That is 19th century thinking, basically opium wars. Welcome to the 21st century when there are no gold or silver standards, only fiat money, hence trade deficits don't really matter.

People wanted to be ruled by a dumb fucktard hence they have elected him. It is that simple.

Maybe you should ask the EU citizen living in the UK how well a digital ID works for them.

That would, unfortunately, create more problems that it solves. Geography still matters.

The so called "collaboration" was merely clinical trials, partial manufacturing and distribution for the FDA jurisdiction, not development, both for the BioNTech and the Janssen-Cilag vaccines.

Well, three out of four main COVID vaccines have been developed in Europe. But that is less innovation than a web portal like facebook to you, I guess.

Archive.ph breaks most paywalls. Just FYI.

Yes, the main problem is that neither the LLMs nor most people are self aware - self aware people, even mentally ill ones, can take encouragement where it makes sense and ignore it or even rebuke the LLM where it doesn't.

But at least the LLMs are getting better at this - ChatGPT o3 is not afraid to critisize if it thinks the user has a bad idea. It can be persuaded that the idea is nevertheless reasonable due to some constraints, but that's about it. It is also generally far less friendly and doesn't try to please.

And that is the reason why ETCS is uncommon and will stay uncommon - the old stuff is entrenched and still works reasonably well and it is cheaper short term to repair the old stuff than to upgrade.

And that text is from Trump's first term. Considering that he has been elected twice, this part

So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think "Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy" is a matter of some confusion and no little distress

is even more relevant.

There is a standard - ETCS. But it is relatively recent and still quite uncommon.

It being encouraging can be pretty helpful to people with low self esteem or a low drive, though.

I have played it many years ago, was actually pretty good at it. But didn't know it was called "geoguessr".

Cyclonic separation has been already well known before Dyson was born. It has been used for cleaning up the intake air of WW2 tank diesel engines, for example.

No idea. I use it, mostly as a sort of a tutor in a variety of different topics that interest me, and what it does is absolutely worth the about 22 euros I pay for it monthly.