Richard Fliam

[Richard Fliam @zbobet2012]

@Plinz Agreed. I see a more rigorous definition being required. Equivalence needs learning efficiency not just outputs though. A child learns language with ~10^6 less exposure than an LLM. This efficiency is the continual learning gap. See Chollet's On the Measure of Intelligence (2019)

[Richard Fliam @zbobet2012]

@John_A_Ridge The Army will have to do something it hasn't in a generation of soldiers, maybe more. Conceptualize a complete strategic weapons system, or system of systems as you say. But not only that, procure parts of it.

[Richard Fliam @zbobet2012]

@John_A_Ridge The armies deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan have left it incapable of understanding the battlefield as one of technology as well. As precision and smart munitions become cheap enough to target individual soldiers, and the land domain involves more and more electronics 2/

[Richard Fliam @zbobet2012]

@John_A_Ridge @oftenwrongsorry I hope it's the Courts and not the administration, but I suspect it's going to be a flat out refusal to follow court orders. You suspect the same thing I think.

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.

I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.

My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.

That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.

Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.

It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.

I want to tune out.

But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.

And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.

That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.

For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.

The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.

It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!

But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.

It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.

We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.

That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.

Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.

And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. https://t.co/eHFZ723I4H

[Richard Fliam @zbobet2012]

@John_A_Ridge I'm a liberal. The default position of liberals is skepticism towards supporting any war. That's why the left has been drawn so many times towards a default of ukrainian's surrender. What you've said is objectively correct.

[Mueller, She Wrote @MuellerSheWrote]

THREAD: Despite the overwhelming support for telling my story, I want to address some of the pushback I've received from Republicans on this site. First, "This is pure propaganda. Florida has exceptions for rape. You support killing babies so much you’re willing to lie to unsuspecting people about it." 1/

[Richard Fliam @zbobet2012]

@JoohnChoe Velocity helps deal with drop marginally at range, as it relates to barrel length. And it does matter for kind of maximum range when you go subsonic, But the principal gain in accuracy from a longer barrel is actually from the increased rate of spin.

[Richard Fliam @zbobet2012]

@JoohnChoe As a fellow liberal who knows guns, amen. The AR-15 has become a virtue signaling device for a bunch of people who probably never spent a single full day at a gun range.

One note though, longer barrels don't increase accuracy because of velocity, but because of increased spin.

[Konstantin Toropin @KToropin]

NEW: @Pentagon PresSec says that the USS Bulkeley and USS Cole fired about “a dozen interceptors” against the about 200 ballistic missiles that targeted several locations in Israel.

Ryder said that he wasn’t “going to get into this specific type of ordinance” the destroyers used

[Richard Fliam @zbobet2012]

@John_A_Ridge Yep and even an intercepted ballistic missile can cause serious civilian casualties. While the actual target may be protected, which is often military, given these are are targeted directly into the core of major cities, you can expect casualties related to intercepted missiles.

[Michael Kofman @KofmanMichael]

@Tatarigami_UA In many of these lessons learned efforts I suspect USG is not benefitting from work that has already been done. There is also a tendency to learn that which is not true from this war, or to take validating lessons that confirm what folks already believe, or have invested in.

[Richard Fliam @zbobet2012]

@Andercot You're ignoring that economic growth can happen without new energy production. Increasing the efficiency of processes also triggers economic growth. If the amount of power consumed in the production chain for my semiconductors falls by 2X, then the economy has grown.

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

oh my god

[Richard Fliam @zbobet2012]

@MarkHal87606381 @Tatarigami_UA @3CKSTR You're replying to a Ukrainian, his country was obliterated and then systematically oppressed. The US was far from the only country not obliterated, it choose paths that strengthened it and the world.

[Richard Fliam @zbobet2012]

@John_A_Ridge @daAAguy5460 I'd say this is actually a weird question because the two missile defense systems that would be facing each other would be China's land-based system and the USA AEGIS systems which are just if not more sophisticated.

[Richard Fliam @zbobet2012]

@John_A_Ridge @docinkc Remember nearly all wars end at the negotiating table. World War II has given too many folks the impression that wars are commonly won with the complete defeat of one party.

[Rob Lee @RALee85]

Given that Ukraine has pulled units from the Pokrovsk, Toretsk, and Chasiv Yar fronts—the most difficult parts of the front line—it is pretty clear that Ukraine is not pursuing limited objectives in its Kursk operation.