We are moving to an economy where if you aren't in the 1%, then everything will be a few months wage. This is definitely a case where a US administration was doing everything to increase prices, intended or not. Its what happens when you let a monkey and his buffoons run a system that requires understanding of consenquences.
Everything requires maintenance. Hopefully the repair equipment can be migrated to hybrid and then fully electric in the coming years. It’s going to take years, given the investment, but when oil is politically risky and environmentally risky, then there are incentives to move beyond it.
Who remembers with fondness the McBride times? Ah the shit show that was.
There's a transaction fee for cash as well. It's baked into the cost of doing business and passed on to you in the sticker price. There's a reason some businesses strive to go cashless, it is a not insignificant cost and time effort to manage cash, balance registers, manage float, and perform deposits and withdrawals at the bank. It literally adds hours to the operational time of a business (Just because the sign says closed doesn't mean someone isn't on the clock and the business isn't incurring expenses).
That's before you consider the risk involved in managing a float. Some insurances even charge a higher premium if a business keeps more than a certain amount of cash in the float on any given day.
For businesses that go cashless the transaction fee of debit / credit cards is often a saving.
Its complicated. For some its a saving and for some is lost business. For smaller "mom and pop" style businesses or those who prefer I'll go with cash.
One thing I forgot is that in a number of cases using plastic means dealing with a business tied to another country, making your ability to buy stuff dependent on them politically. Then the other risk is choosing a purely national system that cuts out travellers. For this reason mixed options are the way to go, though my pecking order would be cash -> national entity -> foreign entity.
Most everything that involved a plastic card, or a proxy for one, involves some third-party to make a transaction, and those third-parties are also typically wanting a transaction fee. They also sometime decide their "morals" are law onto themselves.
Ensuring money exists in a physical form ensure that the ability to do a transaction does not depend on the access to a device, so helps keep the ability to spend money democratic.
Which isnâ(TM)t necessarily a bad thing. Consider systems still using software written in COBOL that are still running today with minimum interference.
With node.js if you sneeze you are out of date. There is a balance between keeping things up to date, and not creating new breakages and risks while doing so.
And now his fight in the Middle East is going to cost the US its remaining allies and make the US look even more of a liability. Yes, everything he touches turns to shit.
We've run into this misery and had to spend vast amount of hours trying to find solutions. Heck, even legitimate SendGrid emails end up being blocked.
The main issue is Microsoft doesn't even treat these emails as spam, for the user to decide, but instead just sends them into the void.
Hmm, another site to add to my block list.
On the bright side, if they are going to focus on AI related articles, then they should be fine losing human readers and just becoming content for AI bots?
"Article above written by your friendly AI over lord"
They’ll just invade another country?
Since before the attack on Pearl Harbour, the US’s strategic advantage was controlling the flow of oil. If countries turn towards other energy types, then the US will likely find itself in a much weaker position.
Propping up ailing legacy industries, who won’t even pretend they care about the environment, has been a modus operandi of US leadership for a while and even more so now.
Now there's a security researcher I can't imagine having confidence in...
If it was a toy inbox, ok, good thing to play with, but on an actual inbox, with the universally recognized badness of OpenClaw, and a *security* engineer... Not even a misguided software person that just doesn't take security seriously enough which is bad enough, but someone who by any vague measure *should* know better...
Though if it happens to an expert, just imagine the risks to us ordinary people. Really, too much computing power is being thrown to AI for simple algorithmic tasks.
With what I read about the "iPadification" and "IPhontifcation" of macOS, I'm really getting concerned they are going to continue in the forced "harmonisation" of the UI, to the point I'll want to poke my eyes out. Keep the iPad devs out of the macOS department.
For the Apple devs wanting to make the macOS look like and iPad: go join the iPadOS team and leave macOS alone.Then, again given some of the questionable design choices on the recent iPhone: go join the Windows team,
The EU is probably too strict, while the US is too lax. Canada may be one country with a better balance. At the very least, the EU countries need to loosen the laws up a bit for business with less than 6 people, since one "unfireable" employee can end up taking down the whole company.
I wasn't aware of the answer myself, but one article (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8d4v69jw6o), from June 2025, I found suggests a number of factors, including:
- economies of scale
- battery technology
- deep integration
- national vision to build out fore the future (something the US is lacking right now)
Their idea of an offer you can't refuse is an offer... and you'd better not refuse.
