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Comment Re:No change happens in a vacuum. (Score 1) 169

An article in 2024 quoting 2020 numbers on livestock to drive a point home, while the rest of the numbers are relatively stable. Their idea of "similar results" is a gross margin dropping by 80%+ being the same as a drop of 1% for the other companies listed. And like the other commenter mentioned, the huge drop is relating to COVID highs vs bird flu lows.

Comment Re:Sums up the housing crisis (Score 1) 102

Since that time prices have recovered

Prices tell almost none of the story alone. The people paying those prices are the ones renting them out rather than living in them. It inflates both rent and house prices because there's no other safe place to stuff your cash assets and wealthy people are desperate to get rid of excess cash that will be devalued by inflation.

Comment Re:You know what... (Score 1) 369

i mean currently we cannot afford the single payer systems we DO currently have : Medicare, Medicaid and the VA system.....

This system puts most of the healthy people in a different group with self-funded or employer-funded healthcare. So only the most expensive to treat will be on these plans and those taxpayer funds are considered an "extra" expense to the people who already have their own insurance.

This is very little different from what will happen to public schools if private school voucher plans came into wide effect.

Comment I'm more upset about vertical video (Score 4, Insightful) 21

Presumably, Google will create a custom version of the model for YouTube to spit out vertical video clips.

As annoying as AI generated slop is, vertical video is more annoying to me. I usually only catch Youtube on TV because I'm tired of looking at an up-close tiny screen by the time I'm ready to relax.

Plus, their integration of shorts with the platform is an utter mess. You can watch shorts on mobile and on TV boxes, and you can even use mobile to control the playlist on a TV - but you can't direct a short from your phone to play on the TV at all.

Comment Re:Another video going around... (Score 1) 108

The description in the summary really sounds like some sort of massive electrical short. Of course deploying an additional emergency generator won't fix that, but it's automated. Even with both engines functioning, losing the electronic controls and flying completely manual would be completely different than normal control. There wouldn't be a lot of time to react at such a low altitude either.

Comment Re:Nightmare Workplaces += AI Bullshit Story (Score 1) 150

That egg price spike? Caused by all the flock purges in response to bird flu.

Inaction was better than what happened this year. We could at least freely trade eggs with Canada before the tariffs wrecked that. It is far cheaper to ship eggs to Canada and import them from other parts of Canada elsewhere than to ship cross-country.

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