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LSUnKaty
| Favorite team: | LSU  |
| Location: | Katy, TX |
| Biography: | UNO Grad, LSU Fan |
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| Number of Posts: | 4887 |
| Registered on: | 12/16/2008 |
| Online Status: | Not Online |
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re: How did kuwait not know our 3 jets
Posted by LSUnKaty on 3/2/26 at 12:26 pm to bleedsgarnet
quote:No personnel were lost.
Senseless way to lose military personel.
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Whether the Pentagon agrees with POTUS commands or not, its job is to plan and execute them precisely and meticulously.
Military leadership is responsible for providing honest, professional advice; developing feasible plans that align with all constraints; clearly communicating risks, assumptions, and tradeoffs; and executing approved plans to professional standards.
If the military failed to surface known risks, accepted unrealistic assumptions without objection, or executed the plan poorly within the approved scope of the operation, then the failure rests with them.
Military leadership is responsible for providing honest, professional advice; developing feasible plans that align with all constraints; clearly communicating risks, assumptions, and tradeoffs; and executing approved plans to professional standards.
If the military failed to surface known risks, accepted unrealistic assumptions without objection, or executed the plan poorly within the approved scope of the operation, then the failure rests with them.
quote:Not so much in terms of the incentives and motives for progressive outrage.
The discussion is a lot more nuanced than you are willing to acknowledge
re: GEOTUS raises tariffs from 10% to 15%
Posted by LSUnKaty on 2/21/26 at 12:04 pm to Taxing Authority
quote:The question isn’t whether higher COGS is simply worse in a vacuum—it’s whether we let foreign governments and producers unilaterally dictate the terms (and costs) of trade to the US, or whether our government should have tools to push back.
being forced to overpay for COGS
Unrestricted free trade across the board (or even one-sided free trade) is undoubtedly better economically, but why should the US bear all the costs?
re: Grab a nail gun or a shovel and learn how to enjoy working with them. It is your future!!
Posted by LSUnKaty on 2/19/26 at 2:16 pm to BottomlandBrew
quote:Unless AI on that scale is exceedingly cheap, how will all these companies hope to payoff the capital investments?
Yang's argument, I believe it is that companies will chase short term profits at the detriment of long-term survival. Yang calls it "The frickening."
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If company A's valuation goes up because of AI implementation and lay-offs, Company B will chase that and have their own lay-offs and AI implementation.
We already see our existing power infrastructure challenged. To create and distribute all the required energy for this will take massive long term capital investment (they are not going to displace 75% of worked just by getting a Copilot license).
Companies do not commit to such long term investments without thoroughly evaluating the IRR which includes evaluating future demand and revenues.
re: Grab a nail gun or a shovel and learn how to enjoy working with them. It is your future!!
Posted by LSUnKaty on 2/19/26 at 10:29 am to BottomlandBrew
quote:Please explain where their profits will come from when there are no people left to afford anything?
Companies will not hold on to people over profits. Educated workforce will be laid off with no where to go.
We still live in a market economy. Productivity tools like AI only survive if they deliver real value to consumers—otherwise, the market kills them.
How exactly does destroying your customer base create “enhanced value”? What will all this AI produce when demand vanishes because the consumers are suddenly unemployed?
Supply and demand are two sides of the same coin. Unless we’ve fundamentally misunderstood how markets work, no innovation scales massively if it destroys demand instead of creating it.
No mass employment -> no mass demand -> no need for mass supply.
So what exactly will Fortune 500 companies sell to fund the power-hungry data centers and keep advanced AI running?
Serious question.
re: Grab a nail gun or a shovel and learn how to enjoy working with them. It is your future!!
Posted by LSUnKaty on 2/19/26 at 9:44 am to WhiteMandingo
quote:Right.
Where is the money to support all of these hands on jobs?
For that matter, where is the money to pay for all the products and services the Fortune 500 companies exploiting AI create when 75% of workers no longer have an income?
What I’d like to know is who is going to pay all those plumbers and electricians when nobody else has any income?
Where are all the bleeding hearts crying about 5000 thrown out of their jobs?
re: Portland pizza joint forces customers to listen to anti-ICE lecture before they can order
Posted by LSUnKaty on 2/17/26 at 8:52 am to BoomerandSooner
quote:What do you think would happen if they forced people to listen to Gospel music or bible passages?
Portland pizza joint forces customers to listen
While I am not often in sympathy with the actions of MTG or Massie, there is one thing in that X post that disturbs me.
Gender surgery for minors should be a non-starter for any reasonable, sane person. It is the overwhelming evil and scandal of our time. If there ever was a hill to die on, this is it, for Republicans, Conservatives, and even classical Liberal Democrats.
Minors are not even allowed to get tattoos anywhere in the US without parental consent—and even where it is permitted at all, they must typically be at least 16, with documented parental consent under stringent restrictions and regulations (in numerous states, it’s banned entirely for anyone under 18 regardless of consent). Think about that for a minute.
Gender surgery for minors should be a non-starter for any reasonable, sane person. It is the overwhelming evil and scandal of our time. If there ever was a hill to die on, this is it, for Republicans, Conservatives, and even classical Liberal Democrats.
Minors are not even allowed to get tattoos anywhere in the US without parental consent—and even where it is permitted at all, they must typically be at least 16, with documented parental consent under stringent restrictions and regulations (in numerous states, it’s banned entirely for anyone under 18 regardless of consent). Think about that for a minute.
quote:A bill, or passed law, will not do it. Could just be undone.
They might, because this would like start when the bill is passed.
Has to be a constitutional amendment.
quote:Huh?
Notice how he didn't say anything about President term limits
re: Staley was the more composed coach
Posted by LSUnKaty on 2/15/26 at 8:13 am to saturncube21
quote:Love this place!
Staley was the more composed coach
When our coach is composed we complain about needing more passion.
When our coach displays passion, we complain about composure.
Somehow you guys just can’t be wrong, ever.
Nice setup you have there.
re: Oh no, a US Skier hates ICE
Posted by LSUnKaty on 2/9/26 at 11:04 am to BluegrassCardinal
quote:frick that. He doesn't deserve the privilege to be on Team USA.
Just ski, you pussy.
Rip him off and let someone more deserving, who actually loves the USA have his place.
He can go ski for Canada or Iran or some such place. I'm sure they'll take him.
re: WEF: “we can induce meat allergy by using ticks to stop the consumption of meat”
Posted by LSUnKaty on 2/8/26 at 10:28 am to SlowFlowPro
quote:Funny no one ever asks this in relation to Trump.
What is the full context?
re: Mentally ill woman makes Olympic history by competing as a woman.
Posted by LSUnKaty on 2/7/26 at 7:57 pm to AtlantaThrashers
quote:Why, specifically when there’s no competitive advantage as you claim here?
Because all legitimate sports should be subdivided into men’s and women’s competitions
There are no separate divisions in competitive chess, egames, some sailing and shooting competitions.
You didn’t really answer my question.
re: Mentally ill woman makes Olympic history by competing as a woman.
Posted by LSUnKaty on 2/7/26 at 5:50 pm to AtlantaThrashers
quote:then why are there separate divisions?
testosterone doesn’t offer an advantage in terms of being able to throw better tricks down a zipper line.
Are you saying in a mixed division men would not dominate, or maybe women would?
I truly don’t know and you claim to be an expert so honest question.
Well, no one is forcing them. Don’t fund them and kick them off the team.
Let them go play for a real autocratic regime and see what happens when they complain.
Let them go play for a real autocratic regime and see what happens when they complain.
quote:There are always costs, maybe not monetary but tradeoffs that have to be made.
Why must there be costs
Legislation prohibiting fertilizer runoff would certainly involve costs to prevent it, the issue is who decides to what extent and how fertilizer in your example, but any ‘negative externality’ in general, needs to be controlled and who pays the cost and how prices are set.
quote:And there we have it!
Something I find remarkable is that all the die-hard followers of Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom" always fail to acknowledge his understanding that many environmental issues constitute "negative externalities" that the market cannot regulate alone, hence the need for government or societal interventions and protections.
Why is it that Environmentalism of this sort almost always entails expanded government intervention?
While I don’t fully accept the standard Econ 101 framing of negative externalities, let’s grant for the sake of argument that they exist. Even then, the central issue is not merely whether costs must be allocated, but who is best positioned to do so under conditions of limited knowledge and imperfect incentives.
Given that both markets and governments face information and incentive problems, why should we expect centralized regulators—who are also susceptible to capture and epistemic limits—to outperform more decentralized mechanisms in addressing these issues?”
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