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A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I.

Both Russia and Ukraine were already using A.I. in multiple drone models before the fully autonomous drones emerged. In those earlier models, A.I. is used only for what is known as the “last mile” — the final stage of the attack, after a remote human pilot has selected the target. Fully autonomous A.I. removes humans from the final target selection.

Not much different from what they were already doing.

Once we hear about such things, it's been happening for years. I suspect they have been testing AI for a decade and are now refining it. Like a beta.

Look at the construction on that captured drone; looks like it would cost five dollars at a garage sale. Virtually the only cost of these things would be the electronics, even the explosives are cheap.

So, every time that you've "proved" that you're human by selecting "what is a crosswalk?" and so on, it's just one more data point for an autonomous killer robot made of Styrofoam. It's not even cool like a T-800 Terminator robot.

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'Lawless Killing Spree at Sea Resumes' as US Announces Fresh Boat Bombings

I think they've been doing this for years at will.

The question is, why are they are letting everybody know now? They know it won't impact the overall drug trade in any way, as the vast majority of that is in shipping containers, it's not on thousands of small fishing boats.

Why would they want to reduce boat traffic in the Caribbean? Who is this for? Someone is making money off of this somehow, I just know it.

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"No precedent in American history!" NYT would have defended child labor.

We have generations of data from countries all over the world with universal healthcare. It costs the people less, undeniably; there's zero benefit to for-profit private insurance... for people, anyway (not corporations).

I'm not positive, but I think USA is the last "western nation" without it. So... US taxpayers actually send billions to other nations all over the globe, all of which have better healthcare. Nice.

Even Mexico has universal healthcare, soon they'll be trying to end American migration...

Oh my God, it just dawned on me. Trump was right... Mexico will pay for the wall! Trump's lowering US citizen's standard of living severely so that they will have flee over the border by the millions and viola! Wall.

Brilliant.

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Are we sure America is a developed nation?

I'm old and have been through a lot of storms, including hurricanes, tornadoes, and even earthquakes. Power was always restored within a day. Five decades of storms, power always restored quickly.

A few years ago, where I live there was a minor storm. Some wind gusts, nothing hurricane level, heavy rain... power was out for us for five days. This wasn't a storm of significance, nobody would take time off work for it. Tens of thousands of people without power.

There is something fundamentally wrong with US government today. I am in a state with Democratic control for decades, with some of the highest taxes in the nation.

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Musk's ~~Lottery~~ Bribery

Each party "spent" about a billion dollars in the last election (that we know of). This is small change comparatively.

BUT I'm not complaining. At least it's something.

Next election, Musk will simply funnel more cash into his candidate directly and not bother with a "lottery" for the proles. The problem is so much bigger.

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One In Five Drivers Switches Off The Safety Tech Meant To Save Their Lives

The ones I am familiar with just beep loudly with the reason why super-imposed barely legibly on the dash.

Constantly distracting, for me I'd rather pay attention to the road then look for your various pop-ups.

I am not exaggerating, anytime you'd look away from the road it would alert. There's another road there and I am looking at the traffic. Shut the fuck up.

ETA it resets with an update. Intolerable.

I am not buying a new car again, something has happened to quality and design standards in my opinion. Old man yelling at clouds.

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Meet Natalie, Trump's babysitter-gatekeeper-probable spy

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Not at all.

The USA is owned by international interests (of which the USA is the current capitol; prior to that, UK)

Those international interests created Israel.

Both nations are disposable to those interests, if needed.

These interests are NOT nationalist, they are profit motivated only; they've been around since the slavery days.

Look who "serves" at The Fed, and take it from there.

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"No precedent in American history!" NYT would have defended child labor.

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Typically Economists can look at past events to predict what an upcoming event would look like. But there’s literally nothing close to this that’s ever taken place so while they can all guess it’s literally just that, a guess.

They can still look at past events to predict the upcoming event; we have scores of examples and generations of data for other nations all over the world. It's been done, many times. It's not magic, there's absolutely no mystery.

For example, what happens to all of the people who work for these private insurance companies?

They have to get three jobs like everybody else. This is happening constantly everywhere, why is that a concern now? What makes this the line? Get another job, prole, same as it ever was.

What about retirement plans? Lots of people have retirement plans based on stocks. How much of their retirement stock money is tied up in private insurance companies?

Invest in something else, done and done. Those who invested too much in health insurance companies will lose a lot of money. Standard operating procedure for everyone with everything in USA. No matter what, there will be winners and losers, someone always makes bank while others go broke.

Idiocy... you don't say?

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Poor Anakin

"Your honor, one of the kids said "All lives matter" at the lunch table, and the other children laughed. It's a well-known fact that if you sit at the table with Nazis, you are a Nazi. Your honor, he can't tolerate intolerance, his hands were tied. They killed themselves."

The room erupts with applause.

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Thatcher famously said "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money", but isn't it the best way to describe billionaires in late stage capitalism?

Well, we can just print more money! That's the solution for both capitalism and socialism, works every time.

Don't worry, the predatory bankers that are appointed to the Fed are surely looking out for our best interests, they would never, ever abuse their positions for the benefit of JP Morgan or anything like that, don't be silly