Makes sense, but doesn't explain the blue. Exact wavelength spectra would be more diagnostic. (Not to me, but to experts in the field.)

Yes. Never doubt that. The questions are "How many?" and "Which people?".
Before anyone sensible should believe it, it should come with easily enforceable penalty clauses that are stiff enough to be meaningful.

As rain.

I think the first hard drive I used was 20MB, but it could have been smaller. And that was the claimed size, not what was really available.

San Francisco has a strong Waymo presence (I think we were the first market to get public access to them). But we also believe in public transit; in fact, the Bay Area just voted for two important transit measures that will increase costs to taxpayers and property owners, but are designed to make up for badly needed funding from the state and federal governments that just isn't forthcoming anymore. The alternative, we were told, was massive cuts to buses, light rail, and passenger rail across multiple cities and jurisdictions. I guess we decided that wasn't what we really wanted. But there's still room for Waymo, just like there used to be room for taxis.

Some banks allow it. They give you a one-time code to take to an ATM.

It's bad enough that we've gone from "Papers please" to having our "papers" automatically transmit their location at all times and now all of our purchases and earnings are auto-tracked and profiled (and we're not even getting into the cameras or "smart TVs".
Never mind the fact that more and more companies are guiding customers away from webpage use to apps on a smartphone. Especially when most PCs these days have just as good of security as phones.

"You will each receive an ~~identity disk~~ SMARTPHONE. Everything you do or learn will be imprinted on this ~~disk~~ SMARTPHONE. If you lose your ~~disk~~ SMARTPHONE or fail to obey commands, you will be subject to immediate de-resolution. That will be all."

Don't misunderstand what was found. What they found was fossilized blood cells and veins. I doubt they'll even be able to detect the ribosomes, which were almost certainly there.

Yeah, is an extremely well preserved fossil, but don't overread it. It's really no more surprising than the detection of the colors of dinosaur feathers.

Not until January 20, 2027.

It could well be that he doesn't trust either party. This is quite reasonable, and neither deserves trust. (Personally I tend to be left of most Democrats...so I think of myself as independent, but if the two parties are on the ballot, I generally hold my nose and vote for the Democrat, even though they hardly represent my position.)

Those are showing up. The robots *are* coming. But not just to the US.

The US surged to dominance in the aftermath of WWII, when most of the other major countries had sustains severe damage. Since then, they have recovered, so the US no longer has that much advantage. Several of the other countries are smaller, or have other disadvantages, but the US has some disadvantages of its own. And we've essentially abdicated out position. China seems to be moving in to fill the vacancy. (Don't take this too seriously, I don't spend much time analyzing this stuff, but that's my take.)

AI *IS* going to be extremely important and shape the world over the next decade. It's an extremely important thing to get right, and getting it wrong could be deadly. But it's already clear that it's going to dominate repetitive jobs. And China is well aware of this. So, apparently, is Amazon, and a few other places. What's not clear is just how cheap it will be. (But China is pushing it hard...so probably cheaper than humans.)

The US is not at war with Russia. I think that has been decided as the definition of an enemy country under the treason definition.

Odd, I thought he was acting more as a Russian puppet, even though China was the main beneficiary.

Both the Democrats and the Republicans are fascists by the central part of Mussolini's definition. It's mainly about centralization of powerful entities under the control of the state. If you believe in a powerful state, fascism is practically a necessary part of your beliefs. And both the Democrats and the Republicans believe in that, whatever else they disagree about.

For that matter, it's not clear how society should be structured without a powerful state. I've yet to hear proposed a believable anarchist system that was both scalable above Dunbar's number, and stable. Some MinArchists have a point, but the US started out as a MinArchist system, and didn't stay that way.

Thanks, I think we all knew this.