You are talking to idiots that think that tariffs are paid by the exporter, not the importer.

Yep. Essentially sunk-cost fallacy. And it makes things worse. It is hard to feel comassion for people that aggressively are doing it to themselves.

Talk about collectively digging your own grave. Such a smart move...

I am aware.

It is insanity, greed, hype and FOMO. The money invested and the ages paid are totally decoupled from the value of the product (low as that is) now. Usually that is a sign that the end of the mass-hysterics is near.

The end of this hype myst be near. And the collapse at its end will probably a lot worse than expected.

A lot. I do understand that these days you have to wade trough 100's of appkications that are just crap and where the people will not be a fit to find one possible canidate. But what assures you that AI it not filtering that one candidate out as well?

Yes, they will get caught. Yes, they will go to prison. And, yes, they will pay for the damage, probably for a long, long time.

I remember a while back, I submitted an application to a bank, and they literally had me record responses to written questions on a webcam. About halfway through it I remembered thinking "this is really stupid" and simply closing the browser tab. I didn't care whether they had any interest or not, never bothered to look again.

I'm wanting to say it was silicon valley bank, back when they were doing pretty well, but it was years ago and I don't remember for sure.

Those articles just say that the gap between the richest and poorest in each country is growing, and that the US has a larger gap. The articles are not comparing the countries to each other so there may be different computation methods. In particular the CA article talks about the top 20% (at least for men, I'm going to have to assume for women) while the US graph talks about the top 1%.

It does look like there is better results for American rich, as the US graph allows me to guess as to what the top 20% are:

Top 20% life expectency in CA: men: 83 women: 86
Top 20% life expectency in US: men: 86 women: 87.5

That is waste heat inside a very small closed structure, which is different than any kind of Niven-style waste heat destroying an entire planet.

That's far more to do with the death of the shopping "high street", because of rising rents and staffing costs.

Every week some famous high street retail outlet goes bust, I normally post them on my social media because I find it quite funny that anyone shops in physical stores any more.

The mobile phone stores I see tend to be trashy repair shops and 2nd hand outlets, and cell networks, never the mobile phone manufacturers themselves.

The physical store is dead. And I was a kid in the 80's. I can't even remember the last time I went "into town" to physically do some shopping, and certainly I wouldn't do it for a PC or phone (which you can just order online and are the same product wherever you order it).

I took great joy in even seeing things like my local DIY store die off. There's only so many of those that you need in range of your house, and having more doesn't help anyone. And to be honest, if they just stocked fence panels, doors and other large items they'd do just as well. Nobody is buying a screwdriver or a set of blades or some small ironmongery from a huge retail DIY outlet.

What a stupid question. The answer is that isiolationist, they become even more dangerous. Yes, they censor and surveil, but even then it is better if they have Internet than not.

Indeed. Waste heat is just one of that fake "arguments" by the typical deniers. On the other hand, waste heat is what currently causes France to have to shut down their nuclear reactors.

... a thing obviously not done or not done competently at the Norwegian lottery. This should cause liability and get those responsible (the ones that hired the incompetent coder and tester) fired.