“We conclude that both Publishers and the public will benefit if IA’s use is denied.” (huh? p. 59.)

They don't seem to understand how little money most authors receive. Article 11 of the Constitution is about fostering the creative arts, not about profit. Increasing availability of written works will foster creativity in the people who read those works.

You've mis-used the word "clowns", which is defined as "a person who performs physical comedy and arts in an open-ended fashion, typically while wearing distinct makeup or costuming and reversing folkway-norms." One should only use words in strict accordance with their original dictionary meanings, rather than trying to employ any sort of sarcastic, hyperbolic, or humorous shades of evolved meaning.

Once you understand that you quit carbs, eat fatty meat, drink water (ideally spring water), and most of the time the pounds come off. They lied about red meat and animal fat being bad for us. But you can't keep the Sickcare Industrial Complex at 20% of GDP if people eat correctly.

Bonus points for finding local farms raising livestock on pasture and patronizing them. Their animals are healthier and they're building soil without herbicides, pesticides and synthetic fertilizer. Best way to put Monsanto etc out of business.

Yes, there are some people who seem to handle plant-based diets well. If you're a fatty you're not one of them.

So many jobs are unproductive/anti-productive and don't need to exist. With the massive tech-driven productivity gains it should be easier to support a family on a single income, or to retire early. Fun read and the free Kindle sample is generous.
https://www.amazon.com/Starving-Monkeys-Fight-Back-Smarter-ebook/dp/B0032JSL1Q/

gets "corrected" by midwit meatbags one too many times.

eInk held so many promises, and yet we're stuck with massively overpriced and underperforming screens compared to other technologies. This should easily land in a "Bottom 10 product ideas" for the year and summaries to come.

In Another Step Farther Out the late Jerry Pournelle talks about this. Like many such grand plans it depends on a heavy lift vehicle to get materials into orbit. Pournelle assumed that only governments could fund the expense and they'd grown bored of such things.

Hello Starship.

I think that we'd still be better off getting serious about nuclear power but once Starship is debugged it could be done.

In "Checkpoint Capitalism," Cory Doctorow & coauthor comment briefly about the Saudi investment in SoftBank. Here is CNN coverage from 2018: https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/15.... According to the book, this is an example of investing in companies that will not be financially successful for years, if ever. The goal of companies like Uber and Doordash is to become a monopoly (or monopsony or oligopoly or all) so they can buy or ruin the competition, and then raise prices, lock in sellers/suppliers, and avoid antitrust and other regulation. Amazon was the poster child for this approach, and the book is full of other examples from industries we know well including the entire music and publishing industries.

Checkpoint Capitalism is a fascinating book. Highly recommended. Don't be surprised that SoftBank and their many investments continue to lose money and lose valuation - the game is about market dominance, and it's a long game.