Hindenburg was a hiccup in history relative to the fallout from an AI bust.

We’re solving the Reddit bot problem the same way we solved the Twitter bot problem.

Is there any aspect of the police state that libs won’t support?

They seem pretty reticent about pursuing white collar crimes, particularly when they intersect with sex trafficking of under-aged girls.

Enjoy your “AI” biometrics!

There’s going to be many pictures of Sam Bridges in the Palantir biometrics catalog.

Liberalism enables fascism.

If you’d just stop scratching them…

compelled to use

I gotta say, a lot of the compulsion seems to be around “adult content” which is fairly easy to avoid in most cases.

I would be more interested in how these rules tend to target LGBTQ+ groups for censorship than how they slap a “teenagers” tag on anyone who isn’t feeding them biometric data. This feels like another edition of “straight is normal, gay is sex” Christian orthodoxy being codified into the digital landscape.

And the event led to over 100,000 power outages in the region, most of which came back in a day or two. But that paled beside '21, which took out multiple major metro areas statewide.

Is this Krav Maga?

The AI companies put out a presser a few years back that said “Um, aktuly, its the humans who are bad drivers” and everyone ate that shit up with a spoon.

So now you’ve got Waymos blowing through red lights and getting stuck on train tracks, because “fuck you fuck you stop fighting the innovation we’re creatively disruptive we do what we want”.

Having a public energy sector would be beneficial in the long run and would reduce what we have to pay for it.

A well-run public energy sector, certainly. Idk what we’d end up with given the most recent rotation of people in charge.

The state does have an incentive to keep consumer costs low in a way the private sector does not. But state officials also traditionally do a bad job of maintaining and expanding utilities to match consumer demand.

The end result tends to be low end user prices at the expense of reliable distribution and surplus volume.

Is it easier to secure, monitor fewer, bigger reactors or thousands of* small ones?

A moot point when we don’t build new ones anymore.

But the big appeal of the molten salt reactor is that it doesn’t require continuous manual interventions.

Solar, batteries and long-range transmission infrastructure just makes too sense I guess.

Sure. Obviously.

But that’s WOKE, so we hate it.

Nuclear definitely has a role to play. Integrating SMRs into our global shipping fleet would eliminate the enormous waste and emissions of bunker fuel, for instance.

And areas that don’t have reliable sunlight or wind (far north/south regions) or that require high steady output in confined areas (large factories, urban centers, major metro arteries, etc) can see real benefits, relative to gas or coal power.

It’s a technology we should have invested more heavily in 60 years ago. Obviously, Texas will fuck it up. But that’s not an indictment of the technology, just the capitalist dipshits that run the state.

The school’s primary selling point is its “2 hour learning” philosophy which promises to give students their required education and prepare them for necessary standardized tests, AP tests, and the SATs in just just two hours of learning.

Real “Eight Minute Abs” tier pitch work.

Former Alpha School employees and internal documentation don’t disprove Alpha School students’ high test results, but show that students often have to study more than two hours a day, that they sometimes arrive at Alpha high school classes unprepared and below grade level reading skills, and that some students had to go back and fill holes in their education before they were prepared for high school level classes.

:-/

This is an enduring refrain with pilot program education systems. Your initial crop of students get bespoke treatment (to match the astronomical cost - $60k/yr is more than most colleges charge). Then their performance is tied back to the gimmick - AI, SmartBoards, School Uniforms, Montessori style teaching, Jesus classes - that’s rolled out to the hoi paloi at a cheaper price but absent all the personalized, expensive tutoring.

I think Nevada bet Texas there by about 70 years.

SMRs are a new scam needed because old nuclear scam has worn out.

Idk about that. Consider the Linglong One (ACP100): Developed by the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), it is the first SMR to pass an independent safety assessment by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 2016. Construction began in 2021, and the core module was installed in 2023.

Definitely a challenge of materials sciences, but to call it a scam? Come on. Coal sticking around as long as it has is the scam.

Nonsense. We can just let the Free Market handle it

Sounds more like a tornado than a hurricane.

But also, you can fortify these underground and behind concrete in a way you wouldn’t for a Galveston Beach house.

it hasn’t been a problem since that event 5 years ago.

We’ve been spared any serious natural disasters affecting the grid during that time. No major hurricanes. No big freeze.

The worst event was the 2024 derecho, and that definitely knocked out power here and there. But it was high enough above the treeline to really wreck infrastructure at the ground level.

I’ll note that a huge increase in wind and solar capacity means we aren’t exposed to the same kind of economic pressure from five years ago, either. The '21 freeze came, in large part, due to gas power plants locking up when they were needed, because they hadn’t been weatherized. With less acute demand issues (thanks to new green energy) we haven’t been in a position where gas plants could casually wait for prices to spike before turning on.

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In fairness, Trump’s DOJ has allowed Hillary to remain at large

I have information that could lead to the arrest of Hilary Clinton

~ Charlie Kirk, mere hours before his death