Brazil already figured out that even with tariffs, Brazil stuff is still cheaper. Production on the USA side hasn’t been great.

Big corporations know very well how competition works and would like to avoid it at all costs.

Gets plain fries, but gets charged for vodka. Cashier points to vodka line on the bill and says “potatoes”, then points to fries and says “potatoes”.

Some more accurately than others.

And he has ICE as his new imperial guard, so opponents will start to poison themselves out of windows soon enough.

“We don’t drink blood here. That’s something Christians do.” ~Satanist member

Management doesn’t ask people they want to fire is firing them is a good idea. They themselves would lie like crazy to keep their job and assume therefore everything the developers say would be a lie too.

So some places started forcing developers to use AI with a quota and monitor the usage. Of course the devs don’t go checking each AI generated line for correctness. That’s bad for the quota. It’s guaranteed to add more slop to the codebase.

Within the universe of plastic chemicals, we’re looking at the last academic count at about 16,000 chemicals that are used or present in plastics."

Dr Symeonides says only one-third of those chemicals appear to have been evaluated for their potential hazard, and about “75 per cent” of those evaluated have been identified as hazardous.

So basically flood the world with chemicals without care if they’re dangerous and be very surprised when bad things happen.

Ha. Intellectual Soylent.

That was my physics teacher.

“So materials shrink as they get colder.”

“Ma’am, doesn’t ice expand?”

“We don’t talk about that.”

When scientists warned that milk could be contaminated with bird flu and pasteurized milk was safe, they started drinking raw milk en masse. There is no logic for them.

ICE is now upgraded to:

Imperial Command Enforcers

Like Musk don’t liking that grok is stating facts going against Musk’s own beliefs and now he’s looking into retraining and reprogramming grok to spout the right ideologies. Having an AI will not save us.

Every type of AI that was ever made had people saying that this is the one that’ll bring is general intelligence. It’s just a matter of scaling it up further, the hype crashed and there was an AI winter. Now LLM have their own problems scaling up and nothing really indicating it’s anywhere near general intelligence. There isn’t much more data to train them on. And so far, not enough people willing to pay for it. Definitely bubble territory.

There is a power struggle going on in the CCP and Xi is losing.

So they can’t keep selling their soul and dignity without consequences.

Next are journalists, activists (especially leaders/organizers), political opponents and critics. That’s the classics.

Sales guy didn’t say working, safe, secure, maintainable or at least of average quality code; just that it’s faster. The thing to watch with sales peeps is all the things they don’t say.