wasn’t really a suggestion, but even Elon can’t anti-woke his model away from reality. the billionaire class controls congress already.

honestly we could replace US congress with a system like this, and public life would probably improve over the current situation. at least an LLM can’t be bribed with a $500 meal and will actually read the legislation.

they did mention doing harmonization studies, which is my biggest worry: cascading ecological effects.

the impetus can’t be “oh well they haven’t done the full studies so i guess we just full send and see what happens”.

It shouldn’t have to take fifteen years to deploy effective products that can save lives

this is such a reductionist view.

it should absolutely take decades to make a sweeping decision to fundamentally alter an ecosystem. nobody likes disease or even getting a random bite. i grew up in the swamps of the US, i know. but we should absolutely know what we’re doing to release a genetically engineered or bacterial sterilizing agent into a naturally evolved ecosystem.

“radical communism” 🙄

the GOP and even a lot of people on “the left” in the US couldn’t give you half the description of what communism is. this regulation falls squarely under classical Liberalism, and despite their squawking about Libertarianism or whatever Republicans act more like Liberals than their ideology poisoned brains could comprehend.

no shame in getting a VPS. it might cost you more over the long term if you want to run any real workloads or store anything on it.

what i would do is get your hands on some sort of computer you can attach storage to.

what i do is i have a small VPS that i expose to the internet that routes traffic to my home server(s) over my Tailscale VPN. that way i get the benefit of having a stable public IP, some traffic protection from the provider, and a stable failsafe in case my home internet or power or whatever goes out, and it’s a lot cheaper to run workloads and store files on my local machines than to rent all that out. my workloads can be pretty heavy, so i would end up paying hundreds if not over $1k per year, which is easily enough for a machine that can do most anything you need.