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.

No. This is nonsense. Nuclear fuel production has a massive ecological impact. Nuclear only looks good when compared to coal. Stop doing that.

It's just petty undoing of everything from certain previous administrations. Any wording to target talking points is a bonus. DEI just means n***** anyway.

Discipline is not really needed when the only goal is doing damage to others.

Sarifs are, in fact, for ease of reading, but point well taken. The justifications are wrong and the people making them are petty assholes.

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.

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...

Nuclear Fission isn't cost effective ... _unless_ you price in the full eco-balance of electricity production. Then the numbers look significantly different and fission could just be a real thing once again. At least until renewables and energy storage have gained significant portions of the energy mix.

The key part is pricing in the eco-balance of electricity and all other forms of energy and processed goods before doing anything else, like rebuilding fission. Until you do that, ecological damage will always be an unpriced externality and the market price will never reflect the real damage done and your math on fission will always come up short. Example: Meat and Smartphones would be roughly 4x in cost of what they cost today if the eco-balance were priced in correctly. And that's all we would need to do to fix our environmental problems in record speed.

... in more detail.

Gyre is a more official name for the Pacific Garbage patch, as there are presumably few kids in it