LG says that after public outcry they have decided to allow consumers to "delete the shortcut icon". Interesting phrasing - almost as if Copilot will still be on the TV but out of site.

I want accountability and having powerful agencies accountable to no one, not even POTUS, is the way you nurture corruption.

... that the chinese cannot innovate, they can only replicate

They have plenty of skilled engineers, I'm honestly surprised at the lack of innovation in this area.

Ridiculous - unaccountable agencies given that kind of power is not what the Constitution intended.

This would be like having a public corporation with departments that are entirely autonomous and not subject to board decisions.

Agencies have always been under the authority of the Executive branch, why is this an issue?

Do people prefer to have unelected government officials making decisions that affect us all without any representation?

Basically it's the equivalent of Jenkins (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jenkins.io%2F) which costs exactly $0 to self host.

This threw me for a loop - I was not aware of more than 4 and had to check on that.

Turns out the 5th isn't really the fifth, it's cytosine with an added methyl group attached and there are actually two variants:

5-methylcytosine (5-mC)
5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5-hmC)

So I'm sticking to my original understanding of DNA/RNA that it consists of only four nucleotide bases, but one can have "markers"

GNCA covered this in detail. There's some insane financial reach arounds going on with everyone promising billions to everyone else in order to pump up the stock pricing:

Worth the watch:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2Fh3JfOxx6Hh4

It pays to be skeptical of anyone making predictions 10 years out in a rapidly changing socioeconomic environment like this.

Moore's Law is nearly dead so don't expect radically faster silicon anytime soon. And the AI's of today that are sucking down such massive amounts of power are frankly quite rudimentary even when compared to the bottom tier of workers.

What's displacing workers right now is corporate leadership using AI to streamline operations. We all knew there were tens of thousands of white and blue color jobs that honestly served no purpose - AI is helping management find them and fire them.

$150k taken as a lump sum is $75k and after tax is probably closer to $50k which honestly isn't that much. I'm hopeful her "most cherished charities" are unlike the vast majority in that only about 10% of that money actually makes it to those in need, the rest goes to "administration fees".

Generally speaking, such money is better used to directly support your neighbors. Spend it on staples and donate that to local food banks. Perhaps I'm jaded by experience, but I would never trust a charity with cash.

It would make more sense to me if they had monitoring capabilities outside of China. China is not known for their reliable self reporting.

This "analysis" is based entirely on CCP statistics, not an independent studfy. They used the following data sources for this report:

National Bureau of Statistics of China
National Energy Administration of China
China Electricity Council
China Customs official data releases
and Sinopec, Chinaâ(TM)s largest oil refiner.

You need to go a little further - Brookfield is tied directly to the CCP with contracts for four new AP1000's in China signed last year. And Cameco, the other firm involved, supplies nuclear fuel to China.

These are Canadian companies financed by (and controlled by) the Chinese State.

China controls Westinghouse - the investment was to purchase the technology behind the Westinghouse AP1000 megawatt nuclear designs.

China bought out Westinghouse years ago specifically to acquire the Westinghouse AP1000 Megawatt nuclear plant designs. The nuclear division is held entirely by the CCP.