As Ukrainian civilians are being slaughtered by ballistic missiles and drone attacks, and their water, food, energy, education, and other infrastructure increasingly attacked, Donald Trump continues to not put in force the Graham-Blumenthal sanctions against Russia, or take any meaningful action to protect Ukraine.
For any Trump/GOP voters here, this is what you’re voting for - continued war, suffering, and death in Europe and the middle-east. I hope your financial gains from it all were worth it. You’re closer to your singularity/rapture, but will you be part of the chosen ones?
G7 has agreed to release diesel reserves to drop fuel prices.
This benefits Trump and the American right at a key time of vulnerability (midterms), while weakening their own countries. They caved to the bully again.
I am no fan of AI, but am hoping the solar and battery storage manufacturers are using it to assist in developing higher efficiency panels and cheaper energy storage (materials research, faster testing cycles, more experimentation, etc).
Both technologies I believe are the grim reapers of Big Oil. Once Big Oil falls (and petrostates), then we can see environmental recovery begin.
You can definitely use statistical modelling to advance science and RnD. I'm not seeing a general language model applications in this spaces. I also don't know anything about solar panel or battery manufacturing.
If anything, LLMs siphoning GPUs make doing this research harder as they're not available.
And this administration has been talking about “the enemy within” for so long, when do we see the Executive Order declaring protesters as “treasonous enemy combatants” (or similar nonsense) followed by a beefed up ICE-style militia offshoot making arrests from a Flock list of 100,000+ Americans who were tracked within the vicinity of No Kings protests. If republicans maintain control of congress, I’d give it a greater than 1% chance which is way too high.
I was getting solar quotes recently and came across the CertainTeed brand that makes a “solar shingle”. I have no idea where they are made or how they compare to regular panels.
> Just as I now consider Zelensky allowing the Ukraine-Russia war to drag on for 4+ years now as a foolish endeavour
What is he supposed to do? Give up and let the barbarians rape and plunder his nation? Would you want to live under Russian rule?
Zelenskyy is doing exactly the right things. His short and long range strikes inside Russia are severely damaging the Russian economy and war machine. Russia has lost Ukrainian territory in their offensive this spring/summer, and Russian frontline soldiers are being killed and injured at a far higher rate than Ukrainian soldiers who are leaning on a millions-of-drones shield. If you want your continued freedom in whatever country you live in, you better be praying Ukraine defeats Russia. Your country may be next if not.
Very interesting how your enlightening comments about dirty AI data centers are being downvoted. Pro-Musk, pro-AI bots and shills trying to keep the smoke screen going?
For any Trump/GOP voters here, this is what you’re voting for - continued war, suffering, and death in Europe and the middle-east. I hope your financial gains from it all were worth it. You’re closer to your singularity/rapture, but will you be part of the chosen ones?
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