I love AI, but calling it the biggest job creator since the highway seems like BS. AI currently allows me to do the job of a whole team of devs. I've worked in data centers and know that the amount of staff for square foot doesn't scream job creation. I dislike Sanders and AOC, but in all honesty, jobs are a real problem, the number of jobs available is going to fall off a cliff. This is what Andrew Yang used to talk about before TDS.
@DAGToddBlanche I saw you endorsed this but there is still no application available online. Can you speak on this executive order status please: https://t.co/UR9jJfmmJL
@esaagar Yeah because SLS is a monument to over priced government projects that was made to do one thing, and many years later adapted to do another thing. If you want to have a chuckle, compare the costs between Starship and SLS.
@esaagar As much as I love the South Korean people. Their government is the most corrupt that I know of in any modern civilization. Do a quick search of how many of their leaders have been arrested since their formation at the end of the Korean War.
@wholemars@hamids Just want to point out that due to the woke mind virus. Jaguar is no longer mass producing the Waymo. They took a sledgehammer to it.
Well this is new. Here is the answer asked in browser instead:
Flying exposes you to way more radiation than a TSA body scanner.Current TSA scanners (as of 2025–2026) use millimeter-wave technology — non-ionizing radio waves (like super-weak cell signals, thousands of times less energy than your phone). They add zero ionizing radiation dose. (Backscatter X-ray types were phased out in the US around 2013.)Even for the old backscatter scanners: one scan gave 0.03–0.1 μSv (microsieverts), roughly equal to 1–3 minutes of natural background radiation or **10–30 seconds** of flight-time cosmic radiation.Flying itself? Cosmic radiation at altitude hits ~0.003–0.008 μSv per minute (avg ~0.004–0.005 μSv/min). 2-hour flight: ~0.5–1 μSv
6-hour flight: ~10–20 μSv
Long-haul 10+ hours: 30–50+ μSv
One flight usually delivers 100–1,000× more ionizing radiation than any old scanner scan — or infinitely more than today's millimeter-wave ones.Bottom line: The plane ride is the real radiation source when traveling. The scanner? Negligible (or nonexistent now). Frequent flyers/crew get extra dose from flights, not security lines.(Refs: CDC, EPA, NCRP, AAPM reports — doses haven't changed meaningfully in recent years.)