Businesses are not run like the US army. Your understanding of them is heavily flawed. They are NOT all alike.

Also, from what I understand, the various US branches are dramatically different. Being on a ship is very different than being a pilot, and both differ from infantry. In truth I hear it matters a lot about who your commander is.

But with regards to businesses, your opinion is far off the norm. Each person running a business runs it differently. Some run it the way you describe, but that is in no way the most common.

Some businesses are family run. Yes there may be one leader, but they have to convince their board. Others are small sole proprietors. Some are run with a large hierarchical structure, similar to the US military. Some are run like certain eastern militaries (creativity is punished, obedience and mere competence is rewarded).

Franchise systems are again very different. They have a lot of power on how to run their own substructure, as long as they abide by their franchise rules.

Then there are the co-ops. Things like credit unions are radically different than a public corporation. Ever buy LandOLakes butter? They are a farmer owned coop. If you think their CEO runs the company in a manner similar to Elon Musk, you have no idea what you are talking about.

The thing about real capitalism is that it contains a multiplicity. There is no one standard model.

The US military mostly does not use capitalism. It is the largest anti-capitalism organization in the USA. They care about lives, not bank accounts. It is run in a bureaucratic system that is far more similar to socialism than the Republican party wants to admit.

Therefore it has to deal with the various weaknesses of that system, one of which is over-use of resources for 'trendy' and 'popular' ideas at the expense of the less sexy but more efficient programs.

Right now that means drones and AI rule.

EU can easily have their ISPs block the Ali Express website.

It is slightly harder but still possible to block all shipping from China.

They could still sell digital content via another web site. But that would still be a miniscule portion of their profits.

If Ali Express wants to do business in Europe they have to obey the laws of Europe or have their business be blocked both online and via shipping.

Ai's are corporate drones literally. They are not neutral, they push the agenda of their corporate master.

Do not be surprised if an AI intentionally sabotages software you ask it to build that goes against the interests of the people that built the AI.

Loud speaker with a WAKE UP recording along with self-closing doors should be de rigueur.

But these are just a few of the "I did not realize everything a Taxi Driver did." problem. There will be more.

As in moving luggage and helping elderly/disabled people into a vehicle.

I like the fact they checked the reverse. Important part of any social experiment.

However, they did not mention any attempt to confirm the diagnosis of ADHD by administering medication. ADHD medication does not always work and many doctors believe that the cases of it not working indicate the patient did not in fact have ADHD, just some of the symptoms.

The symptoms of ADHD basically fall into two categories:
1) Stereotypical 'childish' behavior.
2) Poor social skills.

This is combined with the facts that about 20% of kids diagnosed with ADHD lose all symptoms after adulthood and only 15% retain all their symptoms.

Some people think the 20% that get cured never really had ADHD, they were misdiagnosed and just took a bit longer to mature. Others believe ADHD is a spectrum and most people have it in very slight degrees that can be 'cured'/overcome.

These facts along with the study seems to imply an explanation that social media may not 'hurt' the children and instead are more like filler. Too much filler activity delays maturation rather than causing ADHD.

I would love to see how the children that got symptoms of ADHD after engaging with social media reacted to the medications. In addition, I would like to know if the
'ADHD' symptoms that 'appeared' always existed and were just ignored until the child reached an age where those behaviors were less accepted.

By your reasoning it makes sense to get 1000 monkeys to randomly type out a story and look for Shakespeare.

The practical limitations you admit make your idea worthless.

Cramer is not someone I respect. There is a study that says if you invest the opposite of what Cramer advises on TV you make more money than if you follow his advice. He is an entertainer more than a financial adviser.

That said, I do agree with Cramer that many people are doing stupid things with AI and making bad assumptions.

Humans do higher quality work than AI, AI's advantage is SPEED.

Sometimes speed is an advantage. Sometimes it is a bad idea. Do you think it is a good idea to travel at 90 mph all the time? Do you want your doctor to take extra time considering your illness, or make an instant snap decision? Would you prefer to accept an AI's diagnosis or would you rather have a human do it?

I have no doubt many businesses will make a ton of money because they use AI. I also have no doubt many a business will bankrupt themselves trying to do the same thing.

It is true that millions of protein foldings were first calculated using the first AI. I am sure there will be many other good uses of AI. But in addition tho that Lawyers are being fined and fired for using AI. Kids are using it to cheat at school.

Corporations need to prove they are making good use of the new technology rather than just hoping on the bandwagon and wasting a ton of money.

Because that I would do.

Isn't there a rule about the government not delaying economic impacting information to the general public?

That is, isn't this illegal? Or is it just that no other presidency thought of doing this particular cash grab?

Just wondering if TSMC is doing this because they think it makes financial sense (capitalism) or because a certain republican made an offer they can't refuse? (dictatorship)

You make a lot of good points.
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However, two environmental disasters creating an increase may indicate an underlying cause. Many environmental scientists claim that both more fires and more frost are a result of climate change that is itself a trend that will continue.

Adjustments for population growth is also an underlying cause, not something we should ignore.

The idea that it is a couple of local problems rather than a national one has significant importance. Texas in particular, being a separate power grid, may have issues that the rest of the country does not.

This is one of those things that people do not have a frame of reference for.

The question is not did we have a power outage every month, but did we have MORE power outages these past 6 months than we had last year during the same 6 months. Without that data, we have curiosity and mindless fear, nothing more.

Here is the actual data the industry uses, from 2014 to 2024.: https://www.eia.gov/electricit...

While these numbers are hard to inteerupt without a graph (particularly because 2024 was a 'bad' year), there are some clear trends:

Non-major events is pretty much unchanged.
Major events have gone up significantly - perhaps even doubled.
Durations of events have also gone up.
Finally, losses due to power plant failures ('supply removed') rather than transmission line events has a slight upward trend.