And yet we still have a huge problem with spam calls and “nothing can be done about it”.

Personal anecdote from my wife yesterday. She doesn’t get many spam calls but has noticed that when a particular friend calls her, she gets a spam call later that day. I surmised that the friend has some spyware on their phone which is reporting “active” numbers.

Why do you think musk was all about the small private tunnels for transportation but then he blabbed to the public and was forced to go quiet?

/s

As is that “off road adventure 4x4”, yet people still buy them.

We may or may not be experts on a particular topic but most of us are inexpert at estimating competence on that topic.

“Weaponizedspaces” seems appropriate.

> Are we actually being serious right now of America doing a conflict with Cuba?

Trump says 'Cuba is next' in speech touting US military successes - https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-says-cuba-is-ne...

:shrug:

F9 is their Model 3/Y. Starship is their Cybertruck.

Perhaps they are thinking "I Like People Who Weren't Captured".

I suspect that they are willing to wait a few more years until they have built up their own chip making capacity so that disrupting Formosa won’t strongly affect their own economy, while it will hinder other developed countries.

I'm not so sure about that. Taiwan pro-reunification party still grows, and its economy is hyper-specialized (not surprising, neocolonialism etc). If china's chip production capacity reach acceptable level (which it will), enough to put downward pressure on lesser chip, Taiwan economy might suffer enough that they vote for a reunification, probably as an autonomous regions (like Guangxi or Ningxia). That would be China's ultimate win.