I liked that Shrub had an initiative to focus on going to the moon. Unfortunately the nation seemed to give a large collective shrug about it at the time. It may have been that a response was delayed because Congresscritters and the MIC needed time to set up the appropriate channels and controls for graft.
... is you can't even buy stock in those companies!
Oh, wait. You can. And if you are like most employees, and have a 401k or an IRA, then you do, even if you don't know it.
... are delighted then, right?
What's that? No?
Of course correlation doesn't automatically equal causation.
But it suggests it, and makes it a reasonable thing to investigate.
Now if I had a drone flying around, for whatever the purpose, and crashed it into someone's apartment building, I'm pretty sure that I'd be arrested and facing all matter of criminal charges. In fact, I could expect a raid by feds and I'd be looking down the barrel of an MP5.
No, you wouldn't, accidental property damage without injury to a person is not a criminal offense.
Intentional property damage is a crime, but this was not intentional.
Bodily injury is a crime, but no one was hurt.
If you lose control of your car (accidentally) and hit someone's home and do not cause bodily harm to anyone, you are responsible for the repairs, you aren't charged with a criminal offense, you don't go to jail, and your home will not be raided by federal agents.
But
Anthropic, Open AI, etc., etc.
January 2026: Superbowl ad.
November 2026: Even that's optimistic.
We'll see
The Chinese government can't send masked secret police to my home to abduct me.
Federal police can arrest you for violating federal law. Of course. (Calling an arrest an "abduction" is just lame.)
You do know that you can peacefully change federal law, right? Just elect senators and representatives who will do so to your liking. We could call it "democracy".
You would have to actually convince voters that they want the immigration floodgates to open wider though, and I think you know that you can't really do that.So you choose street violence instead.
" (1) an actual SMRs prototype runs reliable for a few years"
"Oh, and those competitive costs need to include full insurance."
Those insurance companies will need those years of data to price any insurance appropriately, otherwise it's anybody's WAG. Sort of a Catch-22.
I suspect that we're on the cusp.
... because they want reliable power, and they aren't idiots?
Oh, why yes, that is why:
The government position is that coal provides a stable backup to sources such as wind and solar, which are affected by weather and the time of day.
Besides hallucinating non-existent play-makers, they're also debating the best foods to serve. ("Hot take: Buffalo wings are overrated for Super Bowl parties. Hear me out — they're messy...")
Illustrating quite nicely that no matter how sophisticated they get at it, that they are still just word salad generators. Unless you think that LLMs are really going to get messy while eating hot wings
At any rate, the trend is away from that style of casino floor. The Bellagio and Wynn casino floors are clean and neatly laid out. The Wynn even has windows. Ditto the Aria.
I would expect a combination, such as little nooks and crannies that allow people to explore (for those who like that kind of thing), and somewhat obvious corridors between the primary dollar extraction hubs (for owners who like that kind of thing).
Which Las Vegas are you talking about? There are two, you know.
The one that means "Lost Wages".
Evolution is a million line computer program falling into place by accident.
