pasttense01

Considering the very poor treatment options available, I would rather live in blissful ignorance.

The best solution is to have uniform federal regulation with no state laws.

The not as good solution is to have state regulation. Note this means companies will generally adopt policies nationally to meet the requirements of the big, restrictive states (California, etc)

The worst solution is the House approach which will ban state regulation accompanied by the status quo of no federal regulation.

Only a very small percent of cases go before a jury; the vast majority are decided by a judge by himself.

Something many people here miss: UCSD is a selective institution. UC San Diego’s most recent published first-year acceptance rate is about 28.4% for fall 2025, based on 136,740 applicants and 38,846 admits. UCSD’s own admissions page also summarizes this as a 28% admit rate. The lousy students aren't even going to apply since they know they will be rejected. So we are not talking about an open enrollment institution where you would expect a significant number of students to need remedial math help; we are talking about the cream of the crop of California high school graduates many of which don't know high school math.

"Turning a whole lot of flights into energy and carbon-saving train trips is a huge benefit."

It's a question of what gets the most bang for the buck. Suppose you spent $230 billion on replacing fossil fuel with renewables for electricity generation, on switching to EVs from gasoline powered cars, on insulating houses? I think you get a lot more bang for the buck from these or lots of other activities.

In this case they were using very expensive munitions which go exactly where they were targeted to go; they were not using cheap, dump bombs which have a wide margin of error.

So why doesn't ChatGPT rely on higher quality sources as a default?

Natural resources aren't that important anymore. Look at Singapore with essentially no natural resources, but a high standard of living for example. And the U.S. has strong natural resources, but they represent a fairly small portion of the economy.

Haven't you followed Trump's tariffs policies at all? He wants big tariffs against Canada and Mexico and almost everyone else.

The battery plant was just to make batteries for EVs. The Trump administration has made clear it is anti-EV, so the Trump administration would not consider this a significant loss.

But only a small percent of people work in those highly specialized jobs.

While companies will raise prices as much as they can, remember there are many competitive AI companies--so free market competition will keep prices in check.

The people getting MRIs are sicker than the general population so the facility should have people available to help getting people up after being scanned.