Are you going to feel guilty getting rich selling it to gullible zealots?

Yes, brainworm intuition is better than those rigged bribed scientists from woke universities.

On a serious note, MAGAs often make a fatal logic flaw: that if subject matter experts are wrong "too often", that means their detractors are automatically right. But it's quite possible for BOTH to be wrong on many matters. Contrarians can make a living as "broken clock miners".

I initially thought Covid was media hype also, and ignored most the news on it. I finally faced reality when the Federal Gov't declared a national emergency and put formal restrictions on airline flights. They suggested it might be a year or more before quarantines are lifted. I was in WTF shock, and hoping I'd wake up from a bad dream.

It's hard to tell hype from reality without looking at the background of experts being quoted, as it's easy for news to find an expert who echoes their hype agenda.

Clarification:

Plutocrats: "Fees?! Oh shit, there goes my profit! Declare war!"

Plutocrats: "Fees?! Oh shit, there goes my profit!"

We grunts: "War?! Oh shit, there goes my life!"

not a real emergency until it threatens...white countries

"Honkyvirus"?

There should be a Rule of the Universe that only one crisis can happen at a time.

Since about the mid 2010's trolls have been winning too often. Cults based on morons are forming. Morongeddon.

So many really wanted the Musk vs. Zuck cage match. Too late? Is there a "both lose" betting category?

It will have a "Bible Mode" to toggle between definitions.

I guess entertaining villains are better than boring villains.

Hayes' real problem was that clones got cheaper, as they usually do. Hayes tried to stay ahead of the curve by making ever faster modems, but when the ISP ceiling that you mentioned hit, they couldn't use that curve anymore, and were stuck competing on price alone, the clones' forte. The premature "56" model mistake was just icing on the death cake.

China's R&D into EV's has paid off and now they are the lowest-cost-producer and have the most EV IP. China even invested in factory robots, making it hard for Japan to compete on labor costs by using robots.

Yes, the Chinese gov't subsidized much of the R&D, but it appears to have worked.

Detroit is also probably F'd. They can live on gasoline laurels for a few decades, but will probably gradually shrink. Most small cars will be EV such that gas stations will gradually close shop, making gas cars ever less practical. (Diesel might be slower to fade.)

The US is putting up big trade barriers to Chinese EV's right now, but that can't last forever, because when Americans see how cheap EV's are getting in the rest of the world, they will be frustrated with high car prices at home. EV's are cheaper to manufacture because they have about half the parts of an equivalent ICE engine. The batteries have been the bottleneck of costs, but get roughly 5% to 10% cheaper every year.

Sorry gas lovers, but gas looks doomed. Detroit & Japan have a hard road ahead, pun half intended.

Chips and storage are getting more expensive, reversing Moore's-Law-like trends. I know, technically that's not the definition, but the "feel" is a reversal of the usual gradual price drops per unit of computing or storage over time.

Eroom's Law: Bubbles f$ck things up.

Are you implying the stats are being rigged?

I am so sick and tired of fucking pretending we are not in a deep deep recession.

It's arguably a "white collar recession". General employment is generally in a "C+" mode. White collar-ers are just going to have to get blue collar jobs until the economy normalizes.