Neither does the EU

When you look at the population of the planet, and the diversity in genetics, body habitus, pre-existing health issues, diet, nutrition, on and on, it makes you realize that these incredibly broad statements are almost pointless.

For example, here is just one study highlighting the genetic differences between Chinese and Koreans in the USA when it comes to alcohol response and dependency.

That is just one study between two clearly identifiable ethnic groups that have measurable differences of aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH2) and alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH1B) genes. Now imagine the amount of genetic blending across a population like the US, and the subtleties and differences between individuals when it comes to alcohol metabolism.

Saying alcohol is slightly good on average in this study is like saying everyone should take blood pressure medication, or cholesterol meds, because those are good on average too.
 

Correct, but civil is in ADDITION to criminal. If I run my car accidentally into a building, that is still reckless driving, failure to maintain control, etc, whether or not I intended to damage the building.

Intent should only determine the severity of the punishment, not whether they were guilty. If I accidentally run my car into the side of a building, catch the building on fire, and burn it down, I am still responsible for the damages caused, even if I did not intend to do it. Hopefully my insurance will cover it, but I am responsible.

Even if they did not INTEND to damage the undersea cable, the crew, owners, etc of that ship should still be completely responsible for the cost of the damages. If they are uninsured (shadow fleet type thing) or will not pay, then the ship should be seized to recoup the costs, which takes it out of commission as a future tool to cause damage, and at least someone should be held until the matter has been settled.

Hey everyone, ignore any actual problems with the visa and immigration system related to India, and instead take a look at how some Christians feel about a statue of a Hindu deity in Texas. On the other side of the spectrum, lets talk to Hindu adherents in India about their thoughts on McDonald's killing over 7 million cows annually to feed Westerners? I'm sure they'll only have positive things to say about that.

Just because he hasn't seen them, doesn't mean they don't exist. I distinctly remember various games on the sides of milk cartons. Like these:

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Time to break out the Antarctic Snow Cruiser! Just kidding, that thing sucked. Tracked vehicles are definitely the way to go. Still I thought that thing was cool in that you could live in it for a very long period of time.

That would be improvement. At least characters that are required to be there are not totally invisible and have some appearance so one can see if they are there or not and how many there are.

Just watched video footage of him wrecking in a 2026 Ferrari 296 GTS, coming out of a tunnel at a high rate of speed while several people were watching and videoing. Lots of rubber on the road from people doing donuts and the like. It was a gradual curve but they lost control and slid into a stone and concrete barrier. I'll tell you one thing - that Ferrari pretty much disintegrated. Looks like the passenger was still strapped into their seat which came out in one piece, and the bystanders quickly pulled them away from the car, which caught on fire immediately.

I imagine most other vehicles wouldn't be traveling that fast, but I also bet they wouldn't have broken into pieces that easily.

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I don't understand how decreasing import to the USA has increased buying in Europe. Was there a shortage and more was going to the US? Did they reduce prices in Europe? The article says "redirected a tsunami of cheap stuff into Europe", so I don't quite understand how the tariff in the US has increased buying in Europe.

Yes, exactly. If my power bill goes up because a datacenter was built somewhere in Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia, then I'd prefer the datacenter to be built where my local tax base can get revenue, in addition to employing people in my county.

This is going on right now in my rural town in Virginia, as they are planning a massive AI datacenter in an industrial park created about 20 years ago that has been mostly empty (except for a few massive tenets, like one of the largest Gatorade plants in the US at 1 million square feet). Environmental groups have already seeded the community with fear (we have this cut-throat Facebook gossip page that was posted to, and now everyone is up in arms). People have been flooding the county supervisor meetings and so on.

Just in the last couple days the county released a much more detailed explanation of the datacenter's consumption of both electricity and water, but I don't think it's eased people's minds much. Our power is supplied by American Electric Power, which has over 5 million customers and very deep pockets. We also have close to 100 MW of solar farms, and two hydroelectric dams on the New River at the edge of the county, and very robust power infrastructure here. So I don't think there would be any regional issues with power (as compared to other states that have much smaller and even municipal-level power companies that have to pass infrastructure spending onto a much small customer base).

What kinds of chips are we talking about here? I doubt these are "Missile Guidance Chip 2000" military-specific chips, but much more generic-use ICs / processors that are ubiquitous and likely even interchangeable with those from other manufacturers.

Exactly, and this is the "natural" way these plants go away over time, as the market and economics make the most sense. It is inevitable, and it is happening, and they will all be gone in our lifetimes.

That's in contrast to making this into a political football and costing the taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars in forced incentives and grants to try to speed the process along by a mere handful of years, and in the process riling up voters to fight against it. Like Hillary Clinton did in 2016 saying she would put all the hard-working coal minors out of work by shutting down all coal energy in the country. Just let it happen naturally, where there are less coal miners working due to natural attrition and retirement, as the energy production is moving onto other things.

I didn't know id Software was still a thing, especially after John Carmack left. What are they even doing now?