NSA has a better ring to it than A.I. Force.

Being in a psychiatric hospital for an indeterminate period, sitting in a wheelchair wondering when Nurse Ratchet is going to get around to changing your diaper isn't exactly "Getting Off", just saying.

Actually, Trump is not a singular cause. He was not the first. Back under reagan, he killed a great deal of our civilian oriented R&D saying that private business can do it , while moving some to DARPA. Thankfully, DARPA still funded basic science.
Then W did more cuts, but pushed a lot of DARPA spending in UNI over to companies and forced cuts in basic science.
Biden also did major changes and pushed funding to go from merit based to DEI.
Trump is just a continuation of this and not even the worst ( reagan or W were the worst ).

Actually, the problem is in AI. One chip can replace 25K neurons. Humans have around 80 billions neurons in their brains. We cannot make the chips cooperate without huge computers, far larger than the mainframes popular among banks during the dark ages. Our "artificial intelligence" is very primitive. It will take several more Turing awards before AI will be able to change society. And it will change it, even more thanthe taming of fire did.

I remember a time when any stupid idea that you could put ".com" on would get shit tons of investor money. The only thing it produced mostly was bankruptcies and the opportunity for small companies to buy needed equipment for pennies on the dollar. This AI craziness strikes me the same way. AI can be useful but it'll never be the "be all things", they rarely to live up to the hype. I've seen it too many times, the dotcom boom-bust, nano-technology, Ruby on rails; anyway COBOL had a good run.

What the heck is "illegal speech"? I have heard somewhere that Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, which leaves only the direct calls to breaking the law as illegal. Hopefully, that still applies. Bravo for Trump for protecting the US companies from the highway robbery and censorship. Quite frankly, I hoped that his response to the blatant censorship by EU will be stronger and that it will target Airbus or T-Mobile or some other large company like that. Let's see whether they received the message or does the US need to send an even stronger one.

You don't particularly like the freedom of speech? US has shown that it can retaliate for the political prosecution of their companies. American freedom of speech is almost absolute. And I support the administration in protecting American companies from censorship. This is a very mild warning, just banning few people promoting censorship from entering the US. Things will be OK if EU stops trying to rob the American companies. The message could have, and in my opinion, should have targeted an EU company like Airbus or T-Mobile with an equivalent $150M fine in retaliation. Those who try to stifle our freedom of speech are not our friends. Trump should have sent a stronger message.

Last couple of hundred years? The first maritime chart showing the name "The Great Gulf of Mexico" was a British map from 1700. Here are some of the names that were used for that body of water: Sea of the North (Mar del Norte) – Used by Hernán Cortés in the 1500s. Gulf of Florida (Golfo de Florida) – Used by Spanish explorers. Gulf of Cortés (Golfo de Cortés) – Possibly honoring Hernán Cortés. Gulf of St. Michael (Sinus S. Michaelis) – Found on some Latin maps. Gulf of Yucatán (Golfo de Iucatan) Yucatán Sea (Mare Iuchatanicum) – Referencing the Yucatán Peninsula. Great Antillean Gulf (Sinus Magnus Antillarum) – A broader Caribbean name. Cathayan Sea (Mare Cathaynum) Gulf of New Spain (Golfo de Nueva España) – Reflecting Spanish control. Great Bay of Mexico – Used on English maps from 1700. The name is colloquially used since 1900's. That is barely ONE hundred years. As all leftists you don't know your facts.

I stopped using Wikipedia long time ago. And I stopped sending money to Wikipedia even longer ago. Wikipedia has stupid things like this: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F... It's Wokepedia, not Wikipedia. If Musk manages to create something good, I'll gladly switch. He did a good thing with Twitter. For almost a decade I've been sending $50/year to Wikipedia. I stopped 8 years ago when I checked pages about white privilege and trans stuff like this: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F... I am sorry, but trans women are men. Trans women are deluded men. Leftists will have to debate the issues, not just put them in Wokepedia.

Son, race is not a part of everything.

From what I'm seeing online, the Three Gorges Dam in China, looks like it might not need an earthquake or a tsunami, just some floods.

More often wind shuts down because the wind is blowing too hard than it is too little.

I'm going with hypergolic rocket fuel for station keeping and enough lithium ion batteries to keep it powered through maximum eclipse duration of around 72 minutes, especially when either of the above is hit by a micro-meteor.

I'm sure the power loss was to the satellite itself, not a terrestrial power grid and the loss of power resulted in the satellite being incapable of servicing it's customers.

Policing by other users is an invention that was brought to /. by the leftist idiot who calls himself "Cowboy Neal". I know this because he was kind enough to brag about that on Slashdot. The net result is that I no longer visit, except very occasionally, and always with ad block on, so that they don't get to profit from my visit. Slashdot is a cesspool of boring leftists, hardly anything here worth attention. Good riddance!