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Organizations with enough money do have the power to influence humanism. It makes roi in long term if human sustainability actually is winning policy. It is only a mistake to backtrack on financially if raping planet asap is policy to support.

If a more important priority than not killing all of you and your descendants, or at least not greatly increasing their cost of survival, then fuck you and your fucking children.

War on russia was already path to alternatives. Doing nothing to oppose USA war on us, is new excuse to fuck us all.

They are. Is Canada rulership able to grt policy Impacts? I only hear of enhanced military subjugation offers.

At Shanghai 2025 car show, there were at least 5 flying car models from major auto players.

Is video about china or canada? Not clear any changes with Canada have occurred. Or blowback he notices.

Torpedos, ship launched short range, and truck bombs, from border countries made hostile, or at least indifferent to usa destruction, is one counter measure. As article mentions, overloading a target location with decoys and faster missiles is another.

Usa risks collapse simply from trade war disinvestment. A single nuclear strike or even just a hurricane at this point, will pass tipping point.

$175b is optimistically low. Previous quote was $2.5t. just last month. Like all boondoggles, proper marketing is for initial bribes, which are $25b, in this year budget, for under budgeted scam with overages to vendors. $25b is campaign donations and media brines.

VW and others also outsold Tesla?

shouldn't be that hard, but I understand that 94% can't do it.

line up the apples, a line that will cut the first apple into 2/3 vs 1/3 will also cut the next apple in same proportion. 1 person gets the 2 sliced 1/3s

Bipole III transmission line, built to deliver power from northern to southern Manitoba, jumped in cost from $2.2 billion in 2007 to over $5 billion once completed roughly 10 years later.

No mountains and cheap land rights. This was also a project that was backup/resilience focused, just as any new Canada trade project would be. A 5% ROI (yield), at 10% capacity utilization (36 days of backup per year), excluding all maintenance and operations costs for 2gw transmission line would require $3.42/mwh cost which doesn't seem that bad, but hydro capacity is almost always under 50%, and there was just one main incident that resulted in a 4 day power outage in last 30 years. So putting cost as at least $10/mwh or even $20/mwh is reasonable. Main value is job creation boondoggle.

Much higher resilience value for Hydro power (subject to droughts impact on capacity from global warming) is solar and batteries and EVs with V2G. 5gw solar (can cost under $5B) will provide 5000 mwh (equivalent to 10% capacity on 2gw hvdc line) on the worst winter day, 15000mwh on average winter day, and 45000mwh on typical summer day. V2G is generally a consumer expense, but paying them $20-$50/mwh margin for arbitrage ensures full solar sales, and lets individual consumers have 4+ days of resilience if they want to prioritize that over V2G profits in emergency. Consumer solar is also a private expense that lets them arbitrage EV power to greater profit. Even if all equipment/EVs is China sourced, there is significant local job creation/expenses for cheaper power and power resilience.

could this boil one molecule of water?

1. No need to buy car companies to get a head start on manufacturing. Car automation is a bit specialized, but multi DOF robot arms, and 3d/cnc machines, are going to be more precise at manufacturing than humanoid robots.

2. Programming for humanoid robots is exponentially harder, and at best, can replicate some human labour tasks. 100% quality replication is very hard. Even if you can replicate $1/hour labour quality, there is still a limit to usefulness, as that labour capacity exists already. Military applications though can "tolerate" high mistake level.

3. There is no user software platform that exists. It is much simpler to get a LLM/AI interface to 3d printing/CAD/CNC model generation than humanoid steps, even if environmental implementation/obstacles are handled in software/AI, and its unclear that there is success in 3d manufacturing realm. The software almost needs to come first, even in a simulated environment, before humanoid robots are practical. Military applications somewhat excepted.

4. OpenAI is not particularly ahead at anything. Their military/Empire supremacism lobbying focus is not a manufacturing focus. Military vehicles that are wheeled or airborne are easier to program to shoot at all the things, and easier to get paid $Ms per unit, and remote control is both much easier and still worth $Ms, until exponential production capacity.

So, while adapting humanoid manufacturing/task robots to military is extremely attractive, the money is in military, and other vehicles are much easier, and OpenAI is not ahead on anything even if they have the most paper wealth. The paper wealth has many more immediate military opportunities to cash in on.