The fact that they’re making companies sign 5-year contracts for the current prices before selling anything at all says that they’re expecting the demand to collapse soon, and they want to lock in the high prices before that happens.
When industries pull this bullshit, they should be nationalized.
You should watch his videos on solar panels if you like a rant, though it gets increasingly political as it goes.
The video may be primarily about solar, but he goes nuclear by the end.
Sony sold the PS3 at a pretty significant loss and had an “OtherOS” feature that allowed people to install Linux on it.
Between that and ots cell architecture, it turned out to be a super affordable way to build supercomputers. Sony eventually disabled the OtherOS feature to combat people buying them en masse and costing Sony their lunch, and they got a LOT of flack for it.
Valve is doing the opposite. They’re keeping the openness, but charging enough money it’s not financially viable to buy a bunch of Steam Machines to build cheap AI clusters.
I’m in a deep-enough red area that I simply have to deal with Republicans. And most of them are perfectly nice people until the Fox News switch gets flipped in their heads.
It’s crazy. There will be a bunch of perfectly nice ladies gathering supplies for the food bank and blankets for the poor, and then something switches and they’ll start talking about how the Demoncrats want to steal the election so they can use tax money to pay to have illegals get hormone blockers so they can rape Christian girls in the bathroom.
It was basing standards on vehicle footprints. Starting in 2012, a Toyota Corolla had less-strict emissions and fuel economy standards than a compact truck, so they stopped making the compact trucks after 2011.
They brought back the Ranger, but it’s larger than some of the older F150s.
And as standards got tighter, it impacted more an more vehicles. All the compact cargo vans (Transit Connect, ProMaster City, and NV200) were discontinued in 2022 because they no longer meet standards at that size.
There are 2 parts to taking back the government. The GOP has to be stopped, so voting Dem is a necessity. We have a 2-party system, so anyone who isn’t voting blue is contributing to the problem.
“But the Dems aren’t what we want them to be”
That’s what primaries are for, and Mandami is the perfect case study. Primaries are where the most important elections are determined.
That being said, I live in an area of Texas where Dems simoly aren’t going to win, so I’m actually a registered Republican most years. I vote the in the Republican primaries for the least-crazy among them, but then vote blue in the general election.
The difference that still matters (for now) is that the US justice system applies in the United States, regardless of citizenship, war, or anything else.
Gitmo detainees were strategically never brought into the US. NSGB is a naval base that’s leased from Cuba and is explicitly not territorial ground of the US, so detainees there are not protected by US laws, but the adversarial relationship with Cuba also keeps the host country’s laws from applying.
It’s pretty much the only place the US permanently controls where there are no civil protections at all for detainees.
My retort to a lot of these people is to ask if they can prove their citizenship right now, on the spot.
They can’t.
The th8ng about this administration is that they’re drumming constantly about everyone. Yeah - they attacked Iran, but the also threatened to attack Canada and Mexico and Greenland and China and everyone else. They’ve overwhelmed us with so much bullshit we’re too busy being shocked by the new attrocity to give a proper response to the last one.
Maybe we understand that the US is the greater of 2 evils in this specific war, while also feeling like the Iranian government is evil.
A lot of it at the time was also antisemitism. They didn’t want to give Jews a homeland - they wanted to get rid of them and convinced them Israel was the answer. And the only people it’s worked out for are rich assholes and religious zealots.
They’re making ludicrous money manipulating the market.
Trump is more likely to start dropping nukes on Iran than to reign in Israel.
Supermarkets should be able to write off the expenses (transportation, stagging, etc) related to donating soon-to-expire foods to food banks. And not just normal income deductions, but actual direct deductions from taxes. That is, if you spend $1000 loading and shipping expired food to the food bank, you pay $1,000 less in taxes.
Truly incentivize giving food to the poor.
I dropped a word there. “It doesn’t have to cost…”
I love how the guy who played Edward Snowden is buddies with the dark lord of surveillance.
I’d prefer he commit suicide rather than have his clients murder him.
A major state university with 45,000 students.
Choosing not to sit in a crowded room while people read names for 2 more hours so someone can hand you a fake placeholder diploma (the real one is mailed later) isn’t some grand sacrifice.
I like that it happened because it’s embarrassing for Pichai. Bit there is no price to be paid by the students as far as I can tell.
When Karl Rove spoke at my college when I was a student, I was part of the angry audience that lead to him ending his address 20 minutes early and leaving with his security detail forming a crowd around him. It was a cool moment, but it didn’t cost me anything.
And I think that’s the bigger takeaway. It doesn’t have to cost you anything to stand up to these assholes.
I teach at a college. The ceremony is so Mom can come get a picture. There’s a reason so many grad students don’t go to theirs.
Flock is planning around that.
They’re increasingly making deals to put their surveillance tech on private property facing public property. The Amazon deal fell through, but it’ll be back much more quietly.
One of the groups they’re making deals with is HOAs. They’re replacing their existing neighborhood cameras with Flock cameras super cheap in order to get cameras facing the road where municipalities have banned them.