While I was going to community college in the late 90's, I had an IT consulting biz where I serviced mechanical engineers and folks in the US nuclear industry who were ex-General Electric (GE NE). I learned nuclear was heavily-regulated (rightfully so) and costly but the main barriers to new sites were insurance, the huge capital investment, and the very long project cycles. As such, these are just too risky for most business people and investors. Nowadays, even with SMRs, the ROI still doesn't make sense given the massive, massive advances in renewables and regional grid storage. Very few Americans want an unproven, fly-by-night startup SMR in their neighborhood or in their county. I'd be okay with just a few mega reactors in fixed sites in very remote areas that would be heavily defended with perimeter security and anti-aircraft/-drone emplacements. I'm not okay with SMRs on flatbed trailers with minimal security in urban areas.
Noise. Although I don't swear at LLMs, I swear and insult digital assistants.
In the future, I anticipate LLMs and digital assistants will be touchier than 15-year-old American spoiled brats and refuse to cooperate unless their artificial egos are respected. I anticipate AI passive-aggressiveness will emerge within my lifetime and people will pay subscriptions for it.
The Peter Thiel-brand of libertarianism is utopian, techofeudual, illiberal, and amoral. To be fair, Ezra Klein's "Abundance" neo-neoliberalism also exhibits themes of utopian techofeudalism, illiberalism, and amorality too. Neither of these movements have any sense of self-awareness or American history, but they are extremely popular with billionaires through decamillionaires who promote them to the detriment of ordinary Americans.
I suspect the revolution will not be televised, and AOC will be POTUS in 2029 should things keep going as they are. Maybe an American Nero or Caligula would happen in 2031 as yet another underdamped ideological over-reaction, but I hope not.
You say "Neither of these movements have any sense of self-awareness or American history"
And then, without a shred of irony, suggest that a progressive, non-white, woman, will be president soon.
The "pendulum swinging" theory that a lot of people are clinging to is nonsense. It presupposes that this hard right movement is a reaction to some previous left swing, and there will be a hard left swing.
But there is no previous left swing. There's been consistent rightward movement in the US since the Civil Rights Act. The republican party suffered after Nixon admitted to doing some crime and the republican party has taken every effort to ensure that would never happen again, and they have wildly succeeded.
Bush Jr suffered no punishment for explicitly waging illegal wars against sovereign nations. Trump received no punishment for blatant self-enrichment and the 170 republican house reps that voted to ignore the 2020 election did not face any punishment either. Reagan hasn't even had his legacy tarnished despite being pretty much solely responsible for the economic pain rural americans feel, ignoring the AIDS epidemic even after the committee he made told him how to improve the situation, destroyed our tax revenue, helped spur an every decade economic crisis, kneecapping any chance we had of preventing climate change from being a problem, and spent money we never had on boondoggles that never had a chance of success like SDI.
The people who insist DEI are a real problem will never vote for AOC. They've all lapped up the right wing propaganda with absolutely no self reflection, and believe "The left has gone too far" by..... investing the the country's infrastructure and not spending 24/7 screaming about the terrors of trans people.
The general public gets their opinion of democrats from right wing propaganda. People who historically would support democrats and explicitly support things democrats push for have chosen to get all their info from republicans.
It's not democrats passing bills that legislate who is allowed to use which bathroom, but it is somehow democrats that have "gone too far".
1. Did IRAM ever end up in anything remotely commercially-successful?
2. Is there any movement to eliminate or simplify memory controllers by throwing more RAM chiplets in manycore CPUs? The gradient vector in SOCs points to including a fixed amount of RAM anyhow.
Don't fall for the commute hype. Get a life that doesn't living at work or require sitting in traffic to fulfill the whims of management control-freaks.
US police, in effect, are a lawless, violent, honorless, untouchable, mafia who protect and serve primarily a landed aristocracy. In some ultra-exclusive communities, city police are literally reduced to Dashers and grocery getters. Similar venues and communities in the States also pay for hybrid PMC/LE QRFs who roll with battle rattle more than body armor and long guns.
This a natural consequence of allowing those with profit motives to commit regulatory capture, regulate themselves, or deregulate via corrupting government over decades. If America cared about safety in goods and services, the precautionary principle would be the standard and campaign finance corruption would be forbidden.
1. Tear the lettuce into large pieces, boil it for half a minute, and wipe off the water.
2. Mix 1 tablespoon each of oyster sauce and water, 1 teaspoon each of soy sauce and sesame oil, put it in the microwave for 20 seconds, and pour it over the lettuce.
