Since about the mid 2010's trolls have been winning too often. Cults based on morons are forming. Morongeddon.

So many really wanted the Musk vs. Zuck cage match. Too late? Is there a "both lose" betting category?

It will have a "Bible Mode" to toggle between definitions.

I guess entertaining villains are better than boring villains.

Hayes' real problem was that clones got cheaper, as they usually do. Hayes tried to stay ahead of the curve by making ever faster modems, but when the ISP ceiling that you mentioned hit, they couldn't use that curve anymore, and were stuck competing on price alone, the clones' forte. The premature "56" model mistake was just icing on the death cake.

China's R&D into EV's has paid off and now they are the lowest-cost-producer and have the most EV IP. China even invested in factory robots, making it hard for Japan to compete on labor costs by using robots.

Yes, the Chinese gov't subsidized much of the R&D, but it appears to have worked.

Detroit is also probably F'd. They can live on gasoline laurels for a few decades, but will probably gradually shrink. Most small cars will be EV such that gas stations will gradually close shop, making gas cars ever less practical. (Diesel might be slower to fade.)

The US is putting up big trade barriers to Chinese EV's right now, but that can't last forever, because when Americans see how cheap EV's are getting in the rest of the world, they will be frustrated with high car prices at home. EV's are cheaper to manufacture because they have about half the parts of an equivalent ICE engine. The batteries have been the bottleneck of costs, but get roughly 5% to 10% cheaper every year.

Sorry gas lovers, but gas looks doomed. Detroit & Japan have a hard road ahead, pun half intended.

Chips and storage are getting more expensive, reversing Moore's-Law-like trends. I know, technically that's not the definition, but the "feel" is a reversal of the usual gradual price drops per unit of computing or storage over time.

Eroom's Law: Bubbles f$ck things up.

Are you implying the stats are being rigged?

I am so sick and tired of fucking pretending we are not in a deep deep recession.

It's arguably a "white collar recession". General employment is generally in a "C+" mode. White collar-ers are just going to have to get blue collar jobs until the economy normalizes.

Grading on a curve was meant to hide the fact that some teachers couldn't teach, some could, some wouldn't, and others would. It protected the professor at the expense of the students' education.

And it ruins grades as a marker of achievement or ability. From a student's perspective, if I pay for a course, the result should be that my grade reflects the degree to which I've mastered the material, not the variations between the quality of the students and the quality of the instruction. Grading on a curve allows a deadbeat professor and a deadbeat class to essentially turn the class into a credential mill without the necessity of education.

Students can safely assume that courses graded on a curve are staffed by incompetent or lazy professors, taken by lazy or incompetent students, or quite possibly both. When I was in university, this type of grading was used most often in the general education electives, where the professors didn't really care about the students, and the students didn't care about the subject. To adopt the same approach for mainline courses is to transform the entire university from a place of learning into a credentials broker or diploma mill.

The love Child of Bill Nye and the See's Candy lady.

"Transtifa", the new Fox boogeyperson.

That's the headline Fox will probably use.

The "Deep Learning State"?

You don't stay socialist indefinitely, you either transition to communism (usually at the barrel of gun) or perish as a state.

Do you have statistically reliable numbers for this claim? Let's see your tallies. Otherwise, I'll consider it a Slippery Slope Fallacy.

Note that ALL nations or empires eventually fall, so your claim has a tautology.

That's Grok: "You'd be rich and successful if not for brown/LGBTQ+/Muslims/DEI."

An AI has no capability to have feelings

Rick Deckard wants a private word with you.