I agree, Newsome does seem to be practicing to be an anti-Trump. Anything he suggests seems to be chosen based on "how mad will it make Trump/republicans". Not on "is it a good idea" or even "does the left like this idea".
His likely replacement (Steyer) is also wading into this territory, most likely because it appears to be a way to win.

Just to be accurate: the reason we have 2 parties is because we don't use ranked voting. They are not independent problems.

The electoral college's problem is actually that the states have rules so that if 51% of the voters vote for A, 100% of the electors vote for A. This is producing huge swings from the popular vote. It's also true that a voter in Wyoming gets about 4x as many electoral votes as one in Texas but this is actually not a big problem because Wyoming has very few voters. It is plausible we could get ranked voting working very well if the counts of all the orderings were multiplied by the ratio between electoral votes and actual votes, and there may be reasons this is easier to pass than a true popular ranked voting.

2x seems possible if no government spending is replaced. However your 3x estimate is way too high, people living only on UBI would not be paying taxes (well federal and state) anyway, so you have double-counted them.

The hope (perhaps futile) is that they would remove other government programs (ie social security). Or make everybody get the same government programs (ie everybody gets SNAP and they can use it to buy food, everybody gets the same amount of housing assistance (which must be spent on mortgage/rent/property taxes/untilities/insurance). These would just be part of the UBI, with some restrictions on what you can spend that portion on.

I was able to get it to save all photos on Google Photos. But I seem to remember it was a pain, it took a long time before it threw away it's attempt to put all the photos into iCloud and stopped complaining in popups that I needed to buy more iCloud storage.

Free Google Photos is about 4x the size of what free iCloud is.

I'm pretty worried that all interdepartmental communication (those regulations, the forms for the regulations, invoices, contracts, lawsuits, etc) will transform into bloated gobbledygook that only AIs can read and write. They will have made their own language that we won't understand and will have to start trusting them to accurately translate between it and human language.

Automobiles employed a LOT of people, easily out numbering the ones that no longer picked up horse shit. That is a big difference from AI.

Peak seems to be 9x present day. If you use the error bars then it seems to be a range of 3x-15x.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

No I think the proposers of this think the only effect is that people won't be able to print guns on a 3D printer. They are wrong (both about it stopping the printing of guns, and that this being the only effect), but I really don't think they are planning some different objective.

PS I am not a gun nut. If guns were illegal then printing parts of them using a 3D printer would also be illegal and you could get in a lot of trouble if you do it. But after the fact, don't try to prevent it first.

Is cooking equipment supposed to not work if it figures out it is being used to make drugs?

This is obviously impossible unless almost any moving parts are prevented, or printing with some materials is prevented. That would make it impossible to 3D print lots of stuff that is not illegal.

The effect on open software and hardware is also disastrous.

As others pointed out, currently you can make better gun parts on some non-computerized equipment, so this also does not seem to prevent anything.

If there was exactly one pattern that produced a "gun" then it would be possible to block it. However a gun will work with quite large variations to the pattern, unlike a dollar bill.

I would think the transmission could be for a split second, at random times that only the American military knows, spaced perhaps even hours apart. Transmission could contain GPS coordinates, encrypted, it would be useless for locating because it was so short and frequency chosen to echo off rocks well.

The radars are not that bad. They are simply lying.

Actually file cabinets typically stored the papers themselves sideways. So this would most be like the existing tab bar being turned 90 degrees and put on the side of the screen. Which does not match the proposed or old design either.

Correct, Google AI was mistaken by sticking that word "Domestic" in there along with "USDA". Only 94.2 million cattle In the USA, which the maximum number of Bison was somewhere around 30 million. This matches the 3x to 4x increase that I expected. I am surprised that the USA has such a small portion of the world total however, but the 1.5 billion number was backed by multiple sources.

I have also heard that both Bison and grass-fed cattle emit less greenhouse gasses than most farmed cattle, not sure what the factor is.