Some statistics I should have included in my original post:

Country-wise production capacity in 2022 (GWh)

Country GWh Share
China 893 (77%)
Poland 73 ( 6%)
United States 70 ( 6%)
Hungary 38 ( 3%)
Germany 31 ( 3%)

Sorry about the formatting. Slashdot these days does not properly support blockqotes

Right now, China has almost a monopoly on the world market for reusable batteries of all kinds. The best chance for countries like the US to catch up is technological advances that can leap frog China in the world market. This is an urgent strategic imperative, as are other actions to reduce the West's reliance on China in potential economic warfare down the road.

Frankly, if you want private companies to make public service announcements, you should not pass laws that require them to pay while doing so. The law, overall, is ill conceived but, at the very least, should have allowed for exceptions in times where its citizens have a critical need for up to date news coverage.

I am sure a suitably framed ChatGPT dialogue will bring up an answer to satisfy your curiosity. (It may look more convincing than many provisional patent applications.)

King Canute was unsuccessful in holding back the sea. Similarly, the power and applications of AI are increasing at a rate that cannot be halted. The result is going to be a mix of the positive and negative. At best, we can try to create mechanisms that limit the negatives, though there will be limits to how successful we can be with this. AI is going to change the world out of all recognition over the next decade. Mostly, we can just pray that the world that emerges will be one that is positive for the majority of us.

Nonsense. When you use commercial hosting you are completely dependent on them doing things properly, and when they turn out to be incompetent fuckwads, you're screwed.

Using your own servers is preferable and better in every way, but only if you hire good people who know what they are doing. If you don't hire good people who know what they are doing, that's YOUR fault, and has nothing to do with internal servers vs. commercial hosting.

Frankly, that is a pretty ignorant comment. Sure, if you can afford to hire a better IT team than Amazon, Google or Microsoft, there are advantages in running your own datacentre. However, even then, large hosting services can have advantages. Almost no private company is going to be able to survive major DDoS attacks. Doing so requires, in addition to a talented team, a network infrastructure costing an absolute fortune.

Indeed, it shares those qualities with the humans it tries to imitate.

the JWST was used to take the very first pictures of a planet outside the Earth's solar system, or exoplanets.

I think I know how this answer was given. The JWST took the first pictures of an exoplanet that allowed analysis of its atmosphere. There was a bug in the logic that tried to simplify the answer to a level suitable for a 9-year-old. Errors like this are inevitable during initial testing of such a system.

Nuclear research for affordable power > atomic bomb

All scientific advances have the potential for good or evil. However, your claim that nuclear research into beneficial uses of nuclear energy led to the atomic bomb is well off the mark. It lagged well behind the development of nuclear weapons. Indeed, the very first experimental small scale nuclear reactor for generation of electricity was started up a full six years after the first atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and even post-dated the development of vastly more powerful weapons like hydrogen bombs. It could instead validly be argued that military applications of nuclear technology (and rocket technology) made practical the research that eventually led to more beneficial uses.

I am not a lawyer. However, this feels awfully akin to being allowed to coach a witness. What is the difference between this and having a real lawyer communicate with the defendant through an earpiece?

When you want a remote GUI, you do not use a terminal emulator. Most often, you want an X Windows emulator.

Global warming is caused by humans.

More accurately, global warming is almost entirely caused by humans in the first world. The only significant contribution by the impoverished societies with the highest reproduction rates is their effect on deforestation. Lower birth rates in such societies would reduce some of the pressure on forested areas, but tackling deforestation is largely a political challenge. Subsistence agriculture and harvesting forests for charcoal (both carried out by impoverished families) have some impact, but more important are the actions of large commercial logging, agriculture and mining interests. Their activities have nothing to do with population densities. Actually, lower birth rates in poor societies leads to economic development and a greater impact on those factors that drive the human causes of global warming. That is the biggest challenge: it appears the most effective way to limit global climate change is to prevent the world's poor from using their fair share of the world's resources. It is really unfair but, for the next 30 years or so, there may be no feasible alternative. Rich societies are not going to accept a halving of their standard of living to help the poor.

Call me a traditionalist, but I like what's been done throughout history till the past few years.

If you research life expectancy over time, you might revise your view that living as people did 100 years ago is a formula for robust health and longevity. Personally, I will gratefully accept the additional 25 years of life. Of course, much of the modern diet is not optimum, but the information is out there to guide us (at least those of us who are financially well off) in avoiding the most unhealthy choices.

Death rates from cancer peaked in the US in 1991. Since then, cancer deaths have dropped by about a third. Part of the reason for reduced cancer mortality, of course, is improved treatments. Also important is the greatly reduced incidence of smoking. As against that, life expectancy has increased from about 75 to 79, and the older population is more likely to suffer from cancer which is partly one of the diseases of aging. Less healthy eating habits are also a factor increasing cancer risk.