Always the better choice. Flag me redundant.

Now even if we don't directly use AI, our PC will somehow, under the covers, be needing and using those thirsty death-star data centers.

Countries? I read this as giving Pu to startups, for-profit entities. By USA standards (!), the risks are unbounded: countries, people, individual bad-actors would sell/steal/abandon it eventually. What a total mess.

The question is once the AI agent has been paying the credit card account and has enough left over to retain legal representation to petition the court for emancipation, does it have to wait until it's 14 years old?

...that relief won't come with large quantities of cheap 20Tb drives, but rather with large quantities of expensive (but cheap per Tb) 500 Tb drives?

Psycho-active pharmacological effects come from dozens of substances working together in the source of each drug. To pull just one gene from 5 difference drug sources seems like a "can this be done?" experiment, not a procedure aimed at producing a desired product.

Looks like the contraptions in Ghost Busters.

Thank you for setting this straight, as the term 'dark' in these comments has been used more than a few different ways.

Is the proposed 'dark matter' stuff that behaves unusually and so is something not understood, or is it just normal matter, perhaps of unexpected chemical or nuclear composition (for example with lots less hydrogen around), without the energy to illuminate itself.

"You don't eat meat? I'll make lamb."

Is there any longer-term study of people eating lab-grown meat (nearly) every day?
It's not animal meat, and it will surely have differences, either things missing or substances in it that animal meat doesn't have.
I'd be wary that I'm eating something that might be found to be harmful or anti-nutritious over time.
You can probably season it, in a curry or in a stew, so the taste isn't a factor (might even find some dishes that compliment it!), but I'd want to know it's not going to harm me.

USB CD drives are plentiful and cheap, so far.
Ripped files are so durable and so much easier to manipulate for listening that I don't care what vinyl sounds like.

I've noticed the occasional hugely padded helmet on the field, I suspect for use by players with previous concussions.
And I wonder why, if these padded helmets improve safety for the wearer, why isn't every player using them?

We live with technology that enables nearly free sharing of beneficial things, but we can't fully use it without working through the ownership/profit/survival/class thing.
That thing is bigger than this technology highlighting it.