Truth.
As Nestlé, Coca-cola and PepsiCo buy up, or flat out steal, water resources and rising seawater that comes with climate change, salinisation of aquifers will mean even less fresh water in those areas.
It also means I’m fucked without rainwater catchment or a DIY home de-sal operation. (riiiight. think Instructables has a plan?)
edit: typo
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Desalination is not technically difficult, but burns energy like crazy. If you have your own fusion rector, you are in business. Otherwise, it is a hard row.
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Enough fission or solar power will do it, too.
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Now trump will want to test one of ours.
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Nah, he’ll just give Putin a ring on the red phone and congratulate him.
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Wasn’t sure where else to put this, but…
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Use of military contractors shrouds true costs of war; Washington wants it that way, study says
About 53,000 U.S. contractors were in the Middle East last year, compared with 35,000 U.S. troops, according to a study by Brown University. That ratio was 1 to 1 during the height of troop levels in Iraq in 2008. And since 2001, an estimated 8,000 contractors for U.S. companies have died on duty in the Middle East. That figure is 1,000 more than U.S. troops who have been killed.
Many of the contractors killed were foreign nationals. That has led to a double exploitation of using foreign workers for dangerous jobs and paying them less than U.S. employees earn, said Heidi Peltier, a Research Fellow at Boston University and part of Brown University’s Costs of War Project.
“It hides the human cost and makes war more politically palatable,” Peltier told The Washington Post.
The reliance on defense contractors, once touted as a way to reduce costs and to improve quality of services for the military, instead has led to a glut of spending, the study concluded. More than half of the defense budget last year — $370 billion — was spent on all contractor efforts, from weapons to services, according to the study.
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How else are Congress critters going to get rich? I mean how else are Congress critters going to create jerbs? I really mean how else are Congress critters going to stay in power?
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The main time when the Dems genuinely oppose Trump is whenever he does something that might restrain the war machine.
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FYI: You do all know that America’s tech giants, even Google, supply IT to the US military, right?
Despite all those protests, internal and external, by tech workers against their employers’ selling AI to the US military, the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JIAC) this week said the biggest names in IT are lining up to supply Uncle Sam.
Founded in 2018, the JAIC focuses on deploying machine-learning systems to support America’s armed forces. It invests in all sorts of applications and platforms, from internal private clouds to drones.
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“As the weapons swarm toward their destination, sharing information about their surroundings, one of the munitions sights a higher-priority target nearby. Instantly, the game plan changes — the bombs’ programming now directs two of the weapons toward the high-priority target, while the rest carry out the original strike.”
“We get that question a lot,” he told Defense News in a June 18 interview. “With all the talk about artificial intelligence and other things in ‘Terminator’ movies … [there’s] certainly some trepidation of what independent capability a weapon may have.”
Yeah, what could possibly go wrong?
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Hello America! You invest hundreds of billions in munitions- we invest one million in hackers.
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