<div dir="auto">John the ballroom doesnt use federal money so that one is irrelevant. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"> Regarding ultra expensive battleships, do you know why modern battleships are ultra expensive? Do you know what they carry? </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">When you hear the term battleship, do you envision the Swedish battleship Vasa? Or the mighty USS Missouri? Or something with a resemblance to those predecessors which ends in that that all three have hulls? </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Why do you suppose modern battleship designs exist? How do you suppose modern battle drones are deployed and recovered? What defensive systems do you imagine? How do you suppose they can get into places carriers and ancient battleships such as the Missouri cannot go?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">spike</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 22, 2026, 1:40 PM John Clark <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Tue, May 19, 2026 at 8:52 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>Oh this is cool. It is pointless to try to pick a winner in a horse race when most of the horses win.</i></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i>Dario and Elon have teamed up. They tag teamed and beat up the law industry:</i></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><a href="https://metatrends.substack.com/p/tracking-the-singularity-week-of-8a5?r=ch1ue" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://metatrends.substack.com/p/tracking-the-singularity-week-of-8a5?r=ch1ue</a></i></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i>Is this a cool time to be living, or what?</i></font></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>That was very interesting thanks for posting it<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">;</span><span class="gmail_default"> and it's certainly true that we live in interesting times, especially relevant was the following: </span> </b></font></div><div><br></div><i><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b>"</b></span><b>The Taiwan risk is real: Two-thirds of all GPUs come through TSMC. If anything disrupts production (an earthquake, <u>a military conflic</u>t, even a prolonged drought affecting the island’s water-intensive chip fabrication), <u>our AI future grinds to a halt</u>. Intel instantly becomes the most valuable asset on the planet. TeraFab is a national security hedge for the entire Western AI stack.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"</span></b></font></i></div><div class="gmail_quote"><i><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></i></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>That's another reason why starting<span class="gmail_default"> </span>the Iran war<span class="gmail_default"> was so incredibly stupid, it distracts us from the vastly more important China-Taiwan situation. China has wanted to attack Taiwan for 70 years and if they're ever going to do so now would be the perfect time to do it. That's because although the war with Iran hasn't been going on for very long it's been long enough for the US military to be stretched beyond the breaking point. Iran doesn't matter. Taiwan does. </span></b></font></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div><a href="https://time.com/article/2026/05/12/US-ammunition-shortage-iran-war/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>The U.S. is Facing an Ammunition Shortage Due to the Iran War</b></font></a></div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">And instead of building more </b><b style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">Tomahawks<span class="gmail_default"> and vast numbers of </span></b><b style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"><span class="gmail_default">cheap </span>drones<span class="gmail_default">,</span> the president wants to bring back ultra expensive<span class="gmail_default"> </span>battleships!<span class="gmail_default">!</span> And of course there is the all important billion dollar ballroom, and <span class="gmail_default">his</span> new billion dollar slush fund.</b></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b> John K Clark</b></font></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div></div></div>
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