Never underestimate just how deep some people can bury their heads in the sand.

Trump is dipshit in chief so no surprise. Politics aside, the guy is a thin skinned narciscist who cant handle people or organisations who disagree with him or refuse to toe the line so funding removal was in a sense inevitable.

So you believe that virtually everyone posting here is drunk?

Plausible, I guess, but dude, you've led a very sheltered life.

Another way of looking at this if western companies are screwed.. hardware prices return to planet earth where more people are able to run this stuff at home. Three years ago the cost of 512GB DDR5 was less than the cost of a single 4090 GPU today.

What is the objective basis of your statement? Do you reject benchmark results? If so what have you used in their place to make such a determination?

What data points do you have to support exponential growth of logical qubit count with time?

As in being aware that the GP's link was to a subpage of a larger article, a subpage with just an out of context graph. And if one reads the full article with the actual information and data one finds out the GP was misrepresenting things.

Nope. You misrepresent your own link. It's a subpage of a larger article. If you look at the larger article you will find it discussing coal used in power generation, which is only one of many industries using coal.

In 2025 China used 5 billion tons of coal, the USA 0.44. China is burning 11 times the amount of coal the USA does. Hence the long term trend of increasing CO2 emissions by 38% in the same time period the USA reduced emissions by 13%.

The US - within living memory - used to be a high trust society.

Of course, no, it wasn't perfect but I grew up in MN. You could leave your car running outside a Target on a bitterly cold January day and it wouldn't get stolen. In the small town I grew up in, it was pretty common to 'run a tab' at the local grocery so if you needed to stop and get stuff but turned out you forgot your wallet, etc they'd just note your name and the amount and you'd come back in (usually as soon as you could, as it was embarrassing) and pay off your tab.

European banks do not accept cheques anymore. I sold an apartment in Canada and getting the money transferred to Europe was very difficult.

You might be on to something here. With the level of carefulness our elected officials are displaying in their use of AI, I'm sure we will be able to jailbreak the Epstein files out of some service sooner or later.

Please yes, I would love an explanation how your reference is responsive to "Wake me up when they create one with even 100 reliable logical qubits." given the experimental device you referenced did no such thing.

Can be banned from use as evidence at the state and local level if it's acquired without a warrant. At the federal level, not so much.

The big stink over Flock cameras has been local police department contracts where the local police have partnered with federal agencies to share data.

Two problems with federal use: First, they might not be using it in a court case, but for intelligence purposes. Second, they can install their own cameras. No local permission needed.

My initial knee-jerk reaction is that it isn't woke enough which is why woke outfits like the bulwark are calling it boring. These are the same people who called the everything everywhere random AI slop movie "profoundly moving" and "great".

Keep in mind I have zero clue what is actually in this movie and most probably will never see it.

eSims. We got your phone number. Didn't even have to steal a physical thing.