Be sure to install rat guards on the hawsers. If you spot a rat on board, you can reportedly get it to leave by sinking the vessel.

Oh, you're right - they're not nearly as common but they do exist.

Also another big one most of us have had - tuberculosis.

You can die from Lyme Disease in Rhode Island. You can die from malaria in Florida.

You can rust to death in Washington and Oregon.

RFK Jr stated in front of Congress that people shouldn't take medical advice from him. I think that was really excellent advice.

Of course, taken to its logical conclusion, it means he admits to having no business being in charge of HHS...

I'm not a fan of Trump, but this - a person or two dying of plague in the American Southwest - happens every few years. It's nothing new.

Also vaccines are irrelevant since this is a bacterium.

For Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS) to be sustainable long term and not vulnerable to political whims, the funding should be analogous to how aviation works ( like landing fees, gate slot rental, etc. ) which are aligned and proportional to the benefit received. Spread over the entire orbital industry, that amount of money is trivial to players like SpaceX, Amazon, etc. Really no different than tech companies contribution to Open Source software projects for building and maintaining common infrastructure.

You have to get a feel for when it's utterly useless and when it's got a good chance of success. You also have to have a different vigilance as the LLM will make mistakes unlike what humans will do. My experience is it can be a modest time save but only because I've learned to ignore it for most of my work. Occasionally neat completion, very very rarely generating useful snippets from prompts, and ability to generate doc strings that no one will probably read anyway. Utterly asinine at trying to write comments, documenting the self evident tediously and skipping commenting anything that actually could use it. One example is if I write a little command line utility using variables that make sense to me it's decent at seeing the uninitialized variables and generating a chunk of argument parsing code including decent staff help text based on the observed variables

When all is said and done, if AI convinces management I don't need the diploma mill outsourced code slinger from the lowest bidder, I come out ahead even if I never even use the AI at all.

Because "The American Way" means something entirely different today than it used to mean in the 1980s. It's nothing to aspire to. Not even remotely.

40% of Americans have medical debt.

I couldn't even put a number on in for Europe, the very concept of that is all but unknown in Europe.

He's using a version of made-up numbers.

How about real numbers? E.g. how many average yearly salaries do you need in 2025 (vs. 2005, for instance) to buy an average house?

Or how many big macs can you buy from.an average salary?

Because US economy is leaving behind major parts of its population at a rapid pace. Higher GDP doesn't translate to better standard of living, it translates to fewer people hoarding even more wealth.

You don't become wealth by being right, either. In fact, being right or wrong has nothing to do with being wealthy.

Generational wealth has.

You may want to rethint the meaning of that number.

Militarily yes, because the US was not interested in having a global military presence.
As I said, as soon as it withdrew from its isolationist curtain, there was no longer any contest.
The US surpassed the British Empire economically in the late 1800s.
Militarily? The second it decided it wanted to.