>>4159211

I watched a few episodes of a show on NatGeo called Mars. It is astounding to me how much junk science and pure propaganda they have packed into this show. It alternates between future fiction, and present commentators including certain present day environments like the Arctic that are harsh for humans like Mars. Sad to say that the fiction is closer to reality than the real stuff.

They blow up climate change into this huge and dangerous thing, but the fact is that all their predictions about it have FAILED. They talk about diseases and plagues as big issues, but everything from SARS to Zika to Ebola has just been a flash in the pan, mainly with localized effects except for the theatre that they surround it with.

It really is disgusting stuff. I won't let my kid watch this kind of thing because I want them to learn some science, not a bunch of propaganda. If the scientific method isn't front and center then it is not science, it is politics.

>>4159226

Yep, she has it nailed.

>>4159374

Night Shift on duty

P.S. Someone commissioned this painting from her.

>>4159378

I think that the government has seized controlling interest in Google, Amazon and others, and is exercising it in a subtle, and gentle way to steer them away from their earlier course, but to not disrupt their businesses and their roles in the economy.

With Amazon, it seems to be that the military is taking over AWS, because it cannot stand as a monopoly in the industry it is in. But it works fine as a private military cloud where you actually WANT to not use standards too closely because incompatibility with the commercial world can improve security. Otherwise they would build fighter planes by ordering parts from the Boeing catalog.

As for Google, I think they have some insiders in management, and they are taking a more market-based approach by responding to market demands. There are two main markets, one the developers who build stuff, and now Google is shifting away from military projects because thats what their market of employees is demanding. The other is the users and customers who are finding Google more focused one what they have, and less focused on new projects and pie-in-the-sky stuff. You can see them beginning to pull in their horns a bit.

By the time the antitrust lawsuits hit everyone, the most critical of these companies will be seen to be prepared for a breakup without falling apart.