Frequently the attitude towards equipment is that it can be sold once they're done with it. Particularly specialized equipment might sit a little longer but that's built in to the calculation.
There's a bottleneck in hiring skilled workers to run that equipment, and time to get that equipment up and running. It can take months from when the equipment is in the building before it's making parts, up to a year for very sensitive equipment. And troubleshooting it to get it working at capacity takes even longer.
Which is great, if you need time to find people to run it, but usually those skilled workers already have jobs, and there are only so many available in any given area. Even if you have them available you're stuck paying them for months before you're ready to put them to work.
It's high risk and it takes a long time to pay off. A miscalculation is the end of the CEOs career and may bankrupt the company. The first to pull it off though will be in a great spot, assuming it's not a bubble and it doesn't burst. Manufacturers are going to want some solid guarantees before taking the plunge. Optimally they want someone else to pay for it. They may actually be negotiating with these companies now about funding their expansion.
One of my senators is a trust fund baby who started out in venture capital. My other senator insists on receiving fucking faxes. Neither respond to constituents.
My congressman, famous coward Don Bacon, is retiring to take a lobbying job at a defense contractor and was never receptive to feedback anyway. On account of being a coward and all.
The problem is, the models are really good at some things. We've been using these things since before chat gpt hit the market. It's identified tumors, cured a dog of cancer evidently, and with adversarial training beat the AI that beat the chess master in a matter of hours.
This is one of those disruptive technologies that isn't going back in the bottle. We're stuck with this crap.
(Note: I was convinced the dog cancer vaccine thing was bullshit but there's quite a bit of actual data, a fucking tech bro actually did it.)
99% of the "solutions" to agricultural waste and carbon emissions are proposed with absolutely no input from anyone with even a sliver of experience in farming.
A lot of people grew up being bullied, turned on a show that was supposed to appeal to them, only to be bullied again. 90% of the jokes are "hey look how fucking stupid these nerds are for liking nerd things." The remaining 10% is sexist or ignoring Penny's crippling alcoholism.
It was an attack on a culture of people, rather than the celebration of that culture it pretended to be. That's why people hate it.
I'd love an emulator so I could play it on my phone. Retroarch doesn't have a core, and as far as I can tell an android capable emulator doesn't exist.
This is one of those fun conspiracy theories that is harmless, and can't be argued against because you can always just say "SEE THEY'VE CONVINCED YOU TOO!"
It's not, we can prove that marketing does in fact impact sales, but it's fun nonetheless.
Because the entire army went home, the US wouldn't allow them to work in security, fired many of those that were working in security, and then did a big ole surprise Pikachu when the army just kind of became an insurgency.
I was getting some melting wafers the other day and grabbed a bag of Ghirardelli, which has been pretty reliable in the past. I didn't catch that they were "chocolate flavored" wafers until I was at checkout. Chocolate was the 8th ingredient.
Dig even deeper for oil you say?