Yeah, how much did the smart phone industry pay for them to say that?

The UK has had such an influx of FOREIGNERS there were either from Europe or elsewhere, that it wouldn't surprise me.

40+ years of shutting down coal fired plants, shutting down nuclear plant & building up wind/solar. Instead of BOOSTING the power grid, we "just kept even". And, with energy generation that can't "increase" output like a coal GENERATION or nuclear GENERATION plant can. WOW! Perfect time to start building AI data centers too! Brown/blackouts in the future!

Good lord! If he says I've never even been there, couldn't they at least check his cell phone location data? Unless it is turned off, it would show where he pretty much was.

Medicare caused a LOT of rural hospitals to close. I remember growing up in the 60's. Small town at the time 2300 people. We had a 30-40 room hospital where most people in a 30 mile range were born. When medicare came along, the hospital would have been forced to make a TON of "mandated" upgrades to qualify to be able to take medicare patients. They closed the hospital, the doctors stuck around for a few years then they left too. After that happened, if there was an emergency, instead of being a couple minutes from an ER, you were sent in an ambulance 25 miles away. Not only that, once medical insurance, medicare/medicaid came along, RATES for doctors visits, hospital stays went through the roof! Companies started buying hospitals, doctors offices and what not. Now, in most towns & cities, there is ONE hospital and all of the doctors are "owned" by the hospital. So you can't really shop for a less expensive doctor. Other than the urgent care places you are really screwed.

I don't need 4,304 sensors, cameras, touch screens and other do-dads. Give me a good stereo, AC/heat KNOBS, BUTTONS, DIALS.

Not to mention most of those "college grads" are probably stuck with their heads in the phones, instead of actually be productive.

Just doing some checking, using google earth map, 3,000 acres for one solar farm, 2500 acres for another one, and this one will use up 2,400 acres of land. From the locations, this is FARM LAND that was used for GROWING FOOD. I have no problem setting these things out in barren land, but FARM LAND? That's around 9,000 ACRES of farm land that will now not be able to grow food.

ANYTIME humans tinker with "nature" it usually does not end well for the humans. One of these days they are going to bio-engineer something that will collapse the world.

Disney destroyed what was left of the Star Wars universe. Best thing they could do would be to NEVER make anything related to star wars for about 10-20 years, THEN come up with something new and refresh.

With all the junk floating in space, https://upload.wikimedia.org/w... Aliens would probably think we have a "space shield" and leave us alone. LOL

China has built a TON (no pun intended) of coal/gas plants, but they also have built a LOT of huge solar panel farms out in the desert along with those solar mirror things. A lot of people are suspecting that they are pushing a ton of money in "the west" to push the narrative that AI data centers are bad for the environment (I'm not saying they aren't either), but, by getting the public to push back on AI data centers, China hopes to "capture the market" on data centers like they have on rare earth minerals, pharmacy drugs and on and on.

Buddy of mine, he's a HUGE Star Wars fan. I'm a HUGE Star Trek fan. We've traded barbs at each other for 30 years. He said that he saw it and said it STINKS! Disney screwed up the franchise. 160 million in production + another 100-150 million in advertising and what not. It needs to make over 300-350 million to just BREAK EVEN. DOUBT that will happen.

Only white man dumb enough to think cut bottom off blanket, sew it on top of blanket, make blanket longer.

MONTHS ago. Spotify ads are more annoying, they are pushing podcasts and probably will give up music before long. Why? They have to PAY artists for the music they stream. With podcasters they probably don't. And, can inject even MORE useless ads!