Decades ago David Parnas told software engineers to never let a programmer design a user interface. Here that advise can be extended to management as well. Touch screens force you to take your eyes off the road. They have no business being in a vehicle. I love my Mazda with no touch screen.

The closest house is about half a mile away; very few within 2 miles. The Shawnee coal power plant 2 miles away on the Ohio river is slated to close in 2035. It has only half the power the data center needs.

In practice multiple sources of random numbers are used and the sources need to be trusted using a chain of trust. To deal with micro bias two streams from the same source can be merged with one inverted. All this depends on how secure you want to be. Applications typically just need a random seed and then use a PRNG to generated subsequent values. High valued long term keys need to be held in redundant hardware vaults. There are so many ways into systems that, unlike movies, breaking encryption is almost pointless.

There has always been excess labor beyond what the private sector can support in every society. The historical alternative is investing in warfare. Better alternatives are things that improve the quality of life. Plenty of options: infrastructure, health care, education, 4 day work week, housing, national parks, and next is mitigating the impact of climate change. UBI is just a cop out from having to accomplish anything.

AI is great for watching us and they don't care about the false positives. It's also a blanket excuse for layoffs. Stockholders are also spoofed as expenses now look like investments. Management just has to fake productivity gains while they pad their resume with AI experience.

"It's all BS and lies by folks in power" paid for by wealthy donors. That is what has changed and now it is expected and people are resigned to accept it.

Fishing is their primary industry and that would collapse. They might stay warm, but have no income nor food.

Nothing happens to Sheriff Chad Leonard and the taxpayers pay.

If it's a good investment use your own money. Just don't ask taxpayers for loans, insurance, zoning grants, and disposal.

Air pollution is a hoax perpetrated by scientist trying to get rich.

Most Mazda models have tactile controls. We've got 3 of them and the no-touch display is my favorite feature. They also have a very reliable drive train.

Bans are just paperwork posturing and only serve to rile up anti-EV folks. The real work is building out battery production and developing advanced battery chemistries. Everything else is relatively easy.

This is more about the obsolete SK-On NMC batteries than the eF-150. Dumping NMC for LFP is a necessary move for Ford. It was a costly mistake to invest in NMC in the first place, but that decision was made before Maga crushed new battery plants in the USA. The decision was made because it was hard to believe Maga would make a comeback and cause mass destruction. Selling NMC batteries to data centers is just a way to recoup some of the losses. We didn't see the data center craze coming back then either.

It's not just subsidies; it's the batteries. CATL and BYD have engineered affordable LFP batteries. The USA has not been able to develop better batteries. The only option is to license battery tech from China for production in the USA. Until then the USA will be stuck with outdated ICE vehicles.

Don't use antiquated terms like socialism. If you have to define it you've already lost. Instead say private sector and public sector. They don't have the baggage associated with capitalism, socialism, and communism. Those are from the 1800s have been reduced to name calling labels.