How are those AK47's going to hold up against Tanks, jets and guided missiles.

This isn't Vietnam or Afghanistan, if the MAGAs decide to revolt, the military is likely to take the situation deadly seriously.

Please enlighten me then!

Your point seemed to be that the only responsible thing Microsoft could do, is kill off the product. That seems a little like killing the patient to cure the sickness.

Now I'm really confused. "Totalized morality?" I have no idea what that means. I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with judging the fitness of parents based on their child's ability to accidentally swallow a battery.

Regardless of how right or wrong today's Christians are about their history, the fact remains that you have been spouting untruths since the beginning of this thread. You started it off by suggesting that parents who can't keep a battery out of their child's mouths, are somehow unfit to be parents. Quoting you: "FML, I failed as a parent!" Whenever you are confronted by actual facts, you change the subject and attack. This history of Christianity is beside the point. Your ad hominem attacks illustrate that you have no logical argument, just provocative things to say.

There have been *zero* rolling blackouts since the "Big Freeze." Ercot is asking for conservation right now as a result of unusually warm weather for this time of year, when many generators are offline for maintenance. It's common for generators to undergo maintenance this time of year, because there i8s normal low usage this time of year. It does *not* usually reach 95+ temperatures in May.

A freeze (in a state that doesn't normally experiencing deep freezes) is just as much a natural disaster as a rainstorm. There was far more damage as a result of the Big Freeze, than was caused by Hurricane Harvey. You are conveniently giving your own state a pass on its failure to maintain its electric grid (sparking wildfires) while lambasting Texas for failing to prepare for a once-in-125-years ice storm. Whatever!

To each their own, pick your poison.

I'll grant your "expensive places to live" list is more than just the Bay Area.

As for "anywhere else"...pick your poison. Don't like hot weather? Texas isn't for you. Don't like cold weather? Northern states aren't for you. Want affordable living? California isn't for you. Whatever, everybody has something they don't like about every place.

As for "stuff to do," most people don't realize that Houston's Theater District is second only to Broadway in terms of theater seats. https://www.visithoustontexas.... It has a thriving nightlife and is a top destination on the restaurant circuit, and numerous pro sports teams. Its Galleria Mall is the 5th largest in the country, for those who like to shop. If you can't find something interesting to do in Texas, you aren't looking.

It's true, Ercot failed to keep the electricity on when Texas experienced its worst and longest freeze in 125 years. If California had its worst rainstorms in 125 years, it too would suffer extreme damage (sound familiar?). But wait, it only takes a *regular* summer in California to spawn thousands of wildfires. Again, pick your poison, every place has its issues when it comes to weather and natural disasters.

If you are just talking about affordability and jobs, yeah, Texas has a lot to offer, with 4 metros in the top 11 largest in the US. Each has excellent levels of employment in all kinds of sectors, from tech (Austin) to NASA (Houston) to medical science and genetics (Houston) to banking (Dallas). There is a niche for pretty much everybody. Each is quite affordable compared to other major metro areas in the country, none of which appear on your "most expensive places to live" list.

Italy and Japan have shrinking populations. We would too, if it weren't for immigration. However our population growth rate is still low, and if it were any lower we'd be facing serious economic and social challenges. Sure, a shrinking population would drop housing prices, but we are far from having so many people there isn't space to fit them. Our real problem is seventy years of public policy aimed at the elimination of "slums" and the prevention of their reemergence.

If you think about it, "slum" is just a derogatory word for a neighborhood with a high concentration of very affordable housing. Basically policy has by design eliminated the most affordable tier of housing, which eliminates downward price pressure on higher tiers of housing. Today in my city a median studio apartment cost $2800; by the old 1/5 of income rule that means you'd need an income of $168k. Of course the rule now is 30% of income, so to afford a studio apartment you need "only" 112k of income. So essentially there is no affordable housing at all in the city, even for young middle class workers. There is, however a glut of *luxury* housing.

In a way, this is what we set out to accomplish: a city where the only concentrations of people allowed are wealthy people. We didn't really think it through; we acted as if poor to middle income people would just disappear. In reality two things happened. First they got pushed further and further into the suburbs, sparking backlash by residents concerned with property values. And a lot of people, even middle-class young people, end up in illegal off-the-book apartments in spaces like old warehouses and industrial spaces.

Implementation definitely matters.

A couple of years ago I drove a Toyota Highlander that had it. I was impressed at how smoothly it handled situations like cars cutting in front of you, or sudden changes in traffic. I have no doubt there will be some that are a pain to live with because they aren't well-built.

I for one find GitHub Copilot worth every penny of the $10 per month subscription. It saves me a *ton* of time, especially in areas of coding where I'm less familiar.

You can always go to Truth Social to get the Trump view of the world.

If it's *that* crippled by ideology, people won't use it. This has been demonstrated very clearly by Parler, Truth Social, Gab, and Gettr. If you want to develop a platform that is broadly used by a wide audience, you've got to leave politics out of it.

Judging by the drivers I encounter daily on the roadways, I'm thinking AI would make fewer mistakes than humans do.

Other places in America don't have this problem, just the Bay Area.

In Houston, you can still rent a decent 2-bedroom apartment for $1,400 a month. Find one roommate, and you've got a full apartment for the same price as these pods.

People in American who live in its dense cities think it's overcrowded. In 37 states, the entire state population is less than the population of the Bay Area.

Don't want to live in a bed pod? Consider moving somewhere, anywhere else.

They have their opinions, I have mine. They can express them, and I can express mine, including my first amendment protected opinion that they are not sane.

That's how this free speech thing works. And a lot of people are confused - thinking they can say whatever they wish, and no one is allowed to react to it.

The Al/air battery is a frustrating one. The best way I can see it successfully deployed is in replaceable cartridges. As for the size of those, I'm not certain. But in a replaceable cartridge system range anxiety would certainly go away.

SO calls them Penile Compensation vehicles. Now whether or not that is true, there does seem to be a common personality trait that makes them believe that the bigger and less efficient the vehicle is proportionally related to their patriotism, and they have a particular dress habit that they tend toward.

And the Calvin cartoon in the rear window with him pissing on whatever it is the driver hates, the Trump/Pence sticker with Pence's name painted over. And so on.