Comment Re:American exports (Score 1) 29

by noshellswill on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @09:56PM (#66250650) Attached to: Airbus Migrating 70 Critical Apps From AWS to France's Scaleway

Mebby GDP doesn't measure what you think it does. When foreign products are excluded from American markets more production of American products will occur ... or needless products will not be used or made. Good for USA workers and screws pure-play USA GLOBALIST investor class in azzwhole.

Comment Re:Expensive? (Score 1) 154

by noshellswill on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @03:24PM (#66250054) Attached to: US Police Now Armed With Israeli Spy Vans Simulating Mobile Phone Towers

Look up the cost of a new Japanese hand-crafted bamboo fly-rod; then a million bucks doesn't seem unreasonable for a tricked-out SUV. Also, comes with software and a "practice" set of telephone numbers.

Comment Re:imagine (Score 0) 154

by noshellswill on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @01:25PM (#66249826) Attached to: US Police Now Armed With Israeli Spy Vans Simulating Mobile Phone Towers

Worst-criminal-state supplier ? I didn't know China or Russia made these snooper toys.

Comment Re:Artificial Scarcity (Score 1) 58

by noshellswill on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @10:11AM (#66249560) Attached to: China's New AI Model Halts New Subscriptions As Demand Swamps Capacity

You say what? Original creative thinking and self-discipline are "outdated" skills ? Prompt-cluttered environs reflect our new Walden? Maybe so; French Dadaists & German anarchists will dance in the streets and share the wreckage with electro-chemically guided urban savages. Godel? Never mind him ...

Comment Re:Black coffee (Score 1) 127

by noshellswill on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @09:44AM (#66249512) Attached to: Drinking 5 Cups of Coffee a Day Could Reduce Heart Risk

Starbucks is a victim of its own success. They certainly "raised the bar" for USA coffee taste from the 1940s-1950s standards of diner-drool and home-brew NAVEL-boil. But, Starbucks having taken that quality step never moved beyond ... to what a modern home-brewer might get from a bag of Blue-Pointe beans. Starbucks rejected vertical integration and its coffee quality tracked seasonal uncertainties and Wall Street demands.

Comment Re:What Will Urop Do Without AliExpress (Score 1) 86

by noshellswill on Monday July 20, 2026 @04:30PM (#66248400) Attached to: AliExpress Hit With Record $625 Million Fine After Failing To Make EU-Ordered Fixes

Yeah Europe has other better options. Don't import ANY cheap CCP shite. Use-it-here-make-it-here ... or do without. A robust discipline for body and spirit in Europe and in America.

Comment Re:The Merchant Caste Are Cowards (Score 1, Interesting) 106

by noshellswill on Monday July 20, 2026 @11:27AM (#66247812) Attached to: New Free Speech Concern: When AI Chatbots Won't Criticize Leaders from Repressive Regimes

The "merchant" caste has been in power since the Neolithic Silk Road ... with repeating social results all too similar. While some trade benefits all people sometime , the crashes/panics/wars/systematic-corruption are catastrophic to most ... sometimes even to the merchants. Examples like Carthage vs Rome & Dutch vs Brit-Empire come readily to mind.

Comment Re: Kewl dodging victimhood bud (Score 1) 89

by noshellswill on Monday July 20, 2026 @10:21AM (#66247696) Attached to: As AI Transforms Silicon Valley, Some Tech Workers Face Evaporating Financial Security

Western population DO have an economic choice. Consumers can opt to purchase daily-use items ( such as clothes & utensils & tools ) from local guild/craft networks rather than from "industrialized" multi-nation factories. That carries through even to cars, houses , "toys", food & medical providers . And of-course computer application/code and books. Not to mention DIY on a grand scale ( like WW2 home behavior ). The choice is (still ) freely available ... the data-managing companies & Wall Street elites stonewall. So ... choose wisely.

Comment Re:ClippyAI: your all seeing digital panopticon :o (Score 0) 119

by noshellswill on Saturday July 18, 2026 @09:22PM (#66245644) Attached to: CNBC's Jim Cramer Says He Needs 'Cold Hard' Proof AI Is Paying Off

"The illusion of neutral AI died quickly. Todayâ€(TM)s leading chatbots are heavily filtered through the cultural and political prejudices of their corporate masters. Questions that challenge progressive orthodoxies on gender, race, economics, or history often trigger refusals, deflections, or moralizing sermons. Meanwhile, the same models happily amplify the preferred narratives of their creators," Yep, I've seen that progressive bias clearly in GOOG.ai chats, especially when you push into details. On "tek" matters GOOG.ai proves remarkable ... but history/politics/sociology expect WOKE viewpoints like THE NEWYORKER or THE ATLANTIC or any of the </.> "absurdist" posters.

Comment Re: Ban automatics (Score 1) 238

by noshellswill on Saturday July 18, 2026 @12:25PM (#66244928) Attached to: The 'Death of the Stick Shift' is Almost Here for Americans

I think CSX has moved personal cars for decades. Price quotes cheaper than drive-yourself cross-country. Riding trains W/smoking car is fun. 'Course then you miss the reason for owning a 4/5/6-speed manual tranny. You know, that jean/hunter-shirt local gal hitch-hiking on a strip of Rt-66 or the criminals who try carjacking in St Louis ... hopping death-wish turns on PCH at BigSur ... or that low-flying B-52 in Arizona back-country that clipped the car radio antenna ... very educational. Yes even now you can avoid pure-INTERSTATE system driving. Gawd bless my old 1968 Tr-6 W/overdrive.

Comment Re:corporate teaching (Score 1) 74

by noshellswill on Saturday July 18, 2026 @10:00AM (#66244684) Attached to: Steve Wozniak's Foundation Partners With Realbotix To Build AI Teacherbot

Actually such costs are expected. That $100/hr for teacher interaction is basically what Chapin or Brearley charges in tuition.

Comment Re:Interesting choice of location (Score 1) 74

by noshellswill on Saturday July 18, 2026 @09:52AM (#66244680) Attached to: Steve Wozniak's Foundation Partners With Realbotix To Build AI Teacherbot

A wealthy family chooses a 1st-rate private school for their childrens' education; TRULY wealthy families hire live-in tutors, and teacher-bots seem a replication attempt. Yep -- poor folks like tutors too! Considering the generally low-level of maths/science skill among K-12 human teachers ( how many have an MS-maths degree ?) , the edu-bots may find a niche.

Comment Re:Second nail (Score 1) 91

by noshellswill on Saturday July 18, 2026 @08:54AM (#66244652) Attached to: Linus Torvalds To Critics of AI Coding On Linux: 'Fork It. Or Just Walk Away.'

Yep. You understand .

Comment Re:Second mail (Score 1) 91

by noshellswill on Friday July 17, 2026 @08:48PM (#66244278) Attached to: Linus Torvalds To Critics of AI Coding On Linux: 'Fork It. Or Just Walk Away.'

Bugger the collectivist trash that shite on everyones table.

Comment Re:Second nail (Score -1) 91

by noshellswill on Friday July 17, 2026 @05:38PM (#66243970) Attached to: Linus Torvalds To Critics of AI Coding On Linux: 'Fork It. Or Just Walk Away.'

Both systemd and AI-coded software threaten non-IT home users. Both industrializations remove agency from individual coders/users. If you don't accept the personal threat of well-funded monopolies then you probably should pay higher real-estate taxes.