... if they hadn't let the environmentalists shut down Indian Point.

I bet the same people objecting to these bogus lawsuits -- which are really an attempt to legislate via the civil court system -- are also crying about how the US isn't opening the Strait of Hormuz.

This was my thought as well.

A friend of mine recently left a senior role, largely b/c of frustration with the firehose of junior AI-slop pull requests.

Back to the Future IV and Family Ties reboot when?

Your links are to Iranians in the US and Canada. Supporters of the Shah, other people who don't like the Islamic Republic, and their descendants, most likely. Not really a good sample. What about the people OF Iran, you know, the ones who voted 98% "Yes" for the Islamic Republic in 1979, and THEIR descendants? The ones who like to chant "Death to America"? Sure, a few were having second thoughts earlier in the year, but the leaders of that bunch all got killed; there's almost no one left in country to oppose the Ayatollahs.

This will not end well.

Why is this a problem?

I do not want my software censoring anything I make.

Neoliberalism and liberalism are two totally different things.

I'm pretty sure that Hegseth does, in fact, want Skynet.

Ai will just shine the light on the class of workers who have make-work just that exist solely to push them to vote harder.

When we can let markets replace them, itâ(TM)ll be a tragedy for a few generations and then it will be forgotten.

One day it's "AI Bubble is Going To Burst", the next it's "AI Is Going To Eat The Economy".

I was employed at IBM from 1990 to 1991. One thing IBM did was provision their PCs with huge amounts of RAM for the times. I'd use a RAM drive to run things. Their standard PC was a 16 MHz 80386 with 16M of RAM. Yes, the 80486 had just been released, but even IBM struggled to keep up. I had an 80286 clone PC with 1M of RAM, fairly standard for the mid 1980s. They had some old 80286 PCs (genuine IBM brand PCs of course) they'd supplied with 12M, which they kept in use as network bridges. One big difference between the clone and the genuine IBM was that the clone could skip the memory test. Another was that the clones tended to run a few MHz faster, 12 MHz for mine, 6, 8, or 10 MHz for these genuine IBM beasts. Upon powering up, it took that genuine IBM 80286 PC's BIOS 10 minutes to run its memory test, 64K at a time in real mode, then again in protected mode, and you couldn't skip it. To this day, those hold the record for the longest boot times I have ever seen in a PC. Had hard drives that had to be manually parked, and one day the idiot among my coworkers moved all the machines around for no good reason (he wanted all the servers physically near him because he thought that gave him more control and power), but forgot to park the hard drives of those 286s, thus ruining them.

In 1993 I used these VAX workstations that took 20 minutes to boot. They were intended to stay on 24/7. The day that thunderstorms knocked out the power for an hour, twice, 30 minutes apart, I didn't get much done.

All headphones likely also contain "chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth anomalies, or other reproductive harm."

Maybe there's actually an issue here. But a group calling itself the "ToxFREE Project" strikes me as to be far more like the State of California and its Proposition 65 warnings than an objective observer.

Aren't those "Made in " labels Federally regulated by the Federal Trade Commission? If so this lawsuit is going to get dismissed on Federal supremacy grounds.

Waiting for the engine to start gives them time to put down their cellphone. (Theoretically, anyway, they don't actually put it down until after the honking starts)