Derelict in this use case is correct. In this case, you have landowners who don't have any interest in farming the land. Think a landowner who inherited the property from their farmer grandpa and don't have any plans to farm it but don't want to sell it for some reason. In those cases they lease the use rights yearly to farmers that do. Otherwise the farm would sit there growing grass and trees and therefore become derelict.

It shouldn't take a genius to realize that if a landowner is just profiting from land use, an energy company offering Lease + energy profit sharing looks better than just a straight land lease, even if the land lease is significantly higher up front.

First off, he's right about farmer destroying solar. There are big energy groups buying any farmland they can get cheap and putting Solar farms on them.

Locally there's a solar group that bought out leases for land that farmers were planting on that would otherwise be derelict. Even when the farmers offered to buy or lease the land at significantly higher value than what it's worth (or in one case, higher than what the solar company was leasing it for) the leasing company refused because the solar group offered stock in their company that if the solar farm is profitable would result in a solid revenue stream that would be sustainable for at least a few decades until the panels wear out.

The problem with this is that food demand is not getting smaller, and once you dedicate farmland for solar, it basically makes the land useless for anything but solar since the solar shade blocks plant growth and once the solar panels are degraded and/or the company goes under, now you have rows and rows of useless solar panels that were cemented into the ground as well as their wires and conduits (and possibly chemicals if batteries are involved) that you will absolutely have to find and remove at a significant cost in order to even attempt to return that land back into farm capable condition.

Meanwhile, Malls, Stores and Plaza's have these huge parking lots that you can easily install solar canopies in that not only shade the cars of customers and can be used to charge parked electric cars, but you immediately have an electrical customer in that Mall, Store or Plaza and the stores aren't going to care since they see it not only as a green thing, but as a customer service thing due to the shade.

Now to be fair I don't know if Trump is banning all solar or just farm solar, but it makes sense to ban farm solar to encourage more parking lot canopy solar if that is what he's planning. As for wind, I'm not sure why he's banning them other than because he doesn't like the look of them or he read that study from 50 years ago that says wind turbines kill birds (because wind turbines in the 70's moved at significantly higher RPM's than modern turbines) even though 1 solar thermal plant reportedly killed more birds and insects per year than all of the bird strikes on all modern windmills combined.

No. He'll interview the I Am Hunger in America girl.

This isn't the First time AI imagery has been used for political purposes and it will most definitely not be the last.

This is the American Electrola DXC-100
https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/...

This was a radio made in 1993, cost around $250-$300 in 1993 money, was made in Pittsburgh PA and qualified for the Made in USA logo at the time. 2000 (2 batches of 1000) of them were sold by a primarily shortwave Rush Limbaugh clone named Chuck Harder that was previously selling Drake branded radios made in Japan before one of his listeners challenged him to sell a "Made in USA" Radio. It's so American, when you turn it off, the Display says "USA 1" on it.

And it's made out of 80% US parts. The other 20% is made from friendly foreign components (Think Europe, because in the 90s JAPAN BAD! EVIL! TRADE WAR!!)
And it sucked. The first batch could barely pick up local AM or SW stations and the 2nd Gen while better, didn't justify the cost when a GE Superadio III or a cheap Radio Shack rebadged Sangean would smoke it for 1/3 the cost. Within a few months Chuck was selling Drake receivers again.

So Even in 1993, when we still had a semiconductor and computer industry in the US, we couldn't even build a simple radio out of 100% American made parts.
So what snowball's chance in hell do you think we have to build a PC out of 100% American parts in 2025?

At this point, I think Idiocracy should be taught in schools just like Fahrenheit 451 and 1984 are.

It's an allegory of how Stupidity is just as dangerous as Totalitarianism and Cencorship.

Bookmarking? In 2025?? Well that's just uncivilized!

In 2025, I need all of my content links uploaded to the cloud so it can be paraphrased and narrated by an AI that sounds like Patrick Stewart complete with corresponding random vertical videos of random things getting assembled from my smart hub screen as I fall asleep at night to maximize content retention. Anything less is too much of a bother.

Where I live, Most of our stations are owned by either IHeartMedia or Cumulus. The "DJ's" are all nationwide cookie cutter Random Factoid Top 40 Celebrity News spewers that are basically placeholders to give them an excuse to tell you what car dealership bought the Studio, News desk, Weather center, Traffic report, ETC's Naming Rights in between more commercials and playing stingers of one of their station "Brands" such as Kiss, Froggy or Real.

At this point an AI DJ would be an improvement. They might actually play music on the station instead of commenting how a gecko loses it's tail when it feels threatened and how he wished he could do that when confronted by his girlfriend. (actual random factoid one of our stations used BTW)

AI, while it may in the next decade, isn't cutting jobs. If anything, Telecommuting is. and when I mean telecommuting, I mean halfway across the world.

The Reason H1B's exists, and the reason you have politicians on both sides of the isle fighting tooth and nail to keep them even though it displaces high paid American workers out of jobs, is because even though it's a job held by a foreign employee, it still counts as an American Job on paper complete with it's tax revenue. Simply put, if H1B's disappeared overnight, then thousands of jobs would basically disappear in the US and reappear on foreign shores overnight thanks to VOIP and Teleconferencing.

Here's an example. Where I work, the finance dept is working on transitioning their old accounting system to a new accounting system created by the Big O due to someone hearing their pitch of "Visibility and Control" and "Single Source of Truth" on the radio against our better judgement. Once they singed the contract the Big O sent us to an Implementer headquartered in the US (since that was a requirement) to transition from our old system to the new system. Imagine my zero reaction shock and awe when we had to open India on our firewall because none of the programmers could access our servers or even chat with our staff because their Webex server cluster was based in India and our staff couldn't join their Webex sessions. The same goes for their Microsoft Cloud service since they use Indian based cloud locations.

TL:DR: COVID proved that Telecommuting works, H1B's are getting harder and more expensive to get, and it's cheap to rent a former scam call center in India and fill it with minimum wage coders than hiring coders that are expecting big bucks to pay their college loans in the US.

It depends. Right now I can pull 1-2Gbps+ symmetrical from my phone on Verizon on 5GUW. It's faster than the 1Gbps I get from Spectrum and both are faster, less latent and cheaper than Starlink. (with spectrum being the cheapest and not throttled for usage, although not symmetrical.) It doesn't make sense for me to get Starlink here.

5 Miles north of me is Amish Country. It has very spotty Verizon DSL in some places and can barely hit a Verizon tower at 4G speed at absolute best. Chances are you'll never see Verizon run new lines there unless they absolutely have to because it'll literally serve 1 house per sq mile at best and they can serve you better with a new cell tower since they don't have to worry about lines breaking from Plows or Severe Storms. Spectrum won't run lines there for the same reasons. Your only other option is Hughesnet which is basically DSL speed at 10x the cost, or Starlink, which is the same price as Hughesnet but with 10x the speed and 5x better latency.

In those areas it makes sense to utilize wireless like Starlink or LTE Home internet because it's much cheaper to give everyone who wants high speed internet a Starlink dish or LTE Router instead of running millions of dollars of network infrastructure in a 20 sq mile area to serve the equivalent of 10-20 homes. Even paying Verizon to build a million dollar 5G+ tower to serve that area makes more sense since your covering a huge radius of land and some Amish utilize cell phones for emergency and business purposes and want nothing to do with anything attached to their homes.

Just uninstalled Chrome because they finally killed off Ublock Origin.

Now I hope Mozilla fixes their TOS before it's too late.

Until Microsoft's documentation on MV3 changes, I wouldn't take this DEV build as being set in stone.

I don't see Microsoft flushing away it's only good chance to pull users from Chrome when the Ublockalypse happens in Google land. They know as soon as that happens there's going to be a mass exodus of Chrome users to other browsers, and they want to be the one people and businesses flock to since they're based on chromium for maximum compatibility and they also make it easy to Sync your Google account Chrome Profile to Edge without having to use Chrome to Import.

They're either going to support Ublock Origin until the heat death of the universe, or they are going to implement a built in customizable ad blocker baked right into Edge ala Brave.

If they Kill Ublock Origin with Chrome they know the world+dog will migrate back to Firefox. Even though Mozilla is doing a bang up job screwing themselves out of the running with their Agreement Shenanigans.

Hollywood is all about these references.

In the 80's It was all about post apocalypse movies because Reagan/Thatcher was going to start WWIII. Also during that time there was scenes of drivers just fastening their seat belt, or commenting about how smoking is bad if someone smoked on screen.

It's the Corel and Broadcom for hardware instead of software.

HP is where hardware goes to die.