I don't think most people in the world, even americans, would agree that just because you are operating some absurdly expensive moon base gives you the right to claim the entire moon. If we did try saying that I would expect China to just ignore us, which would be the reasonable thing to do. Of course its also probably in China's best interests to let us burn even more of our money on stupid nonsense like a moon race where only one side is actually racing while the other side is taking over world trade and technological development.

Is... is this just a way to give musk & bezos even more goverment money?

I'm beginning to get a little suspicious.

Micron is american. Micron announced it will exit the consumer market in February 2026 and focus on enterprise markets including data centers and artificial intelligence.

US: Lets have an exciting space race! We're already been there and we've been trying to go back for like 20 years, so we're way ahead, but whatever, lets do it! Come ON! I'll bet you're going to race us like crazy. Oh BOY I'm excited.

China: Uh. I'm busy taking over all the parts of the world economy you don't seem to want to do anymore. Huh. So you're just not making ram for regular consumers anymore? Fine, I'll build another bunch of factories.

US: We want this to be more dramatic. Come on, it was so much fun beating the russians in the 1960s! GOD WE'RE IN SO MUCH DEBT IT TINGLES!

China:

US: HELLO? ARE YOU THERE? Ok, I'm going to start the race in 3... 2... 1... GOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.......!

The chinese are getting into the game I belive. They're behind for now but it might not be long until they are taking a big chunk of the market. That's why Seagate should build new factories and sell the memory at a competitive price, but going for temporary gains over long term ones is the american way.

Yeah, I think you're right. If we're heading towards a recession high hardware prices + low income would probably hurt consoles and just all AAA games a lot. Probably the biggest winner would be phone games - everyone has a phone and has to have one. Then pc games that everyone can run like stardew valley.
On the other hand, a lot of people are going to be spending a lot on hardware just to play GTA 6. If you compare cruises and going to Disney every year and hanging out in high-end bars - buying a fancy computer or new console is actually still pretty cheap entertainment - so if people cut out those really high expenses they might just go to consoles.

Already the RAM-GPU-SSD prices are going to be a big part of how the video game market works.

Will the high prices favor consoles - which often take a loss on their hardware?
Or will they favor PCs which are far more expensive but you can do other things besides play games on and also the games are far, far, faaar cheaper?

In the past high hardware prices seems to have favored consoles, but the PC gaming world was a lot smaller back then. Nowdays computers are even more nessessary for life, far more games are available, often for free on PC & eventually you'll get a lot of those "exclusives" anyway.

It does look like his arguement that they stole a non-profit to make a massive business may have really happened. Kind of weird how stealing an entire non-profit worth billions, maybe hundreds of billions of dollars only has a statue of limitations of 2-3 years. That has to be one of the biggest thefts in the history of stealing.

Heh. I too have a big stack of spinning drives. I really don't think GPU, RAM or SSD prices are going down soon - even if the AI companies fail there will be a backlog of consumers wanting them. Maybe the AI companies will sell them all for cheap leading to a massive glut, but I suspect data centers will be kept intact instead and a big push will come to do all your computing in the cloud rather than buy your own hardware.

Fuck that and fuck the people pushing that.

Lol. Elon's "He's been right often enough" that this guy's not betting against him. Apperently he discounts the very notably large number of times elon wasn't right. Its funny because its sad.

Trying to think of a single movie or tv show which I love so much I would be happy if they did this to make more... Nope. Can't think of any.

One thing for sure: this will result in a lot more incredibly lame plotlines like "somehow, Palpatine returned".
Sigh. Well, at least I'll save a lot of time and money not going to see movies.

I've been looking for a good news aggrigator that is customizable as an alternative to google news for many years. Google news seems a little abandoned by google, and, I'm pretty certain, the button that says "Fewer stories like this" doesn't actually do anything at all.

The profile it builds on you can be very annoying. For example it somehow got the idea that I was very very interested in news about Kanye West, despite never searching for him or clicking on articles about him and ignoring my fewer stories like this requests.

Can anyone tell me about a good alternative?

Google: "Why can't you search for normal things like everybody else? Our ai is great at answering questions like 'where to buy a tv?' and 'who is Leonardo DiCaprio dating?" and "weather". If those things don't satisfy your every need I don't know what to say. Just because we're a search engine doesn't mean you're supposed to use it to search for difficult to find things. Search for normal things like a normal person, assholes."

Build a company that runs ai to check legal cases for AI-created errors that could lead to retrials, aquittals, etc - and lawsuits against negligent law firms that fumbled someone's case because they clearly used a lot of ai.
And check newspapers for AI-created errors that could lead to libel cases and lawsuits.
And lawsuits against police agencies that used AI to build a false and misleading case against someone.
There's money to be made I tell ye! THERE"S GOLD IN THEM HILLS!!!!

its Betteridge's Law of Headlines, not Betteridge's Law of any Question Whatsoever.