It would be darkly amusing for reforestation efforts to become a defense industry related task

The politics impacting research are mostly from the presidential administration. For biotech, HHS has been badly damaged and while you see public spats with pediatric associations about vaccine schedules, funding that is even supported by the administration isn't getting dispersed effectively because of staff cuts, general confusion, and pivots to vibe based medicine e.g. ivermectin pushing dipshits during the pandemic. For ag bio, the trade war has crippled applications for affected crops, e.g. soybeans, while constraining spend on other crops. The attacks on the universities and overhead funding there has hurt the research partners industry works with there, as well. But, no, it isn't like Elon moving Tesla to Texas from California or what not.

The only thing special about it with laptops is that they are more likely to have soldered RAM so while a desktop enthusiast could reasonably slum it and add more later, with many consumer grade laptops what you buy is what you are stuck with for the life of the system.

Could host an old school forum if reddit isn't your cup of tea. They still exist but they're a bit rarified and seem to only appeal to millennials and older.

One of the few reasons to even interact with Meta/Facebook is for small businesses using it as a free web host, if they get driven off maybe we can have a decentralized internet again

It is funny to reflect on the old payola radio scandals vs nowadays where it'd just be kind of an expected base level of graft. Before too long foreigners visiting here will get the same sort of reminders/training we used to get about how their local anticorruption procurement laws prohibit paying the sorts of bribes that are locally considered normal business practices.

+1, working on tips or commissions is a sucker's game for temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

Energy subsidies preclude a free market solution, though. I'm not even saying they're a bad thing, keeping energy affordable for the citizenry at large is at least as useful as carrier groups, but how we prop up which sectors to get the best long term benefit isn't always as simple as just letting the market fight it out when it comes to new tech.

We have a few Shark versions. The one with the self emptying base does a much better job since it dumps itself whenever it is full, the other one just keeps on going and so it stops doing well whenever the dust bin gets too full of dog hair.

That's a good point, but I think these guys are all still in a startup valuation inflation state of mind where [claiming they are] rolling their own boosts the stock price more than saying they're doing something that might actually work. Everyone wants IP worth the moon, not to build something good that makes profit from sales margins.

The scent behaviors relate to immunohistocompatability, with keying towards heterogeneity; that in itself has its own benefits, but is likely rooted in avoiding incest.

Maybe in the 90s, these days the GOP hardly believes in germ theory or how tariffs work.

No, they have their own cloud, they don't use the consumer one

It'll be funny if genAI flops because no one can afford workstations and smart devices to use it anymore.

Will the manufacturers allow themselves to become uncompetitive on a world scale, though? Maybe the Chinese EVs will make it a moot point but lowering efficiency will be ceding market anywhere that keeps up their standards locally.