History, Politics And Current Affairs

Shut OpenAI down. They have repeatedly shown they cannot be trusted with the dangerous technology they are working on. End of discussion. Indeed. There was an internet joke going around a couple years ago about them hiring a "Killswitch Engineer". Maybe they should have actually made it a...

4E9EFC34-B792-4CCD-8281-E030DD9ED8E0.jpeg Life is imitating art…. Yeah. Not so funny today, in light of one of the other threads here :| We'll wake up one day and everything connected to the Internet will be subsumed. I used to think I'd never be able to retire due to investing ineptitude. Then I t...

Nathan45 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 27, 2026 4:25 pm Seeing Optimus die as a kid in the Transformers movie was very traumatic, it was the red wedding for a entire generation of 10 year olds.

I think I was just a bit too young for that one; saw the cartoon series but I don't think I ever saw the movie.

I gotta admit, I agree with renaming the CNV from doris miller. We should stick with the traditional CV names, 100%. I also agree that Miller deserves a Burke. I think renaming the Doris Miller is perhaps one of the more asinine ideas out there. While I would prefer to see them go back to tradition...

Anyone familiar with air dropping have an idea what went wrong with this one? Belushi TD Parachute wasn't attached. This reminds me of a few years back when three HMMVs dropped in Germany from sabotage. https://youtu.be/SN6LL-evvfU?si=ZAMbh5Zt2bCx6_4m That's the same video I thought of. I know it w...

We're sitting in a room full of gasoline soaked rags and playing with matches, thinking "ooooh, look at the pretty light!" --- I was just talking this morning with a friend about why I don't think I'll ever be able to retire. But now my new theory is that before I even get to that point, s...

I'm getting the check and a "select all images" occasionally. Noticed I've started getting the checks on several forums lately (especially NSF).

Demon Lord Razgriz wrote: ↑Wed Jul 29, 2026 10:34 pm We're barreling towards Armageddon, and no one in power, left or right, wants to stop it cause they want that $$$...

"We can stop whenever we want!"

I know I've read it (it's been a while), but my brain keeps conflating Neuromancer and Snow Crash

Maybe if I ever had time to watch stuff it might be worth a subscription for a little while...

warshipadmin wrote: ↑Mon Jul 27, 2026 10:45 pm the price of cinema tickets, inspired by $60 ($40) Imax tickets.

And that is one of the (many) reasons I don't go to the movies any more.

Once again I'm reminded of our own Nik's story...

The savings from going electric aren't huge and vary by location and geopolitics. But there's the convenience factor (of how many stops at the gas station I don't have to make)... When we bought our first Tesla I had a spreadsheet that detailed out all the costs as best I could manage for a variety ...

The vast majority of Pickup trucks and large SUVs are more lifestyle choice than legitimate needs. If you only need a pickup a handful of times a year, it would be MUCH cheaper to rent or Uber a truck for that day and get a normal sedan. There have been multiple studies done on this. The vast major...

It could be they have reduced piston ring contact pressure to get less friction That is my understanding. They're also using super-thin oil which I don't think bodes well for long-term wear protection. IMVHO auto companies are pushing so hard for squeezing out ever better mileage (with turbos, dire...

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/ford-rehires-gray-beard-engineers-190539658.html Ford executives said they have hired 350 veteran engineers — some of them were former employees, while others had been working at suppliers — after artificial intelligence and automated systems failed t...

So my dad was notoriously cheap when he was younger, to the point that he never used the AC in his old 82 Camaro and so it just didn't work any more. Well, we moved south when he got hired by the airlines and eventually (years later around 1997 IIRC) he got tired of driving to work in the summer wit...

Based on previous discussions, it would be somewhere between very difficult to impossible. Conventional uninformed "wisdom" says that as long as someone somewhere still has The Tooling!!! restarting production is "just" a matter of flipping the lights back on and dragging The To...

LFP Batteries are awesome. Recently built a 48V battery for my Golf Cart that I use on my property out of 16 3V LFP cells. Each 3V cell is 308AH and only cost me a little more than 4x12V batteries and I will probably never have to replace the batteries in my golf cart again. I put an LFP battery in...

I think I read the first one a few years ago.

I think the most memorable part had to do with American logistics. Everyone else tried to "save" a broken down trucksl. The Americans just pushed it off the road so the 100 behind it could get through.

jemhouston wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2026 11:02 am Kid sums up the event.

Damn right kid...