"What exactly does Trump have to do with anything?"

He imposes tariffs on companies he doesn't like and gives favors to ones he does.

"Also, any device or method that defeats or bypasses the encryption will be in violation of the DMCA."

Who get's to decide what is encryption and what is encoding?

I guess you don't have a government ID like a passport or driver's license. If you did, you already gave the government your picture, home address, height, weight, birthday, race, sex, and more.

I need help also. I didn't watch Independence Day that close. Did the aliens win or the people?
Also, in Star Wars, did the Death Star get blown up or was it fully operational after the movie?

So he has many of the trade secrets to build the device they couldn't sell. It seems Apple would be happy to let a competitor burn through a lot of cash building a similar product.

"award damages to be determined at trial, and reimburse Apple's costs and attorneys' fees"

That kind of retaliation would make me worry about being an Apple employee. If they think you wronged them, they can sue you into debt for life.

Perhaps there needs to be a project that periodically flies drones over plants to detect methane use and upload the results to a repository.

Banning sharing AI reminds me of when they tried to ban strong encryption. It didn't work and there were many workarounds including printing it on paper. Sorry, but you can't contain knowledge.

"and them it returns 200 years and you have it crashing in the earth"

I saw that episode of Futurama also

Any detection will likely look for certain "fingerprints" placed into the audio feed. It doesn't seem like it would be hard to develop a tool that takes the AI generated stuff and "dirties" it up enough to eradicate any of those fingerprints yet be indistinguishable to normal people. Basically like how a jpg gets a super close depiction of an original image, but it has lost some aspects of the original.

"it has brought nothing good to the world"

xAI (owned by Musk) has shown he is often wrong, a liar, a market manipulator, and many other insights that he doesn't believe. So, either its right or he has spent billions of dollars on a system that is unreliable. ... all good stuff in my book

"with much less convenient hours, but a human actually picks up when you call"

Presuming you are fine to call in those less convenient hours

You left out how they also take as many loans as they can against the business for expansion, pay themselves large amount from that money, then exit leaving the companies so buried in debt they disappear a few years later.

and Mac owners/users paid the most

"What's the impact of most of the major web, database, cloud, SaaS, etc. platforms/technolgoies being 10 or more years old with few, if any, major new updates which result in significant productivity gains?"

Realistically, 99.9% of applications running new vs 10 year old databases will see no impact on how they operate. You could use 20 year old tech and most apps would still be just fine.

Sadly, if we are headed into a depression CEOs first move will be to save the companies which often requires cutting costs. And where are most companies largest costs? Payroll!!!