RAM chips, and also their packaging, are rather small. The idea that we lack the natural resources to manufacture RAM at even thousands of times the present rate is hilarious. Do some research before making preposterous posts.

Crude language is not an adequate replacement for rational argument.

we give them limitless power

That statement has no relation to how human society works.

You can put public domain code in your project.

When a company like Penguin Classics puts out a public domain book with their own introduction, only their introduction is actually copyrighted.

The idea that the license covers all the code in your codebase has always been incorrect. And with AI, AI can take any source code and write a new version of it that isn't traceable. So it doesn't matter what your license says. Unless the code is super unique, claiming a copyright is absurd anyway.

I don't think the Open Source community cares "who owns it" as a lot of it comes from random users on the internet who posted it to help people solve an issue.

The only people who care who owns it is corporate.

Don't forget that the teachers' union gets a share of the scam.

The entire idea of taxes is to take the money from all - including the wealthy - and use it for the common good.

Taxes in a just society are properly restricted to doing things only governments should do, keeping in mind that government has a legal monopoly on the use of force in most situations. Allowing the government more money is an invitation to corruption.

It's too easy to see that food is a common need, and conclude that therefor the government should provide everyone with food. Results from that include food shortages when the incentive to grow food vanishes, and people opposed to those in power finding it especially hard to get food. Look at the famine in the USSR 1930-1933.

To a large extent, longevity improvement is going to involve fixing each of the many, many things that can go wrong. Better mitochondria is one piece of the puzzle.

Harris is stupid and a drunkard. Walz is just plain nuts. That the Democratic Party couldn't find better candidates is pitiful.

The period known as the dark ages was largely due to Christianity not being interested in science or progress. When the highest calling is writing poems praising god instead of improving the condition of human living, civilization collapses. See the works of Richard Carrier.

The name of the country is United States of America. It is not the People's Republic of America. Representatives of the States elect the President, because that's the Constitutional structure of the government, and those representatives are called the Electoral College.

Popular election of the President, as implied by a "people's republic", is an invitation to fraud.

Companies will hire under skilled cheap foreign labor just fine and not worry about them learning from more skilled in office domestic workers.

Companies are lying as per the usual.

Companies think AI makes up for incompetence when in reality, it just magnifies it.

How do you shut down an organization like the CIA? The mere hint of a serious attempt to tear it down would result in assassinations and the hiding of some data (critical of CIA personnel) and the backup of other data (in preparation for blackmail, etc.).

Perhaps a replacement agency could be set up, then the CIA slowly defunded with most current employees prohibited from future government employment.

Are ads the problem? My impression is that the danger of social media is the presence of people promoting violence, whether those people are loonies, nihilists, or agents of enemy governments.

Children need to be taught critical thinking, and also taught to recognize hucksters and hate-mongers.This should be a continuing part of education and does not need special funding.

The big lie is that everything that needs to be built is being built by big tech.

Meanwhile, we need nuclear power plants to keep up with massive growth in electricity demands.

We need desalination plants and people to dump salt in the middle of the ocean to replenish water in local ecosystems.

Those are just two obvious things.

We also need the arts, and more people reading books.

Capitalists only care about the profit in their own silo. The oligarchs are preventing more silos from being built.

That is why you tax their profits at 99% to force them to actually invest their money or pay it out to other people who can find better things to do with it than hoard it.

Cars have become ludicrously expensive so that fewer and fewer kids actually have access to them.

Irrelevant. Most of grade school education occurs before students can legally drive.

In 1970, the bottom-of-the-line American Motors car was $2,000 (A VW Beetle $1,839.) Now, a Kia K4 LX is $23,535. In 1970, the median income was $8,900, now it's $84.000. Relatively speaking, a new car is now 25% more expensive than in 1970. That's a shame, but it's a better car and it's not "ludicrously expensive."