Ask Torgo.

People dodged that tax, it generally was not paid. The tax dodging often lead to weird conglomerates and other odd corporate anachronisms.

Noticings:

Sora shutting down.
Musk lawsuit back in the news.
Altman asked to step aside.
Whistleblower 'suicide' case being reexamined.
Actual suicide lawsuits, encouraged by chatbot, allegedly.
Memory wafer deal off?
Stargate collapsing, rumors Oracle could be caught in the wake.
Anthropic bails on selling murder services to DoW, OAI jumps in. ...
Microsoft creating distance.

Alone it probably doesn't mean much but this thing has real Sun Microsystems vibes in aggregate.

And here I thought the circular financing deals alone were disqualifying.

Good luck to the investors.

Come on. US educational spending is VERY high on both an absolute and per capita basis, as has already been pointed out to you, and US education has been in decline since at least the 1960s. Arch-conservative (/s) Richard Feynman wrote in his autobiography about how shit our textbooks were when he was on the Arch-conservative (/s) California commission to help choose them. FWIW, I recommend reading this bit regardless of your political persuasion. I do have one quibble with it (personally, I think being able to move between at least base 2, 10, and 16 is actually quite useful, but Feynman was a physicist and not a sysadmin so her gets a pass) but it's illustrative of just how terrible our educational system is, and it is NOT a problem of money.

As far as PBS goes, if you want to know why it was defunded, start here. One of NPR's editors (yes, I know NPR and PBS are separate things), Uri Berliner, claimed that in the quarter century he worked there that it had completely lost diversity of thought, and that was a bad thing. The result is he resigned due to overwhelming hostility from his colleagues. When your Sarah Lawrence/Columbia educated editor, son of the woman who was the founding chair of Sarah Lawrence's Women's Studies department, grandson of jews murdered in Auschwitz, is ringing alarm bells and the response is to force him out... maybe you should be wondering if maybe he had a good point.

Note: I am not at all happy that CPB was defunded. As you noted, they do (or, I guess, did) a lot of great work. But the people steering the ship invited this outcome.

It's even worse than that. The doctrine flies in the face of the wording of 42 USC 1983, which provides:

The court that created qualified immunity decided that the plain wording "the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws" really meant "rights, privileges, or immunities" that some court had clearly and specifically established in case law.

While this example is ridiculous, let's say the court had previously found "anally raping a prisoner with a nightstick while high on cocaine" to be a deprivation, "anally raping a prisoner with a nigthstick while sober" might not be so clearly established and cause the case to be dismissed. This is further compounded by the dismissals that make establishing that in case law a near impossibility.

The "good" news here, such as it is, is qualified immunity only applies to civil suits against the officers specifically. It does not protect them from criminal liability (that's the prosecutor's job *rimshot*) and it does not protect their employer from being sued for the actions of its employee.

It's been difficult to not look at the last half decade and not let my inner conspiracy theorist run wild. The massive supply shortages that persisted through Covid (and now the AI bubble) would make wonderful cover for some kind of EOTWAWKI scenario where governments build arks or whatever.

Bobert and Massie introduced a bill last week to nuke Third Party Doctrine.

Odds are rhe Uniparty defeats it, but hey.

Just think of it as a means of controlling what people say.

Criticize the wrong nation state? No money for seven days.

But, ohh, that sweet sweet 5% interest rate.

These people actually upload their biometrics to foreign nation states to get a "reply boost".

Which Xeon would that be? You may be surprised to know that Intel's DCG lineup is in shambles. Diamond Rapids-SP is essentially cancelled and Diamond Rapids-AP is heavily delayed, possibly til H2 2027.

"Don't worry about NASA spending," they say, "it's a jobs program and all the money goes back to Congressional districts."

> French-Italian space and defense company

What total horseshit this whole thing is. The only district getting paid is the place where the MIC C-suites have their McMansions.

They can't even seal their shipping containers as well as Chinese consumer goods manufacturers loading up container ships.

Next time get Walmart to handle shipping. I haven't seen corroded goods since I got a $9 toaster in the 90's.

Just look at the retards who reply to my posts. Woke zombies, fascists, the lot of them, who fail to realise the irony that their hatred proves my point: Leftists are Fascists, and Fascists are Leftists. In addition, AI is trained on data from Reddit another site stuffed with brainwashed woke zombies who cannot think for themselves, who never took the Red Pill.

Exactly which upcoming product is exciting all these investors? They may be in for some disappointment.

They used to have good fabs.

All the former Obama agreement with Iran did was say we would watch them from the sidelines till they got a nuke.

Tell me, why did they work so hard to get 60% refined uranium when no one needs that for civilian power generation?

Oh...ok, I was assuming OUR Gulf.

I don't really give a fuck about those Middle East gulfs....they're getting bombed by someone all the time it seems....

Same bombs...different "hats" worn by the bombers.

Not especially newsworthy as that it's a common occurrence over there.