armed robbery impossible you say? The thug with $5 wrench will have a word and some thumps...

Stablecoins can be taken by force ($5 wrench) or fraud (stablecoin theft a growing problem, look it up)

Texas has a bottom tier government.

programmers of some control systems have such concerns, such as power generation and distribution, medical, transport, military, manufacturing, and environmental hazard detection.

yet here you are on the global comm grid, but maybe running your computer on compost or pig manure methane, right?

Solar can supplement in most places in USA, not replace the grid.

Meanwhile 45% of Africans have no electricity at all. Will they get a power grid in the next half century? They mostly won't get solar either in the next 25.

lolz "rare attacks"... actually we're involved in a couple dozen proxy wars that most people could never name a third of. We're killing Venuzuelans that might or might not be cartel smugglers while war mongering.... even though Venezuela supplies less than 6 percent of narcotics to USA and the country with more and worse cartels supplying the bulk of our narcotics is our best buddy. But we press for regime change there...war for power and profit is what that's all about.

Afghanistan, yeah they did not attack us on 9/11 and so we spent 2 trillion dollars and 20 years to replace the Taliban with .... the Taliban. Then bugged out leaving billions in weapons to the enemy and getting our own and allies killed. Yay USA.

We gave our best buddy Saddam money and dual use tech to mass murder Iranians, then turned on him for power and profit. Sure he was an evil dirtbag, just like many of our other allies and value trading partners. That stupid war destabilzed the region and caused the creation of ISIL. Yay USA.

Just some examples, the epic stupidity always blowing up in our face and covering us with feces is of course a longer list.

smarter countries like S. Korea and China build nuke plants at a third of the cost we do.

Nuclear construction is not just happening in China but India, Russia, South Korea, Egypt, UK, Turkey, UAE, Bangladesh, and Japan. Again, smarter countries than the USA.

Nuclear is for base load so the turbines can go full tilt, the rest can be renewables with cheap energy storage which should be very soon.

Clearly you haven't studied the fundamentals of quantum computing which are marketing hype, hooey, pandering to venture capital investors or being researchers planning on all of the above.

"every dollar the privately owned Fed prints out of thin air (with no gold standard backing it), is borrowed into circulation by the US Treasury. The Fed buys government debt, payable with interest, with money it creates out of thin air. The US government then grants this money to companies like Tesla. And taxpayers are left holding the can for generations"

Remember ehen the Fed bought private assets in 2008 and 2020, not only US Treasuries, so it was gauranteeing privately-created debt too?

How are taxpayers left holding the can, when taxes if anything have gone down since 2008?

I like the look of the Ioniq 6 a lot. Definitely has a a classic Citroen look about it. The 5 I'd like better if it were smaller in every dimension. It looks like someone inflated a VW Golf, but I'd rather have something the size of a Golf.

A 6 is probably in my future if my gas car finally kicks it. My wife has a PHEV (Honda Clarity) and barely uses any gas at all.

You are delusional and have no understanding of even basic science or engineering. The nation needs a grid to make things and to power over half its dwellings.

Africans aren't getting the energy a modern house needs from their panels on shacks.

Mood affiliate, much? Why not use hemp for a lot of packaging, bamboo, etc.? Is this really about your mood and desire to ruin someone else's mood with cherry-picked words? Is it so wrong to wonder if it's emotions all the way down? Is it impossible that rationality is just cherry-picked moods about things?

Is Trivialism so wrong?

I don't want to stop buying plastics. I want to have the option to buy actually recycled plastics that actually get recycled. We can do this but we don't. We don't because the people with all the money who therefore control the means of production decide that we don't. "We" is a stretchy word. So is "you" and so's "can". Sure, you can choose to opt out of society, but it would make more sense to make society not shit all over everything.

Without capitalism, AI, and social media, will we be happy again?

Are they saying peak oil demand will occur before peak production? How come fertility is dropping below replacement? Did the stone age end because we ran out of stones?

What about hemp?