No we did not.

We waited until it was too late, had entered the US and spread.

Then we put in reasonable precautions. Most followed it, a few did not and called us stupid.

Covid death rate for those over 75 was 17% ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... )

Yes, the rate was only 2.3% for the over 50 and less than 1% for those under 50. 2.3% is scary high death rate, That would mean everyone would know someone that died. 17% is a horrifying number that justifies the cost.

Peru had over 6,600 deaths per million people.
The world on average had over 894 death/million.
The United States had 3,625 d/m It was over 100 million cases, more than 1 million American dead. The European Union countries had 2,831 d/m.

The US did not do ENOUGH to protect it's citizens. Europe did a better job. We were not the worst by far, but the US did not do insane stupid panick things.

There are two kinds of people:

People that care about someone over 50 or were over 50 themselves: Think the massive economic damage was well worth it to try and save those over 50. We wish we did MORE and quicker.

Sociopaths under the age of 50 that thought : We would rather be rich and have money than spend that money to save the people over 50.

Just because YOU don't care about that much death does not mean nobody else does. Not all people think the way you do. Some of us are 'weak willed liberals' that love our family. And we do not respect those that wish our family died.

Yes Covid was expensive. We did not spend enough.

Keeping aliens secret is political suicide. People do not trust the government already, you just declare yourself to be an untrustworthy liar - worse than Trump (who if we were keeping aliens secret would immediately tweet it out).

The claim is we do this to.... prevent panic?????

Mankind has never 'panicked'. Not the way this stupid conspiracy myth implies. We created nuclear weapons and there was no panic. We created and used nasty poison gas and nobody panicked.

You know what get people in the street and calling for the government to resign?
Slavery (Sparticus, Civil War, etc.)
Preventing women from Voting (multiple times in multiple countries)
Kicking black women off a bus because she took a seat
Treating civilians so badly they set themselves on fire (Jasmine Revolution)

While I am sure a few morons will panic on hearing aliens exist, but no one cares when a few MORE lunatics buy all the guns and dig a bunker.

My favorite example is when they faked a DNA result and show it a suspect to get a confession. Once they even submitted it to the judge. The defendant, being innocent asked for a trial and the Prosecutor had to ask for a certified copy which the technicians refused to do.

( https://www.nbcnews.com/news/u... )

Note, there are similar cases in Japan (Saga Prefecture) and Colorado (CBI)

The people that proposed it thought of it as science.

What the government politicians plan on doing with it (and why they funded it) are an entirely different thing.

1) Science works.
2) Republicans hate government science, so they cut funding for it.
3) Democrats realize points 1 and 2 so they realize they have to get sneaky: Democrats take parts of the government the Republicans like and get THEM to fund science.

Which is why the Department of Energy is doing this rather than one of the several actual Science based agencies (for example: Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer)

Note, we used to do this with the military all the time. The GOP refused to fund any computer technology, but they gave a crap ton of money to the Department for Defense. Which is why the internet was created by DARPA.

Man those republicans were easy to fool!

Oh no, we are not doing science, this is all about guns and bombs and shields. Yeah, this is not economic stuff, it is essential MILITARY defense.

Very recently a judge ruled that:

AI is NOT a link.
AI is NOT user generated content under the Community Decency Act.
AI is not a summary of other work.

And that therefore AI is a direct statement of the company hosts the AI and that therefore the company is 100% responsible for what the AI says. They created it, they are responsible for it.

Now, the question is: Will some corrupt legislature create a law to protect AI and the companies that host it?
 

I could see some kind of thing where they are paying people to contribute, this could work. Perhaps every AI job specifies the contributed work that most affected it and pays that person half the amount Shutterstock charges the customers.

But if they are not paying the human contributors, they are going to fail.

The entire original argument for Brexit was based on racist nationalism.

They wanted to kick the foreigners out (while still letting their own elite vacation in Europe).

They claimed that the UK could get better treaties than the Europeans did. (because the UK politicians were 'superior' to the Europeans)

They claimed that they could reduce regulations because those darn foreigners were making stupid regulations (they weren't).

They were tired of those foreigners telling them what to do (national sovereignty).

The truth is:
Foreigners do not go places unless they can get jobs, which increases your economy. They are cheap labor for you to exploit, not a drain on your economy.

The larger your country/organization is, the better treaties you can negotiate.

Regulations exist because either they help your people or they help your existing corporations. Otherwise they go away.

Having foreigners telling you what to do is well worth it if YOU can also tell the foreigners what to do. Uniformity of rules makes everything easier. It is only a problem if they do not let you help make the rules.

Because 60% is not enough. No where near enough.

Energy density (ED) of jet fuel tops out at 48 MJ/kg
ED of kerosene: 46.4 MJ/kg
ED of gasoline: 45.4 MJ/kg
ED of Lithium Ion batteries: 1MJ/kg, (100 to 300 Wh because nobody bothers to measure Lithium Ion batteries in megajoules)

60% increase is not even 2 MJ

They need to improve it by at least 20 times or 2,000% to be less than HALF as good as jet fuel.

Talking about a 60% increase is like telling everyone that you got your new rubber band powered car to travel at 2000 ft per hour.

Why do we always think the UFO/UAP are Aliens? Here are a bunch of other explanations that are JUST as credible as Aliens:

Dragons. With Wizards riding them.

Time Traveling humans. Mostly likely drunk Fraternity brothers considering all the reports of anal probes.

Hallucinations caused by my Canadian girlfriend's psychic powers.

Humans are drunk and/or ignorant enough to think a balloon will not appear to move even though they are in a car.

The reason no one else has done this is that the electricity stored per ounce of battery is so low. Electronic drones make sense because they do not have to carry anything EXCEPT the battery. But building an electric plane to carry something as heavy as a person? Makes no sense.

We knew it could be done but that it would be economically stupid. It's like building a bicycle out of cardboard. Yes, we can do it, but why????

Someone did this, ok, they have more money than brains.

You want to impress me, make an electric plane that can fly 600 miles carrying at least 4 people. And it should be cost no more than what a Cessna 172 which does the same thing.

Most of the proposed AI projects sound foolish to me.

But I think this could work. The trick is NOT to have gigantic expectations.

Forget about 'Design me a bridge'.

Instead think "Create a table of how much weight can a bridge Suspension bridge spanning 1 mile hold, by different construction materials."

The fact that a biased media reports something does not mean it is true.

Believing the PM is like believing the National Inquirer.

No that was not true. The entire reason this hit the internet is that the person did NOT look the original picture.

The problem was the morons accepted the AI's opinion that the person looked like the photo instead of actually looking at the actual original picture.

The computer thought it looked like a cellphone photo taken of a computer monitor that was displaying the security footage.

You do NOT do that. You get a copy of the actual security footage, doing anything less is obvious incompetence.