You're creating a distinction without a large difference.

You are splitting hairs over the definition of what "going to the moon" means - does it include going anywhere within the moon's gravitational sphere of influence, or do you have to actually touch regolith for it to count?

hint: if you have to touch regolith, then you are claiming that Apollo 8 and Apollo 13 did not go to the moon, which is going to cause far more confusion and argument.

So which is easier for Microsoft: pushing the state of the art in thermal transfer by etching fluidic channels into hardware and developing / testing / productionalizing "microfluidics" for moving heat away from that hardware... ... or making Teams less shitty and bloated, making the hardware and cooling you already have sufficient to the task without having to play stupid games with variable overclocking at the top and bottom of the hour to keep up?

I guess we now know, since we see which direction they decided to go.

Wrong. Congress is vested with the ability to amend the constitution, with ratification from 3/5ths of the states. Because they can arbitrarily edit the constitution, they can use that process to create whatever government structures they like, as long as they can get a 66% + 1 vote bicameral majority, and get state legislatures to ratify it.

If there is sufficient popular will, they (and only they) can reform the federal government in any way they like.

That's all well and good, but what has Trump actually *done* besides pass a tax cut for the ridiculously wealthy and fuck over everyone that isn't?

If that's "getting stuff done" I'd really rather he didn't. The real mystery is what actual benefit his cultists think he's going to bring in the next 3 years, since the administration can't even articulate a coherent message. What "stuff" are they going to get done besides tearing apart the fabric of society and making literally everything worse than it was a year ago?

And how is breaking the black-letter law "restoring democracy" ?

You're going to have to show your work on that.

And when all the inevitable wailing and gnashing of teeth from Republicans happens, the only appropriate response is "you kicked this door open, now you live with the results."

Followed by stiffarming through Congress judicial reform and expansion of SCOTUS in order to rebalance the court and do away with the miserable, awful decisions being made - repeal of Cheveron deference, Citizens United, Roe overturn, etc.

There is one central kernel from which all of this springs, and it's SCOTUS.

Hey, remind me who was president in 2020 again?

Well, considering that the "border czar" of this administration was filmed by the FBI accepting a bag of cash to either:

A. participate in a bribery conspiracy once Trump was elected and named him to a post in the government
- or -
B. commit fraud by knowingly taking money to not do what he said he would do for that money ... and the DoJ shut down the investigation (shocking!).

Every one of these guys is a grifter with god knows how many unindicted felonies. Your vote for congressional representation matters in a year.

If you think that Trump doesn't use the autopen for the thousands of pieces of paper that require executive signature, as well as all the other random correspondence (i.e. thank you letters / cards / etc.) you're a complete buffoon.

What's the difference between an autopen and a completely disengaged septuagenarian who signs everything put in front of him by a minion anyway? Do you really think he reads the thousand-page bills sent to him by Congress for signature?

Tell us you're an unthinking cultist moron without telling us you're an unthinking cultist moron.

Your analysis forgets one very important point: before someone signs paperwork to give you $100B, they probably want to see what you haven't released yet, and what your roadmap looks like.

Nvidia doesn't want to be one of many companies selling flawed AI models, and starting up their own effort to compete with their own customers is very stupid and a very good way for them to stop being your customers.

They want to be the company selling hardware to the companies selling flawed AI models. Being one step removed from the flaws allow you to get none of the blame, but still get the sales from all those companies.

Like basically every OS does at this point.

I mean, I know that Windows will do that since Windows 7, macOS does that, Gnome does that. KDE does that.

Not sure what your point is.

This sounds like the urban planner utopia until you consider that it's just the 21st century version of a company town, and you're only a very short step away from getting paid in company scrip.

First: fuck you. Covid is still a reason to stay away from work, because your coworkers don't want to catch that shit. Don't be a fucking prick who spreads disease because of equally diseased politics.

Were you advocating for horse dewormer a couple years ago too?

Second: this still applies to any other easily spreadable disease, such as common colds and influenza. That shit spreads and you're an asshole for still going into the office.

I'm sure that is happening in some organizations.

What I can't reconcile is that I work at a wildly profitable company with a great big market share in their core market and a vast moat around it due to the massive costs with entering this business. And yet, we're requiring "hybrid" work for employees.

We've been unable to hire folks to cover open positions because of the ridiculous "hybrid" requirement for no good reason - I know at least 3 people that we could hire for senior engineering roles that we have open, except they aren't in this geographical region.

I recently asked our director of engineering if there's going to be any change so that we don't have to slip schedules by not having asses in seats and he just kind of shook his head because he also understands how stupid this is. So now we're going to have to slip milestones and deadlines because of some arbitrary policy that is actually hindering us from getting the job done. Well done, C-suite!

Is there anywhere left, including areas within the borders of the United States, that aren't considered enemies of this particular regime?

Moscow I suppose...