This has bothered me since it came up in 2001 in Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich - she's exploring being working poor and housing is expensive but a (non-romantic) roommate is beyond the pale.

I do know some people who object to the additional cognitive load - it's just one more [expletive] thing to have to care about, and their plate is already full.

In this instance, they'll do powder, but only if there's a scoop of the Right Amount so it's not something they have to care about.

"other places that do ballots this way" - the bit where people are on multiple times with multiple parties ("fusion voting") is only New York and Connecticut, nowhere else.

As promised. (Cubano from Dave's Fresh Pasta)

(There is already some funny business on the finance side about the useful lifetime of the chips versus depreciation and such. See for example blog.citp.princeton.edu/2025/10/15/l...)

Yeah, the "AI" part is the particular chips in the boxes. Putting in different boxes doesn't change much. Racks, power and network wiring, cooling and air handling will all be about the same.

Also, it's often employee-directed, rather than being a corp policy. When an employee of one of these corps donates to charity and gets a match from the employer, that match shows up under the employer's name.

... they seek scapegoats, they enjoy performative violence imposed on marginalized populations, etc.

They're just like that. Reactionaries exist. The right exists. It is not just a bunch of temporarily confused Dems disappointed by offshoring or whatever. They don't need anything to react to.