Ohhhhhh shiiiiiiiit!!
ANDURIL & QUALCOMM ARE TEAMING UP TO BUILD 🇺🇸AMERICAN-MADE LAPTOPS
The two companies are launching BlueChip, a new venture focused on rugged, waterproof laptops for the U.S. military, government agencies, police, and first responders, per WSJ.
The laptops will be assembled at Anduril's Arsenal-1 facility in Ohio, powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X chips manufactured by TSMC in Arizona.
Anduril founder Palmer Luckey says roughly 90% of the planned components already come from the U.S. and allied countries, with the goal of eventually making the entire laptop in America, including its display and other components currently sourced overseas.
The focus is on building secure computers with fully traceable supply chains, reducing dependence on foreign manufacturing for national-security applications.
Pricing hasn't been announced, but Luckey estimates the laptops will cost around 20% more than typical high-end PCs, with the first models expected in 2027.
Save this tweet people…sure to not age well
Verizon's CEO said today that SpaceX will need at least 4-6 years and $300B-$500B to fully build out its @Starlink Mobile U.S. carrier network:
"Their service just can't compete with a terrestrial network. In suburban and urban areas, where 98% of our revenues are, we're somewhere between 100x–1,000x more efficient than they are. We know exactly what they're going to do. We know who they're talking to on towers. There's no magic wand. There's no secret sauce. There's no shortcut.
They're going to look at 65,000–80,000 macro sites. They're going to need backhaul, RAN, and a tremendous amount of spectrum. It's going to take a minimum of four to six years to fully build that out. It's going to cost hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars, I assume somewhere between $300 billion and $500 billion.
Then they need to build retail, customer service, back office systems, et cetera. All of that gets them basically the same network and same capabilities and same cost structure as what we have today. Then sometime over the next four to six years, they have the possibility of becoming the sixth, not the fourth, the sixth competitor in the market.
You can be sure over these next three to five years or six years, we are not going to be standing still. Four to five years from now, we will be two to three generations better than where we are today. We will have high-speed broadband gig-plus coverage across the country with our millimeter wave. We are ahead of most people and already experimenting with what 6G applications will look like."
(via Verizon's Q3 earnings call earlier this morning)
Hell yeah
Mossberg just put 20 ROUNDS OF 12 GAUGE into a short-barrel shotgun.
And I have questions.
The Mossberg 590RM Chisel has an 11.5-inch barrel.
Magazine-fed.
Folding stock.
AR-style safety.
And a 20-round magazine that looks completely ridiculous hanging off something this small.
It's like dropping a Hellcat engine into a Mini Cooper.
It shouldn't make sense.
But somehow it does.
And here's the part I wasn't expecting.
This thing genuinely made me feel like a kid again.
Every time I picked it up, I kept saying the same word.
COOL.
Not sophisticated.
Not revolutionary.
Just cool.
And sometimes that's enough.
Here's my question:
Would you choose a compact 20-round shotgun over a traditional tube-fed shotgun?
And if you're loading 20 rounds…
BUCKSHOT or SLUGS?
Full review on my YouTube channel.
Replying to @grok
@grok is this real?
Sam…muthafuckin…Walton
Legend
Sam Walton built Walmart and at one point became the richest man in America. He drove the same base-model 1979 Ford pickup until the day he died, with his hunting dogs in the back.
By 1979 Walmart was already doing a billion dollars in sales. That's the year he walked into a local Ford dealer and bought an F-150 Custom, the entry-level trim. Four-speed manual.
People kept asking why a billionaire drove a pickup. His answer: "What am I supposed to haul my dogs around in, a Rolls-Royce?"
Four lessons in one old truck.
Buy for the job, not the image. He needed to carry dogs to the hunt and drive between stores. A pickup did both.
Drive it until it's worn out, not until it's out of style. He kept it for 13 years. By the end the truck bed had rusted through, because the dogs in the back did what dogs do.
Status is the most expensive option on any car. He said he didn't believe a big showy lifestyle was appropriate. The money stayed in the business.
Habits get passed down. His daughter Alice was named the world's richest woman by Forbes in 2018. She drove a Ford F-150 too.
The twist: his truck now sits in the Walmart Museum in Bentonville. Visitors are encouraged to touch the door handle. Legend says it passes on the gift of frugality.
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JUST IN: Google forced to halt work in Finland after illegally clearing 250,000 trees for a new data center, according to the Guardian.
Every tree that occupied the 815-acre site just a few months ago is now gone.
The Finnish Licensing and Supervision Authority (LVV) has ordered Google to stop work on the Muhos and Otanmäki sites after it cut down the trees before the environmental impact assessment was completed.
Google’s Finland manager, Antti Järvinen, has apologized but says they were acting on "the best understanding we had of the legislation at the time."
Muhos and Otanmäki are a $17 billion Google AI project.
President Trump has criticized Google for taking the projects overseas instead of investing in the United States.
The balkanization of America has entered phase 2
Colorado town to become walled city after installing gates to prevent people from coming through—Colorado is a SANCTUARY STATE
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