A regulatory agency has no business regulating. This is how you get big government, by letting bureaucrats do their job.

Micron stock is about 9X what I paid for it. So even though I can't afford RAM, I am happy that nobody else can either.

... and shit out a loose stool for you to consume.

This is the future that Zuck, Elon, Altman, Pichai, Nadella, Ghodsi, Admodei, and Huang envision for us. A circle of consumption like a human centipede, with AI datacenters as the head and the rest of us on the back end.

QIC-80 was such a good deal for what you got back in the day. I went the DAT/DDS route when I had a little money and found a used SCSI DDS-1 drive for a reasonable price. My most recent is a SATA Quantum DAT 72, but it only works in my old tower, my new PC's BIOS freaks out and refuses to boot.

It's really obsolete though, I'm running two BD-R M-DISC drives (one internal and one USB). I can make archival media that is far easier to pack away than tape, and even in 40 years it's going to be pretty easy to find a reader. I can't say that my DAT media is going to be terribly accessible in 10 to 20 years.

I used to send got bundle straight to DDS/DAT tape. I still have a box of tapes kicking around.

Bernie asked people to "Fight Oligarchy", and the Right said "that's communism!" and the neoliberals said "let's not be hasty, some of my closest friends are oligarchs."

We can all be gig plumbers and do each other's plumbing, and like the gig app take 20% of our income.
Since that alone won't support us, we can also all be gig drivers, gig delivery, gig pet sitters, etc.
I'll definitely need to do some gig pet sitting to help pay for the pet sitters I'll need while out on gigs.

Luckily I only need to hire plumbers for new work. If I just need to cut some broken pipe out or replace a toilet, it's like an afternoon of my time on a weekend. Possibly less time wasted than waiting for a professional to show up between some silly window (8am to 2pm was a window I was given by one company)

If given the choice between owning a small home and renting a large penthouse, it's surprising that most people don't want to pay rent.

We can all pick lettuce, it's not like we're going to see any further farming mechanization while our agricultural industry collapses under abandoned trade deals, embargoes, and tariffs. Looks like China is willing to grow their own soya and buy beef from Australia.

Operating at lower margins smells like trouble with tariffs to me. But cutting executive salaries could shore up profits and make those revenues stretch further for real business growth, such as development, expansion, marketing, and hiring.

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Consumer protection laws would upset our corporate masters.

YT has really gone down hill. The algorithms show kids some real trash by default.

I don't get the obsession with IPA, even though it's about the main beer/ale I drink. But I don't go around chasing some "elevated" IPA experience. Tried a bunch of stuff, most of it is terrible. These days I have one I like (Sierra Nevada Pale Ale) and primarily drink that one, if I drink at all. Everything else I've had from Sierra was not to my tastes. I'm not a snob though, I like Ballast Point Sculpin as well. Their grapefruit Sculpin was interesting but not actually an improvement over the original.

Finding something local that doesn't get bottled and shipped all over the country. But is just sold at a location or two, possibly sold in a growler, is generally the more interesting way to live.