But first they use their market power to crush the original innovator by subsidizing competition to extinguish the competition, or simply buy it up.

No, it is based on the observed, not assumed, stability of the caesium oscillation. This is directly observed by comparing multiple caesium clocks, and seeing them drift out of alignment. No assumption of perfection is involved anywhere.

And if you shift the vertical distance of your watch by 5 mm you will be out of sync with the ion clock due to the difference in gravitational time dilation.

Despite very credible allegations, Biden was never convicted of raping raping Tara Reade. And his daughter's recollections of him inappropriately showering with her outlasted any statute of limitations. But I see where you're going, there. The rest is a good fit, right down to the weaponized government, for sure. The plot twist is that the real kingpins are behind the scenes, using him as a puppet. It's good villain story line material fresh from real life.

"Weather alerts, flood, tornado, etc. should be able to wake people up."

They're already *able* to wake people up. What do you do about people not wanting to be woken up who silence their phones? Do you pass legislation making it illegal for phones to be able to silence certain alerts? Okay, some people will put their phones somewhere other than their bedside so they can't be woken up. Do you make that illegal, or at some point do you just say "Okay, you know what, this is on you"?

Okay, all those alerts saved one life.

And all those alerts convinced a bunch of people to silence their alerts, and resulted in lives lost.

Have you bothered to compare the two numbers to see whether the alerts are, in fact, justified? Or do you always only look at a benefit and ignore any associated costs?

They considered "beige", "brown", "burgundy", "banana" and "buff" but the Dark Mode Mafia won out.

I have great difficulty believing that it is harder and more expensive to build a power transmission line on land in Spain and France than undersea.

The logic offered for this extremely long undersea cable, instead of copying the Spain-Morocco interconnection that already exists, is to avoid having to deal with the politics and permits of other nations. Perhaps doing some work on establishing a trans-national coalition to allow an overland route and a short undersea cable following existing service routes would make more economic sense in addition to superior technical sense. The attempt to avoid contact with Spain and France with the 3800 km undersea route sounds like more Brexit-style insular prejudice. But they are opting for the most Brexit-like solution, Britain all on its own! Still an empire, even though only confined to one island (until Scotland decides its had enough and separates).

You are citing tests of current knowledge, which is already out there, scraped from the web. There is no evidence of actual creativity -- it is just remixes of existing content. Perhaps you are unaware of the broad evidence of AI collapse that is appearing, where AI "trains" on AI outputs?

And I will respond to the inevitable claim -- made purely on faith and AI marketing -- that's all humans do anyway, remix content or otherwise replicate LLM operation principles (humans just "predict the next token too!"). This is simply the reverse of anthropomorphizing the LLM -- since LLMs resemble human behavior then the two things are the same, or maybe sort of the same. But humans are able to converse naturally and intelligently at young ages where the total amount of speech they have ever heard amounts to 250 MB, whereas LLMs require tens ot TB of data to mimic human performance. What human brains do and what LLMs do are almost nothing alike. LLMs resemble human behavior simply due to the fact the have "read every conversation in the world" more or less.

Quis auditorem audit?

I suspect you're being deliberately obtuse, but part of the shift to a 32 hour work week would mean increasing hourly wages by a factor of 40/32, precisely to avoid that issue. And I can hear your response now: "but the inflation!!!" Inflation (in the US, anyways) is driven by corporate greed, i.e. prices are raised because they can, not because of wage costs (chiefly the issue is around the forming of de facto monopolies like Amazon that prevents meaningful competition, but there are other reasons their greed works). That's why other countries with reasonable minimum wages and working hours and PTO don't (in general) have significantly higher costs of living. And why we do have insane inflation right now despite the minimum wage not increasing for over 20 years.

Indeed. My Xerox C310 Color Printer is a small workgroup printer, and isn't your family really a small work group? The quality of its output, speed of printing (two sided!) and its convenience of use, is ridiculously superior to any inkjet I have ever had. And it saves money due to the reduced cost of the (very superior quality) consumables, and the fact that it is not a piece of junk that fails quickly. The whole family just abandoned using their inkjets and they all print on the shared Xerox now.

By far the best printer purchase I have ever made, and maybe the last (?) depending on how long it operates. But if I have to replace it someday it will have been cheaper than cr@ppy inkjets producing poorer quality output over the years.

I've run Linux exclusively on my gaming box for the past 1.5 years. In that time I've run into exactly one game that didn't run out of the box (Nuclear Throne, didn't try to hard to get it to work). Lutris has good support for running GoG games for the few I've tried. The one caveat is I don't play multiplayer-focused games: some of those have nasty anti-cheat software that won't work on Windows. Which IMO is a good thing, but YMMV.

Indeed. It is actually difficult to construct a useful language that is not Turing complete. It is really a very low bar.