Did you inherit the farm, or went into it green?

They are basically doing the opposite of libertarian/conservatism stated philosophy which is weak federal government. Instead they are doing straight up socialism (owning stake in companies/production) and exerting power uninvited in states (ICE raids).

We know it was always about tribalism.

Provably false. In the 1990-91 academic year, approximately 25,159 bachelor's degrees and 9,324 master's degrees in computer and information sciences were conferred by postsecondary institutions in the U.S. In 2022 the number was 112,000. Nearly 80% of those were Americans. In other words, today, we have more than triple the number of American computer science graduates than in 1991. You mentioned the year 2000 .. we had 80,000 graduates that year because of how hot CS was due to Y2K and the internet going mainstream. That's still 30% below today's number. US population grew about 20%.

As per capita of the population, the US has more people going into STEM majors than most countries including India. (China and a few European countries may beat us by a small amount.) But India has 5x the population so they have 3x more people enrolled in STEM majors. It feels like India has a lot of tech people because they have a huge population and we only get their IT people (for the most part). So even though IT is actually a much smaller percent of their workforce .. to us it looks like India is full of IT workers.

The biggest reason they don't do that is the CPU generates a large amount of EMI noise, the modem would have to deal with the crosstalk from parasitic coupling.

Why is doesn't China's rail + short & long haul trucking add up to 100%? Is the other 8% boat/car/airplane? If so how come the US number adds up to 100% ?

In the future, phone to satellite as a backup will be important. I hope they are working on making that work properly. It sucks that there are so many areas that have zero service. We've been paying the universal service fee tax for decades now and there's nothing to show for it. I mean, even service in cities still have dead zones. This is 20 years after those "can you hear me now" Verizon ads when they claimed to be testing reception. Phone to satellite would in principle be a lot cheaper than terrestrial because each satellite covers a few thousand square miles .. that much coverage would require a few hundred cell towers.

How is that different for hardware?

Make a random patent generator. First spit out sentences, and then try to feed that to AI to assess and create a patent around. For example, at some point a 3 word sentence and a dictionary from the year 1850 would have the words "random patent generator", "electric voice transmitter", "winged flying chariot", "dexterous automated horse" etc. From a 1950 dictionary you could invent microchips "electronics on substrate". In theory with a 6 word sentence and a modern dictionary, you can probably can invent a large amount of things.

Legit uses are bomb squad and SWAT. Safer for all parties to have a robot enter premises. You haven't seen the videos or read the news stories about police entering a home and having to shoot because people panicked? A robot can enter a home and assess the situation. If doped up people panic seeing T2 come after them, worse case some damage to police property. I really don't see how robots are the worse option. We should have oversight and strict rules (as in, jail-time for anyone involved in bypassing) about robot-initiated deadly force.

What's the bite force of one of these things?

Even 20 minutes later I wouldn't remember jack about the person's face or even what they were wearing. I see on TV all the time "suspect was last seen wearing a red sweater and corduroy pants" .. like I could never remember shit to that level unless they were wearing a something really ridiculous. At a conference earlier this year I met someone who I wanted to follow up with later, but then I couldn't remember exactly what he looked like even the next day and went up to the wrong person twice. It was a bit embarrassing. And no it's not early stage Alzheimer's .. I've been like that forever.

He's now Tim Apple Pie.

They've never gotten anything. I recall it took them years to realize the internet even existed. They know nothing. You might as well ask your plumber for medical advice.

What's wrong with the stupid mods, they have no sense of humor nowadays. I've noticed it happening a lot where they just don't get obvious jokes. They've forgotten or don't understand the purpose of mods.

Sand wonâ(TM)t do it. The impact has to fragment the satellite.