What's the best technology Russian fabs have now, 90 nm? You don't want to hamper the rest of your country by forcing everyone to buy your own sub-standard technology. Do you think the companies building these chips for the government have any incentive to innovate? They have a locked-in market! It's like Boeing building rockets for NASA.

It's actually the last year where anything really creative came out of Hollywood. It's also the year Being John Malkovich came out, if I'm not mistaken. Since then you don't see anything risky or creative. It's just formulaic and a rehash of old ideas. Including the non-existent Matrix sequels.

Yes, but they only offer it for 55 and older, I think. I have several friends and relatives who had shingles way younger than that.

Minor quibble... the economy doesn't depend on you throwing stuff away, but given the very low cost of mass manufacture, coupled with how quickly we're still coming up with new and better designs, and relatively poor quality for most electronic gadgets, the whole system does depend on the ability of consumers to get rid of e-waste cheaply and easily.

Hi had chickenpox on my 10th birthday, and it ruined it. All I got were get-well-soon gifts and none of the toys I'd asked for, lol. And the itchiness sucked. And since I've had chickenpox, now I'm liable to get shingles as an adult, which is very painful, I hear. Ya darn kids don't know how good you have it with yer chickenpox vaccine.

I figured most people just had term life now. Does the article only address whole life policies?

How on earth would it pay out more than it takes in? That's impossible. You don't actually want a payout. Do you not understand the point of insurance?

You are correct, but the time to do this would have been 15 to 20 years ago, at the peak of millennials graduating and entering the workforce before the boomers really started to retire en-masse. Since then the number of workers as a percentage of the population has peaked and started to decline, so the economy is going to incentivize people to work more hours, and it'll actually try to get a few younger boomers to delay retirement or come back out of retirement for a few years to help out. We're already seeing it with wages increasing. True, inflation means prices increase too, but the net effect is that people who are working can still afford a significant proportion of what's being produced, and people who retired thinking they had enough money in the bank will find that it can't be stretched as far as they think. The net effect will be a large transfer of wealth from the boomer generation to their kids' as retired people spend their savings just to be comfortable.

Since when was doing things that were previously thought impossible so ripe for criticism.

Since the reporters gave up on journalistic integrity, stopped trying to be unbiased, and decided to take sides in the culture war. The one where "they've" decided that Elon Musk is "da enemy" and so anything related to him must be evil.

Think about that the next time you're out holding a sign that says Gays for Palestine, then. ;)

Seniors are a large voting block, but they're hardly a majority. There's another reason voters, as a whole, support Social Security. Middle aged people don't want to be on the hook for the financial illiteracy of their parents.

We've already explained to you why it's a bad idea to use apps that upload everything you do to some company in California (or wherever they choose to store your data) but at least there are some legal frameworks governing what they can do, and the government we elect has some control. If that's a bad idea, can you possibly understand why it's an even worse idea to use an app that uploads everything you do to a company that's completely under the control of a hostile nation's government and that our elected government has no way to regulate? I get that *you* don't think you do anything worth spying on, but there's been lots of cases of young people in the armed forces or national security jobs using apps like this while on duty or at work.

It's true that the constitution adds some protections, but if the majority of people in a democracy are really annoyed with what you're doing (like the Canadian truckers) then they *will* find a way to get back at your or stop you. In order to allow stuff like the trucker protest to happen, there needs to be a culture that tolerates it. By and large most Canadians do tolerate it up to a point, but most of the millennial and almost all of the gen Z generation now believe that saying something they don't like is literally "harm" and therefore needs regulated. This is hardly just a Canadian problem. Has anyone from Gen Z ever heard the expression "sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me?"

Then the poor shouldn't have had so much fun stuffing me into lockers in high school, and spent more time studying. Fuck them.

Distances driven are just larger in North America. 200 miles won't cut it. The bare minimum to be acceptable to consumers is 300+ for mass adoption, and even that's going to give people range anxiety. That said, American car companies have decided they like the huge markups they could get when supply was constrained, and they're making no efforts to increase supply now that they can get electronic components again. Prices for both new and used vehicles are absurdly high. Prices for 3 year old used vehicles have jumped over 50% since 2019. It's only good for the OEMs, not the country.