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All while maintaining a delusional, arrogant attitude and mocking the younger people who have to struggle with the consequences of their actions.

They did all of this while saddling future generations with trillions upon trillions of dollars of debt. They came into power with a duty to preserve our strength for future generations, and they’re leaving the country weaker than they found it.

Baby boomers did not build this country. They were born on the heels of the US emerging from WW2 as the sole superpower. A massive advantage that they did not contribute to creating.

@jjen_abel @Trace_Cohen It’s important to choose your use cases carefully when heading into a POC. Full automation is great, but its not a bad idea to do a phased approach. Gradually move from accelerating human work into automation - just be sure that the first phase still has strong ROI.

@Trace_Cohen building too far into future kills enterprise deals

Most enterprise AI pilots fail for the same reason most digital transformations failed: the technology worked, but the organization was not structurally prepared to absorb the change.

@4drant The problem is you need to span across multiple systems of record to build really transformative agents. Most knowledge workers use more than just one application in their day to day.

Which is easier to do? 1) incumbent building the colourful stack on their “system of record” or 2) get the 55yr old tech procurement manager and the 57 year old CIO to agree to onboard a new vendor with no history on security, privacy, reliability? Invest accordingly.

@MinhungShih @lefttailguy @glean It’s a big market…

@lefttailguy @glean @glean is screwed

This looks an awful lot like what @glean shipped last year. Alas the owner of demand has the right to win the middleware.

@JaredKubin @BucknSF They will have figure out a way to gather more info/context from around the ent in order to make agents that actually work. The answer to “How do I solve this ticket?” is usually held across a mix of SOPs, knowledge articles, messaging platforms, and other apps outside of SNOW

@BucknSF That’s the battle line to figure out…

the question I keep coming back to w/NOW is why will ticketing workflows existing in like 10yrs? they mostly solve for humans being a bottleneck to complete menial tasks.

@BobKoonce @allen_brutus @TAmTrib Thank you for sharing your thoughts, this post was really informative/helpful.

Use AI to start and just ask about overnight CAPEX for SMRs versus gas, solar, wind, coal, etc. It will estimate because that's all any of us can do since no one has actually built a commercial SMR (and Navy's are very, very expensive). Most SMR companies try to estimate the cost lower based on "NOAK" (cost after building many, many SMRs which can't be proven) not "FOAK" (first of a kind). Also, some new Advanced Nuclear designs use TRISO fuel which is not commercially available so estimating operating costs are also just a guess. Organizations like EPRI and DOE provide their estimates in their "Roadmaps". So, it's not easy because none of these promised designs have every actually been built and therefore we don't have actual cost data. But, get away from the marketing hype by each new company and dig into their assumptions and you quickly find SMR (and even Giga Watt size plants like AP1000) are still way to costly compared to gas. Another issue is the time to finish designs (most are not certified by the NRC (only NuScale and AP1000). And then there is the time to actually build one after licensing. So, when you factor in financing costs and inflation estimates, it gets even more difficult to come up with numbers we can be confident in. The tech is easy. Building them will become easy once we build the work force up again and learn from doing. But, because of the expected high costs and all the unknowns, a lot of these projects are not moving forward with hard money invested. The government is trying to help with loan programs, tax incentives, test programs, improved licensing, etc. But, from my vantage point, most of the SMR paper reactors are struggling to get past the initial stages. the DOW and Amazon projects with X-Energy have one of the best chances but not guaranteed to be completed along with the OPG BWRX-300 project up in Canada. Again, I am hopeful and working behind the scenes with our clients some of whom have some cost cutting designs, but it's not as clear cut that we can get past the first couple of plants when you can build a combined cycle plant for much cheaper and faster not to mention solar and wind with battery storage improving. I hope we figure it out. Might take direct Government intervention with hard money investment. there are some rumors of that becoming a possibility. Oh well, need to get some sleep...rant over.

Nuclear power is a great example of the "fix everything easily switch" The Navy has been running nuclear reactors for decades without issue. Modern reactor designs obviate the meltdown risk. Carbon emissions are nill. There's plenty of uranium Yet we don't do it because the uninformed fear the consequences of boiling water. And so mass democracy means we are held hostage by the toxic combination bad actors like Greenpeace, uniformed fools, and special interests And so the switch isn't flipped

@DylanBallard_UK @Richard10590651 You people are morons. You make an argument - it’s gets immediately proven to be dumb and hypocritical - then you move the goalposts. Fuck off.

@Richard10590651 Probably more to do with the mid season addition and it being a player who played and then left college.

Mark Pope makes a statement on the current situation with NCAA eligibility. A phenomenal answer in my opinion. “ NCAA may lose in court, but they still get to decide who makes the NCAA tournament. Use that to bring some sanity to the situation.”

@SpartanHoops_DK @allegedtidefan If that’s the “tenth item on the list of what’s wrong with this.” Then why was that the one and only item you mentioned in your tweet?

@allegedtidefan That’s the tenth item on the list of what’s wrong with this. NCAA gonna make you forfeit games if he loses eligibility in court. Not sure it’s worth it

For everyone saying Nnaji addition hasn’t mattered here ya go. This is so stupid. Bama goes from very good to potentially title contender with a JANUARY addition because of a legal loophole. How can he play if he’s not enrolled in school for the semester? Makes zero sense.

@JohnIbbitson You are a vassal state that exists at the pleasure of the United States of America. The rational reaction is to absorb the blows in the short term, not to overreact and position yourself as a partner to America’s top adversary.

What would you have us do: absorb the blows, shrug off the threats, cross our fingers and hope for the best? It would seem you don’t know Canadians very well. 4/4

I have read this thread carefully, and as a former Washington bureau chief for the Globe and Mail, I find it puzzling. The Canadian government didn’t act in anger. It and all of us were compelled against our will to reconsider our trading and security relationships. 1/4

@BundaBoy123 @angryyoungcath @L0m3z The US has always been ‘imperial’. How else would you describe the impulse behind Manifest Destiny? We tried your rules-based supra-national federalism and it broke down over time just like everything does. If we try harder then that system will somehow last forever? Dumb.

@angryyoungcath @L0m3z It's ok to be stupid. Don't let anyone tell you any different.

We are slowly, and then all at once going to come to see the logic in this. The burdens of empire without the benefits (or only sometimes the benefits, and with strings attached), spread out unevenly across the globe based on an obsolete, disjointed strategy, and sustained through passive-aggressive human rights rationale, was the old model. Now, concrete dominance within our actual sphere of influence, namely the Western Hemisphere, is how things will work. Actual subordination of our protectorates. "We should've taken the oil," then. We're going take the oil going forward. This is not done without prudence and restraint, but we need to keep our backyard clean.

@cd_hooks Control over significant reserves means the US Government can potentially get back to dictating the price of oil, and when your primary geopolitical enemy is a net importer of oil - that capability is very important. Reducing domestic prices is not the goal here.

Obviously not the most important thing here, but strikeing that the US has just avowedly started a war for oil when WTI is at “Texans committing suicide” levels

Que quede claro: Los venezolanos celebramos la caída del tirano Maduro como el día en que triunfa la libertad. No repudiamos un ataque a Venezuela, porque eso no fue lo que ocurrió. Estados Unidos emprendió el legítimo ataque de un cártel del narcotráfico que tiene secuestrado a los venezolanos.

1. Military ops within our own Hemisphere are not the same as full scale invasions in the Middle East. 2. In this situation, the US is not “policing the world”, it is defending legitimate American interests (Guayana oil) 3. Maduro’s government was illegitimate - NOT sovereign.

@just_HJB_here @CynicalPublius @Sketchy_DayZ The point of the argument is that if immigrants who come here refuse or can’t assimilate into our culture, then we are giving people political power over us who will use that power against us. We shouldn’t do that.

@1cannotbeblank0 @CynicalPublius @Sketchy_DayZ What is the point of your argument? If any immigrant comes here legally and earns American citizenship, how should they be treated different than multi-generational Americans? I am trying to understand what longevity has to do with each person's citizen status or rights.

Last I checked, pretty much everyone who came to America came here to escape hereditary rights of nobility. "Heritage American" = hereditary rights of nobility. The idea of "Heritage Americans" being somehow better than more recent Americans is perhaps the most un-American concept imaginable. Here in America, we are all judged by what we do or do not do as individuals, without regard for who our ancestors were. THAT is what makes us Americans.

@CynicalPublius @Sketchy_DayZ If you think the Somali immigrants are just as American as people who have lived here for generations, then why shouldn’t they be able to take political control by voting?

@Sketchy_DayZ Agree. Now explain why you thought my post was somehow contradictory.

@gonglei89 @xinjianrutie @lazystalker @bryancsk How many trillions does the Uyghur repression cost per year? What about the predatory belt and road loans? How much money does it cost to put suicide nets up in Foxconn’s slave factories?

@1cannotbeblank0 @xinjianrutie @lazystalker @bryancsk Those bridges and “ghost cities” are actually being used and filled by the most underserved. Even if they were waste though it’s a better use than spending trillions killing and terrorizing brown people. But hey, as long as you get to be an ignorant smug lord who cares?

One of the reasons why specific things are scarce or expensive in the US (why are there so few elevators, why are after-school activities so costly) is because of highly sophisticated rent-seeking that seems weirdly socially acceptable in America.