This is anecdotal, but when I was growing up, we played hockey, basketball, football, and baseball neighborhood pickup games. Those opportunities are diminished given our current lifestyles and distractions for kids. We didn't have video games, TVs were relatively new, the phone was that thing on the wall.

I was working at Enormous State University a (long) while back (1990s) and was walking across campus to the gym. The university was hosting a Boy Scout thing with lots of different troops from various places. I couldn't help noticing just about all of the little critters were overweight, waay overweight.

Add a bit O' sugary snacks for the little critters to eat while watching the tube and playing video games and it is no surprise they were overweight.

My assumptions are they were not getting very much exercise, had sedentary lifestyles, and ate to much crap.

From Yahoo Finance: Trump’s Nvidia Stock Purchases: Financial disclosures revealed that Donald Trump purchased between $500,000 and $1 million (with some reports noting up to several million) in Nvidia stock around the same timeframe his administration weighed key technology and China policy decisions. The Trump Organization and White House have maintained that Trump's assets are managed in a blind trust by his children with no conflicts of interest.

From the Tax Policy Center: The Trump administration allowed Nvidia and AMD to resume or license certain AI chip exports to China (such as H20 and H200 series chips), under an arrangement where the companies reportedly share a percentage (such as a 25% or 15% cut/fee) of those China revenues with the U.S. government—an arrangement criticized by legal and policy experts as a quasi-export tax.

Also: Nvidia donated $25 million toward the planned White House ballroom project associated with President Donald Trump (that we know about).

el Bunko is above corruption like a brick is above the Sargasso Sea (to reuse a Douglas Adams quip). el Bunko believes Putin and Emperor Xi are honorable as well.

Look at the ultra-rich and the way they buy everything including pols, elections, laws, etc. They are every bit our leaders. It shouldn't be but there it is. And Huang has already influenced the U.S. gov policy on China. Hell, he bought el Bunko just as much as Elmo, Ellison, and rest of those jack-offs.

"he's bent the knee to Trump", you have that backward, he's bought off el Bunko.

I heard a roundup on Bloomberg that ran down all the industries Nvidia in which had their tentacles. Data centers and AI are the obvious ones. I do not recall them all but you can google for them. If their bot-shot is to be believed, they are Data Centers & AI Factories, Automotive & Autonomous Systems, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Industrial Digitalization & Robotics, and Gaming & Content Creation.

I do not know to what extent Huang guided Nvidia into these businesses but surely he must have had a hand in them. Anyhow, according to Bloombeg, Wall Street is nervous about the "one critical guy" syndrome (I think they call it something else but you get the idea). Apparently Huang is the typical autocrat and made sure everything of import to the company ran through him. This is why Nvidia's stock got hit Friday, dunno what happened today.

Dependency on the Fed. Gov. is a non-issue at the moment because el Bunko has been bought off by Huang and el Bunko came out with some silly-ass statement about how Huang is not a national security threat....this from a national security threat with his own private minder in the Kremlin.

Think about it, NASA. He can easily fund his own trip, he's super enthusiastic about sending people into space, and he even has the support of Dear Leader. We don't care where you send him. Just please, for the sake of humanity, send him off the planet.....errrr....and if you can manage it, pack Dear Leader in the space craft with him. If you push real hard, you can get his fat ass through the door.

Excuse me, have you been alive for the last 2 years? Why would you expect the FBI to investigate anything associated with the White House. The Justice Dept is run by el Bunko bootlickers, so they cannot even force the FBI to investigate squat and the head of the FBI is another el Bunko bootlicker.

The rest of the fed. agencies are also run by el Bunko bootlickers. And most do not have independent investigatory powers nor are they able to bring cases, especially against their own government.

Once OpenAI reaches 100%, human ingenuity ceases to exist. Why think when you can have a bot do it for you so you can spend your time playing video games. Why start a new business when your bright new idea will get botted and 8 new companies launched to produce whatever you thought of.

So, what is your plan, General? Invade a country of 93.4 million people who have history of not buckling under to anyone? You first.

Of you could inflict some serious Christian War Crimes on them in the hopes they will buckle and won't hold a grudge for the next 100 years. Hint: look at the history of the Middle East and how long their grudges last.

Or you could bomb the rubble some more and watch Iran take out what is left of the U.S. bases in the region and destroy the region's oil economy. Frankly, it would do a world of good for global warming, so that might be a good idea....except for the number of dead people around the Gulf and beyond.

All la Presidenta has succeeded in doing is spending down our treasury and the U.S. munitions piles, and simultaneously given the Iranian regime a new lease on life. Prior to this, the Iranian people were thinking about putting the heads of Iranian leadership and their stooges (Rev. Guard, Basij) on pikes. Now, that crowd looks like it will be there for at least the next 100 years.

Is there anything el Bunko cannot bankrupt, financially and morally?

If you are talking about worlds in our solar system, then possibly. Otherwise you cannot get there from here, at least not withing several 10s of years travel time.

Or you could be one of those AI Techno-Babies who think they'll transport their consciousness into a bot and send its ass there from here. The only thing is, hardware tends to break down after roughly a few years. So unless you go way faster than we possibly can below the speed of light, you are not going anywhere you care to be.

Only if they solve the space radiation problem first. Without that anyone going there is deado.

You are forgetting private credit in your screed. Private Equity has been buying up small-town America in the forms of their dental practices, vet clinics, farm land, etc. Any type of small Ma and Pop businesses that provide the same goods and services is being hoovered up by Wall Street Private Equity vultures. So now there are networks of dental practices in many different towns all owned by one private equity firm. That way of doing business will prevent other small businesses from getting started because they are big enough to snuff out new ones before they can build a business. Farm country is replete with this sort of feudal economics.

To make matters worse, there's no corralling Private Equity because they have gobs of cash. They can buy off government and get rules and laws passed to preserve their little feudal kingdoms.

Yes, but la Presidenta has stacked the Supreme Court with Nazis who see no problem turning the U.S. into a Fascist state, dictatorwise and the state in bed with companies. And Alito has been making noises about retirement which would give el Bunko a chance to extend their Nazi reign of anti-Democracy terror a bit longer; that is if the Democrats fail to win back the Senate and that asshole doesn't resign right after the midterms so he could be confirmed by the current bootlickers in the Senate.

Bullshit. If we funded police properly and fielded a lot more of them, then they wouldn't feel so overwhelmed and wouldn't be asked to solve social problems because there is not enough social help available. Fix that and police forces wouldn't be forced to hire knuckle-dragging right-wing nuts.

Not a fan of biology or genomics, I see. Scientific American had an article on just what genes go into your sexual identity and the vast range of differences. There is no "normal" which is another right-wing-nut "theory".