You want to be clear? OK, fine.

https://ourworldindata.org/gra...

Here's your clear reason Europeans need to wake up and stop blaming America for every-fucking-thing.

No.

It occurred to us that there are many types of air conditioning solutions that do not involve excessive demolition.

Source? The A/C experts in the United States who also realized over half a century ago that you need more than a fucking leaf blowers worth of mains to feed an entire home. The European A/C problem, is unfortunately not limited to duct work.

You sure you want to mess with Texas here? Installing cavity wall insulation, is called an "industry" there.

And so the answer to preventing pre-cog mass killing is...drain every water tower and purge every dam to re-fill it with..humanity?

And the glee-huggers thought they had recycling challenges before. Third time this week little Johnny was caught "composting" in the corner..

Given the limited impact of failed implantation (approx. 10% of cases) within IVF that still accounts for a rounding error amount of overall births on the planet, I'd say what should be done is educate people on the definition of crisis in relation to the overall Birthing Big Picture.

RIF has a devastating impact on families wanting children, no doubt. But a personal challenge for some does not automatically amount to a collective crisis for all.

The only ignorance I found when educating myself on the issue, is a 'crisis' that isn't quite one yet.

The problem is that you can write that list slanted in the other direction just as adroitly.

You really cannot.

Mother "Normal" Nature, stands at the ready to shove those goalposts right up the ass of humanity.

* a magnitude 4.2 rumbles from the ocean deep *

(That, was a fart. As a reminder.)

There are those who mitigate their weather risks, and those who land on American shores for a football match only to discover the modern mitigation marvel known as air conditioning.

Don't even know what more to say when an air-conditioned yellow school bus could trigger manic laughter followed by profuse rage-sweating among certain citizenry who allege to hail from a fellow First Worlde country also well versed in the second law of thermodynamics..

RAM prices are what happens to a market when Demand is driven by AI.

Which is a bit uh, Meta..when you think about it this first literal iteration of that as we expend trillions to physically build moar AI.

Which that AI will then be abused to brainwash us into believing we need to build moar AI.

By that time your name will be Soylent Green. Prices won't matter much unless you're over 200 pounds dressed and they get a bulk discount. Mmmmm. AI fishing food..

This is true, but lets zoom the lens out a bit and really look at the problem.

When the one licensing a PC planet is a card-carrying member of the Magnificent Seven Stocks shoring up the rest of the market, how exactly does one put a reasonable value on their profit margins when Demand on the Magnificent side of the business is represented by the bloodthirsty ticker-sucking stock junkie investor horde screaming "MOAR! MOAR! MOOOOOOAAAARR!" directly into the soul of every retirement fund?

Needless to say that's a shitty balancing act that requires more shit than balance when it gets that slippery.

In three months, we can ask those selling computers who had to discount their products a third time before Black Friday never fiscally justifies itself about that $2-3 estimate. Much like all of new car hype, no one is lining up in viral droves to pay that new PS5-FU price just in time for Christmas.

PC Greed might find itself running face-first into the new car sales problem with ever-increasing MSRP; It drops, or it rots.

Today's Wall Street value is a lot like girl math.

It shouldn't exist. But for some reason it does. And somehow pretends to create value while being wholly unaccountable to Reality.

Okay, I'll bite that worm you've left dangling on that hook. Let's go down the list.

Sec. Def:

Biden: Gen. Lloyd Austin. 4-star U.S. Army General with 41 years of active military service. Former Commander of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, and Director of the Joint Staff. Oversaw the drawdown of 150,000 troops and massive logistical operations in Iraq.

Trump: Pete Hegseth. White-nationalist alcoholism-scandal-plagued weekend morning co-host for Fox & Friends, former Army National Guard major. Zero executive experience managing large military commands, defense procurement, or enterprise-scale organizations. Opened his tenure by leaking war plans to a journalist by writing about them on WhatsApp instead of secure messaging channels, and is currently losing a war which he promoted launching in Iran, with zero preparation for obvious threats like drones and Hormuz closure, while spending his time obsessing over testosterone levels and beards.

Department of Health and Human Services + Surgeon General:

Biden: Xavier Becerra: 24 years on key Congressional healthcare subcommittees; Attorney General of California overseeing the enforcement of public health and healthcare antitrust laws.
Vivek Murthy: MD/MBA from Yale, Harvard faculty member, practicing physician, and two-time U.S. Surgeon General with deep clinical and administrative credentials.

Trump: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Famous antivax-conspiracist brainworm-addled kook who eats roadkill, cuts of whale heads, measures raccoon penises, and swims in sewage. Zero medical degrees, zero public health degrees, zero experience running a hospital system or public health agency.
Nicole Saphier: Radiologist who's a strong advocate of Kennedy's conspiracy theories.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services:

Biden: Chiquita Brooks-LaSure. 30-year veteran of healthcare policy and public administration. Former healthcare analyst at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), key drafter of federal health legislation on the House Ways & Means Committee, and senior official in the HHS Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight.

Trump: Dr. Mehmet Oz. Daytime television talk show host and former cardiothoracic surgeon, widely criticized by the medical community for promoting quack medicine and pseudoscientific wellness supplements on television.

Department of Education

Biden: Dr. Miguel Cardona. Public elementary school teacher, middle school principal, assistant superintendent, and State Commissioner of Education in Connecticut. Holds a Master’s degree in Bilingual Education and a Doctorate in Education.

Trump: Linda McMahon. Professional wrestling (WWE) executive and mega-donor. Most famous for fighting her husband Vince McMahon at WrestleMania X-Seven in 2009 before running for congress (twice unsuccessfully). Before getting into WWE, she earned an undergrad degree in French and worked as a secretary at a law office translating French documents.

Director of National Intelligence:

Biden: Avril Haines. Former Deputy Director of the CIA, former Deputy National Security Advisor, legal counsel to the National Security Council, and Georgetown/UChicago-trained national security legal expert with decades of experience inside the Intelligence Community.

Trump: Tulsi Gabbard. Former congresswoman and Army Reserve officer. Zero professional intelligence community experience, zero senior leadership roles in intelligence analysis or collection. Before her position she was most famously known for harboring sympathies for Russia and Assad.

Federal Bureau of Investigation:

Biden: Christopher A. Wray. Yale law grad; three decades of working as a US prosecutor and attorney general under both Democratic and Republican administrations, including heading the criminal division of George W. Bush's administration.

Trump: Kash Patel. Former congressional staffer, and podcaster. Zero track record in law enforcement. Has spent most of his time in office abusing its perks for himself and his girlfriend.

Department of Justice (AG):

Biden: Merrick Garland. Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (served 24 years on the federal bench). Former Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General who personally led the successful prosecution of the Oklahoma City bombers. Harvard College (valedictorian) and Harvard Law School (magna cum laude).

Trump: Matt Gaetz (first pick). Former congressman who was under active House Ethics investigation for sexual misconduct and illicit drug use; zero prosecutorial experience, zero judicial experience, zero executive law enforcement leadership.

Department of Transportation:

Biden: Pete Buttigieg & Polly Trottenberg. Buttigieg: Rhodes Scholar, Harvard graduate, municipal executive overseeing urban infrastructure redevelopment.
Trottenberg: 30-year veteran of transportation policy, former Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation (managing one of the largest municipal transit grids on Earth), and senior federal transit policy director.

Trump: Sean Duffy. Former cast member on MTV's The Real World: Boston, former congressman, and Fox Business commentator. No professional background in civil engineering, transit systems, or logistics.

How many more of these do I need to do?

If we started calling it ToddlerAI (for accuracy), perhaps the literal Chief Executive Officers firing humans to replace them with AI would get a clue.

You know, before they're arguing with a Board looking to replace expensive executives with Toddler-AI because it's clearly good enough.

When AI becomes Good E. Nuff, AI Agent For Hire and dismisses human employment completely, it will be very hard to argue "single" categories being impacted. Forget the timeless mantra of "Just go re-educate yourself and find another job." That advice is dead in the era of AI replacing the human brain.

Nothing, is "normal" anymore. Not even when we have a Revolution. And it's going to take a lot more than a buckle for people to accept that. We won't even know how to define "inflation" in the era of 25% global unemployment.

It appears that Microsoft normally increases the license cost every year. I'm guessing this particular increase will amount to a 1-2% impact in the big picture, since most consumers don't go home with only an OS license and no hardware.

No. I'm not justifying Microsofts increased greed. Just questioning the clickbait hype around manufactured MSRP 'panic'.

Meanwhile, RAM prices could increase by 1-2% by the end of this fucking sentence. Because a cat can play Beethoven reggae better than you ever could, and you had no idea how bad you needed cats playing Beethoven reggae.