No. Just no.

Why do we get submissions bragging about renewable capacity expansion and/or generation milestones? Where are the submissions boasting of everyday Britons saving money from their power bills being lowered by these installations? For the average consumer (and the economy of a nation), cost is the biggest factor.

Maybe Indonesia and Iran should move their capitols to Flint, MI!

No.

Maybe they can train orangutans to work in the datacentres!

Again, the executive order is directed to the justice department, not to the states...

The only thing the executive order does is to instruct the Justice Department to sue states over AI regulations.

Compete with them on what? Wasting money on unprofitable enterprise? Most Chinese models train off of foreign models anyway. It's not so much a competitive relationship as it is a symbiotic one.

because they didn't ask for the tools, they were forced upon them by tech companies. they are also not impressed because... they have tried using the tools and found the limitations.

No they didn't. Measles are cropping up in religious communities, many of which have been "anti-vaxx" since we had vaccines. Example:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapnews.com%2Farticle%2Fmea...

What changed were exposure rates. Someone allowed a large population of measles carriers into the country all at once without proper screenings for communicable diseases.

Someone's gotta communicate with the aliens when they show up and start ionizing our atmosphere.

The change in light trucks in the US may also have to do with emission standards.

It's still dumping wherever it's happening. It's a direct attack on every major automaker around the world, with the goal of destroying them and making foreign markets dependent on another Chinese export.

You can still buy gas burners for ~$20k. They may be small sedans and people may not want those things, but they exist, and some of them in that range are actually pretty good cars.

How is Venezuela successful? They've been a basket case for years.