Everyone is talking about the AI bubble. Between inflation and the rate pause decision, the market took a trouncing last week, especially tech.

Microsoft, a huge spender in the space, is reporting blockbuster earnings. That signals to investors that Microsoft, and other companies, might be profitable after all and the bubble won't be bursting.

As such, they all go and try to buy shares before they spike too much, looking to sell them sometime in the future for $800 a share.

Have enough of these people trying to buy these shares and you'll have the share price run away on you.

Has anything changed? I mean, yes. Microsoft is signaling that the tech/AI trade is still on. All the people that exited the market in the past few weeks, all the billions that evaporated, suddenly came back. And the vast majority of other tech companies skyrocketed as a result.

And what if you didn't post photos of your face?

And some blurry photos are much different than a 180 degree scannable model of your face, in the same lighting, at one point in time, versus random photos from random cameras and situations.

Blah blah blah. The same old arrogant retort. "I'm better than you because I maintain close relationships with my friends".

People have varying levels of friends and acquaintances, old friends from "the old country", former co-workers. Facebook was a good enough place to keep in touch. Only socially awkward people hold strict definitions of what a friend is.

Err, facebook already has 3 billion active users.

And they only rolled this authentication sometime this week.

So the existing users didn't have to go through this. Hell, if you're an old enough account, you never even had to have a phone number with them.

Nissan and Mitsu are far from the only ones using CVTs, and CVTs they aren't are reliable or enjoyable to drive as traditional automatics.

And I'm not sure why you single out Mitsubishi. The Outlander is a great car, it handles great, and I say this as an owner of an Evo X as my only car.

The point remains is that all the gadgetry manufacturers are putting into their engines and transmissions, and all the plastic parts and 0 weight oils and "lifetime fluids" mean that your car is much more disposable than any time in history.

And often times, when you do find a manual transmission, it's a crappy toy-like experience, like on the last manual Accord. Then no enthusiast buys it, and manufacturers use that as proof no one wants them any more.

Slight reliability advantage? Entire makes of cars are consigned to the "never buy" pile because of the CVT they use. I loved the Outlander, would never own a CVT one.

I bet it would be fun to be an owner of one of those, can't sell a non-running car, have to spend the few grand on a new transmission.

Very much untrue.

Again, no one saying this is no big deal. What they're saying is not every Dick and Harry off IRC can r00t your box.

Usually it's people you've already vetted to some degree, whose personal information you have, who will still leave a trace of activity, if you log your system activity remotely, etc. That's a very different scenario from randomly exploiting some system from behind 4 public proxies.

EFF, like everyone else, getting on their pulpit to spread their personal politics.

It isn't that people simply moved on to other brain rotting social media, like the endless tiktok videos, just like it has happened before with myspace and facebook. It must have to do with everyone holding the same political views as them.

It's easy for you to say when you (presumably) don't suffer from it. But for those that to, that cannot find the root cause but whose lives are literally paused, should they wait for ever? Or should they seek treatment to rejoin the world of the living? To get back to some sort of a baseline from which they can address a root cause?

Unless you've experienced something as daunting as a clinical depression or anxiety, perhaps you'd have empathy rather than judgment.

Right, Waymo will do that remotely, after you spend 4 minutes waiting for an operator, then another 2 minutes verifying your identity, then another 3 to explain wtf is happening.

Your (and mine, frankly) personal distaste for the theater is not really relevant. What I am talking about is simple economics. Regal Battery Park in Manhattan probably cost millions to construct. That's a hell of a lot of ticket stubs to pay for all that union labor and material and permits and monthly taxes. These are taxes and insurance that likely doubled in the past 5 years, not to mention minimum wage laws, cost of snacks, etc. I'd bet they have a razor thin margin on these ticket prices you think are so onerous.

A shot of liquor costs as much as half a 750ml bottle, yet people still go to bars, because they understand thereâ(TM)s more to that drink than just the retail price.

Maybe the real issue is that youâ(TM)re just cheap (or poor) so you arenâ(TM)t really a movie theaterâ(TM)s customer anyway. Why would they bare the costs of running a business, paying employee and benefit taxes, rising insurance rates and property tax, expose themselves to lawsuits every week, just to break even charging you $7 for a movie? You donâ(TM)t work for free, do you? Why do you expect them to?

AMC have to charge $18 for a movie because they are centrally located in high rent areas and donâ(TM)t require a 100 mile trip to some run down âoenext to a railroad track and behind the auto shopâ single story shack of a theater playing cheap old movies?

And are you sure the pedant here isnâ(TM)t you?