It literally is Trump's fault Texas started this whole mid-decade redistricting sweeping the country. It is literally Trump's fault that a man like Ken Paxton is his party's U.S. Senate nominee. I'll even say it's Trump's fucking fault that wierd Shamwow guy from the 90s is back and running for public office.

There isn't enough sand in Texas to bury your head deep enough to hide from the distinct possibility that Samsung's move involved some backroom dealings involving tariff threats or some other sweetheart deals.

What did you expect, we're going to talk about the technical, nerdy reasons Samsung moved? You know there isn't one. Sorry man.

The fuck it is.

A, the crime rate in Texas is not great, nor is it in any poor rural area

B, to actually enjoy the use of your guns you're better off in literally any northern or middle? state. Texas is hot as fucking balls, and there is a hilarious number of plants that are always trying to stab you. Put some sneakers on and try running through the trees, tell me how fucking awesome Texas is to own a gun in. By the way, want to hunt? Go pay some guy named Dusty to use his stocked ranch. It's like fishing in a koi pond, but whatever floats your boat pardner. Want to go off-roading, talk to Dusty, he owns the off-roading ranch up the road. You can't ride a dirtbike across the county like you can up north. Sorry but everyone's idea of Texas is so fucking ass backwards from reality. Freedom looks like a barbed wire fence in Texas. Better off in Michigan or something if you actually like using your guns. Hey, do you hate trees, or do you love trees that hate you? Come on down!

I mean it ain't all that bad, but I don't know where this idea is all that great comes from.

Backroom deals. 100%. Texas is starting some new kind of business court system, with judges hand picked by the governor not elected. It's courting (no pun) these kinds of moves for sure.

That's why they don't want to talk about it.

Texas has among the highest effective property tax rates in the country. People moving there from out of state are fucking Texans on fixed incomes, it's a rather big deal because the legislature has to continually apply bandaids. Also ranked 14th for sales tax, not cheap. No income tax, they just get it other ways. Not knowing the property tax situation while claiming it's cheap, especially in this context is really fucking ignorant. Every tech bro from CA or NY that moves to Texas raises property values and it stings a lot more when the rate is high as it is. School funding is capped by the state, so it doesn't help them scale, the excess goes to state bureaucrats who build more fucking toll roads.

Lenovo sells chromebooks for more than that, what is that, a refurbished android tablet?

ICBMs are literally the #1 encyclopedia article example of militaristic dick-flexing. My rocket can touch you from all the way over here.

Did you just make an argument for the benefits of dual-use research by citing the bad part?? A lot of people associate the space race with a sort of cover for arms research... but think of all the cool weapons we got! Even from you man, wow, lol

That's not how anything actually works. 18/19 will simply be blocked by the next bottleneck. The other one is doing rework with the AI because requirements shifted. Producing LOC was never the biggest bottleneck, and anyone in or around software development knows that.

It's just like how nail guns are 20x faster than hammers, and they don't shrink a roofing crew 20x. You all are fucking weird the way you overhype something with mental gymnastics to tear it down with more bullshit. Yes it is just a tool.

Reads like "I don't know how to use the command line"

Kind of goes away for a major use case when it's > commute and charged overnight.

Most of us should probably care about $/mile then or $/100 miles, but since it's a taxi for hire those numbers are shit.

Or for marketing purposes call it 9705 and take the win

If it was precise to the meter... yah?

Inflation did spike then go back to normal, how was that wrong?

It's plainly obvious we all get to a point where even our skin stops repairing itself the way it used to. Anyone that's active later in life knows this.

But, whatever, maybe by avoiding exercise your body has an untapped reservoir of liver healing magic. I'm willing to continue this experiment if you are, carry on, dumbass.

That is some weak, hand wavy excuse that definitely does not answer the question, why is it problematic.

No, this isn't Musk hating, it's about not falling for Musk's obvious game.

That capability has always been there, it's a part of the tax code. OpenAI has the same structure Mozilla has had for twenty fucking years, ffs. Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation.

Now imagine Firefox doing really well and Google suddenly crying that Mozilla needs its nuts kicked in and made non-profit, and then falling for it.

Somebody thinks you're stupid.