Plant output is not measured in GWh, it's measured in GW - it's instantaneous power. If you don't get that simple detail right, why trust the rest of your analysis?

Funny, I searched Google for "Now you canâ(TM)t even if you try and search it as a quote" (also, please fix your "smart quotes") and your post was the only result. Seems like you CAN search an obscure sentence and find the exact page it is on without news and products.

Christ, kneejerk much? Why the fuck would Biden give money to a company to open plants in Canada (and which "state" is offering incentives for this)? You know that's not the country Biden is the president of, right? Well, don't get pesky facts get in the way of your tribalistic hate, if something doesn't fit your narrative then just invent some "alternative facts" -- it's a real timesaver!

Of course! When the summary says "attract troves of health-care professionals" they don't mean doctors and nurses, they mean the armies of middlemen who simultaneously get between you and your doctor and suck money from the system that could be used to pay ACTUAL care providers. When they say "Nashville is an established health center" they mean a health industry LEECH center not a locus of quality healthcare.

Oh they're real all right, just ingest one of those feathered CIA spy drones into your ducted fan and see how real they are. I hear that bird framework is made of titanium so that's not going to mesh well with the carbon fiber propellers of these VTOL aircraft.

I don't know where you live, but in the USA you would pay less taxes filing jointly rather than singly. You get an extra $12k deduction when filing jointly, sheltering your income from taxation. Additionally, the tax brackets are higher when filing jointly so you'll end up paying a lower tax rate overall. If your wife filed her own tax return she would have no tax liability (since she has no income) but your single return would have much higher taxes. Really, this is the exact situation the filing jointly option is designed to address, when there is a large disparity in income between spouses.

I was going to post something similar. The only thing that historically has kept those with power in check (kings, tyrants, etc.) is that they needed members of the 99% to provide force and labor to maintain that power. Those providing the force could always seize power for the people (if idealistic) or themselves (if pragmatic) when the tyranny gets too bad.

You talk about the 99% living in horrifying squalor, but that's really the best case result. Once robots can run their factories and fight their battles there's no reason to keep the 99% around at all. An AI-designed plague to which the 1% are already immune would take care of that pesky problem of having to see and smell all those impoverished people living in squalor. OK, so that last bit is stretching a bit but certainly in the realm of possibility once those who currently control the vast majority of resources realize they no longer need the 99% to maintain their lifestyle. Once billionaires control their personal robot armies, guillotines and "2nd amendment solutions" are no longer viable.

Huh? EVs are usually heavier than comparable cars and use similar tires. Stopping distance is determined by weight and traction and EVs don't seem to have any advantages over an ICE car. Doing a little research it looks like Consumer Reports said the Tesla Model 3 had longer braking distance than comparable cars. At any rate, if that type of behavior is prevalent where you live you should probably invest in a dashcam.

Exactly, even with his made-up numbers it doesn't check out:

it costs "hundreds of thousands of jobs" and "more than one billion in theatrical ticket sales."

Even if that "one billion" in ticket sales was DIRECTLY paid to employees (no middlemen, no profit, just jobs) then each of his theorized jobs (call it 200,000, the lowest possible value for "hundreds of thousands of jobs") would only be paid $5000 each (1,000,000,000/200,000). The billion dollar loss is pure fabrication and even if it wasn't then it wouldn't support the jobs he claims were lost.

You do have access to the world's information at your fingertips, but don't let that stop you from asking what you could easily know. From https://www.intel.com/content/...

This has enabled the Arizona site to return and restore more than 100% of its Arizona freshwater use to the community and local watersheds, achieving net positive water in 2021 and 2022.

Why do workers deserve more money because of productivity increases? The productivity improvements have been due to automation and computerization, not due to people working harder or better. In fact, the average weekly hours continues to drop, people are working less for the same salary. The employees didn't outlay any capital to buy this automation and didn't take any risk to implement it, so why should they receive the rewards?

Say a factory has 100 employees and puts out $1 million worth of goods each year and each person gets a $10k/yr salary. If the company owner buys a bunch of robots and the factory now only has 1 employee, does that employee now deserve $1M/yr since their "productivity" just increased 100x? They aren't doing more work, they didn't invest in the automation, they just continued to do their job but now they think they deserve a lot more money for the same work. Those who demand more pay just because a productivity number is higher are being unrealistic.

That being said, if the work you do is making your employer a lot of money you have significant negotiation leverage and if you aren't being paid commensurate with your contribution then you should renegotiate or take your talents elsewhere. If your skillset can easily be replaced by a machine or AI then you will have less leverage and should try to skill up in areas that aren't as easily automated.

It's been in front of a judge. They had a search warrant demanding the information, who do you think authorizes search warrants? Funnily, the authorities are almost always authoritarians and don't see any problem with invasive dragnets since "it's for your own good".

Good thing they are also granting money to TSMC to build an Arizona fab. Having a diverse domestic chip supply is a good thing for our national security and our economy in general.

The Nigerians are just mad that the crypto bros are better scammers. This is just one street gang taking out another one.

They also got this wrong:

the researchers coated the zinc anode of the battery with bismuth metal, which oxidizes to form rust.

Rust is IRON oxide, just because some process is oxidation or corrosion doesn't mean it is "rust"