There's a lot of mythology around who Trump voters are. Part of it is that statistics can be confusing, especially if you're prone to jump to conclusions. Yes Trump wins the voters without a college degree, and people without college degrees tend to make less money, but we can't leap to the conculsion that Trump voters are poor. In fact, data shows Trump lost the $50k and under income group solidly in both 2016 and 2020. In 2016 he won every income group greater than $50k, although only *strongly* in the $50k -$99k group. In 2020 he solidly lost every income group betlow $100k, but but won the over $100k group by an enormous 12 point margin.

Putting it all together, Trump's core voter group are people with limited educational attainment who are economically comfortable of (good for them) well off without having a college degree. However he doesn't own any particular socioeconomic group; really elections are determined by changes in turnout in key swing states. There was strong turnout among Trump's *share* of $50-$99 ke voters in 2016; I don't think many of those voters changed their mind, but their compatriots who sat 2016 out came out to vote in 2020.

Just because the cigarette industry pictured doctors recommending smoking in its advertising didn't mean that *all* doctors, or even most thought smoking was healthy for you. This was largely in the 30s and 40s when they took advantage of a positive attitude toward science and particular medical science. They began to pull back from this after 1950 when evidence was mounting for the link between smoking and cancer, for fear of pushback from the medical community.

What does this have to do with lab grown meat?

Amazon already has MGM

Antitrust regulators Did pretty much nothing when Disney Slwallowed Fox, and there was much more Overlap. They will probably do nothing here, except to make sure that sony's involvement on CBS is bellow 50%

I was Hoping NetFlix would grab Paramount, as (other than Paramount +) there is no overlap between the two. Then again, Skydance was also a good choice (and better than sony, no doubt).

Sony Is the lesser evil compared with the alternatives (Like Warner/Dicovery) but is still bad...

1.) Sony was one of the few "neutral" content distributors, licensing content to pretty much all streamers in a somewhat equal footing (except some sweetheart deals with disney doe to the shared marvelverse interests). Expect that, as those agreements lapse, more of sony's content will be only available inside Paramount Plus (whatever it is called).

2.) We already lost fox as an independent studio, if this comes to pass, we will lose paramount too (will be under sony).

3.) one positive is that, since Sony has no TV networks in the USoA, there is not a situation like ABC (i.e. disney) + FoxTV. But a negative is that Sony's TV productions were available to all, now, they will be only on CBS. (Most likely, there will be some MBA-esque contortions so that Sony only oewns 49% of CBS)

4.) Another positive is that sony will not be involved in American amusements.

5.) Another positive is a lot more of Sony programming (due to lower cost as intra-company pricing) getting into PlutoTV, which is always nice.

I hope they go with Skydance ot NetFlix...

But if a Big Studio it was to be, Sony + Apollo is the lesser evil.

External ugly antennas, telescopic, screw-on or otherwise are from 2~3 decades ago.

Nowadays, the back windshield defroster traces do doble duty as your AM and FM antennae. If you remove the AM antenna, there is more space for a better FM antenna.

  The little stump on top near the back of some cars (AKA Shark Fin Antenna) is for GPS + Cellular (for OnStar-like services) + Sat Radio.

Some cars put a "stick AM/FM" antenna on top of the shak fin antenna, but that is either:

For nostalgic purposes more than for extra reception
or
As cost savings in markets where there is no Sat Radio + Car Cell Services + GPS.

Mod Parent Up (Disclosure, I own a DS1515+)

Except that this is a container solution for any linux distro, done with best of breed FOSS options. The Synology SW on userland (on top of linux) is propiertary

The FCC mandated the use of Digital Radio Mondiale for Digital Emision in the AM band.

Source:
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/t...

So, unless a newer edict from the FCC exists, DRM is the only option for Digital AM

on equal footing? If yes, then I do not see any harm on Huawei funding it.

If it is available with priviledges for china, and strings attached to everyone else, then there is a problem.

Instead of focusing on propping dead technologies, the USoA's legislative should legislate that both AM and FM band holders should transition to Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) ASAP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

That way, interference from electri motors (and gas discharge ligth ballasts and all otyher sources) is mitigated, and audio quality will increase to a level avobe FM but bellow CD (closer to a DVD movie, as a matter of fact)

PS: The only bad thing about Digital Radio Mondiale is the acronym

More to the point, they're *guaranteed* bucks.

People don't understand the significance of risk to profitability. By underwriting 80 billion dollars of risk for banks, it's essentially guaranteeing them profits. When it's politically infeasible to spend money on something, the government guarantees loans. That's politically popular across the board because it's spending *later* money and it puts money in bankers' pockets.

mantaining it, on the other hand, is quite a different task...

And, as far as I understand, this solution does not address that topic (yet).

I hope that, in the (not to distant) future, this last point get's addresses, so that self-hoting becomes a reality.

But, as of today, and to answer tyhe headline question:

Is selfhosting getting mainstream?
NO, not yet.