at least he Lived long and Prospered

I think it's not everything/ everyone all at once.
It could be a lot of disruption from cyber attacks on utilities and businesses leading to permanent crisis and war breaking out. That and mass unemployment leading to widespread conflict.

TFS says "US Government", so part of the mystery might be plain old corruption?

https://www.cs.wisc.edu/2025/0...

And DARPA has a whole program for it:

https://www.darpa.mil/research...

What if it means acknowledging that even advanced tech like nuclear power requires a basic level of natural infrastructure in a healthy enough state? What if the way forward is indeed to do less with less because the infrastructure is broken? That's where the empathy and the ethics are truly tested.

This is precisely it. I can't get my head around this hyped future where everything is so automated, productive and so easy to scale up, while at the same time there are no buyers due to mass unemployment.

Permanent recession is all I see.

It is way too late for people to be interested in using FB as it was meant to be, but if it helps: https://www.facebook.com/?filt...

This is a link to what you get from the "hamburger" menu > Feeds. There are several tabs there, showing the posts in chronological order (All, Favorites, Friends, Groups, Pages).
The Groups are the main appeal for me, especially because most of my IRL friends don't post. While I think Groups are inferior to other online forums (moderation is very poor) they certainly have more people than most other websites.

Hopefully they have cooler water than in France right now.
The Golfech nuclear power plant had to be stopped on Monday because of the river reaching 28 degrees centigrade. This is the legal limit they decided on for plant and animal life protection.

It looks like these manufacturers are dumping, while the legacy auto+oil industries require military interventions to be supported by the taxpayers.
That being the case, I'd say the Chinese are getting a better deal and lower exhaust emissions as well.

Inexpensive might be subjective here but cars like what you describe can be found in the many brands of the Chery Group (Look up the Jaecoo PHEV), the Mazda Mx-30, the BMW i3, and I'm sure Korean manufacturers have others.

The funniest I've seen so far however is a Nissan with a 2kwh battery.

Jensen Huang to college grads: "Run. Don't walk" toward AI

https://www.axios.com/2026/05/...

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang told graduates at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh yesterday that demand for AI infrastructure is creating a "once-in-a-generation opportunity to reindustrialize America and restore the nation's capacity to build."

Why it matters: With many college grads fearing AI could obliterate their career dreams, Huang pointed to boundless opportunity as a "new industry is being born. A new era of science and discovery is beginning ... I cannot imagine a more exciting time to begin your life's work."

Nvidia, which makes AI chips, is the world's most valuable company. Huang told 5,800 recipients of undergraduate and graduate degrees that the AI buildout will require plumbers, electricians, ironworkers, and builders for chip factories, data centers and advanced manufacturing facilities.

"No generation has entered the world with more powerful tools â" or greater opportunities â" than you," he said. "We are all standing at the same starting line. This is your moment to help shape what comes next. So run. Don't walk."

"Every major technological revolution in history created fear alongside opportunity," Huang added. "When society engages technology openly, responsibly, and optimistically, we expand human potential far more than we diminish it."

Full speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Thanks! I'm a bit curious about the 217m section length ðY"

Years ago I lost quite a bit of money with a so-called meme stock Mind Med. Their idea was that psilocybin could be an important part of therapy, but not to be provided separately from talk-therapy. It was never meant to be over the counter medicine.

As for changing the way you are... trauma does that. wearing glasses does that. exercising does that. Let's not get too defensive.

My fiction story starts with a flashback to the POTUS accusing China of releasing Covid19 as a bio weapon. This time around however, it was exactly what they did.
With many millions of people suspicious of government intervention and big pharma, the body count is horrendous and the USA are firmly in failed State territory.

The same happens in many other developed countries and when the situation is stable again, the population aged 50+ is so scarce that the new Eco fascist regimes are now predominant and decide to commit permanently to that sort of population control.