Say no, and get sued by your shareholders?
Sounds like a dumb choice.

I think it can be summed up as "Mr. Dollar Ton is a grumpy old boomer that doesn't understand something, so berates anyone who dares challenge his world view"

Where there's money to be made from a finite resource, there's corruption.

And you claim to know how LLM's think?

The word intelligent comes from the Latin word for understanding. LLM's don't understand the answers they provide to prompts.

Let's just distribute 1 million tons of microplastics into the atmosphere.

Sounds to me like Virginia is trying to give parents tools to enforce their decisions.

Chinese citizens get cheap cars funded by government R&D money.

Who's been dicked here?
The car companies take government money and build cars
The car dealers buy them real cheap and sell at a profit
The consumers get cheap cars

The only ones "losing" money are the government. But they're just printing it. And building a massive manufacturing industry with development capability as well. Selling on a global market to everyone else at prices no one else can compete with.

These people don't seem to understand that China is not capitalist.

The Government won't allow it. They'll fund failing companies, write off debts, what every they want to keep things going.
All of these companies have Government representatives on their boards. A large number are partially Government owned.

Only $8 for premium economy on a long haul flight across the Pacific.

In terms of relative prices, a economy flight from LAX might be $900, premium economy $1,500 and business class is more like $12,000 and first class is $20,000

So less than 1% tax. 0.5% for premium economy and 0.16% for first class.

Science? Really? There's a lot of soft-brained, unscientific and technophilic pseudo-religion in the article.

Let's work with the argument's load-bearing phrase, "exploration is an intrinsic part of the human spirit."

There are so many things to criticise in that single statement of bias. Suffice it to say there's a good case to be made that "provincial domesticity and tribalism are prevalent inherited traits in humans", without emotional appeals to a "spirit" not in evidence.

When someone says "they lost an engine on takeoff", ths is not what they usually mean...

It's amazing to see that we're only just now discovering we can use the power of wind to move boats around!

COLUSUS AWAKENS. Perhaps we need to find Dr. Forbin...

it's called WHITE PAINT

it's an incredible new innovation, you should try it!

If you're too stupid to "select all" and drag-and-drop to a new folder on your desktop, then you deserve to "lose" all your photos and videos.

As for the apps, there's one license of the app on the account, that's no longer wanting to be shared, so it's a "Marital Asset" that a judge can oversee the division of, along with the rest of the martial assets. It gets a little more complicated if one side wants some apps and the other side wants other apps, but they're rarely very expensive, on the order of $3 to $9, making them easily compensated for in the monetary settlement of the divorce. (app installations are just as fungible as cash)

That really only leaves "who gets the email address", and that's not a new problem created by Apple, that's been around for decades. Work it out, with the judge's assistance if necessary.

I think this whole thing is just coming down to bitter Ex'es in a messy divorce, looking for another public place to drag each other through the mud. Go handle your drama somewhere private, the world is not interested in being your stage.