Companies used to be run by people that came up through the ranks of the company. Maybe even the people that founded it. Today we have "professional managers" and tons of meetings, but little production.

At this point in my life I don't need much, but that seems like an interesting thing to look into.

No one ever works this math all the way through and no one ever discusses how those that control land and raw materials will move to control the flow of manufacturing. There are no real discussions about what humans will do with all of that available time, and judging from how people b who have little to do and no accountability act today, that isn't likely to be a great picture. Not to mention the level of control that can be exercised over an entire population with this level of technology. This will not be a positive thing for humanity.

In my opinion, this is one of Art's most important articles. I hope folk will read it carefully. zarkfiles.substack.com/p/goi…

What he said. Another comment was that the toothpaste was out of the tube and that it will be difficult to out it back in and this is true, but not an insurmountable problem for the bad guys. The more toothpaste that's out, the better for us.

These people are purposefully obfuscating the truth. You can not buy any of those items through a federally licensed firearms dealer without filling out a 4473 and having a background check run. If I was to "make" any of those items as a commercial enterprise, they will have to be sold through FFL's. As an individual, I can now install a barrel under 16" on a receiver I own, and I would not have to undergo an additional background check. I already went through a background check when I purchased the receiver. This would be how an individual "makes" an SBR for personal use. I could have bought that same barrel and put it on the same receiver before this was announced without an additional background check, but would have had to use an arm brace rather than a stock on the firearm. I still would have essentially the same firearm. In the case of an SBR, the only difference is the type of stock I can put on the receiver.

You don't say? I've been cleaning up my desk and I now I have two notices of such breaches, and I think I have three.

Interesting?

Did you miss me? Somehow I didn't think so. Last Tuesday I took a header off of a ladder and significantly broke my right leg. I started at @MaryBowdenMD 's favorite hospital Huguley, but was transferred to Harris Methodist where I was operated on Wednesday morning. As near as I can tell the surgery went well, but this type of break will require me to be weight free on that leg for 3 months. That' a long time. By Thursday evening, I'd had enough of Methodists nonsense and I left AMA. Whoever invented "hospitalists" as a medical specialty should be shot at dawn. I'll be ok but every routine will need to be adjusted, and it will take a couple of weeks to get new processes for doing basic things in place. My wife has delivered the last election work product I'd promised anyone, and I don't think I'll be doing any election watching this year. I do have a project in mind that has a low probability of success, but a high value if it succeeds, but that will take some serious consideration over the next couple of weeks. Now back to your normal grousing about our pitiful government and election system.

I've heard this somewhere before.

One of the biggest lies in politics is that most billionaires back Republicans. At best they are playing both sides of the street, but overall more of that money goes left than right. It's also nonsense that most corporations float towards conservatism. There's as much woke nonsense coming out of corporate boardrooms as there is from many of these legislatures today. It got there through our educational system. Today, corporatists/globalists seldom start on the shop floor They graduate with MBA's.

And, chances are good he used a cheap capacitor hoping for another service call in a year or two. While I'm also unhappy with the current situation in the trades, there is more to the story. You are also paying for drive time, the truck, the materials on the truck, and the time needed to procure and stock those materials. I know people don't like that, but those are all business expenses that have to be compensated, Still, that's a lot. I would have expected a low of $150 to a high of $275 or so including a good capacitor. Probly around $200 I use the smallest outfits I can for this type of work, but some of them are high as a kite too. I just got held up because I was over a barrel. I won't be in that situation again. I now have all the materials I need on hand. Build a relationship with a small two or three truck outfit and network with your neighbors about pricing and quality whenever you can. I hate the Neighbor hood SM platform, but it's actually pretty good for this kind of thing. Let the big companies and those that have been bought out pound sand.

And that Constitution makes no mention of any party.

If I "have no expectation of privacy", neither does Flock.

This is the crux of the issue. The fact its that AI will be trusted and deferred to in nearly every walk of life. We are already seeing it. Technology is neither good nor evil, it is neither lazy nor industrious, but like money, it will amplify the character of the person(s) controlling it.

This person is supposedly well educated. there are a few verses that are not considered here.

Jeep ducking is not a sin, it's cool. A bit of whimsy in a world that is waaaay to serious.