One other aspect of this is modern production regarding mixing and mastering. Music is pushed so far to the edge that drums are basically cut off at the high end and the whole thing sounds mushy.

My wife, who knows nothing about any of this beyond enjoying music, asked me one evening while we were listening to "Fat Bottomed Girls" why the drums sound so good compared to other music that we listen to. It's noticeable.

And, yet, you also use their products daily but want to have no personal responsibility for that.

We have "free college" in Tennessee and I believe in Kentucky as well. Most kids still opt for the "big university" experience, but you can become a nurse or teacher in Tennessee without having to pay anything.

If they cared about "high-quality" they would have ditched Yelp years ago.

In his younger days, he tied his "philanthropic" giving to other countries to their use of Microsoft products.

I'm 56, and I'm really one of those freaks who just doesn't age. No gray hair, in great shape, finally noticing that my hands have a couple of wrinkles. But there are people my age who could pass for my grandparents, the last of whom died in 1994.

Microkernels are a great idea, but they need better hardware support (literally different architectural decisions) to work optimally. They can be made to work on modern CPUs, but they're never going to be great there. This presents a chicken/egg problem because nobody is going to invest a billion dollars making a new kind of CPU for an OS that doesn't yet exist.

To be fair, people in the gig economy don't tend to be good with math.

There's no benefit to Sweden, plus Germany could just turn the nuclear plants back on and solve this issue tomorrow. Their choice.

Generative AI - such as Chat GPT and friends - doesn't create anything. It predicts the next word or pixel based on the sum of the input into a neural net. There is no creativity. Thus, by definition, it can be no more "dangerous" than the training data.

The people screeching about the "dangers of AI!!!!" are basically the DEI department in the AI world. They add nothing of value but get paid too much to leech off the companies that were doing just fine without them. They have to keep everything at emergency level so nobody will notice that there's no substance to what they're saying.

Ignore them.

Companies don't have "climate goals" beyond claiming to care so they can increase sales.

What a joke. Stacey Abrams, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry - any of those names ring a bell? All Democrats. All of them won according to them.

Why are you so fixated on 2020? Democrats have been screeching about stolen elections since 2000. But, you think those really were stolen, right?

Yep. I got the emails to set up an account and buy shares but passed. To be fair, I predicted a great than 25% drop by now, so they've managed to do better than my low expectations.

You've obviously never been to Reddit. And you're obviously unaware of what was going on at Twitter pre-Musk. Lefties and righties live in echo chambers that they carefully curate lest anybody realize that the world is more complex.