12GB DDR5 at that price? Got to be crap AND soldered

They paid, obviously.

So you ship a bottom of the barrel computer and call it an "AI computer" because it can interact with assorted APIs over the internet; then you try to talk up the 'local' and 'privacy' aspects despite the fact that this is running basically nothing locally because it's an N150? Cool story.

No, I'm not a fan of wood smoke either but it's not that nauseating

Or you hire lots of people and expect to get rid of the ones you like least. Or you hire people you know you don't need for long because you'll be downsizing soon. Or you hire people to keep them away from your competitors. Or several other reasons you don't know dick about but still think you're qualified to run your mouth.

It's supposed to be comparative between everyone, not just who you happened to be in class with.

Because the parent(s) have their $100k+ office job and have to continue working when they get home.

The median salary is $51,000, with the median household income being $84,000.

The kid is coddled by society because 'we can't punish kids anymore because that's child abuse',

People need 2 jobs to make rent, and tech companies are profiting massively by relentlessly pushing massively addictive device behaviour and your solution is to start beating kids to see if it helps.

Next you'll be telling me that GIF isn't pronounced like "whiff".

"Iran is piddly compared with America in every way. Except killing their own people/protesters."

Hold my Diet Coke.

If you don't think coercion is force then you cannot be reasoned with

Quotas are crap whether positive or negative.

Grading standards should be based on something sensible, not comparison to the class, but to an objective standard. It's not sensible to penalize people for being in an exceptional class.

UCSC had it right when they refused to issue grades. Alas these days they will if you ask them to, which defeats the purpose of not doing it.

I'm obviously against yet more AI-fueled surveillance dystopia hell; but when the people whining work for fucking facebook; and know what that company does, it seems like a "all who draw the sword will die by the sword; dumbass" situation.

Every time I have someone else's tobacco smoke come into my car in traffic I wanna puke. I don't get a chance to object to their face. If smoking is so fucking great, why don't they roll the windows up?

I want companies to think before hiring so that they do less firing. That naturally means they're going to do less hiring. But firing causes chaos and overhiring masks actual unemployment. If you're not employed for long enough to get out of a hole, it doesn't count in terms of the nation's economic health, but it looks like it does because it reduces unemployment statistics.

Because people have been convinced that having people pay for things, let alone necessities, is the natural order. But before money was invented, there was another natural order, and it was equity — not equality. We know this because we've studied hominid skeletons from prehistoric times and found that people were caring for each other, they didn't just abandon the inconvenient, despite health insurance not having been invented either.