What if Elon wasn't lying when he said we'd be on Mars within 10 years in 2011? What if he ran a secret mission for Trump and US astronuts landed on Mars in 2018 and have been there ever since? If so, is the "Elon" here actually an Optimus robot wearing an Elon mask?
If they eliminated 48,000 jobs last year and plan another 30k this year, that totals ~78,000 people. That's the population of Flagstaff AZ. They must have been amazingly inefficient to be able to shed so many bodies and still continue to operate. That said, they had ~500k employees a few years ago and this will end up being around a 10% reduction in force.
Its not hard to believe that the party who wants to ban more books than anyone is seeing a decrease in highly educated individuals working for the government said party controls.
FSD is hard, yet drones want to do FSD in 3D. They will constantly run into trees, power lines, etc. Also, they will always be targets for kids or people believing they are spying on them. Finally, there is a REAL issue with porch pirates and drones can't usually get anywhere near a porch. Who wants their stuff placed in the middle of their yard? Also, this can never work with people who live densely like apartments.
The real drone delivery solution will be vans who text you that they are coming. Once you confirm they roll up to your home and let you know they are there. They send you a code. You go to the van and type in the code and a door opens revealing your item while taking a pic to validate the recipient. In the meantime its already texting the next couple deliveries ahead. If you aren't home you can tell it you'd prefer delivery at 2AM or whenever is convenient. That's noted and it will return then. This method eliminates most failed deliveries and theft due to unattended packages or lying customers who state they never received the package.
When a drone crashes, the driver doesn't get harmed so they care less. When a delivery truck crashes into your house and burns it down, they have a good chance of dying and therefore are more careful. There is no arguing around those points. That's not always a negative, just ask Ukraine. Its a lot easier to get kamikaze drone pilots than one's who are actually in the aircraft.
Come February when tens of millions of people get credit card statements still showing 29.95% interest, those 1-800 #s will be swamped with calls about how its illegal to charge more due to Trump. Then, many will stop paying until its "corrected" causing many banks to make a decision to charge fines to Trump's supporters and enrage them and him even more, or to submit and lose control of their business.
Also, where is my "dividend" check for DOGE and the tariffs?
Billions of $$ isn't a lot when you're worth $3.5T.
You think MSFT is still popular because it has the best CAD software?
People have been posting "Linux is better and the masses are starting to see it now" for 20+ years. Yet somehow, MSFT is a $3.5T company.
- doing ethnic purges: Getting rid of all (non white) immigrants
- openly preparing to invade their peaceful neighbour: I'm looking at you Venezuela
- implementing some absurdly Orwellian schemes like their Social Score thing: Requiring all visitors to provide their social media for scoring and entrance
decision making. Also required for any/all federal positions
- stealing all western IP they can: Constantly using IP from musicians/performers at rallies and government social media accounts, even after they explicitly say not to
- abusing their trade dominance: Ever heard of tariffs
This is how we get a real life toxic avenger.
Maybe the US (and other nations) could get value from an IT National Guard. It could be a collection of people from assorted IT disciplines who may not be physically able to do military work, but are well suited for the MANY back office tasks any modern army requires. Someone has to design and build drones, keep communications working and secure, and do the countless other similar tasks. Sure, they could recruit the current way, but that likely disqualifies a ton of capable technophiles who could add high value to their nation's defenses.
This seems like hype matt ferrell would go on about on youtube. He loves to hype trash science as if its legit.
How about a circle with underground rail acting as spokes on a wheel and also following the circle. Then the farthest point is the diameter of the circle. As you stated, a 170k perimeter translates to a 54km diameter. So worst case is you have to go a third of the distance and there can be more than one route. Its unrealistic that there won't be some sort of disaster over a long enough timeline. Fire/flood/tornado/terrorist attack/sandworms/etc will happen at some point. It seems like poor planning to not anticipate that and allow routes for emergency services to be blocked because there is only a single way back/forth.
You're talking 800 kph? The fastest operational train in the world is the Shanghai Maglev at 460 km/h in China.
How do you know if your card is considered a "reward" card before you swipe it? Can/will the new "reward" cards be cards that have rewards but don't get grouped as such?
After all is said and done, a hell of a lot more is said than done.
