Ukraine Using Chinese Consumer Grade Robot Dogs on Battlefield
May 16th, 2025Via: Daily Mail:
Trump Wants A Twin-Engine “F-55” Version Of The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter
May 16th, 2025With a lifetime program cost now estimated at $2.1 trillion, the F-35 is easily one of the largest U.S. weapon boondoggles of all time.
And now, Lockheed Martin, through its ventriloquist dummy Donald Trump:
“Hold my beer.”
What’s to be done about the Pentagon failing seven audits in a row?
Increase its budget even more, of course:
The defense budget is expected to surpass the $1 trillion threshold overall for the first time, reaching $1.01 trillion.
Remember the one about DOGE eliminating fraud?
That’s all fine, as long as it doesn’t involving sniffing around any domains that end in .mil.
Via: The War Zone:
In a surprise development, President Donald Trump has said that he wants the United States to develop a twin-engine version of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, which he has named the F-55. Exactly how far such a concept has progressed, at this stage, is very much open to question, but it does raise some interesting questions about the futures of both the F-35 and the F-47, the Air Force’s next-generation crewed stealth fighter.
Trump was speaking in Qatar today, where he also visited U.S. forces stationed at Al Udeid Air Base. The U.S. president’s Qatar visit also coincided with Boeing securing its biggest-ever deal for widebody airliners, Qatar Airways ordering 160 777X and 787 jets worth $96 billion.
On the F-35, Trump said, “We’re doing an upgrade, a simple upgrade, but we’re also doing an F-55. I’m going to call it an F-55, and that’s going to be a substantial upgrade, but it’s going to be also with two engines because the F-35 has a single engine. I don’t like single engines.”
Alan Watts: “And So, One By One, People Drift Away”
May 15th, 2025
Update: This Is Fake AI Alan Watts
A reader emailed and said he thought this was AI generated. Indeed, it’s AI generated and there’s a disclaimer at the bottom of the video description:
Disclaimer: This channel is not officially associated with Alan Watts or his estate. The content shared here is inspired by the teachings and philosophy of Alan Watts, with the intention to motivate, inspire, and encourage personal growth. All views expressed are those of the creator and do not reflect the official views of Alan Watts or his family. Please seek out his original works for deeper exploration of his teachings.
I’m actually wading through so much AI generated material now that it’s exhausting. In addition to people with good intentions sharing nonsense and people with bad intentions sharing nonsense, AI is like a nonsense hydrogen bomb.
Having listed to probably hundreds of hours of Alan Watts decades ago, when I listened to this, I thought, “I haven’t listened to Alan in a while, maybe this will be interesting…”
And, it’s fake.
The irony is that I just posted an AI generated video about AI being able to fake things called, This Film Is Lying:
THIS FILM IS LYING pic.twitter.com/1QbWxj6LhA
— Matt Zien (KNGMKR) (@KNGMKRlabs) May 9, 2025
So it goes…
Most (maybe all) of the talks are available for free if you want to spend a few seconds searching for them. The older the date of upload, the more likely they are to be real, I suppose. *shrug shoulders*
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Via: Seek Motivation:
DuPont: How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet
May 15th, 2025Via: Veritasium:
“Two People Familiar with the Matter” Claim Undocumented Cellular Radios Found in Chinese Solar Inverters, Batteries
May 15th, 2025While this wouldn’t surprise me in the least, the article is very thin on details. It doesn’t include any evidence at all to support the claims.
Hopefully, this will get security researchers looking into the matter and publicly outing the manufacturers and models of the offending products.
Via: Reuters:
U.S. energy officials are reassessing the risk posed by Chinese-made devices that play a critical role in renewable energy infrastructure after unexplained communication equipment was found inside some of them, two people familiar with the matter said.
Power inverters, which are predominantly produced in China, are used throughout the world to connect solar panels and wind turbines to electricity grids. They are also found in batteries, heat pumps and electric vehicle chargers.
While inverters are built to allow remote access for updates and maintenance, the utility companies that use them typically install firewalls to prevent direct communication back to China.
However, rogue communication devices not listed in product documents have been found in some Chinese solar power inverters by U.S experts who strip down equipment hooked up to grids to check for security issues, the two people said.
Over the past nine months, undocumented communication devices, including cellular radios, have also been found in some batteries from multiple Chinese suppliers, one of them said.
Reuters was unable to determine how many solar power inverters and batteries they have looked at.
Interferometer Device Sees Text from a Mile Away
May 14th, 2025Via: Physics Magazine:
One of astronomers’ tricks for observing distant objects is intensity interferometry, which involves comparing the intensity fluctuations recorded at two separate telescopes. Researchers have now applied this technique to the imaging of remote objects on Earth. They developed a system that uses multiple laser beams to illuminate a distant target and uses a pair of small telescopes to collect the reflected light. The team demonstrated that this intensity interferometer can image millimeter-wide letters at a distance of 1.36 km, a 14-fold improvement in spatial resolution compared with a single telescope.
L.A. Council Backs $30 Minimum Wage for Hotels
May 14th, 2025haha Keep it up, Los Angeles.
Via: Los Angeles Times:
The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to approve a sweeping package of minimum wage increases for workers in the tourism industry, despite objections from business leaders who warned that the region is already facing a slowdown in international travel.
The proposal, billed by labor leaders as the highest minimum wage in the country, would require hotels with more than 60 rooms, as well as companies doing business at Los Angeles International Airport, to pay their workers $30 per hour by 2028.
That translates to a 48% hike in the minimum wage for hotel employees over three years. Airport workers would see a 56% increase.
On top of that, hotels and airport businesses would be required to provide $8.35 per hour for their workers’ healthcare by July 2026.
Florida Surgeon General on Covid Scams: “There Has Been No Accountability”
May 14th, 2025.@FLSurgeonGen Dr. Joe Ladapo and I discussed the state of medical freedom, COVID accountability, and the Make America Healthy Again Movement. pic.twitter.com/Dd3dpBaDDh
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) May 14, 2025
Tesla Optimus Robot
May 14th, 2025Was just getting warmed up https://t.co/dN6rSXiLVS pic.twitter.com/JbJ8TxyaAz
— Tesla Optimus (@Tesla_Optimus) May 14, 2025
When DoD Releases Incident With Russian Jet vs. When DoD Releases a UFO/UAP Video
May 13th, 2025*chortle*
When DoD Releases Incident With Russian Jet vs. When DoD Releases a UFO/UAP Video
— John Greenewald, Jr. (@blackvaultcom) May 9, 2025
