If they sent the entier national guard to cities larger than 100,000 people, there would be ~1,200 troops per city. The conventional wisdom I have heard places the number of occupying troops to population required to suppress an insurgency at something like 20-25 troops per 1000 people. We’re at about half that number in the smallest cities larger than 100,000 in this hypothetical scenario. By those numbers, it would take the entier half national guard to secure NYC.

For comparison, Britain sent ~3,000 soldiers to Boston in 1768, which, at the time, had a population of about 16,000, and that basically only succeeded in turning the whole city into a preasure cooker.

This threat is a paper tiger even if we ignore the impossibility of the logistics.

https://climateintegrity.org/projects/plastics-fraud

You would be a good guesser then.

As a teacher, my first question to admin would be “so what do we do when a group of 15 year old boys get it and start flying it around the neighborhood”?

No no. You see what they’ll do is make a shitty chatbot, use it to justify firing a whole bunch of workers, then hire some cheaper workers in India or Pakistan or something to do the same job, but pretend that its the shitty chatbot doing the work. At that point they’ll have achieved their goal: AGI (A Guy Instead). Just like builder.ai did.

I suspect the data centers in question here are the “Stargate” project, a “joint venture” between Open AI and softbank where the liquidity for Open AI’s part of the investment appears to be money from Softbank that Softbank doesn’t have on hand and only intends to give OpenAI if they convert to a for profit entity by the end of the year.

oh and they intend to let a crypto company who has never built a data center build it.

I wouldn’t hold my breath on those data centers being built.

Yes. Lets tie our expansion of desperately needed internet access in rural America to massively carbon emitting rocket launches. Thats definitely not gonna back fire on us.

So when I poop the carbon butter out, how long does it take to decompose? Because unless we make one of those nuclear waste containment salt bunkers for all. the butter carbon poop this kinda seems like a dumb idea.

lil soy saus? no?

Where am I gonna get Vietnamese food in this shitty desolate suburb?

Damn. Labor really wants to lose that election to Farage. Good luck to Corbyn and Sultana, I guess.

Part of the 40 billion that they might* get from mostly SoftBank, who said they would give OpenAI substantially less if they don’t restructure into a for profit by the end of 2025. 1

I suspect they’re anticipating the 30 billion from SoftBank to partially fall through.

This kind of shit is pretty common for younger people. I work as a teacher, and I hear students talk about this all the time. I tell them how unhealthy it is blah, blah, blah. My SO tells the younger people at her work “If I had PumpkinSkink’s location sharing on he couldn’t surprise me with cake from the bakery”. She has had more success than I getting people to stop.

Facism doesn’t start when they start rounding people up. Facism starts when they lay the legal ground work and normalize facist sentiment within society. Those things have been going on since before Trump, but hey, better late than never.

“Epic Bacon”

Most reasonable proposal tbh.

I’m actually stealing this as an explanation next time I’m at a house party and someone whips out the uno cards.

Dr. Fatima

Everything in its Right Place by Radiohead

They’ll learn some new Greek letters soon, and been there’ll be more.