There is also now tech widely distributed to measure sound and pressure wave levels throughout the USA (https://www.earthscope.org/) along with every other parameter that might want to enter a survey instead of people talking out their ass. The military and the supersonic airlines for many years were paying for cracked sheet glass windows they never cracked. Along certain corridors the sound of all aircraft are monitored because in places that is only thing that can reach the location.

Your telling me there are jobs that the tooling, equipment used far exceeds the payroll costs. If you the same programmer can be x20 more productive while efficient and have some standard of QA this is code industrialization.


Airplane crews are Shocked
Machinists are Shocked
Radiologists are Shocked
Tower Crane Operators are Shocked.
Trading Firm Analysts are Shocked.
Garbage Men are Shocked.
Concreate Drivers are Shocked.

I know a ton of people who used a layoff from automotive plants as a springboard to something much more rewarding, it just does not fit the media narrative to say the world needs a doubling electricians, HVAC techs, manufacturing engineers and plumbers with the automation boom.

If you have looked at cars lately you will see that large castings to hold a collection of 100kg to 300kg subassemblies together while also being critical structural componets. While these result in lighter cars in total the subassemblies are even heaver, and where it use to bolted to a frame, a subassembly is welded or glued into its postion. While making the total package less serviceable in your zipcode, it certainly has reduced squeaks, rattles, corrosion (dissimilar bolts) at 100k miles. If we produced cars like we did in 1976 with modern designs in the US they would cost 3 times as much and be produced in very small numbers. There is little professional development for line workers putting assemblys into unibody. I would rather have 300 people doing QA, service on robots and feeding the pick and place machines, than 900 on the line stripping out threaded inserts in AL castings and pushing shopping carts full of bolts.

Canada exports about 4.1 million barrels per day (b/d) of crude oil to the United States. This represents roughly 96% of all Canadian crude oil exports and makes Canada the largest foreign supplier of crude to the U.S..The U.S.-Canada energy trade is highly interconnected, with Canadian crude accounting for over 60% of all U.S. oil imports. In terms of value, these exports typically amount to roughly $120 billion to $130 billion annually.

The total Canada government budget ---

Canada's total federal budget for the current fiscal year reflects historic spending and revenue projections. The 2025–26 Main Estimates outline $486.9 billion in budgetary spending, though the updated 2025 federal budget projects total expenditures reaching $586.0 billion against $507.5 billion in revenues.

What is the Motivation?

The people to the south will pay anything for electricty during certain times.

3 to 5 billion Can dollars per year.

The cash flow from the exchange over the boarder. Canada economy would stop without energy exports.

Volume: 35.64 TWh (enough to power over 3.3 million U.S. households).

Total Value: $3.13 billion CAD.Net

Exports: 12.43 TWh (accounting for Canada's growing electricity imports from the U.S.).

Your amount is way to low, multiply whatever the yearly contract gross amount is by five and add 2 million. That for the smallest of companies will fund the replacement effort over 18 months. It is called the CA Acquisition poison pill.

In the 55 years of Western Space Programs, every cutting edge launch system had a run of 3 to 5 failures over the course of a few years outside of manned flight. Do not attribute deliberate action when simply non manned space launch until very recently was cheapest with a 3-10% failure rate design criteria hopefull being minimized by 50 to 90 launches of the same system. Lets face it the cost of most payloads is not in the mass that gets to orbit, it is the design to QA before production item 1 is produced.

Education is Software Development for the human brain. That there is are collections of 10k to 200k K-12 educators under a single regulator per state that need to buy course materials suited to their need is insane. That the spend is hundreds of dollars per student is insane for e-learning, your buying the wrong subscription model. Produce your states own open source course materials, have it up for review for a month before it enters the lesson plan, every other layer of education does this now. And once mature, stop messing with 90% of API interfaces. Woke speak was hidden versioning the API every 3 months. All the components of K-12 have to show that they have trained for their job every year. Spending 40 hours a year editing an assigned martials will take the repetition out of the day. US History for a state --- Have basic non wiki materials that can be forked, GIT American history, overlay state history, add some local flavor per district, what is the rusting iron, why it is there....then review the AI slop over a long weekend, let the 3 interested parents and grandparents review, respond to pull requests. Have a few edit/flame wars before it because untenable.

One thing about higher education following a published cores plan, if you are three chapters ahead on the beta, your note taking is educated, focused and not a firehose. If you parent, tutor, leaning coach knows what is going on they have a chance to help. Assignments that are returned that are not a piece of shit can be integrated into the materials.

Lets get it through everyone head, rural communities are not finance centers, they are about turning land that would otherwise be empty into a employment and some wealth creation..... that is universally true. Omaha and Tulsa are economic centers will make millionaires, the rest of the state wealth is concentrated in Ranchers and Farmers who wealth is in land and not taxed to an extent more than the cost of supporting farm roads and drainage. Every time ranching and farming go bust in an area you have a chance to buy in, so lets not talk landed aristocracy quite yet.

Got to ask, do you also not see the point of cloud?

Deliver the cheapest solution hour by hour, chase the sun and the Solar Surplus.

How long have you been on Slashdot?.... because this has been covered before. There was a push about a decade ago for the true users of compute to be agnostic to what cloud provider and what datacenter your apps were in, that mobility seeking least price is now table stakes in the cloud/AI space, managed by whomever you buy your AI spend from.

Datacenter follow cheap power, that is their number 1 reoccurring cost, they will chase clear sky and cheapness around the globe daily and up and down the latitude ladder by season They are attempting to build where daytime power can be taken from the grid at near zero cost. If your a MAG seven provider, the cheap commodity load is shifted to another data center when costs go up. A ton of AI work can wait until the power is free when the parking lot becomes liquid 10am-4pm. Sure every cloud/AI/compute provider claims they want to deliver low latency and ultimate performance, but their customer wants it cheap and stacked high so they can do unintelligent thing with cheap compute. We know compute delivery is in late stage of early maturity, after 30 years, the data center expansion is to put energy providers in a place where they have no choice but to commoditize and give away 10am-4pm and follow that around the world.

So release just enough of a hot model but turn it off and not actually deliver the computer intensive and costly product to your customers while sitting on subscription dollar. Sales still pumps out we have the most intense product, the 50 cal rifle of AI. The customers line up to hand over dollars for the less compute intensive model. Might be a signal the grif is up, or AI found a really concerning bug that is still unaddressed.

Same with standard oil. Story as old as time.

All of this talk about a wealth tax is listening to illiterate economic trolls under a bridge. Thought experiment.... Say something went sideways, 86 rockets blow up on the pad in a row, President Harris prevents Space X and Tesla from shipping product or providing services and Elons wealth went to zero the next year, does he get tax credits or money back for overpaying his taxes in the past? There is no taxable value that is accurate other than the day it is bought and the day it sold on real estate, stock, bonds, gold, silver. Elon companies, that he owns with many other players, pays employees to generate future money at market rates...their income is taxed, the employees all have a mandated health plan, they all have 401ks.....isn't that enough? He is making 10,000 millionaires a year, all to be taxed for the rest of their lives on things that have been taxed for decades. His impact is taxed, it is considerable part of GDP so care must be taken because he is very mobile. How much more greed can politicians and their socialist useful idiot minions express without being called trolls?