Ahh, assuming you are the same coward who replied to my first post, you'll perhaps remember that I clearly noted that I haven't voted for a Republican in over 25 years, and then it was only one - Arlen Spector. So your assumption is badly incorrect from the start.

Even more to the point, the years of the path Dems were on were effectively doing the same thing as your "blowing up the government".

In the end, they were every bit as bad as those they declared their enemies. And they were declaring more groups their enemy all the time.

A party cannot eliminate racism, sexism, and ageism when they are overtly racist, sexist, and ageist. Just because they apply their 'isms to different demographics does not change that.

No homie, there was no good choice in the last general election. Hopefully the Democrats will right their ship. I've been seeing signs of that recently.

My friend, you have an overactive imagination. How you pulled that out what I wrote is quite creative, but silly and wrong.

My point, and my only point, is that the present concept of huge power sources dedicated to AI data centers is premature. Effective AI is a couple generations early. At present, the paradigm sucks up too much power.

That the idea of data centers gobbling up incredible amount of Electricity is a real non-starter. Because at this early time, the end game of AI is likely to use a lot less power. So it's a given AI is here - do more research to make it something sustainable.

Even the idea of restarting old decommissioned nuclear plants like Three Mile Island is silly. The idea of using 1960's nuc technology, managed by profit driven people who will demand that profit over safety is thing one - that's a bit chilling.

There's a coincidence... I almost added to my post that the Board of JP Morgan was considering changing their name to INGSOC.

The ones I have been in don't talk anything like that. And I've been in many.

The different scopes involve different speaking terms, those with a military bent have one set of recurring terms. Technology based boards, another. Marketing yet another, along with fiduciary involved boards. Some of the groups I have been in have significant overlap.

Once you have been in a field, you end up getting used to the terms used, and they are logical.

"Manus is the action engine that goes beyond answers to execute tasks, automate workflows, and extend your human reach." Now that is bullshit. And if someone said that in a board I'm on,, I'd tell them it was bullshit.

What boards have you served on to gain that unassailable knowledge?

"awareness" my rosy red rectum. Sounds more like something from 1984, total surveillance of every minute, framed as helping. Doubleplus ungood.

While it is popular to claim that Americans are the stupidest people ever to be put on earth, there is a non-zero chance they are simply humans, who do risk/reward assessments.

Yes, the Republicans have no real plans.

The problem is that in roughly the past 15 years or so, the Democrats went off the rails. Republicans have done the same in years past. Think about the second time O'Blama was elected. So after Hillary Clinton won the election, yet lost the White House because of a quirk of the electoral college, and the far left ended up grabbing the party by the balls, they ended up in 2024, reaping what they were sowing.

If there is something that they might try: Understanding that there is no "estrogen wave". You will not win elections when you openly broadcast that men are the enemy. Become a party where normal masculine men are considered equals of women, not universally patriarchal rape culture fans.

Not bending the knee to far left academic sophists who have convinced the party that it is not possible to define what w woman is, and to stop objectifying women as "Birthing People" - don't deny it, the 2022 budget called women birthing people.

In addition stop denying science and biology. Supporting biological men playing sports on biological women's athletic teams is part of this, and not only is batshit insane, but places women under the tyranny of men.

Stop supporting medical experiments on children. Look up Chloe Cole on Youtube. A supposed Trans, she was altered with injections that harmed her, and had her breasts amputated at 15. This is cruel Mengele' level experimentation. She eventually figured out she just had some issues going through puberty, and just like her biology, was a woman, but could no longer be a complete woman. She did testimony before congress. And she's not the only one who regrets transitioning

Support the working class. The Democrats publicly abandoned the working class, Harris claiming she would win with or without their support. That one aged like milk

If you are going to make commercials to attract men to vote for you, have actual men make them. The Men for Kamala ads were utterly cringeworthy, as if they decided to have a group of gender studies majors make the commercials, using parodies of men. And definitely use the fat dude talking about "eating carburetors for breakfast", or other misandry based drivel.

Want the White House back? provide what people will vote for,

It is amazing, is it not? TrumpCult is not a bad description.

The next general election, the biggest weapon the Democrats will have is the old saying "Are you better off today than you were 4 years ago?"

And Trumpfuel and Trumpfood will be a big item. All those far righties in their big 10 mpg trucks are paying for their fealty.

It depends on if they send you a tax notice or not. There was an outfit in Ohio that I used to purchase a lot of electronics from. One year I got a note from them listing my purchases, and that I would have to pay taxes on. That was a pain in the ass.

I think they got "caught", or had new accountants or something. But yes - if you can avoid the sales tax, it's a significant discount.

Wait... I thought it was Hillary's email server?

Or was it O'Blama standing by and doing nothing during the attack on Pearl Harbor?

Especially the trucks that get 10 miles per gallon.

I might as well piss everyone off now, so I'll wade into the piss filled pool.

First off, I haven't voted for a republican since Arlen Spector. (check that out) Republicans in general are the worst sort of cowards, spend money we don't have like drunken sailors, and are a general waste of sperm, oxygen and other resources.

That the USA is a fucking mess right now is an outcome that anyone with a functioning brain could forsee happening, even if the exact details weren't clear at the time. Inflation, 5+ dollars per gallon diesel, general deterioration, and on and on.

I'm going to have everyone hate me and wish death on me now. Because liberals are people people, and love others. 8^/

After the 2024 election, I did some political introspection. How did such a thing happen? How did a proven incompetent and vindictive asshat get elected, and not by an electoral college trick, but an official majority?

So many do not want to hear this, but the Democrats played a huge part in their defeat at the polls. Drifting too far to the left, adopting misandry as a core principle. Outright denial of biology, ending up being unable to even define what a woman is. While utterly objectifying what the rest of us call women as "birthing people" Supporting medical experiments on children. Overt and well documented rejection of the working class, while becoming subservient to a small groups of far left sophist academics. Their social policies alienating and demeaning young males in addition to all males already cast out. The critical part is that young males usually start out on the liberal end of things. Perhaps a little difficult to get people your policies identify as the rape culture mortal enemy to vote for you.

Not calling anyone who does not agree with every one of the dictates stupid. Progressives working really hard to come to not being progressive at all.

Long story short, Democrats morphed into to being not quite sane at the party level. Hopefully, they will do a little introspection, and stop being so radical.

the question is whether they care to return to sanity. Sanity is not becoming a republican. Sanity is becoming rational, and not falling for sophist tactics. The responses will tell whether people have a bit of introspection, or will double down and embrace the irrational pool the Dems fell into the last few years. Who will you be? You strike me as a rational intelligent person.

I have Amazon Prime. Determining if it is a good deal is pretty simple math. The main limitations with shipping I have is there is a 25 dollar minimum for overnight delivery vs 2 day. So sometimes I have to add another item - that I would have been buying anyway. Or I don't if 2 days is fine.

There are also some items that have a longer delivery time. I find this when buying exotic wood for projects. In almost all cases, it is because the product is not in stock at Amazon's fulfillment warehouses, so it gets shipped direct. But still no extra for shipping.

I cannot think of a time that it did not pay to compare prices.

I have Amazon prime, for me it is frequently less expensive, esp when shipping is involved. But I still do a reality check. Where it really comes in handy is when I re-order materials for the shop. Because I've already checked them out, and I don't need to spend time doing due diligence on price.

You are right. The present driver is US/Chinese competition. China plans to put a crew on the moon in 2030