The Sam Altman types, and the Thiel/Musk types especially, want technofeudalism with them on top. For some of them the "good of society" factors in but it is always after this.

...if you don't like it make your own phone and your own app store.

If US companies could pay their workers $4 an hour the cars would be cheap too.

Any company can create their own phone and own eco system anytime they want. Google should tell the EU to FO.

What garbage info would AI train on from India?

We're trying to stay alive and enjoy life. We need food and fuel. The planet will be just fine. If we got rid of lunatic environmentalists then we might cut our carbon emissions since all they do is fly around the world holding useless meetings and writing useless reports.

We would certainly be at a disadvantage if Russia was able to copy rockets that constantly blew up shortly after launch.

A direct line between County Cork and Loudon VA does not go through the east coast of Maryland on a spherical earth, that was the only point I addressed. Even if you wanted to maximize how much is laid in the ocean as opposed to land, there are still shorter distances that would land you on at least in Delaware. While I am sure there are logistical reasons to do it where they are doing, that is irrelevant to my point.

Yeah that sounds off. Probably mean digging at coastal shallower waters then just having it lay on the floor elsewhere, that's the standard.

That's assuming we live on a flat earth. A shorter line between County Cork and the US would have the US terminus much further north.

"We are crazy."

What's incredibly frustrating is how much of the craziness has been created and driven by Australians. Other countries want to push back against Trump? Go after the lunatics who fill his dementia-ridden head with all the crazy ideas, including their companies.

First it was global freezing and the next ice age in the 70s, then global warming and now just climate change. You donâ(TM)t need the word change as that is already encompassed by the word climate. Remember the experts on tv during the first Gulf War saying how the Kuwaiti oil fires were going to cause a nuclear winter effect? I remember.

"If Linus yells at you to stop doing something, you damn well listen, or move aside for someone else who will listen."

What if he's wrong on something?

I mean the dude is 55, mentally he's not going to be able to keep up with the really abstract stuff.

I've flown on Spirit many times and every bad thing you've heard about it is true.