> China's carefully engineered oppression

Where do you get that idea? They're just about stability and order...the only oppression is towards terrorists and other trouble makers...usually incited/encouraged by the USA et al.

I'll go with "no".

Like what, exactly?

Yup, now it is with US ownership...

Why isn't anyone blocking the Picea buyout? How is that better?

Nobody wanted lower prices on iRobot appliances. They didn't want iRobot appliances at all! Which is why iRobot went under. Also they're still getting bought out, just not by Amazon. Not an improvement.

Is TAE even considered to be one of the frontrunners in the fusion race? It seemed like Helion and CFS were expected to be the top dogs. Regardless, if TAE reaches commercial milestones, it would help torpedo the coal and petroleum sectors. Which would be a funny thing for Trump to back financially.

Thailand, the Phillipines, Japan, India, and others might disagree.

Not surprising. Republicans love burning stuff for power. Fusion is right up their alley!

Didn't you claim that he was in Singapore? He'd have to have pretty good aim to hit someone at MIT from there.

Eh? Trump is after solar and wind, not hot fusion. He might have pulled some funding here and there but nobody's trying to actively halt fusion research in the MAGA camp.

I remember when Firefox came out (first as Phoenix), it was the light and simple browser separated from the huge Mozilla suite. If Mozilla wants to slop it up with AI, they might as well change the name. I know, nothing about web browsers has been simple and light for at least a decade, but we could at least pretend.

You might like WaterFox better.

WaterFox works well and (so far) hasn't leaned into the AI crap. My guess is it'll strip that out but we'll see.

I'm guessing they can think outside the boxy coordinate system that our regular Cartesian bears use.