Why not just get an iPad w/ a keyboard? The keyboard is detachable, you know?

How worse? If you don't like a touchscreen, as others pointed out, just buy a Mac

And expensive? One can always go for an iPad, if price is the issue

I generally try & use a stylus - generic or specific - if I want to touch the screen. Although sometimes, I do end up touching it

But aside from that, there is another reason to ask your question. We already have iPads that have optional keyboard attachments to them. It looks like from a physical functionality standpoint, people who need a touchscreen Apple computer already have one. Now there is the subtle differences b/w iPadOS apps and Mac apps: like I've heard that spreadsheets have certain features on iPads and extended features on Macs.

So can't Apple simply leverage the iPads and maybe during installation or staging, have an option of configuring it either as an iPad (installing iPadOS) or a Mac (macOS)?

They still have a horrendous bureaucracy, that would make ours look tame by comparison. They'd require a major paradigm shift to get rid of that before they can get to where you suggest

Switch your pension funds, if you can, from NASDAQ to S&P.

... by getting angry at a person for not knowing a definition of a word that you have to use Urban Dictionary as a reference for.

It'd be fun to be that rich,

The funny thing is that he seems to constantly be miserable, at least when he's raging online inside the anger-echo chamber he built for himself.

I think wealth taxes are fundamentally a distraction from the giant loopholes in current systems, and even if you oppose wealth taxes, you should still fix said loopholes.

First off, people like Musk just take loans against their stock. This is not a realizing event, so they get to enjoy their gains without paying taxes on them. Using stock as collateral in any way should be a realizing event. If you're doing something that lets you enjoy the gains, you should be forced to realize the gains and pay taxes on them.

Secondly, capital gains are just income. They don't deserve a special lower rate. They should be taxed the same as other income, at normal income rates.

It's fair to argue about whether we should be doing more on top of these things, but can we at least agree that we should be doing these things, and make this the standard globally?

Reza Shah has no real connection to Iran? - that's a laughably inane statement. Given both his consistent involvement in Iranian affairs throughout his exile, and also the fact that the hordes of Iranian demonstrators in various Iranian cities are yelling his name, not that of Maryam Rajavi or any of the other opponents of the regime

Besides, historically, the Pahlavis are the first ethnic Iranic dynasty to rule Iran after the Samanids. Every dynasty that ruled Iran in b/w - the Ghaznavids, Seljuqs, Khwarezmids, Aq Qoyunlu, Timurides, Safavids, Afsharids and Qajars - every one of them was a Turkic dynasty of one Turkish clan or another. The Pahlavis were the first to respect Iran's pre-islamic heritage, which is what endears them to 60% of Iranians

Which they were from 1992 to 2014 - 8 years under Yeltsin and 14 years under Putin. During that time, NATO expanded eastwards, contrary to verbal guarantees James Baker III had given Mikhail Gorbachev. Gorbachev's mistake was not insisting that the US put that on paper, and get codified by a treaty

When that happened, both Yeltsin and Putin expressed to Clinton and Bush their desire to join NATO themselves, but got rebuffed. It's hard to be good neighbors when the people you thought were no longer your enemies now decided to expand the alliance that previously existed against your former dictators, but refuse to include you. Heck, you might even start wondering at some point whether you are their newly chosen enemy

Yeah. Israel's goal is the former - depose the islamic regime. Nobody is thinking of nuking them, but I have yet to figure out what Trump's goals are

So far, there has been a regime change in the islamic regime, but not in Iran. After the Israelis bombed the "Council of Experts" meeting of Ayatollahs to determine Khamenei's successor, it looks like the IRGC has replaced them as the ones who completely run Iran - call the shots, as opposed to previously, when they were answerable to the ayatollahs. So they put pressure on the surviving ayatollahs to put Mojtaba Khamenei - who may well be dead - at the top of the leadership, while one of theirs claims to have a direct line to him, but is the one actually calling the shots. That is the regime that actually decides Iranian moves, which is what makes Trump's negotiations w/ the Speaker pretty irrelevant: he's not even talking to the people who matter, and the people who matter want complete immunity for Hizbullah and Ansar allah (i.e. the Houthis). Which is what makes current US political operations there a complete farce

Best thing for the US to do at this point: pull out, let Israel do its thing and not weigh in one way or another. In the meantime, Reza Pahlavi should move from Maryland to Tel Aviv and start working w/ the Israelis in moving in his transitional authority, which supervises a referendum on the type of replacement government Iran should have - republic or monarchy - and organize subsequent elections. Then let an elected Iranian government have good-faith agreements w/ Jerusalem and Washington on what policies don't threaten Israel or US interests in the region

I'll get to Iran in a bit, but let's address the others. Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia wars ended decades ago. Vietnam today is a friendly country, and pretty much an ally vis a vis China. Afghanistan and Iraq were debacles b'cos of mission creep. In Afghanistan, the actual war was won in December 2001, but the US made the mistake of taking Islamabad at face value and not taking on Pakistan next (where Osama was found 10 years later). However, the US had no business of starting a nationbuilding project in Afghanistan, making Bush 43 one of the stupidest presidents, somewhat like Biden. Same thing in Iraq: when Bush stood on that ship w/ the "Mission Accomplished" sign, he was actually right, and didn't need to do a thing more in Iraq, other than have the team look for WMDs & not find them. Iraqis would have settled on their own government, as would have the Afghans

On Libya, I completely agree w/ you: the US & NATO completely botched this. Yeah, Col Gadaffi was a villain in the 1970s & 80s, until the one night bombing of Tripoli & Benghazi, which completely altered his behavior. Besides, after the fall of Saddam, he grew nervous and did everything he could to completely normalize relations w/ the West - turning over Libya's WMD stockpiles to the US, compensating the Pan-Am 104 victims, extraditing Libyan officials involved in the shooting of a British policewoman outside the Libyan Embassy in London, et al. From the POV of the US, NATO, there was absolutely no reason to topple his regime. When the Arab Spring started, people who were jihadists revolted against him, and a lot of the Arab League backed that, but there was no reason for the US or NATO to get involved: it was Libya's internal fight. But NATO had to tip the scales, Gadaffi got captured and lynched, and Libya has been a country de-facto run mostly by Field Marshall Haftar (who the US refuses to recognize as the leader, despite him being a former US citizen and CIA agent), who controls much of the country except a strip from Tripoli to Sitre. So yeah, we completely botched that one

So now to Iran. The people of that country only consider one group as terrorists - their own regime! They were rooting for the US & Israel to overthrow it, and their joy peaked on the days that Khamenei and Larijani were successfully slain. However, Trump dragging his feet on the war w/ worthless negotiations, and that too w/ entities that cannot be identified, is eroding their patience. The longer this war lasts, the longer they have to suffer from a dead economy: yeah, it's taking its toll on regime members, but it's also prolonging the agony of common Iranians. If Trump is trying to mollify the antisemitic part of MAGA (Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Candace Owens, et al), then the better option for him would be to just pull out the US navy from the region altogether, and let Israel, whose goal here (unlike Trump's, which I can no longer tell) is regime-change, do the job. Once the regime is overthrown and there is a new government, then listen to what Iranians say about who the real terrorists are

So did Beijing use AI to run that influence campaign to shape American public opinion about AI datacenters?

Actually, Steve Ballmer managed a lot of it in Windows 8. But granted, unlike Satya, he didn't enshittify the platform by crippling software/apps that were working just fine

And while I am still working on OpenWater and Alignable, the only thing I've gotten from LinkedIn in the past year is rewrite-your-resume scams