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I don't disagree, but funding is clearly not limitless so focus areas must be prioritized.

You're completely right, and I began to realize this myself a few hours after my post. The numbers Charon cited are in the trillions, and lobbying is nowhere near that... In fact, any lobbying expenditures are likely already looped into the "sales and operational costs" bucket. It's still a considerable amount of money spent on lobbying and makes a considerable impact on both our legislation and our lives, but it clearly can't touch the broader marketing and ad spends which are themselves nearly double what's spent on R&D

So will very many very poor and poverty stricken people. Guns are often a religion in the US, but those practicing it are hardly Mandalorians.

Deficits in social skills and coping strategies plus spikes in anxiety and depression… IMO

That’s weird since including babies there are only about 330M Americans alive and that’s higher now than at any time across history. Correct. It is. The standard of the military is killing enemies. The standard for citizens is NOT killing their neighbors. Yeah. Those Blackhawk helicopters with their hellfire missiles will become impotent against uncle Jim Bob and his AR Sadly, this bedrock has been blasted and fracked for reasons of avarice and grift and earthquakes are spreading across the justice system like ripples through a scummy pond.

Lobbying is a massive expense line item too

I’m aware already

Plus fear and scapegoating and “other-ism” There are, of course, exceptions, but the overall trend is and has been for a very long time exactly as you say.

Rightly, so. Democrats are doing everything possible to get the help available while GOP blocks it to satisfy a rabid jingoistic base, and GOP controls the HoR. haven’t watched your video, tho

You misspelled imagination

No, it is not… especially not in the cold. Putting in a 220V service for some welding or a big blue power hammer or something?

IMO, he was basically suffocated to death.

Cost matters here. Of course the more powerful tech tends to replace the outdated tech. This is true across the sector and across history. The key limiting factor is how affordable we can make it and how broadly it can be distributed across society.

The type of size measurement considered is also relevant. Overall volume seems to be less important than total surface area and complexity of the folds and convolutions, etc. Also, "intelligence" is a highly variable and oftentimes nebulous concept. Artists are often intelligent in different ways than mathematicians and plumbers are often intelligent in different ways from chefs or chemists, for example.

Maybe but probably not

If only that were the only post you’d ever made here then perhaps the total failure to consider any context and broader historical posting trends might be more appropriate. But alas, you have made more than one post.

He’s definitely getting better at this. FiveThirtyEight reports that he’s begun actively surrounding himself with prominent well placed leaders from South Carolina as a direct attempt to undercut any credit Haley might seize due to her time there as Governor.

And yet his attacks on Bidens age stick and his supporters don’t care about his.

Remains the same relative to what/whom? Your point isn’t badly explained. It’s wrong.

And today he got it. Senator Scott surrendered his integrity card and bent the knee

Your tick and my tick are not the same. We're moving at different speeds. We are at different elevations with different gravitational potentials. When I'm on a plane and you're on the ground, our ticks differ. When you're walking and I'm still, our ticks are different. The difference tends to be small at human speeds, but it is not zero. There is also the issue of human awareness and how our awareness comes after the tick already happened, and when that awareness comes depends on our levels of fatigue, electrolyte saturation, and copious other neurological variables off topic here. As in my signature, "time is one of those concepts that is profoundly resistant to a simple definition." ~C. Sagan https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/time/sagan.html

Google DeepMind’s new AI system can solve complex geometry problems. Its performance matches the smartest high school mathematicians and is much stronger than the previous state-of-the-art system. https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/01/17/1086722/google-deepmind-alphageometry/

Stop being daft. This isn’t your thread. You’re not on staff. That isn’t your choice to make

There are 2.1 Million registered voters in Iowa. Last night, only 110K of them caucused. That's 5% turnout overall. About half of those, around 2-3%, declared for Trump. Even if we look just specifically at those voting eligible constituents registered as Republican, approximately 85% of those stayed home and didn’t even bother to show up. That 49% you cite is closer to 2% of the state… having a rather sizable impact on who gets to be the next POTUS with a huge per vote weighting. I don’t think it will matter, especially if she can’t then carry the 3rd state in the primary (South Carolina) where she happened to serve as Governor. It seems Trump called Senator Tim Scott (R senator from SC and who dropped out of the GOP primary) immediately after the Iowa results to request his endorsement. He’s gotten better at it all this time around. Less sloppy.

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