People discussing specific incidents (such as property destruction) in person or at a local level will never be a problem for them and is very difficult to control anyway. What can become a big problem for them is collection, aggregation, and statistical trend analysis of data over broad areas, and that is exactly where they are striking here. The main difference I can seel between today's MAGA contingent and the far right-wingers of days gone by is that this group is smarter and have learned from past mistakes. That makes them much more dangerous.

Not sure how you can definitively make this statement. It is very likely that the timing of these events is exactly that. I know that it is human nature to look for reasons and a place to assign blame. This is exactly the reason we need to use statistics and large sample sizes to make these types of assessments of risk.

I don't know, I kind of liked radioactive :)

"Managing" AI agents would be nothing like managing a team of humans. They're pulling out all the stops to try to pump the AI dream because they have so much money invested into it at this point.

On Earth, thanks to plate tectonics, the carbon that goes into the ground finds its way back into the atmosphere thanks to volcanoes. Apparently lack of plate tectonics on Mars did not allow that carbon back into the atmosphere as CO2 to be stripped away. Once whatever was in the atmosphere was lost, it was not replenished.

The harm could be if it competes with its current titles.

I thought after reading the title that they were referring to our federal government.

I always thought the the US government would be forced to inflate away the debt at some point. What I didn't anticipate was the method being employed: tariffs, which will act as a de facto tax, generating revenue for the treasury, and which also cause inflation, decreasing the real value of the debt.

Honestly, it's kind of genius. The downside is it will hit Americans very, very hard in their pocketbooks, particularly lower and medium income Americans. Perhaps there was never any way of getting around that, however.

Trade does impact GDP. Exports increase GDP, imports lower GDP.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fs...

Yep, perfectly spherical. Just like my cow.

Or a sign of a weak economy. We've had a good run lately, but the economy moves in cycles over long time periods and if companies can use RTO mandates as a way to avoid unemployment and severance payouts during the next downturn, it should be very unsurprising when they do it.

If we can spend $5-10 million to hire a dozen good auditors to gather $5-10 billion in taxes that people Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg are 'avoiding', that sounds like a pretty smart business plan to me.

Why are these people trying to use a crypto mining device to play games with?

Healthcare. How are you with bedpans?