This is a roundabout way to implement a national sales tax. Rich people love that and by Rich I mean if you're reading this you aren't one of them.

Tariffs shift the tax burden to people who work for a living. That's because you and me have to spend most of our resources just surviving. Maybe if you're doing really really well only about half of everything you get your hands on goes to food and shelter and transportation and medicine and saving for when you can't physically work anymore.

The goal is to eliminate income tax and replace it with taxes paid at the point of sale. This of course means that if you're wealthy you stop paying taxes but if you are a working stiff well, you're basically going to have $15 a dozen eggs.

Also, people think they're so clever when they do this, when they generally don't actually work with modern models anyway. It just makes you look manipulative and unprofessional.

There can't possibly be enough miniature human beings to make this research worthwhile. I mean besides Mark Rubio who is this even for?

We're not talking about building up the military we're talking about using the military we built for more than just soft power and occasionally murdering some brown people for oil.

Trump is openly discussing invading other countries. This is a classic right wing tactic where you have someone in a safe position say something crazy in order to introduce the idea into the public conscious. It works because when people see people talking about someone they assume that it must be a legitimate debate and then they start considering both sides of a crazy ass issue where there isn't both sides to consider.

More importantly it shows that the ruling elite of America are already thinking about invading weaker countries to take their stuff.

You have not seen an America that is on an actual War footing. If we simply collapse all of the aspects of the economy like we did during world War II you would be horrified just how much more military we can produce and how quickly we can produce it. And once you can put boots on the ground and do a draft because you're already invading sovereign Nations so what the hell then you're not in the situation Trump finds himself in where he tried to do regime change with a air War.

Honestly I think you're just coping. You can see it coming any fool could but you don't know what to do about it so you just put it out of your mind and tell yourself that America isn't a problem.

You can't keep doing that though and you're going to find out that a hard way

It's over an order of magnitude heavier than the largest of those (Helios).

There's a difference between an aircraft being built to lift itself and perhaps a tiny payload and be paperlight vs. an aircraft designed for actual commercial service carrying passengers.

The feet are needed to accelerate the plane to takeoff velocities in order to conserve battery mass.

Also, the big AI companies get a number of advantages, such as large batch sizes and being able to balance on-peak and off-peak workloads better.

Is most of your daily driving "a race"?

This is a midrange model. This is competitive midrange pricing. For my midrange work I've been using GLM-5.2 - Gemini 3.7 flash is a bit cheaper and a bit better on the benchmarks, so yeah, I'll probably switch so long as the prices stay low.

Sometimes you need a high-end model (Claude Fable, GPT 5.6 Sol, Kimi K3, etc). Sometimes a low-end model is fine (GPT 5.6 Luna, DeepSeek 4 Flash 0731, etc). Usually a midrange model is the best balance.

You're skipping the step where the failing empire undergoes a period of rapid military expansionism in order to fill its coffers by looting other countries.

America can easily take all of Canada and Mexico and South America and everything of value in it. We can then use that along with the local labor force pressed into slave labor to build a massive war machine and then we can take Greenland and use that to launch offensive into europe.

That is the current plan for the lunatics people keep putting in charge around here and the rest of the world is cheerfully allowing those lunatics to gain power unopposed with the clear help of Russia because they're hoping America will become weaker making them stronger.

Mostly their version of the Epstein class is hoping to be trillionaires instead of America's Epstein class getting to be trillionaires.

The problem is they are figuring that their nuclear weapons will keep them safe because who would be crazy enough to invade a country that has nuclear weapons.

We would. America would. My country is batshit insane and you're about to find out just how fucking crazy we are unless we get very very lucky and the Democrats save us all again.

The thing is people keep rolling those Dice and eventually they're going to come up snake eyes

They're not scaling back because they want to Trump has completely wrecked America on the international stage and it's taking everything American down with it.

Intelligent people warned us however nobody listens to them because to be blunt they're kind of insufferable. On the other hand we probably should not have had to be warned that unknown rapist, pedophile and convicted felon with ties to the Russian mafia shouldn't have been president.

Of Windows CE, Windows ME and Windows NT.

It is a structured system for looting 10 trillion dollars in 401K money. That is more than just a regular pump and dump.

They are tired of being dependent on our labor and our existence as consumers for their wealth and power. They're tired of being the merchant class that's not enough for them. They want to go back to being Kings and emperors and God Kings.

To do that they need to break that dependency because otherwise we can do things like boycotts and strikes or we can just plain not have any money and if we don't have money they don't have money because that's how the system was set up.

AI breaks that system. It's a huge automation push that gets controlled by five or six people in the entire planet. It's an entirely new form of capital for producing work that's going to be in the hands of literally less than 10 people.

We used to say it's a big club and you ain't in it. It's not a big club anymore even. You don't even get to pretend that you're going to be hobnobbing with Jeff bezos and Elon musk. I don't want to even hear people suggesting that.

So to get back to the article this is why these companies can be so ridiculously overvalued and it's why none of them have to turn a profit.

Because in the world that these psychopaths are planning there is no profit. There is no capitalism. They own everything and you have to go through them to get it. They decide if you live or die they decide if you have food or water let alone transportation and education. You are as dependent on them as a baby chick is its mother. And let's not forget, they hate you.

And I have no idea how we do anything else but what they want us to do. Because they say dance and we dance. They say jump and we say how high on the way up.

Not quite but I don't know the actual term for a market that is completely controlled by two or three players.

Basically the major platform holders are going to be the only ones who can differentiate between human beings and AI slop and without the ability to do that any up and coming AI product is going to be trained on freely available data on the internet which is so completely full of slop that the end result is going to be garbage.

AI was a one-time Gold Rush for a couple of companies and everyone else is going to be either microsoft, google, Amazon because they own twitch and then a handful of people like Twitter and Reddit will have half-assed systems that don't work except for specialized use cases like how Twitter will let you undress people you shouldn't be undressing and we let it do that because the owner is above the law...

I've said it before and I will say it again AI is a antisocial technology. It will do nothing but eat jobs and water and electricity while putting a handful of psychopaths in a position of even more power over you. We already had machine learning models for the actual useful scientific stuff. When folks say AI what they mean is something that can replace people that work for a living at enormous cost to society.

And as usual the people getting the benefit won't pay that cost, you will.

There are to be three variants of the ES-300: an all-electric 200km version, a hybrid 30-seat 400km version, and a hybrid 25-seat 800km version. And the ES-300 airframe very much is not some existing airframe.