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Comment The chain of technology (Score 4, Interesting) 195

Most of the world's oil technology was developed using coal power
Most of the world's coal technology was developed using wood power
Most of the world's wood technology was developed using driftwood and animal technology

and so on and so on. These gotcha-memes never really stand up to examination of any kind, much less close examination.

Comment Just more leftist propaganda (Score 0) 273

For those who have been asleep for the last ten years: the left claims that *everything* Trump does will be an end-of-the-world disaster. The left has barely finished screaming about how dropping a few bombs on Iran will start WWIII. Just like Trump making fun of Kim Jun Un will start WWIII.

The left is also screaming about how 14 million people will die if Trump stops some obvious government waste, fraud, and abuse.

None of this stuff ever happens. It is just propaganda.

BTW: diversity hiring is a civil rights violation, and - in the long run - the worst thing you can do for minorities.

Comment Lifespan of cars in the future (Score 3, Insightful) 24

This type of supply chain breakage is why I think we have already passed peak automobile lifetime (cars built 1990-2010): in the future when critical parts fail there won't be any spares, and unless one is willing to take on 10s of thousands of dollars of firmware modding no workarounds either. I would not expect cars sold after 2010 to have lifetimes of more than 10 years or so.

Submission + - Texas Instruments to Invest $60+ Billion to Make Semiconductors in the USA (ground.news)

walterbyrd writes: Texas Instruments will invest over $60 billion to expand its U.S. manufacturing footprint, according to the company.
The investment will build or expand seven chip-making facilities, creating 60,000 jobs, as stated by Texas Instruments.
Texas Instruments aims to strengthen the domestic supply chain and increase U.S. chip production.
Construction for two new factories in Sherman will start based on business demand, as announced by Texas Instruments.

Comment Why I stopped going to movies (Score 1) 183

I used to go the theaters all the time, no I hardly ever go.

In no particular order:

1. Way to expense for an experience that, at best, is marginally better than watching it on television.
2. Annoying people in theaters who talk non-stop and use their phones.
3. Movies are not very good. Uninteresting stories. Uninteresting characters. Rehashed woke crap. Nothing that is thought provoking in the least.
4. Time travel and parallel universes mean that nothing that happens actually happens, so who cares? Main character dies? No problem, some time travel will fix that right up.
5. It will be streaming soon enough anyway.

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