This reminds me of the recent video about Lenin's What Is To Be Done. Very much the "economist" faction of demsoc doing basic practicality while making basically no effort to educate the masses against the predations of capital.

maybe Xi told him about the proof-of-concept steel plant that generates energy from waste heat in China, and now he's got a great idea for a new multi-grift project

the new mega-steel plant in Iowa will derive thermal energy from the waste heat of a new super-intelligence factory that will be built with federal funding at the same site

E: this might be Trump doing the Atlas Shrugged meme, making super-intellegent steel for the lolbitarian memelords

The Marines were not seriously injured, but they sustained smoke inhalation and possibly traumatic brain injuries, as they had symptoms of concussions, such as headaches, the officials said.

Wallace Shawn fyi

When I learned that kids in the Netherlands refer to combustion vehicles as "farting cars", "farting bikes", etc, something clicked in my brain. Noisy and stinky is an apt comparison of traits compared to other forms of transportation.

China can continue to sit back and look on while Trump helps the U.S. empire to dismantle itself.

Did anyone place bets on this happening on polymarket?

Star Trek follows this principle very closely.

The awkwardness must be ignored when you visit the troubled neighbors for dinner.

I guess all the diesel export ban talk brought it down by a penny. Still awaiting the $6.66 figure so the true anti-christ can be unveiled to the world.

I've always thought some new form of one-time pad would be interesting in the age of digital mass storage. I guess it would be kind of annoying to have to manage occasional exchanges of pad data with anyone you want to have secure communication with, but it is a simple concept for people to understand.

There was a big concern over quantum computing breaking all the common cryptography recently, is that still a thing?

truly the legal form of protection racket