In an unregulated market--which is what businesses want--they eventually engage in collusion and form monopolies and stop competing. Therefore, being pro-business is being anti-competition and therefore anti-consumer.

I had a printer that didn't implement any standard so I could only print plain text in most software. Some software let me type in control codes from the printer manual so I could get bold and italics working.

Even with standards, you still had to select your printer in each software that you wanted to print from, and if your printer wasn't on the list, you had to choose the closest one and cross your fingers.

Then Windows 2 came out and changed everything.

Businesses are pro-consumer by definition

Businesses use consumers to make money. That's not the same as being pro-consumer.

Indeed, simply the threat of employers unionizing makes employers behave better!

Anyway, workers need a collective voice to provide some balance between their power and their employer's. To think otherwise is to be pro-business and therefore anti-worker and anti-consumer.

2. Begin your degree at a community college.

The quality of education isn't as good at a community college as at a university. You may have to retake classes like I did, wasting time.

Get your associates degree then apply for a bachelors program.

An associate's degree requires extra classes that won't transfer to a bachelors program, so you'll be wasting more time.

6. Don't get locked into the four-year degree must be completed in four years trap. Find a paying job and enroll in night school instead. Do a year of school then work and save money for a year. Rest and repeat.

I sincerely regret going that route because I lost a lot of lifetime income, delayed starting a family, and I passed the peak in my ability to learn before I finished school.

So my advice is, don't squander your young mind. Get your schooling done quickly while you still can, even if it means taking out loans. It's an investment in yourself that you can't make later.

With only 8 GB, I would expect results like an Alzheimer's patient would make, unless the model you're using supports offloading to system RAM, but that slows it down about 10x. Can you afford $600 for a 16 GB card?

It would be even better to just use Green energy with battery backup.

Your utopia didn't turn out so well for Germany. Shutting down all their nuclear plants and going green.

Did they add battery backup? No? That's why it didn't go well.

Only to need to pay inflated prices to import power from France's nuclear plants.

Inflated? Probably not. Because it is not cost effective to ramp nuclear power up and down to meet demand, France sheds load when they produce too much power, and they do this by dumping excess electricity to their neighbors. And when electrical demand is high and France cannot generate enough power, they import power back from their neighbors. This is why even nuclear needs grid storage.

Then there's all the industries leaving Germany because they can't get reliable power to operate manufacturing plants.

Who told you that Germany is experiencing brownouts and blackouts?

Nuclear power is dispatchable to some extent, meaning it can adapt to varying requests

That almost never happens, because it's cheaper to run at 100% 24/7 and import and export electricity as needed to meet demand. For this reason, no country runs on 100% nuclear power, even France doesn't. But grid storage can change this.

Nuclear is not dispatchable and so it has the same problem as renewables of producing enough electricity when it is needed.

The solution for both is the same: grid storage.

I'm in my late 60s...you think we have all the stuff and money.

The median net worth of a person in their late 60s is $410,000, while that of a person under 35 is $39,040. So the person you're responding to has an evidence-based point.

It's even worse in California where voters in 1978 (people born in 1960 or earlier who would be in their mid to late 60s today) decided to rob from future generations and then require a supermajority to repeal what they did.

But you're right that many elderly are poor, the ones who don't own a home.

ISO 23662 allows manufacturers to self-declare compliance so it's kind of useless.

I suspect many instances of industry self regulation were done on the threat of government intervention so I wouldn't really call those success stories.

In warm weather, lithium ion outperforms sodium ion. In cold weather, sodium ion outperforms lithium ion.

Besides being cheaper, sodium ion cells also last much longer than lithium ion, so for those two reasons battery wear is less of an issue.

Think about how incompetent your local government is at doing, well everything.

Do airlines build airports better than governments do?