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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 The U.S can't replace its own destroyed radars because Iran just choked off the minerals needed to build them. West Point just published an analysis showing sulphur trade through the Strait of Hormuz is nearly dead, and sulphur is what you need to extract copper and cobalt from ore. Those metals go into everything from microprocessors to jet engines to the explosives in missiles. It'll take over 30,000 kg of copper just to replace the two major radars Iran destroyed in Bahrain and Qatar. At least 9 radars have been targeted across the region. The damage status of each is still unknown. The cost could be in the hundreds of millions of dollars. In the meantime, sulphur prices have spiked 165% year over year. This is huge because only 6% of US defense contractors have transparent supply chains, so military planners are just now realizing they can't actually manufacture their way out of this war. A West Point analyst warns it could cost double or more than before the war to replace destroyed weapons, assuming markets can even provide enough minerals at all. Source: Guardian, ABC News

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⚡️ NEW: Block, Inc. has quietly rehired some of the 4,000 employees it laid off last month, with some workers receiving offers to return after the cuts were linked to clerical errors.

Public sentiment toward AI is horrible and it’s not hard to see why. We have big tech CEOs and AI labs openly talking about mass job displacement while simultaneously pitching vague “abundance for all.” Nobody buys it. Telling people their livelihoods are at risk while offering weird promises about the future is major disconnect from reality. Most people aren’t thinking about abundance, they’re thinking about food or their rent/mortgages. AI probably will drive massive productivity gains and create new industries over time but right now that narrative is being forced and pushed by people who benefit the most from this shift. Not the middle class being told their jobs may disappear and that they’ll need to pivot to plumbing or other trade work. As of now most working class people feel like AI is going to ruin their lives, not enhance it. Until that changes it’s hard to see where AI optimism comes from.

JUST IN: Meta announces they'll be shutting down the Metaverse

JUST IN: Meta announces they'll be shutting down the Metaverse, after pouring $80,000,000,000.00 into the project.

I wish more people understood this… That’s why the running joke for RSI = Real Shitty Indicator.