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Cake day: January 18th, 2020

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  • I really don’t. The purpose of the US military industrial complex is to soak up as much tax money as possible and put it back in the hands of the oligarchs. Stockpiling arms goes directly against this principle because it requires maintaining factories, and weapons stores, curating supply chains, hiring many workers, and so on. All of that translates into costs. A much better approach is to create projects like F35 which are built in artisanal batches over many years, and require expensive maintenance contracts for function. You can suck up billions for each toy you deliver, and you don’t have to ramp up large scale production.

    Other statistic indirectly show just how pitiful the industrial base in the US really is. For example, only 192,474 of American students pursue engineering degrees our of 3 million total degrees, a mere 6.4%. Not only that, but only 37% of students begin an engineering career after completing an engineering degree. The number of engineers acts as a proxy for technicians, skilled workers, and a general industrial capacity.

    The lack of engineering talent is the reason Raytheon had to get retirees back to restart missile production.














  • I think the trick has to be that somebody who has a bit of technical skill sets the laptop up initially. I did this for my mom a while back, and once I set it up once, it just worked from there on. Non technical users tend to have a fairly small set of things they need to do like check email, browser the web, and play media. Once that’s working, they never need to change anything. In fact, they don’t want to change anything because they get used to the workflow, and they’re comfortable.

    It would be great if people set up community centres where people can bring their old laptops, and somebody switches them over to Linux for them.