Definitely. It also means that lithium supply pressure reduces a bit.

Got the impression that he needed his own power station for this data centre. Must be a grid shortage or he has a cheap fuel deal.

The beginning of the move away from lithium. Technology is moving forward.

I suppose that the tariffs could be seen as an income or consumption tax. Politicians have a devil of a time raising taxes as the voters don’t like them and neither do billionaires. Taxing imports maybe a substitute. Gotta get money from somewhere, even if crashing the economy causes pain.

Should end up with a lot of unqualified sycophantic drones running the government. If sense ever returns to the US, it will take years to fix.

Nothing wrong with a bolt action rifle for dealing with ferals. Coming across feral pigs in the bush is chancy but spraying bullets around indiscriminately is a good way to kill the neighbours. If you need a rifle then that’s what you do however when you are standing in a paddock and hear something whizz by your ear then you hear a rifle crack, then you think too many people like to play with guns.

Maybe they are afraid a herd will be coming for them and they need to defend themselves.

Rule 101, a secret shared is not a secret.

Sounds like Russia and China.

Selling justice is an old corrupt practice of kings and despots.

Protected by the rule of law maybe a better way to express it. The current holder of the office of President is destroyer of the rule of law.

The current mob seems have lost sight of the fact that citizens are supposed to belong in the USA and are protected by the constitution. The really interesting thing is how quickly all these public servants have accepted illegal orders.

What a wanker!

You would have thought that the court would have noticed by now that Trump has been ruling by decree in defiance of the Constitution so there probably was some likelihood that the lower court was on to something.

Only one way to view it, disastrous for Musk, the US government, the US people and the world. To think that someone could wreak so much damage in such a short time with so little regard for the consequences is staggering.

Trump seems have decided that he can rule by decree regardless of the laws passed by Congress or the limits of the Constitution. Most of what he is doing is probably illegal and the courts should consider it in how they approach good will to the government.

Sounds like doomish stuff. We innovate all the time. If copper and lithium are short supply items then technology will morph to use something else.

Everyone else seems get shot in the US so why not diplomats?

Almost all cars and products have call home features in them these days. Car companies are putting kill switches in to stop delinquent purchasers. The trick is to manage them rather than whinge about them. If you know they are there then manage the network and environment to limit the risk.

Just goes to show when you let billionaire megalomaniacs run large public services you have them trying to create a world to suit themselves.