Once a few companies are successful in blaming "economic topic X" on their lack of revenue growth and lack of profitability growth, many company leaders for other companies follow the same "blame economic topic X" as cover for lackluster business performance.

Wall Street analysts ask softball questions during earnings calls so that their Wall Street firm can get new business from the company being covered.

One of the indicator questions from a Wall Street analyst is "Can you provide more color on X?" asked by an analyst which lets the company management repeat their last point and expand with a sales pitch on how the company is on the right path, innovating, transforming, rebooting, or any of a thousand words which convey no meaning.

> the team found increased temperatures up to 10 kilometers away. Seven kilometers away, there was only a 30 percent reduction in the intensity. "

This entire research should be about comparing data center produced heat on-site and nearby spill over to other high energy use/high heat production industries such as steel mills.

It is the same old, same old the corporate leaders use to 1) sell a look at the infinite growth fantasy, 2) keep being employed, 3) hide that most companies in the S&P 500 excluding the mega caps have lower than inflation (a decline in inflation adjusted money) in top-line sales revenue over the last few years.

The US companies have for 20 years followed a business damaging plan to exist by cutting costs (layoffs), selling the same old products, and buying back stock instead of developing new products.

Under the surface, the 40 year outsource from the USA/EU to China has run its course and finding ever cheaper labor and ever cheaper raw materials (extracted with little or no pollution laws) is not working.

A quick google for "Mexico has lower manufacturing costs than China" yields many web pages like this
https://harris-sliwoski.com/ch...
China’s Manufacturing Exodus: How Mexico and the U.S. Are Gaining Ground - Published: July 8, 2025

A percent of two of those excessively consuming true crime media to 'be informed of threats' will then go onto social media to

- lean heavily to first labeling behavior as a threat before evaluating risk statistics
- seek to label an increasing set of normal behavior as toxic (to make spreading warnings and awareness easier in the future)
- advise others that their personal safety is always threatened by default without regard to statistics
- seek to shame, insult, and guilt the entire group perceived as threatening by default because ~1% of that group committed a crime (association fallacy)
- approve of privacy invasion and doxxing (a crime) of individuals in the perceived threatening group with the false justification that our group's safety is more important than damaging (and committing a crime doing so) the life, reputation, job prospects of people not convicted of a crime.

Are they comparing farm pasture temperature readings versus temperature readings of concrete buildings and paved parking lots?

It is the old Microsoft giving Office away to college students to maintain market share story.

Working on desktop apps which do not ha a HTML based UI is some combination of
- Win32 C++ / C
- .C# NET (VB.net is not in the running)
- Hard to maintain "solutions" built on top of Office
- Third party apps

Microsoft may be admitting to a COBOL moment where finding new developers for Win32/C++ or C#/.net desktop applications is increasingly difficult.
Due to the "In 2 years, I will have marketable skills in ..." statement a developer would ask (hopefully) before taking a new job.

Financially, a sideways MSFT stock price does not add enough incentive to the restricted stock grants to put in weekends working on MS projects since the developer would be working for straight salary with a known top end.

It will be interesting in the near term since:

- HTML templates (built-into the browser) now replace much (all?) of what React / Angular do without the large large amount of complexity those frameworks have

- Flutter builds near desktop app look and feel for desktop, mobile, web for the major operating systems

- The memory price increase due to AI usage hasn't started drastically raising costs to run legacy (?) solutions (SQL database, message queues, blob storage, ...) in the cloud but will cause cloud cost increases business customers

- Demographics change (boomers aging out of the labor force and aging out of internet use) will affect multiple decades old industries relying on an aging customer base and adding little new younger customers

- Desktop compute for AI models being practical for home users, small businesses and large businesses

This opens the floodgates to lawsuits for just about every single source of media given that a few people will consume it and have negative mental health. The media consumption will lead to the negative mental health or, importantly, bring existing mental health issues to the forefront.

True crime TV, podcasts, media -> paranoia

June 20, 2023 - True crime podcasts are popular in the U.S., particularly among women and those with less formal education
https://www.pewresearch.org/sh...

women are almost twice as likely as men to regularly listen to true crime podcasts

October 17, 2023 - How True Crime can Impact your Mental Health
https://newsroom.clevelandclin...

True Crime: Thriller for some, Trauma for others - By Alina Bozhko
https://projecthumanities.asu....

Hollywood has produced several decades of movies which insult a not small demographic group part of the potential movie going public.

They have picked a new set of negative stereotypes to repeatedly use.

High speed internet killed traditional "pay per billboard impression" and "pay per active listener" ~2004 and set up the end of most traditional radio, TV, and print media.

Add in that the last generation with a huge steady number of newspaper readers, magazine subscriber, TV watchers, and radio listeners is now 62 to 80 and there is not a lot of engaged persons to sell product to.

The shift is starting, with the past retirement age corporate leaders exiting the workforce allowing the "maintain the status quo and cut costs" corporate strategy to fail on its own.

"App Store Review process that ensures that apps are safe to use "

Some of the most widely used apps....

Link between excessive social media use and psychiatric disorders
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a...

The article is the usual PR regurgitated text, and /. readers should catch this along with the self-serving "expert" quotes in the article.

"Sean Turner, chief technology officer of Swiftly, a retail technology and media platform serving the grocery industry, said that while it makes sense that people are raising questions about dynamic pricing, the real issue is store-level efficiency. "

Restating: "Person X, who works for a company selling the technology, says that the technology will be great for grocery stories and allow his company to make lots of money selling the technology to grocery stores"

At least the article was not: "Dynamic pricing labels are easier for the most vulnerable segments, especially women, children and the elderly to survive."

There are multiple states which require price tags to be displayed near items being sold, particularly in grocery stories.

I am though anticipating a "blue light special" with these tags to happen soon. Never saw one in person, heard about them from older relatives.

Kmart blue light special - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Blue Light Special

The Blue Light Special was a sale promotion within the store for a short period within store hours only. It was advertised using a rotating blue light, in the same style a police car used, and was announced over the store public address system with the phrase "attention, Kmart shoppers", a phrase which became a pop culture reference.[43] The original concept for the Blue Light Special was a limited-time offer to sell slower-moving merchandise.[44] The sale was first introduced in 1965[45] and was retired in 1991.[46]

1) Survey a bunch of people in a technology
2) Write up high cost expert business strategy guidance for and against using the technology (Gartner business consulting)
3) Get the survey widely reported - Spread public awareness that corporations need to get expert business consulting from Gartner
4) Sell lots of expert business consulting (Gartner)

Product placement

In general, for these decades long government funded projects:

- What's the mission?
- What's the benefit to average US citizens?
- What is the 10 year cost to build and run it?
- What is the cost overrun percent by year 5 that the mission is automatically ended?

- List the achievements and benefits to average US citizens for the existing ISS over its 20+ year history. This is things in use today for a large number of average US citizens today and not breakthroughs that are forever 5-10 years away.

The space program does good science, with past invention success, and funding it needs to be balanced with other competing research work such as cancer research, lifespan gap research, and more.

A top-line revenue tax on revenue brought in worldwide with no exemptions, no deductions, no depreciation, no subsidies, ... is needed.

Revenue being sales income, interest received, dividends received, interest rate differential on subsidized loans, government grants, government tax waivers, donated office space, donated facility use, ....

Preventing the many ways large companies jurisdiction shop to avoid paying taxes is needed.

The top line revenue tax would be paid at the time of sale, interest payment, dividend paid, ...