College is for...getting an education. Crazy thought, right?

College is *not* for making friends and finding spouses. Sure, people do that at college, but that's a side effect, not the main goal. If your goal is to get married and find friends, join a club, volunteer at a charity, hang out at a local bar, join a church, whatever kind of place matches your interests. These approaches are *much* cheaper than college, and probably will be more effective in helping you accomplish your search for friends and a spouse.

If you want an education, go to college. That's what it's for.

What tax dollar “flood”?

Only 5% of next year’s SpaceX revenue will come from NASA.

If your goal is meeting friends and your future spouse, college is *not* the most effective, or certainly the most cost effective, way to do those things.

If you want friends, join a community group, volunteer at a charity, join a church, become a regular at a neighborhood bar, whatever kind of community you find important. All of these are a *whole lot cheaper* than tuition, and probably a lot more effective.

If you want an education, *then* go to college.

Let's stay focused on what college is for. It is *not* primarily a social mixer. Friends and family are side effects.

I don't think you understand how AI spending works. Companies don't just "buy" an AI product. They are all *subscriptions* and many charge you *by the token*. So no, "stop spending" doesn't mean just not spending more. These companies are not discontinuing the subscriptions they have. *That* would be what it means to "stop spending."

Or that.

Apparently, registrations_suck does believe the influencers he watches.

Yes, ethical reviewers do exist. The problem is that you, a consumer of the reviewers' material, don't have enough information to determine which ones those are.

Unlike a Ponzi scheme, the stock market is backed by companies with *actual* potential for growth. P/E ratios might be crazy for some companies, but most investors in the stock market can expect positive returns even if the companies they own don't grow. A Ponzi scheme has nothing backing it, other than money from new "investors." If the new investors stop buying, the scheme collapses. If new investors stop buying stocks, the system remains stable because the current owners retain ownership of money-making businesses.

I needed a backup solution, and I was tired of slinging DVD-ROMs. So I switched to OneDrive and never looked back. I can back up my whole hard drives (1 TB each x 5), for the whole family. Everything is always backed up in an off-site locations, including version history. And Office 365 comes with the deal. I'm happy with that arrangement.

I probably wouldn't buy an Office subscription, but the price for OneDrive is competitive with other backup-only solutions like CrashPlan.

Meh. Real change isn't accomplished by canceling a trip. It's accomplished by introducing fundamental changes to how we get our energy. Switching to solar / wind power, driving EVs, changing how concrete is made. Yes, jet exhaust is a significant component of global warming, about 2.5%. Canceling a handful of flights out of millions annually, isn't proof of doing something meaningful. Changing our overall footprint, is.

They *knew* the market would get ahead of itself, and slow-rolled on purpose. That's what they did, right?

If that were true, the market would *stop* spending on AI. It's not doing that. It's just not spending *more* right now.

I, too, remember when folks did the same with Baseball cards and had also not heard / seen anything about it in a long time. So I asked an LLM what the current market size is:

Doesn't appear that it has gone away..

Oh great and wise one, let's hear your solution.

P.S. it's not all economics you retard. We'll break it down to a single product: Gold. Explain to the rest of us "barely evolved monkeys" how you'd deal with more demand than supply. You have to account for its industrial & commercial uses and no, you don't get to substitute it for another material. Assume that you're making something that needs Gold for its intrinsic properties (conductivity, resistance to corrosion, etc). If you don't like Gold, fine..Use Uranium or Plutonium for the exercise (maybe you're building a radio-isotopic generator or something)

No anger here, just common sense.

If you get paid by product manufacturers to review their product, and you air critical reviews, guess what happens to your income? Product sellers don't like bad reviews, so they'll go where they can get good reviews. Influencers know this, and want to keep the money coming, they don't want to bite the hand that feeds them. So guess what they'll do...they'll keep the good reviews coming, so they keep the money coming.

This is precisely why Consumer Reports doesn't accept free samples for their reviews. https://www.consumerreports.or...