Ah, for the days before we discovered that Adams always intended for Pointy Haired Boss to be the hero of the cartoon.

Next will be incredibly tight regulation on VPN access and use. Leading up to government-run vpns and a Chinese style great firewall.

This is a authoritarian power grab and once authoritarians start grabbing power they don't stop.

I don't think it's anything that can be stopped because voters are too distracted by the culture war bullshit.

The next step is to ban vpns. They will be more tightly regulated than guns.

Not that it matters because human civilization is collapsing but all this think of the children bullshit is just a power grab by authoritarians.

We can't do anything about it because we're too busy worrying about woke trans drag queens forcing us to say happy holidays while playing Mortal Kombat on the Sega Genesis.

The problem is weâ(TM)ve allowed universities to become bloated with do nothing administrators by guaranteeing funding through federally backed loans. This has made an entire generation into lifelong debt slaves while we are missing critical skills for our economy. You can kick and squeal all you like about the value of an education and the value of the university experience, but if one cannot afford to survive due to the costs of those experience they arenâ(TM)t so valuable are they?

That's the kind of person who came up with this idea. They don't realize how utterly bizarre it sounds to normal people.

Still, even if they're only targeting the top 10% income bracket, that's 30 million American suckers to pull from. There's a type of person who will absolutely hit "subscribe" on a service that dumps a box of random trinkets on them every month, if the ad is good enough.

I am in on soldered RAM. 16 gigabytes ought to be enough for everyone. Cheers!

I am surprised that the bubble did not burst yet. Even newspapers are talking about it going poof soon. It is all out there in the open. The recent dip because of lower Nvidia sales shows the markets are jumpy. I guess we are all playing a game of chicken with the global economy. Yolo, I guess...

It was the early 2000s. We both made way less than that. Roughly 2500 euro + benefits before tax. It was OK for starters.

Sure a master degree is there for shaping your intellect. But it is not the only purpose. Good job opportunities, getting a decent pay, having a comfortable work environment sure play a role as well. These things never are clear cut.

Rose: "The sun is too hot, now I shall die"

Cladosporium sphaerospermum: "Fuck yeah, strong ionizing radiation!"

I'm really hoping it pops before the Pitt Race track gets bulldozed.

Story for those not in the know, what's heavily rumored and circumstantially almost certain to be an AI datacenter operation is in the process of buying out Pitt Race at the height of its success from the already generationally wealthy family that owns it for what's rumored to be a 9-digit sum. The race track happens to be next to some major electrical infrastructure. Equipment from the track has already been auctioned off.

I was also kind of hoping the nuclear reactors might get started before it pops but that might be wanting to have the cake and eat it too...

I'm thinking sometime between right now and late 2026. It may be starting to pop already.

The guts of the data centers will mostly head for the landfill (or may get a short stint as cryptocurrency mining or HPC operations at most), they may get repurposed as conventional data centers or possibly warehouses or factories.

Counterpoints: The Great Depression, the impoverishment of the Luddites, the impoverishment of Gen. Y/Z/Alpha. The French revolution was an outlier, and the French aristocracy didn't even have the benefit of a massive heavily automated surveillance apparatus, much less the ability to even dream of armed killbots.

A pesticide for any planets crawling with pesky lifeforms you want to get rid of?

>"If we are adding in FreeBSD, Android etc, might as well also add in MacOS. They are all quite similar from a user point of view and all based off one or the other NIXes"

Not really. It isn't free, much of it isn't open, doesn't use X11 or Wayland, doesn't use any of the Linux desktop environments, and it really only runs on Apple hardware. Very different in many ways from Linux or BSD.

Although I think that throwing "unknown" and "BSD" into the Linux count is not valid.