$4.4 billion in outstanding debt, as well. Vulture capitalism is going to eat America alive.

It's very possible to build an eReader with an esp32, but you wouldn't save a lot of money making your own reader. Amazon makes some money on the base model because they are buying 1000s at a time. Part of what you pay for in a Kindle is the fit & finish. It's highly unlikely that you could build a device that would be as watertight as a Paperwhite. The real margin comes from those premium models.

I have a 2012 Toyota 4Runner they could use. We'll just hook up a Mr. Fusion, and it will be just like something custom built for regolith and minimal gravity.

I understand that the AI fees are low, but how did they get a barrister in court for three hours for £400? Is there actually someone out there that is desperate for courtroom experience such that they will take a £100 an hour fee?

Note that this bill has not passed yet, and certainly could be amended to remove the exemption for open licensed OSes in the senate. That said, this seems like it would be a fairly easy thing to add as a compile-time option in systemd, and have it off by default until 1/1/2027.

Algae has been around for billions of years, and will long outlive this administration, and all humans.

There's no guarantees on bugs, because they should be discouraged in all cases.

I sold a car through Carvana at the end of COVID era. Got KBB excellent price from them, and it took less than 30 minutes for them to inspect it, make sure it drove well, and lock it up. Flatbed came a couple hours later and loaded it up. Easy peasy. The prices they are paying for used cars are not as good as they were 5 years ago.

They will make up the losses per transaction in volume.

V2G requires additional and expensive hardware in the consumer's home. If this is intended to help the power grid, are they going to pay $8000 for the bi-directional charger that gets installed, especially for something past the customer's demarc? Until the price gets down to where this is just included with the charger, it seems like a non-starter.

Obviously, the real reason for the population decline is the lack of pirates sailing the high seas.

If your best friend takes your credit card and buys stuff you didn't authorize, that is fraud, and you are not responsible for more than $50. If you allow a computer owned by advertisers to purchase stuff "on your behalf", that is not a crime (maybe criminal negligence on your part), and you can be sure the credit card companies are going to extract that money from you.

I think of schweddy balls.

Did they just add an additional endpoint to the collection gathering the FSB had already installed on the phones?

This is a failure on so many levels. Congress isn't going to get off their collective asses to try to regulate a new industry that may have severe social effects. So, they are going to let the executive control this, in a way that is very clearly censorship. For the powerful, by the powerful