There are ants like Dinoponera where there are no specialised queens, and the strongest worker becomes the 'queen' as long as she can keep challengers at bay. The technical term for such queens is gamergate (gam-ergate, not gamer-gate).

It's open-source. You don't have to trust them.

I think the author means that coal use isn't seen as a political red line, and coal plants are allowed to function temporarily when there is a demand surge, with the understanding that this is only a temporary stopgap until enough battery capacity is built.

the tendency of chat bots to be sycophantic

They don't have to be, right? The companies make them behave like sycophants because they think that's what customers want. But we can make better chatbots. In fact, I would expect a chatbot that just tells (what it thinks is) the truth would be simpler to make and cheaper to run.

Isn't it one Iron Dome unit that got hit? I'm assuming there are multiple sites.

Ehh, that's the one humanising thing about him.

We're playing with Meditteranean racism rules, not US ones.

Nice instance name.

pretending Biden was worse than Trump on this issue was propaganda designed to elect Trump

I don't think anyone was saying he was 'worse', just 'equally bad'. Although it looks like Trump is going to pressure Israel into at least a temporary ceasefire, which would make him better than Biden on this one issue.

I'd suggest a law that companies providing medical equipment should reveal all their blueprints, code, etc. to some national regulator. If the company goes belly up, the regulator releases these into the public domain so other manufacturers can provide spare parts, maintanence, etc. The inventors / programmers can be given a reasonable compensation for their work being nationalised.

If enough of them sell, the price will go down, so at least they'll be selling at a 'loss' and people will be able to buy them at reasonable prices.

The CSA precedes the Nazis. In fact, Nazi race laws were partially based on slavery laws from the southern US.