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.

I don't, and you don't understand the argument. Their business plan is simply not viable and they should fuck off and someone with a viable business plan should use the space they were wasting.

It's dangerous to go alone. Take this.

That's interesting to know. I never spent a lot of time with NeXTStep, though I have played with it a little bit. I think I have a VM for an x86 version around here somewhere, but it was a little crashy in a way that the 68k machines weren't and I don't know which piece's fault that is. I spent more time with OS X, but not a whole lot, so I didn't get that far into it.

The year that "art" became devalued to the point where its name is synonymous with any passing fancy or fantasy that pleases you. The squealing of brakes? I'm sure somebody considers that to be art. Similarly, fan-prompted AI-manufactured "music" - in the "style" of someone whose name appears on the list of credits for a "song" - will now be called "art".

For too long now a lot of what passes for an artist's music is in fact the work of a committee. In such a committee, said artist may play a very small part, gaining a writing credit for as little as changing one word in the lyrics. Arguably, even the artist's voice may largely be a hollow construct of auto-tune and other manipulations. These practices have rendered much of today's music the aesthetic equivalent of an inferior copy of crappy pre-packaged ultra-processed junk food.

Now, to add insult to injury, fans will be spinning up their own special derivative of the inferior copy of crappy ultra-processed junk food I mentioned above. It's a steaming pile of crass, soulless crap all the way down to the surface of the cesspool on which it floats.

He might just be regular ignorant, he thinks road noise has something to do with structural safety... or at least he pretends to.

As long as some little bitch keeps modding down my factual posts

All the extraneous bullshit Microsoft added to the start menu is always lurking in memory for performance reasons.

Fear of facts is a sign of cowardice