the drone will identify the coordinates of your laser turret so you will face rocket artillery or shells or mortars quickly, anything like that will have to keep moving

Every atom in your body came from stars too, other than the hydrogen. That's what the universe is.

And because where income is high, cost of living is high, and the marginal cost of children goes from "investment in the future" to "big hole I sink money into".

He has also tariffed steel and aluminum. But copper is used extensively in the plants and electronics

If you live in a desert on the equator. Other places get almost no sun for months at a time.

What pre-market testing? The US lets chemical companies claim things are safe until proven otherwise.

"wealthy" nations are all broke af

More idiots blaming the hot dog for the damage done by the bun and sides.

In cold climates you pump glycol through the panels and have an exchanger in your tank. It costs a lot more.

Well, yes. It's not coincidence that Qadaffi was trying to bring about a Pan-African currency or that Iraq was selling oil in non-US currencies.

Their population absolutely dwarfs Canada and the US as well, so that isn't much good, is it?

BTW, remember the secret of Ti Kwon Leap- Anger is a weapon only to one's opponent.

I still think we need, given the microamps involved, a hamster powered cell phone charger.

Yes it is. Radioactive materials are made in the planet's core, and float up in the magma. Radon Gas is a normal and natural resource from decaying uranium.

It's as renewable as sunlight and wind.

AI spreadsheets: excel, but sometimes were going to fuck up the math.

Difficult is not equal to impossible. Heat can be used to boil working fluids, which can be used to drive turbines, which can create energy, which can in turn be used to run AI chips, which give off heat, which can then also be harvested to boil working fluids...Not really a perpetual motion machine, but the inefficiency in the system can be used to suck more heat out of the heat pumps anyway. Inefficiency in this case is a feature.