The implication would be a de facto war with China as this would be viewed as an American invasion of Chinese territory.

While the world may act as if Taiwan is independent, it is recognized under international law that Taiwan and China are the same country.

And I’m expecting it to get worse.

Yeah they are. It just doesn’t correspond to pre-internet political groups.

Give in to your wanderlust.

Nah.

We are already seeing bubbles from where people are getting wildly different news and other discussions. As the echo chambers solidify, you are going to be seeing more where different political groups can’t even discuss the facts of an issue. It is only going to get worse.

That isn’t uncommon for international companies.

Politics sucks more as people curl up in their small echo chambers.

Yeah, and I’m sure there will still be human writers and artists. There just won’t be as many of them employed compared to today.

Art hasn’t been removed with AI. It is offering a lower quality substitution for a lower price. We aren’t smashing paintings to feed the electricity turbines to power AI. And I’ve provided examples of where people lost artistic work because of changes in technology.

And the joy is likely from being able to do more with less, which has been consistent when other technology was adopted. You don’t need to hire any one to make a drawing, you can do it on a computer. Sure, the drawing isn’t as good, just like how a photo isn’t as good as a portrait painting.

I mentioned painters as portrait artists and artists of historical record; their work has been replaced by photography.

Most animation today is done via a computer instead of being hand drawn. Some of the techniques to reuse sprites come from hand-drawn techniques from Hanna-Barbera.

Art Deco is filled with architectural elements that are mass produced with machines instead of created by skilled labor.

We’ve mechanized art to make its construction easier. AI is part of that.

Previous Cuban governments cashed the rent check; the current government hasn’t.

There isn’t an endgame.

We don’t mourn the loss of blacksmiths who put time and skill into creating a pan or pot. We don’t care about the glass blowers who are no longer hired to blow drinking glasses. We don’t miss the portrait artists who painted not just for art, but to create an historical record.

History is filled with jobs performed by skilled labor that were made redundant with technology. AI is just a point in a long line.

I don’t think it is a gendered thing, but there are societal expectations regarding men versus women that can complicate the issue

For vehicles carrying humans, driverless cars.

We have the technology for both, but I feel like the greater destructive edge cases for flying will keep it from being deployed.

Airports aren’t nationalized in the USA. They are usually set up by local governments to facilitate trade.

If you need the bare minimum connection, a road is cheaper than a railroad. At scale, a railroad is cheaper than a road.

It is beyond that. There are several states where fossil fuels are important to the local economy and voters there will vote against anything killing these industries.

Because of NATO, something that Trump doesn’t seem interested in continuing being in.

Also, I can see Trump trying to build a legacy through a land deal.

It was just a prank, bro!