They say they want more legal immigration, but then close down all the legal routes.

For example, there is a greater than 20 year waiting list for applications for family reunion visas for people in Mexico. For most practical purpose, there is no legal option. Same thing in the UK, the government bangs on about wanting safe and legal routes for refugees, but there aren't any. It's literally impossible for them to even apply for asylum without first illegally entering the country.

I don't buy that they even want people with skills either, not really. Again, in the UK they now can't bring their families. Who is going to come and work in the UK, probably doing some job that British citizens don't want like caring for the elderly, if they have to leave their family behind and there is no prospect of ever reuniting with them if they end up staying here? The message is clearly that they want people to leave as soon as they are of no use to us anymore, no matter how much they have contributed.

It used to be that children supported their parents into old age. Now their parents are the wealthy ones, with property that massively increased in value, while the adult children struggle with rent and high prices.

I know, but this is the world we live in. The high cost of living and of accommodation gives women little choice.

Worse still there is little prospect of it getting better, because boomers will vote against anything that devalues property back to sane levels.

As an aside, that's actually legally the case in the UK. You can't sue for damages for having a child, e.g. because you raised them but found out you were not their biological parent, or your sperm was accidentally given to the wrong person at the fertility clinic etc. The law considered a child to always be a blessing, not something that can ever cause you financial loss.

It also says that the rate for that group is climbing, i.e. women are having children later. We see an increase in women freezing eggs when they are younger too.

It might be a case of you not knowing what you are missing, if you don't read/speak Chinese or Japanese. The characters are detailed and complex, but it seems that whatever translation you read isn't bringing those aspects over.

I got a nice bump up from British Airlines when they were unable to run a scheduled flight I had booked. They told us about half an hour before take-off that it was cancelled, so I immediately booked with ANA for a few hours later. That happened to be a first class upgrade, but it was the only seat they had, so I was entitled to it and BA had to pay the price which IIRC was around £4,500, when I only paid them about £800.

These days I always go with ANA or JAL anyway, BA have been terrible too many times.

That's a distraction from the real issue here, which is that both political parties in the US don't like the kinds of things that are being said on TikTok, and really hate that the TikTok algorithm is promoting those videos.

There is a lot of stuff about Palestine, and about unions and worker's rights, and about the rental market. A lot of it skews socialist, fairly common European stuff but terrifying to American politicians.

They want an American company to buy TikTok and change it to promote conservative views. And when I say conservative, I'm including the Democrats in that, they are far to the right politically of where TikTok users are.

Modern CPUs adjust their performance based on the available cooling. The more heat that the system can dissipate, the faster the CPU will go, up to some very high limit that no consumer device ever reaches.

So these chips will run better in laptops with active cooling, and in tablets and phones with passive cooling. Maybe the OEMs need to improve their products, or maybe it's just an Intel-style room heater with some bonus computational ability.

The risk is that if the US behaves that way, it gives other countries licence to do so as well. iPhone sales are down 19% in China, and the government hasn't even banned Apple for consumers, just government use.

It will be interpreted as naked protectionism and responded to in kind.

The only diamond ring worth owning is a cutting disc.

It's not new, Windows has pretty much always been like this. The default install of Windows 95 came with a load of crapware and offers for dial-up internet. Which was actually kind of funny, because Windows 95 didn't have a firewall so if you did dial-up, you were pretty much guaranteed to have your machine p0wned within seconds.

Lenovo used to make some Xeon laptops with ECC I think. The main issue is that mobile CPUs usually don't support it. I think that's true even of Ryzen ones, despite the desktop models having it.

We have had the problem solved in the UK for a while now. Chargers tie in to pricing data, which is predicted a day in advance, and then delay charging until it is cheapest. Often the price goes negative, i.e. you are paid to charge your vehicle, if you are on a variable tariff.

Have a look at this website showing prices: https://agileprices.co.uk/

You can see that for 7% of April, prices were negative, and for another ~30% they were extremely low.