My first explanation would be offerings. The rarity of those crops in the area would mean they were more valuable and therefor likely to be used as offerings.
edit: Or heck, maybe they wanted to keep it away from wildlife or invaders.
This was the point I made in another comment here. My bet is the US deployed the weapon and accidentally sickened their own people. So of course they play stupid and deny that any such tech could exist.
> but that kind of person can't get a security clearance or get taken seriously by the State Department.
This feels similar to the early Area 51 law suits which were thrown out because the government denied the facility existed. I feel that yes, the government was aware of the situation but downplayed it because they have something to hide.
My tin foil hat explanation is that the US government was fully aware of what was happening. Why is unknown though I could guess that A. the US denied knowledge of such weapons to give plausible deniability which leads to B. The US deployed such a weapon on premises to use/test against Cubans and inadvertently sickened their own people in an accident.
I don't doubt Cuba could initiate such an attack but I find it very unlikely the US would be befuddled when the US government along with others have developed and experimented with sonic weapons. Given the recent trends towards more authoritarian governments these weapons are easy to deploy against citizens. This article was posted to hn recently: https://earshotngo.substack.com/p/sonic-attack-on-a-silent-v...
> where generations have grown up opening baseball card packs and blind boxes and bags, and then trading and selling the items they receive.
Which honestly is also a grift to get kids to spend their parents cash on objects that in reality have no real value. The loop hole is the trading aspect and the fact that you aren't really gambling but simply buying a pack of cards. It just so happens that some packs may contain "valuable" collector cards. That is by design to create artificial scarcity and stir FOMO in the collectors who rush out and spend big money trying to find the rare cards.
This law seems to finally be the home-run for big-tech which kills the open internet and open software. Gone are the days of connecting random machines to a global network and fling IP packets into the ether. Now its attestation at the device level which plays right into the hands of Apple, Google and Microsoft - companies designing and building walled gardens.
This reminds me a of recent conversation I had with a friend about the success of Roblox. The big thing my friend said that Roblox has over Fortnight or any other gaming platform is ease of installation.
He told me how their young cousin came to visit and wanted to play Roblox. He told his little cousin he didn't have Roblox and that he would have to download and install it. The young child eagerly replied "It's super easy! let me show you!" So he let his cousin on to his PC. In less than 3 minutes he installed a small client, signed in, download the game files and was playing.
My friend was surprised and said Epic is struggling with this very problem and knows Roblox is successful precisely because of this ease of deployment. This is the same reason Discord is popular: you hop in, create an account and off you go. For Epic, Unreal Engine games are gigabytes in size and games are dependencies of other games built on top such as expansion packs. e.g. to play a Lego expansion pack game you need to buy and install the base Lego game. Roblox avoids this and the game files are small and fast to download.
> Huang contends that the AI boom will create a vast number of skilled, well-paid blue-collar jobs—such as electricians, plumbers, and steelworkers—rather than simply eliminating white-collar roles.
It appears that inside Huang's reality bubble lives a fantasy where we will build AI data centers in perpetuity. While in reality, the workers will be busy for the duration of the construction projects then furloughed. It's all temporary short term growth thinking where the only thing that matters is Nvidia's growth and by extension, Huang's ego.
You have no idea how many otherwise well meaning financial/professional advice 'influencers' are touting exactly the same thing.
Want a job that AI won't take? Learn a trade! Like, they all think the immaculate future is humans doing difficult painful sweaty jobs.
And what's worse is just because the shit isn't automated yet doesn't mean it won't be in the next five years. We already have the tech to perform surgery remotely, and the exoskeltons and robots are only getting more fidelity in smaller frames.
I fix everything I can. This past summer my Pelonis table fan fell and broke its base. I took a piece of water damaged wood shelf (veneered plywood) that I saved and used a jigsaw to cut a new base which I screwed to the bottom of the broken fan base. It works and the wood adds a little weight so its less prone to wobble. Two objects saved from the trash.
edit: Or heck, maybe they wanted to keep it away from wildlife or invaders.
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