Income and wealth inequality are not new. In fact, economists and historians who have charted economic inequality throughout history haven’t found a single society without it. Which raises a bleak question: is inequality… inevitable? Explore how economic inequality can be measured and how it is impacted by different governmental policy choices.
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One day around 15,000 years ago, a wall of ice 2,000 feet tall and 30 miles wide suddenly broke wide open, and it unleashed the largest flood that we know of in the history of Earth. Come and hit the road with me as we search for the geologic fingerprints of the Missoula Ice Age Floods, and learn the story of one of the worst natural disasters that’s ever happened!
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He can’t be serious!
While Boston Dynamics has promised never to weaponize its robots, Chinese defense contractor Kestrel Defence has never promised such a thing. Here is a video showing their Blood-Wing/Red Wing drone deploying a robotic war dog, and yes, that is a machine gun you see armed on top of the robodog. Video embedded below:
Blood-Wing, a Chinese defense contractor, demonstrates drone-deploying an armed robodog.
The Future is Now. pic.twitter.com/tRKnKa8xvp
— Lia Wong (@LiaWongOSINT) October 4, 2022
“War dogs descending from the sky, air assault, Red Wing Forward heavy-duty drones deliver combat robot dogs, which can be directly inserted into the weak link behind the enemy to launch a surprise attack or can be placed on the roof of the enemy to occupy the commanding heights to suppress firepower, and ground troops conduct a three-dimensional pincer attack on the enemy in the building.”
Do you want Skynet? Because that’s definitely how you get Skynet at a certain point in the future and the downfall of the human race.
[Via BIS]
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