China takes Taiwan - ram prices will go through the roof

Guess who has figured out how to make cheap high end RAM already?

If China feints towards Taiwan, the Taiwanese government flinches, and the TSMC factory goes to in smoke, China becomes a top 3 provider of high end chips inside of the month.

I don’t think I’ve lived to see a president who wasn’t accused of this

Latin American dictators seem to be lining up behind him and Rubio like ducklings.

I think the next president is going to inherit an absolute rogue’s gallery of “friends”

All that sounds Woke to me

So much of the joke is that they won’t need to.

唯一的制胜之策就是不参与

price in the US of $0.1235/kWh, that’s $11.63

Way cheaper than I’d have guessed.

737 at max takeoff weight is 175k lbs. So that’s around $80 to get airborne. Seems like a steal when you’re charging easily triple that for one seat.

How do you think they’re clearing the native residents off the land?

Using N-force, which is the little can of Nox under my seat

$5 of electricity to lift an airplane 10,000 feet definitely seems low.

If you want to be really smug, you could say a gas powered plane requires $0 of fuel to glide for 30 minutes

I pick 30 minutes at Mach 7

How long do you want to spend at Mach 7 relative to stopping and starting? Because that could be a lot of G-force.

You really can’t figure out how an institution as large and complex as the US military might have a way to learn things

It’s a matter of thinking of them. You’re got to actually employ them, too.

Is the US actually doing this? Or is institutional memory getting shredded by DOGE, et al?

Van Riper only won by using “motorcycle messengers” that traveled at the speed of light

Van Riper used units designated as civilian material/personal to fill a gap in communications, in a war game that substituted certain functions of the combat as turn-based for expediency. They weren’t moving at the speed of light. They simply existed in the scenario, were used in a clever manner, and were able to function freely because the attacking US forces ignored them.

Van Riper used a few other tricks - toggling mobile radar stations so they won’t be easy to target by enemy artillery and using speedboats to harry American Navy - which the US leadership considered “cheating”.

But then… 24 years later… all of these tricks (and more) were used by the IRGC to devestating effect.

Americans learned absolutely nothing.

Really depends on the tanks and drones in question, the soldiers involved, the commanders running the operation, the actual objectives of the mission, yada yada.

Just straight off the bat, drones aren’t great at securing supply lines or moving large volumes of cargo long distances.

you learn a lot from losing.

What do you really think the Hegseth military is going to learn from this?

It should be noted that the U.S. military loses effectively on purpose

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002

Skewering the Integrated Survivability Onion

Weird to give all this up now

Taking a lighter sentence or gambling on the death penalty? I wouldn’t call that weird at all.

Like…we can’t just write off everyone else’s misery and suffering because you personally found a way to avoid it.

The degree of privilege required to even entertain making a living as a YouTube starlet is astronomical.

And, again, free video hosting and distribution! That’s why 99% of people put videos in YouTube. You can host something and pass it around without needing a self-hosted solution to manage it.

That’s the business model. It’s not Netflix

I write, edit, record, and publish everything I create, all by myself.

Patreon, Nebula, even Audible will give you a better cut of the proceeds.

Devaluing smaller creators is going to mean more AI slop

Video slop is even less commercially viable than the audio, pictures, and literature.

Sora got yanked off the market inside a few months due to how badly it burned tokens for video nobody wanted to look at.

YT is also requiring a lot of people to work for free.

It’s really not. No more than a casino is requiring you to roll dice and flip cards.

People can just… not host their shit on the site. Or not be in the influencer/content creator business entirely.

People are being baited into doing this work. People are being scammed and lied to about their prospects. But nobody is actually making you do this shit, much less do it for free.

Imagine if a mechanic’s boss told her they wouldn’t pay her until she changed the oil in 800 cars for free.

She’d be crazy not to pick up and work somewhere else. Or hang her own shingle.

But that’s the hitch with YouTube. It’s not just not-paying-you. It’s also hosting your media for free. What you’re really trading on isn’t revenue from YouTube, it’s free hosting services. And then you need to monetize the content yourself, if you want to generate an income.

Case in point - Ms Rachel isn’t getting rich off her (wildly popular) YouTube channel nearly so much as her toy line and her celebrity appearance fees. Similarly, guys like Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones do commercial line reads right in the middle of their shows, fully independent of what YouTube injects. Adam Friedland and Justin Rozniak do paywalled episodes through Patreon. Mr. Beast sells shitty snack food.

Everyone who has made a living on YouTube has ultimately collected the bulk of that money from outside YouTube.

Consistently one of the worst paying social media services and not exactly in a generous market.