And by cutting the country loose from its allies and destroying international faith, he may have weakened the country enough to avoid WWIII when China makes it's bid for recognition as the supreme power.

I tend to think they threw it on purpose. What purpose? I'm not sure. Perhaps they saw AI coming and didn't want to get blamed for it. But they knew the alternative was Trump, which makes choosing a candidate who had small chance of winning nearly an act of treason.

That's one interpretation. Or he could be an agent. The evidence is equivocal, but the actions are the same.

To be fair, oil is NOT a dying industry. Neither is coal. Shrinking isn't the same as dying. Both have uses that are (so far) essentially impossible to replace. Generating electricity, however, isn't one of them.

OTOH, you do have to allow for unscheduled maintenance. Wind farms are much better over pasture. In hot areas, solar panels can improve yields of many crops is planned with reasonable care. (But you still have to allow for unscheduled maintenance.)

It's not a vast majority. How large we'll get an inkling after mid-term elections.

IIUC, calling that "open source" is a strong overstatement. It's and "open weights" model. This is quite good, but not the same thing.

Whether that quality is useless or not depends on your application. And the quality tends to depend significantly on the field (as well as on how the instructions are phrased).

A band saw is a powerful tool, but you can cut yourself badly if you aren't properly skilled.

If the code is GPL, and the binary is released, then it is required that the source is released. But you might prefer the AGPL.

I think we disagree, but perhaps you should stick to BSD licensed code. There's always been a disagreeent as to which license counts as free. With GPL the freedom resides in the code, with BSD the freedom resides in the user.

Would it work to run a older distro virtually? I'm not sure, though I suspect it wouldn't.

By the license it's released under. If it's released under GPL, then it's free software. If it's released under a restrictive license then it isn't. And if it can be proven to have been AI generated, then it's public domain.

The main purpose of Free Software licenses is not to restrict others from implementing it, it's to ensure that the code remains open.

Please provide examples. Otherwise I'll consider that your handle is missing an appropriate "u".

Well, you could argue it. I don't think it really quite fits as well as malfeasance, though.

You've got to factor in Seasonal Affective Disorder. Norway is far from the equator, so they have a large amount of that compared to countries closer to the equator.

Not sure how important that is, as there are now reasonable ways of treating it. (I don't know the details, but it's largely bright, wide spectrum lights...so not too difficult to do if you've got electricity.)