Wouldn't the Gamestop/eBay combined company end up with a ton of debt if this deal goes through as planned?

We've seen this play out before with private equity buyouts, and it never seems to end well for the combined company.

Once nice thing about S&P 500 Index funds is that your stock has to be profitable for several quarters before it enters that index.

So, you don't have to be worried about your retirement investments being polluted with SpaceX AI slop... yet.

Makes sense to me. Bitcoin seems to be stuck in the $65,000 to $70,000 price range right now, and they need to find a new batch of suckers... er... "investors" to jack up the price. Letting crypto bros invest Bitcoin in their 401k will give them that actual liquidity to start the next price ramp up.

I just hope that they know where the exit point is. Bitcoin seems to be a 4 year up and down price cycle, and you don't want to get caught holding it the next time it crashes in value again.

The annoying thing is that the "AI" seems to stand for Actually India, as they're replacing US developers and testers with foreign contractors when the AI automation doesn't work out as planned. It's really the same outsourcing efforts that we saw in the 2000's and 2010's with a better cover story.

This already exists to some extent. We have Kids YouTube with "Pre School", "Younger", and "Older" content categories. The filters are pretty easy to get around, though. My daughter didn't have a lot of problems finding reuploads of things like uncensored music videos without parental settings on them.

I'm pretty sure that you can also block ads on Kids YouTube if you have a family Premium subscription, too.

Cat videos? Nah. Sora was all about bringing dead actors back to life in dumb 10 second skit comedies.

I'll bet that they generated about 20 TB of just Wilford Brimley memes, he was like the patron saint of that service.

The joke is on you, the Cisco routers are also mostly made in China so they likely have backdoors for both countries!

With the exception of the proprietary routers that come with a Starlink dish, I can't think of a single major router manufacturer with a US manufacturing presence.

Not to sound rude, but I'm not sure that Leonid Radvinsky counts as a celebrity. Sure, he built a popular website, but up until today I had no who idea who he was. He's not exactly up there in terms of name recognition with a action movie GOAT like Chuck Norris, anyway.

Most billionaires like Bezos didn't get insanely wealthy by investing their own money into their businesses. They did it by getting other wealthy suckers... er... "qualified investors" to risk their money on their expansion gambles.

Sure, he's investing his own money into Blue Origin, but that's probably more like a hobby to him at this point.

I think that Microsoft saw the lines of people at the Apple Store picking up MacBook Neo's and realized that they're going to continue to lose customers in droves if don't fix Windows 11 ASAP. People are getting tired of their computers being used as billboards for selling XBox Live, Office, Onedrive, and CoPilot.

I love how we can't get reasonably priced video cards from NVidia right now, but now can get processors for AI data centers... in space. We're still at least 5 years away from launch costs being low enough for such a thing to be even practical, let alone profitable.

I don't know if I'd want to invest in the Adobe Photoshop "monopoly" right now. Most people just have AI edit their photos now.

Sure, a talented human can do a better job, but for a dumb social media meme or a lame marketing portal picture.... who really cares? Just take a stock photo and change the background color to match your corporate approved color palette.

I understand the logic, though. The big tech companies want to get people hooked on cheap and easy AI, in the hopes that they get hooked on it and will pay for subscriptions once the free tier plans get neutered.

What they seem to be missing is that running an AI model locally is also becoming cheap and easy. Installing OpenClaw is basically as easy as copying and pasting an install command into a command line window and entering an API key. I'm sure that we'll soon have GUI installers that make that even easier soon.

Yeah... memory and storage prices are going through the roof right now.

The higher prices do not seem to be impacting the large PC manufacturers as much, though. Amusingly, you can get an entire Macbook Neo with the education discount ($499) than the price of 32 GB high speed DDR5 memory kit ($550-$600).

The thing that I'd be worried about is that when you get to that EV charging station in the middle of nowhere, it's out of service and you're basically screwed.

Maybe it got hit by a snow plow. Maybe it got vandalized by some anti EV luddites. Maybe the company who built it just can't afford to maintain it anymore. Either way, you're still screwed.