And because where income is high, cost of living is high, and the marginal cost of children goes from "investment in the future" to "big hole I sink money into".

No, it's more like "the government has to follow its own rules".

So tell me that's what's been happening over the past few months? Beautiful tariffs introduced and withdrawn on a whim, deportations by the US equivalent of the Gestapo (they tick most of the boxes) on a whim, DOGE destruction spearheaded by someone the anointed one is now considering deporting - that is just skimming the surface.

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Federalise the techs? (I think that's the expression)

You won't find lawyers prepared to disbar other ambulance chasers over such such a "triviality". I wonder if the other lawyer (or his/her paralegal) should have noticed, that would have killed the case then and there.

This is mostly about Donald and his tendency to unilaterally break conventions. Europeans are worried about backdoors mandated by His Highness on a whim, although that is also a problem with the British and the French.

I checked and it seems I had already disabled Gemini. I can't remember having done so but will presumably have done it as soon as I knew what it was - normal Luddite behaviour for me.

Their population absolutely dwarfs Canada and the US as well, so that isn't much good, is it?

BTW, remember the secret of Ti Kwon Leap- Anger is a weapon only to one's opponent.

I still think we need, given the microamps involved, a hamster powered cell phone charger.

Yes it is. Radioactive materials are made in the planet's core, and float up in the magma. Radon Gas is a normal and natural resource from decaying uranium.

It's as renewable as sunlight and wind.

Difficult is not equal to impossible. Heat can be used to boil working fluids, which can be used to drive turbines, which can create energy, which can in turn be used to run AI chips, which give off heat, which can then also be harvested to boil working fluids...Not really a perpetual motion machine, but the inefficiency in the system can be used to suck more heat out of the heat pumps anyway. Inefficiency in this case is a feature.

My answer to environmentalists claiming this is "You first". Stop being hypocrites, eliminate your own fossil fuel usage- including wasting fossil fuels storing articles like this in data centers.

Would this be the same China that is building coal fired plants at a rate of 95MW a year?

Nuclear power is a renewable.

Fission and fusion are replacements, carbon free.