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... Says the person whose entire net worth is entirely determined by how much AI bullshit and myth he can spread around amongst the rubes.... I was recently sent this absolute fever dream which itself was poorly generated by AI for maximum irony.

The Colorado River will soon be the Colorado Ditch.

If you have ever spent any significant amount of time in Louisiana you'd understand why they might be running out of room in the current amount of prisons.

If you haven't, sort by homicide.

This is like that part in Don't look up when the Jennifer Lawrence's character tells her BF to wait 6 months before she meets his mother.

Well ... are you a fish? If so, no... if not, yes.

I sincerly hope that this is a troll post because if not, well. Sigh.

Because every single foreign government hacks every other foreign government every single chance they get. If I get any say in the matter I'd rather keep my list of enemies as small as possible(aka only the US government). Most rational people would agree with that. At least you have some say in accountability for the US government, in theory at least.

I feel like every time this topic comes up people forget all of this and also forget that China's energy, automotive, literally every industry in China is controlled by PRC/CCP, 100%. Even the US/China joint ventures have to follow rules laid out by the PRC/CCP.

The logistics accolade that you mention here is wartime logistics. That is ability to get the bullets and bandages to the places and people that need them all in a timely manner. The US is good at this because we have bases and transport logistics everywhere.

Military supply chain logistics(multiple sources for stuff, supposedly US companies...) is absolutely a consideration as well but this concept has been hallowed out over time. What used to be locally sourced materials and manufacturing by American companies is now much more dependent on overseas labor/materials. These 'American' companies might have corporate offices here and the c-levels, marketing/sales teams live here but all of the actual product is sourced/made in Mexico, Canada, China, India, Vietnam, etc. There are definitely specific industries like aerospace that still make a lot of stuff here but that is a small fraction of the larger whole.

We've already been providing direct subsidies and tax subsidies for all of these companies for decades. Nothing comes from it and as a member of the tax bracket that actually pays taxes I am not willing to keep doing it. If we need to nationalize truly mission critical companies I would rather just do that instead of continuing to privatize profits and socialize costs.

Everyone seems to have thought that is was a great idea to let pretty much every core manufacturing competency die in the US over the last 30 years or so. How's that working out for us now?

The blame is at least as old as Reagan, really accelerated with Clinton (NAFTA, China entering the WTO) and only got worse from there.

As much as I hate to admit it, tariffs are the answer. I also think that it's important to understand that Trump's tariffs exist only for extortion and bribes that benefit him personally. Tariffs can be used to encourage domestic production of goods and services that are clearly not something that we want to depend on other countries for merely for the sake of enriching the same circle of already rich assholes in perpetuity. Rich assholes would just have to keep resorting to pumping up immigration to suppress wages for these domestic goods, like they have always done for hundreds of years at this point.

It seems to just be more attack surface for very little actual gain on JS. At least with JS I have NoScript, Ublock and some actual say over what loads/runs on my box. For this reason, I usually just disable all wasm/webgl/webrtc until I find out that I actually need it which for me is basically never or only for very short periods.

KDE usually serves as a great DE for Windows refugees so I am very glad that it exists. Personally, I have not used it since v3.x. When v4/plasma made its debut the bugs were just a bit too much for me. It is a fairly complete overall ecosystem though in terms of "K"apps/utilities.

AI slop kills all that it touches. Art, Music, Movies, Open/Closed source software, journalism, education, the list seems endless.