Nothing like having phone home beacon in your imported tech.

No Nobel Peace Prize for you, but you are eligible for a FIFO Faux Peace Prize. And it is trending, even two-bit dictators have one.

A nationalist administration desperate to regain lost prestige deems a domestically produced font inferior and seeks consolation in another bed.

Nonsense. Meat is the healthiest food on the planet.

If you factor the emissions associates with treating and "curing" metabolic conditions, the loss of productivity, sick-leaves, early deaths and so on brought up by overeating carbs and unsaturated fats, the opposite picture emerges. The anti-meat nonsense is pure ideology, greed and global politics combined. The opposite of the truth.

If you value the environment and like to minimize our impact on it, eat meat.

70 percent of the land mass of the planet is covered by grass. The only thing you can do with it, without intensive farming, requiring massive amounts of fossil fuesl, fertilizers and so on......is grazing animals. So, when you cut down the forests to plant palm trees to get palm oil to adulterate milk products with the claim that that makes it healthier (!?!?!?!) with it and make people sick and then you blame it on animal husbandry, you are so full of it that it leaks through your ears. I can give thousands of such examples.

We may do better in 2026, there's fair chance of an el Nino forming and those usually bring on higher temperatures. The fact that this is a la Nina years and we're still up there is not good.

Their hardware lasts longer than the trash with which the MS users are satisfied. And then you have to use MS Malware, I'd rather eat a broom.

"oligarchs do too" To me, it seems the oligarchs have only succeeded in mutually recursive backscratching to suck in the suckers.

Unless LLM become a dime a dozen. The Chinese have every incentive to do this given the Western companies fixation on producing the most expensive ones.

Regardless, LLMs won't help with many tasks, and they are only as good as their last model. So in any fast changing landscape, I do not see them doing well.

Seems like having a friendly chat with your fellow human being is akin to interstellar travel for some.

It isn't just el Bunko's ties to Ellison and his sprog who owns Paramount/Skydance (the firm that fired Stephen Colbert on the ground that el Bunko ordered them to). Paramount/Skydance is backed by Jared Kushner and Gulf Arab oil money. The opportunities for el Bunko to accept "tribute" from this "deal" are nearly endless.

As always when el Bunko is involved, look for the trail of bread crumbs back to his pockets.

That $100 would be better spent on probes to planets, not attempting to cram people into a tin can and sending it to Mars....unless.....if they promise to cram Elmo in, then I might support it.

At least $100 Billion. The tariffs have raised "As of August 2025, tariff revenues since January 2025 totaled $149 billion" (https://www.piie.com/research/piie-charts/2025/trumps-tariff-revenue-tracker-how-much-us-collecting-which-imports-are).

This is much less than la Presidenta's claim of $22 Trillion (last we heard, inflation tends to raise his estimate week after week). For comparison, the entire U.S. GDP for 2024 is $29.184 trillion (https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp). We cannot trust any numbers put out by la Presidenta's regime, they are likely "massaged".

For the continuing damage: https://budgetlab.yale.edu/res...

"and their families" Stop it. Innocent persons do not deserve this.

Six seven eh.

We love being artificially intelligent. Anything that binds us.

right, they modded me troll decade and a half ago here when I said the nations will fall apart, governments will fail, libertarian ideas will take hold. They are modding me troll today, yet it is exactly what is happening. It is possible that people are actually afraid that my comments will cause ot to jappen somehow should more people read them. My comments are not the reason anything happens, that is magical thinking by the fearful moderators. My comments are a prediction and the reality is moving in the direction of my prediction.