It is a slow boil. I got off the cable train when I realized OTA worked in my location, and I could get most of what I wanted elsewhere. I feel bad for people who can't, or are addicted to sports, the one remaining real-time entertainment they can charge for. You do know, right, CableCo, that literally no one under 40 pays any attention to "broadcast". The remaining advertisers are selling overpriced drugs for horrid and oddly narrow conditions-if you take them, your grandkids will come to visit.

If you think that every keystroke of the 1/6 debacle, including Secret Service, isn't recorded somewhere, I have a quality stone bridge in NYC for sale. That these systems exist is no surprise to anyone paying attention. When a cell network overloads, you can see them shed load by refusing photo uploads or streaming music downloads, with phone as priority, even slowing texts. The dashboard exists, question as always, who is using it, for what, and good or evil.

I was in a big box store yesterday. They had on offer a 65 inch 4k set for....under 500. Not a great one, but still. The days of a $5000 or even $2500 widescreen with commensurate profit are long past-HDTV made a lot of money, and not only because it obsoleted every AVR out there (fuck u HDCP). After covid, everyone who could afford another screen got it...

I worked many years near City Hall. Money flowed down the streets. Corporate American excess. Street level businesses, from the corner store to the clothing to the jewelers to the basket shop to the titty bar minted money. Food from dirty water dogs to luxury lunches. I was there for the first WTC bombing...didn't change things. I was there unusually for the second as well. That changed things a bit. Now, the stores are empty. The last tenant's trash is visible through dirty windows. My favorite Irish bar is gone. The clothing stores, all the retail, all the food. Looking up the empty towers from the empty street, most windows aren't lit. There is a lot of unused A class office space. Picturephone has killed the need to meet in person for lots of businesses, and the selling point of lower Manhattan, proximity, is no longer needed. Covid killed lower Manhattan, something Bin Laden could not do.

Why do we care about Elon's opinion....about anything ?

Hey, points are mechanical, so they are next. Back, back to the future, marty. Time to find that old dwell meter.

SEO results suck because it is no longer a review or description of the product...it's all ad language and "click my link below to buy". The Amazon Affiliate link crowds out any actual content. Dozens of pages with the company website's description re-formatted slightly. Figure out a way to segregate the link pages and push any non Amazon affiliate link page to the top of the results.

Today I drove a C class, w205, and the new one, w206. The 206 has jettisoned all the classic great feel benz interior switchgear, and replaced it with two screens, one haptic strip below the center stack screen, and two haptic controls on each side of the wheel. It must cost benz a LOT less to use the new haptic stuff....but there is a large sacrifice in feel. The wheel controls on the W205, discrete switches are easy to use and give positive feedback. The haptic nonsense on the W206 don't swipe correctly-which is odd as there are two tiny touchpads on the W205 that work very well. I am disappointed to see that even at the 50k plus price point, the manufacturer cheaped out and put a lesser system in the car. Wireless carplay is fun but doesn't make up for the fact the radio volume has three sliders, which work poorly, well, and just OK, when there used to be two wheels, each of which felt quality and gave perfect feedback every time. Yes guys, we know you can now just rewrite software, but a touchscreen is for home or office, not a moving car....and I also know the haptic is a load cheaper than dials, but VW's current system, M-B's new system, and classic Cadillac CUE...all just suck.

The problem with GM is that the engineering is excellent....the ATS-V is a great car. Likewise the new C8 Corvette...but.... They then build them out of the cheapest world sourced parts possible. After three alternators, and five wheel bearings, I gave up on Cadillac for good. The GM Parts Bin is horrible...the commodity parts you don't see are marginal chinesium. Caddy gives good warranty for the first owner, which is how they compensate for the high failure rate. Everything folks claim about out of warranty German cars applied to my Caddy, yet my Germans are actually pretty good, and kilometers better than the Caddy.

In a residential setting, you are still limited by the pipe, and the clients. I'm running two Apple Extreme AC routers connected by ethernet. I know the cognescenti like to crap on them because they can't be configured at a granular level, but my links are faster than my DOCSIS cable, they handoff between routers seamlessly, cover the entire house and yard and up the street a bit. AC is as fast as any of my clients have. Why spend money ? It's like buying a Ferrari and driving it in NYC during rush hour.

The F35 is how the Air Force pays for the dorito chip/TR2, or SR 72, or whatever bleeding edge hypersonic space plane is out there....it's a vector for money to the black side.

Those of us who play radio...boofweng is shit....

Millennials don't "watch TV". They use a big screen occasionally for group viewing. Middle agers will record, and watch the recordings. They still see "tv" as a source, along with streams. The only person I know who still watches linear TV, adverts and all, is over 80. We tried to get him to use a DVR but no

I'm always amazed we have to pay a 3% fee to the monopoly cc companies...when in Africa you can move $ for less by text

We recently got an old car with a cd box in the trunk. My millennial was entertained/interested in going through the parental collection and installing them in the vintage 6 disc expensive option at the time trunk player. He even learned to load them in the little sleeves and gently put them into the cartridge....and noticed it takes a while to change discs once playing....