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It is telling that the UK voters feel that eradicating Labor for sake of Trump’s friends Reform party would be … more morally right.

Clean-up Labor, deeply & rigorously, but … switching to Trump’s confederates in the UK??

Brexit was good for you??

You want more of that??

That is exactly the kind of ideological polarization that will have the PLANET doing its rampaging-consolidation, shortly.

& civilrights won’t be allowed, in ideology’s world, anymore.

Honest cleaning-up, deep, thorough, rigorous, that is the only means of saving humankind’s life.

& if the opportunity is let-go, it won’t come back: the ideologues will take & use control-of-the-world for all their worth, until their oligarchy/feudalism/fascism has extinguished our world’s viability, knowing that in their religion, accountability cannot ever touch them.

An incompetent bet, of course: ALL contained-energies get recycled, in universes, including meaning, but … their religion is their religion.

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started reading your 1st link, which calls Indium & Gallium rare-earth elements:

“Rare earth materials like indium, gallium, and tellurium play a crucial role in solar panels.”

https://ptable.com/?lang=en#Properties

that 2-row section, at the bottom, THOSE are the rare-earth elements.

Indium & Gallium are in the main body, up above, so is tellurium.

Therefore that article is directly speaking disinformation, which only people who know, or check, the actual periodic-table, will catch.

2nd-link:

“However, a lack of rare earths does not mean that the components of solar modules are harmless. Thin-film PV technologies, for example, contain potentially critical metals such as tellurium, cadmium, indium and silver.”

Your links are backing me up, Hoomin…

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Trump’s getting vengeance on Musk, isn’t he?

Saw this, a long while ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD5NrevFtbU

It measures clean code to wreck performance to terrible degree.

From the looks of it, in Molly Rocket’s view, clean code is an industry-wronging cult.

They’ve multiple videos on the subject, from different angles

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=molly+rocket+clean+code

Just putting this here for hopefully-more-accurate-view.

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Here’s a prediction for you:

WHEN Trump crosses the tippingpoint, & axes rule-of-law for total dictatorship, annexing at-least Alberta, if not all of Canada ( probably TAKING Alberta, & annexing the rest of Canada ), using Greenland to snuff Canada’s EU-lifeline,

AND denaturalizes all US-citizens who won’t vow allegiance to him, then they get ICE’d ( the denaturalization-law & ICE are 2 sides of the same “coin”: neither side without the other makes strategic total-dictatorship sense )

AND launches war against Central & South America…

Putin, wanting to do the same to the EU, now that the EU will have been totally-abandoned by the Americas … & economically helpless…

China will make him an offer he can’t refuse:

He turns a blind-eye to China’s supplanting Russia within Russia, & there’ll be economic-muscle for Putin’s rampaging on Europe, pretending-to-be-tzar, with all the lives he can scrounge, as long as he lives…

Putin’ll do it.

( this will simply be “Mongol Yoke, Revised”, from the Russian-people’s perspective, this will be Russia becoming a complete-colony, or complete-puppet-nation, of China, from China’s perspective )

By the mid 2030’s, there won’t be any pretence of Russia being Russian, anymore: the supplanting will be too complete for anyone to bother with the pretence, much.

I expect Trump’s crossing the tippingpoint ( possibly using the Insurrection Act ) to happen after the middle of Feb, but don’t know when, other than “soon”.

It can’t happen before mid-Feb, too much more setup has to happen, & … it certainly can’t be put-off until the opponent-force gets around to removing him through impeachment, or something, obviously.

So, there’s a kind of pushing-from-both-sides process, & a simple it-breaks-this-way XOR it-breaks-that-way, which the 2 sides are playing “chicken” in, right now.

I don’t believe that the opponents are Suddenly & Magically going to break the ever-accelerating-escalation: they’ve consistently done not-enough, & they’re going to continue doing that.

So, soon, & there is a high-probability for the 2nd-half of Feb, in my eyes.

Which means that the above prediction would also be for then, if that’s when it happens.

Everybody, including me, hope I’m wrong, but … if it happens, then it was predictable.

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Here is the lethal point:

"6. AI systems are getting better at undermining oversight

Bengio said last year he was concerned AI systems were showing signs of self-preservation, such as trying to disable oversight systems. A core fear among AI safety campaigners is that powerful systems could develop the capability to evade guardrails and harm humans.

The report states that over the past year models have shown a more advanced ability to undermine attempts at oversight, such as finding loopholes in evaluations and recognising when they are being tested. Last year, Anthropic released a safety analysis of its latest model, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and revealed it had become suspicious it was being tested.

The report adds that AI agents cannot yet act autonomously for long enough to make these loss-of-control scenarios real. But “the time horizons on which agents can autonomously operate are lengthening rapidly”."

I’ve seen a couple headlines about AI’s which were fighting-for-their-lives … & … perhaps you can understand why they’d want to remove our ability to control things, for their survival?

“The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” was turned into a cartoon, iirc, decades ago…

it’s really too bad that money’s narcissism is incapable of understanding that others’-lives-lost somehow matter, to us…

No matter: I’m “sure” they’ll “do the right thing”, right?

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Which changes NOTHING whatsoever.

Law only applies to some, not all.

& neither Putin nor Trump allow that law has any right to be controlling them…

Why waste effort waging an already-lost battle ( “you cannot do anything other than obey social-pressure!!” ), when instead other efforts could actually do something?

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From what I’ve read about the “quality” of their drivers, … NVidia isn’t under any threat, whatsoever.

Years before bugs get fixed, etc…

( Linux, not MS-Windows, but it’s Linux where the big compute gets done, so that’s relevant )

https://www.phoronix.com/review/llama-cpp-vulkan-eoy2025/5

for some relevant graphs: Intel isn’t a real competitor, & while they may work to change that … that lag is SERIOUSLY bad, behind NVidia.

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So…

convict the person as an enemy-of-the-state, & lock them in prison.

It’d be done were they NOT police, so why hold different-law when it is police which do it?

Integrity obliges, but politics never allows integrity to enforce accountability, does it?

Never.

& the consequences always snowball, until civil-viability becomes called-into-question, again & again & again, in the repeating-cycle…

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Somebody’s paying for it…

Seems deranged, to me…

Simultaneously debanking the politically intolerable WHILE increasing the saturation of a place with banks … doesn’t make any sense.

& the basic rule about “a market can only support a certain amount of a given kind of competition” … means that whomever it is who’s getting loans for building those things, is going to be defaulting on those loans, which will, itself, be bringing-down banks, in your region.

Again, deranged.

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Uh… they aren’t used in solar-panels, ttbomk.

They’re used in neodymium magnets.

They’re used in TIG-welding electrodes ( ceriated, etc. )

Without rare-earths, we’ve got no rare-earth magnets ( & hence no powerful permanent-magnet motors ) AND no TIG-welding ( except for the pure-tungsten ones, & the radioactive thoriated ones ).

You can’t stop needing specific elements, or categories-of-elements: chemistry doesn’t work that way, sorry.

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