In the USA nobody cares if they are shitty to their neighbors, and we have room for a big TV if we have a place to live at all.

That's why many of us in the US REALLY LIKE having our single family homes and don't have to share walls with neighbors, neither imposting on them with noise, nor having to put up with theirs.

I didn't spend my life since just before my teens building my stereo / AV system over the years, to NOT exercise its decibel range from time to time.

Since I'm not in an apartment, I don't have to worry when I want to watch the Flintstones at concert volumes.....haha.

I'm curious....if in the plans, they plan to keep gas or other fossil fuel electricity generating plants operational and maybe even on standby while the solar, wind and battery systems start to take over....sort of as a failsafe backup?

Nobody cares for this new shit...bring us Darth Vader, Chewy, Han, Luke and Leia (especially in the gold bikini, but I digress).....

People want to see the "real" Star Wars and not the farce trip they've taken off the route of canon and success.

These days...it's more like "May the Farce be with You".

*SIGH*

I didn't build a stereo/ AV system since my teen years only to not ever exercise it's decibel range...and, I don't wanna hear my neighbors either.

I don't understand the training push to be honest. If you had "good" AI, couldn't you have it run locally (which I think is Apple's gambit - so "you" run the AI, not some cloud server somewhere), and then do what humans do, which is get the information by "reading" a webpage, instead of trying to download and encode the entire internet into "the parameters", which is what it appears that much of the current brand of AI is doing?

That is - why do you have to "train" an AI by having it process a billion images, instead of when you ask it to find something it, oh, goes and finds it?

(The flip side, of course, is that training AI by looking at, say, images is, in fact, materially no different from humans looking at images to learn. So there is either copyright infringement any time any person learns from looking at an image, or there is no copyright infringement when an AI "learns" from "looking" at an image. Beyond the "copy" of the data that is made to "view" the image, once it's processed into parameters, isn't it no longer a copy? Are companies really trying to make rules like "no entity can look at this web page and learn from it"?)

You're trying to put a modern definition where it does not fit. You have to take into consideration the mindset , thoughts and language of the time it was written.

Quite how you can bang on about feeling safe in America whilst millions of your citizens feel the need to own a gun

I feel safe in general because of my guns. An armed society is a polite society.

The major problems happen in the "gun free zones"....place criminals know they won't find any resistance or threat to themselves.

As long as you are not a gangbanger dealing drugs, your chances of getting shot in the US are quite low....I don't generally give it a second thought.

But, on the off chance there's a random loony out there that pops up...I'm armed and have at least a fighting chance to defend myself or others around me..

Issuing more currency doesn't necessarily cause inflation & there is no direct correlation between the two.

lol....ok, you lost me there on that one....haha

That one's pretty basic in economics...

A backyard where I can hang with friends, brew beer, fire up my smoker and grills are a necessity to me. I like my veggie garden too...

AC is electric and costs $$....heat , the little I need is gas, and pretty cheap.

So how is that any different from the "safe" drivers paying more for insurance because of all the people who are looking at their phones instead of driving, or driving cars with no tread on the tires, or no brakes, etc.?

That's the whole point of casualty insurance: you are spreading the risk across a larger cohort.

If you don't like paying the companies "making a profit" off their service, you can (in most US states anyway) post a bond for self-insurance with enough funds in it to cover the required minimums for personal injury and property damage liability and then self-fund your vehicle replacement portion.

I wish more people recognized this!

When people talk about "hottest summer" or whatever they are not talking about highest highs. They are talking about highest average. It's total energy content, not peak temperature, that is being discussed.

If the general population can't understand this, we need to be better as a people about basic education.

So, if your favorite politician gets deplatformed, you're cool with that?

That a different scenario. That is one platform ( assuming one not run by an enemy nation) picking and choosing a politician to remove...

Removing the whole platform is not picking and choosing a voice or viewpoint.

I do believe that social media is the new town square... and should not remove speech without losing 230 protections.

That does not contradict my thinking that we should not allow enemy nations to run a platform in the US to manipulate public sentiment and push harmful content to our children.

Do I think enemy nations should have protected free speech in the US....no.