Operating at lower margins smells like trouble with tariffs to me. But cutting executive salaries could shore up profits and make those revenues stretch further for real business growth, such as development, expansion, marketing, and hiring.

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Consumer protection laws would upset our corporate masters.

YT has really gone down hill. The algorithms show kids some real trash by default.

I don't get the obsession with IPA, even though it's about the main beer/ale I drink. But I don't go around chasing some "elevated" IPA experience. Tried a bunch of stuff, most of it is terrible. These days I have one I like (Sierra Nevada Pale Ale) and primarily drink that one, if I drink at all. Everything else I've had from Sierra was not to my tastes. I'm not a snob though, I like Ballast Point Sculpin as well. Their grapefruit Sculpin was interesting but not actually an improvement over the original.

Finding something local that doesn't get bottled and shipped all over the country. But is just sold at a location or two, possibly sold in a growler, is generally the more interesting way to live.

I didn't say all American beer. My father made some rather nice beer at home, and my friend makes a rather nice cyser. And if you dig around the shelves of Bevmo you can find some pretty nice stuff.
But as a country we produce some real terrible swill on an industrial scale.

P.S. I've been at 3 keg tapping events of Pliny the Younger.

Surely our masters will allow us to have electricity for up to 5 days a week for most of the off peak hours so that we can attend mandatory company meetings at home.

People drank small beer in the Colonial era like it was Coca-cola. Popular among women and children especially.

What happened to American beer and ale and cider was a 20th century catastrophe known as Prohibition.

Despite our terrible beer, we have quite a few good cocktail recipes. Again thanks to Prohibition for that.

I don't see any reason to let data centers run their own wind mills, solar, and nuclear power on-site. Your justification that we (hand waves) used to do it is flimsy at best. That reasoning disappeared half a century ago when much of industry was connected to the grid. I mean seriously, why did my grandparents have to let the power company run 3 phase lines over our property if every factory could have just setup their own on-site power. Technically feasible, but such a stupid idea.

If you do most of your business in Ireland, then you're a foreign company. Cut them off from most federal contracts, require them to be double taxed on imports. Remove their access to US work visas (H1B). Those are for American companies.

If it is done fairly it isn't corruption. It's the self dealing and big enough to avoid consequences that is the problem

It is illegal to do it blatantly. But these companies try very hard to do it in a legal way.

If your profits are mostly in another country, then a reasonable law could treat your products and services as imports. Having tacking a tariff on MS office365 subscriptions would give actual American and European busineses a fair competitive playing field in their respective markets.

AI companies have been caught lying to investors on numerous occasions. More regulation on data centers is the right action, not less.

In principle, a nation should not permit the private ownership of vital infrastructure. Such as the national grid or large scale power generators. Privatizing everything is a way for corporations to conceal everything, and pass their costs onto consumers and taxpayers. Public transparency of vital infrastructure ought to be a goal for any society, but there are some wrong-headed weirdos that scream "communism" any time we want to look at their books.

Power went out during a sunny day during peak demand. This isn't a base load problem, so throw some solar panels and wind turbines down. Takes about 1/10th the time to install and 1/20th the capital. Let's be efficient in how we build our infrastructure, but also do it in a timely manner.

I would rather build more high-voltage direct current (HVDC) that criss-cross the nation and provide a more durable backbone that also enables the trading of energy between large regions undergoing weather related demand. This is going to be a bigger bang for the buck than a handful of nuclear reactors, as those reactor sites will mostly be at existing sites and won't include the infrastructure improvements necessary to deliver the additional power out of their region.

And please don't build modular mini reactors. They cost more to operator overall and produce an exponentially higher amount of radioactive waste. As components wear tends to be high and those worn components become low-grade waste. It's also a Square-Cube law problem, in that a smaller vessel has more surface area for its volume. Every surface is an opportunity for contamination. For the most part, these modular reactors are an investment scam. They have some limited industrial utility, but you shouldn't bother installing one within 50 miles of a major metropolitan area, as there are far better solutions. (better = safer, cheaper, faster, cleaner)