No books have been banned. If you can find 1 example of the government telling Amazon not to sell some book, I'd be interested to hear it.

If you want to talk about the debate over what books government institutions should purchase and provide access to that is certainly a legitimate issue. But equating that with an actual book ban and 'complete destruction' is not accurate.

30k was a rumor attributed to "sources" (unnamed). So, this is that. 14k is the real number, at least for now.

Of course, today's actual story about 14k won't get nearly as much readership as yesterday's rumor about 30k, since now it's 'old news.' Or better yet, people will just assume both, like your post.

Yeah, I sit up close to my 4k TV to use Google Earth Pro desktop and it is fantastic.

Same for looking at my photos. Looking at photos sitting close to a 4k display is just great, especially landscapes. With an OLED, it's better than slides in a projector ever were.

I also sit up close to play games, especially split-screen games. 1080 is noticeably lacking, 1440 is alright, but I would run 4k if my computer could keep up the framerate.

if you're sitting close and have a true high-res input, I doubt anybody would deny you can see the difference. But this is supposed to be a discussion about average people in their average livingrooms watching average content, so just ignore what's best for you and worry about average.

But the jump from NTSC to 720 was massive for me.

That was also the jump from analog to digital. (And yes it was massive.)

I currently own two GM cars, a Malibu and an Acadia, and I like them a lot. But like you said, there is NO value to ANY consumer in dropping CarPlay and Android Auto, since they could even offer it side-by-side with their proprietary and most likely subscription-based garbage that nobody wants if they thought it could compete.

It doesn't say anything about being clean.

You say it was an echo chamber but remember how much Donald Trump used it? Everybody used it.

Granted that was falling apart by the end of Trump's term and he was banned for comments relating to Jan 6.

Look how twitter got destroyed as a common medium for communication, with no replacement. X (right) and Bluesky (left) together are not a replacement for what twitter used to be. Now wikipedia as a store of knowledge goes the same route? Can't we just have one reality, but have different opinions about it?

Some people make real money in this "market," or try to. Check this out:

I Spent 24 Hours with CS2 Millionaires

I'm not saying any of this is real, but I bet some sizable purchases have been driven by dreams of such.

Cockroaches!

Already 100 million years old when those johnny-come-lately dinosaurs came along.

I guess Pokeman cards were just too tangible.

On this page they identify 1.5C as the initial "tipping point" of specific bad things. There is a fairly wide uncertainty around that estimate, but it's considered the best estimate so in that sense it wasn't picked out of thin air.

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

"Which means that we're going to have a period, bigger or smaller, with higher or lower intensity, above 1.5C in the years to come"

You cut off the conclusive part - we're going 1.5C above baseline. How much, being open in part to what we do now.

ok I'm going to wave the white flag on this one.

What I'm saying is the new goal to target 30% profit margins (sure, why not?) might or might not be accomplished through further price increases. I know they already did raise prices, and I there's been some pushback and even reductions of announced sky-high prices for upcoming games by other companies. Microsoft doesn't dominate gaming and they don't have the power to arbitrarily increase profits by jacking up prices.