Great. On the other hand we had two major chemical accidents. Ruptures, leaks, implosion, and more are risks in industrial processes. Solving the turning into an atom bomb problem does not elimate all other localized risk.

We keep voting them into office, but I suppose correlation isn't necessarily causation.

Why spend hundred of millions a month on something that has no revenue and you think is "dying" ?

No, I believe that Google and others are convinced that AI is the next big thing. They likely believe AI is as important as smartphones and the Internet if their spending is any guide. It is a crazy bet in my opinion and SpaceX/xAI will probably come out of this better than Anthropic.

But what is important, at least in America, is answering the question: will this make important people even richer?

We hide trade secrets in this industry by not releasing internal software to the public or partners. We have manufacturing and engineering software that we don't reveal and some of this is under open source license. Yet with GPLv2 at least we are still able to keep our secrets and comply with the license, as we don't distribute even binaries in that case.

Or does your software vendor own your computer?

Really short-sighted on the GOP's part to have chosen justices that are expensive to bribe.

Democrats have things far easier, you can push your agenda through if you add a token gesture to a woke ideology. We could have gotten the Keystone Pipeline on track if the oil executives would have promised a bird sanctuary every 100 miles along the pipeline staffed by trans biologists or whatever gets center-right liberals excited.

Texas is in the top 20 states for violent crime. Florida is 31. (from whatever source this used)

I'd argue that Mississippi and New Hampshire have better gun laws than Texas (and Florida is not even worth considering), and both have far less violent crime than either.

Although I value fresh air, ocean breeze, coastal hiking, fresh produce, cool music scene, and more over gun laws for places I prefer to live. So as long as I can afford to live on the central coast, I'm going to stay here.

I'm for some taxes on the rich instead of nearly no taxes for the rich. That's the compromise I'm willing to accept, but for some people that's not good enough.

With an inability to print its own money, states need revenue in order to provide services to its people. Often the services are an obligation under the state constitution (such as California's education budget).

But ultimately my income tax here isn't the issue. Even the property tax isn't too bad, because it's fixed at a very low rate. It's that the housing prices are so out of control that anyone wishing to move here cannot afford to. And people who didn't buy their home 10 years ago are paying a small fortune to stay in both mortgage and property tax. California's problem isn't the nanny state, industry regulation, or even education spending. It's the lack of control over problematic housing decisions that have been left to the free market and special interest groups.

Poverty and lower cost of living has more to do with it. Manufacturers trying to minimize labor costs will go to so-called shithole countries to save money.
Research, engineering, science based businesses will also go where people can be hired cheaply, but if an insufficient number are available they will go where people with education and experience live.

You can't even drive or walk down certain roads in border states without getting harassed for papers. So at least the authoritarianism is consistently applied to both real and virtual reality.

Tracks with Christian Nationalism, government surveillance, and corporate oligarchy.

Ban porn and gambling online. Treat it as publicly visible airwaves.

(actually doing that effectively is probably impossible)

Verizon and AT&T should have offered the other justices interest-free loans to buy an RV. Really a huge slip up for these large corporations to not have used the levers they had available to them.

And your owners and creditors get to raid any intellectual property you have. It's not free for Google to take.

I don't understand why this is so difficult for you to understand.