Should we all rush to legislate social media and phone bans, treating everyone as if they were the worst stories you've heard from the squeakiest wheels?

Isn't the real shortage money? If you'd bought memory stocks a year ago, would you have more than enough money to buy the RAM you wanted now?

Copilot:

RAM prices rose 500%

memoryâ'producer stocks rose 500â"3,800%

the equity gains would have offset the consumerâ'side price spike

Copilot:

Did memoryâ'chip stocks hedge the 500% RAM price spike?

Yes. The major memory stocks rose hundreds of percent over the same period:

Micron (MU): +718.9% in one year

SanDisk (SNDK): +3,825% in one year

Seagate (STX): +526.8% in one year

Western Digital (WDC): +602.6% in one year

Meanwhile, DDR5 RAM kits rose ~500% yearâ'overâ'year.

So yes: memoryâ'stock returns exceeded or matched the RAM price spike, meaning they would have hedged the cost increase.

Can you imagine if AC gave you headaches and made you think fuzzier than normal even, like me, so that napping in the shade outdoors (for best results find a mountain) is preferable on a heat dome day? Does the denial of my preferences (and the regular silencing of my attempts to defend them) allow passage of anti-camping and anti-van-life ordinances without drawing any protest from most voters like yourself, since you rarely ever hear from people like me, due to us getting modded into oblivion so frequently? Is it no longer true in this country that the least popular person has the same rights as the most popular?

Can I plead that I was recently downvoted here into one-post-per-week territory for anti-natalist trolling? And that getting out in the mountains is my AC?

How much does it cost BPA to divert water around the turbines, as opposed to running it through? If you stored the nighttime generation potential, where is the scarcity they keep (cynically) selling us?

What if they're sitting on an oversupply so vast they forego as much as they generate, while selling you on a scarcity story that lines their pockets and allows them to bribe economists selling you the same scarcity story to give it academic credibility?

Copilot, what is 9Wa state) BPA's total potential generation capacity vs. actual?

"[...] Theoretical max: ~181 TWh/year; Actual: ~85 TWh/year; Rough âoeunused potentialâ: ~100 TWh/year [...]

Copilot:

The copper-melting result exposed a general truth:

Any physics that assumes electrons and atoms are always in equilibrium will miss ultrafast, non-thermal, or high-energy phenomena.

This affects:
- laser ablation
- shock physics
- radiation damage
- semiconductor switching
- ultrafast phase transitions
- high-energy materials science

More advanced models (TTM-MD, TD-DFT, non-adiabatic MD) relax these constraints and allow:
- hot electrons
- hot phonons
- transient disorder
- non-thermal melting
- early bond weakening
- new phase-transition pathways

This is why SLAC's result matters far beyond copper.

Did you just get whooshed, while Copilot saw the point?

"Air conditioning contributes to global warming through electricity consumption and refrigerant leakage, and globally it accounts for roughly 4% of total greenhouseâ'gas emissions today, rising to 8â"10% by midâ'century without efficiency improvements. In hot regions, AC can be one of the largest single drivers of peak electricity demand."

"I'll take a side of AI slop with my beef, if I can have it all sure, but I am perfectly happy to leave the AI until I have enjoyed some nice steak and few burgers thank you very much."

Do I get to cancel out your preferences with my vote?

"commercial users who exceeded an agreed-upon load during certain hours were essentially fined for that"

Can you ask your favorite AI about Microsoft burning off energy in a Quincy datacenter to avoid a fine for not meeting contractual minimum usage requirements?

So do I have this right? Does air conditioning cause more heat domes, the solution to which is more air conditioning?

What if it doesn't have to be all? What if people who want to work will still be able to work, because work is a psychological phenomenon and society will find a way of justifying it, but if you don't want to work you won't be cut off from abundant resources?

If you look at a graph (on fred.stlouisfed.org) of debt vs. tax receipts, will you too see diverging lines, indicating that money is being created by the private sector to buy government bonds, while the stock market, with a few emotional blips, keeps setting record highs?

"Do they screw hundreds of millions of tax payers to keep a couple thousand douchy-investor-types whole?"

Have your taxes gone down since 2008 when the Fed started printing trillions in QE without needing any tax money? If you were invested in the S&P 500 before the GFC would you be enjoying your 350% returns today?