I'm really shocked over everyone screaming over here, apparently defending telecoms selling your location data.
This is merely evidence of hyper-partisanship, in this case TDS, but yeah, Trump could cure cancer, and some people would become pro-cancer just out of spite.

Pedantic correction: Nebraska has a unicameral legislature thus cannot be a trifecta. Also how does Ohio fit in West?

there is no reason for ag engine makers to target California It is a massive market.
Not for corn. You don't replant almond trees every season, Plus California loves using people(typically migrant workers) to do the work of harvesting.

Stargate effectively had a single gimmick, the underdog vs incredibly powerful enemies and somehow winning. This resulted in a trope I called "Stargate Syndrome". The Underdog, in order to beat the uber-powerful enemy needs to become more powerful to defeat them, once this happens they need to create another, even more powerful enemy which the heroes need to become more powerful to defeat and then they need an even more powerful enemy to keep the series going, so on and so forth. SG1 started fighting fake gods with high tech and ended up with all the tech fighting almost literal gods.
Yes, power-scaling is a problem and the Stargate Syndrome was first seen in StarWars books(EU, now decanonized). It's why all of them involve Luke being taken out off screen, b/c a Jedi Master really solves a lot of conflict very easily. DBZ had the same problem once you defeat an enemy that can destroy a planet, the next enemy needs to be to destroy 2 planets, until it becomes a galaxy-wide threat etc. But the Stargate as a literary device, allowed for interesting examinations of what if and the human condition. I am surprised the current activists at Amazon did not see it as a great way to shoe horn in some political messaging w/ all the subtlety of a brick through a window.

Ukraine has already "gone to Moscow" with drones and missiles. They can hit targets over a thousand miles into Russian territory. Apparently they've also cut off Crimea. That's the actual target - not Moscow. No telling how long it will take for them to gain operational control of Crimea, but the groundwork is being laid now. Crimea is all but cut off from resupply, and now it's just a matter of starving out the Russians while picking away at their remaining defenses.
Drones and missiles don't hold land, the way armored columns do. As for Crimea, say the Ukrainian's retake it. That doesn't solve Russia's warm water port problem, so expect them to fight over it again. It's happened before.

Several years ago Ukraine was talking about going all the way to Moscow, so this isn't a new thing. They've always planned on winning.
As long as Russia has nukes, there will be no "Road to Moscow" moment with columns of enemy tanks driving to Red Square. The Russians remember what the Red Army did at the end of the "Great Patriotic War" and have no desire to see it visited upon them.

There are also paint types (the chemical used, not the colour) that are high reflective and drastically reduce ambient temperature as they absorb infrared light and reemit it as visible or ultra violet light.
That's quite a trick, perhaps I can use it to power my perpetual motion machine. B/c the usual trick is to capture higher energy photons and reemit lower energy photons.

How did you "just get" something that has yet to be released?
You saw the second part of the grand parent's post and you did not think they were lying? What part of " I am in Europe and our economy is not systematically being destroyed." rings true to you? Unless somehow the Russia-Ukraine conflict is over, the neo-caliphatists have returned home, and the greens have ended their suicide pact against industry.

Show me this software that you consider usable enough to replace more than about 5% of what a software engineer does.
AI doesn't need to replace a software engineer, heck I doubt Meta employs 7,000 software engineers. The only thing AI has to replace are the people who thought, "5ft3 and an attitude, or Gen-z boss and mini" were good ideas. That's what AI could replace and almost certainly show an improvement.

Can a single republican take responsinility for his actions or is it a prerequisite for their lot to always portray themselves as innocent victims or democrat persecution and their evil deep state conspiracies and machiavelian plots to discredit and jail them ? Men take responsibility for their acts , republicans ? i never seen a single honest one, They're ridiculous .
You believe SBF is a republican? That seems a reasonable conclusion to reach based on all the money he gave to Democrat politicians. Perhaps you drew that conclusion based on his parent's careers, let's see... oh two academics from the Bay Area, yep totally a hot bed of Republican politics. You really sussed that one out.
I am so blessed , neither living in the USA nor being American. Canada is now the best nation and place to live in the Americas, We won.
Never mind, no helping your delusions.

All too stupid to see that *their* taxes will go down. But I suppose all of you think you're billionaires with a temporary cash-flow problem.
Yeah, that's a reasonable assumption to make given how long after the conflict the Spanish American War taxcontinued to be collected. Or not. Plus the dirty little secret is that thanks to Obama care congresses power to tax is virtually limitless(poll taxes notwithstanding). Which means that taxes are a flexible way to compel behavior that otherwise would run afoul of the bill of rights. So no, taxes will not go down, and no they are not going to get simpler b/c that defeats the purpose which is not to fund govt, but to compel behavior.

All you have to do is look what happens when an entertainment giant like Disney gets hold of a franchise. They run it into the ground. Some franchises ruined by corporate greed (not all Disney): Star Trek, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Mulan, Pirates of the Caribbean, the MCU...probably a lot more if I googled around a bit.
To be fair, Pirates was based on a fucking Disney ride, so there wasn't much "there" to be ruined. Wouldn't call Mulan a franchise either(of course live action remakes are just lazy). Now Star Wars, MCU and Indiana Jones were absolutely ruined by the let's replace popular male characters with female versions, and do precisely zero work in making said characters compelling, and then call our critics sexist and racist when they point out the shoddy work. Star Trek's problem is simply the people who were running Star Trek did not care about canon or what had gone before(there are entire cottage industries on youtube explaining this). And to the cretins who will insist that Star Trek is woke, I will again point out "The Savage Curtain" season 3 episode 22, Abraham Lincoln uses an archaic term to describe Uhura, and instead of a 20 minute diatribe on how words are violence and he is a terrible person, she merely points out the word has no power over her(which is the exact opposite of today's "woke").

This. Not to mention that Beyond_GoodandEvil is comparing apples to oranges. Citizens United addressed a concern about corporations using their substantial financial resources to influence elections. Whereas Anthropic wants to defend their right to set the parameters of how their product is used -- specifically, no autonomous weapons and no domestic civilian surveillance.
Hmm, good point, except I totally pointed this fact out in the later part of said comment(you apparently missed, so once more with feeling). Of course, those people fail to see the consumer protection portion of this, if Anthropic can specify how the US govt can use the AI services it paid for, it's only a matter of time before, you will own nothing and everything will be rented from some big corporation.

Just cave to the DoD when you think you've been wronged by them? Don't go to the courts? Stop and think about what you just wrote. And consider how un-American it is to just let the government have its way with you.
Yep, this is ultimately a contract dispute. What is truly amazing is, the very same people who got all twisted when Citizen's United came out and "corporations are people too" are now on the side of big business. It's truly remarkable. Of course, those people fail to see the consumer protection portion of this, if Anthropic can specify how the US govt can use the AI services it paid for, it's only a matter of time before, you will own nothing and everything will be rented from some big corporation.

Funny that your subject line is a modification of the Star Trek catchphrase... which was well-known for having an extremely diverse crew, especially for the time when it was made. I love it when people think Star Trek wasn't what today would be called woke.
So we've got two things going on here not sure which one it is, either this is the classic, 90% of conversations w/ leftists is them pretending to misunderstand common phrases making dialog impossible or just another person ignorant of what classic trek was like and did. So assuming(dangerous, I know) it is not the first scenario(which would make the rest of this reply pointless), in season 3 episode 22, "The Savage Curtain", space Abraham Lincoln uses an archaic term to describe Uhura, and then apologizes immediately afterwards, to which Uhura replies it is merely a word and they've(humanity) moved beyond it. How could any rational being believe that the sentiment I've just described could be attributed to the modern thought police: words are violence, silence is violence, failure to respect my pronouns is violence aka "woke" is truly baffling.