> an innate ability for language

His theory is pretty good descriptively but there's a South American tribe that speaks in a way differently than what his insistence on specific biological structure supports.

The precept that language is innate vs. how language works being innate are probably different claims.

Academic linguists of the Expert Class type get super mad when people bring up that tribe.

IMO it's better to be a scientist than an acclaimed Expert.

First, I was responding to a post from somebody posting as "Anonymous Coward". Are you Anonymous Coward?

I quickly scanned to see which of your posts in this thread were based on "My own personal experiences and needs, no talking points, no one else's opinion or influences"... and found none. So, if you aren't posting in the thread, I agree that your posts aren't based on oil company talking points, because they are non-existent.

Do we really want to emulate that?

Republicans used to complain about how China operates but now they're alright with emulating it as long as they're the ones in control.

Only those two?

No, but mostly those two. According to AI, this is the increase in national debt for each president:

Clinton: 2.34% (avg 1.17% per term)
W. Bush: 105% (avg 52.5% per term)
Obama: 70% (avg 35% per term)
Trump: 40% over one term
Biden: 23% over one term

The 'national debt' has always been around and will always be around

Until we default - then it doesn't matter nearly as much. Most people are worried about the principal of the national debt (as well all should), but it's the interest that could really sting. According to AI, the US has $9.2 trillion in debt maturing this year with an average coupon rate of 2.75%. Meanwhile, current interest rates are between 4% and 4.5%, so assuming this new debt to pay off the old is really hurting due to the additional (and likely compounding) interest.

Would Harris have helped it?

She probably wouldn't have been able to help it much, but she wouldn't have signed the Big Bloated Bill which is expected to increase our national debt by another $4.1 trillion.

Nope.

All these talking points originate from "think tanks" (euphemism for propaganda factories) funded by oil companies.

Do keep in mind that oil companies have a trillion dollar a year incentive to slow down or stop electric vehicle adoption. They are very good at crafting propaganda. The slashdotters that suddently pop up out of the woodwork to slam time electric vehicles every time the subject is mentioned are just repeating it.

People who trust Zuckerberg.

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That's an interesting comparison I had missed. Good call.

Presumably the military needs decent chips fabbed on US soil. Doesn't have to compete with AMD or Samsung in the PC CPU market.

GF bought IBM fabs, TI isn't relevant, TSMC is just coming online but is still controlled by Taiwan. Is Motorola/Freescale around anymore?

With an engineer in charge maybe Intel stands a chance of a rebound. Competition is good so let's hope so.

I haven't bought an Intel desktop or server chip since 2018 but plenty of their low-power SoC's , Atom/n1xx. They still make good stuff in certain markets.

Selling railcar loads of Xeons for a 20x markup to buy Marketing people McMansions is likely never coming back.

Before Republicans became the Trump Party, they had ideological principles. I didn't agree with a lot of them, and they certainly liked to bend the rules, but they did have principles. Trump, however, has never had principles. He's spent his whole life opportunistically lurching from one situation to another while squeezing whatever he can get for himself without a single concern about how it will affect anyone else. And his followers consistently support him despite the fact that there's rarely anything tangible in it for themselves. People are slowly waking up to the reality of the situation, but the question is whether or not it will be too late by the time most people figure it out.

Despite a ton of wind, the Russian launch capability is degrading

If Putin goes mass suicidal, he can create a pretty damned big mess even if Russia technically loses score-wise.

Tech ALWAYS fails.

It's why the Amish and Taliban will rule Earth after WW3 (if any humans survive).

Isn't there a default "holding pattern" if bleep happens? I think they talk among themselves to each pick a unique altitude level, and then circle there and wait for further instruction. When the problem clears, the jets with the least fuel land first (or land if just plain run out).

...See, I have the best mind ever, everyone says so!

Lip-Bu Tan got the message.

If one doesn't like #7 they don't have to fucking watch it. It might even be good, who knows. Star Wars is sometimes accidentally good under The Mouse.

false narrative that the possession of these nuclear weapons is actually making us safer when they're not.

I suspect it trades one kind of problem for another. While the world has been on average more peaceful after WW2*, it's also possible that a war between superpowers could wipe out the majority of humans and animal life in something comparable to the Permian Extinction Event.

Even as an energy source, nuclear power has often presented a choice between small continuous problems (like carbon smog) versus headline-making events like 3 Mile Island and Chernobyl.

* History is war after war, peace was a fluke.