The second amendment was added as a sop to slave states which had militias to hunt down and capture escaped slaves.

He's been taking lessons from Elon Musk. (Or maybe Musk has been taking lessons from him.)
All hype and wild ideas that don't actually do anything.

I won't comment on your general critique of the person you were replying to, but where Baochip is concerned I think you're being more than a bit harsh. Me? I'm cautiously optimistic.

Bunnie has a pretty good reputation and knows his way around the industry AFAIK, and he is the driving force behind Baochip.

We'll see what happens.

MacBook Pro battery swelled up and damaged the keyboard. Never had that happen to any other computer.
Pain in the ass to fix.

Police like facial recognition because it gives them lots of "suspects" without much effort.
They can then arrest someone and get points for the arrest.
They don't really care if they have the right person or not. It's the arrest that counts. There isn't any penalty for arresting the wrong person.

Caiso.com

Currently California is getting 80% from renewables and 2.9% from natural gas.
I'm not worried.
Sucks to live where you're dependent on fossil fuels.

In my EV.
No gas? What, me worry?

Nuclear is not dispatch-able.
OTOH wind and solar with batteries is the cheapest and most flexible energy source.
Yes, batteries are dispatch-able.

OpenWRT
This is the obvious solution but it's too complicated for many people.

I agree. There is a flood of AI on YouTube and I have been sucked in by it.
I just don't know when to trust something on YouTube.
I'd love to have a warning that specifies what part was AI generated and a filter to cut it out.

Iran's larger strategy is to make the entire area hostile to investment, growth and development by bombing all of the surrounding countries.
Trump's "special three day military operation" will turn out about as well as Russia's.

The US has plenty of oil and gas so there won't be a shortage here but, of course, the price will rise since it's a world price.
US oil and gas companies will make out like bandits.