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    The Next President is...

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    5 hours ago, ClearedHot said:

    Today, May 3rd in perhaps one of the tone def actions taken by the Biden administration (and that is saying something), the U.S. Department of Education announced an investigation of Emory University over...."Anti-Muslim discrimination."  Seriously, if you voted for this clown, punch yourself in the gonads, repeatedly.  Weeks of campus protests calling for genocide and the destruction of Israel...this is the response. 

    Anything to cancel student debt....

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    Money and Finance

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    12 hours ago, gearhog said:

    The FDIC just published this document regarding its preparations for the failure of a Global Systemically Important Banking (GSIB) organization headquartered in the U.S. with complex global operations.

    https://www.fdic.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/spapr1024b_0.pdf

    It basically outlines how the Sec of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and President will transfer all the assets to a Bridge Financial Company. I thought it interesting that they mention they plan to put the company into FDIC receivership on a Friday evening so as to be able to mobilize the plan and prevent a contagion by Monday morning.

    "The appointment as receiver late Friday afternoon would provide time, while most global financial markets are closed, to form a Bridge Financial Company, mobilize resources needed to conduct business beginning on Monday morning, and communicate with key constituencies (including employees, counterparties, and claimants) around the globe. The FDIC recognizes that a Friday night appointment may not be possible in all instances, and the timing will be highly dependent on the nature of the failing institution, how it fails, and market conditions at the time."

    The plan says it ensures that only claimants (shareholders and creditors) would incur losses and that US taxpayers would incur no liability. Translation: they'll print the money.

    "The ability of the FDIC and other regulatory authorities to manage the orderly resolution of large, complex financial institutions remains foundational to U.S. financial stability. While recognizing the progress that has been made toward enabling such a resolution and ending “too big to fail,” we also recognize that the resolution of a GSIB has not yet been undertaken. When it becomes necessary to do so, carrying out such a resolution will come with a unique set of challenges and risks."

    Any bets on who it's gonna be?

    UBS has a NYC Americas HQ, big HQ not USA, and...

    Switzerland says UBS may need more cash. The bank is fuming

    A year after the failure of Credit Suisse, the Swiss government says UBS may have to find as much as $27 billion to absorb potential losses and protect taxpayers from ever having to bail out a major bank, reports my colleague Hanna Ziady.

    Now, the giant Swiss lender is hitting back, saying its finances are robust and warning that the proposal could harm Switzerland’s standing as a global financial center.

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    Russian Ukraine shenanigans

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    9 hours ago, BashiChuni said:

    choose your fighter. i'd take the russian.

    INTERACTIVE-Ukraine-Russia-head-to-head.jpeg

    Yeah. About that. Pretty sure I'd take a coalitions' financial and operationally-ready weapons support to the tune of $278B as of Jan 24'....especially American and German tech, they seem historically kick-ass and dominant in lethality and effectiveness. 

    https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/these-countries-have-committed-the-most-aid-to-ukraine#:~:text=The majority of committed support,billion in aid to Ukraine.

     

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    World War III Updates

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    8 hours ago, Lawman said:


    What gets real crazy is when you start thinking about deconfliction of launch path/sequencin...

    Meh, Big Sky/Space theory...what could go wrong!?

    (/s) Also, do TBMs or ICBMs have ADS-B out? Or just in? Or not supposed to at all but it got included because that military didn't pay to remove that feature? (/s)

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    The Iran thread

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    8 minutes ago, uhhello said:

    Looks like Israel was just fibbing about waiting until after passover.  Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear facility locations just happened.  

    TRANSFER OF TRAFFIC BETWEEN TEHRAN FIR AND BAGHDAD FIR (ORBB)

    TEMPORARY SUSPENDED THEREFOR ALL AIR OPERATOR 

    ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO PLAN AND CONDUCT 

    ARRIVAING TRAFFIC FROM BAGHDAD FIR TO TEHRAN FIR AND 

    DEPARTING TRAFFIC FROM TEHRAN FIR TO BAGHDAD FIR

    https://www.notams.faa.gov/dinsQueryWeb/queryRetrievalMapAction.do?reportType=Raw&retrieveLocId=oiix&actionType=notamRetrievalbyICAOs

    Artificial Intelligence: Discussion and demonstrations

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    6 minutes ago, ViperMan said:

    @Danger41 is spot on. There is a lot of hype and misunderstanding about what AI is and about what it can do. The discussion about artificial general intelligence (AGI) is more theoretical. IMO AGI is not possible, because no matter how sophisticated the output seems, a computer is still just a really really fast abacus. In order to admit a computer into the realm of the "intelligent" you simultaneously need to admit an abacus into the same category. I don't think many people would be comfortable with that leap.

    Really the whole discipline suffers from having ever been associated with the word "intelligence" in the first place as it begets consciousness, which a computer can never be.

    What AI is going to do is make a lot of previously seemingly intractable problems solvable, but all it really is at rock bottom is advanced math (statistics) being applied to lots of high-dimensional data. Computers are good at solving things like that. People not so much. Once you understand that, the magic disappears.

    Perhaps because AGI needs an input, rather than already having a purpose. A purpose which is its reason or input-into-life's-abacus. 

    Also, any self-fulfilling purpose of an AGI is just scary because of its potential, speed, and limited understanding/control...which is what makes Terminator series so entertaining.

    Begs the question: does a street-smart AI = AGI? Or book smart?

    Logging Training Sim Time (C-130J)

    in General Discussion

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    22 hours ago, FourFans said:

    I’d have to defer to the sim cert team at LRF.  My knowledge dates to 2020.  That’s the last time I was in the know with those guys.  They’ve since PCS’d on.

    Well ain’t that about a bitch!  I got it put on my ticket in 2019.  Seems dumb not to have the equivalence.   Anyone here tried to get a 382J type recently? It felt like every all C-130E/H was utterly unique, while every J is exactly the same still.  Can’t see how a 382J would be any different than a C-130J.  I’ll bet it’s the block upgrades.  6.0 and 8.x are treated as different quals by the USAF.

    Peddle force augmented and some other nitnoid stuff 

    Bird Flu

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    Step next: lockdown/declare emergency, approve mail-in ballots, hell...just mail them out despite not being requested and then blue-wins "stolen" election again

    Rinse and repeat as needed...

     

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