...in the US perhaps. The rest of the world can happily keep innovating and releasing models if they please.

OpenAI has been able to throw large amounts of last generation Nvidia hardware at the problem, as has Anthropic and co. China, having been cut off from these, has had to engineer its way out. And massive state aid has helped.

This is an underrated POV in my view. Anthropic stands to lose their 200M USD contract with the Pentagon, sure, but on top of that Hegseth threatened to take it further and designate them a supply chain risk, effectively blacklisting them to many US companies. In other words, he is threatening their entire business, not just the contract with the Pentagon. Typical Trump administration strong-arm tactics. Google dropped their the no-evil directive entirely voluntary. Same can't be said of Anthropic, so perhaps some leeway is justified in this case.

Didn't Japan recently take the position that copyright is irrelevant when used for training the AIs? What if all this allegedly pirated manga was used for the purpose of generating tentacle-slop? That should then be okay, right?

Not your wallet, not your crypto. One more reason I would never consider 'investing' in crypto on these platforms.

You obviously know your shit. You're also a complete cock about it.

In the USA perhaps where the perp-walk is something that is considered normal for someone who is merely arrested.

Let me address your 3 points from looking at the Google+ account information and help files. I quote:

Configurable. " You can change your profile settings at any time if you don't want Google and other search engines to index your profile."

Configurable. " Show photo geo location information in newly uploaded albums and photos."
As for #3, when creating the profile you get the option immediately to set visibility. Other than your name (which can be anything) and your gender, no information is initially required for your profile anyway. Not saying Google+ is better or worse than Facebook (I am in fact not particularly interested in either) but at least attempt to get the (current) facts straight.

Bless her. She's been a force for a while trying to stomp out anti-competitive behaviour and consumer fleecing. A completely free market eventually only leads to monopolies. I prefer a more regulated approach. It has the positive side-effect of feeling actually represented in government.

While better than $50, a 15$ overdraft fee is still unreasonably and stupidly high.

Bad analogy. The cake is a lie.