They are being made AN EXAMPLE. Can't have all the puppets in the Americas doing their own thing which doesn't benefit American lobbyists!

Look at how Wikileaks was under decades of attack; they had to destroy the figurehead especially. Small target-- notice how the media which repeated it, distanced themselves. Had they gotten the leaks, they'd not report anything (except The Guardian would have.) If you destroy sources, you don't have to go after big media orgs who will create backlash.

China has switched the world to officially being with them on Taiwan. Only the UK and USA oppose their take over. They only need to keep the chips producing and nobody will push back; the UK will bend over quickly after the USA is weak. My bet is 2027 China thinks the USA is weak enough and is already planning the invasion.

Rubio is whispering into Dementia Don's ear and would love to invade Cuba. He's probably upset Israel is having their way with Trump while he has to suck ass everyday and can't even get his benefactor's woman a dictatorship in Venezuela; although, he did get part of his wishes on Venezuela... but that wasn't a personal wish of his. Cuba is.

I'm fine with gas appliance owners as long as they have to pay higher insurance for burning down their house and their neighbors... pay 100% of the cost for gas infrastructure. I shouldn't have to pay to cover their foolishness. That should mean that new construction doesn't get gas service at all; they can have an exploding propane tank outside if they want gas, like every rural house uses for gas. I shouldn't have to support city gas service at all.

Oh, and while I'm at it, a carbon tax too... Oh, and cooktops/ovens give off as much lung damaging gasses as living with a 2nd hand smoker, so they should pay an offset to the medical costs they add to the healthcare system. Perhaps something like smokers have to pay?

Who really are the welfare queens?? Oh, and who is in the "richest nation" when they turn into melting snowflakes when gas prices bump up slightly?? They can't afford $9 gas like many people in the world have to pay? WTF? I thought they had money. Further... They can't afford home insurance rates going up because of the hoax of global warming? What's causing that? Antifa? Or rising housing costs due to wallstreet and increased material demands due to an increase in environmental disasters? Immigrants causing inflation not tariffs??

FYI: The EPA was bipartisan. Nixon sucked and needed a win so he signed onto the EPA which would have passed without him; he also undermined it from the start. It just had to stop RIVERS from burning! Today, Trump (with his EPA deregulating that caused it,) we'd be sold on how great burning rivers are. States have to deal with it, their firefighters are lazy and need to rake the rivers...

What a moronic thing to say. Perhaps the fact many of us ignore such statements is because we don't want to deal with morons. I'm for one getting sick of all the stupid.

Cuba, being closer to the equator, doesn't have much of a shift in daylight over the seasons; they don't need as much time in the dark. They also don't freeze and cool at night; so demand drops massively.

You have not heard about batteries? Or economies of scale? Or hydro power or tidal power or wind power (aka "bird killing windmills") or the fact that baseload power demand is actually quite low and can be managed down to almost nothing...

To be fair, most people never think about GEOTHERMAL and the advances that has made; ironically, due to oil drilling advances. We hardly fund progress in anything except fossil fuels (and their steam generators) so it's enjoyable geothermal benefited so much. It's the best kept secret (or repressed) of energy solutions. Drilling also provides valuable minerals and open loops do more. Recent news shows that concrete can be cheaply made into a usable super capacitor... China should get into that because I can't see the USA supporting it because it doesn't involve coal or oil or tech bros.

China is no longer communist; arguably, it never was but it certainly is not today. "Brutal" is subjective and per-cap the USA jails a lot of people; and the USA is a terrorist state compared to most nations.

The insanity just seems to compound over time doesn't it?

I've seen papers about turning old-school graphics or even bad n64 level graphics into photo realistic images. This I think is ok but not as impressive and it's being done in realtime which I was expecting to start happening... not at 4k. 1080 looking like a movie is fine with me. I can't tell 4k sitting 8ft from the TV anyhow. I do think some of their work is in need of serious tweaking. I imagined we'd have simple poly graphics by now with metadata indicating what used to be shaders and textures for the AI to fill in. It's not like differences in GPUs didn't render differently looking before. Sure this thing can make mistakes or go too far - but that is where the metadata comes in. it's not like we can't have some tweaks in texturemaps or shaders make big differences in output already which require tweaking and taste.

I think vs ray-tracing or even some increased rendering tricks will cost more GPU than the AI will at some point.

You fix the system by adding a SALES TAX to trades. common sense. also; real business that actually does something, pays really high transactional taxes. Credit cards take 2%... did internet business die off when cash is impossible? Oh, I remember when I had to pay $30 to make a stock trade. each time. and the stock market died completely! (sarcasm)

The robots do millisecond trading already those reports don't matter much and if they did it monthly and just output data to shareholders without a bunch of smoke and mirrors it would be far less shady - it's not like they don't play games and lie with those reports anyhow. If you want to be a public traded company then you should have to inform investors. Go private if you want to screw around months or years between pleasing the owners with a report.

1) if Trump is for it, it's likely BAD.
2) It should be monthly, some decent experts suggested monthly and I'd go with them
3) The AI stock traders that handle big investors which run in milliseconds are not going to care about what you do. The real fix is to add a SALES TAX to stock trades like every other part of the economy must deal with. They are not doing real business anything yet they are tax free! While real business transactions have to pay sales taxes. Wise politicians proposing such things are not allowed to get anywhere with that... and they only ask for FRACTIONS of a %! orders of magnitude below sales tax and that is "crazy" and "impossible" communism!

You can ONLY radiate IR light - you can't "radiate" like you do on earth which is mostly done by convention not by giving off IR light and that takes AIR to do. you need to dump a ton of watts somewhere and light is all you've got to work with -- last I looked, my CPU/GPU isn't lighting up like a light bulb.

You voters are not likely competent enough. You don't want to spent on prisons, welfare, housing reform, mental health, and everything else to address the problems. Instead you demand they punish more and be tougher but without any support to do it-- plus the simpleton solutions the masses go for and vote for -- don't work. trusting experts is hard for simpletons. and the group has few who are informed, as a mass group; unless forced to actually think, will functionally be simpletons. A distracted populace with no attention can't compete with past generations who were far more competent voters.

So I can see exactly why I as an official would ignore the voters; you want punishment but there is no support to carry that out. prisons are over loaded without enough money. sending somebody to jail over 500 and the court costs alone are far far above the loss of $500 and it does nothing but INCREASE the reasons they will steal again after punishment! CA housing problems were caused by boomers and continue to be maintained by them until the rules change... it's not likely possible to fix the problem; yet they bitch about competent leaders; like their governor, who can't solve much but seems to do amazingly well despite being in almost hopeless situations. Blame your problems on people who try but fail to solve your problems for you while you don't allow them to actually solve anything... NIMBY etc.

"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." - Mencken (1920)

They voted for this. A couple gold bricks and they've been sold out by their Orange Jesus.

I would rather these data centers get built in states with less corruption and less gullible voters who are not as easily suckered by their political hacks who are for sale.

Having NDAs with public officials should be criminal, and if your official signs it that should be an end to their career as a politician... but the voters are incompetent... sell them on some idiotic lies about immigrants or the trans that hardly exist etc and they are as sold as gold brick awards do for their leader.
The problem with laws is that you can't fix STUPID. The problem with term limits is you can't fix STUPID but you can stop the rare competent honest leaders from staying around should they actually be able to survive the constant onslaught of STUPID.

The second biggest hurdle, is unbalanced power. Not government branches, but the wealthy who can overpower the whole system national and local if you let them grow too powerful. There must be a cap on income; billionaires must be illegal and corporations must be limited in size or power as well. They of course are so powerful that you can't counter their propaganda suckering the masses into handing them power... "the job creators" and all that BS. Sure, it's possible you limit what can be done by mega corps but they overall are slowing progress more than they contribute; even if the net benefit is less, they are doing far more harm to the world than it is worth.

A vacuum is the perfect insulator. How do they cool in space? heat pipes are fine but you have to radiate heat somewhere and it's all in a vacuum.

In the real world, they actually keep burning to level out the operating costs of tradition power it doesn't ramp up or down quickly well so they handle dips by CUTTING hydro power output - the cheap reliable baseload and they use the grid network. A battery can green the grid and lower costs WITHOUT wind or solar. It's a buffering problem! With a flux in prices, it becomes like a less random stock market of buying and selling power. You'd think some free market people would be promoting creating a bigger marketplace...

wind/solar add more noise to buffer. We don't need more baseload; that is hype for the old players who naturally are promoting the only benefit that they have. They no longer have price. With cheap batteries and super caps they will lose their baseload arguments as soon as somebody invests properly and can get the word out.