Is that the Gospel according to Faux Noise? Zuck, woke?

yes it is definitely a positive. But you will always get fucktards looking to sue or potentially they are just tools of Paramount looking to block. The reality is it is a fucking mess at the moment with too many streaming providers and all of them lacking content because of it. Warner Bros discovery is in the financial shitter so blocking this successfully would only mean even worse content or someone else merging there content (i.e. paramount).

one way or the other Warner Bros is going to be sold, whether it is to netflix/paramount or some other party is the only thing questionable. They are in serious financial distress and if you block the sales you will be far worse off as a consumer than if they are sold.

I use a Raspberry Pi 4 running motion and this USB camera. The camera uses visible light when there's enough light and switches to IR automatically when there isn't.

This setup also lets me use wired Ethernet (though you could still use WiFi if you prefer that route.) I have a post-motion-detection script that automatically copies the footage to an off-site server so even if a burglar destroys my pi4, the pictures are safely preserved.

Well, the big problem is many employers are the ones forcing taxpayers to subsidize their employees. Most SNAP recipients work full time - Walmart is a famous employer who helps employees apply for benefits upon employment. In other words, SNAP benefits are going to Walmart - Walmart gets to mooch off taxpayers by not paying employees enough and relying on taxpayer programs to make up the savings in payroll.

Now consider what happens when those benefits were cut.

Western companies only interested in creating jobs overseas, and helping other nations with tax payers.

What happened to "America first"? :(

Effect of tariffs. If you're making a widget, you can make it in China and make it in the US. Because of US tariffs, making it in China is no longer an option. So you create jobs making the widget in the US. But what about worldwide demand? You could export it from the US, but because the US tariffs cause reciprocal tariffs, it's not cost effective to ship US made widgets to other countries. It's cheaper to retain your Chinese factory making widgets to sell to the rest of the world. Meanwhile, the US customers pay for the US made version. It would be cheaper than the Chinese made part plus tariffs, but probably also more expensive than the Chinese made part before the whole trade war began.

Meanwhile US exporters are hurt because reciprocal tariffs but also by the fact that their customers may seek alternative suppliers for the product, which hurts the US company more because now their customers are choosing the competition. And those customers once lost, may never return having found an alternative.

it's why US tourism operators are worried because tourists are going everywhere but the US, and they may find somewhere else to be their holiday tradition.

Trade wars are not easy and there are a ton of unintended consequences "America First" sure, but that may also mean "Everyone but America" for everyone else.

Is anyone finding that the quality of Indian IT resources is getting even close to being comparable to US resources? My experience is abysmal.

Depends. The good ones don't tend to stay in India but emigrate to other countries. All the US did was basically chase them out of the US, and now they get re-hired outside of the US.

The audience for USENET and slashdot was about 400 times smaller than the people participating in broader social media. It was much harder for a critical mass of fringe ideas/susceptible people to coalesce into isolated circles when the population was just so tiny.

Australia's youth emerge as the smartest and most together in the world....

Social media has become a toxic dump. If you wouldn't allow children to play in waste effluent from a 1960s nuclear power plant, then you shouldn't allow them to play in the social media that's out there. Because, frankly, of the two, plutonium is safer.

I do, however, contend that this is a perfectly fixable problem. There is no reason why social media couldn't be safe. USENET was never this bad. Hell, Slashdot at its worst was never as bad as Facebook at its best. And Kuro5hin was miles better than X. Had a better name, too. The reason it's bad is that politicians get a lot of kickbacks from the companies and the advertisers, plus a lot of free exposure to millions. Politicians would do ANYTHING for publicity.

I would therefore contend that Australia is fixing the wrong problem. Brain-damaging material on Facebook doesn't magically become less brain-damaging because kids have to work harder to get brain damage. Nor are adults mystically immune. If you took the planet's IQ today and compared it to what it was in the early 1990s, I'm convinced the global average would have dropped 30 points. Australia is, however, at least acknowledging that a problem exists. They just haven't identified the right one. I'll give them participation points. The rest of the globe, not so much.

Oh should this bubble pop, it will take out a *lot* with it.

A lot of tech companies have effectively retooled themselves so they don't know how to keep being a functional business without the AI hype spending.

The level of dedication to the LLM game dwarfs the dot-com bubble, and so too will the negative consequences...

It's the boiling frog approach to revenue. Start at an attractive rate and increase it by 'no big deal' until eventually it would be a big deal.

See also, microtransactions.

Companies have learned that customers barely pay attention to the absolute costs, and just note the incrementals they incur in the moment.

Xbox has always been weak, and likely has never been profitable, and hardware has never really been Microsoft's thing. Xbox getting only 10% market share, however, is new territory. This may be leading to more pain than Microsoft is willing to take. Back in the Genesis days, would you have thought that Sega would ever walk away from consoles?

People who can't do simple arithmetic are so fun.

If you haven't worked it out, doubling your net worth every day for a month means you end the month with one billion times what you started with.

Multiply that by two million...