Instead you should see that the non-capitalism things are so unpopular that you need to steal money to try and fund them.

If the things you want are worthwhile go raise money and implement them.

Giving more money to the government is about the stupidest idea ever.

Even if today the people in power that will implement what you want, tomorrow that may not be true; then your bad idea is cut and the money is spent on horrible things...

Only if the robots are paying $60-$80 for tickets to watch.

"Global warming is the fever, mankind is the virus."

Interesting.
Peak in late 2013 ($1000) dropping to a low mid 2015 ($225).
Peak in late 2017 ($20k) dropping to a low late 2018 ($4k).
Peak in late 2021 ($65k) dropping to a low late 2022 ($15k).
Peak in late 2205 ($120k) dropping to a low maybe in late 2026 here of like ($50k).
Midterms: 2026, 2022, 2018, 2014 all correlate with the low? I think that is a sound assertion!

Okay, but your pattern of the House flipping seems pretty sound, some might say certain, going back 20 years now.
In addition I would have figured the flipping of the House would make the Whitehouse a little less effective and calm things down.
That is opposed to in an election year where it might go either way and there is arguably more uncertainty?

So how about this, not uncertainties, but the lack of action during a midterm year; gotta move the money somewhere that has some movement?

"You people" is for sure one of the best ways to start out a line of "rational [thought]".

I confess, I believe in the AI as well, love it, want more of it...but it does not provide any arguments to prove my statements false.
Why not? Because you know I am right, otherwise you would type something proving me wrong.

Whether you like it or not people buy and sell control of Bitcoin, and there is an obvious cycle.
Why deny it because you think it is irrational or emotion to "believe" in or "trade" Bitcoin?
For better or worse the "religion" of Bitcoin appears to have seasons, and people are willing to trade control of US dollars for control of Bitcoins.

But what really tickled me was why, in the middle of winter for the Northern Hemisphere, pick something very valuable like hot air to try to show how little value Bitcoin has? It just does not scream "rational [thought]", nor a connection to reality on your part.

I know you are capable of more, I am just disappointed is all.
But I do thank you for feeding this troll.

If by "hot air" you mean the stuff coming out of your ass across your keyboard producing your comments here, sure Bitcoin cannot beat that gold!

But otherwise one Bitcoin would go a long way to cover my gas bill to run my heater here in the dead of winter.
So I disagree, Bitcoin is more valuable than hot air.

And Bitcoin does not believe in you either...hater.

I agree, the "halving" charts seemed to correlate with this four year pattern.
But the charts do not show a drop right after the reward to mine a block is cut in half as I would expect.
Those who pushed the "halving" correlation are probably comfortably hibernating for another year of crypto winter before the spring.

If I had any money I would put it where my mouth is an buy me some Bitcoin...but all I can do is put my prediction here in writing: the bottom is no lower than $60k, and 3 years from now $120K minimum.

I am still confused how the grandparent gets moderated up as insightful, and would assert it should instead be moderated down as off topic.
But I suspect that Slashdot users with their VPNs, not Safari/Edge/Chrome browsers, and Linux OS are tripping over Cloudflare blocking more often and venting their frustration with a misplaced up vote...or a bit of USA hate in there as well since he called that out.

But please correct me if I am wrong on the following understanding of Cloudflare vs Bing:

Cloudflare is paid for by the server, lets say Neocities employees Cloudflare to protect its servers from DDOS.
As a result some legitimate traffic from clients will get blocked, and there is no good way for them to appeal the Cloudflare.
This is not censorship by Cloudflare, since the server, in this case Neocities is the one making the choice to use Cloudflare.
If they find Cloudflare is limiting their reach, maybe their speech, they simply cancel Cloudflare and run naked on the internet.

Bing is an internet search provider that indexes the Internet to provide links to sites to it users as search results.
Neocities does not employee, and potentially has no option to employee Bing for anything.
Bing has no obligation to index Neocities web sites.
Bing is not blocking clients from reaching Neocities servers, it is just not helping them find the servers.
Neocities has not found a useful contact at Microsoft to appeal their lack of indexing on Bing.

I was worried the grandparent is running a web server and Cloudflare is blocking users from accessing that server.
If that is the case, and he is not employing Cloudflare for DDOS protection, then how is Cloudflare blocking his clients from accessing his server and how does he even know about these missing clients in "normal life".

To me I suspect the grandparent is running on a VPN, using less popular browser, and/or using a less popular OS...all things that make Cloudflare throw up red flags and keep him from accessing web sites. It is unfortunate, and annoying, but slightly understandable that Cloudflare might block him.

You can keep propping up your strawman and knocking him down, but it all screams you have no argument.

Reducing the United States federal government's budget by 87% does not have to weaken its ability to repel enemy invasion and help United States citizens defend their rights against local governments and interstate criminals. No one has said completely defund the government. My argument is that it is full of waste. An argument you refuse to address because then you have defend spending on DHS to round up people or social service fraud; which at best you have silently supported with your refusal to address them in you responses.

In general I have found the local private operations have provided more effective social programs than the government funded ones. In addition my local police department funded by my property taxes, not Amazon's federal income taxes, are doing a decent job at picking up the rest. Not perfect, but handing out millions if not billions of dollars to fake children in Minnesota for instance is not reducing the cost of police, prisons, or the justice system.

The United State Federal government is a necessary evil, and in some things does a better job than anyone else.
The United State Federal government needs funding, which will most likely come from some tax or taxes.
I would rather that tax was not a corporate or personal income tax. In addition, ideally what I see as wasteful spending would stop so those taxes can be reduced or eliminated.

Or maybe pets.com should have started with something lighter, like books for dogs, that the US postal service would ship cheaply.
Then over 25 years build up a shipping and warehouse network that fits their shopping regions while using USPS and UPS to fill in any holes.

Where is there a weak government? No where.
Who ever is running things is the government. Every government is established by force, and stays in power by force.
If the entity you think is the government is not the strongest, then someone else is running things, governing, and they are the government.

What I want is a federal government that is not wasteful (not tossing my money to corrupt social programs), defends me, and otherwise leaves me alone (not driving around town in military style dragging people out of cars and homes who are not bothering me).

I understand others want to steal money they did not earn from the "rich" who did earn it, and do the things they want.
But it is just like lottery winners, if you did not earn it in the first place you will probably be bankrupt in a few months.
The federal government was just smart enough to shore up enough power so they can continue to win the lottery each year.
The debt speaks for itself, these people suck with money, why would you give them more?
You cannot tax your way out of debt!

I do enjoy playing with asphalt and concrete, but they are not my specialty.
In the few miles are so around me my property taxes pay for the roads.
In the tens of miles around me the toll ways are the best highways and paid for by tolls.

Now interstates are great, and I would say put tolls on them to pay for them.
See, then Amazon trucks would pay tolls for use, and I can pay Amazon who can use the money to pay tolls.
Then Amazon and I are not paying for stolen social services for fake day cares and wanna be terrorists running around dragging people out of cars who are not bothering me and either shooting them or throwing them in make shift prisons.

So you admit the federal government enslaves people, and yet you want to make sure they get "their cut" to continue their slave trade?
Now we know the federal government is pretty evil, using force "legally" to enslave (prisoners) and steal (taxes) and murder.
However, essential workers are not slaves. They knew, or now know, the job requires them to show up even when there is no pay.
They can quit, slaves cannot just quit. Sure there are consequences if you quit, but it is not force keeping you there like a real slave would face.

In addition the non-essential workers got their back pay when the government got funded again. However, you are only proving my point, get rid of the employees that are not essential to government. It might not save 87% of the budget, but it will be a good start.

Yes, I am sure that thirty days was not enough time for me to miss some of them, and eventually I would be like oh yea that guy we might want to keep, but unless it was military defending the country I am optimistic that the private sector can fill most of the gaps better than the federal government. For instance, air traffic controllers, each airport should be paying their air traffic controllers, not the federal government. The planes kept flying, the passengers and cargo shippers kept paying, yet the air traffic controllers went without pay.

I gave my money happily to Amazon, they deserve 100% of it. They have bills to pay, and some might be to the federal government, but the corporations do not have a cut, they are the ones having their well earned money cut up at gun point by the slave owning federal government.

Why would the "LLM insanity" collapse? The demand is strong and growing! I cannot remember a "technology" with a faster adoption rate in my lifetime.

Four out of five of the top AI companies have weathered multiple economic downturns and have other business ventures funding the LLM wing. OpenAI is the only one with all its eggs in one basket, and I am sure Microsoft, Google, or Meta would buy it up in a heart beat just for the server space. The fifth, nVidia makes the gold rush shovels, a consumable, GPUs, they are not going anywhere.

This is not the dot com bubble where no one is going to pay $10 shipping to get a $20 bag of dog food delivered from pets.com.
For every whining person on the internet who hates AI slop there are 100 more producing it and a 1000 more consuming it.

Plus I bought 512GB of RAM last summer along with 30TB of hard drives before the price went up...so I am good to wait out for manufacturing capacity to increase and my "investments" to go a bit further than the usual obsolesce rhythm.

I am all for Amazon keeping the money they earned rather than turning it over to the government.
The government shutdown for like thirty something days last year and I would not have known if I did not turn on the news.
Amazon would not deliver anything for three days because of snow last week, and I sure as hell noticed that every day!

I do not mind Amazon keeping $7.8 billion that would just go to either fraud in Minnesota, or DHS annoying and shooting Minnesotans in the street.
I am happy for a strong military so I sleep soundly at night knowing the Russians are not going to bomb me like a Ukrainian; but otherwise I could do with less federal government.

I am glad it helped memory_register's business too!