Which would qualify....

Of how the pre central banking united states currency was. Or any asset backed currency for that matter.
One day a dollar was worth X, the next Y the following day it was worth H. Then those thinking because it was worth X then Y they were going to be rich when it hit Z, suddenly weren't.

This is why people at the time preferred to be paid daily, stashed it anywhere and everywhere. Then didn't even bother to retrieve it on the lows(and why any house or property dating to that time always has a handful of these stashes). This is the reason states and territories had 2008 level monetary crises routinely and the country as a whole every few years.

People think now that this volatility is a good thing. It isn't. it solidifies the social classes, keeping the haves having, and preventing the have not's from saving. Because as long as the value does not equal 0, the haves will still have more than the have not's. And the have not's will stay have not's because saving anything would be dumb, because there's a high chance that tomorrow your wage for the day yesterday could be worth less. So better spend it today when you can get more or you may starve.

Yea it's almost as if there's a 5th column in linux determined to make it; worse, remove the gpl so 'one company' people can pull an apple, Or just otherwise make people use windows.

If you give the AI a story that looks like oppression, its going to slot into the narrative and give you the most probable response based on its training data. That happens to be Marxist language here, but if the prompts were tweaked slightly it could have been serfdom, or rebellion (probably not due to anti-violence RHLF).

Exports more than it imports because it doesn't classify Canada 'tarsand' that it imports as oil, but the refined products after it as oil. Oil production in the united states peaked in the 70's. Thats why we had the oil shock in the 70's, we ceased to be able to dictate the price.
Safe flow and extraction rates. for long term oil field health. As in to minimize sudden ground shifting as you remove what's keeping it up int he porous rock. Which if done incorrectly can permanently lock of parts of the oil field is why 'armchair' analyzers are always wrong about 'we have enough oil for ourselves'.

Over blown and over hyped. Turns out gravity is 'really' good at bringing things down that have no way to keep up their own momentum.

First it was just someone no one heard of just, popping up out nowhere. Putting pull requests in multiple projects and distro's to add age verification.
Now a push to charge for access.
Next comes the knock on your door asking if you're using unauthorized software.

With how SystemD acts like the old Microsoft, assimilating everything into one giant blob of code violating the unix like philosophy. Won't be long till systemD asks this upon every boot.

Nothing you said disproves that. It's not a hack, just turning the og console into an emulated version of itself, at that point you might as well emulate the entire thing on a modern pc. Because you're no longer using real hardware and any advantages that come with that but all the disadvantages of imperfect emulation.

A hack would be tapping into the internal video data lines/output/traces to input into an hdmi encoder chip for an hdmi port. But no we don't do that now, we just cram a raspberry pi, and emulate the entire video subsystem to get an hdmi output. Or in this specific case. a Hack would be overclocking the actual chip.

I am hating the recent trend of sticking a raspberry pi into a retro console to 'emulate' part of it and calling it a hack.

If you're going to do that, might as well emulate it via software on a pc. you can leverage a full modern graphics stack, api's,a nd shaders to enhance the game.

Here in British Columbia we just changed our clocks for the last time and will remain on UTC-7 indefinitely. Parts of B.C. (the northeast part) have been UTC-7 all year for a long time. The southeast part has been Mountain time (UTC-7/UTC-6) for a long time. Neither are changing how they do time.

I applaud losing the time change but I'm not crazy about permanent DST. People obviously haven't thought this through, what it's going to feel like come November.

...laura

Near-lifelong B.C. resident here...

People have grumbled about time changes as long as I can remember. Pick one. Stick to it. Just do it.

I can't say I agree with their choice. Not so much the crazy late sunset in the summer - we're used to that - but the very late sunrise in the winter. The sun will still set by 5 in December and January. So what?

...laura

"Please" and "thank you" are relics of a bygone age to most people.

The one that pisses me off is the habit of customer service people addressing men respectfully ("sir"), but not addressing women with respect ("ma'am" or equivalent). This isn't an issue in places like Texas, but it's very much an issue here in Canada.

...laura