I would submit that technological progress will be made to non-fossil fuel technology. It's not the tipping point per se, it's those agressors fomenting war that keeps money flowing to defense contractors rather than those technologies that decrease fossil fuel use.

About in the same ballpark as Linux on the desktop?

The fact is intelligence information was "created" rather than "discovered" in order to subvert Trump and his first presidency. Numerous evidence now supports this conclusion and has been submitted to the DOJ to be placed in front of a grand jury soon, and probably prosecuted. There needs to be prosecutions so a wooden stake can be driven through the heart of the hoax. For those that are not in the loop about what makes it a "hoax" they can find Matt Taibbi explain it in detail in numerous places esp. on YouTube.

The sad fact that the Russian Collusion hoax still gains traction on Slashdot demonstrates how far critical thinking (if not integrity) has fallen with those who still defend the party of the left. You'd think they'd get get a clue after Hunter's laptop was proven to actually be his laptop. All the effort to suppress and censor all the voices that brought that up in itself is inexcusable but no one in the media (like Leslie Stahl) have been held to account. Then let's bring up how the media worked endlessly to cover up Biden's advancing dementia that many of us could clearly see

And then the cherry on the cake are the posts in this very thread -"I don't see how half the nation could vote for Trump!"

Really?!?? Is half the nation that stupid, or maybe half the nation could identify with what boorish Trump was saying all along, as compared to the people who gave us the "Russia Collusion" baloney and the concept that abortion somehow is the number one issue facing the nation??

I'll give you the card that Trump can be horrible and maybe some of his decisions are bad. But he has managed to actually close the effin' border. I think it's entirely reasonable that the concept of nation states having actual borders is completely acceptable. Apparently this seems silly to the party that lost the 2024 election.

Just that single issue alone was a big part of what caused half the country to support Trump. Apparently they were right to do so.

Ergo, Trump is not the one driving the clown car around here, even if he clearly is boorish and highly annoying at times.

"scraping" is maybe questionable, but there's no question that an AI is accessing your website.

No one is going to be buying chips from TSMCâ(TM)s Taiwan plant when China takes Taiwan in 2027. All those military drills China does in the straits are for a purpose you know. And when that happens that fancy UV lithography machine gets bombed out of existsnce by the U.S.

I know it's a radical concept, but maybe CBS fired Corbett because they were losing large sums of money. The show costs 40 million USD a year with Corbert's salary at 20 million. The fact is that there are some large YouTubers that get more viewers than Corbett does now.

Maybe if they made Corbert's salary dependent on the number of viewers he had (like YouTube does) he might get back to doing comedy again.

But they just did not fire Corbett. They cancelled the whole show. There is no conspiracy other than basic economics.

Unlike, of course, the rest of us.

The force is strong with this one! Moderators, please mod this one up for being funny.

People can get everything done on their phones now. Why boot up a clunky old desktop all the time??

I know that I have been using A.I. investigating ADA for a specialty niche product that needed a lot of safety and security, and that was also *mature*.

Every time you ask A.I. a question the LLM goes out and does 50 searches on your behalf to formulate a response. I have spent a bit of time on it. It's not hard to see how a simple algorithm might think there's 50 new developers on the scene!!

I guess that explains how we got a mandated one size fits all COVID vaccine policy.

Actually I have an F150. I'm willing to replace it with a cyber truck (if my finances permitted). But puzzle me this. What is better for the climate? Me holding on to the old F150 and rarely driving it. Of selling the F150 to someone who most certainly will drive it far more than me and me owning a cyber truck that perhaps I drive more because it doesn't cost as much for gas?? I'd like to know how much carbon goes into making a cyber truck.

The huge problem is if consumers don't consume there is no economy. The other huge problem is that if a decision that negatively affects a group that finds their employment affected they'll never accept it no matter how "green" it is. But they'll certainly be sure to fly in to the local climate conference!

The solution?? Small scale nuclear everywhere. Make repairability easier. And tax the heck out of things forcing an upgrade. Coincidentally, I consider all these concepts to be conservative.