to restore balance to the 3 branches of gov't. Prez has been given too much power. If the Prez is by chance evil, it's hard to stop them.

> when photos emerge of him shagging a teenager.

Ivanka ain't no teen.

"The poor downtrodden rich need our help now! It's why Thurston Howell had to rent a 3 hour cruise from 2 bumbling morons in a dodgy boat."

It's smelled bubbly for a while already. When will this ZitGPT pop already?

Intel may actually be a good hedge stock since they don't (yet) make notable AI chips. Investors will see them as more reliable because they sell chips for actual and time-tested products. They'll look smart for not hopping on the AI bandwagon so quick, after the bursting.

The BB-sized metal spheres found by the Opportunity Mars rover are hematite.

That makes 2 worlds we've polluted. Probably Mars also: 3.

More fake candidates will be chasing more fake jobs.

Re: "and put only half our eggs in the energy basket." -- should be "half our eggs in one energy basket".

And "Western-friendly companies" may also factor in location. For example, if war breaks out at Taiwan, getting supplies from Japan could be logistically difficult. Thus, we probably want a fair number of suppliers in the American, European, and/or African continents.

this may not account for things like environmental degradation, harm to the general population and other issues surrounding personal rights, etc.

China's workers are de-facto slaves and their consumers are de-facto guinea pigs.

The article mentioned the "996" labor model, which while technically illegal, is given a blind eye by the gov't.

The Soviet Union quickly caught up in nuclear weapons just after WW2 by radiating everybody and their dog around factories and test grounds. They moved fast and broke people. China has a similar mentality when Xi lists a top goal: win first, citizens be damned. To misquote Mel Brooks: "It's good to be dictator".

The Western world should refuse to become fully dependent on China for green energy equipment, and limit their market share in batteries, wind, panels, etc. to say 50%. That would mean the investors mentioned could focus on Western-friendly* companies that are to fill in that other 50%. That China's prices are lower doesn't matter, they would be limited to 50% of sales regardless of price. Don't forget the lesson of the pandemic: don't have a single source for anything important because wars, plagues, and mayhem happen.

We already know Xi is drooling bigly over Taiwan, having arguably the biggest navy now; we should thus presume there will be a war over it and run our industry with that assumption active, and put only half our eggs in the energy basket. (Both sides will likely shut down trade with each other during the Taiwan battle.)

* Not sure Trump is "Western friendly", that's a wildcard.

or as MTG says, "disrobed"?

North Korea?

Why not, everyone else is.

It's more entertaining than the original! No cat torturing, for one.

That kind of thinking got us stuck with COBOL ;-)

War is dumb, but giving bullies free reign is dumber.

Yes, Iran and Vietnam were probably mistakes, but nobody said conflicts are easy nor clear.

> There is no exception here. Teachers are to teach what is in the published curriculum

If the curriculum limits answers to certain questions for religious reasons than it's in violation of the separation clause.

> It can be a matter of health,

I'm sure the evil GOP will try to twist their argument into being about health or the like, but underlying it's religion trying to camouflage itself, like how Intelligent Design tried to disguise creationism as science. It's bearing False Witness and thus should be punished via an elevator to Hell. Jesus can read GOP's evil minds.