I believe the proper term for them is "persons without autism".

Who the fuck leases a PHONE.

I think that's the question we should be asking. Just buy the thing. If you can't afford to buy the thing, then get a loan/card to buy the thing.

And a phone just shouldn't be that expensive or difficult to maintain or break so often that you can't do either.

You can keep your vanity plate names and waste all the money you want on them.

Nobody cares any more. They just google or bookmark you.

Yeah, I mean, who would call a website slash dot, because it then becomes w w w dot slash dot dot org....

Given that accidents requiring evacuation on commercial jets are roughly one in a million take-offs, and accidents resulting in loss of life about one in ten million take-offs, it's unlikely that setting up practice centers would save any lives.

Also worth noting that this follows on from the earlier Northrup-Grumman "Mission Extension Vehicle", which in 2019 launched to dock and reposition Intelsat 901, a first for a telerobotically operated spacecraft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Some sites:
  https://www.northropgrumman.co...
  https://news.northropgrumman.c...

Coincidentally, Northrup Grumman was also involved in the SWIFT reboost mission, launched the beginning of this month, tp extend the lifetime of the Swift orbital telescope by boosting it into a higher orbit. (In this case, though, they didn't build the spacecraft, just provided the launch service, on a Pegasus)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/n...

Before any "why wasn't this done before" conspiracy theories... It still takes the same fuel, energy, etc. The ideal rocket equation hasn't changed. Only the rocket has.

In the hopes of clarifying some concepts and descriptive words:

The US army runs under fascism. Management is top-down, everyone has to do what their superior says to do, and if you don't do it there are grave consequences.

All militaries across the globe run under fascism. All militaries throughout history have run under fascism.

Almost all businesses are run under a similar system: there is one person at the top, usually with a vision of what he wants to happen, and everyone from there down what their immediate superior says to do. There is some leeway in the case of business: you can disagree with your superior and perhaps have a discussion, doing the right thing against orders is OK if it works out, and the penalties for disobeying aren't as severe (getting fired versus getting sent to Leavenworth, or being shot).

The fascist model of governance is one of a handful of governing types we know about, and is useful in situations where decisions need to be made quickly based on experience (military planning) or based on vision (business planning). Military actions fall squarely within those situations. It's not the best model for an economic system, where divergent opinions and "try it and see" is more efficient, or a political system where individual corruption can lead to violations in human rights or reasonable policy.

The US military is not capitalistic, but it is not "anti-capitalism" system in the sense that it works against capitalism in any way.

The US military isn't socialist, except that it tries to provide for it's members in compensation for the risks they take. It's similar to businesses providing health insurance or stock options or reimbursement for college courses - we don't normally think of employment perks as "socialism", and in the same manner we shouldn't think of military benefits as socialism either. Socialism is a foundational principle, not a system of perks.

I don't know that using AI is a weakness of the system. The military is famous for actually studying the effects that certain decisions have. You can look up the government's studies on whether and how much coffee improves performance, whether sleep learning is of any use, and the minimum IQ to allow before it takes more resources to manage an individual than the resources the individual brings by enlisting.

Looking into new technologies and their application to warfare is something the US military does very well.

And apropos of nothing, it's completely obvious that drones are a tectonic shift in military technology, this came as a complete surprise from the Ukraine war, and we totally should be pivoting away from expensive missiles and more towards swarms of cheap drones.

I don't know why you're characterizing drones as trendy and popular, either.

The incident report's actual words were:
  The campaign was run by an autonomous agent framework ... executing many thousands of individual actions across a swarm of short-lived sandboxes,

Ooh! I love syllogisms.

1. LLMs cannot actually do things like that with proper protections in place.
2. A LLM did that.
3. Conclusion?

Conclusion: proper protections were not in place.

Oh boy...This just has to be said:

You've been complaining this and that about 401k for months, yet right here you just very clearly demonstrated that you have no fucking idea what a 401k even is. Even a bad chatbot would understand this topic a lot better than you. You're just sitting here parroting, as in like a literal fucking parrot, whatever the fuck you heard on fark without understanding a god damn word of it.

You're not autistic either, so that's not an excuse. You have FASD, which to outsiders often appears as autism. Autism is not associated with speech disorders, but FASD definitely is. As you've already stated, your mom was an alcoholic. See if you can figure out how to put two and two together.

Did fark scramble rsilvergun's brains, or did rsilvergun scramble fark's brains?

Bingo, I think you nailed it. Starbucks wants to sell you those fancy syrupy latte caramel drinks, and to get any coffee flavor at all after they add all the sugary sweet gunk and cream, they need a super dark roast.

If you just want coffee, not a desert-in-a-cup, go anywhere else. Your local indy coffeehouse, for example.

Simply not true. Beneficial effects of coffee have been known for decades. This work is simply confirming what previous studies have already shown.
  https://time.com/4116129/coffe...
  http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/...
  http://www.npr.org/sections/th...
  https://www.medicalnewstoday.c...

This mostly isn't new, just confirming what has been seen in studies going back decades https://time.com/4116129/coffe...

But an important question is, what do they define as a "cup"?

Years back, a "cup" of coffee was defined as a teacup, maybe five ounces. When I drink coffee, I use a coffee mug, which is perhaps twice the size of a teacup. Maybe more, for some of the extra-large coffee mugs.

I took a quick scan through the paper, searching on "cup", but didn't see an actual cup volume given.