Supply and Demand is broken. Companies want X profits and that is that. Consumers say 'ook' and increase their personal debt to buy the price inflated item.

Maybe that behavior is finally about to fall over because people can simply no longer afford more personal debt.

At least in the summary it is not mentioned that the companies had fewer consoles to sell, only that consumers were buying less of them.

The end is nigh.

I am sure I am wrong. But the grammar doesn't look right in that title.

What it really shows is just how young and unknowing new developers have become to choose a name that has an obvious history.

But then it seems no one even tries to pick a name, what with block, meta, X, snow, etc. I guess we peaked at clever names with Twitter. :D

Why does it seem like the security crowd is losing the battle?

It took forever to figure out that requiring too frequent of password changes resulted in people writing their password right on their monitor with a sticky note.

- moooaar slop! faster! slop! slop! slop!

And is that worth a $2T valuation? I can't imagine so.

People shat all over the SpaceX IPO, but his initial valuation of $135 was below where it finally landed at $145 after a few months of irrational exuberance, irrational pessimism, then a bunch of new data he'd had and we didn't. Now it's $162. He was right and his haters were wrong, like almost always.

Thunderf00t, king of Elon haters and moron extraordinaire, is still predicting SpaceX will be bankrupt by 2027.

Even if there are zero Flock areas where you live, the faulty AI might mis-identify some other car or person in a different area as you.

Flock anywhere means false arrests everywhere.

Sure. Let's lose the last bit of heavy industry we have left to slave labor in Xinjiang. Totally worth it for that carbon footprint.

Fun fact. The iOS on my work phone upgraded itself and helpfully notified me it wouldn't charge the phone when I plugged it in. It would first check to see if the electricity in the area was sufficiently renewable before starting to charge. Because being green is more important than charging the phone when I fucking plug it in.

Sequels can be well-written. Original stories can be poorly written. Perhaps the flops are a sign of pervasive bad writing?

Last good film I saw was Kpop Demon Hunters. The last one before that? Would have to be maybe the 2015 Bond film, or mabe Passengers or Zootopia? Either way a decade plus gap.

Kinda explains the hype about the kpop cartoon. It wasn't bad, it just wasn't my first thought of what Great Cinema should be. The fact that it was just better than ok but developed a huge fanbase overnight says the drought was real. The people hungered for good movies for so long they glommed on to the first thing in a decade that wasn't bad.

And without those market distortions, EVs found their natural niche: rich man toys. Sometimes also the rich man's trophy wife is permitted to drive it.

In the presence of European market manipulation, it is not surprising EVs continue to be the less bad choise. European fuel taxes and lack of emissions standards mean the alternative to an EV is a cramped little econobox that belches diesel fumes like an old tractor.

anything new?

You know, like something original.

Well...yes. And there are other difficulties.

Unlike everyone's favorite go-to analogy of space and the space economy as the next settlement of the New World...the settlers of the Virginia colony could disembark and start planting cash crops; they didn't need to bring their own water and oxygen.

Unless someone finds pure gold or platinum (or a similarly valuable equivalent) at most a few dozen feet below the lunar dust, space will never be economically self-sustaining. It will be a (much) more expensive version of a south pole research outpost. Manned by a rotating (or semi-permanent) crew of specialists doing stuff for a small number of government or philanthropic clients that could easily be called a vanity project.

Colonization it will not be.

I fear for Lunduke's health! :D

The law is still no more than four forward-facing white lights illuminated at the same time but this is violated all the time now.

Often it is now six lights with fog lights being added to the wall of glare. Many EVs now have that dumb continuous light bar across the front - that is a fifth or seventh light! All they need to do is enforce current law. This is not hard to do as all the enforcing officer has to do is take a photo of the car driving then pull them over, ticket them, and give them a formal notice to fix their nonconforming vehicle.

It would be like free revenue for law enforcement, and most people would support it.

Bump glare is where a car goes over a bump in the road or is ever so slightly higher than you over a hill and for that brief time their headlights are blinding. It seems the Japanese makes are the worst for this, even their daytime running lights do this. Subaru, Mazda, Toyota, and Honda all have this issue. Their lights are too close to the borderline for glare and a bump sends it right into your eyes. It's like they only test their vehicles on a flat surface.

I guess auto-dip or matrix lights could fix it but I would rather the lights just not be so damn bright or poorly designed.