It's the only thing propping up the stock market and the boomers won't let you fuck with the stock market because that's how they are retirement savings keep Pace with the inflation caused by their incompetent leadership.

And yeah it's the boomers who are in charge. Because they can outvote every single demographic combined and they spent the last 50 years making it hard for anyone under 50 to vote.

Keep in mind I consider older Gen x to be baby boomers because functionally they behave like them. Remember the demographics aren't in age group it's a way the group people so that you can control and market to them

A 15-year-old would realize that everyone else already saw the crunch coming and beat you to it and locked you out because the game is rigged.

I have a bit of savings but I can't afford to gamble it on the stock market and since I'm not privy to the president's tweets in advance I can't take those risks.

and an 18 year old would understand that high interest rates are designed to engineer a recession and it's the recession that fights inflation not the high interest rates

Scientists have studied the brains of right wingers and it's a problem with their brains. Basically the part of their brain responsible for their fear responses overactive and the part of their brains responsible for critical thinking needs work.

If you put a lot of effort into it you can take somebody like that and compensate. Like taking a scrawny kid and getting them in shape maybe with a little bit of HGH or the mental equivalent. But good luck doing that. Guys like Elon Musk and Bill Gates aren't going to let you uplift the people who they are using.

And they implicate Trump in child rape. I should think that's obvious at this point.

I understand why some of the 77 million people voted for Trump even though he is an obvious pedophile and Russian stooge. It's not economic anxiety like the dipshit left-wing keeps going on about. People under enormous economic pressure makes stupid decisions. People do not make good decisions under pressure. That's why people in the military and bomb disposal people and SWAT teams get a shitload of training. Well not the SWAT teams we just send those in willy-nilly guns blazin but you get the idea...

But I know the people around here are smart enough to know that voting for a pedophile was a bad idea. And you did it anyway. Because I know there are a shitload of right-wingers around here.

I would be curious if I could use a ray gun to force people like that to honestly answer why they voted for and continue to support Donald Trump and right wing policies that hurt them directly in general. My theory is that they're terrible people who enjoy the horrible things Trump and project 2025 are doing and so far they have personally escaped most of the damage if not all of it because they are older and we have mostly taken care of the baby boomers and older Gen x since the Republicans still do need them to vote for them.

I could also be giving these people too much credit they could be just as confused or just as dumb as the other 77 million who thought they would get cheap eggs from a guy known as the king of debt who has bankrupted every company he's ever been involved with...

But if you're hanging around this forum as ridiculous as it sounds you are probably smarter than the average American. And Jesus fucking Christ that is a little bar to clear but you have at least cleared that bar so I don't think I'm going to let you off the hook

I've got 32 gigs of RAM on my corporate laptop and it's dog slow and chokes constantly. And I keep thinking about those reviews of these 8 GB Windows 11 laptops where they talk about how the figures like I said unusable.

When you are short on RAM you can have moments when the computer is usable especially if you're logging in as a super user with all the extra stuff turned off. But a regular user is going to suffer. Especially if there are corporate user where they can't turn off a lot of the crap.

God help me if I right click on something without holding the shift key down so that I don't get the old right click menu. I don't even know how you fuck up or right click menu but Microsoft did it. There is a AI bullshit all over my right click menu though so there's that and of course I can't turn any of it off because it's all corporate and corporate loves AI because they're hoping the fire all of us and replace us with machines

I already covered this in my post. We have known the shortages are coming for years and years and we knew that prophets would explode when the shortages hit and continue for at least another 6 to 10 years.

Every single person in the industry knew this was coming. You're not in the industry so you can be forgiven for not knowing that but I pointed that out in my post had you bothered to read and understand it.

This means, since I have to spell it out to you, that every single one of the dozens of semiconductor companies that could be making a ton of money selling ram right now didn't enter the market when they knew they could have made a ton of money. They could already be online making gobs and gobs and gobs of free cash.

An 8-year-old would ask why the fuck they aren't doing that.

A 10-year-old would know that somebody was preventing them from doing that.

A 12 year old would know but it's the existing players in the market colluding together threatening to lower prices suddenly if anyone interest the market.

Where's that leave you?

If you want to get back into the hobby of computing and or video gaming then you need to enforce antitrust law.

Everyone in the industry knew these shortages were coming and everyone knew they were going to last for a decade or more.

In a free market several of these smaller semiconductor companies would have just entered the ram market and we wouldn't have had the shortages.

Those companies and the banks that would have supplied them know that if they try they will just be run out of business and no one is going to protect them because we don't enforce antitrust law.

On top of that it's just hard to borrow money because someone keeps causing runaway inflation...

In America if you want to have computers you need to vote democrat. We are two party system because of our winner-take-all for his past the post voting system and that's not likely to change anytime soon. And we both know which of the two parties actually enforces laws of the white collar kind.

Pick your local equivalent if you're not American but if you're going to keep voting for people who promise you the world and deliver high inflation and zero law enforcement on white collar crime then you're going to get what you get and that means you're not going to be able to enjoy your hobbies anymore.

Right now there's a lot of old computer hardware people can pick up and play with but that stuff is starting to end up in the hands of people who want or need it and the price is going up. It'll be another hobby you're just cut off from in 5 or 10 years Max unless something changes.

Oh, and I'm sure taking video games away from jobless angry young men with nothing to lose will turn out great for everyone. I'm sure you won't run out of bullets before the world runs out of desperate people.

You sound like a criminal. It's a Communist. Either way stay put. A nice man from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement will be by for a chat.

Reviews of these 8 gigabyte laptops running Windows 11 have them unable to complete basic tasks like web browsing and conference calls.

Unless the ram is upgradable this is going to be a disaster. People just return them because they feel broken. Microsoft is trying to solve the problem but internal culture means they can't. Every division of Microsoft is fighting to be profitable and so they want to gobble up your RAM and use it to serve up advertisements and synergize with other companies for profit. This is why the windows 11 weather app uses 3 GB of RAM.

Dude the Epstein class has been routinely trading companies for tens of billions of dollars. Often with little or no hope of ever making a profit. One of the reasons the economy is constantly collapsing is that the "Job Creators"can take these absolutely fucking batshit insane risks and because they are too big to fail it's always worth it. If it blows up in their faces we bail them out and they get a cushy job from their buddies and if it pans out it's a huge increase in profits and career opportunities for them personally.

This is why Sony spent something like half a billion dollars on Concord even though it was a shit game and everybody knew it. There was a CEO who was gambling that it would be a hit and would rocket his career to the Moon!

The thing is when you have people that powerful you cannot hold them accountable. You just can't it's not possible. And it's useless to pretend you can. You have to not let them get that powerful in the first place or you have to deal with the mess they make in your life.

But for some reason we always like to pretend we're going to hold them accountable THIS time. Kind of like how the Centrist Democrats keep thinking voters are going to come to their senses about electing psychopathic pedophiles to run the country. No matter how many times the pedophiles when their election everybody just gets flustered when they do and tries it all again.

It's a running gag on left wing forums where somebody says there's no way Trump will wiggle through this mess, Trump wiggles through the mess and then oh well, nevertheless...

Well akshually....

Grok is hard at work fixing that.

And cut their work hours. If you want babies that's what you need to do.

Clean water and environmental regulations that keep lead out of your paint fight crime. Free school lunches so kids don't grow up hungry fights crime.

But on the other hand it feels like Bright Street lamps make crime harder and America is a nation of 12-year-olds so we are very much feels over reals.

You go there for one of three things. First consistency. If you're in an unfamiliar place you at least know what you're going to get. Second speed. Stopping for breakfast or dinner at a McDonald's is going to take 5 minutes. Going home and cooking all the food for yourself save some money but you lose sleep. I just threw together a pizza using dough I had already made and that was half an hour of work. Add another 20 minutes for making the dough. I keep saying this but Americans work more hours than the Japanese for fuck's sake. You give up enough sleep so that you can cook a little food here and there and you keep doing that long enough and it's going to catch up to you health-wise just as much or more as the shitty food at McDonald's.

Basically we put people in bad situations and when they make bad choices in a bad situation because they have no good choices we blame them for that. But man is it fun to get outraged isn't it? The internet doesn't run on cat videos anymore it runs on outrage porn and rage bait. I miss the old internet.