Yes, a blank check to buy something in particular likely means you're a mark. Its a CEO's wet dream.

But the investors can demand it if they think it would be more profitable to have an AI as "el jefe".

When most people aren't working due to most jobs being eliminated due to AI the government will use a significant portion of their tax base.

Where is the money going to come from? Additional taxes on AI implementations is my guess.

the Supreme Court. And if that doesn't work, he'll use even more executive orders to try and thwart it/s

Part of the asshole's plan is to gum up the courts wit so many challenged EO's that the final rulings by the supreme court will be years if not decades away.

The lawyers on both sides will be eating high on the hog, while the taxpayers foot the bill.

Historically, the Jubilee was used in the Roman Empire to wipe out all debt.

Suppose the US government had one and then passed a constitutional amendment to balance the budget and prohibit deficit spending. Sure, the bond holders would be left with nothing, (Including all retirees who invested in government bonds), and a very deep economic depression (along with more deaths of people with severe health conditions) would occur as entitlements such as social security, medicare, and medicaid and military spending was cut back.

So the question here, is would this Jubilee lead to better living conditions for people living in the US or would reduce the standard of living drastically.
I think it would be the latter, and it would stay there for a very long time.

So what is better, living with the debt burden while managing it, or wiping the slate clean and pressing the reset switch?

You'll be fed HDMI video from I device which I have control over.

You'll have no connection to the internet.

TV's which won't work without an internet connection, or those with cellular modems integrated to get internet connectivity behind the back of the consumer will be returned to the point of purchase for a refund.

Hoarding resources: It's hardwired into our "core-rope" memory and it was essential for our survival until very recently. Some people are better at it then others which explains why we have billionaires and trillionaires.These people tend to be mostly narcissists and that makes the the problem worse.

As long as a few of us our of the entire population continue to be driven by this hoarding instinct, nothing will change.

Will this ever change? I'm doubtful.

Governments are paranoid about being sued, therefore they tend to design user interfaces which are very difficult to use and demand bunches of redundant information entry as well as multiple cross-checks which typically fail thereby discouraging citizens from accessing the promised service.

The Drop site is a prime example of the "friction" mentioned above. I tried to sign up, but the email verification check failed.

and the federal government to override local governments. They'll do this under the guise of"
We need state-level or federal-level consistency in zoning laws for data centers".

There is too much data center investment money sloshing around and that will be used to override the wishes of the citizenry.

The bakery sections at grocery stores are awful compared to Costco. It seems they don't have try harder to meet or beat Costco's item quality and value for money.

This may be because people don't care and just by the crappy baked goods at the grocery stores anyway, or most people have been conditioned to think the baked goods at grocery stores are as "good as they can get".

I used to shop at their National City location in San Diego in the mid 1980's after Fedmart went under. The grocery section was small compared to the rest of the store, but the prices beat all of the typical grocery stores in San Diego. At that time, most of the grocery stores other than Costco were way more expensive.

then other grocers.

In America, as a grocery cashier you have to stand at the register. At Aldi, cashiers get to sit. Sitting at the register is normal in Europe. Standing at the register is an American abomination. Management communicated that standing communicates a sense of urgency to the customer to attend to their every need, but is is really implemented to show who's boss.

Aldi also claims that its cashiers are more productive sitting down, and this may be because they don't have to bag groceries, and there is a laser focus on the time it takes to check out a customer's order.

:et me preface this with I hop they succeed, we need to bring back these types of acheivements.

However, I think that NASA may have made a mistake relying on commercial suppliers for the moon lander.

Not designing a lander and taking it with them on SLS like they did in the Apollo missions may be the thing which prevents success. Of course, that would have been more for the taxpayers to shoulder.

To get to the moon before 2028 seems like a long shot, and even 2030 seems doubtful.

I think the current regime has moved the goal posts. If the reason is to get there before China, then they should be taking the lander with them on SLS. If the reason is persistent presence on the moon, then commercial solutions are required.

China IS taking a lander with them.

The whole idea of orbital refueling is completely untested.

The current regime and the the US car makers will see to it. They won't let these vehicles be imported. This is because of two things: Pride in things made in America by the current regime, and intense lobbying by the US car manufacturers.

The current regime likes ICE cars because consumers have to buy gasoline for them on a recurring basis. My theory is that they hate electric cars because with some solar panels, you can get the energy for them at a cost which the petroleum industry could never match.

The American car manufacturers have so overpriced their offerings that the average consumer making the median wage can't afford the cost of ownership for a new car. Have you seen all those 10 to 20 year cars with peeling top coats of paint being driven around. This tells you a lot about the state of car affordability in America.

When the rug is pulled out from beneath the US consumer (not a question of IF but WHEN) , there will be few customers who can afford American-built cars. At this point either consumers will retrench using pedal-assisted electric bicycles, or electric scooters, or they will allow Chinese EV's to be imported.

Everyone should have their music bits stored locally. Streaming services stop working you stop paying them, they go out of business, or they get a court order to stop providing service.

When your music bits are local YOU have control. The only real responsibilities you have are keeping adequate backups, and adjusting the levels of the music files so that playback volumes are similar.