AI speculation means nothing... OpenAI or Anthropic being listed is just to drum up money for the next big step, nothing else... when their bubble bursts, that's when they go from letting us use AI for free to only paid-for models (like AOL was free for 1k hours, lost their shirts along with so many others... now, you want internet, you pay), which, for them is great! Your toaster, fridge, TV, car, cell phone, internet, computers, game system all depends on AI to function, so you _have to_ buy a subscription.

Is crypto going anywhere? Nope. Even if the current crop of e-coins fails, someone/something else is going to come along.
It's never going to go back to where you brought bags of cans to the recycling center and got a couple bucks per pound... soon, places won't even take paper money, which means that entirely card-based transactions are the only option... and, that's when your Bitcoin miner will come in handy.

So, there's only a limited amount of BTC available... that means that limited amount will have value... if it was literally unlimited, then it falls prey to deflation.

I know... those solar panels work great at night, and those wind turbines are awesome on a dead calm day. And, I bet the 24h battery backup for NYC will fit in your garage, too.
And, the wind sails they are really handle tornados super-well (when a tornado can shove a piece of straw through a 4-foot thick oak tree or the tornado picks the entire house up and drops it in the next county). But, go ahead and keep rootin' for solar and wind energy (ignoring, of course where the rare earth minerals come from, the pollution that building one creates, the pollution that shipping & hauling & installing & maintaining one single wind turbine generates)! And, that's assuming the company that makes all the proprietary parts is still around when it needs a replacement gear or something.

How many meltdowns have we had in the US?

I dunno about you, but I'd rather have power right now when I need it versus when it's available.

I will be the first (not even close) to say that just stuffing it in a lead-lined warehouse for 100k years isn't going to work.

Find a use for it... fusion reactor fuel, a new type of nuclear fusion reactor, launch it into the Sun... there has to be a solution.

Hate to tell you... this waste existed under other BICs (Butt In Chair), and they authorized tossing it into the oceans and that crap.

They didn't act before, because nobody knew how to deal with it.

Maybe they could design a reactor that ran purely off of the barrels of waste (either just dump the barrels into it, or maybe the outer barrel itself is used the same way the pellets are used).
Maybe use the centrifugal satellite launcher thing to fling barrels into outer space.
Hell, maybe use the waste as starter fuel for warp drive.

Use your imagination! There has to be a way of dealing with it, somehow... and it's not just the current administration's fault... fairly sure there were nuclear reactors in existence when other Butts were In Chair.

There's a rocket launchpad in Cali, right? Zip-tie or duct-tape some of the casks to a section that'll have fuel, detach it, light the engines and burn for a course above the orbits of the other planets aiming for the sun.

Or, maybe a fusion reactor could be made that uses nuclear waste as a fuel (hint: put money into fusion research).

Or, maybe better designs for nuclear reactors so that they don't generate as much waste.

Those casks are a ticking clock, not denying that... a little creative thinking could take care of the problem.

I believe, and correct me if I'm wrong... that'd be 17 terawatts... 'spose 17,000 MW sounds better and more impressive on paper.

I bet those arc welders and arc furnaces run just fine on a bunch of batteries. How about a string of cloudy days or a string of days without wind? It does, in fact, happen (although, with the way the weather is going, it's anyone's guess). And, I bet that solar and wind powered battery system is backed with a NatGas power plant or three that are just pumping out pollution... that NatGas could be used for heating and cooking, couldn't it... or, maybe you don't care about that stuff.

We don't need a pasty 'bot walking around... a computer can lock the doors until the transaction is completed.
It doesn't have to do the running of the store particularly well... but if there isn't someplace else nearby, people will go there. And, I'm sure social media will be a tool for it... people say it should have milk and ground beef and pre-made hamburgers and frozen pizzas and TV dinners, it it'll order them and have a little Johnny-5 stock the shelves or something.

The grand idea is to not have to pay a human for anything... that way, the company that made your AI overlords makes all the money, while we starve in the gutter. Isn't that the way it's always been?

And, despite the ones that failed when they went all-in... how many are still up? eBay? Newegg? Woot? little place called Amazon?
The dot-com bubble bursting didn't really do a single thing... the Internet is still here, it's just that AOL isn't giving away discs with free Internet Access anymore.

When the AI bubble bursts, some people/places will loose their shirts, sure... the remainders will just start charging for what used to be free. There ya go.
Are they really gonna cut the power to the AI that operates your car, essentially bricking it? How about your iPhone/Android? How about the entire $5k surveillance system monitoring your house using entirely AI?
Just wait until your toaster won't work without AI... same with your fridge... they require a subscription. "Well, I just won't get one that has AI baked into it!" What if there isn't a choice?

That's all? What about drugs and hookers? If it's called Vice, ya gotta cover all the bases, or the competitor can out-sell you!

Unfortunately, it was.
Sure, they carried all the things for rebuilding a power supply or building a homebrew radio that could over-power every radio station in your area... but that's a specific crowd. Not many people want to rebuild their computer power supply... they'll just buy another.
Everything is a throw-away item now, nobody could be bothered to take a few minutes and replace a friggin' fuse... we'll just toss it and buy another!

I called it when they first announced they were taking AI mainstream & public... I knew the goal was to replace all the meatsacks at stores and at the cubicles and factories as much as possible, and knew back then that AIs would completely ignore the guardrails and sandbox (asking AIs outside to complete tasks), and that training the AIs on the entirety of the InterWebs without limits would result in at least one hacking critical infrastructure... Pandora's Box.
Now, put the Genie back in the bottle... now that it's spread.
There were a couple movies about that, weren't there?

And, people think if we go 1,000% in on solar and wind and BEVs (and, don't forget about using all the NatGas for power generation instead of cooking and heating), that's just gonna 'fix everything'... maybe in 200 years, assuming there's even enough trees and plants to generate oxygen.

Well, if they want to live here, they can come here legally (without having an advocate pencil-whip the paperwork and answer everything so the immigrant gets every single benefit)... otherwise, we become the United States of Other Countries.

And, even if we hadn't stepped in, there'd still be war over there (it's basically one big continuous war, if I remember right), and we could look forward to Iran getting nukes and we get to see if our old ICBMs still work).

Plus, at least someone is trying to bring jobs back to the US.

The $5k checks is just The People's share of what the US earned from the tariffs, which is how it should be.

So, if I came to your house and told you I killed an alien in your backyard, but wouldn't show you it, would you believe me?

(Roswell was a weather balloon)

Umm... don't all Presidents have people read crap to them?
It's not that they can't read, it's that if they read every single thing in the big stack, they'll be sleeping at the desk by the time they're done.

Legit articles, not sensationalist crap.
Proof that one person and the government he controls has made the country he watches over the way you claim... that's what I want proof of.

So, both Bushes (lil' Shrub and old Shrub) and Clinton and every other Butt In Chair didn't do anything at all wrong? Great!