.

Oh and I forgot to mention, places like Brazil have domestic production quotas for electronics too. Maybe they were helped along by the fact that until recently we had no such trade barriers in place. Or as a certain favorite politician opined, they were taking advantage of our trade policies to benefit their workforce.

Totally unique to the business schools. Absolutely none of that behavior among English majors or engineering undergrads. Anywhere. Ever. Born 40, all of them.