Not doing so opens them up to zero days. Was I born yesterday? Doesn't a zero day mean you were open to the risk the whole time, but then wait for the patch to be available? I bet the reboots for this CrowdStrike update weren't even important, it was probably just routine bug fix/features for their software, not even the core OS.

This is probably the more important theme here, those with capital, and especially the right kinds of capital win. Kinda like always but especially now. They're mostly silent on all this, and I believe driving most of the post covid inflation. If you're a consumer right now, you lose since wages aren't keeping up. If you rent, you lose obviously. If you're in banking you're making hay right now, getting all these new loans out at higher interest rates and giving those w/ deposits jack squat in return. I would assume commercial real estate and residential/rental real estate are similar and have shorter revolving loans that get called in and renewed more often - but on this point I haven't read enough to confirm if the latter is true. If you're an investor (holding capital) you're likely going to get through all this inflation ok. It is noteworthy that the Fed has pulled back the rate at which it draws down its balance sheet. No one actually wants to buy it. El Erian says to stop shooting for 2% but no one publicly agrees yet. -- On a personal note, I've lived/remembered three of these financial messes, DotCom early bush years, '07/'08 late bush years banking collapse, and then the '20 covid shutdown. Our governmental leaders have spent their way through recessions and spent their way through the easy years too. When the cash fell from helicopters I paid off the debt remaining on my home loan as fast as I could. We sit now mostly ok, insulated from this chaos because I managed our personal finances in a certain way, while many around me were refinancing homes or buying toys. I urge any who would read this to read all you can about finance, personal finance, banking, etc. Think for yourself. Be ok to go against the grain and do something different, but especially live within your means. That said, young kids now will have it hard, and there's not an easy answer.

The american auto industry is leaving all the low end and forsaking the common man. They don't want to make reasonably priced quality cars. There are probably examples like dodge working on their pentastar and tiger shark engines and the chrysler 200 failing to sell in reasonable numbers. Ford quit on the Fusion. Chevrolet's cruze aren't reliable (anecdotal from a friend...) and they've moved on to SUVs and trucks almost exclusively and they aren't affordable. I personally plan to drive my '04 Grand Am as long as I can. It's been a great car, and this whole situation is a shame. Reasonably sized cars are what they should be putting their batteries into at reasonable prices. Not a big boxy awd fake suv, but like examples cited, they probably just don't/didn't sell. For one more complaint, it's hard to see through/past all these big cars w/ tinted windows.

I believe we're already almost there, and certainly on this path. Birth rates are downward trending, mothers having kids later in life. Supposedly fertility/sperm counts are also trending downward and scarily so. I believe you're also correct about the "wise" people in power fighting UBI. Not to mention the nativist rejection of immigration in America (and elsewhere) which coincides with birth rate issues to be an interesting dilemma. No nation anywhere really wants their gdp to consistently trend downward but there's not really another option if your population shrinks. I do believe AI is a tractor moment and wonder what comes next. I read Grapes of Wrath a couple years ago and AI comes across the same way in my mind. Certainly, if you consider the prospect of UBI you don't want open ended immigration from poor countries into rich countries destabilizing the financial system. Unless all countries normalize their standards of living in some unknown way, which also seems doubtful. It'll be a mess. The American Republic model wasn't built for this, our disparate voting blocks see things very differently, at least right now. I'm a centrist in a "red" state/family and I don't think you could propose UBI to the current crop of Republicans.

I have an apple nike watch series 3, the watch itself no longer gets OS updates but the nike app apparently has because the watch app itself no longer runs on the watch since it depends on a newer version of the watch os. Just incredible how stuff like this can break w/ basically no user recourse. Out of spite now I really do not want to buy a newer apple watch even though the nike run club app was super motivating to track runs, runs per week, per month, per year, total milage, etc. And having this on the watch instead of your phone makes running so much more convenient than carrying your phone in some way. Anyways, yelling at clouds.

"Right-wing kookery" is generally a pretty easy sell, but in my opinion doesn't really hold up to scrutiny. Which is fine, cause most Republicans or those on the right are fine with skin deep self reflection and a lack of criticism. They care about free speech, when it comes to government running any interference with twitter, but god-forbid a teacher go off script and give commentary or color to material in school that the new school board dislikes. They hate inflation and blame Biden but forget about the TWO stimulus bills passed under Trump - even though McConnell passed the second to try to buy two Senator seats in Georgia!!! Do they wish the federal government instead rose taxes to address rising inflation? It would've worked better, did they think any of this anger through? They don't want the government interfering in health choices, or vaccines, or any health protocols, but they want a pregnant mother to carry to term for 9 months? I have become very cynical. I think the right and the left is just filled with idiots. I now vote for those that anger me less, which ever since Bush Jr has been dems. I'd vote for a "potted plant" if it was a Democratic party candidate.

In all likelihood this is not the same, or not comparable. Supposedly the water flowing through municipal & home plumbing over time develops a layer of "film" as some layer of protection. This came out in the Flint Michigan lead water crisis story. They had a kind of water (corrosive?) that needed an additive and removed the additive for cost savings and then the water ate through the film and into the lead pipes.

Anyway my reason to comment today is to shun all the FUD throwers trying to urge us to ignore the problem and ignore these journalists. I suspect they're industry shills, or are doing so for free because they're straight up idiots. We ignore all of this at our own peril. Sperm counts are down. Why? Cancer rates among the young are rising, and its not just Covid or the shot, this was happing in the years before 2020 also. We've got glyphosate/roundup in our corn food products and no one wants to be concerned about it. Certainly not the revolving door of industry and lobbyists at the FDA or the Ag department. We should be concerned, and listen to Mexico's anger on this in particular - though I suspect we eat more corn in the USA than we realize. Journalists have to raise alarm where its due, and we should think critically about these matters and weight them with an open mind. All of these things will unfold over time and just like tobacco will take decades to face the music.

That's right, stop the agenda! Trump said "it will start getting cooler, just you watch." So, just stop everyone, drop the agenda.

If the reason they are doing this is to make this a very safe and sandboxed view of content then I could totally agree with this.

Your analogy is far from perfect. If you as a husband do your part to only ever have sex with your wife and be a good husband then it is fair to take credit for divorce being avoided and having a good plan. If you wife runs off with the fireman, then isn't it fair if you blame her... Specifically I actually think Biden did try to address inflation by proposing an infrastructure/spending plan. That failed due to Manchin and Senema if I recall the names correctly. By the time inflation was being taken seriously congress was decidedly Republican and tax increases were/are very much off the table. That only leaves increasing interest rates as the last option to address inflation. I'm not sure very many people really think these things through. Now, personally I would agree the third (only one under Biden) stimulus could have been more measured, but if anyone is willing to recall even Trump pushed hard for more stimulus when it was to his benefit to not let the economy crash. Now ask yourself this, did republicans and Bush ever take credit for the '07 and '08 great recession collapse? He had all of his tenure to do anything he wanted to address systemic risks in the economy.

Cheney, is that you? Shouldn't you be out pheasant hunting? It is the last day of the season, stay safe.

Snark aside, I detest this "we must police the world" mindset. Why was it our job to address terrorism and despot states in the middle east? We know that doesn't always go well; I won't list all those examples. Some other regional state should have and could have stepped up and dealt with their own home-grown terrorist problems for us. It is much more their concern than ours and it should be their desire to do so. There's no guarantee bin laden survives in our absence. Regardless, who punished the Saudis? Who punished Pakistan? There's holes all over in the logic from that era and I will forever despise the neocon war hawks who espouse it. They did not tell us their real reasons for what they did. Never forget the broken backs, ears, and minds a plenty we got back in return for the boys who came home.

In five to seven years you may want to once the hardware stops getting OS updates from Apple.

The primary concern is lowering demand, which is better thought of with specific examples. This became very clear when I heard this described as such, by an accountant relative no less who hates Biden and blames him for the inflation. It was worth fixing their roofing and siding this year, because the inflation on those goods meant it would be considerably more expensive to fix next year, than it was to do so now and pay for the loan from the banker. THAT is exactly why the fed has to raise interest rates, and NOT just a little bit but actually more than they have been. This same relationship plays out elsewhere in the economy in various areas, though of course not all to the same degree or to the same extent as this specific example.

This cannot be a states rights issue long term. States already are facing concerns with what to do about the mailing in of early term abortion medicine, and what they would do if a "mother" crosses state lines for an abortion. In this way its just like slavery since crossing state lines is forcing the issue and the states rights crowd want to force their desires on other states with different attitudes. There clearly is an interstate commerce clause style situation here that demands a common answer. It will all play out messy since the conservative states rights crowd has zero clue how to govern effectively and cannot see the consequence of their actions. Just like it did a century and a half ago. As a slight aside, I also do not see how you call a newly impregnated egg a baby. Madness.

On the one hand, chalk it all up to greed. But on the other, I'm sure its all about the potential upside. If your investments are sufficiently diversified you could put a small portion of it into crypto and then wait to see if it was eventually worth the risk. "About 1% of companies accounted for all of the global net wealth creation. - The other 99% of companies were a distraction to the task of making money."

If BTC goes from 30k to 300k, your small risky investment of say 10% of your portfolio could grow to be close 50% (1btc owned of an initial $300k overall mix) and reward your gamble. If you risked only 1% you'd still grow at 10%. This is all hypothetical, just trying to think of a way it could be viewed as something better than stupid.