By your thinking, airlines ought to be allowed to operate using experimental aircraft and stock aircraft that are not properly maintained. It's one thing for an inventor to be reckless and kill himself. It's another when you take paying customers.

There was little opportunity to prevent Stockton Rush from operating an unsafe vessel outside of a totalitarian environment we wouldn't want. However, when you start offering rides to paying customers, things change. That should and can be regulated. It is hard to hide. Furthermore, Rush fired staff who pointed out the problems. A better whistleblower system might have made their voices heard.

There are plenty of cities in western countries where drones are entirely prohibited and you need to drive to the countryside to fly it, observing various nature reserves and restricted airspaces.

It is also very common that training, a test or license, insurance, etc. are required.

The odd thing is that buying is restricted. Does that include ordering online?

Apple is doing the meme.

It might not come out, since the whole value proposition hinged on the $7,500 tax credit that the Trump administration killed. It doesn't even have an infotainment system, and Slate's answer of "put your phone in a vent holder and use that" is something you do in a beater from Craigslist, not a nearly $30k brand new EV.

You don't need government approval for each trip in your car. That's a major difference between what China is requiring for drones and US driving laws.

If you're only going to keep a car for 5 years, reliability probably isn't going to be an issue regardless of the manufacturer.

On the other hand, if you're the type to keep a car and drive it until the wheels fall off, with a Chinese vehicle, that time might come sooner than you'd expect.

... for my taste but good for them.

Heck, the story is still on the main page: OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X In 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion AI isn't likely to go away, but the current level of spending isn't sustainable. Guess what's going to happen when the purse strings start getting tightened? Yep, those RAM orders might start going *poof*. Irrational exuberance is a well-known phenomenon, and anybody who paid attention during the dot-com boom knows exactly where this is heading.

The other big hole in your theory that this is somehow a result of US-based politics is that the US is not a major player when it comes to having the factories that physically produce RAM chips. We certainly "own" a lot of the aspects of the IP relating to the technology, but when it comes to some place like China just saying "screw it, we'll flood the market with cheap RAM just because we can", there's really nothing the US could realistically do to stop them, other than just hoping that their processes aren't up to snuff. Even that approach only works for so long - China has already become a leader in battery technology, for example.

I know for you politics is like the square hole that everything fits into, but the RAM shortage is just capitalism being capitalism (and you probably know the famous saying that it's the worst system except for everything else we've tried). It's been explained to death - the RAM manufacturers are worried that if they build more capacity, the AI bubble could pop and then they'd be left holding the bag.

I'm not even sure how you'd fix this situation. Some types of businesses are just extremely expensive to start, which is also why there aren't like 50 different competitors to Disney World.

Socialized only to make sure they fail, not to provide for the general welfare.

The modern democratic party is quite right of center, and that's a problem. The Democratic party is an enormous fan of corporate welfare and subsidies for industries that are aligned with their talking points. There are still a few firebrands in the party, mostly centrists like AOC and Elizabeth Warren and possibly Bernie Sanders and Ilhan Omar, but they took suck at the teat of irresistible corruption.

And this is not a both sides argument. For there to be a both sides argument, there have to be two sides in opposition, and the truth is that there aren't.

... that is robust, efficient and that I can maintain and repair myself if the need be. No?
  Ok then, get lost. Thank you.

You forgot third: He delivers results often enough to keep the believers believing. Tesla really is an electric car company that builds actual cars. SpaceX is actually flying rockets, and has achieved reusability, opening the door for dramatically cheaper space access.

Little of that is his own genius, but he does seem to have a knack for getting actually smart people working on visionary stuff.

They probably do. That's the whole point of this odd neither fish nor fowl phone. It's for people who'd, for whatever crazy reason don't want a smartphone, but also don't want to be locked out of all the parts of modern society that have become dependent upon smartphone apps (for better or worse).

In my neck of the woods, you need a smartphone just to summon what passes here for public transportation. I'm totally not kidding.