Brazil already figured out that even with tariffs, Brazil stuff is still cheaper. Production on the USA side hasn’t been great.

Big corporations know very well how competition works and would like to avoid it at all costs.

Some more accurately than others.

And he has ICE as his new imperial guard, so opponents will start to poison themselves out of windows soon enough.

Management doesn’t ask people they want to fire is firing them is a good idea. They themselves would lie like crazy to keep their job and assume therefore everything the developers say would be a lie too.

So some places started forcing developers to use AI with a quota and monitor the usage. Of course the devs don’t go checking each AI generated line for correctness. That’s bad for the quota. It’s guaranteed to add more slop to the codebase.

Within the universe of plastic chemicals, we’re looking at the last academic count at about 16,000 chemicals that are used or present in plastics."

Dr Symeonides says only one-third of those chemicals appear to have been evaluated for their potential hazard, and about “75 per cent” of those evaluated have been identified as hazardous.

So basically flood the world with chemicals without care if they’re dangerous and be very surprised when bad things happen.

Ha. Intellectual Soylent.

That was my physics teacher.

“So materials shrink as they get colder.”

“Ma’am, doesn’t ice expand?”

“We don’t talk about that.”

Like Musk don’t liking that grok is stating facts going against Musk’s own beliefs and now he’s looking into retraining and reprogramming grok to spout the right ideologies. Having an AI will not save us.

Every type of AI that was ever made had people saying that this is the one that’ll bring is general intelligence. It’s just a matter of scaling it up further, the hype crashed and there was an AI winter. Now LLM have their own problems scaling up and nothing really indicating it’s anywhere near general intelligence. There isn’t much more data to train them on. And so far, not enough people willing to pay for it. Definitely bubble territory.

There is a power struggle going on in the CCP and Xi is losing.

So they can’t keep selling their soul and dignity without consequences.

Next are journalists, activists (especially leaders/organizers), political opponents and critics. That’s the classics.

They’ve build their entire regime on appearing strong and threatening others until they’re so scared they do what you want. That’s on a personal, party and country level.

• Scare away all the best and brightest of the entire world that you brought to your country to give the competitive edge in science, engineering and tech.

• Make the business climate so uncertain that nobody wants to invest anything in research or build new facilities, except in moving their facilities out of the country

But in reality these things have armor and bullet proof glass. Companies sell systems with disorienting light and sound, sonar and underwater surveillance, anti drone systems and also roaming drones. They’re floating fortresses.

The goal is to go back to the slave system using some legal trickery and brute force. The money is there to make it happen.

One study I found is where they let people (their control group) check some data about effectiveness of a certain shampoo. They all found the correct answer. Then they let people do the exercise with the exact same data but said it was about gun control. Suddenly a part of the participants failed at basic math and had a lot of rationalizations.

Some folks will not just accept any fact or data that goes against a belief held by their peer group. Giving facts will even be seen as a personal attack.