Kings had the power of pardon and they were creating a replacement for a king.

Hard to believe isn’t it!

Elon the grifter?

Sounds like a looser.

That’s about time. Fines for corporations don’t have any urgency as it’s not “their” money. The thought of ending up in jail is more personal.

Don’t forget the hot water. A big drain on electricity. Heat pumps are really cost effective for that, only beaten by solar collectors (if you have the roof space).

If people are migrating to a platform, usually development takes place to add features to fill gaps and make the platform more attractive. 10-15 years ago we didn’t have well developed cloud computing but it was built by adding features that sucked people in. That can be done again if there is demand.

You better understand the move to open source office tools when you read about Techbros and demented presidents in action.

Heat pumps are the most efficient way to heat or cool a house as well as year round hot water heating. Most people find it pays back within a few years especially if they have solar.

Plenty of interesting cars in the world and all the new ones are EVs which are unlikely to get to the US.

There use to schemes to provide flexible locking to allow multiple people to edit documents located on the same local network. Never liked it nuch but others did. I expect that it is possible to develop and achieve shared documents and concurrent editing etc without Google. Maybe dust off old concepts etc.

Long before clouds was a thing we had servers and local networks and shared drives. We still have servers and private vpns to connect to them to access shard drives.

Trades are trades and work to engineering drawings. My observation is that companies tender for a sub component, plumbing or bricklaying etc and send their tradies . Whether that is sufficient to affect housing in the US is hard to say but it certainly could have a more local effect.

I assume it’s because of all the trades required to build these mega data centres. Usually there are a lot of bonuses associated with mega projects.

Surely that is Demented’s end game? Locking the US into fossil fuels is his stated goal which no doubt will be extremely painful for the USA.

There is this insane amount of investment in AI built around LLMs that threatens the entire world. People worry about the bubble bursting but think AI is the ant’s pants without considering that the LLM is a dead end. None of the AI companies are going to achieve Artificial Intelligence. That’s why they will actually implode, their systems aren’t intelligent.

The more you hear from Demented Don the more you realise he is just not worth listening to. Focussing on minor stuff while stuffing up the major stuff.

Always have laughed at Zuck’s claim that Threads had such a large user base just after the launch. By all accounts , anyone with a Meta account became a Threads user.

My family group decided to move when I spat the dummy after Meta decided to harvest all the contacts for WhatsApp users. Effectively they are the only ones I use messaging with but for getting others on is a long road.

In Australia we consider the Donald Trump is the greatest gift to EVs. Since he closed the Straight of Hormuz sales of EVs have skyrocketed. People now see EVs as a viable option rather than an early adopters plaything. The market has moved with the cost of fuel.