They have been having decreases in their ability to grow food, so yes they absolutely want Ukraine. You really think people around here know dick.

I have overly expensive cable internet already, I don't need to also pay for CATV.

I got a Google TV because I knew it would have the best app support. Looks like you didn't.

My desktop TV-used-as-Monitor has stupid LG WebOS, but I also don't need a TV-specific app since my desktop is connected to it and I don't connect the TV to the network, only HDMI.

Most iPhone owners didn't buy them outright.

The bad writers never stopped. The AI is in addition to.

This is why I'm interested in something like the 90s web directories. The idea of a human scoping out the worthwhile stuff, manually evaluating it for inclusion.

The web feels incredibly closed-off now, like a box. So much content lost in the black hole of social media. It used to feel like you were sailing out into the wide world to see what you could find. Now it's like some company has you in the lockup with some cellmates. They feed you slop 3 times a day, monitor your every breath, and never let you out.

The problem is the knock-on effects when large numbers of idiots are allowed to be scammed. Idiots here means corporations and governments in addition to individuals.

Stupid people, doing stupid things, which harm someone else, is why the concept of "law" was invented.

Then there's the implied message that scamming people is OK as long as they're stupid. Not sure those kind of ideas lead to a good culture or civilization generally.

Certainly beats letting foreign companies come in and have their way with your nation's children.

World trade was headed to destruction. Now it's just heading there a bit quicker.

Because that will not pacify the poor. Printing money constantly will cause monetary inflation, so only the rich will be able to buy anything of significant value like homes. You'd have to also give away housing. It makes much more sense just to take the money from the rich and give it to the poor, the rich will end up with it again anyway.

It's not wrong to say that America is largely at fault. We got Ukraine to give up nukes in exchange for vague and non-binding promises that we would protect them from Russia. Obviously this is a deal they should not have taken, but it was our sleazy idea.

I buy from AliExpress all the time. (Same business, different storefront.) As a rule they are roughly as responsive as Amazon. Shipping takes longer but prices are much better. Pretty much all the cheap crap on Amazon comes from them and it's much cheaper from the source. So far they have processed all of my complaints gracefully.

I agree that's the main problem in this context, but there are other large ones of course. The nuclear isn't just a problem in construction, it's also a problem in maintenance, and in decommissioning. Nuclear is also not cheaper than fossil fuels if you consider full lifecycle costs of operation. You might say it's cheaper because it's possible to contain the waste and that's not possible for fossil fuels, but fossil fuels shouldn't actually even be in the running.

Only if the money slated for nuclear is diverted to sources which make sense like wind and solar, which even when paired with batteries are now cheaper than coal, let alone nuclear.

I work somewhere that just placed an initial order on some of these Copilot+ laptop thingies. Nothing compared to their usual sizes of orders, yet. But some higher in the broligarchy thought it would be an idea to trial them for whatever reason.

I'm assuming the "demand" is propaganda though, like anything from 0 is an infinite increase. To telling whether any of the bros like it enough to buy a second round. They gave up on some gizmos like tablets years ago.