Last year, America's automobile exports were worth $54B.

Lack of self sufficiency is a national security risk in and of itself.

My university did the opposite, and to this day I think it was good.

At the end of the first semester, you were given a test in the three most important subjects for your field. If you failed, you could re-take it after the summer break, before next semester starts. If you failed it again, you could repeat the first semester and try a third and final time. Fail that, you're out.

It was hard, too. In my class, we were just over a hundred when we started. We were 28 in the 2nd semester. But of those 28, almost everyone made it to the end. Everyone who would've failed somewhere along the way had already been weeded out.

It was brutal, it was stressful - but IMHO it was the best way to do it and be respectful of both student time and university resources.

We had that in 1st grade. Not university, school. So students starting university have now regressed to the level of 6-year-olds ?

I get that it's stressful. I don't get how "managing stress" has vanished from the requirements of getting a degree.

Beat me to it!

Must not actually say AIPAC/Israel though, I mean look at what happened to Albanese.

Except that of course, none of this happened. Read the facts.

You vastly overestimate how far a few hundred millions gets you in the industry that moves several trillions USD in insurable value a month. These massive superyachts are tiny boats are a rounding error for insurance clubs that insure ships that cost billions to tens of billions as a matter of routine by the hundreds. And they do NOT fuck around with ship safety. They blacklist the Master, the Master better learn how to flip burgers real fast.

I should add that in old scenarios where they couldn't do behavioral patterns very well, they still had specific circumstances they could track.

For example, say a specific hard drive model has a known controller logic problem that will manifest in drive just randomly not being recognized on boot any more after a specific amount of time. Imagine something like Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 controller failure, which was well understood to happen in a specific time frame after first start of the drive due to controller logic bug.

Now imagine I'm facebook. I got a tracking cookie that enabled me to see that you did in fact buy this drive on this day. I also got a tracking cookie from a page with build guides that indicates you accessed it the next day.

That means I can push very expensive, very high value data recovery service ads to you within specific time frame when this drive is expected to fail. And you will have a moment of "holy fuck, my drive is gone, my wife's photo album, my kids, my dog, my pet fish!!! Panic! What do I do?"

Go on facebook to ask and... it's right there in your face before you even get to the relevant local group. An ad for a local data recovery service. "Oh my god, thank you facebook! You saved my marriage!!!"

They have done this for a while now. Specifically, they want to get at our revealed preferences before they reveal themselves even to us. The best ad is the ad that makes you go "oh yeah, I actually do need X now, and they're selling it right here. Click!"

They do this through tracking individual behavioral patterns as accurately and as widely as possible, and then matching those patterns to past lessons of what people with similar patterns did.

We're fundamentally biologically determined pattern recognition machines, so as long as you find someone similar enough to us, having similar enough circumstances and past behavioral patterns, data from one's preferences can be used to infer preferences of the other.

Congress doesn't matter. Trump is not allowed to be opposed and he has family members with financial interest you better protect, or you will be buried.

You didn't get it. This is speeding tickets issued by fully automated systems. No court has ever seen this.

The solution is to stop treating it as a money-printing system. Punish people who speed in front of kindergardens, and leave people alone who at the city edge in the industrial zone on a Sunday evening didn't decelerate quite fast enough coming in from the highway.

I literally have no clue why you're saying that or who you think you're talking to.

Not at all. Because COMFORT is the key word here, not processing.

UNCLOS article 98. They are the monkeys of the insurance clubs long before they are monkeys of the owner. Owner can stop them from being employed on the boat.

Insurance clubs will stop Master from getting employment in shipping industry. And do, all the time.

Incorrect. Master is legally required to disregard any such orders from the owner.

This is one of the things that can actually get you in trouble internationally, as one international law that tends to actually be applied fairly evenly is the UNCLOS parts about ships in distress.

Articles 39 and 98 are utterly unambiguous here.

This is because it's enforced by insurance clubs. You want the boat to be able to enter ports? Better be in good standing with insurance ports, or your boat a useless boondongle that can't find a berth anywhere. These are the people who can tell national governments and Saudi rulers "no". Run of a mill Western billionaire? You're a bug to these people.