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For an Entire CITY!!! Examples: New York City: 7,660 (of a total of 12,460) signalized intersections are controlled by a central computer network and monitored by traffic management centers. Toronto: 83% of its signals are controlled by the Main Traffic Signal System (MTSS). 15% also use the SCOOT (Split Cycle and Offset Optimization Technique), an adaptive signal control system. Sydney: 3,400 traffic signals co-ordinated by the Sydney Co-ordinated Adaptive Traffic System (SCATS). Designed and developed by RTA, the system was first introduced in 1963 and progressively developed since then. By October 2010, SCATS was licensed to 33,200 intersections in 144 cities across 24 countries worldwide, including Singapore, Hong Kong, Dublin, Tehran and Minneapolis and Detroit. Melbourne: 3,200 traffic lights across Victoria, including regional areas such as Geelong and Ballarat, using SCATS. Some 500 intersections also have tram and bus priority. Adelaide: 580 sets of coordinated traffic lights throughout the metropolitan region managed by the Adelaide Coordinated Traffic Signal (ACTS) System. I presume these systems are hardened with backups but my point was that we have created dependencies on complex tech. .

Take out computers controlling the traffic lights if a major city, what will happen? There are videos of Russia's Aeroflot having problems right now. But how crappy is the technology really? I had to write my own benchmarks at IBM to find that the new computer was slower than the one it was replacing. .

Personal survival or collective social survival? How much technology do you use every day that you do not understand? How smart were the individuals who invented it? Would there be 8 billion people on the planet today without those kinds individuals? Now we have economists who will not talk about the depreciation of technology that they do not understand. I asked a PhD economist to explain how a gas engine worked. He said nothing. He drove a white SUV. Is this vast "Not Knowing" part of the problem NOW? .

9/11 isn't obvious? 🤣 Amazingly Dumb!? https://elleyotter.home.blog/2018/02/27/book-review-under-a-graveyard-sky-black-tide-rising-1-by-john-ringo/ Great Fun if you can handle Ringo Jingoism. Pseudo-Zombies galore, smarter than Trump. Under a Graveyard Sky by John Ringo 5 free chapters https://www.baen.com/Chapters/9781451639193/9781451639193.htm But you need to be able to dance and shoot in time to rock & roll.

I am not going to dispute with you about YOUR REALITIES. To me, people who can Believe that a 200 ton airliner including the 34 tons of jet fuel (mostly kerosene) can totally destroy a 500,000 ton building without even thinking about the distribution of steel do not comprehend enough about Physical Reality to go into details about much stuff with. .

What about the simulations in my mind where an airliner cannot destroy the North Tower? How real is that? But I don't have accurate data on the distribution of steel down the Tower. Physical modeling is interesting though. WTC Modeling Instruction & Testing .

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I would use the word PHYSICS but that covers a lot by itself.

Yep, can't trust those Black guys, they might get uppity!

If they were caught. Suppose 5 Generals with 100 underlings decided to do it. Could they arrange it without being caught. And then how many would like to do it but don't have the guts? Would they help or obstruct an investigation? Then there is that unpredictable Patriotism factor. It is not difficult to see that the Preztard has already screwed up the country that would take more than a decade to fix if it can be done at all. Some people might not care if they get caught. I have gotten lots of likes on the subject on BlueSky. 75% of the population scores below 111 on the Idiot Quotient tests.

And I NeVeR said anything about a coup! I find it amusing and confusing that so many people jump to that conclusion. The last few months I have just been thinking about a A-10 Warthog flying over a golf course. Do it in such a way that no one doubted that it was a US military action. Every political idiot that follows should get the message. Do NOT Fuck with the Constitution. The Oath ain't No Joke! We will take Your Ass Out! .

They voted him in and how many are pissed off at him now. There have been posts coming up on BlueSky about his administration lying about economic data since this morning. Saying US economic data as unreliable as China. I was talking about the military doing something about Trump in November: .

Which White people? Not long after the Vietnam War I began thinking that the way to revolt against the palefaces was to get young White kids to do it. Now they have created this Gen-Z problem: crappy jobs, high prices and no one ever explained to them what is going on. Now a lot of them voted for Trump expecting, I don't know what. Tell them things that they can verify for themselves. The economics profession handed their parents a load of bullshit, and are still talking bullshit. .

The road to serfdom is paved with BMWs.

Everybody needs to stop believing in Euro-American delusional economics. The Laws of Physics do not care about anybody and White people are turning the planet's natural resources into garbage while ignoring the depreciation. https://chevan.info/depreciation-rules-transfer-wealth-up/

What exactly constitutes AI generated these days. Are you saying that all the verbiage attributed to both parties was computer generated?

I had to put it somewhere.

DIMocrats! Why wasn't Trump in jail and unable to run in 1974. There is too much stupid bullshit in American politics to want to pay enough attention to keep up with what is happening. Politicians all spew out bullshit. .

We can never have enough pseudo-intellectual bullshit. .

Aren't the Irish and the English different ethnicities? Do they look different? How about Italians and Germans? How about Swedes and Australian Aborigines.

This is turning into a stupid word game. You cannot claim that different groups of human beings do not look different. It is simply a matter of what you call them. If race and breed are unacceptable then what are you suggesting?

If we said Breeds of humans instead of Race would that accomplish something?

Whose screen? Where did you get the concept of "screen"?

Human stupidity can only make it worse faster and Africa is sitting on the equator. Trump is making things worse in some ways. But his tanking the economy might be good for the environment. They are already talking about reduced airline flights. 🤣 I know that we cannot destroy the planet. I said "wreck"! I do not know how difficult and uncomfortable we can make things for humans and still survive. We could take the population down to 500,000,000 with no risk of extinction but what shape will the rest of the biosphere be in by then? I do not really give a shit about the existence of the planet if humans are extinct. .