He’s in the right administration for it. Basically straight out of a trump playbook, if you can call narcissism a playbook.

Yes. Safe assumption to start with.

Kind of, though with rules. I think I’m describing something closer to structured, encrypted torrents.

Not sure where you get that, just saying things aren’t black and white at scale

It explains it, it doesn’t excuse it. If your brain snaps and suddenly you perceive something as a rational thing to do you don’t really have control at that point. Basically just points to punishment or treatment, not a get out of jail card.

Isn’t that kind of what he’s saying? Maybe don’t rush to judgement because there might be more to it?

Not that it makes a significant amount of difference aside from treatment, he’s obviously a danger to society whether the cause was medical or otherwise. At that extreme you might argue that it’s mental health disorder range whether it’s diagnosed as something specific or not.

Kind of two different things. You didn’t ask what mental health emergency he was specifically having, you asked what kind would explain it. That would definitely explain it

Probably because they have a billion months to feed and a ridiculously inefficient incentive mechanism for progress in general. Kind of amazing that they put emphasis on green tech at all, except for the fact that they have the bodies to through at it and it’s something the rest of the world values as well.

On a related note, it would be nice if there was a shared storage option for self hosting. It wouldn’t be the same as self hosting, but more like distributed hosting where everyone pools storage they have available and we could have an encrypted sharing option.