No need to be embarassed, it is not common knowledge. I only know that because I have been watching some political science courses - as with all other knowledge, it is better late than never.

Harsher? Even just GDPR would be far more than they have presently. When I worked for an American company (not voluntarily, they bought a German company I used to be employed at) I had to go through the same training the American colleagues had, and how I laughed at the explanation of GDPR ("It's an EU thing"). Fact is, most Americans don't even understand what privacy is.

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
A very specific demographic situation is required for a revolution - lots of young men who have little to lose. The median age in the USA nowadays is close to 40.

"Cocaine back in coke." - why was it removed in the first place?

Yes, the orange shitgibbon thought that Iran is a personalist dictatorship, because it is what he is trying to create. But Iran is indeed a state ruled not by a person, but by a totalitarian organisation. And yes, their civil authority is a real republic. Iran is weird like that. This all makes their political system very resilient.

These people need 0) a pay cut, 1) term limits, and 3) adult supervision.

Our Legislature is dysfunctional and impotent. Term limits should be priority 0, before all else.

Coal canning?

Nothing wrong with EV version of fossils. I am on my fourth electric car, the first three are being also sold as ICE cars and the current one (Hyundai Inster) is a modified ICE car. Suzuki really should make an electric Ignis. If they do, it might be my next.

I am not a native English speaker - English is not even the first foreign language I use - but I think "because he was very worried that someone else, if they got it, would do the wrong thing with it" unintentionally states that Musk wanted to be the first to do the wrong thing with an AI.
Now, fast forward a few years and Musk's AI claims to be a mecha Hitler.

Empathy isn't really taught. Either people acquire it after a certain ave or they don't. That is true for both cognitive and affective empathy, only the ages differ. Hence GP probably never grew up enough to develop any empathy in the first place.

Well, in that case I will have to release my KiCAD library of random LCSC parts as opensource too.

I paid 20 euros for the Dell, have a toolhead motherboard (EBB36) and the printer motherboard has I2C, SPI and CAN, so that is also covered. All of this together cost me 50 euros or so.

"And did we tell you the name of the game, boy? We call it riding the gravy train."

It happened once, a grand experiment, some time in the 1770s.

The experiment has not yet failed entirely.

"they also get actual governance done"

The governance Democrats get done is largely that which I do not want...

"Republicans can't govern, they have never cared about root causes"

The Civil Rights Act.
Clean Water Act, EPA.

Enacted under Republican Presidents. Not rejected by Republican legislators.

And then the ultimate 'root cause' solution - The Civil War. Addressing slavery in the United States finally came to a head, and the Republican Party was founded to address that injustice. It has not, despite mainly opponents claiming otherwise, stray from that purpose. Feel free to disagree.