I worked with a sociopath I'll call "Bill" who we strongly suspect deleted and sabotaged many things. Mayhem had a long history of following Bill, as we asked former colleagues to make sure we were not losing our minds. We learned to back-up and document stuff like crazy to work around it. Bill seemed to have a lot of experience covering his tracks, such as knowing which systems didn't keep logs.

Depends on how many RVs you give the Court.

Trump also uses an auto-pen, he's a hypocrite.

Probably because their rivals are also leaky?

I'm sure Pete Hegseth will "research" that question.

But we don't know how dangerous they are, as Xi suppresses news he doesn't like.

Let's take one at a time: show me one respectable or even semi-respectable economist whose model shows protectionism improves the average economy of a nation.

caught Sheldon Cooper.

Rupublicans seem jealous of the Taliban. They might not have much, but they have more than the people they oppress, and that strokes their fragile egos.

Before they only fucked your ass. Now they fuck your ass and your phone.

There are too many companies vying for the auto-drive business already. It's a long learning curve with the potential for glorious PR disasters. Ya don't want to go there.

Maybe Rivian are afraid China is commoditizing EV's such that they have to find a value-added niche or die.

Couldn't shareholders sue their pants off for such a lie...if caught? Enough companies seem to be hiding slumps behind AI bs that the first successful legal team will have to skill to quickly slap the others.

Wells Fargo has been losing sales for a while now because their ghost-service-add-on scam gave them a bad reputation.

PhbGPT

That's more of a matter of budget than technology. We don't have to send the return-fuel on a single big ship, we can send multiple that dock up in orbit over Mars.

No handful of local universities can cover all needed topics. Being able to shop the world for products and skills gives an economy more options and better options.

Protectionism and isolationism is economically stupid, almost every economic model shows this. There are ways to improve supplies of critical components without trying to make everything local.

Whether such "protects culture" is another matter. I personally believe such is tribalistic ego in action, but I've hesitantly come to conclude that one must respect xenophobics to a degree, humans are highly imperfect.