"the biggest mistake made was thinking everyone though remembered Trump as terrible"
how was he not terrible and for whom?
i remember him boasting a lot about the stock market but the vast majority of people including most of MAGA don't get any direct benefit from that

What exactly were the Trump voters hoping for?
He didn't deliver on his promises in 2016 & f'ed up the COVID response.
Harris *might* have pulled out a win if only she'd promised to curb Israel's ongoing destruction of Gaza.

Social media posts? Screw that... how about ransomware attacks?

Unfortunately, no, we can't. Because "we" can't agree on simple stuff like... vaccines that have billions of doses injected, or decades of clinical results published are good. All it takes is one of Russia's peering links to a friendly nation to stay live.

As an aside, what even is "LGBT propaganda"? Is there somewhere that posts are going up saying things like "try being gay... being a target for homophobes while having a dating pool one tenth everyone else's is great!" Or "gender-affirming surgery is painless, cheap, safe, and required by Peter before you can cross the Pearly Gates." So much worrying about what's going on in someone else's pants.

By "minor", since the M1 was released, it routinely beats Intel machines even on x86 software. While the M series is handled by Rosetta, all M chips have some hardware translation. That is pretty much a fact you are unwilling to acknowledge.

Sure if your denialism wants to ignore that mobile gaming is twice as large as PC gaming in terms of revenue. In fact PC at 22% of the market would be considered "niche" compared to mobile and then consoles. Which processor does most mobile gaming support: ARM. How much of mobile gaming is x86: nearly 0%.

Only in your unwillingness to recognize a market worth $103B in 2025 compared to PC's $39.9B. But what are facts?

Only in your No True Scotsman arguments and denialism. ARM represents more than 55% of the gaming market. You however will never admit it.

Yep. CAFE-style regulation is the wrong way to attempt to reduce carbon emissions. The right way is to impose a carbon tax, then let consumers vote with their wallets and engineers work to make the right tradeoffs to meet customer demand. My guess is that consumers would choose to buy the more fuel-efficient vehicles and engineers might make the same tradeoffs... but now it would be clear that those tradeoffs are worthwhile.

Gas is pretty much exactly at its long-term, inflation-adjusted average price, and right where it was in the 1950s. Since then, it was a little higher in the 70s, a little lower in the 90s, a little higher in the early 2000s, but we're now back at the long-term normal price.

See https://afdc.energy.gov/data/1...

Whether the normal price of gas is "cheap" or "expensive" depends on your income and lifestyle, I'd think.

There is a middle ground. Apple and Qualcomm have released ARM CPUs with some hardware x86 translation like the entire Mx line up and the new Snapdragon X series chips.

I wouldn't call ARM a niche platform considering many consumers probably own more than one ARM device and fewer of them own an X86 device these days. Gaming is one of the last strongholds of X86 only software but with efforts like this, that may change.

Harris basically was campaigning at Biden 2.0 or maybe even Biden 1.1

I think it's worth pointing out that both Trump victories were against *female* candidates.
It seems to me that plenty of Americans still aren't ready for a woman to be Commander-in-Chief

Steve Lehto has a good video about this.

In Michigan the Lemon Law applies to problems that 'reduce the value to the consumer'.

Some people are attempting to return their cars over these popup ads. IIRC it was GM that was much more aggressive but I might have that detail wrong.

This is an appropriate place for tariffs. Not ridiculous, exclusionary tariffs like we have, but tariffs carefully calibrated to offset the subsidies as precisely as possible, putting BYD's cars on a level playing field against US EVs. I have great faith in free market capitalism and dislike anything that distorts the market, but sometimes you need to use regulation to correct for external market distortions.

The Bobs: "I see you worked for Mark Zuckerberg at one point."
Me: "I wouldn't say I 'worked' for him, Bob"

If Zuckerberg rolled a truck full of money to my house to change jobs, I wouldn't say no. I would however take the attitude of Peter Gibbons from Office Space though: Cleaning fish at my desk, etc.

Citation needed. While I don't doubt Intel got rid of older workers, the main reason is that newer, younger workers are cheaper. The fact they were old white men is more an artifact of the system where Intel hired mostly white men to be engineers decades ago.

This pattern keeps re-emerging.

Online payment systems want your bank login details.

Facebook was infamous for scraping your IMAP account for contact information.

etc.

The implications for security are so severe I wouldn't mind if this were illegal, but certainly it should be legal for banks or cell providers to terminate online accounts of people who share their credentials, no matter if - or especially if - they are with other large corporations. How many times has T-Mobile been hacked in the past two years?

If an account holder wanted to download a data export and upload that to another provider I don't really care so much. It's the near mandatory sharing of credentials that is just such a terrible habit to normalize.

And yes, greybeards, we know you've never heard of apartment rental agencies only accepting Venmo for rent.