There was a company in Tennessee that had the contract for turning enriched weapons grade uranium into fuel, but it was flooded out during Hurricane Helene. There was also a company run by an Israeli decades ago with a contract which stole insane amounts and is the reason Israel has a weapons program (unofficially). All of Israel's nuclear tech was stolen from the US and Russia.

It would be great if we could use weapons grade fuel in reactors. It was such a waste to turn so much of it into warheads. But no one has been able to do it yet. I doubt any startup could make fuel for current reactors either. You would likely need completely different reactors and fuel rod designs to reuse this fissile material for power, and America doesn't have any of the steel manufacturing facilities left to even make a nuclear pressure vessel today.

Yea, the CIA is basically a government mafia at this point. This guy must have done something really bad to the wrong people (probably other government pedophiles) to get thrown under the bus this way.

Wait, what am I buying? I bought the PS5 the year it came out. My gaming card is a 3080, so two generations old. I didn't hate either company back then. It's their recent bullshit that's upset me. (insert the stupid "we should improve society somewhat" Matt Bors meme).

It went over everyone's head. I was trying to make the point the cellphone calls from the flights would have been impossible.

wosh

If Intel hadn't fucked up their 13th gen processors so bad, at least some of that manufacturing would be back in the US by now. Hell, if they hadn't dropped Optaine, they might be able to turn around and manufacture DRAM right now! Now they are partially owned by the US government and nVidia and have a true Chinese lackey at the wheel with no original ideas and who will never be a Pat Gelsinger.

I've heard anything C++14 and forward should be memory safe if you use a correct linter that enforces all the new standards. That was from a coworker who loved Rust, but was also a huge C++ fan. I haven't done any C/C++ in years, so I can't say for sure.

Just remember ... it was almost impossible to get cellphone signal on planes during 9/11

Interested on Games Nexus take on this. I'm pretty sure it will be in their hardware news segment. I personally rarely use my Windows box anymore. My hacked PS4 Pro is my main gaming system now. My PS5 is sitting disconnected from the Internet until a 10.40 firmware hack is discovered. Fuck both nVidia and Sony.

I don't think theses LLMs are like any previous machine. You use a metal lathe or a cotton gin, you get reproducible results; near perfect results if you maintain the machine correctly and it doesn't have mechanical failure. LLMs for coding are not good deterministic machines. Tiny variations to a prompt or slight word ordering can dramatically change the output. Most models silently write away errors or do blank exception checking, making something seem like it works. It might be getting 50,000 records, but you're not seeing the 2,000 edge cases it's silently dropping. No one knows because no one reviews 10,000 lines of slop.

These machines are fundamentally worse than previous industrial revolutions. College students are booing people at graduations going on about AI because they've used it and the good students know just how wrong it gets things, sometimes 1/8 to 1/4 of the time! One day a bridge will collapse because a human check will be replaced by some shit engineering model and it will totally pass a design that has incorrect tensile strength. Than 4 ~ 10 people die and maybe, just maybe, we'll realize how dangerous these machines are ... NOT because they're intelligent game changes, but because they are next word predictive guessers with no intent and no real intelligence.

The machines won't kill us. Our trust in them will.

The entire economy is currently in a crashed state. Money printing went out of control, home compute is becoming unaffordable, no one wants any of these AI data centers, none of your OpenAI/Anthropic subscriptions even remotely cover the runtime cost of compute, much less the sunk cost of the infrastructure. It's all been run into the ground and we're all going through the motions like everything is fine. There was a term coined for continuing on in a collapse during the Soviet era: Hypernormalization.

We're distracted by irrelevant social issues, or people screaming about Orange Man (when really every single president in our lifetimes has been pushing towards this, unless you were alive during JFK, and we all know what really happened to him).

The data centers will get built, not by capitol raised through supply and demand, but because the governments of the world need the surveillance infrastructure to impose authoritarian, technocratic rule. That's the reason for "child safety" laws that are really digital identification laws designed to remove any remaining privacy anyone has.

Universal basic income only makes sense if there is zero resource scarcity. We don't have the dilithium crystals and replicators of Gene Rodenberry's universe. The Weighted Random Word/Code Generators are nowhere close to the level of Commander Data, nor are they "intelligent." They cannot reason, they just do a very fancy and compute intense predictive output. It's impressive, but transformers and attention blocks will never be an "AGI."

The technocratic class wants programmable money so you're only allowed to spend FOOD-COIN on x products and HOUSE-COIN on housing. Extreme control that can cut off anyone from their money should they say or think the wrong thing.

Universal Basic Income creates a permanent class tied to government gibs. It will be nothing like Star Trek and a whole lot more like The Expanse.

90%+ of "UFOs" are likely covert air force operations. The documentary Mirage Men interviews a CIA operative who intentionally drove a former Lt Col turned military contractor to a mental institution, in order to continue a narrative to cover up military operations.

Do meds make you stop thinking or analyzing things critically? Most of the psycho meds make people dumb as shit today. Here I have a whole writeup:

https://battlepenguin.com/poli...

There are sources for videos, analysis of the "bullet photos" and lots of other details. My arguments are sound. They might not be something you agree with because you believe everything you see on the Google and/or TV without question, but they are not an indication I need to "take my meds." Or have you forgotten how much the Epstein files have shown just how many "conspiracies" are true?

Operation Ajax. Operation Paperclip. Operation Mockingbird. COINTELPRO. All these are real, actual conspiracies against innocent people that took place under various presidents.

Keep taking your meds and go numb.

People don't take long haul trips in Europe. If they do, they'll often take a train and rent a normal car at the destination if they need one. America, Australia, etc. are really spread out. Every person I know who tried to do a long haul trip (like to the beach) in an EV said "never again." Especially in high vacation season when charging stations can have queues of 10~15 vehicles. If you wanted to have America on EVs for all trips, you would need charging stations the size of a Buc-ees everywhere, and they'd be mostly empty except for Thanksgiving, Memorial Day, etc.

Also, if you are dumb enough to do a long haul and find yourself in a 10 car queue for the charger .. go to an RV campground and rent a space instead. Keep some high voltage adapters and plug into the RV electric ports to charge.

EVs only work if you live in a city and never leave it. If you're in NYC, Chicago, you also need a garage (probably a space heater too) because you're not going to be able to charge those things at most charging stations when it's -10F outside. Most Americans can only have EVs as a secondary vehicle. The primary will always need to be gas or hybrid.

Exactly! I'm sick of these permanent cellphone modems installed on vehicles. I wish more consumers would fight back, but most don't even realize what's installed in their vehicles and how much tracking data is transmitted. There are aftermarket harnesses to disable them: yes harnesses because if you just pull the fuse, they often disable bluetooth and the drivers speaker (where onstar is injected from).

And now in 2027, cars will be REQUIRED to have computer vision to track you and make sure you're not drunk/sleepy. Yea I'm sure that won't have any false positives or leave people stranded in the middle of nowhere.

BUY OLD CARS. Fuck this dystopian surveillance-scape.

Wanting America to lose a war we had no business starting in the first place by the President of the United States of Israel isn't TDS. The swing voters in the middle were voting for the person who stood against wars and kept America out of it the first time. After the three entirely fake assassination attempts (his ear is 100% fine folks. He could have at least surgically removed a chunk to make it believable), it's clear this was a very long con game. I think Trump knew he'd go to war in his lame duck term for his handlers and the Epstein class that truly runs the world. It was just deferred by 4 years, and who knows, maybe that whole pile of bullshit was wagging the dog too.