No upbraiding. I'm not trying to vilify or exalt Disney, Tesla, or Elon, nor do I expect anyone else to do so.

I'm just saying the article headline is deceptive, perhaps amusingly so. And I'm a bit surprised that the discussion appears to be mostly about the movie, with little about the Tesla display-mode.

But I am wondering whose idea this was: Disney's (for the product placement) or Tesla's (for appropriation of coolness)? I'm guessing the latter.

It seems most people posting her are Tron fans talking about the movie.

I haven't seen anyone comment on the headline. No, Tron Ares Mode does not turn Teslas into glowing light-cycles. It changes the avatar for the vehicle displayed on the infotainment screen. At least TFS got that right.

I was talking about a war declared by Congress. That's the only kind that matters when it comes to a charge of treason.

And yes, you're right, the last time that happened was World War II. Armed conflicts have occurred since then, but they're not the same.

FTFY.

Currently the USA is not at war with anyone. Therefore it is impossible for anyone to commit treason. They might be doing something else illegal, but you can't call it treason.

They appear to be playing heavily on the politics of envy. Look at some of their education policies, for example, or the way they treat small businesses and the people who run them. They don't seem to want to pull up the less fortunate if they can be busy pulling down the more fortunate. It's not a good look if you actually want a successful economy, but it plays well to their base.

I agree with you that they seem to be all over the place in policy generally, and after trying to give them a fair chance in the early months, I now have a fairly low opinion of them (with the odd exception in Cabinet who does actually appear to be at least recognising the real problems and trying to do something about them, which I can respect even while thinking little of their party politicians and government as a whole).

You're right about the investment culture as well, but presumably if we're talking about entrepreneurs who have already been successful and are looking to move elsewhere, that's of limited relevance unless they're planning to start at least one more business after they arrive, so in this particular debate, I doubt that is such a major issue.

While we're hardly Russia, our democratic and stabilisation credentials are looking more shaky than ever as well. Our electoral system produces results very far from proportional. One of our two traditional main political parties is now essentially irrelevant. The other, which currently holds power, is breaking all the wrong records and is widely expected to suffer severe losses at the next election already, barely a year into their term. Waiting in the wings (and currently leading by a very wide margin in the polls) is the nascent far right populist party that has become the default protest vote. It looks scarily like that party might actually be pulling so far ahead (whether thanks to their own merits or, like the present incumbents before the last election, because the government of the day is so unpopular) that even with the usual reversion towards traditional voting patterns when a real election happens, they might still win. And the prospects of what happens next in that timeline are truly terrifying, particularly for anyone who isn't a white British citizen from birth.

The irony of the two stories being together on the front page, "More Screen Time Linked to Lower Test Scores For Elementary Students" and "Microsoft to Provide Free AI Tools For Washington State Schools" is just too good to fail to mention.

And so I'm replying to the both First Posts with it.

The irony of the two stories being together on the front page, "More Screen Time Linked to Lower Test Scores For Elementary Students" and "Microsoft to Provide Free AI Tools For Washington State Schools" is just too good to fail to mention.

And so I'm replying to the both First Posts with it.

Those things do in fact happen. And they are common. No need to fake them, though some lunatics might.

Someone who is even more mentally unhinged than someone who would start a forest fire deliberately in the first place.

Sorry to drag out a cliché, but "both sides" have 'em. It's up to the rest of us to have a rational conversation without them.

Close. More like "Your balls are already in the vice, would you like to opt-out for a small fee? You can do this 3 times a year."

I think we agree that tax-dodgers should be punished. But I don't think that punishment should be revocation of citizenship.

As for treason, at least in the USA, it is defined clearly in the Constitution as waging war against the USA or giving aid and comfort to its enemies. Not tax-dodging or leaving (even fleeing) the country.

I also agree that ill-gotten (i.e., illegal) gains should be "taxed" at 100%. There's a legal term for doing that. But again, it has nothing to do with treason or revocation of citizenship.

Two things:

1. To have your citizenship revoked, you have to commit treason, obtain citizenship fraudulently, or commit some disqualifying crime within a certain period of obtaining conditional citizenship. Simply leaving the country doesn't qualify.

2. Back at least as far as biblical times, humanity has recognized the injustice of suffering the sins of the father on the son. So no, you can't revoke citizenships of families because of the acts of a single member.

As a Brit, I was surprised to see the UK as a destination of choice.

The current Labour government here often seems to be criticised for being ideological and not pragmatic. In particular, they seem to prefer policies that tax "the rich" and businesses in one way or another, yet not large, relatively wealthy groups like pensioners or the homeowners who have lucked out and now live in a million-plus property that most younger people will never be able to afford.

There's also quite a lot of red tape for businesses here, maybe not compared to some of our neighbours in Europe, but certainly compared to places like the US and probably parts of Asia too.

Obviously some of this is politics and maybe the policies are not so surprising coming from a party that in theory represents the working class. However, it is surprising that entrepreneurs would be attracted to a culture like this at a time when we expect to have this government for another four years still.

30% might well be the "biggest single factor." That study compared genes versus everything else combined.

The genetic contribution could be higher today too. That cohort was people born between 1870 and 1900, when there were a lot more environmental things that might kill you early, including two world wars.