I know people that still expose their lives to Google, but I am not one of them. Especially now, at the start of the age of AI where all information is used to profile you and used against you, from salary negotiation to loan applications, it is absolutely crazy to want any product at any price, including free, from Google.

"We'll be happy to sell AI services to folks in Kenya who don't want the datacenter there. Pony up."

Who is "we"? The same liars who scripted the first part of your absurd post?

"...upgrading the grid and capacity to support such a venture could provide economic benefits..."

It could just as easily impoverish the nation. as the "upgrades" could easily be made to serve only the venture while being paid for by the locals.

"Done right" is a matter of perspective. We know the perspective that matters, it isn't Kenya's.

Never, since SCOTUS declared the president immune from the constitution and all other law. The OP's question is a good one, the only thing that prevents the Trump administration from doing anything is competence / ability to do it.

You can't update firmware unless you can get firmware. That's what alligator Alcatraz is for, anyone who imagines they can provide firmware. Threats is how they do it, just like how they do everything else.

Fortunate, then, that Trump is immune from law. What's this "legal power" stuff? Does ICE have the "legal power" to murder US citizens in the streets?

I like how the discussion centers on what government organizations can do as if that's how the Trump executive branch works. Respect for the law has really sorted the tariffs out and stopped the war in Iran.

Which one of these is the Ayn Rand laissez-faire capitalism choice? #3, right? Certainly can't be #1 or #2. Funny how free markets get abandoned the moment nationalism is the priority.

"While were at it, the public till can get raided to inject cash into some American chip makers so they can design but not actually make any chips..."

So #3 is also the communism choice?

"...do fuck all about supply chain risk and the national security and sovereignty implications..."

What are those, other than current administration talking points? Racism against the Chinese sure is complicated.

"...pretend we did not just sell out our grandchildren at the same time."

Like you did in the last election?

Gloria lives in a bubble, and made the mistake of thinking her extremely comfortable, highly secure bubble was the whole world. That's not surprising. Gloria only moves among other bubble people, from one gated bubble pad to the next, in her bubble transport system, where they don't talk about the turbo-fans and ICE V8's that power it all, or the staggering quantity of power it takes to climate control everything in her bubble world.

That's not new. We're ruled by such bubble folk, indulging their bubble concerns, pursing their moral panics, signaling their virtues, and carefully ignoring all else beyond the bubble.

What's new here is this: the consequences of this have reached the privileged students of our prestigious academic system. Suddenly it's not just the hoi polloi on the shit end of the stick. Johnny Winston-Blake IV is also having his future deleted by the bubble people. And he's mad about it.

Lightnings are super popular around here with contractors. They spend most of their time driving around to sites doing estimates or doing supervision. Occasionally they need to haul or tow something. Lightning is pretty much perfect for that use case. The ones with diesel trucks often leave them sitting around idling with the air conditioning on all too much.

Every bad thing has the you can avoid it angle. It does not mean it's okay the bad thing exists.

Match fixing is a thing but in the major sports, the TV revenue is larger than betting revenue by several orders of magnitude.

That's my belief. Do you know of any data comparing all the various influences? Money, parental involvement, charter vs. traditional public, teaching methods?

There are two ways to opt out. First, is that you call and withdraw consent to connected services. Manufacturers will punish you by disabling every remote feature. For example, Toyota will disable keyfob remote start when you opt out. This does not generally prevents your car sending out the data, as verified by multiple people doing signal analysis.

You can find a remote telematics/data collection module and remove cell modem. This is A LOT of work as these modules tend to be deep in the dash. You can disconnect cell antenna, this usually less work but people reporting that driving next to cell towers you can still get signal.

Insider trading, but with the fun twist of looting not the stock market, but the general populace. Now there's a direct and no fuss way for our leadership to take money out of our pockets.

If it's regular sports betting, then people aren't winning because of insider information.